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A Skol Hop Gift Swap for Christmas, The Vikings Playoff Hopes and the Ongoing Quarterback Controversy for the Purple Team | TSH Ep. 20 · The Skol Hop

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  All right, Hey Vikings fans, welcome into another episode of the School Hop.
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  I'm Evan and I'm Austin. We're just a couple of dudes from Iowa.
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  We like drinking beer, we like talking about the Vikings. Yeah,
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  we do school and Merry Christmas. Christmas to you too. We've got some
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  gifts here that we're going to exchange in a little bit. Yeah, that'll
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  be fun. I'm excited. But before we do that, we got to
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  pay the bills. So, uh, we just wanted to let you know
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  that today's episode of the School Hop is brought to you by Big Top Ventures.
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  trips before. Yeah, I've actually used Big Top Ventures a couple of times.
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  I can promise from experience you'll be good with their rates. Yeah, there
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  you go. So thanks Big Top for helping us out. And we appreciate
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  it. Yeah, we're drinking. We are drinkings. We have to drink.
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  That was an ill advised pause there what I was saying. But the
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  beer we're drinking tonight is Green Trees. Give me the name one more time,
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  I always yeah. So I think they've changed their of this beer you've
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  said, So you have gifted us tonight with a Green Tree Brewing out of
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  LaClaire, Iowa. Their river Bottom X. It used to be called river
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  Bottom Red. I think it was river Bottom Red when it was first released,
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  but they must have changed it for some reason or another. But it's
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  a six percent red beer and it's brewed by Green Tree Brewing, which is
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  in Leclaire, Iowa, just the stones throwaway from where we're at. And
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  it's a micro brewery. They don't distribute. You have to go to their
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  brewery location in LaClaire, Iowa to get their beer. And that's what I
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  did. Yeah, and it's good stuff and I appreciate appreciate that you did,
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  because this is really good beer. Yeah. I think we said in
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  the TikTok that it's a it's no secret that I gravitate towards the I Pas,
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  but you have really been opening me to the Ambers and to the Reds.
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  And I'm not disappointed at all by eat, just you know, being
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  open to that kind of a beer, but especially this one. This one's
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  really good. And I may have to make the quick drive out to their
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  brewery sometime in the new future to try some more of this. Maybe we'll
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  have to have a business meeting out out at that brewery. That would be
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  a good thing. I would appreciate that. Yeah, that'd be fun.
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  And I would say to anybody out there that's wanting to know how they could
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  get their hands on some of this. Like I said, you have to
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  go to their brewery. But they're right off of Interstate eighty and Leclaire is
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  just a tiny little town, but it's loaded with tons of stuff to do.
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  So if you ever drive in between like Des Moines and Chicago, it's
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  a great place to stop. And the American pickers are there or do they
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  still have a location out there? Yep? And then there's just a ton
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  of different little shops and stuff. There's a great whiskey distillery right next door
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  to the brewery. Oh yeah, just lots of good stuff. I'm just
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  hyping up LaClair. It's good. That's a good spot. And the less
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  we have to talk about the Vikings this week, I mean, I'm okay
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  with that. I know you guys are here to hear about the Vikings.
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  Maybe. I know we have some fans of other teams that listen. Yeah,
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  so shout out JK a Browns fan. But yeah, yeah, it
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  look clear, is fun, it's nice. They always do some some cool
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  events to around the holidays and stuff, which we're just getting out of.
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  But yeah, all right, Well we can distract ourselves a little bit more
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  by exchanging some gifts that we got for each other. It is a school
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  hop Christmas, Merry Christmas out there, school hot fans. So I kind
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  of want you to open yours. I was gonna say, I want you
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  to open yours. If you're the you are the gift opener. Let's let's
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  do it, all right, all right? Just best a one, best
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  of one and one two three? Shoot yeah, all right, rock paper
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  scissors, shoot all right, alrighty oh, okay, So I mean,
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  okay, so I'll probably have to narrate for those of you out there that
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  are just listening. He's shaking it and he's trying to figure out what it
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  could be. I'm a present shaker. I sometimes I know you carry a
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  knife. Do not use a knife. Oh okay, okay, just sometimes
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  all the time, just forewarning, Okay, I don't want you to break
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  anything. Oh man, is it? Is it breathing? Do I hear?
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  No, it's not breathing. It's actually Kirk's achilles. Oh no,
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  just kidding. Too soon, too soon? You're right, Oh man,
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  I didn't tape it super well, you take it a lot. Oh,
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  there's another box in here? All right? Sorry for all the excess noise.
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  Yeah, it's an ASMR podcast. I have just opened the wrapping paper
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  of the second box. So it's a box within a box. Yeah,
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  I swear if there's another box in here, not another box? All right?
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  Okay. Did I do a good job wrapping? Yeah? Did did
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  Raven wrap this? No? I wrapped it myself. Interesting if it was
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  wrapped by my wife, it would have been way better. Yeah. Okay,
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  Well I think I'm getting closer. So I've just opened up the second
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  box and it is wrapped in siryane wrap. I've seen far too many videos
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  on TikTok this year of people giving gifts that are ridiculously hard to open,
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  so I was a little inspired. Yeah, but you're almost there. Did
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  you have a few of those River Red River Bottom xes? No? I
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  was saving it for this. This is gonna sound great in your guys years.
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  I did waste some suran wrap. Yeah, this is so we're down
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  to the sur layer and under that there's more wrapping paper. Yep, but
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  you're almost there. I think I'm getting close. You're getting real close.
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  It feels like a clothing item. It could be. Oh, I can
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  see just regular paper, but I think there's another hip, another couple of
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  wrap rounds of saran wrap. This has got to be terrible to listen to.
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  I'll try to edit that out later, or at least put it on
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  some effects to make it less obnoxious. Yep, maybe it'll be easier to
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  watch. So we are on YouTube. You you can listen and watch the
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  whole episode on YouTube. Hey, you made it, made it to the
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  initial wrapping paper. You know, most people would have just handed some of
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  this. That would have been too easy. And I'm a teacher on winter
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  break, so we got all the time in the morning, all of the
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  time on my hands. Here, all right, it is a cloth item
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  at least. Second, see it's purple. There's more tape. How many
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  rolls of tape did you use on this? I would have guessed more.
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  Oh, there's two cloth items in here. Actually three? Oh my goodness.
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  Okay, all right, it is wonderful. This is amazing. So
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  first to first ever skull Hop T shirts, School Hop T shirts. This
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  is awesome. So there are three shirts in there, because you never know
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  how T shirts are gonna fit when you order them online, so you'll have
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  to find one that fits you. I'll find one that fits me, and
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  then we have one that we can give away to somebody out there listening to
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  us. Look, get you ev we'll put you on movies. Just say
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  merchandising. Yep. That we out the spectrum of sizes, and I think
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  the spectrum will work out perfectly. So we'll have to figure out how we're
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  going to give away that third shirt. Yeah, So if you're out there
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  listening, I'll let you finish. Hang on. Oh yeah, just kidding.
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  Yeah, you you should hit us up. We always, uh,
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  we always promo our social media sites and our email and stuff at the end
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  of the episode. So send us a message somewhere anywhere, and who knows,
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  maybe we can send you a shirt. Yeah, and uh yeah,
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  if you're watching on YouTube, you can see this, these wonderful shirts.
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  I'm very excited about this. Thank you so much. Yeah, this is
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  awesome. It's our it's just it's a purple shirt with our skull Hop logo.
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  It's been on episode art, it's been I think it's our our profile
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  picture on all the socials. So yeah, that's nice and that's us.
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  Yeah, we've got this flag here too, that was kind of part of
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  the same orders. So we're actually on Tea Public. So if you go
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  to Tea Public, oh yeah, that's where these shirts and this, uh
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  they call it a tapestry, this flag come from. So you can check
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  us out on Tea Public, the school Hop. I would also like to
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  make a quick plug for my wife's Tea Public store. It's A and J
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  creative and she's made some pretty cool stuff, non Viking stuff, but then
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  she's also made some really cool like ladies vikings, designs. So if you're
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  out there and you're a Vikings fan and you've got a lady in your life
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  that could benefit from some really classy looking Vikings gear, head on over to
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  A and J Creative on Tea Public and you can check out her designs.
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  I might have to do that because I do have some ladies in my life.
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  Yeah that I have told our Vikings fans and they've been bribed with ice
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  cream. Yeah, no ice cream this week. No, no dice,
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  no ice cream at all. But we're not going to talk about that yet.
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  Yeah, we're going to prolong the inevitable a little bit. And another
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  gift, all right, Evan, it's your turn. Your wrapping was way
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  more intricate than mine. I put it in a bag. The problem I
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  have with this is it's green, and the moment you walked into my house
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  we talked about it. Well, yeah, I didn't really realize the color
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  of it until I walked into your house and showed you that I had a
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  gift, and I was like, dang it, it's it's in a green.
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  It's not really pack or green. No, no, no, it's
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  okay, it's more like the main green is more like a light green.
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  We'll call it football grass. Sure, it's got Christmas trees on it.
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  Somebody who gave me or my family members a gift this year may recognize this
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  bag. It probably came from that. We like to reuse bags. It
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  feels round, Oh yeah, okay, kind of or oddly shaped. Okay,
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  I know, we'll see or maybe is it? Is it multiple pieces
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  or there there is one item in one bag? Yeah, you should quickly
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  be able to realize what it is. I do know what this is,
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  no way, Yeah, this is awesome, all right, so I'll do
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  the narration. Evan has just opened a custom skull Hop mini helmet. It
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  is a ri Dell Riddle mini helmet and it has on both sides the Norseman
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  skull Hop logo, so it doesn't say the skull Hop above it. I
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  kind of tinkered around with that. I should say. This is all thanks
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  to my wonderful, beautiful, amazing wife who will never hear these words ever.
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  She was the one who was the mastermind behind putting the logo on the
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  helmet. That is cool, and that's gonna go like smack dab in the
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  middle of this. And here's what's cool about this. I had a little
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  extra money from Christmas sitting around, so I was perusing on Amazon and I
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  actually bought a Vikings mini help. Oh nice, so we can do like
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  two helmets, like right next to each other. I think that'll be really
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  cool. It's like a seventies era with the gray Oh that's cool face mask.
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  It was on Amazon. It was like thirty eight bucks. Yeah,
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  like that're cool. Yeah, it should be here later this week, so
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  hopefully that episode. Yeah, if you're watching on Spotify or YouTube or wherever
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  you're watching us, you don't have to keep an eye out for some of
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  the changes we're making to the old school hop set here. Yeah. So,
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  yeah, this is awesome. Though, this is super cool. Merry
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  Christmas. I do have one just like it. I kinda we kind of
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  tinkered around with the size of the logos, so the sizing of mine is
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  a little bit different, but outside of that, it's identical. That's cool.
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  I'm going to put it on the shelf for a nice nice He's going
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  to find a good spot and it'll probably change up once you get that that
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  old school helmet there, you go right in Victor's lap and then I'll just
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  take my my beer back. Sorry, Victory, you get a beer tonight.
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  No beers for Victor. But that just looks cool. Yeah, that's
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  awesome, that looks great. Well, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas. Those
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  were good guests. Fun. Yeah, they were all right. I'm tempted
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  to put my shirt on right now, but I think that would ruin the
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  flow of the episode here. We'll try them on afterwards. Sounds good,
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  Well, we we have to. This is what we do. We always
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  talk about the game. We've made a commitment to all of our mini fans
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  out there that rely on us for all of the hot takes when it comes
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  to the Vikings. So we got to recap the loss to the Lions twenty
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  four to thirty on Christmas Eve. It was a white out game, a
• 14:48
  lot of anticipation for this game and a lot of frustration and a lot of
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  frustration, and it ended in heartbreak. It wasn't a blow, It was
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  close, and it was within the Vikings grasp even at the end. The
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  Vikings got the ball with two minutes left, no timeouts. They moved the
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  ball down the fields and Mullins threw his fourth interception of the game with like
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  forty something seconds left. On the clock. He was trying to hit JJ
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  and just underthrew him. Yeah. I think the defender read it perfectly.
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  I mean, and the ball was kind of a duck yep. So just
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  everything that could go wrong did go wrong in this game. Not only that
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  game ceiling interception, but the injuries were just piling up. Mullins threw four
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  picks. Yeah. I have two philosophies when it comes to my opinions on
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  football and decisions I would make if I were ever, And nobody should ever
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  put me in charge in a decision making capacity for a football team. But
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  if I ever were, I've said my first one on the podcast already,
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  and it involves running backs. Don't pay running backs. They just they put
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  on too many miles, They get hit too much. Very rarely are running
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  backs worth the money they get paid if it's a big contract, because they
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  just get injured. So that's my first one, and we can we can
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  fight about that in the comments if you want. My second one is,
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  never give a guy the chance to throw a fourth interception, never ever,
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  ever, ever. I don't care who it is or what kind of day
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  he's having. If he throws a third interception, you pull him. The
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  next guy's up because for whatever reason, the defense has figured something out or
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  his confidence is completely gone. I don't care who it is. I don't
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  care if he's thrown for five hundred yards already that game. If he throws
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  a third pick, sit him down. I'd like to point out two things.
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  Number One, just to reiterate what you've said, you texted me because
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  we were watching in separate places because it was Christmas even anyways, you texted
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  me after Mullins threw his third and said exactly that, don't ever give a
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  guy the opportunity to throw four picks. Take him out. And obviously the
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  Vikings didn't when he threw that game ceiling fourth interception. You screenshot at your
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  text and sent it back to me and said, see, and I agreed
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  with you wholeheartedly. The one thing that I would like to say, just
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  playing Devil's advocate a little bit, is I'm pretty sure Kirk Cousins threw four
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  interceptions in one of the first three games of the season. How did the
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  first three games of the season go? We lost, But I mean,
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  I guess the point I'm trying to make is we've talked about the length of
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  the leash that you give these guys. Kirk Cousins I think has to have
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  a much longer leash than a Nick Mullins. He throws for you just kind
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  of got to keep rolling with it unless he's hurt. Yeah, but I
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  mean, we saw it in the forty nine Ers Ravens game last night.
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  I don't know if you watched it much. Brock Purdy got pulled. Well,
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  it was I think the motivation of him coming out of the game was
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  absolutely for injury. He needed to come out. I don't know what it
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  was. If he was in the concussion protocol. He had to come out.
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  He got hit and he had to come out. And I think that
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  drive ended with Sam Darnold leading the Niners to a touchdown, and at that
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  point the game seemed to open up. This is now a Niners podcast,
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  I guess for the next minute. And then you know, the offense was
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  on the sideline. The TV announcers were saying, like, who's going to
• 18:51
  go in? And they showed Shanahan talking to Brock Purty. Shanahan had his
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  his mouth covered with his play call, but perty he he was being told
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  some disappointing news. You could tell by his face, and it for a
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  minute seemed like the Sam Donald switch was gonna work in that game. So
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  even if you are someone who this year, before that game, brock Perty
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  he was in the MVP conversation, I think now he's he's kind of inched
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  his way out of that conversation after last night. But yeah, his leash
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  got to the end of it, and ultimately, I think, like I
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  said, it was a decision motivated by injury. But then it was easy
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  to say, now we're gonna stick with with the hot hand at the moment,
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  which was Sam Darnald. It is Sam right. Yeah, But yeah,
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  like you said, Kirk had a way longer leash, and I'm not
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  sure. I don't know enough. You're probably right. Kirk may have thrown
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  four picks I think in that game earlier in this season. I don't remember
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  specifically, but yeah, you just you can't let someone get the chance to
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  throw a fourth pick. I don't care if it's Tom Brady and he's already
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  got ten passing touchdowns that game. Like, if you throw three, be
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  done, sit down that day, try again the next one. I don't
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  disagree with you. I think there are circumstances. There are players where you
• 20:23
  look past those things, and yeah, the Vikings were losing in the game
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  that Kirk threw four picks. I can't remember which. I feel like it
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  was one of the first three because we dropped the first three. Oh yeah,
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  yeah it probably was, so it would have been the Bucks, the
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  Eagles, or who do we play week three? I don't remember. Week
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  one was the Bucks in the this place dead air is great. I'm not
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  getting this right. Yeah, I don't remember. It was probably one of
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  those first few games. Yeah, and it doesn't matter too much now.
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  But I guess the point I'm trying to make again is I think it's all
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  determined by the player. Nick Mullins is not a guy that you give that
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  long of a leash to. And I absolutely agree with you. He should
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  have come out after that third pick, truthfully, like he probably could have
• 21:23
  come out after the second pick, because he threw two horrendous picks the previous
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  game and the one pick was kind of historically bad. Oh ye, like
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  it'll go down as like butt fumble worthy interception almost. But yeah, he's
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  a he's a career backup. He's proven that he's got this gun slinger mentality
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  and it hasn't really worked out for him, other than I think late in
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  the game when he was slinging it to JJ and if you just put it
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  within five yards of JJ, he's going to go out and get it.
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  Oh yeah, for the most part, unless somebody jumps in front of him
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  because it's a terrible decision to throw that time at that point, or they
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  spear him in the side and he has to go to the hospital. Oh
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  yeah, because Mullins threw him that ball too, didn't he And no,
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  that was Josh Dobbs. That was to him. Well regardless, I think
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  both of those guys have proven that their career backups, they're they're maybe gonna
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  get another opportunity somewhere. Yeah, maybe, well so. I think a
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  guy like Mullins, he he is a good player as a second string quarterback.
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  He can come in and be sufficient. It's just he has proven in
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  you know, his short tenure with the Vikings and the rest of his career.
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  He he's not good when he's QB one, when he's the guy when
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  it's all week, you know, he's getting all the reps. When he
• 22:57
  is the one that has to lead the team and know everything, and you
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  know, be best friends with the coach and like he he's not great in
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  that role. Where he has been successful is when it's like, oh,
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  crap, Kirk's out, or you know, oh darn, QB one just
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  went down, Nick warm up, like get in there out of nowhere?
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  You know that. Could you go eight weeks without touching the field and then
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  boom, you have to play most of a game. So he's proven he's
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  good at that, and that is a legitimate position in the NFL. Not
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  everyone is destined to be, you know, their position number one. I
• 23:34
  think i'd say the same about Alex Madison. He's always been good as the
• 23:38
  thunder as the change of pace to the RB one. I mean, in
• 23:42
  his case, it's been Dalvin Cook to you know, spell out the RB
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  one when you need to. That's why Madison looked good and why it didn't
• 23:52
  seem so awful to you know, sign him and go into the season with
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  him as RB one, because he's always looked decent and even in a few
• 23:59
  starts he always looked okay. But for whatever reason, this season, he
• 24:03
  has proven that he's not good as the guy the one to get the starter
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  reps. And I don't know why that's different. But there's obviously something with
• 24:12
  that, at least with the quarterback position, and obviously the running back position
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  too. But yeah, and I did look it up. And this is
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  not to shove it in your face at all, because he made some good
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  points. But Kirk the most he's the most interceptions he's thrown in a game
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  this season is two. Really, Yeah, but and ESPN's not easy to
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  look at right now. It's probably just a me thing. He may have
• 24:38
  had a game where he had a couple of fumbles and a couple of interceptions
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  that I can't really see, but yeah, interception wise, he's thrown two
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  picks in I guess just one game and that was against Carolina, and oddly
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  enough, that's won where we said that was his poorest game at that point,
• 24:56
  and that was the first season. Yeah, I just think I've never
• 25:03
  been in an NFL quarterback. I've never been a quarterback. You know,
• 25:04
  most I can say is playing five hundred in the backyard, So I can't
• 25:08
  really say from experience. I just got to think after throwing three picks,
• 25:14
  like there's just got to be some kind of a like a mentality of like
• 25:18
  what's wrong with me? Especially if you don't, if you're not seeing things
• 25:22
  like obviously they picked it off because I missed this read. But if you're
• 25:26
  not seeing that, like, it's got to be so frustrating. And then
• 25:29
  you have to play differently, right, Like you have to go out on
• 25:32
  the field and almost be like mad and make even poorer decisions, which for
• 25:36
  a guy like Nick Mullins, he's a gunslinger, so he's already making think
• 25:40
  we saw that, yeah happen. And it almost seemed like the Lion's secondary
• 25:45
  was just kind of messing with him. Like there was that one interception.
• 25:48
  I can't remember which one it was. But the our favorite commentator, what's
• 25:56
  his name, Vilma, get that guy off TV, Jonathan Villa, he's
• 26:02
  he does have a smart defensive mind, and he pointed out that the Lions,
• 26:07
  I don't know if it was a corner or a safety, but one
• 26:11
  of the guys in the Lions secondary that was covering the route just kind of
• 26:17
  toyed with Mullins and then jumped in at the last second and picked them off.
• 26:22
  And yeah, and I mean that's if you're the Lions, that's your
• 26:26
  defensive game plan, like, hey, we've got this this backup guy in
• 26:30
  he's he's a gun slinger. Let's just let's force him to make some terrible
• 26:37
  mistakes. Yeah, they the Bengals did it last week. Let's let's make
• 26:41
  it hard for him this week. And that's what they did all day long,
• 26:45
  to the tune of four interceptions, which really really stings. We've spent
• 26:48
  a lot of time talking about that. But there were some other things in
• 26:55
  the game. The running game was quietly horrific. Totallyventeen yards on the ground
• 27:00
  for tuching, like completely gone. I think did Madison end up with positive
• 27:04
  yards because he at one point was two rushes for negative one yard His first
• 27:11
  rush I texted you because it was a one rush for negative two yards.
• 27:15
  I was like, oh, look another great run by Alex Madison. Yeah.
• 27:19
  It wasn't good and the defense didn't look great. They the first drive,
• 27:26
  I thought they looked really shaky and gave up a touchdown, which was
• 27:32
  the first opening drive touchdown they'd given up all season. And the Lions just
• 27:37
  looked like pros. I mean, they just walked down the field and put
• 27:42
  it in the end zone for six and it was easy and to kind of
• 27:47
  jump in for a second. To be clear, I think we can both
• 27:51
  say this. The Lions are a good team. Yeah. I mean,
• 27:53
  for sure, they're not the greatest show on turf, but I mean they're
• 27:56
  good. And we've been saying that for a while. It's clear to see
• 28:00
  they're not like a phony team this year. They're they're gonna do something.
• 28:06
  They might win a couple of games in the playoffs. Like I'm not saying,
• 28:08
  oh, the Lions are winning super Bowl, but like, they're good.
• 28:11
  So it's not surprising that this game ended up the way it did.
• 28:17
  It just it's very frustrating. I was messing around with that playoff machine again.
• 28:22
  Not I don't think I'll make another video, but we can talk about
• 28:27
  how the Vikings get into the playoffs, because I think that's a worthy conversation
• 28:33
  for later on. But the Lions, excuse me, the Lions still have
• 28:37
  a shot at the number one seed. Mm hmm. I mean, if
• 28:41
  San Francisco and Philly lose, which they have been they're not looking like the
• 28:47
  giants. Giants, they're not the New York Football giants, but they like
• 28:52
  juggernauts that they started off the season looking like, Yeah, they don't look
• 28:55
  amazing lately, they've they've shown their flaws and injured. He has kind of
• 29:00
  hit both teams a little bit. Yeah, the Niners were down to literally
• 29:03
  not having another offensive lineman to go in last night. If if somebody else
• 29:07
  went down, it would have been a tight end or something if somebody else
• 29:10
  went down. Yeah, the injuries have hit the league hard this year.
• 29:15
  Man high profile names too. Like there's always injuries, but like usually it's
• 29:22
  like, oh, somebody like Cam Akers gets hurt. He's a big name,
• 29:26
  but like not across the league. Everybody knows Kirk Cousins name. That's
• 29:30
  a big injury. Everybody knows Aaron Rodgers' name, like it started, that
• 29:33
  started off the whole season. Yeah he made it two plays into the year.
• 29:37
  Yeah, crazy, but yeah. Anyways, and the Vikings were not
• 29:41
  immune to the injury bug either. TJ. Hawkinson out pretty much indefinitely with
• 29:52
  ACL and mcl Yeah, right, that could be. That's gonna be an
• 29:56
  interesting storyline to keep tabs throughout this offseason because already my guess is he starts
• 30:03
  training camp on the physically unable to perform list. Maybe he misses, like
• 30:08
  he very well could miss a few games to start the season, could start
• 30:11
  the game on IR. Yeah, I start the season on IR. If
• 30:15
  you think about Adrian Peterson his two thousand yard season, that was the season
• 30:25
  immediately after he ended by tearing his ACL. That was the whole magic of
• 30:29
  the story is like, this guy is a monster, He's a physical freak,
• 30:33
  and nobody could have ever done this because he just tore his ACL and
• 30:38
  came back. And now he just did what only one other person has ever
• 30:42
  done, and that's rushed for that many yards in a season. And TJ.
• 30:48
  Hogginson tore his ACL on the same day twelve years later. So if
• 30:55
  it was that crazy for this Adrian Peterson, who everybody has always said as
• 31:00
  a physical freak and just a magical nightmare, you can't expect TJ. Hockinson
• 31:06
  to be back right away. I'm expecting him to miss a couple of games
• 31:11
  to start the year next year. Yeah, that'll be interesting. But he
• 31:14
  wasn't the only one that went down. Oh yeah, and Addison dj Wanam
• 31:18
  Makaya Blackman who Blackman came in with some like shoulder or something strap I don't
• 31:23
  know. I don't know what his injury even was coming into the game,
• 31:26
  but the secondary has already struggled with injury, so to see him go down
• 31:33
  was tough. It was just a really crummy game. Yeah for the Vikings
• 31:37
  injury wise, Did I see Addison's injury is gonna not be as crazy?
• 31:41
  I guess I didn't. I haven't really heard anything about Addison. I think
• 31:45
  Hockinson and Wanum are both out. Oh yeah, want Tom tores squad or
• 31:49
  something like that, like they're done. Yeah, he's he may never be
• 31:52
  the same guy again, because that's that's no small injury to have. Yeah,
• 31:57
  and I mean to that point Hawkinson too, Like, yeah, the
• 32:00
  ACL is not the career end or it used to be, but that's still
• 32:05
  not a great injury to get. Like, yeah, it'll be really interesting
• 32:10
  to see how these last two games of the season go, too, with
• 32:14
  a really depleted roster in general, and just probably a sense of I don't
• 32:22
  want to be over dramatic, but like a sense of the air out of
• 32:27
  the stadium, you know, like despair was the first word I could think
• 32:30
  of, Like what do you do now? Like how much can one locker
• 32:35
  room take? And how many speeches does KOC need to have to like keep
• 32:40
  these guys motivated, especially if you keep losing, and now as we sit
• 32:45
  and record on December twenty sixth, we have no idea who the starting quarterback
• 32:52
  is going to be in this this weekend against the Packers. Yeah, Koc
• 32:59
  said they're going to explore all options. To me, that includes exploring the
• 33:02
  idea of putting Dobbs back out there, which that seems crazy. I don't
• 33:07
  know. I don't Mullins just seemed like he's not the right answer. Jaren
• 33:14
  Hall, We've seen almost two full drives of him. I don't have an
• 33:19
  opinion on that. I just I don't know who's going to play. I
• 33:22
  think you put Hall in if your season is lost. I think if you
• 33:27
  go to Detroit and it's pretty certain that you're not going to make the playoffs,
• 33:31
  if the Vikings have dropped this coming game against the Packers at home on
• 33:36
  New Year's Eve, and I think Seattle and the Rams also win, and
• 33:44
  that kind of pushes the Vikings down in the playoff hopes a little bit,
• 33:49
  which again we can talk about that in a minute. But I think if
• 33:51
  you get to that Week eighteen game at Detroit and it's just like you have
• 33:57
  a three percent chance to make the playoff or something, like that, you
• 34:00
  need both the Rams and the Seahawks to lose and you have to win.
• 34:06
  You just you put Haul in and give him the keys, show me what
• 34:10
  you learned this season, and let's see what happens. To some extent,
• 34:15
  he's maybe interviewing for a backup job with the Vikings next year, or a
• 34:22
  backup job somewhere else next year. Yeah, regardless, I don't think the
• 34:29
  Vikings have a healthy quarterback at this moment that will be a starter potential next
• 34:36
  year. I think next year your starter is either Kirk Cousins if you somehow
• 34:42
  work out a good deal, which I don't know how i'd feel about that,
• 34:46
  just age and injury wise, or it's going to be a rookie or
• 34:51
  a free agent, Like it's not going to be one of the three guys
• 34:53
  currently in the loop for the starting job this coming week. Do you think
• 35:00
  I think we should talk about that for a second. Yeah. Sorry,
• 35:04
  my brain kind of like went three steps ahead, so I have to back
• 35:07
  up a little bit. So re signing Kirk, right, if we talk
• 35:13
  about that, probably gonna cost a lot and probably going to mean letting other
• 35:22
  guys walk. Then those are gonna be hard decisions to make. And the
• 35:28
  frustrating part about the NFL right now is you can't necessarily have your cake and
• 35:32
  eat it too, right Like, you have to make those tough decisions when
• 35:37
  it comes to the salary cap. But i've heard, I don't know concretely
• 35:42
  what this means, but I've heard the salary cap is on its way up.
• 35:45
  It always rises every year. I think there was one year maybe like
• 35:51
  twenty twenty one due to COVID or whatever. That was like the first year
• 35:54
  it didn't rise. But it always goes up a little bit, which they
• 35:59
  know they I'm sure whoever the money people are with every team, they know
• 36:04
  that they can expect a certain percentage of increased cap dollars and they probably plan
• 36:10
  out their contracts that way. But yeah, it always goes up a little
• 36:14
  bit. It's never anything that's like, oh, they just doubled the salary
• 36:17
  cap, like I think it's usually like five to ten percent more. So,
• 36:23
  I guess with all of that, if you're quasi think, thank goodness,
• 36:31
  I'm not. All Vikings fans are should be very glad that that's not
• 36:35
  That's the beauty of what we get to do. We get to just sit
• 36:37
  here and speculate and kind of pretend like we are in his chair for a
• 36:43
  moment, so I can take a turn as well. But if you're in
• 36:46
  his chair, what do you do next season? I mean, it depends
• 36:52
  on what you think you can do. If you think this team can continue
• 36:57
  that competitive rebuild and be someone to kind of hit reset and still be a
• 37:02
  contender, then I think all options are on the table. If your guy
• 37:07
  is Kirk. If you're like, nope, we are set everywhere else we
• 37:13
  can make the money work for one, two, three more years. Kirk's
• 37:16
  our guy. We're running. We're going for this championship with Kirk. Then
• 37:22
  if that's their mentality, they have to do it right, like they have
• 37:24
  to jump in and go for that full force. If they're thinking Kirk's not
• 37:30
  their guy, like just he's pretty old, which what thirty six thirty seven
• 37:37
  is pretty old as a quarterback. I think he's thirty six right now,
• 37:42
  thirty five or thirty six right now. I thought he was closer to Flacco's
• 37:45
  age for some reason, But no, no, no, no, he
• 37:47
  was because Flacco's thirty eight, right Oh. I don't know that I would
• 37:52
  have guessed older for Flacco but I'm not a Flacco expert. Flacco just to
• 37:57
  say his name one more time, or Flacco depending on how you say it.
• 38:00
  Yeah, who was calling him flocko? Who was the commentator? I
• 38:04
  don't know. Somebody was calling him that, But yeah, I think if
• 38:08
  their mentality is Kirk's not our guy. But we're still right there, We're
• 38:13
  still should be competing for the NFC North. This roster is really good outside
• 38:17
  of injury. The coaching's really good outside of the weird, terrible calls.
• 38:22
  Sometimes, if that's your mindset, then you try to jump all in with
• 38:28
  a proven commodity. Herbert from San Diego, not San Diego for his whole
• 38:34
  career from LA Maybe he's an option. You never know, I mean,
• 38:37
  you never know who's gonna maybe. I mean, shoot, Baker Mayfield's had
• 38:42
  a little bit of a resurgence in Tampa Bay this year, and I don't
• 38:45
  know what his contract looks like, if he's even gonna be a free agent.
• 38:49
  You wanted Bailey z Appy from New England, Yeah, for a little
• 38:53
  bit, for that one game. He got that one game. But I
• 38:57
  mean, you know, if your mindset is the quarterback, I feel like
• 39:00
  the Vikings have always been a quarterback away. And if that's your mindset and
• 39:05
  you're not confident in Cousins or Cousins is just way outside of your price range,
• 39:10
  then you got to jump in and get a guy like Herbert or somebody
• 39:15
  who's there. And if that's not your mindset either way, apparently there's some
• 39:22
  decent quarterbacks coming up in the draft. And a phrase I like to hear
• 39:27
  all the time. I think Eric Thompson says it on Twitter all the time.
• 39:30
  Go get your guys. Who cares what the media thinks, what the
• 39:34
  fans think if your guy is Pat Mahomes, Because when the Chiefs drafted Pat
• 39:40
  Mahomes, a lot of Chiefs fans were like, what the heck? This
• 39:45
  guy from Texas A and m like he's nothing, Like they just wasted a
• 39:49
  pick. What are they saying now? They're so glad that he's gifted three
• 39:53
  Super Bowl appearances to wins. I mean a lot of people were upset as
• 39:58
  Bills fans when they to Josh Allen famously not Jared Allen. That was a
• 40:06
  bad mix up last week, but like and even he's had some ups and
• 40:09
  downs. But I think most Bills fans are saying oh Man. Yeah,
• 40:14
  thank goodness they got Josh Allen. I don't know. So if the Vikings
• 40:19
  have their guy and I don't even know. I know Caleb Williams and the
• 40:24
  kid from LSU, and I think, don't the bo Nicks from from Jaden
• 40:30
  Daniels Jaden? Is that the LSU kid? Yeah, I don't. I
• 40:34
  don't know the names enough, but I know there's some people out there.
• 40:37
  I mean, even JJ McCarthy with Michigan for our friend Forrest. Yeah.
• 40:43
  If the Vikings have nailed down and they think, hey, JJ McCarthy is
• 40:47
  the guy, he's gonna fit so perfectly, then they have to do everything
• 40:51
  to get him or whoever that is. I just that's why me not answering
• 40:58
  this question in a three minute answer is why the Vikings are so glad that
• 41:01
  I'm not the GM. You are every armchair quarterback and every keyboard cowboys like
• 41:08
  worst enemy because you just circled around it for like three minutes and never gave
• 41:15
  a direct answer. But that's okay. I respect what you've said, and
• 41:16
  I think I think nothing you've said is wrong. And yeah, we're not
• 41:22
  in their shoes, but I think every fan is entitled to their opinion.
• 41:29
  Oh that's why. I mean, we're fans. We put so much desire
• 41:32
  into this, so much of our life, you know, our neighborhood into
• 41:38
  this. And you also pointed out it's so complex because it's not just about
• 41:43
  one player, right, it's not just about like you mentioned, Yeah,
• 41:46
  maybe the Vikings are just one quarterback away, but we had the quarterback last
• 41:50
  year and our defense was terrible. Yeah, we're the worst defense in the
• 41:52
  league. And now we started this year with arguably a terrible team all the
• 41:59
  way around, and somehow got it figured out mid way through the season and
• 42:01
  won five games in a row despite losing our quarterback and all the time the
• 42:07
  best player in the league and JJ. So anyways, I'll give you one
• 42:13
  hot take. I'll take it of mine. I want you to give me
• 42:15
  a hot take too, Okay, without getting into the weeds of all the
• 42:22
  complexities of who has to stay and who has to go and is there going
• 42:28
  to be enough space in the salary cap and blah blah blah. I think
• 42:31
  you bring back Kirk Cousins. That's my hot take. I don't think that.
• 42:37
  I don't think that's the controversial take. It's not, and it's probably
• 42:40
  a little bit conservative, actually, but Kirk himself is conservative. I'm a
• 42:46
  fairly conservative guy. But I think all of those things aside. I think
• 42:52
  he's proven that he can play at a high level, and he was he
• 42:57
  was already silencing the doubters, and even now going into week seventeen, he
• 43:02
  still sits a top quarterbacks in terms of a lot of statistical things after not
• 43:09
  having played since Week five or whatever it was, was like we eight whatever
• 43:14
  whenever most of the Packer game, that's right, whenever he went down,
• 43:16
  but like he played half the season basically and then went down, and he's
• 43:22
  still up there in terms of stats for quarterbacks. And I think this was
• 43:28
  the year that he really started to silence those doubters. I think he deserves
• 43:31
  at minimum a one year extension. I don't even know what the going rate
• 43:37
  is for a quarterback right now. I think at one courter, signing him
• 43:40
  for one year is probably going to look somewhere around thirty five to forty million,
• 43:45
  and that may be a conservative number. Sorry, keep going, well,
• 43:50
  I'm basically done. I just I think he played well enough to bring
• 43:55
  him back for a year. Yep, he's getting older, Yep. The
• 44:00
  Hill's injuries really suck. But you know that he's going to attack rehab.
• 44:05
  You know he already has attacked rehab, and we know that he wants to
• 44:10
  come back and play. He's not going to retire, and he's been very
• 44:15
  vocal about wanting to come back and play for the Vikings. If you have
• 44:17
  a guy who plays well, who is a leader, a captain on and
• 44:24
  off the field, I mean, even JJ said it in his postgame interview.
• 44:28
  He said it in a way that didn't really throw Mullins under the bus,
• 44:31
  but made it very clear who he would like to see under center and
• 44:37
  who he wants to be catching passes from, and that's Kirk Cousins. So
• 44:43
  he's going to get money too. We know that he's going to get a
• 44:46
  new contract. JJ is that is so I think you prioritize those two and
• 44:54
  see what happens. Yeh, all right, so you asked for a hot
• 44:57
  take. I appreciate yours. I as a fan, wouldn't be mad if
• 45:02
  what you just said happened. If they got Kirk back for thirty five forty
• 45:08
  million for one year, he'd probably sign like a two year deal or something
• 45:13
  like that. He's very savvy. There's no question about that. Dustin Baker
• 45:17
  outlined that a few episodes ago. He's gonna get his money, and good
• 45:22
  for him. I'll say it for the thousandth time. Every player should try
• 45:25
  to get every dime they can while they're playing. That includes Kirk. He
• 45:31
  would be good. He's a good quarterback. And if he came back from
• 45:35
  that injury, the Viking is going to do their homework. They're not gonna
• 45:37
  be like, hey, Kirk, are you healed and just take his word
• 45:38
  for it like he's They're gonna make sure he's good before signing him. You're
• 45:44
  gonna have some competition because unless they re sign him before the end of the
• 45:49
  season, I mean, he's gonna be a free agent. Like the way
• 45:52
  his contract has worked out, they can't franchise him even if they wanted to.
• 45:58
  They would have to resign him before his deal ends. And it ends
• 46:02
  like it voids out before the official end of the season or whenever the quote
• 46:07
  unquote league year ends, like I think it's March thirty first, Yeah,
• 46:10
  he will have and I think it's like March tenth that his contract is void.
• 46:17
  And I don't know why they do that. For probably for like cap
• 46:20
  reasons in future years or whatever. But he will be a free agent,
• 46:24
  even if only for five minutes, so you're gonna you could have competition to
• 46:29
  sign him, which only means more money. So if he is the starting
• 46:35
  quarterback for the Vikings next year, I'm okay, I'm happy. That just
• 46:38
  means they better go all in, like the future be you know, throw
• 46:45
  it out the window. It's all about that season because if you sign Kirk
• 46:51
  Cousins guys like Dalton Reisner, you're not gonna be able to resign guys like
• 46:57
  you know, unless they're willing to take a pay cut. Yeah, but
• 47:00
  they would have to be something like that, like you're you're just not gonna
• 47:04
  have enough money to go around for the future. You're gonna mortgage. You're
• 47:07
  gonna have something like the Saints did, where I think even now Drew Brees
• 47:13
  is one of the highest paid Saints, like or he had some weird crazy
• 47:17
  contract thing just to make it work for whatever year they had to make it
• 47:21
  work for. So it's just gonna be an all or nothing next year if
• 47:27
  they do re sign Kirk. And I'm not an expert, maybe I'm completely
• 47:30
  missing some flaw where it's like, yeah, it'll all work out, But
• 47:35
  I think you have to be able to sign JJ to a long term contract.
• 47:39
  You have to be able to sign Christian Derisaw to a long term contract.
• 47:43
  And I just in those two names, you're probably talking two hundred million
• 47:46
  dollars probably something like at least eighty million dollars guaranteed. And those are probably
• 47:52
  conservative numbers in their total next contracts. Yeah, it's gonna be tough,
• 47:59
  and it could equate for some dark years. But if twenty twenty four is
• 48:02
  the year, if it's like the Rams did a couple of years ago where
• 48:06
  they just bawled out and went all out and they got a Super Bowl,
• 48:09
  I'm not gonna complain at all. They could go they could not win a
• 48:13
  game for ten years if they get a super Bowl, Like I'm okay,
• 48:15
  who cares remember twenty twenty four? Like That's what I'll be saying. But
• 48:22
  yeah, I think so. My hot take would be to get a rookie,
• 48:30
  just thinking about move on from Kirk. Yeah, just thinking about the
• 48:35
  numbers. I like Kirk. He is a good quarterback. I've been a
• 48:37
  Kirk fan for a while. There was a weird moment probably like twenty twenty
• 48:40
  when I was like, this guy's not doing anything. He's making terrible decisions,
• 48:45
  he's not great. But then soon after I was convinced he wasn't the
• 48:49
  guy, he convinced everybody that he is the guy. And this year he
• 48:52
  was convincing the entire world, not just Vikings fans. So I'm happy if
• 48:59
  he's quarterback because he was doing good things. He was fun to root for.
• 49:05
  I don't know, I think he'd be somebody that I would enjoy spending
• 49:08
  time with, just because, like you said, he's a conservative guy.
• 49:12
  We're conservative guys. I just think we would get along. I'm not saying
• 49:15
  I think i'd be Kirk Cousin's friend, but he just seems like a good
• 49:20
  guy and he's a good quarterback, so I'd love it. But I think
• 49:23
  for the future of the franchise, it probably makes the most sense to move
• 49:30
  on and draft a quarterback number one, even if you have to trade multiple
• 49:34
  picks to get to a high first round pick, if you don't f it
• 49:38
  up the next couple of games and somehow get the fifth overall pick or something
• 49:42
  like that. But yeah, I think it probably should be should be a
• 49:49
  rookie so that you can keep your guys. We are on opposite sides of
• 49:54
  the thing. Is it's interesting. I'd be so happy if it was Kirk
• 49:58
  again. I'd be concerned after the announcement, like is he healed? Is
• 50:02
  it gonna be a rough, rough first part of the season until he finally
• 50:07
  gets his feet under him. He's not a mobile guy totally, so him
• 50:13
  not being able to run one hundred miles an hour isn't a huge deal.
• 50:16
  But yeah, there's a lot of question marks. What'll be really interesting will
• 50:22
  be watching Aaron Rodgers. I don't think we'll see Aaron Rodgers playing a game
• 50:25
  this year. No, the Jets are already mathematically eliminated. They're not gonna
• 50:31
  put him in. But didn't you already have a quote like a week or
• 50:35
  two ago, like, yeah, if we were closer, probably he I
• 50:39
  mean, he just tells everything to Pat McAfee, but he's always also super
• 50:44
  guarded at the same time, who knows what those guys talk about when the
• 50:47
  cameras aren't rolling. But anyways, I think not in game, but like
• 50:53
  you know, he's gonna post some sort of like workout video or something with
• 51:00
  him, you know, doing a three step drop, planting his foot and
• 51:04
  just throwing an absolute dime to somebody. If he posted a video of him
• 51:08
  doing a box jump, that would be the next three days of ESPN coverage,
• 51:13
  Like, yeah, for sure, I'm sure he's already done it.
• 51:15
  Yeah, and there's just no footage of it, or he's been very careful
• 51:21
  with how he wants to release that footage to maximize his screen time and the
• 51:27
  fact that sports media is just infatuated with him. But anyways, it I
• 51:32
  think it will be interesting to see how he progresses because he's just a little
• 51:37
  bit ahead of Kirk in terms of the injury and the recovery. And you
• 51:44
  know that Aaron Rodgers is going to do everything that he can to get back
• 51:47
  on the field. Oh yeah next year. I mean, I think if
• 51:51
  push came to shove, they'd put him in tomorrow. Yeah, but that's
• 51:57
  not I mean, the Jets would have to be they're they're not. Yeah,
• 52:00
  they're not in a position to do that, so it doesn't make any
• 52:04
  sense. But if like the playoffs were on the line, shoot, you
• 52:07
  might see him in there, even if it wasn't for a full game,
• 52:12
  even if it was for a couple of drives, just to see if he
• 52:14
  can eke out a touchdown or two, give him the edge and then hand
• 52:17
  it over to Zach Wilson or whoever else see what happens. But I think
• 52:22
  it'll be interesting to see how he progresses in the off season and to see
• 52:28
  what comes out from his recovery, because we will see something, I'm sure
• 52:32
  from Rogers, Yeah, yes, and that may give us a little bit
• 52:37
  of insight into what we could expect from Kirk Cousins and how he'll progress and
• 52:43
  how he'll recover. And I would expect Kirk to attack his recovery with a
• 52:46
  similar tenacity, with a similar drive. Yes, I want to get back
• 52:52
  to the field. I want to play. That's the kind of guy he
• 52:55
  is. Yeah, just like we've said, he's like pretty sick and kind
• 53:00
  of ruthless in his contract negotiations. He's probably, to your point, going
• 53:05
  to take that same ruthlessness to his rehab. I mean, this is the
• 53:08
  biggest injury he's ever had. I don't know about like high school or anything,
• 53:13
  but like he's never had something this crazy. The biggest other detriment to
• 53:17
  his career was when he wasn't the starter, you know, like he's always
• 53:22
  been attacking everything to this is Kirk to get back and to get on the
• 53:28
  field. So I fully expect Kirk to be an NFL quarterback. He will
• 53:31
  play more football. Like this isn't it, It's just will it be for
• 53:36
  the Vikings. He did mention to kind of bring it back to him comparing
• 53:40
  to Aaron Rodgers. He was on Adam Schefter's podcast a week or two ago,
• 53:46
  within the last couple of weeks, and Kirk said Schefter asked him something
• 53:52
  like, yeah, hey, Rogers is starting to starting to peek up a
• 53:55
  little bit thinking he might he might play this season. What about you?
• 54:00
  Do you think that could be a possibility for you to come back this season?
• 54:04
  And Kirk said something like, yeah, my wife thinks I could be
• 54:07
  back. She's holding out hope. But like I mean, realistically, he
• 54:12
  said, the earliest I think I could come back would be around the time
• 54:15
  of the Super Bowl. And he even joked like, if the Vikings make
• 54:19
  it to the super Bowl, they probably don't want me to get in there
• 54:21
  because they've been playing so good in theory to make it that far, so
• 54:24
  why mess with a good thing. But then he said, like, realistically,
• 54:29
  Aaron's injury was about eight weeks before mine, So anything Aaron does is
• 54:36
  about eight weeks ahead of where I could be doing those similar things. So
• 54:39
  I think you're onto something. If we see, you know, beginning of
• 54:45
  March Aaron Rodgers posts that video where he throws a dime in some practice field
• 54:51
  setting to some unnamed wide receiver, you could think maybe beginning of May quote
• 54:58
  unquote or Kirk Cousins could kind of be doing similar things just based off the
• 55:05
  timeline. So I don't know theoretically could be back. I just know the
• 55:10
  Achilles is such a big injury. Yeah, it'll be It'll be interesting to
• 55:16
  see what plays out. And honestly, like you know, I agree with
• 55:21
  what you've said to coming all the way back to our original takes. You
• 55:25
  know, I think as a fan, I wouldn't be disappointed if we went
• 55:29
  out and got a guy in the first round of the drafts to replace Kirk.
• 55:36
  I mean, if JJ McCarthy or Bo Nix or Jayden Daniels or Caleb
• 55:42
  Williams or whoever is available when it's the Vikings turn to make their first round
• 55:45
  pick, I wouldn't be disappointed in that. I will be sad a little
• 55:52
  bit if Kirk leaves, if they let him go, that that will be
• 55:59
  a sad moment as a Vikings fan, because he's he's played really well and
• 56:02
  not just that, but he's just he's just a good guy. And you
• 56:06
  said it earlier. He's just easy to root for. You know that he's
• 56:10
  not the drama queen off the field that some of these other guys are.
• 56:15
  I mean, even just watching the Chiefs and watching Patrick Mahomes whine about everything,
• 56:21
  Oh my gosh, well Pat mahomes is reaction to that offside penalty they
• 56:28
  got a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't he didn't react like, oh
• 56:31
  yeah, I guess yeah, technically our guy was. He didn't even have
• 56:35
  the sportsmanship to like tell Josh Allen Josh Alan at the end of the game,
• 56:42
  like, hey man, you played great. Yeah, pat him on
• 56:44
  the back, like worst f and call I've ever seen at the end of
• 56:47
  the game on a off side or like yeah, like come on, man,
• 56:52
  if you break the rules, you should be penalized. Yeah, just
• 56:54
  like the Lions, you know, against the Vikings, they had a guy
• 57:00
  out of the field and then he ended up being the first guy to touch
• 57:02
  the ball. So they called it, you know, an incomplete pass because
• 57:07
  he was out of the field and didn't establish himself. But it should have
• 57:10
  been a penalty for illegal touching because he should not have been the first one
• 57:15
  to touch the ball. Again, I'm not a ref, but that seemed
• 57:20
  a little weird. We could go, we could have a whole nother hour
• 57:22
  long podcast on them. We've been talking for almost an hour already, and
• 57:25
  we could just sit here and talk about how awful the officiating was. That
• 57:29
  was the same crew from the helmet off games. What was it? Really?
• 57:35
  I didn't know that and I saw that on Twitter. It was the
• 57:37
  same crew that. What team was that? What guy was that that took
• 57:42
  his helmet off? The Chiefs? The Chiefs put your helmet back on.
• 57:45
  Yeah, that's a penalty, that's a personal foul, fifteen yard penalty and
• 57:51
  they just told him to put his helmet back on. Same crew that really
• 57:55
  really had an impact on the Lions and the Vikings. Yeah. I saw
• 58:01
  someone post the meme where it's the cartoon guy like pointing at himself in the
• 58:07
  mirror, and the meme was like, now you go out there and make
• 58:10
  this about yourself talking about the refs. Man, I hate complaining about the
• 58:19
  refs because I honestly I do think of the time is the ref see things
• 58:23
  and it's like, how did you even see that? And they usually make
• 58:25
  the right call, but man, it just felt personal against the Vikings on
• 58:30
  Sunday or Saturday. It did seem like there were a lot of calls that
• 58:36
  went against the Vikings and went in the Lions favor, which is really unfortunate.
• 58:43
  So a quick update on the playoff outlook. Yeah, so I pulled
• 58:52
  this from Dustin Baker. I think this is actually slightly different. But as
• 58:57
  of right now, well as of right now, when Dustin tweeted this,
• 59:00
  he said the Vikings playoff chances were twenty seven percent. I think that was
• 59:05
  before the Monday night games that happened on or the Monday games because they were
• 59:10
  they weren't just Monday Night. I think it's down to like fourteen percent as
• 59:16
  of right now recording this episode on Tuesday, December twenty sixth, So fairly
• 59:23
  low, about as low as it's been all season. Yeah, but you
• 59:29
  win the next two games regardless of what else happens. Ninety six percent.
• 59:36
  Yeah, but which sounds big if sounds easy, but the lines have already
• 59:42
  beaten you once, and the Packers aren't a bad team, no, especially
• 59:46
  lately. Yeah, they've really come on at the end of the season.
• 59:50
  So it's a tall task. If they just beat green Bay this coming week
• 59:55
  forty six percent, okay, so coin flip little less that. Ye,
• 1:00:00
  if you beat green Bay but then lose to Detroit, need a lot of
• 1:00:07
  help. Need You would need the Seahawks and the Rams, I think,
• 1:00:12
  to lose both games both weeks, which is highly unlikely. I actually I
• 1:00:20
  wrote this down because I thought this was interesting. So the Vikings of course
• 1:00:27
  have the Packers and the Lions week seventeen. Week eighteen, the Rams have
• 1:00:31
  the Giants and the Niners seventeen eighteen. So the Niners game, I think
• 1:00:43
  would be the one that the Vikings could hope that the Rams would lose.
• 1:00:51
  And then the Seahawks have the Steelers and the Cardinals to end the seasons.
• 1:00:57
  So the Steelers have looked better. Yeah, but but I don't know.
• 1:01:05
  So to get into the playoffs, for sure, the Vikings need to win
• 1:01:08
  both of their games, and they need the Rams and the Seahawks to lose
• 1:01:12
  at least Rams or Seahawks to lose at least once. It's not a both
• 1:01:16
  and it's just one of them needs to lose one of those games. So
• 1:01:23
  I think the most likely scenario is San Francisco beating the Rams week eighteen,
• 1:01:30
  which would be a really nail bier scenario for Vikings fans to be sitting there
• 1:01:34
  waiting to see if the Niners can pull it off. But yeah, and
• 1:01:39
  even then, the Niners did they won their division, didn't they. Yeah,
• 1:01:45
  they've clinched. They're fighting for seeding, but I mean that's about it
• 1:01:51
  true, and they're not fighting. Are they fighting for the number one seed?
• 1:01:52
  I don't know enough about all that, because that could be the thing.
• 1:01:55
  If the Niners need to win that last game to get the number one
• 1:02:00
  one seed, then yeah, we're definitely interested. I think if if I
• 1:02:04
  can. I'm not gonna speak one intelligently on this, but I think I'm
• 1:02:07
  close. I think the Rams, the Eagles, and the Lions are all
• 1:02:14
  still in play for that number one seed. I think the Cowboys. I
• 1:02:20
  don't think the Cowboys can get it, And I don't know who'd be the
• 1:02:27
  other team that would be buying for that. I don't think anybody I think
• 1:02:31
  it's just I think it's the the Niners, the Eagles, and the Lions.
• 1:02:37
  I think those are the only three teams that can secure that number one
• 1:02:42
  seed. So yeah, and it'll really come down to these last two games,
• 1:02:46
  and you could be right. The Niners might not have anything to play
• 1:02:51
  for. They might have everything to play for. So that number one seed
• 1:02:54
  is huge. And if you I mean we mentioned it earlier, if Brock
• 1:02:59
  Purties not one hundred percent, number one seed in a bye could be huge.
• 1:03:04
  Yeah. I think that was mostly I don't know who's going to beat
• 1:03:07
  the Ravens. I think they are the team to beat this year. I
• 1:03:10
  think they punched their ticket into being the team to beat this year after playing
• 1:03:15
  last night. They just I don't I don't know who's going to beat them.
• 1:03:21
  Well, that's the difference too, between the NFC and the AFC,
• 1:03:22
  I believe, if I'm again, I've really only paid attention to the NFC
• 1:03:28
  and how it affects the Vikings. But I think the Ravens are the only
• 1:03:31
  team that's clinched in the AFC clinched a playoffs. Oh okay, I think
• 1:03:37
  they and they're currently the number one I believe, and they're the only team
• 1:03:42
  that has clinched. No other AFC team has clinched. Every other all of
• 1:03:46
  those other six spots are still very much up in the air. So interesting.
• 1:03:52
  Yeah, I could be wrong. If I'm wrong, somebody out there
• 1:03:58
  correct me. I'm willing to admit that I'm wrong. But all of that
• 1:04:02
  to say, the playoffs are still very much in view for the Vikings.
• 1:04:08
  Yeah, they have to win and they need a little help. It's not
• 1:04:11
  a lot of help. It's not like they're going to be, you know,
• 1:04:16
  poking voodoo dolls of different teams and you know, doing all sorts of
• 1:04:21
  weird things to you know, hopefully try to squeak into that number seven seed
• 1:04:26
  or whatever. Like they need Seattle or La to lose one game in the
• 1:04:33
  last two, and they need to win. They have to win both.
• 1:04:36
  Well, they have to essentially have to win both. They have to win
• 1:04:41
  both, no matter what I think. Yeah, I mean, you could
• 1:04:45
  win one and get a ton of help elsewhere, but yeah, you gotta
• 1:04:49
  you gotta win both. And that's why this quarterback decision is so huge.
• 1:04:55
  And maybe with that mindset they do go with, they know a little bit
• 1:04:59
  more about what they have with Mullins. They feel like they know what they
• 1:05:02
  have with Dobbs. They went as far as to make him all the way
• 1:05:06
  the emergency quarterback. So maybe that's your motivation and starting Hall, but I
• 1:05:14
  don't know. It feels like there is no right answer. So, yeah,
• 1:05:17
  gotta win both. Gotta figure out a way to win both when you
• 1:05:20
  have all these injuries piling up and they're gonna have two more roster spots open
• 1:05:27
  because they're putting Hockinson and want them on injury reserve. So maybe there's something
• 1:05:31
  they can do there. I don't know who's available, who can help.
• 1:05:36
  I don't know. It's just it seems hopeless right now, and Hockinson news
• 1:05:41
  today made it seem even more hopeless. Yeah, hopefully we're still rooting for
• 1:05:47
  a playoff spot come this time next week. I think no turnovers is huge,
• 1:05:56
  been the story all season. Can't turn the ball over if you do
• 1:06:00
  lose and we're basically done. I think the running game has to improve.
• 1:06:05
  Oh yeah, it looked so good against the Bengals. Yeah, yep,
• 1:06:10
  first one hundred yard rusher of the season. I think, yeah, so
• 1:06:14
  we got to improve there. You can't run for seventeen yards and expect to
• 1:06:18
  win a game, even in a pass happy league like the NFL. Yeah,
• 1:06:25
  I think you got to get the ball to JJ, I think,
• 1:06:27
  which wasn't an issue. Well, he got his numbers and he didn't get
• 1:06:30
  them until the third or fourth quarter though, Yeah, well he had that
• 1:06:33
  he was That was it at right at the beginning of the second half or
• 1:06:38
  in the second quarter, that big touchdown because you were texting me like they
• 1:06:41
  might make a quarterback change and then boom, you're like, oh, I
• 1:06:45
  was kidding. I think that was in the third quarter, because I think
• 1:06:47
  leading up to halftime, I'm like, man, Mullins is not playing great.
• 1:06:51
  I think he already had two of his picks before halftime, and that's
• 1:06:56
  kind of when I started to just think, like, man, they have
• 1:07:00
  to KOs. He has to think about making a change at some point.
• 1:07:04
  And then all of a sudden, they come out of the locker room in
• 1:07:08
  the third quarter and it's just Mullin's throwing bullets to JJ, and so you
• 1:07:15
  have to get the ball to him, and you know he's going to be
• 1:07:17
  just draped in coverage wherever he goes. Well, shoot, what was it
• 1:07:21
  that late third down? Play third and long, like twenty ish yards long,
• 1:07:28
  and he had a buffalo like catch. That catch will get forgotten unfortunately
• 1:07:33
  because it was in a loss. But it was right at the first down
• 1:07:36
  marker. I was almost kind of worried they wouldn't mark it as a first
• 1:07:40
  down when he went up double covered and he got speared. Yeah, well
• 1:07:45
  he got hit hard, well, and there was a play that he got
• 1:07:48
  absolutely demolished I think a few plays later, and immediately stood right back up
• 1:07:54
  and it was who wasn't Joseph? Who wasn't for the Lions that made the
• 1:07:59
  hit? He was round and he got pulled out and he came back in
• 1:08:01
  for a couple of plays, and then they stopped the game again to have
• 1:08:04
  him pulled out again, like the NFL might have some the Eye in the
• 1:08:09
  sky was looking at him like, yeah, he needs to come out.
• 1:08:12
  Well, I think he came out, and then he tried to get on
• 1:08:15
  the field himself and didn't tell anybody, and then they whistled to play dead
• 1:08:19
  before he could get on the field because they knew he was trying to get
• 1:08:23
  on and wasn't cleared to get back on. Well, and if you look
• 1:08:26
  at that big demolishing hit on JJ. It was a big hit, and
• 1:08:31
  he's probably feeling pretty sore. But if you pay attention, you're you're feeling
• 1:08:35
  okay. That's he's not like concussed or broken bones. Like it was a
• 1:08:42
  borderline legal hit. It was just yeah, just more of the defenseless receiver
• 1:08:48
  aspect of it. But I don't know five years ago that wouldn't have been
• 1:08:53
  flagged, Like yeah, but yeah, and JJ, I know it was
• 1:08:57
  probably adrenaline and wanting to it seemed like he's actually one hundred percent okay.
• 1:09:01
  He got right back up and he popped back up and was kind of john
• 1:09:06
  at the other guy. Oh yeah, it was a little bit. Yeah,
• 1:09:09
  you hit me hard, but I made the catch yea and fifteen more
• 1:09:12
  yards like yeah, yep. But so I hope he's okay. I don't
• 1:09:15
  I didn't pay attention. If the injury report came out, that would have
• 1:09:18
  been tomorrow, the first one. Yeah, it won't come out till tomorrow
• 1:09:21
  because we're recording early today. Yeah, but I haven't heard anything about him
• 1:09:25
  being hurt. He played the rest of the game, was inches away from
• 1:09:29
  making the game tying touchdown catch that could have been the game winning extra point?
• 1:09:38
  What about the Packers? Do we think the Vikings have a chance.
• 1:09:44
  I thought you were about to have. Well, I mean, I was
• 1:09:45
  just kind of giving my keys to the game. We talked about turnovers,
• 1:09:50
  better run game, getting the ball to JJ. My last one would be
• 1:09:56
  better blitz packages. And this was something I picked up from Ben Lieber as
• 1:10:00
  he kind of debriefed the game both on his personal Twitter and then in the
• 1:10:05
  between the lines that the Vikings media team does after every game, and he
• 1:10:12
  just kind of picked apart the blitz packages that Flora's was sending, and it
• 1:10:16
  seemed like they just weren't as clever as they have been, and the Lions
• 1:10:25
  just had them figured out, and it took too long for the blitzes to
• 1:10:29
  develop. It, Like, you know, the guys coming in from deep
• 1:10:31
  were we're coming into early and then sitting at the line waiting for the ball
• 1:10:38
  to be snapped and that gave away the blitz or you know whatever else.
• 1:10:42
  I don't understand defense as well, so I can't really pretend to know what
• 1:10:46
  I'm talking about there, But like what Ben Leeber said seemed to make sense,
• 1:10:50
  And when I look back and watch the game, it's like, well,
• 1:10:53
  yeah, it did seem like Jared Goff and the Lions knew when those
• 1:10:59
  blitz as were coming, and they knew how to adapt, and they knew
• 1:11:01
  how to do you know, a little screenplayer, a little dink and dunk
• 1:11:05
  over the middle, or you know, take the shot downfield when they knew
• 1:11:10
  everybody was coming off the line and they had single coverage down the field on
• 1:11:15
  Saint Brown or whoever. You know. Like, so, I think the
• 1:11:18
  defense has to improve, and we said it early on in the episode two.
• 1:11:23
  The defense didn't look amazing. It didn't look like the shutout defense against
• 1:11:28
  the Raiders that we saw a few weeks ago. It didn't even look like
• 1:11:30
  the defense against the Bengals really, Like I felt like they maybe played a
• 1:11:33
  better game against Cincinnati than they played against Detroit. So I think meltdown,
• 1:11:40
  there are some things. Well, yeah, it was really only the fourth
• 1:11:44
  quarter or the third quarter, was it the third quarter they gave like midway
• 1:11:47
  through the third quarter it started melting down against the Bengals. Yeah. So
• 1:11:51
  anyways, it's just been a bad stretch for the Vikings defense. I think
• 1:11:56
  they need to iron some of those things out, and if they can do
• 1:12:00
  that, the Packers aren't a perennial powerhouse. They've proven that Jordan Love has
• 1:12:05
  started to figure some things out, but he's still a young quarterback who's had
• 1:12:10
  to sit behind Aaron Rodgers for how many years now. I think the defense
• 1:12:15
  that's gonna be the key. If you're gonna win this game against the Packers,
• 1:12:17
  you're gonna need to make Jordan Love's day miserable. Which here's an interesting
• 1:12:24
  wrinkle for us. We play each other in Fantasy this year. Well,
• 1:12:31
  we're playing for fifth place, so that we're in the consolation bracket. I'm
• 1:12:39
  just playing for as high of a spot as i can get. But Jordan
• 1:12:41
  Love's my starting quarterback. You're you hey, guys, next episode, it's
• 1:12:46
  just gonna be me talking. Evan can no longer be a part of the
• 1:12:50
  skull Hop if he starts a freaking Packer at his quarterback position and it's not
• 1:12:57
  even Aaron Rodgers, that's like Sam Howell. I'd go with hurt. With
• 1:13:02
  there was a bye week in there, Jaron Hall'll pick up whoever the Viking
• 1:13:09
  was starting. I'm sure they're all available here. Here's what I'll say on
• 1:13:14
  that front. I would be more than happy to take sixth place if it
• 1:13:19
  means that Jordan Love has a miserable game, I just I can't believe I
• 1:13:26
  would. I think I have in that league two pretty decent quarterbacks. I
• 1:13:30
  will trade you one just so that you you can let's make that happen,
• 1:13:36
  and we'll screenshot it and we'll put it out there. And I'm the commissioner,
• 1:13:40
  so there is no whining at that so you can push the deal through
• 1:13:44
  under the table. Yeah, there was one point in this season. I
• 1:13:46
  think in our league it had to have been because that's the only one.
• 1:13:50
  I'm the commissioner of somebody who is a die hard shoot what is he?
• 1:13:59
  Dolphins fan? I have Tua on my roster and they were playing I think
• 1:14:08
  Mahomes, like the Dolphins in real life, were playing against the Chiefs and
• 1:14:14
  his quarterback was Mahomes and he was saying, like, you know, I'm
• 1:14:18
  a Dolphins fan. I can't en good faith in fantasy start Mahomes. Would
• 1:14:25
  anybody want to trade me for one week a quarterback so that I don't have
• 1:14:29
  to have that on my conscience? And I was like, you know what,
• 1:14:32
  Fine, he reached out. He's like, hey, Tua for Mahomes
• 1:14:35
  for one week and then trade back after that week. I was like,
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  you know, I can respect being a diehard fan like that. So I
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  did it, and I needed a little bit of my commissioner powers to push
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  it through. But yeah, for one week, I traded away Tua and
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  got Mahomes. I didn't even start Mahomes. I don't remember if I won
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  that week or if he won that week, but after the games we swapped
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  right back. So yeah, some people would be mad about that. And
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  if it were a money league, I would have never done that because that
• 1:15:05
  just seems shady. But this is just a fun league. Like I said,
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  it's just for fun. So I can't believe you're starting and you had
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  Aaron Jones on your roster all season trader. He's been hurt most of the
• 1:15:20
  all week. Yeah good, I mean sorry, I mean I don't want
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  anybody to actually get injured, but darn it, you can't have a patter
• 1:15:28
  on your roster fantasy. I mean, all of that was ruined for me
• 1:15:31
  when Brett Farv became a Viking. Like before that, there was this glass
• 1:15:38
  ceiling that had never been shattered of, Like Brett fav is the worst human
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  being on the face of the planet. I hate his guts. I never
• 1:15:45
  want to see him again. And then all of a sudden he becomes a
• 1:15:47
  Viking and he wins a few games, and then he leads you to the
• 1:15:50
  NFC Championship and you're like, I love that guy. You know that.
• 1:15:55
  We've talked about kind of putting some recording some episodes and having them in the
• 1:15:59
  can for off season weeks where we don't have games to talk about. We
• 1:16:02
  could just put out one of the pre recorded episodes. Maybe that whole two
• 1:16:08
  thousand and nine season could be a good talker. Funny for us because we
• 1:16:12
  were in college together that year, living in the same dorm, Like,
• 1:16:18
  we watched a lot of games together. Launched that NFC Championship game, the
• 1:16:25
  bounty Gate game. Yeah, and that was the one year I subscribed.
• 1:16:30
  iTunes did like this whole fan pass thing where you could pay It was like
• 1:16:36
  twenty bucks at the beginning of the season, and it collected after every game.
• 1:16:44
  It collected like five minutes of highlights from the game and then a couple
• 1:16:50
  of highlights of press conferences for after the game, and then it pushed it
• 1:16:56
  out, you know, that night after the game or the next morning.
• 1:17:00
  So it was like, hey, if you missed anything or if you want
• 1:17:02
  to keep following along. And I think it was on my iTunes from two
• 1:17:08
  thousand and nine and I still have that. That could be something we could
• 1:17:11
  like watch and then record a recap that would of two thousand and nine.
• 1:17:15
  I'd be interested in that. I didn't know you had that. It's cool
• 1:17:17
  if I didn't even know. That's fun to watch. Yeah, I'll have
• 1:17:20
  to. I'll find it and I'll send if I can. I'll send you
• 1:17:24
  some stuff that would be fun. Well, we should probably wrap this up
• 1:17:28
  because these are getting pretty low. Yeah, and uh, we're we've been
• 1:17:32
  talking for a while. Yeah, hopefully hopefully people have been listening. Yeah,
• 1:17:38
  and we haven't said anything to make people encouraged for the rest of the
• 1:17:42
  season, but maybe we kind of took the took the sting out of that
• 1:17:46
  loss. There's still there's still a shred of hope. There is a glimmer
• 1:17:51
  of hope, and I want them to win. I'm never going to be
• 1:17:55
  lose for a draft pick. Guy, I'm intrigued by the idea, but
• 1:17:58
  I want to watch my team win, Like even in the preseason, I
• 1:18:01
  want to watch my team win, So we got two more chances at least,
• 1:18:06
  let's make that happen. My kids want ice cream. They haven't had
• 1:18:10
  victory ice cream for weeks. Now give the kids the ice cream. I
• 1:18:15
  going to cake. Come on, I'm not going to cave and give them
• 1:18:16
  ice cream. Maybe any off season, all right, Well, if you're
• 1:18:24
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• 1:18:47
  We've got to giveaway. Do you want to recap that a little bit?
• 1:18:50
  Yep? So Austin opened up his gift and we've got an extra shirt
• 1:18:57
  here. I intentionally ordered three shirts, one for each of us and then
• 1:19:00
  one for a lucky fan out there. So if you're interested in the shirt,
• 1:19:06
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• 1:19:10
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• 1:19:14
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• 1:19:16
  you and thank you for supporting us and supporting the school. Hop should we
• 1:19:21
  put a time limit on that. Let's just say before the super Bowl?
• 1:19:26
  Yeah, okay, does that work? Yeah, I'm good with that.
• 1:19:29
  So before kickoff of the super Bowl, send us a message and let us
• 1:19:34
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• 1:19:38
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• 1:19:44
  my name in for the shirt some some shirt. Yeah, and we'll keep
• 1:19:50
  tallies and right at the super Bowl we will we'll figure out who wins that
• 1:19:56
  and then we'll contact you from there. But yeah, sounds good to me.
• 1:20:00
  Yeah, this was fun. It was fun to exchange some gifts and
• 1:20:03
  drink some good beer and talk about the Vikings. Even though it's been hard
• 1:20:09
  to be a Vikings fan the last couple of weeks, this has always been
• 1:20:13
  good therapy for me, Even before we started with the podcasts and the microphones
• 1:20:17
  and are recording everything. Just hashing things out about the Vikings with you has
• 1:20:21
  been good therapy for this fan that cares way too much. Well, and
• 1:20:26
  hopefully it's the same for yeah, all of our many listeners out there as
• 1:20:30
  well. Yeah all right man, until next time. School School Hey Vikings
• 1:20:56
  fans, Evan here from the School Hop and we just wanted to say thank
• 1:20:59
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