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BIG Skol Hop News, Vikings Trades, First Preseason Game | TSH Ep. 53 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome into another episode of
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  Speaker 1: The School Hop. I'm Evan, I'm Austin. There's a couple
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  Speaker 1: of dudes from Iowa. We like drinking deer. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about the Vikings. No, we do. And what is episode
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  Speaker 1: fifty three? Already? Three? Baby?
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  Speaker 2: So for episode fifty three, we have our last remnants
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  Speaker 2: of the beers that we got from the School Hop
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  Speaker 2: Episode fifty. This one's from House Divided Brewery in Ely, Iowa,
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  Speaker 2: an hour or so away from here. Yep, And this
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  Speaker 2: is the whole lot of love Hole Latte Love. It's
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  Speaker 2: a blonde stout and it's one of the only like
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  Speaker 2: light beers I've had. That's a coffee flavored beer. So
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  Speaker 2: get into it a little bit more here in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: But we've had it before and I liked it a
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  Speaker 2: lot on the Brew Hop, So I'm really glad we
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  Speaker 2: brought some home.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be delicious. I'm excited for it. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: It's like jackpot, let's go. So yeah, people like what
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  Speaker 2: he does and I like it too, so you need
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  Speaker 2: to do.
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  Speaker 1: It where they scholl hop listeners. That's what I want
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  Speaker 1: to know. That's I don't know. We need to we
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  Speaker 1: need to figure it out. What we also need to
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  Speaker 1: do is we need to crack these open and drink these.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very excited about this one. It's it's a good
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  Speaker 2: looking can. And again, usually like the coffee flavored beers
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  Speaker 2: are like the darker like stouts, and that's fine. I
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  Speaker 2: I love coffee. I usually want my coffee coffee just
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  Speaker 2: to be black. So usually you know, flavored coffee things,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a fan of but some coffee beers are
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  Speaker 2: really good. So and again we've had this one. I
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  Speaker 2: know for a fact that I like this one. But
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  Speaker 2: let's crack it open.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as we crack it open, it's gonna smell
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  Speaker 1: like coffee in here, yes, guarantee it. Oh yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: like that. That's nice. You like that. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know if we can say that. Maybe, but you will
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  Speaker 1: notice that it is a blonde stout, so it is
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  Speaker 1: officially a stout. That is the classification. You had way
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  Speaker 1: better poor than I did.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, blonde stout. Okay, it's a lot lighter color.
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  Speaker 2: Like if you just showed me this and said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: what kind is it? Stout would be one of the
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  Speaker 2: last things I guess I kept When we were at
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  Speaker 2: the brewery talking to the brewer, I kept calling it
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  Speaker 2: a pilsner, and eventually he kindly corrected me and said, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's a stout. But yeah, it's it's really light for
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  Speaker 2: a stout. Still got a darker, darker ish color to it,
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  Speaker 2: not very hazy. You can you can see through it.
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  Speaker 2: I guess there's like a one or a two level
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  Speaker 2: hazy to it.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing that hits you the most though, especially
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  Speaker 1: after a poor is that coffee smell?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we both love that smell. That's that's such
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  Speaker 2: a great smell. So let's just not belittle this even longer.
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  Speaker 1: So School School, Oh yeah, that's just as good as
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  Speaker 1: I remember it.
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  Speaker 2: House Divided, we had a lot of good beers from there,
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  Speaker 2: and all of them were great.
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  Speaker 1: I think we probably tried six or seven different ones
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  Speaker 1: because we both got four four cup flights. Yeah. So
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  Speaker 1: but this one, I mean, it's to be my favorite
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  Speaker 1: from House Divided. It's really good. That brewery too, How
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  Speaker 1: about that brewery? That place is awesome. It's super cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a small little town. There are people pulling up
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  Speaker 2: in their side by sides and their you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: little golf carts, and that seemed like an awesome place.
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  Speaker 2: So the stereotypical, like Iowa little hangout spot, But that
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  Speaker 2: brewery was awesome and I would go back there in
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  Speaker 2: a heartbeat.
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  Speaker 1: We got a chance to kind of talk to the
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  Speaker 1: brewer a little bit, and I think he's the owner
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  Speaker 1: and the brewer kind of a one man operation. It's
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  Speaker 1: really small, but man, he cranks out some really good beer.
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  Speaker 2: In Friend of the Show Forest, who's our resident beer expert.
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  Speaker 2: When I mentioned House Divided to him, he was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I love that place.
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  Speaker 1: He's been there.
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  Speaker 2: Too, It's I mean, it's been a while for him,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, it's I guess House Divided is well more
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  Speaker 2: well known than I thought.
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  Speaker 1: But go check it out if you haven't before. It's
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  Speaker 1: really worth it. Good stuff. Well, we're gonna sip on
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  Speaker 1: these and we've also got some exciting news to share
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  Speaker 1: ye our listeners out there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so, if you've been following us on socials at
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  Speaker 2: all today today being August twelfth, you may have seen
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  Speaker 2: that we've been nominated for some podcast awards. So Evan,
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  Speaker 2: you do see honors. You're the one that kind of
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  Speaker 2: introduced this whole idea to us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I stumbled on this, I don't know when.
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  Speaker 1: It was several months ago now, and I kind of
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  Speaker 1: I think I came across it on Facebook and I
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  Speaker 1: clicked on their website and I did a little research.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the first year that this group called
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  Speaker 1: Upload Media Group, based out of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is
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  Speaker 1: hosting what they're calling the Iowa Podcast Awards, And I thought, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, let's put ourselves in for something and
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  Speaker 1: see what happens. So we've entered into a few different
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  Speaker 1: categories for nominations. Of course, we're a sports podcast and
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  Speaker 1: they have a category for that, so we are officially
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  Speaker 1: a nominee for best Sports Podcast in Iowa. We are
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  Speaker 1: also a nominee in the Emerging Podcast category. Figured you know,
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  Speaker 1: we've been doing this for a little over a year now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're still up and coming, kind of just getting you know,
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  Speaker 1: our toes wet in the podcast industry, so we're in
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  Speaker 1: that category as well. All podcasts that were entered in
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  Speaker 1: all categories were also entered into the People's Choice category. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so we're actually gonna have a link down below. I
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  Speaker 1: think I'm even gonna put the U r L right
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  Speaker 1: here on the screen. You can go vote for us.
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  Speaker 1: It's Iowa Podcast Awards dot Com backslash vote and you
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  Speaker 1: can go find us there. And if you're a listener
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  Speaker 1: of any other Iowa based podcast that you see on
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  Speaker 1: the list, go ahead and give them a vote too.
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  Speaker 1: You can vote for up to three and we would
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  Speaker 1: love a vote from all of you. Yeah, there, fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Even if you're not from Iowa, you can vote for us,
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  Speaker 1: So we would definitely appreciate that. And then we have
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  Speaker 1: one other cool opportunity in addition to the three nominations
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  Speaker 1: that we've got ourselves in with the IOWA Podcast Awards.
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  Speaker 1: What do we get to do? All? Right?
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  Speaker 2: So the actual awards event is going to be on
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  Speaker 2: September fifteenth, twenty twenty four, and that is the day
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  Speaker 2: of the Vikings home opener game versus the forty nine Ers,
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  Speaker 2: I believe, right, and we have this really cool opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to at the event be able to put on a
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  Speaker 2: live episode. It'll be recorded and put out on our
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  Speaker 2: streams as well, but it'll be a live episode at
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  Speaker 2: the event, and it's at three PM, which the Vikings
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  Speaker 2: game kicks off at noon, so there's a very real
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  Speaker 2: chance we could be podcasting during the last few minutes
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  Speaker 2: of the game or right after that forty nine Ers
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  Speaker 2: game ends. But yeah, either way, we'll be up in
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  Speaker 2: front of I'm assuming a pretty decent audience doing our
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  Speaker 2: skull hop thing live. We do need to double check
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  Speaker 2: and make sure we can feature in Iowa be on
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  Speaker 2: that podcast because we're not sure about the venue or
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  Speaker 2: anything like that, but I'm i'm that's the thing I'm
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  Speaker 2: most excited about it's really cool to be nominated and
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  Speaker 2: to be have some eyes on us for these awards,
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  Speaker 2: and to win those awards would be incredible. But mostly
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  Speaker 2: I'm really excited to network with other podcasters. There's some
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  Speaker 2: other sports Iowa sports podcasts out there that'll be cool
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  Speaker 2: to talk to those people, but mostly to get up
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  Speaker 2: and do our thing in front of people, that's that's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be really fun.
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  Speaker 1: I'm super pumped. Agreed, So we get a forty five
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  Speaker 1: minute slot, so we're gonna have to keep it short, yes,
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  Speaker 1: and excuse me. Our slot starts at three pm, which
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  Speaker 1: again will be the tail end. I mean, the game
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  Speaker 1: could be still very much within reach for the Vikings
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  Speaker 1: at that point, let's hope. So but yeah, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be able to kind of give our immediate feedback on
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  Speaker 1: that game as soon as it wraps up live in
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  Speaker 1: Cedar Rapids, and that's gonna be episode fifty eight. I
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  Speaker 1: just want to and of the school high and looked
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  Speaker 1: at our list. So episode fifty eight, which is not
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  Speaker 1: including today, that's four episodes away.
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  Speaker 2: So we're coming up on that real quick. If you've
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  Speaker 2: seen a couple of our live streams or you've heard
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  Speaker 2: us you know, immediately after a game, you may know
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  Speaker 2: that we can get pretty amped up. So if that
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  Speaker 2: game is close at all, or if there's a will
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  Speaker 2: record game winning field goal and the winner lose, like
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  Speaker 2: there's gonna be some emotions in that episode. So hopefully
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  Speaker 2: they win, Hopefully we're jumping for joy on the episode,
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  Speaker 2: and if they lose, maybe we can steal what Pa
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  Speaker 2: says and give you guys a little davenport of love
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  Speaker 2: and give you some encouragement of the Vikings fans after
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  Speaker 2: a loss.
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  Speaker 1: So hopefully it's not lost. It's the forty nine ers,
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  Speaker 1: so that'll be a good game, should be a really
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  Speaker 1: good one, but either way, and a good episode. The
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  Speaker 1: home opener, so you know, the US bank is going
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  Speaker 1: to be loud. Yeah, they're covering that one. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be great. So a lot of fun for us though
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  Speaker 1: at the school. Hop just kind of getting into year
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  Speaker 1: two on this whole thing, and to be up for
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  Speaker 1: some nominations and to be able to go and record
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  Speaker 1: live at the IOWA Podcast Awards. It's gonna be fun. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So make sure again, like I said, go vote for
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  Speaker 1: us if you feel so compelled, and check out all
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  Speaker 1: the other great podcasts from across the great state of Iowa. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: we celebrate Iowa beer every week on our show, so
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  Speaker 1: Iowa has a special place with us, and I think
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  Speaker 1: it does too with the Iowa Podcast Awards, And that's
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  Speaker 1: just part of who we are. School Hop And if
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  Speaker 1: we could find a way to fit Iowa into the title,
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  Speaker 1: I think we would. But we thought about that when
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  Speaker 1: we were naming it. We did something, but school Hof
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  Speaker 1: just it found us Beer Vikings and then Iowa. That's us.
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  Speaker 1: That's who we are at the core, all right. Some
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  Speaker 1: other news though, coming out from just kind of the
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  Speaker 1: end of training camp and into the preseason. Got some
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  Speaker 1: interesting headlines here. Nothing like super earth shattering, but there
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  Speaker 1: was a trade you want to talk about that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Vikings kind of cut ties, which there's some
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  Speaker 2: encouraging points to talk about with this. But Andrew Booth
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  Speaker 2: cornerback Andrew Booth, who was the second round pick in
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  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty two draft for the Vikings, which was
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  Speaker 2: Quasi's first draft, they traded him away. They traded him
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  Speaker 2: to the Cowboys for another young cornerback. And I really
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  Speaker 2: hope I don't butcher his name, but it looks like
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  Speaker 2: his name is Nashan Wright, who I think is just
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  Speaker 2: one season older than Andrew Booth. I don't know of
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  Speaker 2: actual age how old he is, but I think he's
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  Speaker 2: been in the NFL one season longer than Andrew Booth.
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  Speaker 2: And honestly, it kind of seems like a you know,
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  Speaker 2: like a same for same swap. Who knows, maybe Andrew
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  Speaker 2: Booth figures it out and he kind of turns around
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  Speaker 2: in Dallas and same thing for Nishan Wright. Neither have
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  Speaker 2: really done a whole lot in their NFL careers, but
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  Speaker 2: neither have been like terrible or horrible or costwaitch or
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  Speaker 2: anything crazy. So I think they're just I think Right
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  Speaker 2: was a third round pick, so somewhat high. And Booth
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  Speaker 2: he obviously was a second round pick, so a pretty
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  Speaker 2: high pick. So some high expectations for some young guys
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  Speaker 2: that didn't really meet those expectations in their first team.
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  Speaker 1: So let's I mean, let's hear it.
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  Speaker 2: For Nashan Wright, he's a Viking, he's one of the
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  Speaker 2: good guys, and we're fans of him, so.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, who knows, maybe a change of scenery for both
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  Speaker 1: of those guys could be a really good thing. So
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  Speaker 1: and I mean everybody knows the Vikings need help in
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  Speaker 1: the defensive secondary.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so between injury and tragedy and just you know,
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  Speaker 2: not a lot of names in that group, it's pretty thin.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they're thinnest of groups on the whole team right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, So to add another guy who can maybe maybe
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  Speaker 1: he's walking in Nashan Wright that is coming in with
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  Speaker 1: a positive mindset, and like, hey, let's see if I
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  Speaker 1: can make a difference here. Let's see if I can
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  Speaker 1: make the fifty three man. Let's see if I can
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  Speaker 1: maybe be a possible starter. I mean that'd be that'd
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  Speaker 1: be pretty cool. Yeah. So, and I don't know too
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  Speaker 1: much about the Cowboys defensive backfield right now, but I
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  Speaker 1: know Nishan Wright. I mean, he's kind of walking in
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  Speaker 1: clean slate. He's got a chance to make the team.
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  Speaker 1: But neither Booth or Wright are shoeings to make either
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys or the Vikings. So yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it is the kick in the rear that the
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  Speaker 2: guy needs for either of them to get traded. And
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  Speaker 2: I will say too, for Quacy, it's probably a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a tough pill to swallow, to admit, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this this for whatever reason didn't work out. Maybe the
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  Speaker 2: guy just wasn't who you thought he was. Maybe there
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  Speaker 2: was some injuries that we weren't too sure about. But
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  Speaker 2: either way, Quacy recognized, like, yep, this second round pick,
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  Speaker 2: my first second round pick in my entire career just
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  Speaker 2: didn't turn out, and we got to cut bait and
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  Speaker 2: move on. And there's there's some some good qualities and
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  Speaker 2: being able to admit that, So good for Quaisy.
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  Speaker 1: Just at first glance. I just looked both of them
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  Speaker 1: up quick on Pro Football Reference. You're right, Nashan Wright
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  Speaker 1: has one more season on Andrew Booth, and I think
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  Speaker 1: he's got a handful more of games started. Andrew Booth
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  Speaker 1: has only started two games in his Vikings career, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: one in twenty two and one in twenty three. Andrew
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  Speaker 1: Booth has zero interceptions and so just basically the only
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  Speaker 1: stat line he has his tackles. Yeah, and he's got
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  Speaker 1: nineteen tackles and those special teams tackles as well. So
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  Speaker 1: very well could be. And that's I think kind of
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  Speaker 1: what we're getting with Nashan Wright too. He's got one
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  Speaker 1: more year of experience, a handfull more games started. He
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  Speaker 1: does have one interception on his career, So a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different of a stat line could be just due
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  Speaker 1: to one more year in the league. Yeah, but who knows,
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  Speaker 1: maybe that experience turns out to be a factor for him.
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  Speaker 1: I did see some The running joke on Twitter immediately
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  Speaker 1: was that current Cowboys defensive coordinator and former Vikings head
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  Speaker 1: coach Mike Zimmer, it would be just the perfect Vikings
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  Speaker 1: thing to happen for Mike Zimmer to turn Andrew Booth
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  Speaker 1: into like a quality NFL player, And then you know,
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  Speaker 1: that would be such a Vikings thing. You can't control
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  Speaker 1: that now.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just a joke that we just have to
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  Speaker 2: wait for the punchline, I guess. But that was a
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  Speaker 2: funny thing to realize, like, oh yeah, Mike Zimmer, he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be getting Andrew Booth.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So another big headline that could be kind of
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  Speaker 1: developing as we speak Monday night, August twelfth, is it
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  Speaker 1: was reported that Stefan Gilmore. Yeah, also the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys, Patriots, I think the Panthers for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Was visiting with the Vikings today. The Vikings are currently
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  Speaker 1: a night practice right now, I think, yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's wrapping up. But yeah, yeah, tonight was eight nine
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  Speaker 1: o'clock Central time, but yeah, so doubtful that he was
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  Speaker 1: maybe present for that watching or anything like that. But
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  Speaker 1: at some point today he met with some Vikings personnel
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  Speaker 1: and had some conversations about possibly making his way to Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: That would also be a pretty interesting acquisition for the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings in that defensive secondary unit. Oh yeah, and he's
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  Speaker 1: one that would be a much bigger name and probably
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  Speaker 1: an immediate contributor. I mean, you'd immediately pencil him in
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  Speaker 1: as a starter probably unless he just couldn't figure out
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  Speaker 1: the defense. And I said it to Dustin Baker last
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  Speaker 1: week that, I mean, the cornerback room is in trouble,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a pretty staple position for any defense. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: once the injury started happening and the room looked a
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  Speaker 1: little thin, they made a couple of moves. Who did
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  Speaker 1: They bring in Fabian Moreau and a couple other guys,
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  Speaker 1: But like he'd never heard of these guys before, Like
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  Speaker 1: at least I hadn't, and I followed the league pretty closely,
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  Speaker 1: so I was pretty frustrated the Vikings they hadn't at
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  Speaker 1: least completed like a move for a guy that we've
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  Speaker 1: heard of before. Like whether it's you trade more than
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  Speaker 1: you have to get somebody who's good, or you sign
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  Speaker 1: a Stefan Gilmore. They just hadn't done anything and that
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  Speaker 1: was frustrating me. But no signing yet. I mean, Koc
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  Speaker 1: even talked to the media and somebody asked him about
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  Speaker 1: it and he said, yeah, we had a good, good
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  Speaker 1: meet with Stefan and Stefan Stefan, I'm saying it wrong.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: We had a good meeting with him, but I mean,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: there's no no contract as of yet. That was the
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: most up to date is that they had a good meeting,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: So I don't know.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: He definitely comes with some pedigree. He's a five time
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Pro bowler, All Pro a couple of times, and Defensive
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Player of the Year in twenty nineteen, led the league
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: in interceptions and passes defended in twenty nineteen, So I mean,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: and that's not that long ago. I mean, that's several
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: years ago now, but it's still recent enough. And yeah,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: he's aging, he's getting a little older, But I don't know. Yeah,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks don't get banged up a ton unless they're like
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: tackling machines and are just ruthless, like Kamakazi pilots going
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: after exactly.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I was listening to the Power Trip morning show this
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: morning on kfa an and they had Ron Johnson on
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: former Gopher former I think he played for the Ravens,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: but he's on kfan all the time. But he was saying, yeah, Gilmore.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: He's also not been in camp. He's kind of he's
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: been working out, but he's not been getting banged up
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: all summer, so he's he's kind of fresh.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: So we'll see.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't I'd be I'd be upset if the Vikings
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: didn't make another move at cornerback, which cut down days
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: come in. Maybe they'll pick up a guy from another
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: team that gets cut, maybe they will sign Gilmore. I'd
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: be upset if they didn't do anything, But I also
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: wouldn't be overly upset if it wasn't Gilmore, or like
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: if they went with somebody else. So we'll see.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we definitely will see. And both of those things
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: seemed to be kind of good moves. Nashan Wright hopefully
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: turns out to be good. And if we can get
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Stefan Gilmore, it would be a really good move too
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: for the Vikings at least a step in the right
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: direction to fix a pretty weak and depleted cornerback room specifically.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: So yeah, good stuff. We also have a game, yeah,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: to talk about. They played football for once. This is amazing.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was an entertaining game and it really
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: the first half wasn't that great. Most of the first
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: half wasn't that great. Sam Darnold came out, he looked
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: pretty decent. I think it was something like four for
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: eight in passing with fifty something yards, and that first
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: drive punched it into the red zone, but they just
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: couldn't They couldn't get it into the end zone on
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: the first drive, which is okay, it's preseason. Although I
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: think the Raiders most their starting defense, if not all,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: of their starting defense, played like most of the first half,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: so there's something to be said about that. Darnold look good.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: It's not like he threw an interception on his first play,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: so we can be at least okay with how that
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: worked out.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Some guys didn't play.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson didn't play, Aaron Jones didn't play, which I'm
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: okay with that. Like those guys, they don't need to
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Jones more so for injury, but Justin Jefferson doesn't need
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: to prove himself. He's good. He'll be ready week one.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: He was more valuable in the third quarter on air
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: with Paul Allen than he was playing the game. Honestly.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: That's another that might have been the most exciting part
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: of the whole game is the Vikings really hadn't done much.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: But then once JJ got on the mic, which it's
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: it's not because of this, but once he got on
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: the mic on the radio for the whole third quarter.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: You see these player like interviews on the sideline of
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: preseason games, and they give a couple of minutes, and
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: the players are always well spoken, and you know, they
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: great about their off season, and they had to answered
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: some really good questions and it's a few minutes and
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: they're done. But Jefferson, he talked the entire third quarter.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: He was like standing on the sideline kind of by himself,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: but he had the headset in and he was interacting
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: with Paul Allen and Pete Persich but also fully invested
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: in the game to the point that he was going, yes,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: let's go, and like Jaron on his teammates on the sideline.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: It was really cool. Well, I think was it Kenny's
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: touchdown that he just like went nuts and was like
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: running on the field and stuff. That was fun to watch,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: And yes, I agree, like so cool to watch a
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: star that we love to watch play in a different environment,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: like still in his element, still in that arena, so
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: to speak, but like not playing knocking tribute down on
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: the field. Not that he had too because his preseason
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter, but he was still locked into
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, and it's Paul Allen and Pete Persich
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: and we just we love listening to those guys too,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: So I mean it was kind of the best of
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: all worlds right there. It was awesome.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: And I even told you where we live, like we
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: don't get to we're outside of the radio reach of
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Paul Allen Pete Bursage of KFN on game day, and
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: we obviously don't live in the Minnesota area where we
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: can hear them call the games even if we'd like
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: muted the TV and turn up the radio. But for
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: the preseason games, they call it and the TV broadcast
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: is their their call. So it's really cool to hear
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: PA calling a game. I'm jealous of all the Vikings
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: fans that can do that. Up in Minnesota and every week.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: But someday we'll figure out how to do that.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: I'm sure it's not too hard. Maybe we have some
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: listeners that can figure it out for us. But yeah,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: that third quarter with Justin Jefferson was something I'll remember
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: for a long long time because not only was it
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: fun to watch and JJ was really exciting, he he
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: proved why he's a leader on the team. Like every play,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: even if it was like a two yard dump off
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: pass to some guy that won't make the team, he'd
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: always say like dud catch, good catch man.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: He'd call him by name like good, good catch, good route.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and he was.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Watching the game and still engaged with PA, which shows
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: why the NFL loves to throw him out for marketing
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: and everything. Every time I see Justin Jefferson, I just
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: love him even more. So that's that's my fan boying
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: on a guy that's, shoot, what seven years younger than me.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: He's He's super fun to watch both on and off
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the field. Yeah, he's been great. So you had kind
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: of sent me an article. I read it of of course,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: no surprise, Dustin Baker wrote it. Yes, he's one of
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: our most trusted sources of Vikings information. But he just
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: had a nice article kind of ten takeaways from the
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Vikings preseason Game number one, and he always does a
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: nice job of just taking a lot of information and
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: condensing it into one nice, easy to read, five minute,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: easily digestible article. So we'll link that below in the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: description as well. A great article to read. And of
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: course Vikings Territory. If you're not already following them, subscribe
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: to them, checking their website frequently for Vikings updates, following
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: them on Twitter and such, you should definitely do that. Yeah. Absolutely,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: they've got some good stuff out there and they've definitely
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: become a great source for us as we've gotten into
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: this podcasting world. But a couple of the things he
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: talked about, Wongwou, Naylor, and Miles Gaskin, they all had
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: pretty decent showings.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they played like NFL players, you know, they weren't.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: They were playing like guys who were fighting for rousterspots,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: but they were performing in that situation. Wong Wu obviously
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: he had that forty nine or fifty yard touchdown run,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: which once he got loose from the line of scrimmage,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: that initial scrum, he was gone. I was thinking as
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: he was running to the end zone, like, man, this
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: looks like a kickoff return. So he was faster than
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: everybody else. He just made like one or two It
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: wasn't like a super sexy play like he just he
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: made like one or two moves and then boom, just
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: off to the races and that was That was awesome.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: It was probably really nice for JJ McCarthy to just
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: hand it off and watch something cool happen.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: You know where he went to college.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's a cyclone. We'll we'll, we'll let him
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: off the hook.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: For that one orphan. I know you're I know you're
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: an Iowa fan. I'm I'm I'm indifferent. We'll say towards
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Hawkeys and Cyclones. Panthers are my team. Yeah, from Iowa.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: But anyways, no, ken A looked great. I was with
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: one of my fellow coaches this weekend and we were
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: talking about Kenna. He went to Iowa State and the
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: coach that I worked with went to Iowa State about
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the same time ken A did, and he was telling
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: me that Kenna was a track star down in Texas
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: when he was in high school, like just an absolute
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: speed monster. So it's no surprise that he is continuing
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: to light it up. We've known this about him. I mean,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: it's no news to Vikings fans. But it was just
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: good to see him stretch his legs, get out there
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: and bust one out for a nice touchdown yea forty
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: eight yards officially. Yeah, like you said, we've known he's
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: had it in him for a while.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: And granted that was about the highlight of what he
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: did that game, so it wasn't like ten fifty yard touchdowns,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: but it was still nice to watch. And in that article,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: and we've heard Dustin Baker say it a handful of times,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: like we've been waiting for that play from Kena for
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: four years now. We know it's in there. We've seen
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: it on kickoff returns. He's he's one of the best
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: in the NFL, which I don't know. Maybe that's why
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: he's still on the team is because of the new
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: kickoff rules. But it was really fun to see Jalen Naylor.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: He just he played really well. It was like he
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: was proving the potential that we all know he has.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: It's just he's been injured or buried on the depth
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: chart or something has happened that he hasn't been able
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: to get on the field his first what two or
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: three years in his career, But during that game, he
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: was reliable and made some catches and looked pretty good.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Three catches on four targets for sixty three yards. It's
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: not bad and the long was a twenty six, So yeah,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: that's a that's a healthy stat line in a preseason
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: game for a guy that's probably going to be your
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: wide receiver three.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, he definitely made a case for a wide
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: receiver three. And I guess that's what we've been saying
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: the whole time, like we've been waiting for them to sign,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: you know, any guy off the street to fill that
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: wide receiver three role. Even we've been dreaming like maybe
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: they'll trade back for Adam Thielen. But Jalen Naylor, if
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: he can stay healthy, that's his biggest thing is it's
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: always been about the health factor for him. So if
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: he can stay healthy, he's showing And most of those
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: plays that he made were against early in the game,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: against guys that will probably at least make the team
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: for the Raiders. So mh that was nice to see.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: And then obviously Miles Gaskin, who I forgot was even
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: a Viking. I know the Vikings had signed him early
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: last year and then cut him and moved him to
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: the practice squad, and I think the Rams picked him
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: up for their fifty three man roster, but apparently at
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: one point the Vikings got him back, maybe after the season,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: but yeah, Miles Gaskin. Apparently he's on the team again
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: and played Okay. I mean I don't think his numbers
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: were anything crazy, but.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: He had five carries for twenty two yards. Yeah, so
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: not anything super amazing, but I mean it's preseason. It's
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: hard to judge that because I mean, you look at
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: the rushing totals. You had five guys carry the ball
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: in a regular season game, You're gonna have three, yeah, exactly, Yeah,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: And that would be like that, that'd be shorter if
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: your quarterback doesn't have to run the ball at all,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: if he doesn't have to scramble and get a few
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: rushing yards. So, like you think about all the Kirk
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Cousins games where he didn't record a single rushing yard
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: and he's just handing the ball off off to Dalvin
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Cook or Alex Madison or whoever. You know, you might
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: only see two guys in that stat line and there
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: are five in this one. So that's just the nature
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: of preseason getting guys in, getting them touches, seeing what
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: they can do, and yeah, we'll see. I think Aaron
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Jones is obviously the bona fide starter, yep. And then
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: you've got Ty Chandler who didn't look bad. Yeah, he
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: also didn't play a whole ton, but yeah, it didn't
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: play a lot either. And then yeah, that that running
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: back three. Maybe Mouth Gaskin, maybe Dwayne McBride, maybe Ken
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: we don't know, but yeah, all in all, can't be uh,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: can't be too upset with how those guys played, for sure.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: All right after that, there were a couple of guys
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: on the defensive line that flash, some young guys, some
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: rookies Bo Richter, undrafted free agent out of Air Force,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: And I think those Servis member schools, a lot of
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: those guys like they could be really, really good, and
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: they're still going to be kind of pushed a little
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: bit down the list because they do have to fulfill
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: some service requirements after they graduate. I don't know about
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: bo Richter's story, but he's playing right now, so he
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: must have already either fulfilled those requirements or occasionally they
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: let them kind of defer or fill it in a
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: different way. I think Austin cutting a long snapper from
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: a few years ago. I think also from Air Force,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: he was able to fulfill his requirement by like certain
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: amount of days a week working in one of the
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: recruiting offices in the area. So I don't know all
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: the details on that, but Bo Richter air Force he
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: had six tackles, two tackles for loss, a quarterback hit,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: and a.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Sack he played. And yes, the caveat to all these stats.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: That we're gonna throw out and this whole all of
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: these performances is it's in the preseason against guys that
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: may not make the team for the other team. But
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: he's still you got to show up when you get
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: the opportunity, and Bo Richter definitely did. Plus he kind
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: of looked like JJ Watt with his tape and his
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: arm armed bands and everything. It was cool to watch him.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: And then Levi Drake Rodriguez, who's kind of been like
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: a golden child story from the draft. You saw the
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: video that the Vikings put out of them calling all
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: the guys when they were picking them, and they seemed
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: really excited about Levia Drake Rodriguez, and he seems really
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: excited to be a Viking. And I mean he had
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: a tackle for a loss and a sack and again
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: late in the game, but he still showed up.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: That was fun to see. And I mean, I've in
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: pace last year. He's one of those guys that like.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Oh that he's the outlier, like he's a starter, borderline
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Pro Bowl player.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, But I mean, I guess the point I'm trying
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: to make is udfa or sixth rounder, seventh rounder, whoever
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: you might be, Like, everybody has a shot at being
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: successful in the league. And I'm a coach. I coach
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: cross country, not football, But I mean I tell the
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: kids that I coach all the time, like sometimes it
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: just comes down to whoever wants it more, Yeah, and
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: if you want it more than someone else, go after it,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: go get it. And sometimes especially in cross country, it
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: takes days and weeks and months of training to go
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: surpass the person that you're trying to catch. But if
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: you want it more and you're willing to put in
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: that work, go for it. And I think that's like
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: kind of what we're seeing with guys like bo Richter
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: and Levi Drake Rodriguez and even I haven't paced Junior
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: last year, like they just wanted it and they weren't
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: really that like upset about their UDFA status or their
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: seventh round status or whatever. It's just no, I want
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: to play in the league.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Coach on the other side of that too, And this
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: is a little unfair because I don't know Andrew Booth.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know what kind of a person he is,
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: what his motivation looks like, what his drive looks like.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: But he was a second round pick, yeah, and never
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: essentially never did anything for the Vikings. And then you
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: have a guy who I mean, i've in Pace. Yes,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: I know he's an outlier in this whole argument, but
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: you have a guy who was undrafted and became a
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: starter partially because of the injury situation, partially because he
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: was there. I mean Brian Asmoil, he was. He would
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: have been the starter if not for Ive and Pace
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: last year when Jordan Hicks went down. But you have
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: guys that are drafted high that flame out and don't
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: do anything. Compared to what you were just saying about,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: guys that have that motivation, have that drive doesn't matter
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: how you get in. Right now, there's ninety one guys
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: on the Vikings and they're not going to make those
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: the fifty three man roster just because of their draft status.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: I mean some of them will, but not all of them. Yeah,
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: forty five percent of those guys are getting cut. Yeah
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: in a couple of weeks. So and we might have
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: an undrafted guy and a seventh round pick make the
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: team based on how they play last week.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: And I like those underdog stories. They're just they're cool,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: and I obviously the league likes them. ESPN likes them too.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: But we're just kind of coming off a Vikings career
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: of Adam Thielen, who was that guy He wasn't even
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: like an undrafted free agent, Like he was signed as
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: a tryout player weeks after, you know, a week or
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: two after undrafted free agency, so like he was even
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: less than an undrafted guy. Like, and he turned out
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: to be a multiple time Pro bowler.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Well, and he is a Minnesota guy, went to high school,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: went to college in Minnesota. Like, yeah, Detroit Lake, Really
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: you didn't know that. I'm just because that's the joke,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Like it's only been told a thousand.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Times about it, Adam, it shouldn't mess with you after
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: a couple.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Would come on. No, it is worth repeating though, because
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I mean it's just it's one of those storybook things,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: right like, And it would be so poetic if he
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: came back to Minnesota, Yeah, and finished out his career
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: with the Vikings after a year or two away. Yeah,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: I would definitely before them. I think we all would.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: But at this point it doesn't really look super likely
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: that he's come back. Don't hold you, bro. Somebody who
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: did look good was Will Rekerd. Yeah. In his official
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: debut as a Viking rookie kicker out of Alabama, he
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: made all three of his extra points. He only went
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: one for two on field goals, but the one field
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: goal that he missed was blocked. You can't really blame
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: him for that. I don't know if there was just
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: a timing issue or if somebody just exploded off the
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: line and made a clean hit on the ball. Yeah.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: I think that block was a combination of things. And
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: I'm not an expert enough on the kicking game to
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: know if Rekerd was totally faultless or if he could
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: have actually made the play better. I don't know enough
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: to say either way, but I do know the line
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: kind of collapsed a little bit, and obviously it was blocked,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: so it'll go down as a block kick. But I mean,
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: he obviously later in the game, at the end of
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: the game made the kick that mattered too. Again, it's
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: a preseason game, but he won the game. And Dustin
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Baker said in the article, we'd be talking about it
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: if he had missed it, Like, how vikings would it
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: have been for this rookie kicker that we've all heard
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: some really good things about and they drafted him, they
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: already cut the other guy. How vikings would it be
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: for him to miss a thirty eight yard or to
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: win or lose the game.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Well, you gotta think if he misses that kick, you
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: gotta think. Quasi's in his box suite at US Bank
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Stadium and picks up the phone and he's like, John Parker, Yeah,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: can you get back here like.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Tomorrow or somebody. At least they're at least working out somebody, right.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: And I'm not a kicker. I know a lot of
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: that position is a mental game, and I know it
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: it shouldn't be, but it is. But can you imagine
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: that guy, and I don't know him either, Like maybe
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: he wouldn't have cared, but I feel like me, if
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: I missed my first game winning opportunity, it would be
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: in my head the rest of the season every time.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Maybe it still is, I don't know, but he made it.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: We don't have to talk about that. It's not a
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: what if anymore.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: He looked good and it's preseason, so even if he
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: had missed it, there's still kind of that like, Okay,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: it's week one preseason. We'll we'll see if we can
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: get you some more opportunities Week two, week three of
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: the preseason. Iron this thing out before we really hit
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: the panic button and try to call John Parker Romo
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: back or I don't know, get somebody out of retirement
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: or something.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Ye, but now we've seen him, we know he can
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: make an extra point.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: We know he can make a thirty eight.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Yardfield goal in the NFL against NFL players in our stadium,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: so hard, dang it. I've been doing really good about
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: this whole we are mind thing in the Viking Stadium.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: We are Vikings fans, and therefore they are we and
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: we are there. I'm on the Wii train. That's true,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: you get to be on the we train. I don't.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: It's cringing to me either way. Will record so far
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: we like him. Stone cold sniper apparently, is what Dallas
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Turner called him.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Dallas Turner had a good game too, though. Yeah he
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: did first rounder.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: So his statline's a little short. I think just one
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: thing notable. He had a sack, but if the player
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: two before that sack, he almost had what probably would
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: have been a strip sack, but he was pretty close.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: I don't think you could call it a hurry because
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: I don't think the quarterback on that almost sack knew
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: he was even there because it was to his back.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: But Dallas Turner, I did a little fishing this last weekend.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Oh that's why I'm a little like sunburned on the
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: nose and stuff. But like the sequence from Dallas Turner,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: like almost getting the sack to getting the sack is
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: like you you cast your line out, you get that
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: bite and you jerk it up and you're like, ah,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: dang it, and you throw it out again and then
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: they're like, oh, yeah, I got it. That's kind of
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: what it felt like a little bit is very like
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Angler esque. He's he was so close on that first one,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden and he just he
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: hits pey dirt and puts the quarterback in the ground.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: When I was watching that play that he almost got
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: the sack on, it reminded me. It brought me.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: Back to the Jared Allen days, I think the twenty
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: thirteen season when he came just shy of breaking the
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: single season record every time the Vikings were on defense.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: That was a terrible season. I think they won three games,
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: but he was the thing we were watching on defense
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: and every snap, Oh.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: It's a pass, Oh, Jared Allen's gonna get there. Oh
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: he didn't get there, or oh he did get there.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: And it kind of that Dallas Turner play where he
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: almost got there brought me right back to watching Jared Allen.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: I am not saying Dallas Turner is gonna be future
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: Hall of Famer Jared Allen, but it was fun to
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: watch a really good defensive end, especially after losing Daniel
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Hunter in the off season and having some uncertainty. They
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: made some investments who got Jonathan Grenard and Van Ginkel
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: on that line.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: But Turner, he was fun. He was fun to watch.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: And then of course a few plays later, he gets
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: to pay dirt and he gets the sack and the
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: stadium the top blue off.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: It was. It was awesome. I honestly, I think he
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: is a starter before JJ McCarthy. Oh, I can totally
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: the starter before the bye week, hands down. Yeah.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Well, and so he did start the preseason game, but
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: that's because one Grenard didn't play. He was one of
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: the veterans that didn't play. Van Ginkle, I think he's
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: still on the pup list right now or I don't.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know the status because tonight they had a
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: night game and he was practicing or night practice, and
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: he was practicing in that he actually intercepted Sam Darnold
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: in that practice. So I may not be up to
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: date on his pup status, but Van Ginkle either way,
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: he didn't play in the preseason game. So because those
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: two guys were out, Turner was one of the next
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: guys up. So that's why he got the start. But
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: he performed well against starter quality NFL players, that's the thing.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: He didn't do that on the last play in the
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: last second or the fourth quarter against some guys that
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: will be selling you know, insurance in a week. But
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: he did that against guys that have and will start
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: NFL games. Maybe not Hall of famers, but he's still
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: You can only look good when you play it, and
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: he looked good. So Turner, that was exciting to watch.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Agreed one hundred percent.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: And I think the biggest story out of this Vikings
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Week one preseason twenty twenty four matchup against the Raiders
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: has to be JJ McCarthy. I mean a lot of
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: good things happened. And of course you never put a
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: ton of stock into the preseason because it's just exhibition.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: It's just coaches getting players out there, trying to figure
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: out what they have, who they need to let go,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: who they need to promote into, you know, higher levels
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: of the depth chart and everything. But JJ McCarthy, JJ McCarthy,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: that's a mouthful to say. JJ McCarthy looked good. He
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: looked really good. Not amazing, not like he's the next
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, the next yeah, yeah, you know CJ.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Stroud or whatever, but like, he looked really good and
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: it was his first few NFL plays. Yeah, they've had
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: practice and OTAs and all that fun stuff this summer,
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: but I mean, he was wearing the jersey, he was
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: all you know, gamed up, he was ready to go,
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: and like I said a few minutes ago, you can
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: only look good when you're on the field. And A
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: J was on the field and he had the early
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: interception like you just alluded to, and it didn't look good.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: That looked pretty awful, actually, But I think I saw
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: somebody in the postgame, like in the locker room when
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: he was doing some interviews, somebody asked him about that,
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: like what's your mindset after throwing that early interception? And
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: he thought about it for a second and he was like,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: you know what an opportunity to be able to come
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: back and bounce back. And yes, the caveat again of
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: against some preseason players on the Raiders defense, so not
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: Hall of famers, But I mean he still came in
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: and he still threw two long touchdowns, and he was
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: still a quarterback officiating an offense in the NFL in
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: the preseason. But he still bounced back. It's not like
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: he threw two more more interceptions after that or he
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: saw ghosts immediately. Like he played well, and that's got
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: to be exciting for every Vikings fan out there, agreed.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: I was trying to find this graphic before we started recording,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: and I like to no avail. My search was in vain.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: I could not find it. But there was some graphic
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: out there on Facebook or Twitter or something that had
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: all the I think there were six or eight I
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: can't remember exactly how many, but six or eight rookie
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks that made their debut in the NFL preseason thank you,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: and it just kind of gave a really succinct stat
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: line completions in contrast to their attempts and then any
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: touchdowns and the yards. I think that they threw four
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: and arguably JJ had the best stat line of those
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: rookie quarterbacks that played in preseason Week one. Here. Yeah,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: you take away that interception and you almost go, that's
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: that's the perfect stat line for a rookie QB in
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: their first preseason game. That's what you want to see.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: M H.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: And I mean, I'll just maybe say it to some extent,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: I think the interception is actually a good thing. We
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: might look back on that interception and say it was
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: good that he got that going early on, that he
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: threw that, he learned from his mistakes and he got
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: rid of just that like playing scared mentality because he
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: was quoted saying like, oh, I just everything was comfortable
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: after that, Like I just had to kind of get
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: out of my comfort zone a little bit. And then
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: after that everything was great and he threw two touchdowns,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: two great touchdowns, Oh my gosh.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: And yeah, again, the argument is he there were it's
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: not even you know, second third, fourth stringers, like guys
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: don't want to make the team.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Whatever, it's not his fault. He made good reads.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Those weren't just like crazy stupid easy plays like he
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: still had to read the play. So I'm not declaring
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: him QB one. I'm not declaring him a Hall of
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: Famer and a pro bowler right now.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: But we saw some good things. I do feel like
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: there is.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: It's almost a cliche where players say like, ah, they're
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: so nervous and then you get that first hit and
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: you're like, all right, let's go, let's play. I'm loose now,
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: And that's kind of the sentiment of his quote to that, Hey,
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: how do you feel after that first interception? Like what
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: an opportunity? Like I just got to play loose and
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: play fast and it's football, Like he's gonna throw an
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: interception this year? Ye if he plays at all Yep,
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: he's gonna throw a pick. And the almost other cliche
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: that we hear all the time is Peyton Manning through
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: twenty eight interceptions his rookie year. Is JJ McCarthy going
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: to be Peyton Manning?
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Who knows time will tell probably nobody, So hopefully not
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: in terms of twenty eight interceptions, is rikiear, but hopefully
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: in terms of the success then yes, down the road.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: He's got the potential and he showed the potential, and
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: I think we should all be at least not afraid
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: of him starting games this year.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: If needed one final thought on JJ before we kind
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: of wrap things up and kind of move on here
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: is you got to consider the roller coaster that that
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: guy's been on since winning a national championship, and even
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: before then, like just all of last football season being
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: a Michigan Wolverine and riding the wave of having Jim
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Harbaugh as your coach and getting to the national championship
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: and then winning it all. I mean, that's crazy enough
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: in its own right. And then almost immediately after all
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: of that, it's draft season, baby, and you are you're
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: in the running for a top ten draft pick kind
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: of thing, and so you're doing all the interviews, you're
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: doing your pro day, you're doing all I mean, you're
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: doing a bunch of pr stuff just to kind of
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: hype yourself up and kind of market yourself for who
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: you are and what you can do. And then you
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: go through the draft process, which is even crazier. You're
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: going to You're visiting all these places, You're meeting with
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: gms and head coaches all over the map, and.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: Having everything good and bad ever said about you every
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: second of your entire life.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Yep. I mean, you've got all the talking heads on
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: all the major sports networks talking about you. Oh, where
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: are JJ gonna go in the draft? About right, Like,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: there's all of that, and then you get through the
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: draft and then you finally learn your fate and you're like, Okay,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a Viking, and then you go through
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: all of the other emotions of you know, Okay, I'm
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: kind of riding the coattails of Kirk Cousins here. He
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: had really successful six years in Minnesota, and I really
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: like KOC and Quacy. They're good guys, but I have
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: a lot to live up to. Oh yeah, and there's
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: this other guy, Sam Darnold, who they signed on a
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: one year deal, and you know, right, like I mean,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: for him, it's just had to have been like this constant,
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: crazy roller coaster of emotions and media and cameras and everything.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: And to see him play football like he did, yeah
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: on Saturday, it was just it was encouraging, like, put
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: all that aside, let's just let's go out and prove
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: that we can play ball. Absolutely, I think that's what
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: he did.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: And to perform well, eleven of seventeen, one hundred and
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: eighty eight yards, two touchdowns, the really ugly interception, he
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: had to carry the ball a couple times, two carries
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: for eighteen yards, all of that leading up to a
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: preseason game that yes, it quote unquote doesn't matter. But
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: if he had been two of seventeen, oh my gosh,
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: can you even be talking about it? For sure, his
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: entire everybody would have just come down on him and
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: his world would be just in the crapper and he'd
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: still have to come out and be like yeah and
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: do the press conferences and be it practice and try
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: to turn it around.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: But no, he didn't.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: He put himself in a position to have people say,
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: let's go JJ. It's a having you say all those things,
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: which we all know, but it's really cool to think
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: about it and be like, yeah, can you imagine being
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: a top quarterback quarterback is specifically in the NFL draft,
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: Like coming in like that's got to be like a
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: whirlwind of two to three to five years of your
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: life where it's just like you're just crazy on top
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: of everything and you have to be good because if
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: you're not, if you're only good, you suck, and if
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: you're not amazing, then whatever. But it's no surprise that
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: a lot of these first round quarterbacks bust out because
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: all the pressure. They're obviously gifted athletes. They could obviously
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: throw a ball a mile and hit a trash can
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: from you one hundred yards away. But like, yeah, it's
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: really encouraging to see JJ come into this situation and
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: play pretty well in his first preseason game.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: I wasn't even referencing like all the years before this.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about the last six months for the dude,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: Like you go back to February, January February, like you're
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: winning a national championship. And I mean even this week,
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh was in the headlines for all of his
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: stuff and so you're probably like, hey, don't talk about
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: Like you're probably like you've got some hush money under
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: the table or something like, let's just keep all this
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: to ourselves until it all develops and makes its way
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: out to ESPN and all the other stuff. Like, you know,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: like there's just so much pressure on these kids, and
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: you've got to respect what they do and the fact
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: that they come out and perform and perform the way
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: that JJ did with all that pressure, with all that like,
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: he's the answer, He's the next franchise QB. The Vikings
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: have never taken a QB higher than him, and all
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: this stuff, like may like to play the way he did.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: I think Vikings fans should be really proud. I know
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: they are, because I've seen a lot of feedback. There
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: are a lot of people that are like, Oh, put
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: him in, let's get rid of Darnold, let's trade him
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: right away, blah blah blah whatever. I don't know if
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: we go that far yet, but I like JJ. I
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: think he's a good fit. I think he fits really
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: well with KOC and the offensive scheme that O'Connell puts together.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: I still hold to my position. I think we'll see
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: him shortly after the bye week, probably the week after.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: Definitely a possibility.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: That's my prediction, and I mean after seeing him play
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: that well, it's not it's not a zero percent chance.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: It's a low chance, but it's not zero that he
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: could be named the Week one starter. Yeah, I'm not
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: predicting that. I wouldn't even be excited for that. I'd
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: probably be a little nervous and a little upset. But
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: if he was named the Week one starter, I wouldn't
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: be blindsided, like it'd be surprising, but not something I
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: couldn't see our future where that happens. It does kind
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: of suck because we did see tonight for their night practice,
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: he didn't he didn't participate, and they said specifically it's
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: because well, they said knee soreness. So Koc said, like
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: out of pure caution, they're going to.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: Hold him out. Dallas Turner sat out tonight exactly.
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but Dallas Turner at least we saw pictures of
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: him on the sideline just in sweat, So I don't
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: know if that they didn't say he was out for
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: nie soreness. But as a Vikings fan, you hear the
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: words knee soreness. My first thought was, oh, no, Sam
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: Bradford after the Saints game and the what twenty seventeen
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: NFC Championship game appearance. Season, Like, we saw him in
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: one game and then all of.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: A sudden, you know, the day after he kind of
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: had some.
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: Knee soreness, and then he was out the entire years.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: So my first instinct is always to go to doomsday.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: So hopefully JJ's spine and he doesn't even have to
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: be QB one yet, so like we don't need to
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: worry about it yet.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: But we talked about this before we recorded, but like
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: I brought up the point that you know, in a
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: regular season, they'll play a game on Sunday and they
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: won't hit the field in pads in full contact until
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: Wednesday or Thursday, so they've got several days of recovery
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: built into their weekly schedule. So to play a game
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: on Saturday, nothing yesterday on Sunday, and to not see
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: him today at night practice on Monday, I'm not super
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: concerned about it. To me, he's being treated like a
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: starter even though he only played what three Yeah, he
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: possessions four possessions, So I don't even know JJ.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure Sam Darnold. He only played the first possession. Yeah,
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: so JJ came in in the first quarter and he played.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: I thought it was cool because Pa on the radio said,
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: I guess I had missed it. But Koc in the
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: week said, yeah, JJ is going to come in early
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: and then he's going to go into halftime as the
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: QB and then come out of halftime and at least
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: the first drive about a halftime he was going to
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: be the QB, just to kind of give him that
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: sense of like, you know, second quarter being quarterback and
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: then going into halftime, getting some some conversations, some quote
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: unquote halftime adjustments or even just going to the bathroom whatever,
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: and then getting the feeling of coming back out on
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: the field and getting back onto the into the game
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: right over.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Pretty authentic, like started quarterback feel, even though it's a
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: preseason game. Yeah.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just to kind of get in the rhythm of
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: to avoid the idea of when he does start his
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: first game to be like, oh crap, I just kind
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: of lulled myself to sleep in halftime. Which he's been
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: playing for football his whole life.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: It's not and he's been playing at a high level.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: Ad Michigan played for a national championship, Like he's not used.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: He's not unused to I guess is what I'm trying
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: to say, those those big moments, the high pressure, that
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: sort of thing.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: But to bring it all back, like you were saying,
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: he played a good portion of that game, and today
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: is Monday. The night practice is on Monday, and they
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: just he played a good portion of an NFL game.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: I mean talent level against whatever you're playing with, be darn,
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: but like he was still playing an NFL game and
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: that was two days ago, three days ago. So yeah,
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: nobody would expect him to be ready to go.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: You shouldn't.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: And this night practice was only played tonight because I
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: think it was supposed to be last week and it
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: was postponed for weather. So it's probably too early to panic.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: I just hear the words knee soreness and go right
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: back to Sam Bradford.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: If you don't see him the rest of the week,
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: then I think we start to panic a little bit.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: Well, and even panic, like rational minds should come in
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: because he's not QB one we I mean Sam Donald.
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: He is the QB one. So even if they say like, ah, yeah, McCarthy,
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: he's got some miniscus something. He's going to be out
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: two months. Like our first thought should be like okay,
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: like he's not gonna be the guy that we relied
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: on to be the starter anyways. It's just he's the
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: new toy, so we need to make sure he's okay.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: And Donald, to be fair, he kind of followed the
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: path of a lot of qb ones across the league.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: In Week one preseason, Patrick Mahomes played a series for
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs. I'm pretty sure Jordan Love played a series
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: for the Packers. I mean several other qb ones, like
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: just like bona fide, like, yep, they're gonna be the
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: QB one for sure. They played a series, maybe two,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: depending on who they are and how experienced they are.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: But like, yeah, Donald, he followed that same path and
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: played a series and then sat the bench and looked
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: okay in that series. Yeah, it looked okay, not bad,
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: not great, very kind of mid. But it's preseason, and again,
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: you can't like chock a whole lot up to what
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: happens in the preseason. Yeah, exactly.
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: Overall, I think first game we come out of that
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: as Vikings fans feeling pretty good.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we got two more preseason games coming up, both
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: on the road at the Browns, and I think there's
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: some joint practices with the Browns this week in Cleveland,
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: so that'll be interesting to kind of see how the
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: rest of the week kind of progresses with those joint practices.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: Are there any joint practices with the Eagles? Do you
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: know that? I'm not sure.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: I believe the only joint practices the Vikings have are
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: with the Browns this year. And Koc was on Pat
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: McAfee's show today the twelfth, and one of the things
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: McAfee kind of asked him about was like, how do
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: you deal with like fights inner team or you know,
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: team's team fights in these joint practices. It's well known
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: that happens all the time. And I really respected Koc's
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: answer to that. He basically said, like, I mean, we
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: don't tolerate it. And he said, I know Kevin Stefanski,
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: former Vikings coach for a long time now the Browns
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: head coach, he and Koc have a similar feeling on
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: that idea of like teams fighting. Like he Koc said, like, Hey,
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: if you're a guy that's fighting for a roster spot
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: and you're planning on playing in the preseason game. If
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: you are fighting, you're not playing in that game. Like
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: that's you're hurting yourself. And he said, on the flip side,
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: if you're a guy that's not gonna play like you,
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: you know you're good on the team or whatever, you're
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: not really planning on playing, and you get in a fight,
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: you're strapping it up and you're playing in that game.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: So it's more of a punishment for the guys that
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: are probably gonna make the team and definitely a devastation
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: for a guy.
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: That's trying to fight for his life from the squad.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: So I respected that that answer a lot. So yeah,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: for sure, I didn't watch that. I was a little
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: preoccupy today, But no, I like that answer, and now
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: I kind of want to go back and watch that.
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: I didn't watch the whole thing. I just saw that
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: clip that I think it was on Twitter. But yeah,
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: that was that was a nice mature answer and mature
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: mindset around fighting, because you do see that. It feels
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: like every week in the preseason you see, oh, this
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: team fought with this team or a huge fight. We've
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: already seen it this year with like.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: The Lions and the Giants and so many. Yeah, multiple,
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: and I feel like it just continues to amplify year
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: over year. It's just like every year in training camp
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: and these joint practices and even into the preseason, these
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: guys are fighting. And I'm sure some of these guys
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: because they're fighting for roster spots because it's so emotional,
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: their livelihoods are kind of on the line. Oh absolutely, Yeah,
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: Like they're emotional, and if one bad thing happens, you
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: know there, they might get a little emotional and kind
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: of boil over and things just kind of get out
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: of control. I understand why it happens. I'm not condoning it.
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: But chaos even said he said, like because every once
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: in a while you hear a coach.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: Like I love to see that. It means they're dogs.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: They're in it.
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: But like Kaos said, these guys are really trying to
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: make the team, like and we're trying to make our
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: teams better, both teams in these joint practices, like fighting
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: only shortens that practice session and that only hurts everybody
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: trying to practice and get better, and the team's trying
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: to get better. So it's it's not good. Like sure,
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: I could see the good old boy mentality, like, yeah,
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: he fought, he's a he's a mad dog, you know,
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: Like I love I see that, Like I could kind
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: of see how that would make you happy. But that's
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: for the fans, you know. That's not for a coach
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: who's trying to get a job done and figure out
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: if player A is better than player B or whatever, and.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: You can't figure it out because they've fought. Now they're
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: out of the practice. Honestly, I think Pat McAfee and
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: guys like him kind of goed that out of the
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: players a little bit, Like they kind of like on
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: their talk shows that kind of like hype it up
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: and they're like, oh man, he's dark because he went
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: out and you defend it, you know whatever, and like, no,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: this is it shouldn't be celebrated. It should not be
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: a part of the culture. Honestly, Like, if it could
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: make its way out of the narrative of the NFL,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: I think Roger Goodell and everybody else that's kind of
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: tied to those upper office positions would be definitely okay
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: with that because it kind of puts a black eye
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: on the league too, for sure. But I don't know
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: not my thing. I've never been a fighter. I'm always
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: a lover. I know one thing that is your thing, though,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: can you can you take a guess? Beer? Beer? And
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: what's another thing that's your thing of? I can't read
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: your mind. I don't know coffee. Oh yeah, so coffee beer.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: This beer is two of your things mixed in one.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: This school school. As soon as we pop these things open,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: it's just like the coffee aroma filled this little bubble
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: around our little skull Man center here, and it was
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: it was awesome. I mean, before we even took a sip,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: it was just like because we coffee smell.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: Before we hit record, we were kind of just chatting
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: for a while, and at one point I almost like
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: reached up and just opened it because like I was
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: so ready for it.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: And then it was like crack. We haven't even started
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: the podcast yet, so we had to get started. But
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, we both remembered how good this was when
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: we had it in just a tiny little sample glass
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: when we're at House Divided, and now we got to
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: enjoy a few. And I am not at all disappointed
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: that this was the last and final beer that we
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: saved from our brew hop tour.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: It's pretty awesome. I would make the drive. It's probably
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: about an hour drive from where we are.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: A long hour.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: I would absolutely make that drive for this beer alone.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: People say like they'll make the drive to Wisconsin for
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: spotty Cow and stuff, which spotty Cow is.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: A good beer. Moon Man is a good beer. You know,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: there are some beers that people travel for. I would.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: I would travel for this beer. This is a this
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: is a solid beer. It's a good beer, and it's
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: a good coffee beverage, which we both love beer. We
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: both love coffee. For me, it hits all the points
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: and for it not to be an ipa and for
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: me to still like it this much, like that's saying
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: something because I love the hops and there's just beer here,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: it's awesome.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. Correct me if I'm wrong. But when
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: we were there, we were talking to them, we were
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: talking to both kind of the head brewer and one
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: of the gals that Bartend's quite frequently there, and I
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: think they said this is one of their more higher
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: selling gears.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: If it wasn't their best seller, I'd be shocked because
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: it's just so good. After having a handful of their
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: other beers too, which will phenomenal. That place is amazing.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: I wish it.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: I wish we were closer to that place because I
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: would go there all the time.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: I agree. And it's House Divided by the way in
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: Ely House Divided. Of course, we'll link down to all
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: their stuff below. Check them out. If you're anywhere close
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: to the Cedar Rapids area, it's it's less than a
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: ten minute drive from Cedar Rapids. We made it in
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: ten minutes from lion Gard's Brewery. I remember because we
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: went right from lion Bridge to Ealy to House Divided.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: Oh it was. It was pretty close. So if you're
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: in that area, it's pretty it's pretty close to the interstate,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: pretty close to I three eighty. As you're driving through
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: that area. Hit them up. Worth the trip for shirt.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: We need to go back, yes we do, whether it's
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: officially on the brew Hop two point.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: Zero or we just go because we liked it. We're
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: going to be heading up that way for the Iowa
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: Podcast Awards. We might have to drive by. Maybe I
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: might have to drive back. Maybe maybe well we'll stop
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: in and say hell and grab a few cans of
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: beer while we're there. That one got a little sticky
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: on the bottom. But that's all right, all right, man.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: Well, if people wanted to say hello to us, how
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: would they do that? They would do that pretty much anywhere.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: They can say hello to us social media and find
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: us the School Hop Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, even though
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: they don't do a whole lot there.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: Just google the school Hop you'll find everywhere our website,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: all our socials everything.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're there. Or email us the school Hop at
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: gmail dot com.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we haven't come in an email in a while.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: I feel kind of left out. JK used to email
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: us every once in a while. We haven't heard from
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: you in a while.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: So anybody, anybody can email us. I mean, you know
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: our email address, So hit us up. Let us know
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: if there's an Iowa beer that we can try, because
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: we're starting to kind of run low on Iowa beers
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: that are available to us here locally in our kind
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: of eastern Iowa Quad Cities area. And yeah, we're excited
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: to go on this Iowa podcast. Yeah, awards, that's going
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: to be a lot of fun. Two things for me,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: really quick, go for it. One.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: I think we still stand on our rule where if
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: you send us an email and you want it, we
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: will send you one of our stickers. At least one
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: of our stickers. We're starting to accumulate and we've mentioned
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: this before and it's never really happened, but we're starting
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: to accumulate some stuff for a giveaway. We need to
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: make that happen pretty early in the season. So that's
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: number one. If you email us, we will send you
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: a sticker and say thank you for the email. Two,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: we are going to this Iowa Podcast Awards September fifteenth,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: and we feature an Iowa beer on each podcast. We
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: would love if you're a brewer, or if you know
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: of a brewery or you're connected to any brewery in
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: any way, we'd love to feature a specific Iowa brewed
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: beer on that live episode where we're going to have
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: people in front of us.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to go off the assumption that they'll
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: be okay with us cracking a few cold ones in
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: that place. Yeah, if you are a brewer or a
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: brewery or connected to one and you'd want your beer
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: featured on that episode, let us know, because we definitely
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: want to feature an Iowa podcast in the Iowa Podcast
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: Awards and Iowa brewed beer on our live episode, that'd
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: be great. Yeah, We'll definitely prioritize anybody, any brewery that
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: reaches out to us with hopes of featuring a beer
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: on that episode when we go live from the Iowa
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: Podcast Awards. It would I think it would be a
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: win win. It would be a win for us, It
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: would be a win for the brewery just for the
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: added exposure and attention and all that.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: And who knows, if nothing else, maybe we just stopped
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: by a house divided on our way up there and
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: we could have a few.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: Bruce we could. There are several breweries that we stopped
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: by on the brew Hop that we could hit on
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: our way up to the IO Podcast Awards in several
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  Speaker 1: that if we took like an alternative route, could we
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  Speaker 1: could hit those as well? For sure? So even if
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  Speaker 1: Sunday the fifteenth. Yeah, and if you want a cool shirt,
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  Speaker 2: We sell shirts. Evan's modeling it right now. It comes
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  Speaker 2: in some different colors. I'm not wearing it right now.
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  Speaker 2: I thought about it, but I'm not. I went with
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  Speaker 1: A nice Minnesota the shirt though, I like it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, man, that's all I can think of.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have anything else?
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  Speaker 1: No, it was a great episode. I had a lot
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  Speaker 1: mean next week we're gonna have more to talk about
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  Speaker 1: with preseason game number two. Yeah, you could argue best
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