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Adam Thielen is Coming Home! Vikings 53-Man Roster! Better Barn Town Beer! | TSH Ep. 102 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome in to another episode
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  Speaker 1: of The Skull Hop. I'm Evan and I'm Austin. We're
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  Speaker 1: just a couple of dudes from Iowa. We like drinking
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  Speaker 1: beer talking about the biking, Yeah, we do.
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  Speaker 2: And the big thing to talk about the Vikings today
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  Speaker 2: is Adam Fielen, number nineteen is coming home.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we're super pumped about that. Hopefully we can see
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  Speaker 1: him retire in Purple.
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  Speaker 3: That'd be great.
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  Speaker 2: We also talked about the final or initial fifty three
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  Speaker 2: man roster and even some of the concerns we have
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  Speaker 2: about some of the depth at certain positions out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we even talked about the upcoming Monday night
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  Speaker 1: football game Week one against the Bears at Soldier Field.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited for this NFL season to get started. Me too.
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  Speaker 2: And we kind of touched on some of the purple
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  Speaker 2: punishments we might have to do this season. So if
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  Speaker 2: you have any good ideas listener for purple punishments we
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  Speaker 2: could do, that'd be great.
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  Speaker 3: Let us know.
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  Speaker 2: But until then, sit back listen to episode one two
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  Speaker 2: of The School Hop Skull.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get to some beer.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so i'd be wondering why we have a bowl.
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  Speaker 3: They're on ice right now. That's why I.
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  Speaker 2: Brought the beer tonight. And last week we tried a
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  Speaker 2: beer from Barntown Brewing. Where are they out of West West?
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, and which one was it? It was the
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  Speaker 2: pickle tickle yep from Barntown Brewing last week, and we
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  Speaker 2: were getting out of our comfort zone a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: and we love your Barntown but that one wasn't for
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  Speaker 2: us necessarily.
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  Speaker 1: So you finished all of you, yeah, both of beer.
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  Speaker 2: I had two of them. We each had two, and you.
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  Speaker 1: You know there's still one unopened in my fridge upstairs.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't make it through one.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was gonna say we each had two, but
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  Speaker 2: you only like completed almost one, correct, So I gave
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  Speaker 2: I promised Barntown we would try their beer again, because
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  Speaker 2: that's I mean, pickle beer. That's a pretty niche thing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: inherently out of the box. And a whole brewery is
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  Speaker 2: gonna have other types of beer. So went to our
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  Speaker 2: favorite high V in the area here and the only
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  Speaker 2: Barntown beer they had was not in the fridge.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just surprising because this very beer was in
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  Speaker 1: the fridge last week when I got the pickle.
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  Speaker 2: Beer, oh man so and a few other Barntown Maybe
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  Speaker 2: I am besmirching the name of Hive and I didn't
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  Speaker 2: look hard enough what I could see. I didn't see
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  Speaker 2: any refrigerated Barntown beers. I might be wrong on that
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  Speaker 2: either way. The beer I bought was room temperature. So
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  Speaker 2: we have this bucket on the table here on the
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  Speaker 2: Schoolman's center, which you can see if you're watching through
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  Speaker 2: YouTube or Spotify, you might.
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  Speaker 1: Be able to hear me moving the beer cans. You
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  Speaker 1: taught me a little trick. I didn't know this, so
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  Speaker 1: this is maybe a little bar bartender's trick. But you
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  Speaker 1: put your can in the ice and you just roll
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  Speaker 1: it on the ice for a little bit, and it does,
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  Speaker 1: in fact cool it off pretty quickly. It's room temperature.
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  Speaker 3: It's good.
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  Speaker 1: So we've got some ice as cold as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got some ice in a bowl with with
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  Speaker 2: some of these beers.
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  Speaker 3: Evan.
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  Speaker 2: This one I got is the Neon Hazy I p
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  Speaker 2: A from Barntown Brewing. No secret that Hazy I p
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  Speaker 2: as are your face, my favorite. I can enjoy the
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  Speaker 2: whole gamut of beers, but Hazy IPAs are my favorite,
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  Speaker 2: just like you can enjoy the gamut, but like the
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  Speaker 2: ambers and the October fests, and that is kind of
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  Speaker 2: your favorite. But yeah, I figured if we were going
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  Speaker 2: to give Barntown the best shot, might as well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: rig the game a little bit and go in my favorite.
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  Speaker 1: I will point out really quick before we crack these open,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm excited to try this. Similar to last week's
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  Speaker 1: beer with the rap that they put on there, they
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  Speaker 1: still have the little cutout of the state of Iowa
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  Speaker 1: on there, so that must just be a Barntown thing
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  Speaker 1: that they do on all their can raps. But super cool.
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  Speaker 1: We're obviously big Iowa beer fans. It's pretty much all
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  Speaker 1: we drink on this show. So to see that little
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  Speaker 1: just that little touch, that's cool.
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  Speaker 3: I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good touch, but it's all for not if the
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  Speaker 2: beer is not good. Let's give this one a try.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really excited. This can is pretty good. It's neon,
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  Speaker 2: but the artwork makes it look like, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: neon sign to the barn.
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  Speaker 3: Yes this is your kind of beer. No billing all
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  Speaker 3: over the place.
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  Speaker 2: I was paying attention to your beer as you're like
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  Speaker 2: my beer, and then I didn't even pay attention to
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  Speaker 2: Party five.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I know, but we have paper towels. We'll
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  Speaker 3: failure out.
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  Speaker 2: I can smell it just like last week. We we
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  Speaker 2: opened the cans last week and we could immediately smell
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  Speaker 2: the the pickle aroma this one. I'm immediately smelling that
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  Speaker 2: citrusy happy flavor. We haven't even tasted it yet. I
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  Speaker 2: had a hard pour. This is man, it's rough.
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  Speaker 1: That's like the epitome of an Austin poor. Right there,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna let this one die a little bit. Friend
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  Speaker 1: of the show, Forest would be giving you a really
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  Speaker 1: hard time forrest. Let us know.
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  Speaker 2: If you're giving me a hard time, I'll just take
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  Speaker 2: the first sip out of the can.
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  Speaker 1: And we can go from there. Sorry, I'm just getting
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  Speaker 1: a good angle on the old can there so the
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  Speaker 1: viewers at home can see that.
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  Speaker 3: All right, school.
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  Speaker 1: Barntown Brewing totally redeemed themselves, totally redeemed you.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good beer.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that is good, And that's you said that from
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  Speaker 2: a guy that you like. Hazy, I pas, it's fine,
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  Speaker 2: But like that's not your favorite.
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  Speaker 3: That's a weird way to say it. It's not. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's not that I like.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, if ever, I if I'm if that's the
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  Speaker 1: only beer, I guess I'll drink it. No, it's not that,
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  Speaker 1: like I mix it up. I don't only stick to
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  Speaker 1: amber beers or whatever. Like, yeah, I'll mix it up
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  Speaker 1: every once in a while, go out to a brewery
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  Speaker 1: or go to the store and pick up I like
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  Speaker 1: most types of beers, so this is this is really good.
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  Speaker 3: I noted the haziness right away. If you're watching from.
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  Speaker 2: Home, Yeah, it's a nice light color.
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  Speaker 1: You can't see through it, but yeah, it's got that
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  Speaker 1: nice light color. It's it's really hobby, which I like,
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  Speaker 1: very aromatic flavorful.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of like it's a juice bomb type of
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  Speaker 3: I p A.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, it's it's really good. They do have
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  Speaker 2: another one that I almost got that's like specifically a
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  Speaker 2: grapefruit I p A. I forget what it was called,
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  Speaker 2: but it was something juicy something like that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I went with the neon because it can looked cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like it a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really excited to have this one and the next
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  Speaker 2: one and really give Barntown a good shot here to
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  Speaker 2: be delicious.
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  Speaker 1: And something interesting that I'll point out. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that this has ever happened with any beer that I've tried,
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  Speaker 1: but that pickle beer got worse the more I drank it.
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  Speaker 1: Like actually, at first I was like, oh okay, and
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  Speaker 1: I think you were the opposite. You're like no, this
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  Speaker 1: isn't for me, and then we kind of flipped roles.
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  Speaker 1: It was fascinating to me how that played out, because usually,
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  Speaker 1: like with this beer, I can already tell you I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna like this first sip as much as I like
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  Speaker 1: the last one and every sip in between. But there
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  Speaker 1: was definitely this like conflicting trajectory.
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  Speaker 3: You were on the rise.
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  Speaker 1: And I was on the downfall for that whole experience.
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  Speaker 1: So hopefully that's the only Barntown beer that I will
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  Speaker 1: just give to someone else if I'm presented with it.
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  Speaker 1: But this is really good, and this one mine. You
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  Speaker 1: can't have it?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, sounds good.
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  Speaker 2: I'm surprised because you said that that other can that
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  Speaker 2: you put in your fridge. You're gonna have your wife
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  Speaker 2: try it, she decided to hear her.
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  Speaker 3: She hasn't tried it yet. Okay, try it yet. We're
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  Speaker 3: both teachers.
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  Speaker 1: This week was kind of busy for us, so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: back to school and all that. But I'm just happy
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  Speaker 1: to sit here, drink a beer and talk about all
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  Speaker 1: of this Vikings news that we have.
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  Speaker 2: It has been Yeah, it's been a busy week in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL season cut down days. I think since we
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  Speaker 2: recorded last was they played the last preseason game hit
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  Speaker 2: cut down Day. There's been some trades and if you're watching,
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  Speaker 2: you will notice we have both broken out our number
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  Speaker 2: nineteens and no, that is not a Dante Fleming jersey.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome home, Adam Thielen. Thank you for coming back. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you to the Vikings and the Panthers rpefully he's okay.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you to the those teams for completing the trade.
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  Speaker 2: The Panthers didn't really have to make this trade. And
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  Speaker 2: some will say the Viking's overpaid, but I would argue
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  Speaker 2: against that mindset, and I'll explain why I hear in.
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  Speaker 3: A little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But evan, happy, sad, elated, upset. What are your thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on this Adam Thielen reunion?
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  Speaker 3: Ecstatic?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've been pounding the table for this. You texted
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  Speaker 1: to me while I was at work. My students were
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  Speaker 1: working on something independently, and I had my computer and
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  Speaker 1: I get my text on my computer and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: my face lit up. I'm sure like if there was
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  Speaker 1: a kid like looking over at me, They're like, wait,
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  Speaker 1: what didn't mister douth just see on his computer? No,
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  Speaker 1: I was pumped. I was excited. And I think my
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  Speaker 1: response to you was just a big capital yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's like I said, let's freaking go. I I'm
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  Speaker 2: like you, elated is the best word. Now, if we
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  Speaker 2: were to be you know, totally subjective, you know, non
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  Speaker 2: biased football fans and seeing this trade, yeah, I saw
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  Speaker 2: what you just pointed out there too. If we were
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  Speaker 2: to try to analyze this trade from you know, a
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  Speaker 2: non Vikings or Panthers fan perspective, you could say, man,
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings they traded for a recently okay, thirty five
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  Speaker 2: year old wide receiver, and they may have overpaid a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. But like I said earlier, I'll argue against that,
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings pretty much for this trade they received Adam
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  Speaker 2: Thielen and his whole contract. There was no the Panthers
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  Speaker 2: were not paying down any part of his contract, but
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  Speaker 2: we can talk about that later too. But they received
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  Speaker 2: Adam Thlen and then I believe a twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking at I'm trying to find it right now.
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  Speaker 2: We'll look up exactly what to be accurate, but it
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  Speaker 2: was basically a fifth round pick and a seventh round pick,
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  Speaker 2: and in exchange for all of that, they sent over
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  Speaker 2: a fourth round pick and a fifth round pick, I believe,
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  Speaker 2: and that might maybe it was a sixth round pick,
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  Speaker 2: but if you really look at it, the Vikings downgraded
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  Speaker 2: two of their picks in order to receive a pretty good,
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  Speaker 2: older wide receiver who may be with the team for one,
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  Speaker 2: hopefully two years. After seeing the compensation front of the show,
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: Dustin Baker tweeted something to the tune of, man, I
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  Speaker 2: really hope he's with thelan stays around with the Vikings
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  Speaker 2: for two solid seasons rather than just one, because after
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: all the math breaks down and you look up the
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  Speaker 2: true value of what each team gave up, the Vikings
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  Speaker 2: ended up giving apparently, if you believe Twitter, the equivalent
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  Speaker 2: of a fourth round pick to receive Adam Thelen. So
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  Speaker 2: I can't be too mad about that, especially if Thelon
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  Speaker 2: goes and kind of makes the wide receiver position not
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  Speaker 2: that scary. Between Addison serving a suspension, a couple of injuries,
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: we haven't seen Justin Jefferson fully healthy yet, so feeling
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  Speaker 2: can be that insurance at least for the early part
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  Speaker 2: of the season. Totally worth it for me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I did find it.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember what you were said.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, that's fine.
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  Speaker 1: You're way too busy trying to find me. I could
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  Speaker 1: have just googled it, which is what I ended up doing.
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  Speaker 1: The Vikings got Feeling and a conditional twenty six seventh
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  Speaker 1: rounder and a twenty twenty seven fifth round pick. Quacy
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  Speaker 1: loves these conditional picks. I think that's kind of how
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  Speaker 1: he wheels and deals. Yeah, it's all about just value.
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  Speaker 1: And the Panthers got a twenty six fifth rounder and
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  Speaker 1: a twenty seven fourth rounder. Okay, so kind of like
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  Speaker 1: I think you summarized it. Well. The Vikings downgraded a
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  Speaker 1: few of their picks to immediately upgrade the wide receiver room,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that was a smart choice. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you're kicking the can down the road a little bit
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  Speaker 1: with those draft picks, and you know you're kind of
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  Speaker 1: banking on the future. But the twenty twenty sixth draft
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  Speaker 1: is looking really good right now. For the Vikings get
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of eleven picks or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and some Vikings fans the immediate rebuttal to oh
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  Speaker 2: they overpaid for healing is man, who cares what the
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: Vikings gave up? Because Quacy can't draft well anyways, Which
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: that's a whole other topic for an entire episode some
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  Speaker 2: other time, but I mean there's something there. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the Quacy has had more success with undrafted free agents
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  Speaker 2: in his tenure so far than he has with fifth, sixth,
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  Speaker 2: seventh round guys. Either way, I don't feel like the
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  Speaker 2: Vikings got totally fleeced. Maybe they slightly overpaid a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: but you're gonna get that when the Panthers didn't have
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  Speaker 2: any specific reason that they had to get rid of healing.
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  Speaker 1: And it's, uh, it's it's the hometown package, right, It's
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  Speaker 1: this like, let's bring the guy home, even if it
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  Speaker 1: costs a little bit extra. It's like if your buddy
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  Speaker 1: or your your cousin or your brother or your sister
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  Speaker 1: is like a stranded in an airport somewhere and you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: all I have to do is pay an extra hundred
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  Speaker 1: bucks and I can get them home. Yeah, yeah, we'll
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  Speaker 1: do that.
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  Speaker 3: And like that's kind of.
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  Speaker 1: What the Vikings did, Like, oh, Okay, it's only gonna
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  Speaker 1: cost a little bit more. We're only gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: downgrade two picks next year and the year after, Okay, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what it takes to bring him back. They
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  Speaker 1: don't have any fewer picks than they did now. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: a seventh round pick is way different than a fifth
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  Speaker 1: round pick, and that's what they did. They downgraded a
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  Speaker 1: fifth to become a seventh pretty much. But I mean,
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's all kind of
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  Speaker 1: a wash, and when you factor in the success with
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: the udfas and just not knowing what the future holds anyways,
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: like you just got to take it and be happy
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  Speaker 1: with it. I saw a lot of people saying, man,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: it's weird to see a lot of people complaining about
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: late round day three picks, you know, like who cares? Which, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it is what it is. The Vikings have dealing.
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  Speaker 2: As a fan, I'd rather them do the deal then
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  Speaker 2: not do this deal and have to worry about wide
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  Speaker 2: receiver depth or concerns. Plus, it's really fun to have
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  Speaker 2: Adam Feeling back in Purple.
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  Speaker 1: And I think he's excited to come back to I
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  Speaker 1: saw a video of him telling his family and they
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: were pumped, and so I think it's just it's a
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  Speaker 1: it's a win win win for the Vikings, the Panthers,
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  Speaker 1: and Adam Feeling. I think he wanted to come back anyways.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he was necessarily being held hostage by
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: the Panthers. I think, like you said, the Panthers were
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: just like, well, no, we don't have any reason to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of him, So unless the Vikings can give
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: us a really good reason not to, he's going to
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  Speaker 1: stay here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the Vikings, I think Quasi gave just
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: enough of a reason for the Panthers to be like, well, okay, yeah, fine.
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  Speaker 2: I was surprised though, because on cutdown Day the Panthers
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: release I think, am I right? They released Hunter Renfro,
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: which which cluded me and everybody else on Twitter. Who's
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: a quote unquote expert that clued us into say saying like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: the Panthers they got rid of Hunter Renfro, so they
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  Speaker 2: have no reason. They definitely now have no reason to
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: get rid of thelan because, I mean the rest of
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  Speaker 2: their wide receiver room it's like a bunch of twenty
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  Speaker 2: two to twenty three, twenty four year olds, and then
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: there's like one thirty year old and I don't even
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: know his name, but yeah, the Panthers they're they're rolling
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: with the young wide receivers who are talented. I mean,
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Bryce Young still has some good weapons for this year
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: and in the future.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I just keep saying it.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: I'm really glad Adam Thelen's back.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Yes, how many seasons do you think he has left?
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: I mean my assumption is this is probably his last dride.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Thirty five is pretty pretty up there now. He did
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: at thirty four last year have just over one thousand yards,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: still looked pretty good. His game, He's always been kind
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: of quick, but his game has been more about catching
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: everything near him. How many crazy catches have you seen him? Man?
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: I saw there are countless highlight reels of him as
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: a Viking that came out today that I.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Watched him I got home from work.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: There's all these one handed grabs that he made that
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, yeah, I remember that one.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: That was amazing.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: There's one specific in the COVID year against the Bears
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: in Chicago that there's nobody in the stands, but he
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: makes like the coldest one handed catch and as he's
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: falling down, he like flips the ball to get a
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: better grip of it and it's a touchdown. That's like
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: one of my favorite deeling catches. But yeah, that's his game,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: is possessions. And if you got a keep wanting to say,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: rookie quarterback JJ McCarthy, who is you know, red shirt
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: rookie quarterback. The best thing you can give him is
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: talented receivers first.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Off, But receivers are handed.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure handed. You don't need to be dead between
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: the numbers every ball, otherwise he's gonna drop it. Like
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: he's still that guy. Adam Deeling is still the guy
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: that's gonna catch darn near everything around him. Yeah, it's
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: just good as far as wide receiver depth. Well, to
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: answer your question, I think definitely this year. He's in
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: for this year. It would be cool to see him
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: come back next year too, especially like Dustin Baker said,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: you know, to get more value out of what you
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: give the Panthers. But I'll be happy if it's this year.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: It would kind of suck if he like breaks an
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: ankle in the first game against the Bears and totally
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: is out, but at least he's back with the team.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Well, and I think you know, he would probably be
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: if something like that happened, hopefully not if the worst happened,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I could see him just calling it quits, retiring and
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: then he gets to retire as a Viking which I
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: think is something that was important to him too. He's
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: always been that hometown guy, and I mean he's the
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Minnesota born and raised, went to Minnesota state, Like, oh,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: I'm totally joking because the jokes is the Hey, did
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: you know, because they've pounded that stack, you sold that
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: pretty well?
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: No, yeah, did you know he was from Detroit, Laate what?
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: But the point is like, that's that's just ingrained in him.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: So I feel like, again he's excited to come back,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: and I think I think we'll see him in the
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Ring of Honor someday. That'd be cool, I think, I think,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Crazy to think, like, yeah, he's he's hometown and he's
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: good and he's not just a UDFA that made the team,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: like he made a couple of Pro Bowls. He's got
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: like sixty six hundred receiving yards. I know he has
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: fifty five touchdowns at least as a Viking. I was
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: gonna ask you, do you think he gets to sixty
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: touchdowns as a Viking?
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Well, let me look at his his stats here. He's
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: at sixty four total, but nine of those have come
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: in Carolina, so he's at what fifty nine? No, I
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: can't do math. Fifty five Vikings touchdowns? Oh yeah, that's
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: right there. I can't even read.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I think he definitely gets to fifty five touchdowns. And
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I think part of the reason is Kevin O'Connell doesn't
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: like I think this is pretty characteristic of his coaching style.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: He doesn't just rely on one player. We saw it
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: with Justin Jefferson last year. With Sam Darnold's it wasn't
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: clicking all the time, yeah, and he was finding other
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: targets for touchdowns. And it happened two years ago Kirk's
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: last year and then the like weird quarterback carousel that
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: we were on when Kirk got hit, like Justin Jefferson
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: wasn't catching all of the balls, and then of course
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson got hurt that same year. So I feel
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: like KOC does a good job of like, Okay, they're
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: expecting us to throw to Justin Jefferson. Justin Jefferson's going
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: to be double sometimes triple teamed, so we're going to find.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: The open man.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Jalen Naylor made a name for himself kind of in
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the last couple of years and is now wide receiver
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: two for the first three games, his hand wide receiver three.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: I'd still put theel in it number two, and just
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: assuming Justin Jefferson is.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Healthy, that's fair.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: But I mean the fifty three man roster, which we'll
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: get to here before the Feeling trade, he was listed
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: as wide receiver.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Too, Yeah, considering the Addison.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, which the Addison suspension for the first three games.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: So I think to answer your question, yes, I think
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: he easily surpasses sixty touchdowns.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, gets at least five touchdowns this year as a Viking.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: He's got what was that sixty six six, six hundred
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: and eighty two receiving yards, So I think he gets
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: to seven thousand.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I mean he needs it's three hundred and three hundred yards.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: So, Okay, what's interesting to me about Adam Thielen And
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I guess I didn't really know this about him until
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: everything came out today, and I guess I just didn't
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: really care ten years ago. But he had one hundred
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: and thirty seven yards his first season and one hundred
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: and forty four yards this second season, and then he
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: just exploded in twenty sixteen with nine hundred and sixty
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: seven yards, and then the next two seasons had twelve
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: hundred plus yards. Like he was a major contributor in
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: seventeen and eighteen.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he definitely blossomed in seventeen, well, sixteen through eighteen,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: where he was widely considered one of the better wide
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: receivers in football. Not number one, nope, but I mean
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: definitely a better one of the better ones. And that
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: helps because for a while there he was tandemed with
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Stefan Diggs, and then for a couple of years he
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: was tandemed with Justin Jefferson. And now he doesn't have
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: to be wide receiver one. Even let's just say Jordan
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Addison comes back, there's no question it'll go Justin Jefferson one,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Addison two, and then.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Probably thiel In three.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: And I was tweeting today from the school Hop account.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: I replied to I forget exactly who it was, but
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: they were saying just that that Adam Thielen. You know,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: he's going to be benefited from not having to be
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: wide receiver one once everybody's healthy and office suspension, and
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I brought up, hey, remember when Larry Fitzgerald Junior kind
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: of surged the end of his career by moving to
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: the slot. That's definitely. I mean, being a possession guy
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: if you can stay healthy, being in the slot could
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: be perfect for Adam Thieling, Like that's where he could
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Maybe he has a decent year this year and decides
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I'll do one more. Never know, if you're home already,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: might as well make some money and enjoy the last
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: couple of years of your career.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Just one more little tidbit on that, Like if you're
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: looking at just the trend of his stat line for
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: the last I don't know, since twenty nineteen he was
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I think he was injured in twenty nineteen, missed a
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: handful of games. He only played ten games that year.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Since twenty nineteen, so twenty twenty season and forward, he
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: hasn't caught less than five hundred yards worth of there
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: you go catches. So to answer your question, can he
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: surpass that thousand yards? I think yeah, easily. Even last
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: year and the year before in Carolina he had one
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: thousand and fourteen yards two years ago in Carolina, and
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: he had six hundred and fifteen yards last season, Like, yeah,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I think he think.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: I think it's the other way around.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: I think last year he had the thousand yards.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: That's not what this is.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, twenty twenty three he had the thousand just over
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: one thousand yards three and then six fifteen and twenty four,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: So if Pro Football Reference is accurate, right, yeah, that's
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: how I'm reading it, yep. But anyways, I'm not expecting
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: a thousand yard season out of him, especially there's enough
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: room for him, yeah, yeah, especially probably filling that wide
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: receiver three roll once Addison comes back from his suspension,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: assuming Jefferson's healthy the whole season. But I still think
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: he's good for four hundred, five hundred, six hundred yards
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: and all he needs is three to twenty to get
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: to seven thousand as a Viking.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: So I think he gets there, and I could also
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: see him in my offensive mind is not elite at all,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: but I think I know enough to know that when
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: you play slot receiver, your chances to catch touchdowns increase
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: when your team's in the red zone. So I could
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: see that where you were saying, yeah, he could make
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: a really good slot receiver, and I could see him
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: because of his sure handedness and his ability to just
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: reel it in when the team gets into those red
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: zone situations you run out of room for Justin Jefferson
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: to just blow past everybody and get open. I could
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: see Adam Thielen fight his way to get open across
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the middle or you know, on a post route or whatever,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: and you know catch a lot of touchdowns. Yeah, for
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: surebe not ten touchdowns, but maybe five would be sixty.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Well, In Jefferson, he's never He's always been good for
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: a handful of touchdowns every year, but he's never been
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: like a.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: He's not a touchdown machine.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's It would be out of the ordinary
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: for Justin Jefferson to become like, oh, he might break
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: the touchdown record this year, like he's just a sound receiver.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: That there's the Vikings also have had some good red
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: zone threats other than Justin Jefferson, but that just means
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: there's red zone targets for other guys too.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: He's only ever had ten touchdowns max in a season,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: and he's done that twice twenty twenty four last year
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: and then in twenty twenty one.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: That's actually pretty good. But when he's considering like the
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: best wide receiver in football, like you think they'd have
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: more than more than that, or a more consistent track
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: record than that. But yeah, I think we could beat
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: this horse to death. Adam Thielen. He's a Viking wide
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: receiver two right now, only as bad as wide receiver three.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Vikings may have paid a little bit too much, but
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: nothing to be upset about. It's not like they gave
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: up a first round pick that would have been terrible.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: There's definitely a price that I would have been upset
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: that the Vikings would have paid, Like if they had
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: had a third round pickover without more than just Adam
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Thaling coming, like, I would have been pretty upset. Happy
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: that he's here.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: But like, man, that's too much.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think the package they sent and received,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I'm not mad about it. Panther's probably won a little
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: bit in value, but I'm not mad about it.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: And if you're not watching us, and you didn't pick
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: up on this earlier, we're both wearing Adam Feeling jerseys
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: to commemorate this momentous occasion. My jersey that I'm wearing
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: is one that you gifted me on the Skull Hop.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't even remember what episode that was, episode sixteen.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: I just watched it the other day. Nice. I have fun.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Fact I believe it's episode sixteen.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I could be proven wrong on that.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: One fun fact about the jersey I'm wearing right now,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I bought it like a week ago once the rumors
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: about him coming first started to feel real and not
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: just like fans saying, hey, when.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: You'd wland receiver, let's go get the old guy.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Front of the show.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Dustin Baker kind of gave us a little bit steam
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: on Twitter because he's got a little bit more connections
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: than we do, and uh, I kind of tweeted at
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: him like, hey, what do you know? And he told
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: me a little bitou told us a little bit about
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: what he knew, and I was like, man, this would
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: be really cool. So I went on eBay and I
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: bought this jersey and then I got it, and then
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: this steam was like, oh, yeah, thelon he's probably not coming.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: They're not figured out. Well, I keep you.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Mad because it's still a cool Viking cool for sure,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: but now it's it's all the all the more exciting
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: to have. I'm super glad to have this seal in Jersey.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: And it works too because I'm of the age. We're
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: thirty mid thirties right now. I think it's a little
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: cringe for grown men to wear jerseys because most of
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: the time you're wearing a jersey of a guy that's
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: younger than you. And Felon is older than both of us,
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: not by much, just the hair, but just a little bit.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: But he's older. We may we may have been in
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: the same grade. He might have been, you know, one
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: one grade older than us. I don't know, but I think,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: isn't he what is he?
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Thirty six? Now thirty five? Thirty?
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: He just turned thirty five, like days ago, within the
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: last week or two.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I feel like we just need to look this sack
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: feeling graduate high school.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: But either way, it's still a little little cringy, little
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: fanboy for a grown man to wear a jersey.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, but he's older than us. So we have
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: a freaking podcast. We do this once a week. We
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: sit down and talk about the vikings. Yeah, you're a
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: fishing girl over all these kids that are younger than us.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: So he was born August twenty seconds, so he actually
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: just celebrated his thirty fifth birthday.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: I turned thirty five in November.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: All right, So he's a hair older than us. He
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: may have been, it depends on because I'm assuming he
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: went to high school in Minnesota.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure he did same graduating as us.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: He would have either been the class of eight or
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: the class of nine.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: He might have been.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Really old for our class or really young for the
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: class before us.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: That'd be interesting to figure out. Either way, he's older
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: than us. It's slightly less cringey to wear his jersey.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well, there are fifty two other players.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: That we have to talk about.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, hang on, I guess I didn't like
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: in the the excitement of the news of Adam Thielen
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: coming to Minnesota. He wasn't on the initial fifty three
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: man roster. So who got bumped?
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, because the guys on the practice squad, Now it
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: was Tim Jones, the guy who uh wide receiver, A
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: wide receiver. He had been wearing number fourteen in the preseason.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Believe he is another one of those undrafted rookie free agents.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Because the Vikings fifty three man roster, the initial one,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure it had seven udfas on it. Yeah,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: like current current udfas, not guys that had been undrafted
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: and they've been in the league, you know, proven now,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: But like current guys that a year ago were in
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: college that didn't get drafted, which is crazy. And I'm
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: pretty sure Tim Jones, who is now on the practice
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: squad after being released in the corresponding move for Adam
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: dealing Tim Jonson was one of those udfas. Okay, but yeah,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: like you said, there's fifty two other guys on the roster.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: We should probably talk about that because last time we
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: talked about it, we were like, Oh, who's gonna win
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: QB two spot. There's been some development in that one.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well there's another trade. Yeah that wasn't as splashy
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: as the Adam Theelen trade, but it's I think in
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: kind of the same vein because Carson Wentz is kind
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: of a local guy too.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: He's you know, he's a he's a hometown quote unquote kid,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: North Dakota State. I don't know where he's like born
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: and raised. I'm working he went to college at North
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Dakota State, born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, whoh okay,
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: but then went to high school in Bismarck, North Dakota.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: So it might be one of those.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Max Brosmer was born and raised about five minutes from
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: where we're sitting well born about five minutes from where
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: we're sitting right now. I think we read he moved
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: to Ohio pretty soon after he was born here. But yeah,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: the Vikings traded away Sam Howell to the Eagles, and
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: I forget what that deal was, but it was a
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: couple of picks, like a fifth and like that step.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Of there or something like Cracy kind of came out
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: on top of like he bought Sam low and sold
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: him high.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah, because they Sam Howell came to the
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Vikings as a part of a Draft day trade and
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: I don't remember.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: It wouldn't be.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Worth it for us to look up exactly what it
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: all was, but yeah, he definitely value wise earned on
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: the Sam Howell transaction. But yeah, the Vikings traded away
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Sam Howel to the Eagles, whose primary QB two like
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: broke his finger or something like that. He's going to
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: miss some time so they needed a QB two, And
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: in an almost corresponding move, the Vikings worked out and
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: signed Carson Wentz, who had been a free agent. And
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: I think Carson Wentz was kind of holding out.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: He could have easily signed with a team.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: He's not an MVP level quarterback like he was before
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: he got hurt, like his rookie year or second year.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: But he's still definitely rosterable and at least a QB
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: two on any team. So yeah, I think the Vikings
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: upgraded at QB two and I think it's one of
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: those like they signed Carson Wentz so that they could
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: take a little bit of pressure off of the guy
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: who is now on the fifty three man roster and
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: QB three Max Brosmer, who another undrafted guy played in
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: Minnesota last year. We spent a good amount of time
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: last week episode one oh one talking about him and
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: if he'd win QB two spot, and at the time
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: I think we were thinking, like, okay, if Max Brosmer
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: makes the fifty three man rosters because he is QB two.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: But I'm okay with how the quarterback depth is sitting
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: I have a theory that I'd like to put forth.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Let's hear it.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: I could be wrong, but it has to do with
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell. And my theory about Kevin O'Connell is that
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I think he prefers having a veteran presence in the
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: locker room, in the quarterback room, I think he, like
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Nick Mullins, not starter caliber, but really good backup. I
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: think at one point you and I have both been
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: quoted saying like he's one of the league's best GB
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: two options, especially in terms of value because he's pretty cheap.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Not many people even know who he is. Carson Wentz
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: is more of a household name than.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Well you use the second overall pick. Yeah, but Nick Mullins,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know where he was drafted, but yeah, but.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Like Nick Mullins stepped in and played that admirably for
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: quite a few seasons for the Vikings. Josh Dobbs was
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: kind of one of those names that he brought in
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: on a whim. Sam Howell I would argue it was
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: another one that KOs I think maybe had in his
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: mind of like, Okay, yeah, I'd be interested to see
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: what he's got and if he's the guy, then yeah,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: well we'll work with him. Obviously, we saw a lot
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: of him in pre season and he just didn't cut it.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: And even as fans we knew, weird you're like, and
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: in which it is weird because he was successful with
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: Well he was.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: He was a backup with the Seahawks but he had
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: been a starter with the commanders, and maybe.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Even that's what I'm remembering.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, they were the commanders by the time he
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: was starting Sam Howell, I was actually kind of excited
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: for the Vikings to get him, because, yeah, he had
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: a lot of turnovers. He was really raw and not
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: perfect with the commanders, but he showed some promise and
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: I thought it might be one of those. He wouldn't
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: be the starter, but I thought Sam Howell might be
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: another Sam Donald replica in that he took a year,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: was a backup, had some pressure taken off of him,
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: learned from Shoot McDonald, who was the I don't know
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: much about the Seahawks coach, but kind of had a
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: year where he learned and took some pressure off and then.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Came to the Vikings.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: And everybody learns under Kevin O'Connell, right, But I think
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Sam Howell just something didn't click. Not everybody learns the
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: exact same way, So maybe the Kevin O'Connell Sam Howell
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: relationship just wasn't perfect. And good on the Vikings for
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: recognizing that and you know, reevaluating that and moving forward
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: with hopefully a better option.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: He wasn't great when he was in the preseason, you know.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: But I think my theory still stands, and maybe I
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: would add one more little wrinkle to that in that
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: it's not just a veteran quarterback in the room, but
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: it's a veteran quarterback that maybe has some flaws that
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: maybe isn't like like Kirk Cousins, Aaron Rodgers elite quarterback.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: And I don't even know if.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: People would agree with me calling Kirk Cousins elite elite flashes.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Definitely, he'd crazy to say he wasn't good and elite
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: at times.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: And I think Kirk was a unique situation because Chaos
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: inherited Kirk as the quarterback of the team, and Kirk's
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: contract was already pretty firmly established, and so KOs really
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: had no choice other than to coach that. But now
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: that I think the Vikings as an organization are out
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: from under the cap hell of having Kirk Cousins on
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: the roster, KOs has a lot of freedom to do
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: what he wants in the quarterback room, and I think
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: he's really flexing his muscles that way, and he's he's
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: bringing guys in and out as he sees fit. Nope,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: this guy doesn't work, Yes, this guy does. I think
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: that's part of what we just talked about with Sam Howell,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: like Nope, he's nope, not going to cut it. But
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: I do think you've got You've got JJ McCarthy who's
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: only been an NFL player for two seasons, well one
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: season now going into his second season, but first as
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: a starter. And then you've got Max Brosmer fresh out
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: of college who's really only gone through training cramp in preseason.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: You need that that uh, that uh.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: What's the word I'm looking for?
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Veteran veterans.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you need I was gonna say varsity. Yeah, it's
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: kind of the high school football. It's not the same.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: But anyways, you need that veteran presence to guide these guys,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: not just on the football acumen, but just on even
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: the like how do I be a pro? How do
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: I handle myself? How do I do these other things?
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: And so I think that's part of Kos's formula is
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: can I get a guy that has a little bit
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: of experience behind him, even if he's not the starter,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: even if he's not even the QB two. I think
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Carson Wentz will eventually be the QB two oh, I
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: think not eventually, like probably right now he is QB two.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Right now, Brosmer is definitely.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: Brozman is the practice squad, emergency three.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: He's not practice squad, he's on the fifty three, but
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: he is to QB three, he's.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: The emergency three. Yeah.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Now, I think you're absolutely right in that KOC values
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: like a veteran presence because I think, and maybe this
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: is the case for every NFL team, but I think
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: for Kevin O'Connell's NFL team, QB two has a specific
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: job during the week, and it's not just take a
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: couple of snaps and go sit on the sideline and
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: be there in case QB one gets injured and kind
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: of know the playbook. I think QB two And I've
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: heard him talk about this on various podcasts or talking
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: with Paul Allen. I can't remember exactly where I've heard
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: him say this, but when he Kevin O'Connell was a
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: quarterback in the league, he pretty quickly realized like, Okay,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to be the starter, but it's my
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: job to do everything I can to prepare this team
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: and prepare the starter the best way I can because
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: I'm in those meeting rooms. So for Ke and O'Connell
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: as a coach, he views QB two as a specific
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: role who helps QB one with watching film, game planning,
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: watching QB one figuring out, you know, almost like a
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: second QB coach. And I think Carson Wentz I don't
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: know anything about him, you know, personally, but he's got
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: NFL experience. He's started, he's backed up, he's been you know,
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: the guy on the sideline for injury. He has a
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl maybe even multiple Super Bowl rings, but definitely
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: the one Super Bowl ring with the Eagles in Minneapolis
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: as a backup, not even a backup, but a guy
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: on the sidelines because he was injured. So Carson Wentz
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: he probably has some value in coaching up and helping
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: to prepare QB one because he's either injured or just
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: on the bench. And last place Carson Wentz was I
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: believe was Kansas City. So you can't really have a
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: better coach quarterback room to be in than Kansas City's
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: right now with the Reed and Mahomes. So yeah, I'm
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: super pumped about Carson Wentz. Plus it's fun. He is
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: almost a hometown kid. He's wearing number eleven. So i'd
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: imagine you get some people that'll take some.
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, don't take culpepper.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: But I'm thinking like Lakwan Treadwell jerseys and kind of
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: ripping off the name tag and making like a homemade
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Carson Wentz jersey. He may be the best selling backup
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: quarterback jersey in NFL history this year's I'd wear Carson
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Wentz Spiking's jersey. That'd be pretty cool after I just
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: talked about how cringe it was for a grown man
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: to wear jersey.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: He's older than us, isn't he. No, he's younger than us.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: He's thirty two, dang out slightly younger. But yeah, we
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: spend a lot of time on quarterbacks. It's really cool
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: that Max Brosmer made the team, not just like practice squad.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: He'll be the third quarterback.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: I think there's some rules on QB three that he
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: can dress, but like if he goes in, no matter what,
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: the can't come in, whether or not they were injured.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: I don't even there's some rules.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: I don't even think QB two can come in if
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: you get to QB three, Like, I think it's pretty restricted.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Well, it may be something that because they teams can
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: dress forty six guys, and I think, no matter what,
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: they can dress three quarterbacks, and that third quarterback doesn't
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: count to the forty forty six, So forty six plus
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: an emergency quarterback. And I think that rule changed because
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: the Niners got really banged up, banged up in the
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: NFC Championship game, So like, yeah, we should maybe let
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: teams not be totally screwed if two quarterbacks go down. Yeah,
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: Brozemer's QB three could eventually after this year, after next
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: year be the perennial QB two. I did kind of
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: joke and tweeted something like how long until Vikings fans
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: are clamoring for Brozemer to start over jaj McCarthy And
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: somebody tweeted back and said, like in twelve years.
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: So I don't know. It's a fun story.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: As far as the rest of the team, did you
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: have any surprises for players that either made or didn't
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: make the team?
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Well, I think the Vikings addressed the wide receiver situation
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: with Adam Field and trade, maybe not completely, but at
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: least to start and you get Justin Jefferson and Jordan
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Addison back, and we're at rest assured Jefferson is healthy,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Jordan Addison's suspension is over.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: I think the wide receiver woes go away.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: For the Vikings in Week four and beyond, assuming everybody's healthy,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: assuming anybody could break a leg and totally ruin that
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: room for the team, at least in short term, assuming
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: everything remains the same and on track the way that
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: it's supposed to. I think a sneaky position group that
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: we didn't really talk about at all really in the
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: off season. We talked about it, but it wasn't ever
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: anything we talked about in depth because there's just like, well,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy's going to be the quarterback, who's the quarterback?
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden we had these crazy
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: camp battles for who's gonna be QB two and who's
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: gonna be QB three, and we had some interesting things,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: and then they make this big splashy trade for Carson Wentz.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: I think that group is pretty well locked in now too,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Like it's you know, the Vikings aren't going to go
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: out and trade for anything.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably not unless some team gets desperate and really
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: love Max Brosemer AND's like, hey, we'll give you a
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: third round pick for him. Like take that deal.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Yes, but even then, I don't know that that's gonna happen. Yeah, no, No,
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: So I think those position groups are pretty well locked in.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: One that I'm still concerned about is the cornerback room. Yeah, corner,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: not in quarter corner back, defensive, secondary cornerback room. I
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: just don't know, Like there's a lot of unknowns in
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: that room, and I know that's kind of a hot
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: topic right now.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you have excuse me me yawning a
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: little bit. I'm a teacher. First week back at school,
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: week at.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: School Byron Murphy Junior and Isaiah Rodgers. I think they'll
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: hold down the fort in terms of the starting cornerback positions,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: but then behind them in terms of death depth, you
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: have Dwight mclothern and Jeff Okudah. Like that's that's a
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: kind of a big drop off in my opinion.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: I assumed that because we're recording this the day after
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: cutdown day, and at the time of recording, that's also
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: the day after all of the waiver claims were put
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: in and practice squads at least initially are set, I
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: assumed there would be some changes from the initial fifty
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: three in wide receivers, which there was with Adam Thielen,
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: and cornerbacks because they only had four on the initial
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: fifty three and currently public information, we have no other
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: reason to believe.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: Elsewhere else Elsewise, I don't know.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Otherwise there's still only four cornerbacks on the team, and
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: it's the initial fifty three that you just read or
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: the initial four that you just read off. That's my
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: biggest surprise is that they didn't make a move or
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: try to add to that room because four cornerbacks, like
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: I feel like teams usually keep five, and it's not
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: like they have twelve safeties.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: On the roster. I think there's what five, I don't know.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: I feel like we haven't seen the fifty three man
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: roster that will enter Soldier Field just because of that
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: cornerback room. I agree, it's a concerning situation, especially since,
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: like you're not talking about four guys where three of
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: them are obvious Pro bowlers. And I mean before last year,
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: Byron Murphy was good, but we were waiting for him
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: to explode, and last year he kind of did. But
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: even then, it's only one year of really good production.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: So Byron Murphy is a solid one. Isaiah Rodgers. There's
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: a lot of upside and hype, but like he's still
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: kind of unproven. We'll see if they make some moves.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: I just read a really funny tweet from Thomas Sullivan.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure we follow him on Twitter.
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: He said, I hope the Vikings this was earlier today.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: I hope the Vikings trade a fourth round pick equivalent
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: for a good cornerback.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: Fight me because he's saying that, because the Vikings essentially
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: traded a fourth round pick equivalent value for Adam Thielen.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'd be happy and make that move and
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: solidify the cornerback room.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: Two.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: Obviously, they'd have to make a corresponding move, and with
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: only four cornerbacks right now, you probably wouldn't release one
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: if you added one, so there'd have to be somewhere else,
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: probably offensive line or I don't even know, maybe you
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: have too many safeties right now. I don't know where
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: that corresponding move would come from.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: But you've got some interesting names out there too, that,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: according to Sharp Football Analysis, are still available, like a
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Santa Samuel Rasul Douglas former Viking as of last season.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Stefan Gilmour is still out there getting older.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: But I think Razuell sided with somebody today, did he
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: and a Santae Samuel? I thought I saw some report
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: come out yesterday that he had some kind of a
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: back surgery, maybe even something to correct like a spinal issue.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: Don't quote me on that, but some kind of a
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: surgery that he expects to be ready to play in
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: the second half of this season, so he might.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: Be out there for a while.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: Well, Stefan Gilmore, he's definitely out there still.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: I'll I'll just yeah, well we can cross those first
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: two album We'll just go ahead to Stefan Gilmore.
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: Like I'd take that guy, yes, as a depth piece.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Like if he's willing to take probably a pay cut
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: from whatever they paid him last year, like.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: He was like ten million last year. Yeah, if maybe
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: that's the only hold up. Maybe for all we know,
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: they've been talking to him and he's like, yeah, here's
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: where I am, and they're like, eh.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: We're not quite there yet.
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: I'd take him back on the field. Yeah, there's that's
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: a no brainer.
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: He's closer.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: You get to week one, though, and you're a player
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: and you're still sitting on your couch at home waiting
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: for the phondering, I feel like your priced tag probably
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: goes down a little bit, like.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: Maybe I also know there's like weird rules as far
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: as like, you know, if you sign a guy to
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: a one year contract, there's weird rules about like guaranteeing
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: their contract if they're signed before week one as opposed
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: to after week one. I remember a few years ago
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: when the Vikings right before the season seemed like they
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: might be interested in signing Everson Griffin back because he
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: had gone to like the Cowboys and the Lions, you know,
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: after being a Viking. And then there's like steam right
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: right about this time, like a week before the season started,
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: that like, hey, they might be interested in bringing this
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: guy back. But then people are like, oh, yeah, they
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: won't do it until after week one, because if they
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: signed him before then, if he's on the roster week one,
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: his whole year is guaranteed. Whereas if they sign him,
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: you know, the day after the first game, then you
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: can manipulate that guarantee and if it doesn't go well,
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: then you don't have to cut them and give them
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: the whole year's pay. Sure's something there's something about that,
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: and I'm not smart enough to know the rules on that,
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: but maybe that's it. Maybe they do roll week one
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: with those four guys and then you see something like
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: a Steffan Gilmore signing after week one, I don't know,
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: or literally before we hit post on this episode, they
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: tweet and say, hey, we've signed this Steffan Gilmore again.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: And it is kind of the catch twenty two of
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: recording a podcast like this, as you know, we talk
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: about all this stuff and then it could be irrelevant
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: like ten minutes from now.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: Well, and that's the whole reason. We usually record on
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: Monday nights, but we made it Wednesday night this week.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a couple of reasons, but the biggest
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: reason was cutdown day was Tuesday, and then the second
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: wave of cutdowns was today Wednesday. So it's these these rosters,
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: whether it's the fifty three man roster or the practice squad,
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: they're all fluid. It's injury or necessity depending on the week. Like,
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: they're all fluid. The Vikings will make several moves throughout
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: the season. Every team does every year, but yeah, is
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: fifty three.
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: I'm excited for it.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: If they solidify that cornerback room, I'm excited for it.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: I'm excited for it too.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: Obviously, the Adam Feeling trade is the like cherry on
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: top of Christmas Day everything, which is why we're celebrating
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: with his jerseys today. With the addition of Adam Theelen
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: on the fifty three man and we take out who.
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: Was it, Tim Jones?
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Tim Jones another wide receiver, so you swap those two
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: guys out for each other on the fifty three man roster,
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: all things remain the same as of right now. With
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: the information we have, I know practically nothing other than
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams is going to start at quarterback for the Bears.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: Who wins. We have already made our picks. I think
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: we both picked the Vikings to.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: Lose that game.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: I think we did too. But it has anything changed?
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Has your optimism surged with some of this new information?
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, I would expect to win. I'm not changing
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: my official pick. We're not going to do that. We're
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: not those kinds of people. But like, just logically, Kevin
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: O'Connell is more experienced as a head coach. Ben Johnson
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: is a really good coach and probably at least forty
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: percent of the reason the lines have been so good.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: The last couple of years. Ben Johnson is still a
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: rookie head coach. And we've said it before. We don't
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: know the ins and outs, but we definitely know there's
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: a big difference between being a coordinator and then going
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: on to be a head coach, which is essentially the
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: CEO of a billion dollar organization. Kevin O'Connell's more experienced.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: The Vikings outside of quarterback are more experienced and more
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: talented at just about every position. And sure you could
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: probably could probably go man by man and argue who's
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: better at what position, But I really feel like the
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: Vikings are better off than the Bears. If the Bears win,
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: it will be because you know, there's hype around being
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: the first Monday night football game of the season. It's
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: at home, new head coach, new era for them. But
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: I think logically the Vikings should win that game. And
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the betting line is right now.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: We could probably look that up.
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we could definitely look that up, because.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: That's a good barometer. It's not always right, obviously, but
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: it's at least worth talking about. Yeah, in my heart
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: of hearts and my gut, I really think the Vikings
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: will win.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: Right now, ESPN, which is one of many. Sure, but
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: ESPN has the Vikings at minus one and a half.
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, so that's essentially a pick them. I mean,
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: that's saying the Vikings only win by one or one or.
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: Two less than one.
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so well one and a half. So that's giving
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: the Bears. If they lose by one, then the Bears
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: have won that bet.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: But haven't you also told me, because I'm not the
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: betting one here, you are that the home team typically
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: gets minus one automatically, well, the home team, they usually
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: usually get like three points just for being the home team.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: So that's giving the Vikings an extra one and a
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: half points because if everything were perfectly even and the
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: Bears were the home team should be, you know, the
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: Bears minus three, because that would be the Bears would
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: win by three for being.
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: The home team.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: So I guess that's giving the Vikings four and a
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: half points. Because now that is saying the Vikings will
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: win by one and a half points, and if the
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: Bears only lose by one point, then they would have
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: won that bet. If that makes any sense at all,
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: It's given the Bears two points pretty much.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: One and a half minus one and a half is
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: pretty much the standard across all of the the vikings
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: are slightly favored, slightly like with the slimmest of margins.
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I could see that. I think it should
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: be a little bit different, but they're basing that off
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: of the vikings. Starting quarterback as a guy that's never
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: played NFL football outside of the preseason.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: So I get Bears quarterback has one season of experience,
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: but a season of experience where he got demolished by
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: a leaky boat's worth of an offensive line.
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: I will say one of my favorite stats in all
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: of NFL football is that in their entire history, the
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: Chicago Bears have never had a quarterback throw for four
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: thousand yards and they've never had a quarterback throw for
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: thirty touchdowns. Not they've never had one do both in
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: a season. They've never had one do either at all.
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: So the longer they can go and keep that stat
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: true that, the more happy I'll be. I think Caleb
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: Williams is probably good enough to break both of those
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: at some point, if not both at the same time.
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: But let's just hope this year is at least one
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: more year where we can say that that's true for
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: the Bears. No four thousand yards and no thirty touchdown passer.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: But yeah, heart of hearts, I think the Vikings win
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: that game. What do you think right now?
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: I picked it as a loss, and I still think
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with my guns that it's
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: a loss. Okay, I'll go with Vegas that it's gonna
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: be oh yeah, the thinnest of margins, it'll be. It'll
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: be a heck of a game to watch Monday night
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: Week one, like it's the the final game. It's the
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: encore performance of Week one.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: For all of the NFL.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: So I think they're usually Week one. They have like
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: multiple Monday night games, so there might be one that
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: kicks off just after the Vikings.
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: I think there's usually a West West.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: Coast like a Chargers Raiders Monday Night game or something
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: But still it'll be towards the end, it will kind of,
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: you know, be on the tail end of all of
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: the excitement of Week one. I still think the hype,
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: the excitement overwhelms the Vikings the locker room. There have
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: been a lot of changes in that locker room. While
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: I still believe in that locker room, and I still
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: believe those guys are going to rally around each other
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: because Kevin O'Connell kind of requires them to kind of
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: like that's how he coaches. Like he doesn't coach this like, well,
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: every man for himself, just go out and do your job.
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: It's not that he coaches. He's you know, we're a team.
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: We do this together.
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: He's very He's a team and player focused coach, which
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: I think is one of his strongest features as a coach.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: I still think it will kind of it'll overwhelm them
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: a little bit. The hype of the game Monday night
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: divisional opponent. I got into an argument with some kids
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: in class today who are Bears fans, and they were like,
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: the Bears are going to be first place, and I'm like, no,
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: they're not. Bears are gonna end up in third place
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: in the NFC North. That's my prediction right now.
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: That might still be a playoff spot.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: It could be, but anyways, I had to quickly recover
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: because I'm like, that's not.
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: What we're supposed to be talking about.
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: I can't get in an argument about NFL right now.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: You English literature, that's what we're here to do. But anyways,
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: it'll be embarrassing to walk into my class with all
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: these Bears fans and have to face the music that Tuesday.
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: Afterwards. I'll be tired. It won't be fun. But I
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: still think they lose.
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Well, if the Vikings do end up winning,
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: and I think you're right, I think both of us
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: officially picked a Vikings loss in that game. If the
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: Vikings do end up winning, then we will have to
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: spin the wheel of purple punishments, which I think is
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: kind of solidified.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: We have, we have some.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: Punishments, for sure, solidified, but it's not the whole wheel
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: is not done yet.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: Not, we're getting there.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: We've acquired a Packers jersey.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we won't even show that team because it's offensive.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: A Bears jersey and Alliance jersey. We have one of
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: each of those. And those are three spots, I believe.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: Are they three separate spots on the wheel where it's like,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: oh no, you have to wear a jersey of that team.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: We'll have to talk about it because, like for this game,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: if we both were wrong and the Vikings win, then
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: we're gonna have to do the same thing. Yeah, and
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: it might have to be like we just wear the
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: jersey of an opposing team in the division, not necessarily
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: a Bear's jersey.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: Maybe we do one of those, like we do a Rochambeau,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: and whoever loses has to end up with the Packers
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: jersey because that's the worst of the three, because at
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: least one the Lin's jersey we acquired was a T. J.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: Hockinson one, which I can respect a little bit, okay,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: and the Bears one, like they're not much of a
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: threat anyways, So but it's.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: A Justin Fields jersey, just like stained all over the ross.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: Honestly, you might throw that in the wash like here,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: and the next time you do laundry, like throw like
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: flip it inside out and throw in the wash because
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: it's it's.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: Kind of gross. I got it on eBay.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: Shipping was like ten dollars, but the actual jersey itself
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: was one dollar. There's like a coffee stain on the
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: belly of it and it's like a two X like, yeah,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: it's it's a rough jersey, but I didn't get it
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: to like keep forever.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: We might do something cool with those jerseys either, like
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: a weird giveaway or the Packers jersey is getting burned.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: I can tell you that I think we should burn
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: it at the end of the season.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I promise you. We have an Eddie Lacy jersey
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: and it's actually like quality is not bad, Like I'm
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: sure a Packer fan would love to have it. No,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: we're gonna burn that thing.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: Yes, we got to have one hundred percent. We will
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: burn that thing.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: And none of the jerseys were expensive like the Bears
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: one was the cheapest of them all at a dollar,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: but I think the only other ones were maybe twenty bucks.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: So like we're good.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: But yeah, we if the Vikings beat the Bears week
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: one and you've confirmed that we both chose a loss
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: for that week, yep, yep, yep, then with the Vikings win,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: we'd have to spin the wheel. We need to figure
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: out to finalize the wheel. We kind of said some
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: of them last week, I think. But listeners, if you
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: have any ideas for a punishment that is reasonable, it
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: could be punishing. I mean, the cinnamon challenge was pretty punishing, right,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: it can be pretty punishing, but all it has to
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: be something that we can spin and be prepared to
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: do right then.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: And we'll go out and buy material if we need it,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: Like we still have entire jars of pickles, uh huh,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: and that will I think we'll probably put back on
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: the wheel because we never landed on it last year.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: That's something we can do.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: We have it right here, and we have two of them,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: so we can both pop it open and if that's
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: what we land on, we could both eat in entire
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: jar of pickles in one sitting pretty easily.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: We might have to acquire some malort. Malort have you
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: heard You've not heard of alert? No, it's like a
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: Chicago area spirit of some sort. I don't know if
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: it's like a whiskey or something, but it's like I've
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: never had it, but apparently it's just awful and it's
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: made in or around Chicago, and it's.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: Why would people drink that? I don't know.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: I don't think anybody actually likes it.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: Comment if you do.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: But it's like if you like go on to like
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: m A L I think it's m A l o
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: r T. But like there's if you go on a
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: TikTok and type malort, there will just be videos of
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: people like, oh, I'm gonna try malort and they take
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: a shot and it's like, oh goodness, that's just terrible.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: Jepsums milort. Uh. Yeah, it's like it's got a cult
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: following because it's so bad.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: Interesting.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: But yeah, maybe we should acquire some of that. I
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: don't know how difficult that would be. I've never looked
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: for it, so I don't know if it's available locally,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: but that that could be a that would be a
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: punishment idea.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: Oh man, aside from the wheel of purple punishments. Okay,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: this is in addition.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: To you know, on air production meeting on air production.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: I've had a little bit of beer, and hey, so
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: that's fine.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: The best ideas are fueled by, you know, we.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: Buy a bottle of malort, and if the vikings lose
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: to the.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: We both take a shot.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: That's just that just becomes that's that's just what we do.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: We don't spin the wheel.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: That's just that's just like built in. And then we
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: also do whatever.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: The other so we're punished no matter what exactly. Now
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: is that.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: Gonna be it?
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: Because if we get a bottle of milort, theoretically we're
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: gonna take two shots of it and have a whole
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: bottle left. So then is that just in perpetuity every
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: time that I like the I hate it all Right,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: here we go.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I hate the.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: Idea, but because I hate it so much of it,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: Let's do it, all right, We'll need to figure out if.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: It's possible to find alert here again, listener, if you
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: if you have access to alert, maybe send us a bottle.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: Well we'll figure it out.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: Uh. Speaking of sending things, we we have a sticker
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: that needs to be sent out.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: We can get it over in Jewel Jewel Osco.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: And like Moline, I think, all right, well we will
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: look fire a bottle and let's just live here.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: And if the Vikings ever lose, that's just the instant.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: If the Vikings lose to the Bears, wheah, period, that
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: is the punishment, whether we selected it or not.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: How about if let's double down.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: So in this scenario we've chosen, we've predicted a loss
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: to the Bears. Officially, I think you know that won't
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: be our final prediction, but that's our for the purple punishments,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: that's our prediction. What if, no matter what, we honor
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: the purple punishments. So in this one, if the Vikings win,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: we'll have to do the Purple punishments. But if they
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: lose any other game, we wouldn't have had to do
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: the Purple punishments because we predicted correctly. But because they
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: lost to the Bears, no matter what, we got to
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: do a shot them alert.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, okay, yeah, I think that's what I was trying
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: to get that. So because we both a loss, so
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: if they do end up losing, it'd be kind of like, well, okay,
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: they lost and we picked it correctly, so whatever. If
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: they lose Monday night, we'll do a shot of Alert.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: And I think we're kind of tentatively planning on doing
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: a live stream that night.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, potentially, we've talked about that and we've got
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: front of the show Forrest, I believe on the docket.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: So that could be coming. Tentative tentative to listeners out there. Again,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: very much on air production, meaning we're bringing you behind
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: the curtains.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, here we go.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: But if they if the Vikings win and we're wrong,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: we'll do the Purple punishments.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: Right, yes, and a shot of alert.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, I'm saying, oh wait, wait no, if they win,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: we don't do the shot. That's what yeah, so if
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: they win because we picked a loss, if they win
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: the Vikings.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: That is Vikings win. This is so.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: Confused, you're still listening. You're like, guys, we knew what
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: you were saying five minutes ago. You just don't know
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: what you're saying.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: We're just clarifying for ourselves.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: I guess at this point, the Vikings win that Monday
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: night game, we will spin the wheel, do whatever it says.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: Forrest has to do it with us, so we should
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: probably figure out.
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  Speaker 3: We need to.
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  Speaker 2: We need to make sure for Us get his prediction,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: and then if he's wrong, then he can he can
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  Speaker 2: spin I don't know, we didn't make him do it
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: last year.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: And then if the Vikings lose to the Bears, we
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: won't spin the wheel because we will have correctly punishments.
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  Speaker 1: We correctly picked at that. That's what I just said.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 3: We will have correctly picked that. But we will do
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 3: the shot of alert.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so okay, to simplify it, will acquire a bottle
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  Speaker 2: and always have one on hand and no matter what
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: until the end of the school hop if the Vikings
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: ever lose to the Bears, we will take a shot
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: of alert and then if it applies, we will also
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: do the purple punishments. But if it doesn't apply, we
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: won't also if it applies, And like any game we
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: could pick separately, and it could be one of those
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: where like I would have to take a shot and
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: do the purple punishments, so well, to.
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  Speaker 1: Be fair, we will always do a shot both of
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: us if the like lose. Yes, but if I correctly
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: picked that they lose, you thought they would win, you'd
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  Speaker 1: take the shot and do the punishment or.
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  Speaker 3: Just take that.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: That means we have what a week or so to
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: acquire a bottle of milort.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: We'll figure it out.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, all that to say, listeners, if you
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: have any ideas that we could reasonably do on hand,
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: be prepared for for the whole season, because we get
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: like all of the things right away before the season starts.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: Think of a purple punishment, whether consuming something horrible or
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: like tasing somebody or.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, do we have access to a taser?
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: I mean I've got one of those like tennis racket
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: fly swatter things like I don't know, that doesn't really
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: hurt that bad. But there's something we could probably get
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: a tens unit tens machine and like stick it to
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: each other and just go right up to one hundred. Yeah,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: so if you can think of anything, let us know. Yeah,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: I don't really, I don't really have anything else. You
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: got anything else to night up?
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm ready for football, man, I'm ready to
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: see this team play.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 3: The weather has cooled down.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: I'm going to sweatshirt for Pat's sake. Like this never happens.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: It's August.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: I turned the air off.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: I did, and it's it's it happened like Saturday when
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: football like Iowa State and whoever else started playing.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: In Dublin, l Kansas State.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: Weather just chilli. Yeah I didn't I didn't see it,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: but actually we know somebody that was at that game.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: You can tell you that.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: But I watched the end that I watched the fourth quarter.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: I didn't see it, but yeah, it was.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: It's it's fall, we're here. It's football season.
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  Speaker 1: T G I t G I F football. Thank god,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: it's football.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: What do you think of this?
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: Neon Hazy ipa from Barntown Brewing?
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: This beer is really good, Like I would highly recommend
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: this to anybody that likes a hazy IPA, Yeah, you
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: have to.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, any I pa, you kind of have to
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: be okay with IPAs. But this is up there with
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: the good ones, super good, I pas. It's hot, just
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: the right amount of happiness, just the right amount of haziness.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: It's it's really good, really good.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 3: So I don't think I did not see an ABV
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: on that six.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: Maybe like six point two or something like that, because
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: they don't say it on the can. I think, hey, Barntown,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: if I have one suggestion, put the percentage on the can.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: And maybe I'm missing it, let me know if I am.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: But any can I've seen of yours, we had to
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: like look it up, and untapped is not accurate compared
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: to Barntown's website. But I believe it's like six point two.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: You're looking it up right now trying to it's it's
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: on there, because I looked it up in the moment
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: at the store. I just don't remember exactly what it was.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: I didn't have to scroll down very far, though it was.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: It was up pretty high on their web page because
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: I also looked at the other Oh yeah, there it
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: is right there. Six point five five okay, six two
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: and six five at that different. But yeah, six' five
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: barntown for, me you have totally redeemed.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 3: Yourself.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: Again i'm sure many people love the pickle tickle or
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: whatever tickle pickle The Skull hop are not people that
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: love that, one.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: But surprisingly so because we both like. Pickles, yeah but
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: if you love pickle, JUICE i, mean maybe that's pickle
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: juice mixed with. Beer maybe that's maybe that's your.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: Thing i've heard people take like a like a light,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: beer like a Cors light or Bush light or something like,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: that and they'll put like a spear in there a,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: pickle AND i would try that because that would be.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: Overpowering.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure but, YEAH i mean that's one. Thing but,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: this this neon hazy, ipa this is what's Up. Barntown
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: you've totally redeemed Your it's.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: DELICIOUS i like.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 3: It that's a really good, beer really good. Conversation, Yeah
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: i'm excited for a really good. Season, absolutely and.
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• 1:13:42
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