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A hint at what’s ahead for TSH, NFL Trivia that Evan bombs (and Austin does well), and our interview with Dustin Baker discussing the Viking · The Skol Hop

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  All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome into another episode of the School
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  Hop. I'm Evan and I'm Austome. We're just a couple of dudes from
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  Iowa. We like drinking beer and we like talking about the Vikings. We
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  do school. And you brought the beer tonight, my friend, I did.
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  I did so. I brought one that I'm very fond of. And
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  if you checked out our TikTok reviewing of this beer our first taste, you'll
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  know our initial thoughts. But we have from a local brewery five five Cities
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  Brewing there. Good boy IPA. The can is very colorful, lots of
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  happy looking good boys, good puppy dogs on the can. And yeah,
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  I like it a lot, Evan, what are you thinking after the first
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  few SIPs? So I like this. It's good. It's it's just a
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  straight shooter to me. It's not trying to hide anything, just a solid
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  right down the middle. I p A. Yeah, that's great. I
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  like to think if you like I pas and you just kind of want like
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  a beer, like sometimes you can describe like you know, a bud light
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  or a cores light or whatever. It's just like a beer. If you're
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  just in the mood for beer. But if you like I Pas and you're
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  just in the mood for just an ipa, like a good solid not trying
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  to do too much, this definitely fits that category for me. Sure does.
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  Yeah, it's just a solid I pa. Yeah. So yeah,
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  we'll be sipping on this as we go. And yeah, I'm excited.
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  Coming back to the beer, Yeah, for a minute, we just like
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  yesterday, nailed down some plans. Yeah, what are those plans we've had.
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  We've had the idea of these plans forever, like ever since we said,
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  Hey, we should do a podcast where we talk about the vikings and
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  we drink Iowa beer. Like almost the next sentence was, oh, and
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  we should eventually brew our own Iowa beer, And we're gonna do it.
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  That's what these plans are. So it's not gonna be like a partnership with
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  some big or established brewery or anything like that, though that would be amazing
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  down the line someday, shout out any Iowa brewery that would love to brew
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  the skull Hot beer. Friend of the show, Forrest, who is he
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  probably technically is under the category of like amateur home brewer if you were going
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  to give him a label. But his beer is fantastic. Every single beer
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  of his that he's brewed that I've had has been phenomenal. And that's not
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  just blowing smoke. He has whipped up what I think sounds like the perfect
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  skull hop beer recipe. Yeah, I put my eyes on the recipe when
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  he sent it to us, and I replied back, like, I don't
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  understand even twenty five percent of what is in that beer recipe. I have
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  zero experience brewing, but it does sound amazing and I'm super excited and I'm
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  super excited to document it and share it with absolutely. Yeah, So keep
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  your eyes peeled. I don't know, probably within the next month or so,
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  we'll start having content put out for the creation of this beer. I
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  was gonna kind of describe what it'll be, but I think we can kind
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  of hold that close to the close to the vesu. We'll keep that,
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  We'll keep that right here until we're ready to share the skull hot beer.
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  Yeah with everybody. Yeah, So we will have the recipe that that forest
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  has made us, and without trying it, I know it sounds delicious.
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  I know we're gonna love it. So who knows, maybe if a big
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  Iowa brewery wants to brew a collaboration beer, not even a cold collab because
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  the only thing we'd be bringing to the table is the recipe. Yeah,
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  maybe in the future, but for now, we're gonna We're gonna brew it
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  in Iowa. That's gonna be fun. Yep, and then we can drink
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  it on the podcast. It's gonna be awesome. I can't wait. I'm
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  excited. Yeah. All right, Well, we've we've decided to kind of
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  take a little bit of a side step from what we've been doing. You
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  know, we've typically been just kind of recapping the previous week looking ahead to
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  the games that are coming up. And you know, our Viking season ended
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  a handful of weeks ago now, unfortunately, and we're headed into Pro Bowl
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  week this week. And if you haven't been paying attention, the Super Bowl
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  will feature the Chiefs and the forty nine Ers, So we're not Chiefs for
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  forty nine Ers fans. Really, we don't have a lot to talk about
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  that way, although we will have something later on yeah, featuring some conversation
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  around that in addition to some Viking stuff. You want to preview that quick?
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  Yeah, we had official friend of the show, Dustin Baker, came
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  on for the second time on the School Hop. So yeah, we kind
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  of ran down the or we will kind of run down the championship games over
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  this past weekend and then some of the future big hit decisions for the Vikings.
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  And yeah, I mean it's pre recorded. I had a lot of
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  fun with that conversation. So yeah, hopefully you guys stick around for the
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  second half of the skull Hop today and listen to that. And if you
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  don't already, please follow Dustin Baker, follow us all his content, check
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  him out on Twitter x whatever you want to call it. He's a great
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  Vikings He tweets out a lot of awesome stats and puts out a lot of
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  awesome NFL and Vikings content. He's really level headed. I mean, he
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  objectively takes a look at everything and gives a realistic picture a lot of people,
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  including myself. Sometimes, you know, we get a little worked up,
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  we get a little emotional. I drink the purple kool aid about our
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  team. And he's definitely a Vikings fan, oh absolutely, But he takes
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  the good with the bad. He weighs it all. And yeah, I've
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  really come to trust his voice, and anytime I see anything that he's written
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  on Twitter or Viking's Territory or anything like that, I really trust it and
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  I really take it to heart. So it was it was fun to interview
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  him again for a second time, and hopefully we get to do it again
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  soon. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd love to have him on as
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  much as possible. Yeah, so we'll have that content for you in just
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  a little bit. But we wanted to add a little bit of extra content
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  here before we jump in and before we move on. I do want to
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  talk There is a little bit of Vikings talkers around the Pro Bowl. The
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  initial Pro Bowl vote ease people who were voted into the Pro Bowl. Vikings
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  just had to Daniel Hunter and Andrew Depaula, which is awesome, but to
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  only have two is kind of a bummer. But because the Niners advanced to
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  the prob or the Super Bowl, their Pro Bowl full back will not be
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  able to participate in the games. So yeah, the juice So Vikings full
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  back c J Ham He yeah, you love him so much. He's going
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  to his second Pro Bowl, and for him, it's a bummer that he
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  was, you know, the first alternate, but it's great that he gets
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  to the opportunity to go there again. And it's still he gets to be
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  honored with that Pro Bowl honor, which is really cool and there are probably
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  a dozen more Vikings that deserve that honor. Even though our season was more
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  or less a bust. Yeah, gosh, I don't know. We we
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  we invest a lot into this, and especially now that we're talking about it
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  on a podcast, it's just makes it even more. Yeah, you just
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  you just want that for those guys. We spend a lot of time talking
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  about it, and that's nothing compared to the blood, sweat and tears they
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  put in. Oh yeah, playing the actual games that we enjoy watching.
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  So yeah, you hope for more of that, and you're a little disappointed
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  when two slash three of those guys are the only ones that get to embrace
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  that. So but we'll still be cheering them on in the Pro Bowl,
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  well the Pro Bowl games. I don't even play the game anymore. Yeah,
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  it's uh, it's more or less just an honor. And yeah,
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  I don't know. We could talk about this later on, but I I
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  think the NFL is going to have to do something about that game in particular.
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  They've tried a lot of things recently, and yeah, this is the
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  second or third year they haven't actually played a game. Let's do flag football
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  and that's what they do and all the skill challenge. Yeah, so it's
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  just like, I don't know, it seems like kind of a throwaway.
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  I don't know, even ten years ago, they were still playing the game.
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  Yeah, maybe with slightly altered rules and quarterbacks with different colored jerseys or
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  whatever to try and avoid injuring people. But there's that one year they didn't
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  specify NFC or AFC. It was just like you're a pro bowler. And
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  then the celebrity coaches had like a draft that was interesting. Hey, I
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  like when they tried different and interesting things. Well, I'm definitely on board
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  with trying different things. I just don't think they've found the new solution yet,
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  and I think they need to keep try until they land on something.
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  I mean, yeah, the other leagues, the other professional sports leagues don't
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  really have much room to talk that way. I mean, pro baseball maybe
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  is the closest to an actual game, and that is actually determines something.
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  It kind of means, yeah, it kind of determines who gets home field
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  advantage in the series. Yeah, I think so, or at least it
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  used to. I don't know if it does anymore. I don't follow baseball
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  as closely. Yeah, neither do I. I know the NBA All Star
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  Game has definitely diminished in terms of its quality, and I know nothing about
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  hockey, so I oh, yeah, to the NHL All Star Game.
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  But I think in hockey or is a baseball they like mandate at least one
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  player from each team has to be in, which I don't I don't love
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  that idea, but yeah, I mean, you're right. I think the
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  NFL has not found like the secret saw when it comes to the perfect solution
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  for the Pro Bowl. Because you want to have some event. I mean,
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  especially when you're talking in the NFL probably makes some revenue off of us,
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  so you want to have some like physical event, not just like here's
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  a list of the best team. But right, I don't know. Yeah,
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  yeah, we'll see what happens, and regardless, I'll probably tune in
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  for a little bit. Yeah, this always kind of catch some of the
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  events. It'll be fun. I am going to you and I basketball game.
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  We yeah, so I'll be I'll be a little preoccupied on Saturday.
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  But Sunday Sunday off Sunday, Sunday Sunday. All right. Well, we
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  mentioned this a little bit ago, and then we kind of digressed a little
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  bit, but that's all right. We decided we were gonna just take a
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  step away from talking about just the routine vikings weekend week out stuff, and
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  you had the idea to do some trivia. Yeah, I think it could
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  be could be cool. I think it will be cool. Yeah, not
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  good will. So we've got a couple of different categories here, and we're
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  just gonna quiz each other based on these categories. Sounds good. I think
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  you've got two for me. I've got one for you. Yep. So
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  we'll see how this goes. Cool. So I'll start. Okay, I
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  forget which category I was doing this? Oh no, am I doing Let's
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  start with If I'm gonna start and quiz you, Yeah, I'll start with
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  Madden cover athletes. Oh okay, like all of them. How about let's
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  do from two thousand until now? Okay, so like when they when they
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  started actually having players and not just like Madden every year. Sure, yeah,
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  I think that's because I mean, I'll we're gonna time this, so
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  I'll wait until you time it. But I think when they did the like
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  first one of the first players, it was like in the year two thousand.
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  So all right, I gotta kind of get my h get your bearings,
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  get my bearings here? Do you need a pen or something? I
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  might try to go in order I have bought every Madden since at least two
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  thousand and three. That's why I think this is a good category for you.
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  Yeah, let me get a pen. Okay, I've got one,
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  all right, sweet dude, you oh microphone? Oh no, that's okay.
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  We might cut this out. Never cut it out. No edits,
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  no edits. We don't edit around here. All right? Are you ready?
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  Are you going to give me a time limit or just time me?
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  Five minutes? Five minutes? Oof? Ready? All right? You think
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  you can do it in five? I can't. I think I might be
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  able to do it in one, but I don't want to be cocky,
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  so I'll take all five four minutes? Oh all right? All right?
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  Ready, set go? All right. Most recently Madden twenty four. We
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  have Josh Allen yep. Twenty three, oh man. Madden twenty three was
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  John Madden himself because it was honor of him passing twenty two. I believe
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  there were two? Was it? Was it Mahomes and Brady? Yep?
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  All right? Twenty one? Was that Lamar Jackson? Okay? Madden twenty
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  twenty, oh man? That wasn't Brady? Was it? To repeat?
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  Was it Mahomes? Yes, Okay, Madden nineteen. I want to say
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  that was Madden nineteen. I know Gronk was in there. Gronk was seventeen,
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  I believe right, Yep, Gronk was seventeen. Okay, you skipped
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  nineteen and eighteen. Yeah, so we've got oh Antonio Brown. Brown was
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  in there too, was he nineteen? He was nineteen? Okay, So
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  I've got everything from twenty four to nineteen, and I need Madden eighteen.
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  Well, oh man, I was so confident in all of this. Okay,
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  Well we'll go from the I think Eddie George was Madden two thousand oh
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  one, but I'll give it to you, okay, okay, uh.
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  And then you got Dante Culpepper, Yeah, do the role. Yeah,
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  and that was two. So three was Marshall Fulk. That was my first
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  edition of Madden. Then you had Michael Vick. He broke video games.
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  You were about to take a drink of your beer. Now, that's Madden.
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  O. Five was Ray Lewis himself. Six was Donovan McNabb. O
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  seven, oh Shawn Alexander, Seahawks running back Madden O eight, oh Man
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  Madden eight was that Titans quarterback young yep Vince young Young there you go.
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  Oh nine was Farve, remember that because they initially set it out as in
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  his packer uniform and then they like released a new cover as a jet of
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  course yep, because that was pre pre Vikings, Yeah, pre Viking.
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  So Madden ten I believe that was another dual year? Was that Larry Fitzgerald
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  and Troy Paulamalu? Correct? All right, Madden eleven, which I think
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  they renamed to Madden twenty five because it was a twenty fifth year. Or
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  was that Madden twelve? Not quite? Nope, all right, Madden eleven,
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  oh man, I don't remember. But Madden twelve I know was Barry
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  Sanders. No, No, Madden twelve was not Barry Sanders. Was the
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  first one. You've gotten wrong. You're doing pretty well. I know you're.
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  You got a minute left too? What a four? Wow? Okay,
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  So I'll just tell you Madden eleven, Madden twelve, Madden thirteen,
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  and then what would have been Madden fourteen was okay, Mad twenty five.
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  Okay, Madden fourteen, which is actually Madden twenty five. That was Barry
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  Sanders slash Adrian Peterson. And yes, because they put two different versions out
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  for the old Gen and the new Gen consoles. Calvin Johnson was in there
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  was he. Madden twelve close, Oh, Calvin Johnson was for sure one
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  of them. Madden eleven, Madden thirteen, thirteen there, Yeah, I
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  would never get Madden twelve. Oh, Madden twelve was Peyton Hillis. Yeah,
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  yeah, the Browns running back. Never in a million years when I
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  got that one. I remember that was a year they did a fan vote,
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  and I think technically Michael Vick won the fan vote because oh Jesus,
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  let's scare the crap out of me. Well, okay, I didn't get
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  it all in there, and we can talk about that. But to continue
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  my thought, they did a fan vote and Michael Vick I'm pretty sure won
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  that fan vote because that was his first year back. He was electric with
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  the Eagles and people loved him. He was a fan favorite, but there
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  was still that stink on him of like the whole dog fighting stuff. So
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  I think I've always thought Madden kind of rigged it for Peyton Hillis. All
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  right, So which ones did I miss? So right before Peyton Hillis,
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  Madden eleven was Drew Brees. Oh yeah, I wouldn't have gotten that,
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  and then right after the twenty fifth year anniversary, the double feature with Sanders
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  and Peterson. Madden fifteen was Richard Sherman. Oh yeah, I wouldn't have
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  gotten that either. Madden sixteen was Odell yep Okraham Junior, and then you
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  got seventeen with Gronk, and then you didn't get eighteen. That was Brady
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  again. Oh, Tom Brady. Because so Brady's been on I mean he
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  was duel with my homes and what twenty two, But so, yeah,
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  Brady's been on twenty. You only missed four twenty seven. I'm happy with
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  that. I can live with that. It's not perfect, but I would
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  have gotten five. The amount of hours I have spent playing Madden is it's
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  over two thousand hours I think in my lifetime, because I've been playing since
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  what third grade consistently almost every day. Yeah. They say it takes ten
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  thousand hours to become an expert. Well on your way, Oh my goodness,
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  Yeah, I'm an expert Madden. I've never done a tournament. I
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  should. I should sign it up for a tournament. I just remember playing
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  with you in college and getting so mad every time you beat me because I
• 20:48
  didn't grow up playing video games and then you just destroy me. Do you
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  remember the one time we were playing in college, we're like mid game.
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  I don't remember which team. I was, probably the Bikings. I don't
• 20:59
  know why I would have been anything different, but you were the Patriots.
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  And why would I be the Patriots? I don't know because and I think
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  at the time Randy Moss was on the Patriots. And you went to the
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  bathroom or something, and then while you were gone, me and the other
• 21:17
  guys that were in there, we swapped out your quarterback for the punter.
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  You didn't notice. And that's a story that's only funny to me and you
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  know, the couple other guys that were there, But it was. It
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  was hilarious and I'm so mad, like, why can't I complete a pass?
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  Is this the first time I've ever told me about that? I'm sure
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  I told you. I'm sure I told you right then. I don't know
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  why I wouldn't have, because we would have laughed about it right then.
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  I don't remember that, but you're talking I mean, what over ten years
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  ago? Now? Yeah? Good times though, yeah, good times.
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  It was a lot of fun. All right, what's my category? Okay?
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  So I will I think we should give you four minutes as well,
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  and I can time that out over here. I'm gonna not scare the pants
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  off of me this time. We're gonna clip that one out. That was
• 22:08
  a classic moment. Now, yeah, clip it out as in like show
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  it to the masses and make sure everybody sees it. It's the next viral
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  TikTok. All right, So the question I have for you is non NFL
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  quarterback or non quarterback NFL MVPs. Let me repeat that, non quarterback NFL
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  MVPs since the year two thousand. All right, you want my pen?
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  The number is so few that I think I can visually see it. Can
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  I get the number before? Do you want me to tell you how many
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  there were? Yeah? Okay, so since two thousand there are four of
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  them. Okay, crap, and that actually makes it harder, really Okay.
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  I could tell you the positions, but I don't think I want to.
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  We'll see. We'll see if you need me help because I have years
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  teams and positions. Okay, so we'll see. I think if you need
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  some nudging, we can we can play around with that. So whenever you're
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  ready, I will hit start on this four minute timer. All right,
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  I'm ready. Okay, go, Well, I know one of them for
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  shares, Adrian Peterson. Yeah, twenty twelve. Yeah, there you go.
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  So that's one of four. Yep. I was gonna say Dion Sanders.
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  But he was prior to two thousand, right, was he? Was
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  he ever an MVP? Dion like prime Time? Yeah? No, he
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  was not ever the NFL MVP. There was a different Sanders who was an
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  NFL MVP, but not Dion Barry Sanders. Yeah, but he's also not
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  on this list of since two thousand. He was earlier than that. Okay,
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  so you have Adrian Peterson. Yep. I want to say there was
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  a defensive back. Am I getting close? Uh? No, you're not.
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  You're not close. No defensive They're all offensive players, all offensive players.
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  Odell Beckham Junior. No, I told you I was going to be
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  bad at that. You can do this, man, A forewarned you you
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  can do this. Wide receiver. Do we have any wide receivers on the
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  list. I don't think I can answer that. I'm going to answer that
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  no, no wide receivers. No wide receivers on the list. Is there
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  another running back? There might be? There might Uh, well, Christian
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  McCaffrey could win it this year. I mean he could, but I don't
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  think you will. Maybe two and a half minutes left, all right,
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  Um, I need the music, We need the intense music here. We'll
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  put something under this later. Yeah, we can edit that. All right,
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  two minutes, fifteen seconds left. You can do this. You're wasting
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  time on drinking beer. That's not wasting. You have Adrian Peterson in twenty
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  twelve. All of them are prior to that. Prior to twenty twelve.
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  Yes, okay, and obviously we know two thousand or later, so between
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  two thousand and twenty eleven, and I'll give you this hint. Okay,
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  they're all the same position, so they have to be running backs. Gosh,
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  that's still hard. Like, I don't know you've you've heard of all
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  of them. I know for sure. I have said one of their names
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  already this episode. Two of their names. I'm not going to do this.
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  They were they were Madden cover athletes, set up for failure. You
• 25:52
  can do this, Evan, you can Maden cover athletes. Okay, Oh
• 26:00
  you're cheating now, it's not cheating. I'm using my resources. Shawn Alexander
• 26:10
  all right, there you go, Shawn Alexander in two thousand and five Seahawks
• 26:14
  running back. So you got two of them, Adrian Peterson, Shawn Alexander,
• 26:17
  Marshall Falk Marshall Falk in two thousand for Saint Louis. He got one
• 26:22
  more, he got one more? Can you do this gotta be Eddie George.
• 26:26
  No, it was not Eddie George. No, this name. I
• 26:30
  don't think we've said yet. You got the two of the names that I've
• 26:33
  said. Falk forty seconds. This guy took a very famous free agent visit
• 26:42
  to the Vikings, very famous, but was not signed. Ended up playing
• 26:49
  for the Jets at the end of his career. And I believe you only
• 26:56
  played for two teams. All right, fifteen seconds left. He played for
• 27:03
  the Chargers, Ladanian, Tom, there it is. You got it with
• 27:07
  only a lot of help, with only a lot of hope. Yeah,
• 27:11
  trivia is not my thing. It's all right. That was fun at least
• 27:15
  NFL trivia. And don't get scared. Oh just vibrated on my wrist.
• 27:22
  Okay, that scared me still though. All right, well you're the trivia
• 27:26
  master, oh don't. I didn't even fully get the last question. Right,
• 27:30
  Well, you did way better than I did. If this were a
• 27:33
  class, you passed with an A and I got maybe a D minus.
• 27:37
  All right, we got one more, right, Yeah, So we're looking
• 27:41
  at most recent Pro Bowl quarterback for for every team. Well, we could
• 27:52
  do for every team, or we could just go more recent. It's up
• 27:56
  to you. I kind of like for every team. All right, let's
• 27:59
  do it. Because I thought that was the original question, wasn't it is
• 28:02
  the It is the original question. I think it would be harder for me
• 28:06
  to like sort through like two thousand till now, all right, easier to
• 28:11
  go through all thirty two teams. I'm gonna try to go by division.
• 28:15
  Okay, So I'll tell you, like, okay, for this team,
• 28:17
  blah blah blah. So how much time are you going to give me?
• 28:18
  That's thirty two thirty two teams. Let's do six minutes. Okay. I'm
• 28:23
  gonna turn my ringer down so I don't juke myself out of my shorts.
• 28:27
  This time. We almost had some beer coming out of my nose right there,
• 28:33
  I almost had some beer coming out of my mouth. You were midsip,
• 28:37
  weren't you? Yeah? That was that was alarming that's all right.
• 28:41
  All right, here we go six minutes on the clock. More recent Pro
• 28:49
  Bowl quarterback all thirty two teams? Okay, ready go all right? So
• 28:56
  NFC North for the Vikings, Kirky Kirk, yep, for the Bears,
• 29:02
  Mitch Chrubisky. For the Lions, gotta be Jared Goff. Oh, hang
• 29:07
  on my pens running out of ink. Oh no, Mitch Kirk, Lions,
• 29:12
  Jared Goff. Oh Stafford then interesting, I thought he would have made
• 29:17
  it. For the Packers, that's Rogers for sure. Okay. NFC South
• 29:25
  for the Buccaneers, that's gotta be. Well. Did Baker make it this
• 29:29
  year? I think he was voted in this year? But this list doesn't.
• 29:36
  Oh yep, Okay, we'll give you that. It wasn't Baker.
• 29:38
  It had to be Brady. Okay, So Buccaneers Baker, Saints, It's
• 29:42
  gotta be Drew Brees. Who else? NFC South, Buccaneers, Saints,
• 29:49
  Falcons, Matt Ryan and Carolina and Carolina oh Man, Carolina, cam Newton,
• 29:56
  you get this one. NFC West Niners party. Did he make it
• 30:03
  this year? I think he was voted in this year. Seahawks Gino Smith,
• 30:10
  Cardinals Kyler Murray, and then who else is there? Rams, Rams?
• 30:17
  That's got to be Stafford, right, you got your wires crossed.
• 30:21
  My friend Stafford was the Lions. Yeah, but he's been with the Rams
• 30:25
  for a couple of years. He hasn't been voted in yet. Oh yep,
• 30:27
  okay, all right, there are some additions at the bottom here that
• 30:32
  I'm accommodating for. You're right, Stafford. So Stafford's actually the last Pro
• 30:36
  Bowl quarterback for the Lions and the Rams. Well in that in that sense,
• 30:41
  we'll go with the NFC East, which is Cowboys, Giants, Commanders,
• 30:48
  and Philly. Right, So Cowboys, Dak Giants. Is it Daniel
• 30:56
  Jones? It's either him or Eli Manning. Okay, all right? For
• 31:02
  the Eagles, got to be Hurts. He definitely made it last year.
• 31:06
  And then for another dual team, quarterback Kirk made it for the then Redskins.
• 31:15
  And I think that's all of the NFC. So AFC we're going AFC
• 31:19
  North, So for the Steelers, it would be Big Ben. For the
• 31:25
  Browns, oh man, oh man, I don't know, Okay, I'm
• 31:32
  moving on. For the Ravens, that's Lamar, Lamar Jackson. And then
• 31:37
  who else is there in the AFC North Brown Steelers, Ravens, Bengals,
• 31:48
  Bengals. That's Joe Burrow. Okay, AFC South might need some help with
• 31:53
  this. This is Jacksonville, Indy Houston. And who else AFC South would
• 32:02
  be Jacksonville? It was Trevor Lawrence. No, no, are you sure?
• 32:10
  I think he made it last year? Didn't he? I don't have
• 32:15
  it here? Interesting, it might not be official. Is that Brunel then?
• 32:19
  No? Okay, more recent than Mark Brunell. Interesting? Okay,
• 32:23
  Well, anyways, moving on for the Colts, Gardner Minshew actually just made
• 32:29
  it this year. For the Texans, C J. Stroud made it this
• 32:32
  year, and I'm not sure who the other team is in that division AFC.
• 32:40
  That was the AFC South. Did you say Houston? I did?
• 32:44
  That's c J. Stroud? Yes, all right, Sorry to keep up
• 32:47
  here, yep, trying to how much time do I got? Two minutes?
• 32:51
  Two minutes left? Okay, so AFC AFC North, so East,
• 33:00
  AFC East. So for New England that would have been Tom Brady mac Jones.
• 33:07
  He did make it, okay, for the Dolphins, that was Tua.
• 33:12
  This year he made it for the Bills, Josh Allen and dang it
• 33:17
  for the Jets, oh Man, Jets. That's been a minute, because
• 33:24
  yeah it was it Brett Farv, Brett Farv. Okay, So then I've
• 33:30
  got one more division and another team that I've forgotten about, AFC West.
• 33:37
  I'm not gonna make this. AFC West Kansas City. Kansas City was Pat
• 33:44
  Mahomes. Denver was dang it? Who was Denver? Peyton Manning last time
• 33:51
  they won a Super Bowl? Yeah? Okay? San Diego is Herbert slash
• 33:55
  La Oh sure? Yeah? And then this is the Raiders, right,
• 34:01
  Derek Carr? And is that? Am I missing a whole division? We
• 34:08
  haven't done? Miami? Miami was TUA. That's right, you got it.
• 34:14
  Sorry, I didn't check that one off. Tennessee, Tennessee Tannehill right.
• 34:21
  Cleveland Jacksonville, Cleveland was oh Man two thousand and seven? Oh seven?
• 34:30
  Oh man? Oh no, is it a name I'd remember? Is
• 34:35
  it a memorable name? Memorable? Yes? But I mean it's a Browns
• 34:39
  quarterback. There's like a million of them. Man, that's True Fries or
• 34:45
  something like that. No, man, I'm not gonna get this Jackson.
• 34:50
  But I really thought Trevor Lawrence made it. But I'm not gonna make it
• 34:53
  here, dang, all right. Derek Anderson, oh wow, for the
• 35:00
  Browns, Okay, I guess yeah, that makes sense. And David Girard
• 35:07
  for Jackson. Oh man, the guy was he after Byron left Witch?
• 35:09
  Probably nine? We might need to double check that, because I really thought
• 35:15
  Trevor Lawrence made it. I mean, I'm okay being wrong. I don't
• 35:19
  have Trevor Lawrence interesting here. And this, I mean this accounts for Perty
• 35:24
  this year. Yeah, Baker this year with the Bucks, Gardner Minshew with
• 35:29
  the Colts this year. All right, so I'll believe it. I believe
• 35:34
  it. I'm just stay. Get them out of thirty two, all right,
• 35:37
  that's fine. Six minutes. Yeah, that's pretty good. I'm happy
• 35:42
  with that. That's a work, my friend, that is a work.
• 35:44
  And I'm just glad that I don't have to do another one because mine was
• 35:50
  terrible. I couldn't even get four, barely get four, that's right.
• 35:53
  And that was with a lot of help. So well, study up because
• 35:57
  I kind of like this, all right, we should we should do at
• 36:00
  least one each. I have somewhere and I'll have to dig this out,
• 36:04
  but I have a Vikings book somewhere okay, like the history of the Vikings,
• 36:08
  and I also have some like Vikings trivia cards or something oh somewhere,
• 36:15
  so in a future episode we might have to dig that out and quiz each
• 36:20
  other. For sure. We also have the internet too, we can do
• 36:22
  a little pre kind of like we did here, a little not research prep
• 36:28
  prep for the show. There we go. Yeah, well that was fun
• 36:31
  and kind of a fun way to break things up a little bit. Now
• 36:35
  that the Vikings season is over, the NFL season's nearly over, we're just
• 36:38
  trying to find some new ways to interact. Have some good content out there.
• 36:45
  So we've got some We've got some really good ideas. Yeah, we've
• 36:47
  got some things brewing up brewing. Yeah, last week we talked a lot
• 36:53
  about Ira breweries and definitely made known that we're interested in doing a tour.
• 36:59
  So that's something we're going to try to figure out this summer tour. Yeah,
• 37:02
  one of these days we're gonna we're gonna take you the school Hop family
• 37:08
  with Shoppers on a little tour of some breweries around Iowa. And we're excited
• 37:15
  for that. So that's in the works. We're still in the very early
• 37:20
  planning phases of all of that. But we're excited for that. We're excited
• 37:22
  to brew the School Hop beer that's also coming up here pretty soon, and
• 37:30
  we just we have a lot more in the hopper, so to speak,
• 37:35
  coming up, So tune in, check us out, and share a way.
• 37:42
  If you've got somebody out there that's even if they're not a Vikings fan.
• 37:45
  Yeah, we we love just talking about all too. So like even
• 37:49
  if the world's biggest Packer fan was like, hey, I'll come talk about
• 37:52
  the Packers, like, yeah, we'll talk about how the Vikings are better
• 37:53
  than the Packers. No, but we like to talk about football front of
• 37:59
  the show for us. He's a bear. He's not even a Vikings fan.
• 38:01
  So I've had him on a couple times and we haven't kicked him off
• 38:05
  yet. In fact, he's going to help us brew the beer and hopefully
• 38:07
  come on. He's a big college fan, so yeah, maybe he could
• 38:12
  be a good resource for draft time, which is coming up faster than I
• 38:16
  mean, we're already shoot in February. Yeah. Well, speaking of that,
• 38:22
  we're going to transition into kind of our segment with Dustin Baker here in
• 38:27
  a second, and in addition to many other things. Dustin did kind of
• 38:32
  give us his thoughts on who the Vikings should pursue, at least what they
• 38:37
  should do at least quarterback wise this whole March slash April slash early off season.
• 38:45
  So stick around and catch some of that. We think it's pretty good
• 38:52
  content. And again we're just thrilled that Dustin Baker would join us and let
• 38:58
  us share our conversation with him. So we'll jump in, we'll jump into
• 39:05
  that, and then we'll catch up with you all when we're done with that.
• 39:08
  All right, everybody, welcome back to the skull Hop. So we
• 39:13
  have for the second time ever our I guess, second guest ever that we've
• 39:19
  ever had. We still haven't gotten pasted too. We need to get past
• 39:22
  two. But U so you may remember you know mister Dustin Baker from Vikings
• 39:29
  Territory. You know him on Twitter or x or whatever you want to call
• 39:31
  it these days at at dust Baker and of course on the YouTube stuff at
• 39:37
  vikes now, and we'll give him a chance to say anything I forgot,
• 39:39
  But welcome back to the skull Hop, Dustin. Thanks for coming on.
• 39:44
  Yes, it's a pleasure to be back on I had a blast the first
• 39:45
  time. If you guys want need more Vike Vikings writers to come on,
• 39:50
  let me know. I got a whole plethora of them at Vikings. I
• 39:52
  shall trust me, they'll be hungry to do it. Yes, it is
• 39:55
  awesome to be back. We've had a couple of developments since then. We
• 39:59
  had the end of a sad regular season and I'm just to get into that
• 40:02
  with you guys tonight, and now we have we have a super Bowl matchup
• 40:06
  around the bend, so let's get to it. Yeah. Yeah, so
• 40:08
  yeah, we just kind of finished watching the championship games this past weekend just
• 40:15
  a few days ago, I guess, so, yeah, I guess I
• 40:19
  was kind of surprised by a couple of things. I thought the Ravens would
• 40:22
  do a lot better. I was surprised at the lions big first half.
• 40:25
  Dustin't any big surprises from from Championship round for it. Yes, so the
• 40:31
  meltdown of you know, catastrophic fashion for the Lions that actually surprised me.
• 40:37
  I think that I ended up, like most Lions fans at about what seven
• 40:43
  PM, I was emotionally accepting that. I was like, my goodness,
• 40:45
  the Lions are going to the Super Bowl, and even I didn't envision a
• 40:50
  total collapse like that, it turned out by the numbers, it was the
• 40:52
  largest collapse NFC Championship history. And I swear to God, if I said
• 40:58
  this on Twitter, I'm going to reiterate it here in person that if you
• 41:00
  would have told me on December first, hey homie, you can have the
• 41:04
  Vikings finish seven to ten, or they can go to the NFC Championship and
• 41:07
  lose a twenty four to seven lead, I would have said, give me
• 41:09
  seven and ten and the draft pick. I don't want anything to do with
• 41:14
  losing a seventeen point lead when I have got to the point where I'm like,
• 41:17
  we are doing this. We were going to the super Bowl. So
• 41:21
  the lions a meltdown really surprised me. And part of that is that they
• 41:24
  were so dominant in the first like what hour, and then on the AFC
• 41:29
  side, I really bought into the Ravens and that this being Lamar's one big
• 41:35
  year. If you follow histrionics of football, if you assume that Lamar is
• 41:39
  kind of like like Cam Newton, Lamar doesn't have a whole lot of elite
• 41:44
  years left. I think everybody knows that he's not a absolutely fantastic passer.
• 41:50
  He's good, but he's not He's not a guy that can sit back and
• 41:53
  cook in the pocket when he gets to be like thirty four in my opinion,
• 41:58
  and I thought all of the stars were aligned. Ma Holmes is on
• 42:00
  the road. The Ravens defense is so damn formidable. I thought, all
• 42:04
  right, this is they're gonna nobody wins the Super Bowl back to back.
• 42:07
  I thought the Ravens are really going to do the thing this year. It's
• 42:10
  kind of how I felt about the Milwaukee Bucks two summers ago, and I
• 42:14
  was like, this is the later year. I was like, he's gonna
• 42:15
  get at least one, and this one's going to be it. So I
• 42:17
  had the same feeling with Lamar, but I was dreadfully wrong. So now,
• 42:22
  but I am excited to watch the Super Bowl. I always cheer for
• 42:24
  the AFC team when it's well, it's never the Vikings, but in theory,
• 42:29
  if it were the Vikings, I always just end up cheering for the
• 42:31
  AFC team, and this year is no different. I know the Chiefs kind
• 42:35
  of have this Yankees vibe now where people decide they don't like them anymore,
• 42:37
  but I do appreciate the greatness and action. So and I'm not betting against
• 42:42
  Mahomes again. I've done it two weekends in a row at least making a
• 42:45
  prediction, and I'm not doing it again. And they're underdogs by like a
• 42:47
  point. When when will we learn? Apparently two point underdogs as of right
• 42:53
  now, is it? My goodness? Yeah, yeah, that'll probably change,
• 42:58
  although if it hasn't changed, I mean, I think it opened at
• 43:01
  like two and a half points, so I guess it's kind of moving towards
• 43:04
  them. But yeah, I agree with you. The Ravens I thought were
• 43:07
  going to do it. Listeners of the skull Hopp will know that I've been
• 43:12
  saying for a few weeks now that the Ravens are the team to beat this
• 43:15
  year. I really thought they were going to be the ones to dominate through
• 43:19
  And I think you made a good point about Lamar where yeah, he's not
• 43:23
  a big, heavy passer. They put up his stats at the beginning of
• 43:28
  the championship game of the divisional round game and he had something like one hundred
• 43:32
  and fifty ish yards passing and one hundred yards are rushing I think four total
• 43:37
  touchdowns and they were saying that was a great game. And it is,
• 43:39
  but like you think, like a quarterback to have a great game, he's
• 43:43
  got to have like three hundred yards passing or something. I was surprised by
• 43:45
  the passing numbers his deal and I've learned I've watched this now valuating quarterback,
• 43:52
  especially in the last decade, is he doesn't throw outside the numbers as crisp
• 43:58
  as a pocket passer does. This was Joshua problem. But Lamar is better
• 44:01
  than Joshua Dobbs at passing and he's faster. But why do we think,
• 44:07
  like, oh boy, Lamar is only I only really think he's got three
• 44:10
  seasons left at this elite level to do the thing. Because what you start
• 44:15
  to look like this is why Teddy Bridgewater never latched on as a long term
• 44:19
  QB one is because they didn't. They don't throw it to the sidelines efficiently
• 44:22
  outside the numbers, and Lamar does it well, but he doesn't do it
• 44:27
  like the category we want him to live in with josh Allen and Justin Herbert
• 44:30
  and so I think that's the difference. And then mind boggling, and they
• 44:34
  just decided, hey, we're not doing our bread and butter we're not running
• 44:36
  the football this game. Yeah, ad, what on earth? I don't
• 44:42
  get it. So, Dustin, do you think do you think the Ravens
• 44:45
  losing effects the MVP voting because I think going into that championship weekend, Lamarro
• 44:53
  is kind of the favorite MVP. What are your thoughts that way? Well,
• 44:58
  it's always been my unders standing that that voting is either already done or
• 45:05
  it is a blanket on the regular season only. So I'm pretty sure those
• 45:09
  votes have already already been submitted. So it will be a little awkward on
• 45:13
  award night February. What is it next weekend or something where we're like,
• 45:15
  hey, Lamar Jackson MVP and we're like, what I thought by the numbers,
• 45:20
  Josh Allen should have won MVP. I mean he had like, what
• 45:23
  was it, I think thirteen more touchdowns, the same amount of all purpose
• 45:28
  yards. Of course, he has those Nick Mullens like interceptions that were all
• 45:31
  like, oh yeah, Josh, Josh being Josh. But the way that
• 45:36
  he with an injured defense, dragged the Bills to the postseason from the brink
• 45:39
  of elimination. I thought, statistically, in for reputation's sake, you know,
• 45:44
  we were looking for an excuse for the last three years to give the
• 45:46
  MVP to Allen. I thought it should have been him to begin with with.
• 45:51
  But the world, I think, was fascinated with Lamar. Most of
• 45:53
  us thought they were going to get to the Big Game. So I would
• 45:55
  assume that those votes were already cast, and I think Lamar still gets it
• 46:00
  because for better or worse, it's a regular season award. The same goes
• 46:04
  for the NBA. Yeah, that's true, and I guess I'd never really
• 46:07
  thought about I've only ever thought about when they announced the award, not necessarily
• 46:12
  when the votes are cast. So I'm not sure it would be cool to
• 46:15
  know all of that because I know it's writers, right, like the select
• 46:20
  few writers that could have vote, but I'm not sure when they get to
• 46:23
  choose that. Yeah, but that's a good point. It's down the stretch
• 46:27
  of like week eighteen, and I I'll stand corrected, but I'm pretty sure
• 46:31
  the playoffs have no bearing whatsoever. That's why it's always so weird. This
• 46:36
  happens in basketball a lot where you're like, God, that guy won MVP
• 46:39
  and you know Jeff Curry was the best player this year, or don't get
• 46:44
  me start on Lebron not winning the MVP for like twelve years now in a
• 46:46
  row. It's ridiculous. But yeah, I digress. Yeah, well,
• 46:52
  yeah, I guess I think it sounds like you were pretty surprised at least
• 46:57
  by both of the losing teams and the Lions, especially after that that meltdown
• 47:02
  of the Lions. Usually when we reference a tweet of yours on our show,
• 47:07
  you're not actually listening to us live make that reference. But you did
• 47:09
  make a tweet at some point during the first half that hey, everybody,
• 47:15
  you now need to be emotionally prepared for the Lions to not only get to,
• 47:17
  but win the Super Bowl. And then thank you you called yourself out
• 47:23
  on that for the old takes exposed. Oh yeah, yeah. I went
• 47:27
  back to look at some of the tweets I had during during the championship weekend,
• 47:31
  and yeah, that point, I mean, if anybody cares, that
• 47:35
  was my and my reflection point. I was like, the Lions are going
• 47:37
  to Super Bowl. If they can do this to forty nine ers, they
• 47:39
  can for damn sure do it to the Chiefs. And I was like,
• 47:42
  I cannot believe that this team we've beaten on for sixty three years is going
• 47:46
  to do this before us. Then the world restored to order and we're like,
• 47:50
  oh, okay, this is why you have never gone there in the
• 47:52
  first place. But yeah, I totally thought in my bones that the Lions
• 47:58
  were at least going to get there. And then when I read it back,
• 48:00
  that was like vintage old takes exposed. You know, that guy should
• 48:04
  have retweeted it eight times. It was such a bad take in the heat
• 48:06
  at the moment. Yeah, So of the two losing teams, the Ravens
• 48:12
  and the Lions, who do you think has the best chance to make it
• 48:15
  back? Maybe next year, maybe the year after, make it back to
• 48:17
  the championship round, even the Super Bowl. Well, I believe the shine
• 48:22
  will wear off the Lions a little bit. There's always kind of that sophomore
• 48:28
  slump, whether it's whether it's the rookie quarterback or a team in general.
• 48:31
  So this doesn't mean the Lions are like, hey, they're going six and
• 48:34
  eleven next year. Now. I think Dan Campbell aptly said after the game,
• 48:37
  and I can't beell lieve he said that. He was like, this
• 48:39
  might have been our only shot. I was like, Jesus, I was
• 48:43
  a player going to hear that and be like, oh yay, why don't
• 48:45
  even come to work anymore? But I think the Lions will be will be
• 48:50
  good, but in terms of how they got to the NFC Championship, I
• 48:54
  think it'll be hard to replicate. And as a Vikings fan, I am
• 48:59
  content with your GoF being their quarterback for the next ten years because this is
• 49:02
  what I wanted the Packers to get. I want them to have a good
• 49:05
  quarterback because I know that's kind of the way it goes, and then that's
• 49:08
  it. I don't want them to have Aaron Rodgers forty five touchdowns and six
• 49:12
  picks. I want them to have a guy who's pretty good. I think
• 49:15
  this is how the rest of the world feels about us with Kirk Cousins.
• 49:16
  By the way, I don't agree with it, but I think this is
• 49:20
  what the world thinks. So I think with Goff, you're never gonna have
• 49:22
  a guaranteed warrior to drag you to the Promised Land. But if everything else
• 49:28
  is pretty damn spiffy, then you know, hey, they're gonna go eleven
• 49:30
  and six. Maybe they'll have a good playoff matchup and they'll get to the
• 49:34
  NFC championship. That's how I view them, And on the Ravens, I'm
• 49:37
  still high on them. It really surprised me that they laid an egg like
• 49:40
  they did, and I trust, let's see which one is it, John
• 49:45
  Harbaugh to right the ship and probably get closer to their final destination this year
• 49:52
  next year. But I won't be surprised at all by either one. Both
• 49:54
  teams have the trenches built well and we can analyze, you know, a
• 49:59
  quarterback and running backs all we want. A lot of time football just boils
• 50:02
  down to who has the best offensive a defensive line. Yeah, yeah,
• 50:07
  for sure I had a point. I forgot what I was gonna say,
• 50:12
  but it must not have been that profound. But yeah, I think Evan
• 50:15
  and I we tend to agree kind of with your your thoughts on that.
• 50:19
  I think you mentioned the Packers in their quarterback situation. I think the jury's
• 50:23
  still out a little bit on Love. He kind of finished the year off
• 50:27
  pretty good, but I think he's probably I hope, he's probably in that
• 50:31
  Jared Goff territory where he's gonna win some games, but he's not gonna I
• 50:36
  think he kind of proved in the playoffs he's not gonna take the Packers all
• 50:38
  the way to the Promised Land either. Yeah, that's that's the fearful part
• 50:44
  is it depends on how you look at him. Is he a first year
• 50:46
  quarterback or is he gonna be what a fourth or fifth year guy? Yeah,
• 50:52
  he he's certainly. In that game against the Cowboys, his EPA C.
• 50:55
  Poe was off the charts, like one of the best playoff performances ever.
• 51:00
  And for that week we're like, of course they just filed the next
• 51:01
  guy. But they had a lot of quiet turds throughout the year, the
• 51:06
  Packers and we if you, if you, if you like them or whatever,
• 51:09
  you always just kind of ignore those. That Giants game on Football came
• 51:13
  to mind when the Vikings were kind of still in it. We're like,
• 51:15
  hey, Packers, we need we need to lose the Giants in Boom.
• 51:17
  They did so, uh yeah, right now the scary part of love.
• 51:22
  I didn't enjoy seeing how good he can get at his peak, but then
• 51:25
  in those bad games and then hilarious state with the game on the line,
• 51:30
  he looked exactly like Rodgers and far Frame. Yeah, it was nuts.
• 51:37
  I would say I would be more fearful of I certainly would be more fear
• 51:42
  fearful of Love's possible ascension and development than Jared Goff, because you have to
• 51:45
  remember Jared Goff in the twenty is it nineteen or twenty twenty season, it
• 51:50
  was like a joke. There was a there was a wild card game I
• 51:53
  recall vividly where the Rams are going into I think they playing the Seahawks or
• 51:57
  something, and it was like, hey, Goff's not gonna play. He's
• 52:00
  got a bad risk or something, and everybody's like, oh, okay,
• 52:01
  they got Johnny Wolford, no big deal. Nobody cared that Gough was out.
• 52:06
  They were all like, go to Wolford, it doesn't matter. And
• 52:07
  that's when I realized, all right, Jered Goff isn't quite the next big
• 52:10
  thing. And then he's fit in well with the Lions, and I think
• 52:15
  he does pretty damn good. But he's just since we lived with Rogers for
• 52:19
  so long. If I see a divisional foe have a quarterback, who's who's
• 52:23
  right, maybe you know, ten to eleventh best guy in football, not
• 52:27
  the third or the second, I'll take it. You know, I'm not
• 52:30
  gonna get greedy. And that's just because of thirty years of Rogers and farv
• 52:32
  with the package. Yeah, I agree, well, and I guess to
• 52:37
  put this topic to bed a little bit. My personal hope for Love is
• 52:40
  that maybe he has one more decent year and then they give him this absorbitent
• 52:45
  contract and hundreds of millions of dollars and they really double triple, quadruple down
• 52:50
  on him, and then he starts to lay the egg and he shows who
• 52:53
  he really is. I'll uh Russell Wilson and Denver like that would be.
• 52:58
  That would be great. Yeah, and he's gonna I don't know when they
• 53:00
  have to lock that in season. I don't probably this offseason if his agent's
• 53:07
  been patient, O my goodness. But yeah, he's gonna get one of
• 53:09
  those four years two hundred million, and then we just have to hope that
• 53:15
  he's not absolutely elite and generational like the last two Bastards were switching gears a
• 53:22
  little bit more of a Vikings focus now. I think the news has been
• 53:28
  dominated this week with Kirk Cousins and his contract, and I mean ever since
• 53:32
  the Vikings season ended, that's been kind of the big topic. And I
• 53:37
  think it's the most important thing that the Vikings have to figure out in this
• 53:42
  offseason is what happens at the quarterback position and what happens with Kirk Cousins specifically,
• 53:49
  he came out or I guess the rumor came out. I don't know
• 53:52
  if he said this directly, but the rumor is that he wants forty five
• 53:54
  million a year, ninety million over two years. Fully gearingteed that realistic for
• 54:01
  the Vikings. Are they going to sign a contract like that and then try
• 54:05
  to fit the pieces around that or are they gonna let him walk in free
• 54:08
  agency and see what else they can do in the draft or whatever else they
• 54:13
  can find. I would not want them to take the plunge at two years
• 54:17
  ninety million. If this was two years ago and Kirk was thirty three thirty
• 54:22
  four, I'd be like, yep, he deserves it. That's fair market
• 54:24
  value. But I'm paranoid about an age related decline because they'll show up Matt
• 54:29
  Ryan. What was Roethlisberger about thirty seven? Thirty eight? Oh yeah,
• 54:34
  God, McNabb was cooked by thirty three. So we watched Lebron and Rogers
• 54:37
  and Brady play until they're forty and Brady case forty five, and we're like,
• 54:42
  this is the new way, Baby, No, this is goats that
• 54:44
  do that. And so with Cousins, I don't think anybody thinks he's a
• 54:47
  goat. So I am personally paranoid about giving him that much. Now,
• 54:52
  the report came from Pioneer presses Charlie Waters, and he said, the buzz
• 54:57
  is that Cousins is gonna want two years ninety million. So I mean that's
• 55:01
  that's basically just you know, a rumor. We've been on an odyssey with
• 55:05
  him in the last three and a half weeks. It's been hey, well
• 55:07
  he take a hometown discount. And then he got in front of reporters and
• 55:10
  said structure is the most important thing to him for this contract, which basically
• 55:15
  is code for I want more than one year. You know, when you
• 55:17
  talk about structure, there's no debate if it's just one year. And then
• 55:22
  he was on with Isabelle Gonzalez and said, yeah, I'd love to play
• 55:23
  for Bill Belichick, who wouldn't And then Belichick wasn't hired with the Falcons.
• 55:28
  So he seems more receptive, or at least his representation is saying, hey,
• 55:32
  get out there and scare of the vikings a little bit more than ever
• 55:36
  He used to get mad when you bring up other teams, you know,
• 55:37
  remember the trade deadline, when they're like, hey, Kurk, what would
• 55:39
  you think about the trade And he was like yeah, no, yeah,
• 55:44
  He's like next question. He said something to affect was he was about as
• 55:45
  ticked as you'll ever see Cousins get in front of a camera. So I
• 55:50
  believe that the Vikings probably want that sweet spot home town discount that we talk
• 55:57
  about, which is like thirty five million instead of forty five million, And
• 56:00
  again merely speculation. I have no insight or intel. I'm gonna guess that
• 56:05
  Quasi has something that's like two years seventy million. You'd take it or you
• 56:10
  leave it. You let us know because we're moving on. If you don't
• 56:13
  want it, and I just keep getting back to it will be really,
• 56:17
  really, really weird if this progressive, analytics focused collaborative regime is going to
• 56:23
  attach their job security to Kirk Cousins. Now, I really like Kirk Cousins
• 56:29
  just as much as I love Sam Bradford Dante Culpepper. I liked those dudes
• 56:32
  a lot. But at age thirty six coming off this isn't like a sprained
• 56:36
  ankle. This is a torn achilles. I don't think it's in the Vikings
• 56:39
  interest to give him that much guaranteed. And let's face it, this is
• 56:44
  six years into this experiment. When do we ever take a step back and
• 56:47
  say, you know, this hasn't worked. Before I came into this Vikings
• 56:52
  Writings career, I was a manager. I was a project manager, a
• 56:54
  district manager, or retail manager, and you always had to change things you
• 56:59
  could, even if you had the best idea. Ever, at some point
• 57:01
  you have to switch it up. And especially with the Vikings, you've made
• 57:06
  the postseason twice and six years. The guy's getting older and older, he's
• 57:09
  depreciating. I firmly believe unless unless they're absolutely convinced in their heart of hearts,
• 57:15
  they can win the super Bowl with cousins. I would rather do the
• 57:20
  bold thing and trade up and get the quarterback that they've identified that they loved.
• 57:23
  I don't think the Vikings will sign on for two years and ninety million.
• 57:27
  I think they would sign on for two years and seventy million. Yeah,
• 57:30
  I could see that. I could get behind that. I think it
• 57:34
  was today you had a really good article on Vikings Territory about that that rumor
• 57:39
  that two years ninety million in that Yeah, that's basically where the diet tribe
• 57:44
  came from. Yeah. Well, and if I remember, I've read it
• 57:46
  this morning. But if I remember right, you basically said, like,
• 57:49
  yeah, Kirk's probably worth it, but probably not worth it for the Vikings.
• 57:52
  Absolutely is worth it. If Daniel Jones set the market at forty million
• 57:57
  for a middle the road quarterback, you better believe Cousins is worth forty five.
• 58:04
  But that doesn't mean the Vikings have to spring for it. We have
• 58:06
  a documented track record of how he fits within this team, and there's always
• 58:10
  something wrong when he's quarterback. It's usually not him, but there's a if
• 58:15
  the defense is cooking, then the offense sucks. If the defense or if
• 58:20
  he's cooking, then Jefferson's hurt. You know, Addison's emerging. Oh,
• 58:22
  then Cousins gets hurt. There's always something awry. And my biggest I don't
• 58:27
  know if we're getting into this later. The thing that I affects my decision
• 58:30
  making most on you know formula in this opinion is I want the rookie quarterback
• 58:36
  guy. If it's Drake May, Jayden Daniels, JJ McCarthy, I want
• 58:39
  him to start in this offense now, so that you know Jordan Addison has
• 58:45
  four years left, they only own him. Beyond that, Jefferson's gonna sign
• 58:50
  a deal. It's probably gonna be four years, one hundred and thirty million,
• 58:52
  and then TJ. Howkinson's gonna be twenty eight. I feel like we
• 58:55
  have this precious four years with all of the sweet ass offense. I want
• 59:00
  the rookie quarterback to start developing now so that when we get to twenty twenty
• 59:04
  five and twenty twenty six, those can be our super Bowl window. If
• 59:07
  we're re up with cousins, we're not going to see the rookie guy until
• 59:12
  twenty twenty six or so, and then you only got two years to get
• 59:15
  it right. And in all likelihood, the rookie quarterback guy isn't going to
• 59:20
  go thirteen and four and go win a super Bowl his first year starting.
• 59:22
  So I would rather with all of these offensive weapons while they're still in this
• 59:27
  contractual window. I want that guy to start learning on the job now rather
• 59:30
  than all right, well maybe we'll win it with Kirk. That's my personal
• 59:34
  take. Would you be to that? Would you be more in favor of
• 59:38
  just handing the keys over to one of those rookies and just saying, yeah,
• 59:42
  let's figure this out over the next couple of years, rather than trying
• 59:45
  to like do what the Packers have done historically, you know, bring in
• 59:50
  the rookie, let him sit behind the veteran for a couple of years,
• 59:52
  and then get rid of the vet and see what happens from there. I
• 59:57
  wanted them to do that two years ago, and they decide not to.
• 1:00:00
  But thank god they didn't draft a quarterback from that twenty twenty two draft class
• 1:00:04
  because it was not good. The only one that was worth the dam was
• 1:00:07
  Brock Purty and who would have known that. So ideally you would have had
• 1:00:12
  the guy, you know, sitting and waiting and hopefully ready for this moment.
• 1:00:16
  But they tried that with Kellen mon No good. I guess. I
• 1:00:20
  guess Jaron Hall is still a wait and see, But yeah, I would
• 1:00:23
  if that's the decision that they make, Like, you know what, we
• 1:00:27
  want cousins back. We've come to an agreement for two years eighty million,
• 1:00:30
  and by the way, we're also drafting JJ McCarthy. I will be very
• 1:00:34
  excited about it. But the scenario that I Drew up. Is my holy
• 1:00:39
  grail is that they tell cousins goodbye, we really appreciated it, and then
• 1:00:44
  they make a bold, splashy trade to go get for me Drake May.
• 1:00:46
  Because I keep telling myself between the Commanders and the Patriots, one of those
• 1:00:51
  teams is going to realize, you know what, we're not a quarterback away
• 1:00:54
  from doing this doing very well. And I think one of those teams will
• 1:00:59
  say, god, we can. We can get two first rounders, two
• 1:01:00
  second rounders off the Vikings and then you know, we'll do what we have
• 1:01:04
  to do for this year. We'll take our lumps and then we're gonna have
• 1:01:07
  draft capital bonanza. We can go get arch Manning at a couple. You
• 1:01:09
  know, those possibilities are limitless. So my endorsement is hell or high water,
• 1:01:15
  trade up to get Drake May. That's my first one. And I
• 1:01:19
  could be talked into Jade and Daniels depending on how his combined. Guy.
• 1:01:22
  The only thing about Daniels it scares me is he might be a little slight
• 1:01:24
  in the frame. I don't know if he'll be as durable as we hope.
• 1:01:29
  That some of these running quarterbacks are mobile quarterbacks. Excuse me, yeah.
• 1:01:34
  So I was gonna ask who your guy would be if it's Drake May,
• 1:01:37
  Yeah, yeah. Last year and last year I have this in print,
• 1:01:40
  it was c J. Stroud. When I watched. When I watched
• 1:01:44
  all of it, I try to figure out which guy absolutely will not be
• 1:01:47
  the bust because I don't want to be stuck with that guy and I don't
• 1:01:51
  want to be wrong about it from an analyst perspective. And I kept coming
• 1:01:53
  back to c J. Stroud because he wasn't twenty five like every quarterback was.
• 1:01:58
  Last year in the draft, he just looked so damn poised at Ohio
• 1:02:02
  State and then the other intangibles where he's played in ginormous games for Ohio State,
• 1:02:07
  and then he hey did both. He could scramble out of the pocket
• 1:02:10
  when he needed him to. I swear we watch every playoff game between Josh
• 1:02:15
  Allen, Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, and when it's third and eight,
• 1:02:19
  they're taking off and running, and we need a guy who can do that
• 1:02:22
  if we want to keep up with, you know, all these teams that
• 1:02:23
  you strive to be. So last year my endorsement was to trade the farm
• 1:02:28
  for CJ. Stroud. I wrote that when it was still kind of that
• 1:02:30
  Stroud could possibly fall to four or five I end up going to But yeah,
• 1:02:36
  right now, Drake May is the guy that I've circled. I would
• 1:02:38
  be content with Jaden Daniels and then the other ones you can just hang tight
• 1:02:44
  and drafted eleven or trade back, whether it's Pennix or McCarthy. I wouldn't
• 1:02:49
  just say necessarily, yeah, let's go with Pennix and that's the guy,
• 1:02:52
  because then I will fully expect like a four and thirteen season. While he
• 1:02:55
  really warns. I think Drake May, if we're right about his guys,
• 1:03:00
  report, could probably bring them closer to five hundred and first year and we'd
• 1:03:02
  call that, you know, a great season with a rookie quarterback. Yeah,
• 1:03:07
  well, I trust you. I believe in your thoughts, So I'm
• 1:03:09
  going to steal your thoughts and do it. Drake. At Drake May stuff,
• 1:03:14
  it's really cool. His arm is there. He's like Josh Allen that
• 1:03:17
  there's real no drop like drop off when he tucks it and runs. It's
• 1:03:22
  not some like you know, old white guy who looks really slow, like
• 1:03:24
  he actually looks like he knows what he's doing. And this is all assuming
• 1:03:28
  by the way that Caleb Williams is going number one. No matter what,
• 1:03:31
  we have a long way to go in the draft let up, So there's
• 1:03:34
  a chance that Caleb Williams does something funky or everybody falls in love with Drake
• 1:03:37
  May, and a lot of these thoughts will apply to Caleb Williams. But
• 1:03:42
  in terms of realism, I think trading up for Drake May with the Commanders,
• 1:03:46
  maybe the Patriots, I think that can be done by the Vikings.
• 1:03:50
  You just have to be willing to give up probably two first and two seconds,
• 1:03:53
  and then if you're making the bold move, you gotta make the bold
• 1:03:57
  move and have theones to do it. So so, yeah, if they
• 1:04:01
  if they draft one, what are your thoughts on the idea of like a
• 1:04:05
  bridge quarterback and who who could that realistically be if they do go that route.
• 1:04:12
  So I grew up with those I'm forty years old now, and you
• 1:04:15
  never started a rookie quarterback. I think I think, I think I told
• 1:04:19
  you guys on the last show. Maybe it didn't. I in three years
• 1:04:21
  I lived in Houston, Texas, and they drafted Steve McNair. That team
• 1:04:26
  was so bad and they absolutely refused to put his ass in ever, and
• 1:04:30
  we had season tickets through my stepdad's job, and so we go and we
• 1:04:34
  just boo the oilers for not playing Steve McNair. Ever since then, I
• 1:04:39
  have been totally turned off by the idea of bridge quarterbacks. I think they're
• 1:04:43
  stupid, Like you know, thankfully the NFL is caught on, Like,
• 1:04:45
  you don't really need them anymore unless the guy is terribly raw. Like let's
• 1:04:49
  say Jared Hall was our big inspired plan at the beginning of the season.
• 1:04:53
  You would have needed a bridge quarterback for him. But if you're gonna draft
• 1:04:56
  one of these guys in the top ten, maybe get maybe even get away
• 1:05:00
  with it Pennix at eleven. I'd rather them just go ahead and start the
• 1:05:03
  guy out of the gate. Baker Mayfield's gonna deserve like thirty million at a
• 1:05:09
  minimum for what he did, So I mean, you might as well keep
• 1:05:11
  cousins if you're gonna do that, I mean a Jacoby Brissett, I guess.
• 1:05:15
  But to me, Nick Mullens, if you absolutely want to do the
• 1:05:17
  bridge quarterback, just do that with him. The narrative Nick Mullens, Yep,
• 1:05:21
  the narrative with Nick Mullens would have been one hundred percent different if the
• 1:05:25
  Brian Flores defense didn't die the moment Mullens stepped foot on the fields, like
• 1:05:30
  that fourth quarter against the Bengals, Like a week after I talked to you
• 1:05:33
  guys, we were all high on the Vikings defense and then it just stopped
• 1:05:38
  being good. I will say, for the rest of my life to anybody
• 1:05:42
  that cares, Nick Mullens would have had his own Joe Flacco story if the
• 1:05:45
  Vikings defense didn't, just because Flacco was throwing picks too. But nobody cares
• 1:05:49
  because they were winning. So Nick Mullens is like one of the most fun
• 1:05:54
  backup quarterbacks I've ever seen. It's third and twenty eight. Oh that's cool.
• 1:05:57
  Mullens will get it. Like with Cousins, he'd be like, oh
• 1:06:00
  god, there's no way we're getting this. But Mullins was such a you
• 1:06:02
  know, erratic gunslinger. I really wish that the defense would have been sufficient
• 1:06:09
  while he was playing, because then he wouldn't have had to been that greedy
• 1:06:12
  on a lot of those with those weird passes. So if the Vikings said,
• 1:06:15
  you know what, we're doing a bridge quarterback thing, I would say,
• 1:06:17
  you might as well just do it with Nick Mullins. Otherwise, you
• 1:06:20
  can even bring Dobbs back for a couple of weeks if you want to,
• 1:06:23
  just you know, Hick the guy with through the door. But yeah,
• 1:06:26
  I don't have any interest in going and spending twenty thirty million on Bridge quarterback.
• 1:06:29
  You might as well keep Kirk. Yeah, yeah, I guess that's
• 1:06:31
  a point. And I think you it may have been a throwaway comment you
• 1:06:35
  made a little bit ago, but I think you kind of hit the nail
• 1:06:38
  on the head on what the quote unquote hometown discount would realistically be for the
• 1:06:43
  Vikings. You said two years eighty million dollars. That's probably closer to realistic
• 1:06:47
  than anything else. Yeah, that's I got really spooked when when that conversation
• 1:06:51
  started about two weeks ago, they you know, put it in quote sometown
• 1:06:55
  discount. And I think there's still fans who think that means two years twenty
• 1:07:00
  million or so. No, a hometown discount would be two years and seventy
• 1:07:03
  million. Especially Cousins is his greatest attribute is being the shrewd business man.
• 1:07:10
  And here we are in the twelfth season is gonna be thirteenth of his career
• 1:07:14
  that we're thinking that he's gonna suddenly start taking hometown discounts. The only guy
• 1:07:16
  that ever does that is Tom Brady, and we assume that the other quarterbacks
• 1:07:20
  should do it. So when I saw the latest buzz that Cousins wants two
• 1:07:25
  years and ninety millions, I was like, there he is. That's the
• 1:07:27
  Kirk that we know and love. He's gonna get his guaranteed cash. The
• 1:07:30
  other one that's intriguing and it'll make a lot of you listeners and viewers roll
• 1:07:34
  your eyes is Russell Wilson. And it's not because I want Russell Wilson on
• 1:07:39
  the Vikings. It's because he will be certifiably cheap. If he were to
• 1:07:44
  sign a big deal. All of his guaranteed money from the Broncos is offset
• 1:07:48
  and nullified. So he has a vested interest in signing a small, dem
• 1:07:54
  small deal with some team so he can keep that Broncos guaranteed cash. So
• 1:07:58
  anytime you've ever seen all so Wilson to the Vikings, it's not because people
• 1:08:01
  think he's the solution, is that if you want a bridge quarterback, he's
• 1:08:04
  going to be crazy cheap. Like we're talking like ve minimum cheap. Interesting,
• 1:08:10
  Yeah, that kind of would would change my thought process on that a
• 1:08:13
  little bit, but not too much. Yeah, I guess. I guess
• 1:08:18
  we're coming down to some of the things that I had written down. I
• 1:08:21
  did want to do something kind of fun before we were done talking to you
• 1:08:25
  today, Dustin. I wanted to do just a totally unfair, not holding
• 1:08:31
  you to this opinion at all, but a way too early record prediction for
• 1:08:36
  the Vikings in twenty twenty four. We know who the opponents will be when
• 1:08:42
  they're home and away, except for that London game, which I think will
• 1:08:44
  technically be a home game just in London. So yeah, just this is
• 1:08:50
  unfair, and this won't come back to bite you anywhere. It's just the
• 1:08:54
  internet. What's your record prediction for the Vikings next year? Okay, Well,
• 1:09:00
  because this is outrageous, I'm gonna have twofold. If they do do
• 1:09:04
  the proverbial run it back with Cousins, I believe they will be ten and
• 1:09:09
  seven. This is assuming that he's healthy. I think they'll be about ten
• 1:09:13
  and seven and who knows what that gets him, hopefully a playoff win.
• 1:09:16
  If they endorse my plan, I sound like if I'm running for senator here.
• 1:09:20
  If endorse my plan, which is straight up and get Drake May.
• 1:09:25
  I think you're looking at seven and ten, six or eleven, But we'll
• 1:09:29
  be really happy with that because you'll see the growth from that quarterback. So
• 1:09:32
  let's say, yeah, if they rip off the band aid and said we're
• 1:09:34
  going with somebody non Cousins, I think it will be an exciting seven and
• 1:09:40
  ten type of year. If they go back with Cousins, which I will
• 1:09:43
  get behind. We'll talk after that deal's done, and I'll sound like a
• 1:09:45
  different guy. I'll be like, yeah, we can do it. Maybe
• 1:09:48
  then I'll say yeah, ten and seven, eleven and six. Because I
• 1:09:51
  am of the rare minority opinion, I don't think this defense is horrible like
• 1:09:57
  you saw on Vikings Twitter, Well, we need to revamp this defense and
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  get all these new people. This defense was absolutely fabulous for like ten games
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  in the middle of the season, and I'm convinced that it just needs some
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  reinforcements. I don't think this is assuming you bring to Neil Hunter back,
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  but I don't think it's just this shitty thing that's macabre. All of a
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  sudden, I think, hey, this thing the luck ran out in December,
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  and I'm convinced that the defense has young building blocks, and yeah,
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  you'll get Hopefully you sign an edge rusher like Bryce Huff that's the guy I
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  want from the Jets. Hopefully you get an impact defensive tackle. I've been
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  asking for that for ten years and they always say, Nope, we're getting
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  Shamar Stephen or hey, we're getting Jonathan Bullard. They always get some guy
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  you've never heard of to play that position. So I'd like them to beef
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  up the defensive trenches. Yes, that is my that's my offseason vision is
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  trading up for the quarterback that they like and then adding defensive pieces, but
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  not a complete overhaul. Panic wise, awesome. Yeah, I could see
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  how Kirk would be the the best chance to win the most games in twenty
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  twenty four. Yeah, twenty twenty four, which I think is what you're
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  saying. If you're trying to win the most games this coming season, Kirk's
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  the best chance. But yeah, for the future. The reason I don't
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  have this gung ho Kirk Kirker we die mindset that there still is a lot
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  of Kirk guys and gals that you know, don't want him, no matter
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  what. The Vikers were four and four when he got hurt. If they
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  were seven and one, I'd be right there with you. I'd be like,
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  oh my god, how did we lose Kirk? It was our year.
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  But they were four and four, and so we are in there.
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  I mean, yeah, they were without Jefferson, but they started winning games
• 1:11:33
  with Jefferson went down. So I believe that because they were only five hundred
• 1:11:39
  at the time of his injury. That has brought me back to that,
• 1:11:42
  Like, God, what if they start four and four again in twenty twenty
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  four. I'm just a little spooked. If they were seven to one,
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  eight, No, six and two, I think we'd have an entire different
• 1:11:50
  conversation because we would have felt like we were this close and we got robbed
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  because you know, cousins as Achilles blew out. All right, Evan't you
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  got anything else, any any last minute tidbits. I was just looking over
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  here because I've got ESPN pulled up real quick. You got a Super Bowl
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  prediction for US, Dustin. Yeah, I was so disappointed because my preseason
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  one was Ravens over forty nine Ers, and I was like, yes,
• 1:12:18
  I got it right. I am absolutely done that betting against the Chiefs.
• 1:12:25
  I'm not a big better besides fantasy football. But prediction wise, I picked
• 1:12:29
  the Bills because I was like, all right, if the Bills are ever
• 1:12:30
  going to do it, it's going to be this game. This is their
• 1:12:33
  chance. And then I applied that same damn logic to the Ravens, and
• 1:12:38
  I'm getting just tricked into not believing into what the Chiefs can do when their
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  backs are up against the wall. So I'm going to take the Chiefs over
• 1:12:46
  the forty nine Ers, but I think it will be close. I think
• 1:12:50
  the Chiefs will probably win by three to six points. So let's say Chiefs
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  thirty to twenty four over the forty nine Ers. I am really scared by
• 1:13:00
  brock Purty and certain certain moments of games. I know the QB wins crowd
• 1:13:05
  thinks that he's elite. But in that divisional round game, let's see who
• 1:13:11
  did they beat? The Packers. H I swear to god, there was
• 1:13:15
  an hour he couldn't complete a single pass. I was even turning to my
• 1:13:17
  friends saying, they need to put in Sam Darnold. Man, this is
• 1:13:20
  this is it. You got to complete a pass in order to win this
• 1:13:23
  game. And ultimately he kind of figured it out in that final drive.
• 1:13:27
  So I am skittish that rock pretty. I don't think is this, you
• 1:13:30
  know, Kingmaker. I think he's along for the ride and good for him.
• 1:13:34
  You know, he's played quite well. He's just it's just a joke
• 1:13:36
  to me that we, you know, we want to show he'll be in
• 1:13:39
  everybody's power rankings, in the top five this summer. It's gonna drive me
• 1:13:42
  nuts. Yeah all right, well, yeah I can get behind that prediction.
• 1:13:46
  That's a pretty solid prediction. I don't think it's gonna offend anybody.
• 1:13:50
  Maybe Niners fans, but yeah, they got to know it in their heart
• 1:13:55
  of hearts too, Like I don't give a shit a pretty is good or
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  not. But I'm watching that game, and he looked like a moron.
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  He looked like Kellen mand for like an hour, like he just couldn't complete
• 1:14:03
  a pass. He looked completely ill equipped to be a quarterback. And then
• 1:14:08
  I can't remember exactly how they turned around, but in the fourth quarter,
• 1:14:11
  you know much too, like we were like, come on, all that
• 1:14:14
  paranoia I had about the Lions I had the week before with the Packers,
• 1:14:15
  I was like, oh my god, they're gonna be the cowboys on the
• 1:14:18
  road they're'd be the forty nine ers on the road. But yeah, give
• 1:14:20
  me the Chiefs by six and you'll finally have a repeat Super Bowl champion for
• 1:14:25
  the first time in twenty years. Awesome. Yeah, that's crazy. All
• 1:14:30
  right. Well, before we wrap up, you plugged some things last time
• 1:14:33
  you were with us, But anything else you want to plug or you want
• 1:14:35
  to plug the same kinds of things, You're kind of everywhere where can our
• 1:14:40
  listeners find you? Bikes Now is the YouTube channel. I record about five
• 1:14:45
  episodes per week, working with a dude named Tyler Ireland. He writes for
• 1:14:48
  Daily Norseman, and I invited him on as a guest a couple months ago
• 1:14:53
  and he was great and invited him to stay. And he loves doing a
• 1:14:56
  lot of behind the scenes work getting a lot of cool guests. So that's
• 1:14:59
  where you can see me on video. And then on Vikings Territory. I
• 1:15:02
  right on there all day, every day, every nook and cranny about the
• 1:15:08
  team. And I will just leave on this note that at the top of
• 1:15:11
  the show, Evan was correct. The only thing that matters right now about
• 1:15:15
  the Minnesota Vikings is well what he said was everything starts with Kirk and you
• 1:15:20
  know, depending on what they do, then they move forward in the offseason,
• 1:15:23
  which is totally correct. But the only thing that matters about Vikings football
• 1:15:27
  between now in the next five years is whether or not they get the quarterback
• 1:15:30
  selection. Right. All right, Hey, welcome back. Thanks for joining
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  us. As we got another chance to interview Dustin Baker. I had a
• 1:15:41
  lot of fun. Oh yeah talking. He's a good, good guy.
• 1:15:44
  Yeah, I like that dude. Yeah, So hopefully it sounds like we'll
• 1:15:47
  be able to get him back on the show soon. As far as I'm
• 1:15:51
  concerned, Dustin has an open invitation to come on our show. So yeah,
• 1:15:56
  but yeah, I think so. We got some things brewing there again,
• 1:16:00
  so uh yeah, that'd be a lot of fun to have them back.
• 1:16:02
  Yeah yeah, and uh we're not just a podcast, We're We're on
• 1:16:09
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• 1:16:12
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• 1:16:15
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• 1:16:31
  mean, shoot, We're on Reddit, which we haven't really done anything with,
• 1:16:35
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• 1:16:38
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• 1:16:47
  We're probably there. You think Ask Jeeves would yield any results for the
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• 1:16:55
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• 1:17:00
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• 1:17:04
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• 1:17:08
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• 1:17:14
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• 1:17:16
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• 1:17:19
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• 1:17:25
  and twenty five different beers. Yeah. We've doubled up on breweries a
• 1:17:29
  couple of times, but never the same beer twice. Yeah. And speaking
• 1:17:33
  of doubling up on breweries, I think very early on we had five cities
• 1:17:38
  shwifty hippie we did, which was another Probably they're more staple ipa yep.
• 1:17:43
  And again to reiterate, we've got the five Cities good Boy, good Boy
• 1:17:47
  IPA. And Evan really took to this one. Yeah, immediately before he
• 1:17:51
  tried it, he was showing love and affection to that one. So you
• 1:17:54
  have to check out the TikTok that content though. Yeah, other than the
• 1:18:00
  name and can, what do you think of this beer? I liked it.
• 1:18:02
  I said this at the beginning, and I mean many many more SIPs
• 1:18:08
  in just reiterate. It's straightforward, it doesn't mess around, it doesn't pretend
• 1:18:14
  to be something that it's not. Yeah, it's just a solid, just
• 1:18:17
  ip like a good boy would be. Just like a good dog, right,
• 1:18:20
  it doesn't mess around. He's just he's there. He's loyal. Like
• 1:18:26
  you ever have a bad day and you come home and your dog's so happy
• 1:18:30
  to see you, and it just kind of brightens your day a little bit.
• 1:18:33
  This is the beer equivalent to that, Like a bad day or a
• 1:18:36
  good day, who whatever, come home and man, the good Boy IPA
• 1:18:40
  is so happy to see you. Yeah. I like it a lot,
• 1:18:43
  so much so that during the Dustin Baker interview, I finished and poured another
• 1:18:47
  one. So no, it just magically filled up between now and then.
• 1:18:50
  Oh man, can you imagine five cities if you have a magic football beer
• 1:18:56
  glass? Let me know I would. I don't know how much I would
• 1:19:00
  pay for that, but probably more than I should. That might get us
• 1:19:02
  in trouble, might We're good with the four pack, yeah, tall Boys
• 1:19:10
  for now, and it was delicious and we'll definitely be back for some more.
• 1:19:15
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