Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our Humbleyenne, the Thunderdome, on this B.A. Day, September 9th, 2025. This program begins right now.

Football! He's all the way back, and we're done with our first NFL weekend. I'll tell you what, it was thriller in every single primetime game. And last night was

no exception. The J.J. McCarthy era alongside Kevin O'Connell kicked off in an electrifying fashion,

where it kind of looked like ass for the first three quarters. And then for the fourth quarter,

J.J. McCarthy came alive. The Minnesota Vikings get a massive dub over the Chicago Bears in the

NFC North. A lot of question marks around what's going to happen in Chicago, but we pick it up, 176. J.J. McCarthy had thrown a pick six to this point. It was 176, two field goals for Will Reichard, one of them being a 59-yarder. In the first three quarters, I got this stat from Hembo. J.J. McCarthy averaged six yards per the air per attempt. In the first three quarters,

he was 33% of attempts to the sticks. In the first three quarters, he only had, he had 73%

of his yards came from yards after catch. In the fourth quarter, 11.9 air yards per attempt.

63% of them went to the sticks. And only 32% of the yardage came from yak. He was airing it out. 176. We just hit Justin Jefferson over the middle. What an incredible catch. Justin Jefferson does play for the Minnesota Vikings, which is basically what a lot of people were asking. Is J.J. McCarthy going to ruin the Justin Jefferson experience? Is this offense ever going to be able to be capable to be what they were last year with Sam Donald and everything that Kevin O'Connell is a part of? Well, fourth quarter came around and J.J. McCarthy said everything they were saying about me at IMG and everything they were saying about me in Michigan is about to come fully to fruition. People say he's an absolute dog, a leader of men, a dude that whenever he gets into a room,

he commands it. 1712, how you doing, keep it moving, Aaron Jones. B.A. A man who coached for 47 years. You love this play because the design was impeccable. Ain't that right, B.A.? Unbelievable, yeah. You go, Kevin O'Connell, I think, is one of the best coaches in the league. and they got you always all, NFL is all about matchups,

and they got a great matchup.

Aaron Jones on a linebacker, that got the perfect coverage. JJ delivered right on the money. Love that. J.J. McCarthy seemed to be in his bag, I believe, is what people would say. And it seems like he came alive. Two-point conversion hits Adam Thielen. Adam Thielen,, J.J. McCarthy working out in the off-season together. Adam Thielen from Minnesota, got to know J.J. McCarthy after getting drafted there. Worked out in the summer. He gets traded from the Carolina Panthers to there. His family celebrates he's going back home. And I think JJ says, I'm getting a guy I'm also very familiar with. He gets two-point conversion. Let's keep it rolling here. Now, 20 to 17, what are you going to do with it? JJ says, let's want a little option. I'll keep it, put my head down. And in his hometown, he stands up, celebrates, has the moxie, and all the boys are jacked up for a massive fourth quarter. Kevin O'Connell's team, look like they're a little bit of a dud for three quarters of this game. Look at the downfield blocking. Look at J.J. McCarthy

lowering his head. Darius J. Butler, nine-year veteran. Great play design. You mentioned T.J. Hawkinson with the block. It was a great play call. And then JJ, you know, you just got it in the paint, but that's a big time playing the big time moment. It certainly is. Everything good for JJ came in the fourth quarter. Now they're up, obviously. 2717. The Chicago Bears can still answer. We have enough time on a clock. Caleb Williams to Cole Commet with a one-handed snag. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, has a chance to throw a touchdown to DJ Barr, puts it in the front row. A lot of people talking about this throw being a reason why they lost. Well, I don't know if that's necessarily 100% true. Now, if they score this early, obviously you add an extra timeout. They lost the timeout because of a punchout a little bit earlier with a challenge call. And now they don't score here, which would have left more time ahead of the two-point conversion, two-minute warning. Now they go drive down and score. And Caleb Williams throws a dot here. All right, and now he's potentially going to lead a comeback. Is there enough time? Maybe. Could have been. Is there enough time? There could be. So they have one time out, and they have the two-minute warning. Right Right now though, no time can go off the clock. Cairo Santos, we need a touchback. We need no time

off the clock. Instead, what happens? Cairo hits a pretty good ball, about five yards deep, I think.

Six yards, 70 yards deep. Maybe you need that to go out the back of the end zone. Very big kick to pull that off, especially in the fourth quarter.

They decide to return it.

That eats the clock away, gets it under the two-minute warning. So now there's only one timeout used as opposed to two stoppages of the clock. And if you look at his eyes, he's looking at the sideline right there. And that is strictly because Kevin O'Connell, the head coach, is the one decided, bring it.

We need to burn some time here.

All this needs to eat is three. strictly because Kevin O'Connell, the head coach, is the one decided, bring it, we need to

burn some time here. All this needs to eat is three seconds. Even if we end up in our own 15,

the stoppage of the clock can only happen one time. I love how in sync they are. Yeah. I love that

this is week one in they're doing this. And this is a situational football kind of master class out of Kevin O'Connell,

...