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Vikings Tailgate: Cy Amundson and Chad Daniels Embrace The Role Of The Spoiler, Love The NFL Playoff Scenarios In The Final Weeks Of The 2025 Season - NYG - Ep 68 · The Vikings Tailgate

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  Speaker 1: I'm your Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of the Tailgate,
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  Speaker 1: brought to you by Ticketmaster. I'm your host, Cy Aminson.
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  Speaker 1: I'm joined by my co host, the great Chad Daniels,
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  Speaker 1: and ladies and gentlemen, Ladies and gentlemen. That's two wins
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  Speaker 1: in a row. And do I think Chad and I
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  Speaker 1: continuing our positive attitude despite being perennially negative people in
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  Speaker 1: this space is the reason we won the last two games? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think so. We told you last week there's no
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  Speaker 1: question we were gonna keep and look at what happened, Chad.
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  Speaker 1: We rolled our way to another victory, which means why
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  Speaker 1: would we change things up?
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  Speaker 2: Now I've started using a vision board.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a good chance that when all this
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  Speaker 1: is said and done, both of us become big secret guys.
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  Speaker 1: The secret, Yeah, I can see us both getting into
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  Speaker 1: the secret.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the secret I have a purple crystal.
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  Speaker 1: The secret this week is I don't care for New York.
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  Speaker 1: I know we're playing the New York by the way.
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  Speaker 1: You know you hear people say the New York Football Giants.
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  Speaker 1: I must be the only person dumb enough too. As
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  Speaker 1: I was looking at some history of the team, that
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  Speaker 1: is the actual name of the team to separate them.
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  Speaker 1: I always I thought it was just something Chris Berman said.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't realize sure they were actually called that. So
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  Speaker 1: it's the New York Football Giants. I am looking for
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  Speaker 1: a three game win streak. But because we talk history
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  Speaker 1: on this show a lot, we get to do it
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  Speaker 1: in a fun way. Because you and I are both
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  Speaker 1: big Cunningham heads.
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  Speaker 2: Oh big time.
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  Speaker 1: I think Randall cunning It's one of our deepest core bonds.
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  Speaker 1: Is Randall Cunningham is an all time football favorite for
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  Speaker 1: the both of us, and when he came to the Vikings,
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  Speaker 1: it was a big deal for the both of us.
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  Speaker 1: And everybody thinks about ninety eight, but not everybody thinks
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  Speaker 1: about that playoff game in ninety seven. He was on
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  Speaker 1: the roster in ninety seven and it was one of
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  Speaker 1: the more I mean, now we have the miracle, right,
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  Speaker 1: so it's hard to course compare anything to that, but
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  Speaker 1: one of the more dramatic playoff games in modern Viking history.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants are up nineteen three at halftime, They're up
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  Speaker 1: twenty two thirteen midway through the third quarter, and then
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  Speaker 1: late in the game, Cunningham hits old Jake Reid for
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown. The Vikings are within two with a minute
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  Speaker 1: thirty left. Eddie Murray not Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murray of
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  Speaker 1: kicking fame onside kicks. Vikings get the ball, Cunningham to
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  Speaker 1: Chris Carter, then a pass interference and Whamo, slamo you'r
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings have I remember that is one of the
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  Speaker 1: ninety eight is the thing I always think about, like
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  Speaker 1: my childhood, but that game. I remember the feelings of
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  Speaker 1: that game as a little kid and how big of
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  Speaker 1: a deal it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was unbelievable. Just you go like, oh, now these
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  Speaker 2: guys are cruising, can't lose forty nine ers.
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  Speaker 1: Then here come the forty nine ers. You know the
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  Speaker 1: other game. I think this was the Giants. Jail have
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  Speaker 1: to correct me if it was not the Giants. But
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  Speaker 1: I believe there was a game where the Vikings became
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  Speaker 1: maybe the first team in NFL history to ever have
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  Speaker 1: an interception, a punt return, and a kick return all
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  Speaker 1: for a touchdown in the same game. Like miserable offensive days,
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  Speaker 1: but they get a score from each level and somehow
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  Speaker 1: in the game, And I think, interesting, I was right.
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  Speaker 1: I was right if that's what happened, first team ever.
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  Speaker 1: J just sent it to me November thirteenth, two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and five. So that's a lot of good vibes. I'm
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  Speaker 1: bringing the good vibes early in the show and a
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  Speaker 1: couple of good performances for JJ. Looking for a third
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  Speaker 1: good performance from JJ, And.
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  Speaker 2: This is a great performance from you, pretending that you
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  Speaker 2: hadn't googled that stat before the show and then going like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, can Jay correct me if I'm wrong?
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  Speaker 2: And then he sends all the accolades and you look
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  Speaker 2: like a hero.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we just want I think it's important that
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  Speaker 1: to pump your teammates up and think, Okay, I think
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  Speaker 1: thank you. All we're trying to do is make j
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  Speaker 1: feel good because we can't have him fumble in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Jay's got to deliver the show. We can't
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  Speaker 1: have him make a mistake. Then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: he puts a swear word on air because Chad couldn't
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  Speaker 1: hold it together, and now we've got a real problem.
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  Speaker 1: He forgot to cut the swear word. Jay needs ball
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  Speaker 1: security in the fourth quarter. Let me pump him up.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: We're at that point in the season where being officially
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  Speaker 1: eliminated from the playoffs, You're like, how am I gonna
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  Speaker 1: get my football fix going forward? Are you one of
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  Speaker 1: those people who can take joy from wins in a
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  Speaker 1: season that has already been determined from an outcome gandpoint?
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  Speaker 2: Oh big time. I'm getting a lot of texts from
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  Speaker 2: people that are Vikings fans from outside the state and
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  Speaker 2: they're like, I can't believe this. Now they're gonna start
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  Speaker 2: and it's it's like, what do you want to do?
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  Speaker 2: Just have the worst season ever and pick some kid.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, I need to see the wins. I need
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  Speaker 2: to see this team. I think you know what I
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  Speaker 2: disagree with.
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  Speaker 1: You've never sounded older, not not the take, but when
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  Speaker 1: you were just like, what do you need to.
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  Speaker 2: Pick a kid? I know, I understand that. I will
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  Speaker 2: tell you that I disagree with Chris Collinsworth almost we
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  Speaker 2: almost weekly when he's announcing these games. But last night
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  Speaker 2: he said something that was Incredibles fourth and one, and
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  Speaker 2: they're like, yeah, the Vikings are going to go for
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  Speaker 2: it because you need to find out what JJ McCarthy
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  Speaker 2: has made of. You need to put him in these
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  Speaker 2: situations and you need to see, like get this team
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  Speaker 2: ready for next year. And I was finally like, this
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  Speaker 2: is the first time I've ever said this, Yes, Chris Collinsworth,
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  Speaker 2: and he was right, that's exactly. I love seeing that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I love putting everyone to the test and seeing like
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  Speaker 2: a little glimpse of the future.
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  Speaker 1: Where does all this you get a lot of it
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  Speaker 1: on the social media's, you know, the poison of our society.
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  Speaker 1: Where's all this Collinsworth hate coming from? I love Chris
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  Speaker 1: collins I know you. I know you.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, I'm not saying I don't like I'm
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  Speaker 2: just saying a lot of times other people he's rooting
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  Speaker 2: for players that I'm not into.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying there is a lot of collins Worth
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  Speaker 1: negativity out there. I think he's got kind of the
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  Speaker 1: Madden thing. He kind of kind of smiles and it's
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  Speaker 1: the same. We'll talking and everything's really positive. But I
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  Speaker 1: actually think he's got really good game insight. He's my
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  Speaker 1: number one.
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  Speaker 2: Another thing that I really enjoyed about Sunday night is
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  Speaker 2: when Collins was so Jefferson was blocking down field through
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  Speaker 2: the echo of the whistle. They call it right, and
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  Speaker 2: then Collins was like, yeah, I was coaching, and I
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  Speaker 2: coached the kids to do that because it makes the
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  Speaker 2: defenders so mad that they'll slap you in the helmet
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  Speaker 2: and that's an extra fifteen yards. And I was like,
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  Speaker 2: there you go.
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  Speaker 1: I if I if I had to, well, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to get into ranking color commentators. That's going to
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  Speaker 1: ruin the show. Point is I have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: friends who have emotionally moved on and they are deep
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  Speaker 1: in the free agent and draft thing already. And don't
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  Speaker 1: get me wrong, I love the free agency. I love
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  Speaker 1: the draft. I love that the NFL is year round,
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  Speaker 1: but I find that, like, if I have lunch too
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  Speaker 1: close to breakfast, I'm not going to enjoy lunch because
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  Speaker 1: I'm still kind of full from breakfast. I can't start
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  Speaker 1: doing the draft at the I think it's playoffs. Other
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  Speaker 1: teams are in the playoffs. I can go, heyde who's
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  Speaker 1: out there? Say a name to me that I should
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  Speaker 1: be excited about, and then after the super Bowl, I
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  Speaker 1: go give me all the free agents that I need.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's go. But I right now, I understand why
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  Speaker 1: some people would prefer to lose and get a better
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  Speaker 1: draft pick. I understand why others just want the joy
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  Speaker 1: of winning a singular game. I think for you and me, guys,
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  Speaker 1: you get to go to them like going to a right,
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  Speaker 1: So going to a win is I mean, that's a
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  Speaker 1: whole different thing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let me comment on some of this stuff. Number One,
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  Speaker 2: I'm with you. I like to wait until the season's
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  Speaker 2: over to really dive into the next season. Number two,
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  Speaker 2: I eat my last bite of breakfast with my left
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  Speaker 2: hand and start eating lunch with my right hand. So
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  Speaker 2: I know nothing about what you're talking about in that situation,
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  Speaker 2: but I am I just want the Vikings to keep
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  Speaker 2: winning and have this confidence going into next year, like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: whatever that was, whatever that dry spell was, it's done.
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  Speaker 2: Let's win.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can agree with that. So let's we'll come
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  Speaker 1: back to the game preview. I want to preview because
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  Speaker 1: we've been doing it and it's been working. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about the rest of the league once
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  Speaker 1: we come back from commercial break, and we'll see, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see where things because I think excellent opportunity here
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  Speaker 1: to be a big spoiler daddy down the stretch.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited for that.
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  Speaker 1: Two big time opportunities. Ruin a little Zach Martina fun,
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  Speaker 1: ruin a little Tim Harmsten fun, knock down the city
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  Speaker 1: of Detroit and Green Bay. And I gotta tell you,
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  Speaker 1: playing spoiler, we saw what we saw what it did
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  Speaker 1: for the Lions a couple of years ago. I'm all.
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  Speaker 1: I think, I think being a spoiler is a launching pad.
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  Speaker 1: So let's a.
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  Speaker 2: Big time We also just did it on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 1: We might be in a situation to really negatively affect
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  Speaker 1: the Lions playoff chances. If in two of your last
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  Speaker 1: four games you could end two teams playoff hopes, that's
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  Speaker 1: a good that's a good vibe for me.
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  Speaker 2: It's all I want for Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a stat that Jay sent me. It has been
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven years since the NFL postseason has been without
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  Speaker 1: either Peyton Manning, Tom Brady or Patrick Mahomes. With the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs losing, obviously, Mahomes gets hurt, sucks terrible. But with
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs losing, this will officially be the first time
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  Speaker 1: in twenty seven years that neither of those three. Somehow
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  Speaker 1: you hear one of those statistics, like, that's a crazy
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  Speaker 1: right thing to think about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's good. I like I do like fresh
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  Speaker 2: blood in the playoffs. I like other people getting to
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  Speaker 2: write their story and I'm excited to not have the
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  Speaker 2: same old, same old.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, listen to me, no one's gonna like this.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of people that are not gonna like this.
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  Speaker 1: But you and I are big second team guys. We
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  Speaker 1: like to find a second team, emotionally connect to them
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  Speaker 1: and have somebody to root for for our first team. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they're never gonna come even close to our first team.
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  Speaker 1: But for you and I, since the moment Stefan Diggs
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  Speaker 1: went to Buffalo, easy transition for the two of us, right,
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  Speaker 1: they've lost four Super Bowls. We like their fans, we
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  Speaker 1: like their team, we like their city.
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  Speaker 2: It seemed because it seemed like a lateral move. It
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  Speaker 2: didn't seem like you were.
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  Speaker 1: Just not jumping on the ninety six.
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  Speaker 2: Just exactly right. And so I still have a starter jacket.
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  Speaker 2: That's the Bills, and that's uh, that's tough. It's tough.
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  Speaker 2: I wear it just to sulk. But yeah, so we fall.
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  Speaker 2: So are you saying that now you're gonna jump on
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  Speaker 2: the Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, I'm staying with the Bills. I just
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  Speaker 1: that win. The Bills win over the Patriots was such
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  Speaker 1: a big win. Really, that was increased their with the
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  Speaker 1: homes out. It's interesting because the Ravens are also on
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  Speaker 1: the bubble, and so we could be in a world
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  Speaker 1: where neither the Chiefs nor the Ravens get in, right,
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  Speaker 1: and so you're looking AFC right now, Broncos they're officially in. Patriots, Jags,
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  Speaker 1: love the Jags, love them, Steelers, Chargers, Bills, Texans, very fun, NFC, Rams, Bears, Eagles, Bucks, Seahawks, Niners, Packers.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the bugaboos at the end. There you got
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  Speaker 1: some Eagles, some Niners, and Packers, I don't care about
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  Speaker 1: any of those teams. I'm not interested, not rooting, don't
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  Speaker 1: want to see it happen. But you have I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars is great.
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  Speaker 2: Jaguars is great.
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  Speaker 1: I got a Chargers.
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  Speaker 2: I love the leadership at the Texans.
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  Speaker 1: Texans is great. But there's just a lot of teams
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  Speaker 1: I love it that you could really get on board
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  Speaker 1: with here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be a fun playoff year for sure.
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  Speaker 1: If you had to right now. So let's say I
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  Speaker 1: take our team off the table, the Bills, which you
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  Speaker 1: and I I think you have. Even objectively, it's hard
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  Speaker 1: to make a case for anyone other than maybe Detroit.
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  Speaker 1: Jared Goff has had a really weird career arc to
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  Speaker 1: and where he is as good as he is in Detroit.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Campbell's interesting and that city, that city has struggled
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  Speaker 1: for so long from a football perspective. That's the only
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  Speaker 1: team that can even come close to making an argument
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  Speaker 1: that is up there with Like, if all was right
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  Speaker 1: in the football world, you know, the Bills would win
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  Speaker 1: a title. So Bill's Lions would be the best Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: But if I took Bills off the board, is that
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  Speaker 1: where you go Texans? Where do your rooting interests.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just yeah, I mean, I really really like
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  Speaker 2: the leadership over there. But I also will tell you,
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's you know, when you break up amicably
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  Speaker 2: and you go, I just want the best, even though
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  Speaker 2: we're not together anymore. I just want the best for
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  Speaker 2: that person. I wouldn't mind seeing the Seahawks because you
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  Speaker 2: have to understand, Darnold won fourteen games last year. He's
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  Speaker 2: won eleven games this year so far, and he's not
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  Speaker 2: leading a division. That's insane twenty five wins and you're
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  Speaker 2: not leading a division. So tonight Rams are in Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: and so we're going to figure that out. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't mind cheering for for Donald and but man,
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  Speaker 2: like I said.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about dude, I'm I'm at that wedding being the
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  Speaker 1: one who raises his hand, who will speak and not
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  Speaker 1: forever hold my piece. Yeah, I love me some Sammy Darnald,
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  Speaker 1: and I love that, like in the NFC all in
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  Speaker 1: on the Seahawks. That's a very fun because he didn't
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  Speaker 1: leave negatively. The team wanted to go.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I mean, that's it's amicably.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I and what an awesome opportunity for him,
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  Speaker 1: right the Rams. If the Seahawks win, they're both eleven
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  Speaker 1: and three. The Seahawks win, they don't. They don't just
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  Speaker 1: win the game here tonight. They put a gigantic probable
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  Speaker 1: stamp on the number one seed. And not only would
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  Speaker 1: it be fun to see him do that, but one
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  Speaker 1: year after he had the opportunity to do that against
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  Speaker 1: the Lions and then they went and lost to the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: I just think for that guy, it's cool opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: him to shut down. I mean, he went from MVP
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  Speaker 1: candidate to half the people in the media going, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, do you give him a deal? So to
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  Speaker 1: be right back here in an almost exactly similar situation,
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  Speaker 1: I'm jacked for him.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. I'm very excited for that. So we'll see what
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  Speaker 2: happens tonight. And yeah, Texans, I gotta tell you now
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  Speaker 2: that all the regulars now that all the probables are
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  Speaker 2: kind of out. It's it's fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's like it feels, doesn't it. Even the Patriots who
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  Speaker 1: are perennial, you're like, it's just a new version of them,
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  Speaker 1: so it's easy to like them.
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  Speaker 2: It's a new version and it's going to give somebody,
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  Speaker 2: some team a chance to step up and just wow everybody.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I love. I love it about the hockey playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: You get a hot goalie. Forget it, a hot goalie
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  Speaker 2: can win you a Stanley Cup. So I'm excited for
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  Speaker 2: somebody to really take the reins and have it be
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  Speaker 2: fresh blood.
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  Speaker 1: The other one that is pretty interesting and would be
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  Speaker 1: way more interesting if they were still in San Diego
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  Speaker 1: as the Chargers. I I man, I love Jim Harbaugh.
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  Speaker 1: I love that dude. He is very very All that
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  Speaker 1: guy does is turn programs around, and to watch them
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  Speaker 1: succeed at the level they did this year, it would
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  Speaker 1: be very very cool. And Justin Herbert is inarguably likable.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what you would have to do to
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  Speaker 1: find something to not like that guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll tell you something. You show me a guy
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  Speaker 2: that had surgery on his hand and two weeks later
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  Speaker 2: he's stiff arming guys in the face mask with that hand.
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  Speaker 2: How do you not love him?
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  Speaker 1: It's hard not to like him. The one that'll be
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  Speaker 1: really interesting is who comes out of this Steelers Ravens kerfuffle.
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  Speaker 1: The remaining for both these You look at the Steelers,
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers are they right now are technically in and
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  Speaker 1: they have Detroit, Cleveland and Baltimore remaining, and you go, oh,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: that's intense to And then you go to the Ravens.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: The Ravens are New England, Green Bay, and then Pittsburgh,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: so that's probably gonna come down to that last game.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: But those are those are pretty hard matchups. The league
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: has done a really good job with this, you know,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: matchups at the end of the year, all division opponents.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: It's led to some pretty great stuff.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: It feels like the playoffs come early, right, It's like
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: all of the games starting let's say this week actually
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: do matter and so they are technically playoff games.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: It's set up that way in the NFC two, where
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: the Lions' main path is they have to win out
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: and hope that the Bears lose a game, which is
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: very likely Green Bay and at San Francisco that is brutal.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: So that's the other one. You could be sitting with
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: playoff spots on the line between bitter rivals near the end.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: And then you have Carolina versus Tampa. But that's the
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: funny thing about that division in those teams as they're
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: in the same situation, but nobody's talking about it. It's
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: almost like nobody's like, no, we're good, right, we got
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Steelers Ravens and we got Lions Bears. We're good. You guys,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: let us know how that goes.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, We're not even gonna check the papers.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: We're just gonna wait to see the first week of playoffs.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Who's in.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be it'll be really fun. The Vikings could
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: screw the whole thing up by beating the Lions next week.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: But first, uh, you know, first we got to deal
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: with the Giants here. I want to do predictions. Uh,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: but I want to I want to change it a
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: little bit. When we do our player prediction, you have
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: to stick to the younger side of the like because
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: we're at that point what Chris Collins were said, right, like,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: see what JJ can do in these situation that is
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: the part of the season we are in. So I
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: want your player prediction to be something in the developing player,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: you know, young guy scenario to uh, you know, to
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: hope for. So let's do scores first. What do you
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: got Giants Vikings?
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Giants Vikings. Well, so what we said about the Cowboys,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: we hoped ceede Lam would be back because we want
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: to play full teams.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: He was back.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: That was fantastic. Unfortunately, Camp Scataboo or as I call him,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: I'll do it, because he reminds me of every friend
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: group has that kid where you go, oh, I was
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: going to jump my skateboard out of a tree, but
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: then it started snowing, and there's one kid like I'll
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: do it, And camp Scataboo seems like that guy to me,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: and I want to be best friends with him. So
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: I'm bummed he's not going to be there. I think
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: the score is going to be I mean, I'm just
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: going to say it. Vikings three thousand, Giants zero.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I think I don't like it that you're turning our
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: little prediction segment into some joke. I'm going to go
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: something more realistic. Giants fourteen, Vikings one hundred and thirty nine.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Okay, what do you got for players? Does seem closer?
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: You know, I'll go both sides of the ball here.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: I just i gotta tell you, man Will. I love
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: him so much and I think he's gonna really cause
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say reek havoc in the middle and the.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Big another big Eric Wilson game is what you're going with.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Here, I'm guaranteeing it. And then also, you know in
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: the last game, JJ throws that ball, it gets tipped,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: he tries to bat it down, it gets picked. He's
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: running off and he was like had a big grin
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: on his face, but not as if to say I
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: don't care. It was a grin like catch me outside
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: about that. And I'm excited for that attitude. And I'm
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: gonna say, uh, I'm gonna say three touchdowns, three touchdown passes.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Three touchdowns from JJ's you give me, You're giving me
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: a little bit of both sides of the ball. Yeah,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I would like. I think the best case scenario for
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Viking fans is you know you really have. I don't
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: know how good of an understanding you can have of
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: what you have at that position by the end of
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: the year, but I think you want you want to
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: see I liked what Collins were said. I think you
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: want to see this kid pushed, pulled and tested in
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: every single way humanly possible. And I want to see
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: him make some dangerous throws. I want to see him
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: force the ball a little bit. I want to see
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: him do some things that he might be asked to
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: do in a more important situation. So I like that prediction.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I like more being on his plate. I'm gonna go
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: with the guy that I've been talking about all year
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: and I've been talking about for two years now, and
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: it's Dallas Turner. I think Dallas Turner is splashing all
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: over the place as of six weeks ago, but he's
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: there's gonna be a game. I just think he's too
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: talented and too loud of a player to not eventually
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: have a game that everybody goes, oh boy, the guy
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: is here. And I'm talking two three sacks, maybe a
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: scoop six. I think before the season's out we're gonna
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: get something like that. But I'm gonna put it this game.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I want to see an absolute monster, uh from Dallas Turner,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and I'm not I'm not gonna go to the offensive
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: side of the ball. I'm gonna stick on defense and
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: go with the singular prediction.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: And I I'll already tell you I know I'm not
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: gonna be here for the preview for the Packer game,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: but that's when I think he is going to go
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: absolutely insane.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: It is. It is going to be that last game
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: of the year, you're gonna you're gonna be at it,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: You're gonna have some family there. That is a I've
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: been at a division game at the end of the
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: year when the records don't matter, and you would think
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: that that could be an emotionless building. I find it
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: to be the opposite. Now. One of the times I
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: did that was that Jared Allen game where he almost
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: set the NFL My brother Greg and I did there
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: and we were just going absolutely nuts. Every time they're like,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: if you ever get the chance to go to an
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: event where a guy is close to breaking a record
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: but it's still kind of improbable, take that opportunity, because
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: that was an all time moment. But I think I
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: think that I think that home game down the stretch,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be really fun.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: I'm excited.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Well you should be excited.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: And all damn I just said that.
• 23:16
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• 23:19
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