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Vikings Free Agency Winds Down and That Would Be The Most Vikings Thing Ever | TSH Ep. 85 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome in to another episode
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  Speaker 1: of the School Hot I'm Evan and I'm Austin. We're
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  Speaker 1: just a couple of dudes from Iowa. We like drinking
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  Speaker 1: beer talking about the Viking, Yeah we do.
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  Speaker 2: And tonight we tried some amazing beer courtesy thank you
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  Speaker 2: of Big Row Brewery.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah we did. And we also tied up some loose
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  Speaker 1: ends on Vikings free agency as things kind of wind
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  Speaker 1: down that way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeh, And then we were gonna do it at some
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  Speaker 2: point we had to do it. We talked about some
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  Speaker 2: hypothetical scenarios that were quote the most Vikings things ever.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and we added a little bit of a twist.
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  Speaker 1: We ranked them from best to worst. So you shared
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  Speaker 1: yours that you came up with, I shared mind, and
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  Speaker 1: we had to rank them on a scale of one
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  Speaker 1: to five. It got kind of interesting, yeah, but it
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. So go ahead and grab
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  Speaker 1: a cold one. Join us for episode eighty five Soul.
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  Speaker 3: You appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Another thing, Oh well, I was going to say another thing.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate beer.
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  Speaker 4: Beer.
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  Speaker 1: That's where I was headed. Yeah, and this beer is
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  Speaker 1: kind of special too. This beer is special. This was
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  Speaker 1: gifted to us, Yeah, by Big Grove. So Actually, you're
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  Speaker 1: probably gonna see a lot of Big Grove coming up
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  Speaker 1: here because we got a handful of different beers from
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  Speaker 1: Big Grove just given to us.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we tagged them in something. We tried one
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  Speaker 2: of their beers recently, and they reached out and said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for all the love and asked if we'd like
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  Speaker 2: some free beer, which always is the case, Yes, we
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  Speaker 2: like free beer. It's happened a few times. There's been
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  Speaker 2: a few different breweries out there who have given us
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  Speaker 2: some solid beers. Iowa beer is the best beer, and
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  Speaker 2: Big Grove is some of the best in Iowa, so
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  Speaker 2: that's saying something. One of the six packs they gave
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  Speaker 2: us was this Big Ed Big Ed. Have have you
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  Speaker 2: ever tried the Big Ed?
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  Speaker 1: I have not, and I'm a little interested to see
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  Speaker 1: how this goes. These are these are hefty. Yeah, they're
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  Speaker 1: eight point two percent. It's a hazy double I p a. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think last week we tried our own, you know,
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  Speaker 2: born Ready nut brown ale, but also we tried Tilurians.
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  Speaker 1: Uh what was.
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  Speaker 2: The big Pee, the Big Peel, and that was like
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  Speaker 2: a four point nine percenter. It's really solid, really good.
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  Speaker 2: But this is definitely like almost double that. I've never
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  Speaker 2: had the Big Ed, but I'm a huge fan of
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  Speaker 2: their Easy Eddie. Yep, I'm gonna have a few different
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  Speaker 2: variations of the Eddie beer, the West Eddie, the Easy Eddie.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a Royal Eddy which is like nine percent.
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  Speaker 2: I've had that and that's really good. But you don't
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  Speaker 2: want to mess around too much with that, so we
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  Speaker 2: will be respectful of the Big Ed as well. I
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  Speaker 2: hope it's as good. I can't imagine it not being
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  Speaker 2: as good. I'm behind here, Evan. You had a really
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  Speaker 2: good poor there.
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  Speaker 1: Look at that. I was mindful of my poor this time.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, got a nice little poor going on. It's
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  Speaker 1: got a nice head going on at the top there,
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  Speaker 1: and I can smell it.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't even tried it yet, and the.
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  Speaker 1: Citrusy ipa vibes are ye coming off of that beer
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  Speaker 1: like it's their job.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm excited to try.
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  Speaker 2: It before we try it, just to officially say it
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  Speaker 2: big thanks to Big Road Brewery. And I forget the
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  Speaker 2: aim of the marketing person that I was messaging with.
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  Speaker 2: But Devin, our high school friend, yeah from high school
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  Speaker 2: that actually met up with me and gave us the
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  Speaker 2: beer in person. So thanks to Big Grove and all
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  Speaker 2: the people involved, we really appreciate it. But listeners like
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  Speaker 2: please know that we're still gonna give our honest opinions
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  Speaker 2: on these. I don't think I've ever had a Big
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  Speaker 2: Grove beer without thoroughly enjoying it. So we're gonna say
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  Speaker 2: nice things about these because that's all we can do,
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  Speaker 2: because they're going to be good. But yeah, thanks to everybody,
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  Speaker 2: and let's try it out. Let's gool school.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you can definitely taste that. It's a heavy hit.
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  Speaker 1: It's a it's a boozy one for one, yep, but
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  Speaker 1: it's good. It's uh, it's refreshing, very hobby oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: which I know you love and I like it a lot.
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  Speaker 3: It's not that I don't love hoppy beers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know what else to say off the
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  Speaker 1: bat other than it's very happy and you can tell
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  Speaker 1: it's high percentage.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, listeners, if you've ever had Big Roads Easy Eddie,
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  Speaker 2: which is one of their staple beers, the Eddie seems
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  Speaker 2: to be something that they're relying on quite a bit,
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  Speaker 2: and for good reason. It is fantastic, this Big Eddie.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe for good reason, tastes very similar to that,
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  Speaker 2: just a little bit boozier. So if you like the
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  Speaker 2: Easy Eddie and you're okay with that boozy kind of
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  Speaker 2: flavor being added in, then the Big ed is definitely
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  Speaker 2: going to be something for you.
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  Speaker 1: I like it a lot. I'm really excited to drink
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  Speaker 1: the rest of these, and I hope I don't wake
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  Speaker 1: up with a little bit of a headache tomorrow. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take it easy tonight, even though it's the Big Eddie.
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  Speaker 3: We'll take it easy like it's.
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  Speaker 1: The Easy Eddie. Man. Just look at that though. It
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  Speaker 1: looks like, yeah, like a like meme of a beer.
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  Speaker 1: Just how like stereotypical it looks with the nice light
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  Speaker 1: color that just solid head retention is really cool. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: with the poor you had yours looks like an AI
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  Speaker 1: generated It's like.
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  Speaker 3: Give me a picture of a beer. Yeah, that's what
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna show you.
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  Speaker 2: It's just missing the little bit of foam like dripping
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  Speaker 2: off yea glass.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I guess that's all we can really say about it
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  Speaker 2: until we have a couple more. But yeah, that's delicious.
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  Speaker 2: So far, good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Well, things have definitely kind of slowed down in the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings free agency world, which typically happens. It's usually like
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  Speaker 1: the first week is busy, busy, busy, and then it
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  Speaker 1: calms down. There hasn't been that big splashy trade or
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  Speaker 1: that big splashy surprise cut or anything like that from
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  Speaker 1: any team really in the NFL. It's been a pretty
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  Speaker 1: quiet free agency I think.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say it's officially been kind of quiet
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  Speaker 2: after that initial bang, but for a few days there
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  Speaker 2: really last week we kind of had some some big,
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  Speaker 2: you know, ESPN level talkers about a potential quarterback signing.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently Aaron Rodgers and the Vikings were kind of talking
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  Speaker 2: about signing and Aaron Rodgers playing in Minnesota, and there
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  Speaker 2: was a few i think the athletic a few reporters
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  Speaker 2: in the athletic we're really running with that and maybe
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  Speaker 2: hearing some information from one side or the other about how, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's real, the interest is there. Aaron might might hold
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  Speaker 2: up and go to Minnesota and sign there, but will
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  Speaker 2: he be a backup? Would he immediately start? What does
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  Speaker 2: that mean for JJ McCarthy. Ultimately reporters started saying, Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's they're they're going a different direction. Paul Allen was
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  Speaker 2: pretty heavily adamant on Twitter that, Hey, this is JJ's team,
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers is not signing here. What would you have
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  Speaker 2: thought We kind of talked about a little bit, but
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  Speaker 2: knowing it's like ninety nine point nine percent not happening
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  Speaker 2: right now, would you thought if Rogers had signed with Minnesota?
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  Speaker 1: My honest thoughts are I think it would be an
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  Speaker 1: entirely what's the word I'm looking for, a culture destroying move?
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  Speaker 1: It could be. I think it would be. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that there's even a could. I think it absolutely
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  Speaker 1: would be. Just knowing the personality that he is. He
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  Speaker 1: is a player coach, He's a player GM. He loves
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  Speaker 1: to have his hand in everything, and that's not the
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  Speaker 1: way this Vikings team is built. And we have a
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  Speaker 1: relatively new GM and a relatively new head coach who
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  Speaker 1: are killing it and doing a really good job. And
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  Speaker 1: now we have the quarterback of the future that the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback whisper of our head coach, Kevin O'Connell can mold
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  Speaker 1: in shape and hopefully make into this super successful quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: I think bringing in a guy like Aaron Rodgers just
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  Speaker 1: it totally upsets the apple cart. It completely tears down
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  Speaker 1: any wall or any foundation that you've been trying to
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  Speaker 1: build since Quaysy and Kosi came in, and you start
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  Speaker 1: over at square one. I think it would have been
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  Speaker 1: like a like a fireable offense for quays And apparently
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  Speaker 1: from the rumors I heard, it wasn't even really Quaysy's decision.
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  Speaker 1: They said, KOs, it's it's your call. It's your decision
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  Speaker 1: to make when it comes to the quarterback position. You're
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  Speaker 1: the expert. You make the decision.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm hoping he said, no, we're going with JJ.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what I really hope is what they're reporting is
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  Speaker 2: that everything was considered. I think you're taking a motion
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  Speaker 2: out of it. Anytime, you know, you potentially, if everything
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  Speaker 2: I heard is true, have a four time MVP, you know,
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  Speaker 2: generally generationally great quarterback. Anytime he says something like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to play for your team, you should at
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  Speaker 2: least weigh the options. And if the answer is what
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  Speaker 2: you and I both think it was, that it would
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  Speaker 2: be a mistake ultimately and it would kind of disrupt
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  Speaker 2: the culture they got going good or bad, probably bad
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  Speaker 2: in the end. Then you make that decision and you
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  Speaker 2: roll with it and you continue with the JJ McCarthy
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  Speaker 2: plan that you've been, you know, going with since you
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  Speaker 2: let Kirk walk, since before it was officially a JJ
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  Speaker 2: McCarthy plan, it was more of a rookie quarterback plan.
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  Speaker 2: So I hope they did talk about it, just like
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  Speaker 2: I hope they talk about every position down to long snapper,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like, you know, you got to it's your livelihood.
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  Speaker 2: You got to build the best team ever. But ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: I'm personally glad Aaron Rodgers probably won't be a Viking.
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  Speaker 2: But if it had happened, I think you and I
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  Speaker 2: both would be like oof, all right, I guess we're
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  Speaker 2: rolling with it. We wouldn't have boycotted the team. The
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  Speaker 2: skullhop wouldn't have stopped, you know, we wouldn't have stopped
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  Speaker 2: our podcast. Like we would have rooted for the Vikings
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  Speaker 2: and the players on the Vikings. And just like with
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  Speaker 2: farv we were both at college age when Brett Farr signed,
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  Speaker 2: growing up our entire childhood hating Brett Farr because he
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  Speaker 2: was the quarterback of the Packers and after that guy,
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  Speaker 2: and then it was controversial when he signed, and I
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  Speaker 2: kind of came around to it, and then ultimately that
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  Speaker 2: that forty nine Ers game is when everybody was like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, we got Brett Favre, We're going So we
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  Speaker 2: would have backed Aaron Rodgers until it got nasty, which
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  Speaker 2: it might have gotten nasty in trading camp.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it was definitely ominous though there for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days because the Vikings mysteriously stopped spending money.
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  Speaker 1: They had spent the most money by far, and then
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  Speaker 1: they stopped with about thirty two million dollars left in
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  Speaker 1: cap space and they still haven't spent that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, they haven't.
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  Speaker 1: But what's curious to me is that's about the going
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  Speaker 1: rate of what Aaron Rodgers would have been paid. And
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  Speaker 1: I kept thinking to myself, boy, I sure hope they're
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  Speaker 1: not saving that for something like that, because number one one,
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  Speaker 1: for all the reasons I've already mentioned, it wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: a good idea. And number two, now you're done, you
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  Speaker 1: have no more money to spend, and I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe there are three more ten million dollar players out
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  Speaker 1: there that you could bring in that would be beneficial
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  Speaker 1: to the team as opposed to one thirty million dollar player.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so well, and you bring that up too. I
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  Speaker 2: was listening to Leyton Glodex strictly Vikings. His most recent
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  Speaker 2: episode from the last couple of days. Layton was on
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  Speaker 2: our show a handful of that, there are a few
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  Speaker 2: episodes ago, but he was saying just that point, the
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  Speaker 2: Vikings had, you know, just about that much money. But
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  Speaker 2: his point, which I totally agree with, was if you
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  Speaker 2: were going to sign a quarterback deserving of that much money,
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  Speaker 2: you should have just signed Sam Darnald. Yeah, because there
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  Speaker 2: Donald was a better quarterback in twenty twenty four than
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers was, and the foundation was set for Donald
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  Speaker 2: to be decent in Minnesota. Again, that wasn't exactly what
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  Speaker 2: Leyton was advocating for. That's not what I'm saying. I
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  Speaker 2: wish it happened. But if you were going to spend
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  Speaker 2: that much money on a quarterback and not, you know,
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  Speaker 2: go with JJ McCarthy, then you might as well go
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  Speaker 2: with what's immediately been working, regardless of the last two games.
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  Speaker 3: That's actually a really good point. So yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really happy that that drama seems to have died
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  Speaker 1: down and that it's no longer even really an option,
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  Speaker 1: and that both sides have kind of quieted talks.
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  Speaker 3: I saw something.
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  Speaker 1: Today that basically just said it's it's pretty much a
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  Speaker 1: foregone conclusion that he's Aaron Rodgers is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a Steeler. Yeah. I've seen that too, and it's not
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  Speaker 1: official yet, at least as of the time of our
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  Speaker 1: recording here, but I wouldn't be surprised if that happens.
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  Speaker 1: And if that happens, great, good for them, Mike Tomlin,
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  Speaker 1: good for you.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully you can win more than ten games.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing about Mike Tomlin too. Isn't it
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  Speaker 2: a fact that he's never had a losing season.
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  Speaker 3: He's never had a losing season, but he usually only wins.
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  Speaker 1: Like ten days. Well, I mean, it's hard to argue
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  Speaker 1: tom Win's a great coach.
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  Speaker 3: But oh yeah, I'm not trying to throw shade.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to point out the irony and never
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  Speaker 1: having a losing season but never really cracking into that
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  Speaker 1: upper echelon of like, wow, you guys had an amazing season.
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  Speaker 1: I think he wanted didn't you win a super Bowl?
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  Speaker 1: Not to immediately argue with you, but I no.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, I'm not, And that wasn't my point at all.
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  Speaker 1: I think he is a super Bowl winning coach, but
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  Speaker 1: and he's he's a phenomenal coach, and I think he's
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  Speaker 1: a phenomenal leader.
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  Speaker 3: There was a video that came out this year.
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  Speaker 1: I think one of his players came off the field
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  Speaker 1: and they'd made a mistake or something, and I forget,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: but he grabbed him by the shoulder pad stopped him.
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  Speaker 1: And there's like, there's footage of this out there somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: and he corrected him.
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  Speaker 3: He was tough, but he was. He was he was
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  Speaker 3: trying to help the player, not just to like you're
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  Speaker 3: an idiot. Yeah, he was.
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  Speaker 1: He was being constructive, he was he was trying to
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  Speaker 1: build the player up and saying, hey, we don't we
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  Speaker 1: don't do that here.
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  Speaker 3: That's not how we roll. And so I've got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of respect for that guy. I think he's a
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  Speaker 3: heck of a coach.
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  Speaker 2: We'll touch on this topic a little bit later, but
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  Speaker 2: how about Mike Tomlin being the most Vikings thing ever
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  Speaker 2: coming in being the Vikings defensive coordinator for one season
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  Speaker 2: and then immediately jumping getting a Steelers head coaching job,
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  Speaker 2: which they never hire people because they never fired people.
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  Speaker 2: They've probably only had like five head coaches in their history.
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  Speaker 2: Don't check me on that I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know exactly the number, but then he goes on
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  Speaker 1: and all he does is win a couple of Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowls with Ben Roethlisberger, and the Vikings chose to keep
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  Speaker 1: I think it was Childress at the time as head
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  Speaker 1: coach over Mike Tomblin. What could have been. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: are foreshadowing our next segment, But I feel like we
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  Speaker 1: need to spend a little bit more time on free agency.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's still a little bit of stuff we
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  Speaker 1: can milk out of that.
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  Speaker 3: So I found a.
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  Speaker 1: Really good tweet here from school City, and I'll try
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  Speaker 1: to put that up here so everybody can see it here.
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  Speaker 1: But this was to me the most comprehensive list of
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  Speaker 1: all of the ins and outs of free agency as
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  Speaker 1: it relates to the Vikings, both players coming in and
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: players going out, And we'll put it up here, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to read the whole list.
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  Speaker 3: So if you're listening, this would.
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  Speaker 1: Be a good reminder to go watch us on YouTube
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: or watch on Spotify because you can see some of
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: these things that we're talking about. But maybe what we
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: could do here really quick is just kind of off
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  Speaker 1: the cuff, talk about our favorite move and our least
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  Speaker 1: favorite move.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, from this list.
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  Speaker 1: So we've got list of players that were resigned, so
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  Speaker 1: they played for the Vikings last year. The Vikings have
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: resigned them new acquisitions, so free agents that have come
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: in from other teams. There's a pretty lengthy list of those.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: There's also a pretty lengthy list of players lost in
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: free agency, so players that were Vikings last year that
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: are now playing for other teams. We have a few
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: players that were released or traded, and then we have
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: one trade obviously, Jordan Mason running back coming in from
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers for some draft picks.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Favorite move and least favorite move from this list in
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Vikings free agency.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and I think we kind of touched
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: on this a little bit last week with Front of
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: the Show for us too. But my favorite move is
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: more of a a signal of what many of these
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: moves have shown. They they let Sam Darnold, you know,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: get a well earned contract with a different team. They
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: bolstered up the offensive end defensive lines. So my favorite
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: move is that they weren't afraid to make some pretty
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: big changes, especially with Sam Darnold. A scary change to
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: go from a guy that is working that has played
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: well minus the last two games, and to continue with
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: a plan that you know, that competitive rebuild plan. I
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: think the rebuild is kind of done now unless JJ
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: McCarthy doesn't work out and it's like, well that rebuild
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: didn't work, you know. But I think as far as
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: since Quasi said the term competitive rebuild until now, they've
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: done it. They've accomplished it, keeping the best parts of
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: their roster, re upping you know, the up and coming
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: parts of their roster, and signing big names to fill
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: you know, glaring needs.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: So my favorite move.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Is multiple moves showing they're not afraid to do the
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: scary things and build the best team they can.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean there's some big names on that
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: list of lost players, players that were Vikings that are gone,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Like we've already talked about Sam Darnold, but Cam buying them.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: He was a big contributor, contributor on defense, Cam Robinson
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: stepped in and filled in admirably for Christian Darisa Patrick
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Pat Jones. He was hot to start the season. I
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: thought he would like lead the league in sacks at
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: one point, like he was killing it. He kind of
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: tapered off there, but man, he was still a force
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: to be reckoned with Jerry Tillery. We talked about him
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: a little bit before we started recording. He he's probably
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: one of those guys that contributed more like off the
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: field to the team culture and maybe like even on
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the field in ways that you don't see on paper. Yeah.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: So like some some pretty big losses for this Vikings
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: team that was actually really good this last year.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, So what about I agree with your favorite favorite move.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: I think my favorite move.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Is the trade for Jordan Mason, and I think it's
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: maybe the cheap answer, it's maybe the easy one, but
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: you have to kind of cascade that with re signing
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Aaron Jones. I think you've got Jordan Mason, who's a
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: little bit younger. You've got Aaron Jones, who's a little
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: bit older, more experienced. Now you have that dynamic one
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: two punch that all of the other successful teams in
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: the league have had. When Jordan Mason was still with
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: the Niners, it was CMC and Jordan Mason. You had, uh,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I forget their names, Jamiir Gibbs and David David Montgomery
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: and Detroit Knuckles and Sonic and Sonic and Knuckles. Yeah, right,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Like all, all of the really good teams have that
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: one two punch at running back, and it felt like
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: we lacked that this last season. Aaron Jones was the guy,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: and we just didn't have an answer. Cam Akers wasn't
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: really the answer for that RB two position. Who's the
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: other one er? Eddie is getting us is a big edge? No,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: My wheels were just spinning there for a minute.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Who's that other running back?
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: No?
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Chi Chandler. Yeah, Like there was just no answer there.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: So I like that move a lot. And then to
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: cascade that even further, We've talked a lot about this
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: kind of revamped offensive line. That's a move that's gonna
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: help those running backs as well. So I think all
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: of those things have been phenomenal, but I'm most excited
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: to see how those things open up. The offensive line
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: opens up for both of those backs. Yeah, I'm excited
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: for that. Do you have a least favorite? I think
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: we talked a little bit about Bubba Bolden last week.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: He's definitely on my list of least favorite. I think
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: to like I would have to probably go to that
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: player's lost list and probably involve like cam Binam or
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Jerry Tillery or players like that. Because I'm upset that
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: they're no longer Vikings and I enjoyed watching them play.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: It's not that they're bad, it's just that they were great,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: and I wanted them to stay and wanted them to
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: continue contributing to what was happening. But yeah, yeah, let's
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: say something like that. My Ley's favorite, I'll have to
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: talk about it is Rondell Moore. Interesting. I think he
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: could be good. And we spent some time with for
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Us last week kind of talking about Rondel Moore and
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: how he can't He's got a lot of potential, and
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I think I saw somebody on Twitter saying that he
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: kind of makes it reminds them of like a poor
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: man's Percy Harvin, just in the way that he can
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: he can move and be electric, and but he's still,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: you know, a wide receiver three maybe, And I don't
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I don't hate that they signed him, but I wish
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: they would have done a bigger move at the wide
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: receiver three spot. I was kind of interested in seeing
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: if they'd go after Cooper cup. I mean, I think
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I saw something on you know, day one a free
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: agency that Adam Thielen had re done his contract to
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: guarantee that he would stay in Carolina. But I mean
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: maybe I don't know if the blood is bad there
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: in that relationship, but maybe they could have pursued potentially
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: REI yeah, a reunion with Adam Thielen, either via trade
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: or if Carolina would have cut him. They never did that,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: so that wouldn't they would have had to be a trade.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: But I think the Vikings could have done more to
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: make a bigger impact at that wide receiver three spot.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, Deebo Samuel, he was traded for like a
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: fifth round pick. Granted, his contract dollars were a factor
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: in that, but it's not like the shoot who traded
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: for Depot the Commanders. Oh yeah, it's not like they
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: had to completely send a package that the forty nine
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: ers couldn't say no to. And I mean they could
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: still make some moves.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: They could draft a guy receiver is probably not the
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: biggest glaring need for the team right now. It's probably
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: something like QB two or making sure that cornerback room
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: is totally short up. But it would have been nice
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: to have a more solid move rather than a typical
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: quasi by low type move.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Oh. I definitely think bringing Adam Thielen back home would
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: have been huge. Well, and that would have been a
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: heart string thing. Oh yeah, for sure. I mean I
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: would have bought that hook line and sinker. I would
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: have been all in on that. And I remember looking
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: at the tweet or whatever the day he signed with
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Carolina and my heart kind of just sank a little bit.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: It's like, oh, man, well that unless he signs one
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: of those mythical one day contracts, which he might be
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: in front of Viking, you know, he's he's gone. But no,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I definitely agree with that too. I think that's a
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: really good point. And I don't know, who knows. Maybe
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Rondel Moore turns out to be this great wide receiver three.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Even if he's decent, Like, all he needs to do
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: is get four or five hundred ish yards, a couple touchdowns,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: no major like game altering drops or anything, and he'll
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: be good. Maybe some decent kick or punt returns. He
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: doesn't have to be justin Jefferson, but it would have
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: been nice to have a bigger name in that role.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: And another thing to remember with all of that is
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: we're still not sure what's gonna happen with Jordan Addison. Yeah,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: that wide receiver three position might become even more important
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: going into the season because Addison might be facing some
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: sort of a suspension from the league. Yeah, I think
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: from everything I'm seeing on Twitter and just the way
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: everybody's talking, it's probably safe to assume at this point.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Granted it's late March twenty four right or twenty five
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: right now, it's probably safe to assume we can just
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: expect Jordan Addison to get like a three ish game
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: suspension to start the season, and for what he's done, Like,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I think we could both agree he probably needs to
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: have something happen to him. I mean, yeah, thank goodness,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: he hasn't done anything concrete enough that like someone's life
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: is altered, But I mean, driving under the influence, driving recklessly,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: whether or not you're under the influence, Like you can't
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: do those things. So hopefully some kind of punishment happens
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: that's fair for him, that he can just learn from
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: and move on. Maybe he's already kind of learned from
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: what he needs to because since his last run in
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: with getting pulled over, I don't think publicly he's had
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: anything else come out.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: So he's been relatively quiet.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's probably safe to assume at least for
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: the first two three fourish games of this season, fightings
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: will have to be relying on what will end up
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: being the wide receiver three, and then even TJ. Hockinson,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: and then maybe, you know, the passing game involves the
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: running backs a little bit more, just they're gonna have
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: to spread themself a little bit more than they will
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: have to win Addison's back.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Are there any other players on that list that we
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: need to turn up some dirt on anything. We haven't
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: talked about anything that we're like, Yeah, we haven't really
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: spent a whole lot of time talking about those guys.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, we didn't really talk too much about the
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: loss of Ingram and Bradberry. I think productive you know,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: non signings. It's kind of crazy.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: That they were able to get a draft pick for
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Ingram and nothing for brad Bury, because I thought Bradbury
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: was the better of the two. But that's still nice
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: that the line is better now than it was.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: They both had their flaws.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Obviously Bradbury was undersized and just got bowled over, but
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: he was really smart in past protection and I think
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: that's where he shined. And then Ingram just I don't know.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: All I can remember with him as him stepping on
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Kirk's feet all the time, just taking that first step
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: back with his left foot and ended up stepping on
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Kirk's right foot and the two of them both fall over.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: And well, it's funny because it only happened twice. But
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: that's all I remember, more than should happen. Yeah, that's
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: all I remember. Yeah, I think just the ten thousand
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: foot view of the roster as it sits right now
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: March twenty fourth, compared to where things sat, you know,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: on kickoff of the Packer game that Kirk Cousins tore
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: his achilles, it has changed quite a bit. Oh yeah,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: and argue with me if you want, I would accept
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: a different opinion. I think the roster is better off
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: right now than it was kickoff of that game. How
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: things sat, what the future might look like. A major
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: caveat to that is, we don't technically know what we've
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: got in JJ McCarthy, and we just assume based off
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: of a good college career and a really fun preseason
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: game against other backups. But overall, I think the roster
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: is better now than it was right when Kirk before
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Kirk tore his achilles.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: I actually kind of agree with you.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I just thought of one more thing we should talk
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: about before we go on to our next segment, because
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: there's obviously been a ton of rumors circulating about the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: QB two, and we spent a lot of time at
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the beginning of this episode talking about Aaron Rodgers, and
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: you know that whole thing has definitely died down and
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: it's probably not likely that he ends up a Viking.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: But you mentioned Kirk Cousins, and I've heard rumors of Wow,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the Vikings are just kind of waiting to see if
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: maybe they can get him back. Or Ryan Tannehill's kind
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: of been the like flavor of the week, so to speak,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: in quarterback two world for the Vikings this week, that's
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: been the hot news, Oh Tannehill. Tannehill, Maybe, I don't
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: know who do you think is gonna be QB two
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: QB two for the Vikings, Well.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: I think we can rule out Kirk. I think for
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: the same reason a quarterback needy Jets team didn't clamor
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: after Sam Darnold. I think both the Vikings and Kirk
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Cousins would be happy to let that be what it is.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Right now, especially since it is so recent, Kirk is
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: still probably looking to be a starter. And I think
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: any quarterback that comes in, even Aaron Rodgers, you gotta
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: think immediately they're gonna sit behind JJ until JJ loses
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: the job or forces you to have to think elsewhere.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: But I think if you sign someone like a Ryan Tannehill,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: that's fine, that's perfect. He can be a veteran who's
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: been out of football for a year, I think, to
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: come in and kind of help coach up a young
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: guy and hopefully make the Vikings a better team. I
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: think Jamis Winston would have been a guy like that,
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: but he's with I think he signed with the Giants, right,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: that sounds right? Yeah, So I don't I don't honestly
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: really know. I think who's available, it's probably something like
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Tannehill or Flacco. I don't really know who else.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Did I hear North Dakota State kid? Oh gosh, he's
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: been all over the place, just just just the number
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: two overall pick in the draft a handful of years
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: ago and played for the Eagles and won a Super
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Bowl with them. That guy Carson Wentz.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Guy there it is.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: I think he signs. I think so because he was
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: with the Chiefs last year and they signed Gardner Minshew
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: to be their current backup.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Because I mean, Carson Wentz is definitely a like a
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: more of a local product. He's kind of like an
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Adam Thelen story. North Dakota isn't Minnesota, but everybody in
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: North Dakota cheers for the Vikings for the most part. Yeah.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I mean you'd have to be someone not from North
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Dakota to that lives there now to have to cheer
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: for another team. I feel like Carson Wentz is a
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: current free agent, so I can see I can see
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: that happening. I don't know how productive that would be
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: for anybody involved, but I don't know how credible it is.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: But I saw a tweet that made it seem like
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: the Vikings were at least somewhat interested in bringing back
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Josh Dobbs as a backup. I take the pastor I
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: would absolutely take the pastorn out as a backup. But yeah,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: that's what it is. I mean, we're talking about QB
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: two right now. The assumption should be JJ McCarthy is
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: a starting quarterback unless they did something crazy like remember
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: my hot take from a handful of episodes ago that
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: a starting quarterback would be traded that we don't really
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: think about. I mean, they would have to see like
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: we would have to get through OTAs, and the Vikings
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: would have to be like, oh crap. Jji McCarthy is
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: not He's not doing it for them to up and
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: try to trade for. I don't know, Justin Herbert or
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Joe Burrow is not going to be traded, but like,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: you know, some starter somewhere else. But outside of that
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: crazy scenario, Jajie McCarthy is the guy.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: No, And yeah, I completely agree, but I would like
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: to remind you of something you've said many times on
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: this show that quarterback two is a legitimate, legitimate position
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: and for.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: That reason, I wish Nick Mullens would have been resigning.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, well yeah, he's maybe one on that list
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: of players lost that we kind of wish wasn't. But anyways, No,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I think that continues to kind of be the remaining
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: untied loose end at this moment for the Vikings, and
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: they bring in to be that backup.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: And I think in the last handful of days, Dustin Baker,
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: friend of the show, Dustin Baker, had a very sobering
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: tweet and maybe even wrote an article about it. I
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: didn't dive too much into it, but he basically said, like, guys,
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: we're talking QB two here, like we are too worried
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: about QB two for the same reason I think Vikings
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: fans it's kind of neat to talk about, but I
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: think we're too worried about comp picks, Like, oh, I
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: don't care about the compet Yeah, I mean it's cool
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: to think, like, oh, yeah, the Fingers got an extra
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: third round pick. They might get another third round pick
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: next year, but like to be mad if they sign
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: a guy because it messes with the compic formula for
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: next year. Like, I think they're gonna be right now,
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: the Vikings are gonna get two compicks, one for sam
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Donold and one for Daniel Jones. I think they're projected. Yeah,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know exactly how it's working, but yeah, Dustin
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Baker basically was like, guys, talk about.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: It, but we shouldn't be fretting about QB two. The
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: classic Alan Iverson we're talking about. We're talking about practice.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Another name that's out there that probably isn't you know,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: too much of a meter mover. C J.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Bethard, former forty nine er, bounced around. He was, yeah,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: former Hawkey, he was a Jacksonville backup. But now they
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: have Nick Mullins. Mac Jones signs somewhere, but he would
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: have been a fun ish name to think about as
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: a backup QB, you know, somebody that might have some
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: potential in there. Whoever they end up signing, because they
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: have to right now. I mean, you can't walk into
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: the season with only two quarterbacks being an inexperienced not
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: rookie anymore, but a guy that's never played yet in
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy and then Brett Ripian who also totally inexperienced.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Maybe he's good enough to actually be QB two. But
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: you can't just roll with it, like you gotta sign
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: somebody else. So whoever they end up signing, we're gonna
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: sit back and be like, yeah, that Flacco was really nice,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: or yeah, Carson Wentz it's such a solid signing, or
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: trailing whoever they end up signing, we're gonna be like,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: all right, yeah, that's pretty good.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: That would be That would be a decent pickup. I
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: just picked his name out of I don't even know
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: if he's available.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: He probably isn't it.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: But no, I agree with you, and I'm not trying
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: to like, you know, conjure up any sort of like
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: it's clippity title, but like it's it's something that the
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Vikings need to figure out before we get to before
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: we probably before we get to the draft, honestly, Like
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: it needs to happen soon. Yeah, it's really nice. I
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: feel like it's a sign of convenience right now that
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: QB two is the biggest bigges just like I feel
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: like about this time last year, well we were talking
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: about quarterback, but at some point in the off season
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: a big talker ended up being Dalton Reisner, you know,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: you know, like like I think that should show how
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: good this Vikings team is. Eventually we'll start if they
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: don't bring in competition for Ryan Wright, we'll start talking about,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: you know, his punter at a good spot. And I mean,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: if if Will Rekerd misses any kick in training camp
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: or preseason, we might start talking like, oh, should we
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: bring in somebody to compete with Will Reicherd. Like it's
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: it's nice that we're not talking about like, oh, or
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: it's Justin Jefferson getting traded, yeah, or Christian Dearisi, he
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: might not resign, you know, Like we're not talking about
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: that stuff. We're talking about the nooks and crannies of
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: the roster, which is kind of funn Maybe that means
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: this Vikings team is better than we think it is.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I think it's about time that we
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: move into maybe a refill. Yeah, and another segment. And
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: this is a segment I texted you about literally hours ago.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: I like it though, it's and I was sitting at
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: the dinner table and it just like just the light
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: bulb came on in my brain and it was actually
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: kind of inspired by Layton Glowdek.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: We mentioned him a little bit ago.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we had the chance to have him on kind
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: of in a bonus episode a couple of weeks ago.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: You check that out.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: That's solid, and I think it's what we talked about
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: with Layton a few weeks ago.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Is kind of almost timeless in a sense that we
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: weren't we weren't talking like, oh, was Sam Darnold going
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: to resign? I think we might have actually mentioned that quickly.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: But like nothing we talked about with Layton weeks ago
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: is completely out of date and unlistenable right now. And
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: it was kind of a getting to know you with
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: us and him too, so it was fun. Yeah, March sixth,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: We put that out March sixth, so'll go check that out.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: But anyways, I was sitting at the dinner table tonight
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: and I remembered what he said. He mentioned right at
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: the end of that episode, you know, something about how
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: it would be the most Vikings thing ever if and
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: that got me thinking, what if we came up with
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: some different scenarios and you did some homework on this,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: and so did I, wouldn't it be the most vikings
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: thing ever? If so we each came up with these
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: scenarios for this coming year the next season, that would
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: be the most Vikings thing ever. And obviously I think
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: there are some things on There are definitely things on
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: my list that I hope don't come true. But I
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: think there are some actual things on this list that
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: I'd be like, actually, that would be okay. Oh man,
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: I went all negative and all negative. Yeah, okay, Well
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: I have a few. They're not super negative, they're somewhat
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: there's a silver lining to some of them.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Should we gamify this a little bit?
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: We don't know.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know how we would, but maybe like once
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: we read off our scenario, like if I read you mine,
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: then you could rank like, oh yeah, that's a seven
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: out of ten on the list of most Vikings things ever,
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: or like, dude, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: That's a one, or like, well, we age came up
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: with five. Yeah, so maybe we could just rank them
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: one through five. I'll rank yours, you rank mine, one
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: being the best, like yeah, if that happened, I'd actually
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: that would be okay, five being the worst. Oh man, okay,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: does that make sense? Yah? Yeah, I got you, Like
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: I hadn't even really thought of gamifying it, but yeah,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: I mean I don't know, but like you're talking best,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: like yeah, I really hope that happens, and worst being like,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: oh US Bank Stadium gets hit by a hurricane, like
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: that'd be the most Viking sing ever. I hope that's
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: that's number five, Like, please don't happen. This just reminds
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: me of this is so random, but one of the
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: I think it was one of the first times we
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: ever had Dustin Baker on our show. We did something
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: like this, Oh and I could not keep straight which
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: was best and which was worse. Do you remember that
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: that wasn't the first time we had Dustin on that one. Actually,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: it wasn't terribly long ago. It was a while ago.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: It was maybe like the third or fourth time he
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: was on with us. But I felt like an idiot. Anyways,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: I'll try to keep it straight.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Oh you know what it was this where people are
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: so they haven't they stopped listening a while Agoin, that's
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: all right. I think it was like your most surprising
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: cut and your least surprising cut of like players on
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: the Vikings roster coming into the twenty four season, and
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: like there was something about like you thought like, yeah,
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: I'd be most surprised, but our wires were crossed.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: My wires were across you and Dustin. But then when
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: you started talking, I started thinking the way you were,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, Evan's right, crap? Am I wrong? Anyways?
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: All right, So the rules are simple. We're gonna alternate
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: back and forth. But I like the game where we
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: have one through five and we have to rank them one, two, three, four, five,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: and once we rank one of them, it's locked in
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: at that spot, and then you have to you have
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: to put something else somewhere okay, it is somewhere else
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: in a spot. So if you say if if the
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: first one that I share is number five, it's the worst.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: You hope that doesn't happen.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: And then if you say something even worse, I'm gonna.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Be like, screw. I like it all right.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: Do you want to go first?
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: Do you want me to go first? I can go first.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: You said your yours are all negatives?
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, and I kind of as I wrote them down,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: I kind of wrote them, no, you'll see Okay, you
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: you put them. I haven't seen your stuff. I'm gonna
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: look away, all right, So I kind of wrote them out. So, okay,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: first thing, this would be the most Vikings thing ever. Uh.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: The Vikings finally get some respect from the national media
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: this offseason after a great off season and with JJ
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: McCarthy looking great in training camp and in the preseason,
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: they look like they're finally going to break out, while
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: the rest of the nf NFC North show signs of
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: falling apart. The Lions lost their brains in the coordinators,
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: the Bears, Kayla William doesn't really turn out, and Jordan
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Love turns into a pumpkin. The NFC North just falls
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: apart and the Vikings look great, and then they go
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: on to have a losing season, losing ten plus games
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: by one score. The most hyped the Vikings have ever
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: been coming into a season, and then they finish at
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: the bottom of the division.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Hmm okay, so a last place finish. After last week,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: you and I both said, oh, Forrest was sitting where
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: I'm sitting, and we're like, not Vikings finished.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: I'm just we win the division.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: To summarize it, basically, like, yeah, they're the most hyped
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: ever ESPN Steven A. Smith is finally a Vikings fan,
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: you know, like they're now they're finally hyping it up.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this about the Minnesota Vikings. I'm gonna
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: say it once and I want you to hear me.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: This is a really good it's a terrible impression. But
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: like you said a minute ago, nobody's listening anymore.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: So it's so, yeah, the Vikings are super hyped up.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: They're supposed to be good, and then kind of the
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: opposite of twenty twenty four. They're supposed to be good
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: and then they have a losing season just because they
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: just keep losing games.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'm gonna put that at three. I'm
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: just gonna put that smack dab in the middle. It
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: could be worse, but it could be better, all right,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: And I don't know what else you've got for me,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna take three for now.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: Let's say it's smack dab in the middle, all right?
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: All right? You ready for mine?
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Yep?
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: So this is history repeating itself. If this happens and
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: it doesn't necessarily direct well, I guess it could directly
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: impact the Vikings because they will play this team this year.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: But quarterbacks have a history of leaving the Vikings and
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: then finding success elsewhere, so it would be the most
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: Vikings thing ever if Sam Darnold left and immediately finds
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: success with Seattle. And for reference, rich Gannon played for
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: the Vikings from nineteen eighty seven to nineteen ninety two.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: He went on to be League MVP with the Raiders
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: in two thousand and two. He lost Super Bowl the
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: year late to another former Vikings quarterback in two thousand
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: and three, and that would be Brad Johnson, who was
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: a Vikings quarterback from ninety four to ninety eight and
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: won that Super Bowl in two thousand and three with
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Johnson came back to. Yeah, so it would
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: be the most Vikings thing ever for Sam Donald to
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: have a fantastic season, crumble at the end, and then
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: go on to be super successful with another team.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: Where do you put that one?
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: I'm going to put that. I'm going to put that
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: at a one.
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Okay, because yes, it would be the most Vikings thing ever.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: But like you kind of alluded to, it would kind
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: of affect the Vikings because they play them. But it's
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: also not like, like Sam Donald being successful in Seattle
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean the Vikings aren't successful or can't be successful.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: I'm still bitter about rich Gannon and Brad Johnson. Like,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: and I was a kid when those.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Brad Johnson came back and he had at least one
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: season where he gave us an eight game win streak. Yeah,
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: no super Bowl, but kind of redeemed himself a little bit.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: He was a fan favorite too, I feel like, yeah,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: in Minnesota, and I think rich Gannon was too.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: I think Vikings fans.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: He played before we were even born and then left
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: when we were babies. But like, I think he was
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: pretty well respected, well and admitted in my personal fanhood
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: Brad Johnson. I didn't really recognize him as a Vikings
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: quarterback until he came back. I think he had already
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: played for and left the Vikings before I kind of
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: woke up as a fan. And he's like one of
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: the first quarterbacks I remember, like when I was a
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: little kid, like when I was like five, six, seven,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: eight years old, growing up in Minnesota, and like we
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: would come home from church and we'd flip on the
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: TV and it's the Vikings playing in. Brad Johnson's the
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: one under center. He's what I remember. So yeah, no,
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: I'm a little bitter still about all that, and I
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: definitely think it would be the most Vikings thing ever
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: for that to happen with Sam Darnold. Yeah, all right,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: so a one for me. Okay, what's your next one?
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: All right, my next one.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: All of the big name free agents fail to play
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: as well as they always have. Fries and Kelly consistently
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: miss blocks, Bryan Byron, Murphy Junior suddenly can't cover anyone
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: and missus tackles left and right, Alan and Hargrave can't
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: stop the run. And on top of that, Garrett Bradbury
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: earns his first Pro Bowl and Sam Darnold is considered
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: for the MVP Award.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: So that's kind of similar.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: But but you added the like, not only do the
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: departing players play well elsewhere, but the the new players
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: play worse. You know, I've got to go with a
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: four on that one. I think for me, do you
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: think there's something worse? I've already said too much, You've
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: already said too much.
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: I don't okay, I'm gonna change.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, you can't.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: You can't in.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: I locked it in. It's for well, were you gonna
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: change it to just gonna go to the other side?
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: All right? Yeah, I think that's I mean sure, that
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: definitely would be the most vikings thing ever though, right, like, yeah,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: you know, you make all these splashy moves in free agency.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: We sit here, we say, oh man, it's such a
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: good thing that Garrett Bradbury's gone because he just you know,
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: he got.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: Bowled over all the time, yep.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: And you know, now he goes to play for New
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: England and he just lights it up and he's the
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: league's best center.
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: It would be the most vikings thing.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: And again, when I was writing that, I was kind
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: of thinking, like like when I said about your point,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold being successful in Seattle, like, good for him.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: I think we'd be happy for him unless it negatively
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: affected the Vikings. So that's why I threw in the
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: fries and Kelly can't block for anything. And then Garrett
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: Bradberry is also all of a sudden good, so it
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: twists the knife a little bit more. All right, what's
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: your next one? All right, my next one?
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: Do we still have? Yeah, we still have this over here.
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: Okay, so over here.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: You might not be able to see it, probably when
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: we crop it in later because we kind of zoom
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: in in our final edit. But we have a nice
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: little felt banner of the Maybe we can in the
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: video put like, yeah, superimposed. We'll take a picture of
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: that and then I'll put it up here. We'll put
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: it right here. Biggest comeback in NFL history, the Vikings
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: against the Colts, infamously h our friend Brian show up.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: Brian was there watching the game with us. He left
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: at halftime, and then miraculously the Vikings came back, and
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: literally miraculously, so he's.
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: Not allowed to watch Vikings games with us anymore.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: Well, Well, we just have the caveat of if they're
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: losing badly he needs, which I think he fully respects.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Anyways, So.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: To get down to it here, it would be the
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: most Vikings thing ever for the Vikings to give up
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: their claim to the biggest comeback ever, and they will
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: be on the losing end of that game. They will
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: be the ones to give up the biggest comeback of
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: all time to another team. You know what.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: I fully expect that to happen to the Vikings, whether
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: it's in twenty twenty five or twenty one to twenty five,
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: I fully expect that to happen at some point, whether
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: or not we're we live long enough to see it.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna put that at a three, okay, because you
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: could still have a decent season after losing a game, yep.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: Because ultimately that's what it would be, is losing a game. Now,
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: if you lose that way, because everybody gets injured, you know,
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: and the whole season's lost, that's one thing.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: But or whereast everybody just gives up and culture goes
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: out the window, and people are just mad and not
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: playing anymore.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: So records are made to be broken. And I kind
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: of view that largest comeback in NFL history. That's that's
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: to me, that's a record I put that up with,
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: you know, Adrian Peterson's two ninety six, you know for
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: sure as a fan, I think about that fondly as
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: if it's you know, a record that I witnessed, which
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: it is. So records get broken all the time.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: It's only a matter of time until somebody surpasses Adrian
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Peterson's rushing yardage total. He's only second.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: He didn't get the record, but somebody will pass him
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: and Eric Dickerson, you know, like these records will be broken,
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: so it would be the most Viking thing ever, especially
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: if it happened to them. But there will be a
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: bigger comeback at some point. So three for me, all right,
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: fair good one, by the way, that's solid. That was
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: one of my favorite ones.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: Like, you know, there's gonna be a point for the
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: rest of our lives until it happens. The Vikings are
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: going to be up by because what was they're gonna be.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: They're gonna be up by thirty three points on some buddy,
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: and we're all gonna be like here it is there. Finally,
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: this is going to be the most Vikings thing ever
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: to have them lose this game and lose the title
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: of greatest comeback in NFL history. It's going to happen, right,
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: Hopefully not this year?
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, hopefully.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: I mean we could still say that, and then they
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: could just keep winning and win by fifty.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: You know that'd be great too. All Right, my next one,
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: you ready.
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: I'm nervous though.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: This one's a little theatrical and it kind of touches on.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: Something we've already talked about a little bit. Okay, So
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: the team is in the Vikings, are in a critical
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: game to make the playoffs, needing just one more win
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: to clinch a spot. It's a close game, and they've
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: been playing great the whole season, and then in the
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: final minutes, with everything on the line, Dallas Turner sacks
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold in the end zone for a safety, except
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: he tackles him by his face mask and the refs
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: see it.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: This time. The Seahawks get a first down automatically because
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: you know you can't it's a face mask. Uh.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: They drive the rest of the field. Yeah, they drive
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: the rest of the field, and a cap it off
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold, Michael Vick's his way in for a rushing
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: touchdown to win the game breaking a tackle attempt by
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: Harrison Smith and they smiss the playoffs and that's Harrison
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: Smith's last play.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: Wow, that has to be dude.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you right now, don't make it
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: number one or don't make it number five, Like, don't
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: make it the worst.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: No.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: Five is oh yeah? Oh okay, Well.
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: I thought we were saying the scale one is the
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: nicest and five.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I wrote it down to it. I'm looking at
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: it right here. One is the best, five is the worst.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: That's what I had said. And I've already taken three
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: and four, which means I can pick five or one
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: or two. I'm just telling you right now, there's something
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: pick five. There's something worse than that. Yeah, I may
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: have gone overboard. Well, then I gotta go too, because
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: that sounds pretty awful. That would be. That's just a
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: culmination of the most Vikings things ever. And I wish
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: I could reverse my previous pick and that pick, because
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: I feel like that's how it should be. I think
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: the last one should be two and this one should
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: be four. So so far your rankings of my most
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: Vikings things ever, number one the nicest being I've just
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: been keeping track of the numbers. So I've taken number three,
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: number four, and number two the first scenario you presented
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: to me, I picked it three so far Sam Jarnold
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: icing the Vikings and ruining Harrison Smith's last play.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: That's number two. Number three is the Vikings coming into
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: twenty five with some hype, a lot of respect and
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: then just having a losing season. And then number four
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: for you is just all the big name free agents
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: fail while the leaving Vikings succeed with their new teams.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: And to recap, well, let's get you one more pick
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: and then we can recap your three picks.
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: But you've taken one the best and three and three,
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: all right, so mine aren't nearly as.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Detailed as yours. That's fine, And actually I have some
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: positive ones. I'm gonna throw a positive one year away.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: It's positive with some negative in it. I think the
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: Vikings will win, and this would be a very Vikings
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: thing to do, possibly the most Vikings thing ever to
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: win a game despite losing the turnover battle and making
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: multiple costly mistakes the game. It's not very specific, but
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: this last season, winning the turnover battle was a big thing.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell was touted as well. When he wins the
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: turnover battle, his teams win games. Yeah, and we've been
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: very critical of his clock management game management as a
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: young head coach. So actually, here, I don't even have
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: the vikings. I say KOC will win a game despite
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: losing the turnover battle and lots of different costly mistakes
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: throughout the game. It would be the most vikings thing
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: ever for that to happen.
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: It absolutely would, So I gotta go too. It would
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: be one, but one's already taken.
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I could see that happening too, Like, yeah,
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: holy crap, we're gonna be sitting there like, well, not
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: feeling so great about KOC right now. But man, that
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: crazy play by J. J. McCarthy. You really saved the
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: whole game, you know, stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, that's
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: number two for me, all right.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: So to recap your picks, your best scenario is Sam
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: Darnold finding a ton of success with Seattle, just like
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: rich Gannon did in the nineties, and then Brad Johnson did,
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: and the I guess both of them did the early
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: two thousands. It's kind of amazing that rich Gannon was
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: so long last yeah, he might be like up until
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and Joe Flacco and some like Tom Brady,
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: these super old guys. He might be the last like
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: true old guy to play the game at that position.
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: Was in there too, yeah for sure.
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: So you had that one as your best scenario, and
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: then your third scenario, So your middle scenario was the
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: Vikings giving up the claim to the biggest comeback ever
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: and being on the losing end of that scenario, kind
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: of right in the middle. And then your second best
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: or number two was koc specifically winning a game despite
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: losing the turnover battle, turning the ball over more than
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: they turned the ball over on the other team, and
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: making several costly mistakes throughout the game. So you've got
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: four and five the two worst left, and I have
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: one and five the best and the worst.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll see how this turns out for you,
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: all right. My next scenario, j McCarthy starts the season
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: off hot. He's breaking some single game records and pushing
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: for some single season even if they're only Vikings single
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: season records, but his knee starts to bother him again.
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: He plays through it for a couple of games, but
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: ultimately overdoes it damages his knee, significantly misses the rest
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: of the year, and really never returns to form, kind
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: of like a Carson Wentz scenario, and the Vikings ultimately
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: have to draft a their first round QB within the
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: next couple of years.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm missing some information here, like what's
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: the end result of the season for the Vikings?
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: How do they finish?
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: Oh? That's yeah, I didn't even think about that. I'm
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: just thinking about the Vikings quarterback situation. Okay. I mean
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: I'll leave it open ended for that, Okay, because I
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: now that i'm thinking about it, that literally happened to
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Carson Wentz and the Eagles, and all they've done since
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: then is win two Super Bowls. Yeah, well, I mean
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: attend to three. So if you think about Sam Bradford
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: with the Vikings, like he was the answer and he
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: was so good and then his knee got obliterated and
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: then case Keenum came in and all he did was
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: lead him to the NFC Championship Game through the Minneapolis Miracle.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say one on that one, all right, Like
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that's best case scenario, Like with the
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: caveat that the team still finds success in the absence
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: of their starting could.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess the way I wrote it, I left
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: it wide open for that to still work out. It
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: could be an Eagles sit because if you go back
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: ten years or you know, seven years and telling that
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: you a diehard Eweles fan, like, hey, you're gonna have
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: the second overall pick, You're in a draft, and up
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: and coming quarterback, he's gonna his rookie year. He's gonna
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: be amazing, like almost MVP level. And then right before
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: the playoffs Benzo tears of ACL or whatever happened to him,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: and then you just stop it right there. That Ewles fan.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: Is gonna be like mother son of a gun and.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: They're gonna be pissed. And then you fast forward the
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: next five, six, seven years and be like, oh, yeah,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: by the way, you attend three Super Bowls, you win
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: two of them. Yeah, and you're considered one of the
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: better teams in the league despite hating your coach the
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: whole time, Like, I'd take.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: It based on your remaining scenario. Did I make the
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: right decision? Yeah? Yeah, my last one. So I almost
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: said this earlier. I wrote these in order of mildest
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: to you know, Armageddon one is comical, how horrific it
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: it is? Well, I look forward to that gold But
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: I've got to give you another scenario here. Okay, so
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go with this one here, and again
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: I was not nearly as specific as you were, so
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: my apologies, I can definitely be. So can I can
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: I explain my process?
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: I went to chat gpt and I typed in most
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: vikings sing it ever, and it gave me. It gave
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: me like a paragraph of like a story. I was like, okay,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: so I got one of them. I kind of tailored
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: towards that. I redid it a little bit, but then
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: the rest of mine, I'm like, well, I can't have
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: a little mini story for one of them and then
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: just be like oh Juju McCarthy sucks for another one,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: you know, Like yeah, So that's that's why I kind
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: of tailored it.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: I get it, I get it, and I definitely use
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: chat GPTT, but I didn't. I think I maybe used
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: two or three from that that were just kind of
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: like fully hijacked, and then I just kind of put
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: my own spin on it. But a few of these
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: like these are just my own original thoughts. I think
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: this is original. It's just kind of vague, but you'll understand.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: So it would be the most Vikings thing ever if
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: the Vikings play really well all season long and then
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: absolutely implode in a key game in the playoffs. So
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four season, twenty twenty four, twenty nineteen,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, I mean, we can go back, we can
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: we can recount all of the games, yep, that we've
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: witnessed in our lifetime where the Vikings have had phenomenal
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: regular seasons. And then I mean the Giants in twenty
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: what was that two thousand and one, the forty one donut?
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: Is that for forty one donut?
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: But then there was the was it twenty twenty two
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: where they didn't they play the Giants again? No? Oh yeah,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: yeah it was Daniel Jones Daniel Jones game that was
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Koc's rookie year. The game after the Minneapolis miracle against
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: the Eagles was like thirty four to seven or what.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: Eight?
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be the most Vikings thing ever that
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: was we have this running list of games that it
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: would it would absolutely certainly be the most Vikings thing
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: ever for that to happen. JJ McCarthy's the answer. All
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: of these free agents that we've signed, they've they've established
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: the trenches were great, we are we are the best
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: team in football, and then poof, it's all gone in
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: sixty minutes because we can't finishing game.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: That's my number five, just because it's awful and we've
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: seen it, we've lived it. It would laterally the most
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: Vikings thing ever. We just named seven different seasons. However,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: many different seasons where that exact thing just happened. And
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: I know only one team wins the super Bowl every year,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: and every other team has, you know, a disappointing playoff
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: loss that they'll remember forever, but also lots of other
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: teams have. Yeah, you know, nineteen eighty four was awful,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: but remember when we won the super Bowl three years later?
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: You know, like they all have that, But how about that,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: you know, the Bears have the nineteen eighty five season,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: like they can always be like, who, I've seen my
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: team in the super Bowl in my lifetime, like the
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: Vikings and what three other teams have never made the
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl? So and the Vikings are the most beaten
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: down other than maybe the Bills of that group of
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: teams that for sure made a super Bowl. Yeah, so
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: that's my number five because it have you heard like
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: if you if you step on like a coral reef
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: and it like burns your skin, and then if any
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: time and the rest of your life you also step
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: or touch another coral reef, not only does it burn
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: where you touched it that time, but it burns where
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: you had initially touched it, whether you know, five minutes before,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: like twenty years before, like the playoffs are the vikings
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: coral reef injury like it just there's no way twenty
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: twenty five would end with a heartbreaking loss. And we
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: wouldn't also think about you know, twenty three twenty or
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four and twenty twenty two and two
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: thousand and nine and twenty seventeen and nineteen ninety eight
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: and all the for the fans that are old enough,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: all the super Bowl losses, Like just we don't have
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: that one magical year that would be like well, at
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: least bred far it took us to the super Bowl
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: that one time, we can we can remember that. Well,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: I'll just watch the replay of that game. No, we
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: don't have that. We have the Minneapolis miracle is awful.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: Can I tell you what that reminds me of? It's
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: deaf only a rabbit trail, but it's actually I just
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: rabbit trailed.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: So you talked about the coral reef and how if you.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: Step in the wrong spot and you burn your whatever
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: and then you do it again, hurts even worse, and
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: it you know whatever. So when we were in high school,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: friend of the show, Chaz still needs to make an
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: appearance on the show, but get you he will. Eventually,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: we'll get Chazz on the show if we can get
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: a hold of him. We just need we need to
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: get Chaz in the same room as we need to
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: go kidnap the guy at some point. We've done that before.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: That was another guy. But anyways, I've kidnapped Chatz before.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: I have Brother John. I kidnap Chazz. You were the
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: driver for the Brother John, maybe I was. I brought
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: Chazz all the way to Colorado, Imber, I brought him
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: out of state. Talk about rabbit trail. Anyways, Anyways, when
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: we were in high school, we had this crazy idea
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: to shave our legs and we got there. Oh I
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: remember that, And this is kind of reminiscent of when
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: you and I both waxed a limb, as they still
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: have a little bit of a bare spot. Yeah, mine's
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: almost back to normal almost.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: And yours was a couple of weeks after mine.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I got four of them. I got two
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: on each leg.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: Anyways, Naire is like a liquid foamy thing that you
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: put on your legs and then you literally just you
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: let it sit for a minute and then you wipe
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: it off and it just takes your hair off. If
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: you if you apply that stuff in the same spot,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: the burning sensation that you feel is unparalleled to anything
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: I've ever felt in my life. It is intense. We're
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: using the foam there in this this coming year, so
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: no more let it sit, but then you have to
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: reapply it to feel the burner.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: We'll reply like it's.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: Like like you you want to like, I don't know.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: It's like when we were kids and we get out
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: of the hot tub and go all around in the snow.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: It's like one of those sensations. It's like I burn.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: Anyways, So all of that to be said, I agree
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: with you, Yes, that would be that would be bad.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: I would not enjoy that. If that happened, as Vikings fans. Yeah,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: so yeah, that's my number five, even if your next
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: scenario is worse than that. But all right, my my
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: final one, right, yes, all right, and I only have
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: five to pick. So whatever this says must be pretty bad, dude,
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you. Okay, so this I almost don't even
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: want to say it because it's so over the top. Okay,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: The Vikings finally earn their first trip to the Super
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: Bowl in our lifetimes.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: Wow, all right, they're viewed as.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: The obvious favorites to win the game, and it seems
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: like this really may happen. In a sick twist of events,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: the opposing team's plane crashes on the way to San
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: Francisco and the game is canceled.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: Wow, the most Vikings thing ever. I hope that doesn't
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: actually happen, because then we'll look like idiots. I'm talking
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: about like one hundred people dying. Like it's gotta be
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: the worst thing ever, and like it would be the
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: most Vikings thing ever, because like the Vikings will have
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: done everything right to get to that spot, and then no,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: we're not playing the game.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: For no fault of their own. Can you imagine, though,
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: Like what would actually happen if the team's flight to
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl crash, no matter who it was, like
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: any any any team, what would they do?
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: Like you're talking because teams get there like a week
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: or so before the game, there's all the media hype everything,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: like they they would cancel the game, of course they
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: would have to, but there wouldn't be a super Bowl
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: winner that year. Like what would logistically that would be
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: the horror of loss of life and stuff. I felistically
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: that'd be just they would probably just name both teams champions.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: I think that's what they would have to do, honorary
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: champions like the deceased team and the and again it's
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: that that is a doomsday scenario that way out and
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: left field. And to my knowledge, like teams fly together,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: like they all fly together, which maybe that that would
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: change like how operations work, like you'd get like I
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: mean we've seen we are marshalling, you know, Like yeah,
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: they would travel separately, probably not the whole team on
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: the same plane, like or you.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: Just take a bus every all the backups fly on
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: a different plane, fly and the starters take a bus.
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  Speaker 2: But like, yeah, that would be the most Viking thing
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  Speaker 2: ever to finally be on the brink of just everything
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  Speaker 2: and for the franchise and then for no fault of
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  Speaker 2: their and nothing the Vikings could actually complain about. That's
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  Speaker 2: the thing, Like Koc couldn't throw a fit, like what
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  Speaker 2: do you mean you're canceling the game? Like dude, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: one hundred plus people just died, like right, Well, and
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  Speaker 2: I would have to believe that everybody in the Vikings
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  Speaker 2: organization would handle themselves well. But like the thing is,
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  Speaker 2: even if you were upset about it, you're not allowed
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  Speaker 2: in that scenario. You wouldn't be allowed. You'd be the
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  Speaker 2: worst person ever to complain about it. Like, and you're
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  Speaker 2: absolutely right, everyone in the the other organization would be
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  Speaker 2: just over the moon about like how can we can
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  Speaker 2: we help families? You know, like they would be gracious
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  Speaker 2: about it. But that would be the most Viking thing
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  Speaker 2: ever to be on the brink of everything, to be
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  Speaker 2: able to taste that win, like, well, the Vikings are
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  Speaker 2: fourteen point favorites in the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: It's the craziest odds ever. Nope, not gonna happen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that would definitely have to be the worst for me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I think I got some of those wrong, for sure,
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: but the most the most one. Right, I've got one
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  Speaker 1: more for you here, let's hear it. And you can
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  Speaker 1: only say this is number four. So this is like
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  Speaker 1: second worst. And I think if you try it hard enough,
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  Speaker 1: and if I set this up well enough, I think
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  Speaker 1: you can make a case for this being the second
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  Speaker 1: worst possible scenario that I present you. It's not like, oh,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy wins multiple MVPs and then you have to
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  Speaker 1: pay him. No, no, no, no, no, it's not that. So
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  Speaker 1: I want you to remember when we were sitting right here.
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  Speaker 1: This was before this old.
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  Speaker 3: Gal was here.
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  Speaker 1: We were sitting in the Yeah, we were sitting in
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  Speaker 1: the easy chairs. We were watching a game up there.
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  Speaker 1: We're actually live streaming the game on YouTube. It was
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders game. School School School school School. Do you
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  Speaker 1: remember the score of that game, three to nothing? It
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  Speaker 1: was three to nothing. Yeah, yeah, it was a defensive
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  Speaker 1: effort for SAT. In the same season, they had the
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: largest comeback in ANAL history and then the almost smallest
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  Speaker 1: margin of victory game. I think those two games happened
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  Speaker 1: within several weeks of each other. I think they were
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  Speaker 1: kind of in the same part of the season. So
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  Speaker 1: I think it would be the most Vikings thing ever
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  Speaker 1: for the Vikings to win a game without scoring an
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  Speaker 1: offensive touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that's happened, but yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: And it would certainly be reminiscent of that Raiders three
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  Speaker 1: to nothing win. But that was a technically an offensive
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  Speaker 1: score three to nothing. I could see And hopefully this
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  Speaker 1: doesn't happen, but I mean, given the sample size we
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  Speaker 1: have to work with with Koc's offense and Brian Flores's defense,
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  Speaker 1: I could see this offense getting stagnant over time, putting
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  Speaker 1: too much stuff on tape, not being able to make
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  Speaker 1: something happening against another team.
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  Speaker 3: And I could see this defense.
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  Speaker 1: Using a time out here and there. Yeah, clock management,
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  Speaker 1: game management, all that stuff. I could see it all
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  Speaker 1: culminating in a defensive win for the Vikings and in
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  Speaker 1: a really frustrating win. Albeit it's a win, and we've
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: said it before, a win is a win is a
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  Speaker 1: win in this league. But why do they do that
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: against the Titans last season? Did p Romo have all
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: the points for the field goals? Yeah, twelve to seven. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: no offensive touchdowns? Which are you could think of? I'm
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: going to consider a field goal technically an offensive touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: put them. I'm not saying in this scenario, I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: the offense doesn't even get that. Oh yeah, no points
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: from there are zero points, no field goals, no touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: The only points would come from either a safety safety
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: or a pick six or a fumble returned for. That
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  Speaker 1: would be the most Vikings thing ever. Yeah yeah, so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, four, I could definitely see that as afore that's
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  Speaker 2: where it is for me.
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  Speaker 1: It has to be.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think we got some good lists there. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: good good talking points. We should do this again sometime,
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: but with new things.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that's fun.
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  Speaker 2: Or maybe we could like go back and be like,
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  Speaker 2: did you know this actually happened for the Vikings in
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: like nineteen seventy three. Obviously it's the most Vikings thing ever. Like,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: there's probably some things out there we could we could
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: dig that.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: Well, if you're out there listening and you're like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: that actually happened, let us know, we want to know
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: about it, because I mean we're not super old yet,
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: we haven't been around for the entire history of the team.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: So yeah, absolutely, well, I don't know what else we
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: got to talk about.
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  Speaker 3: This beer, this beer. It's almost over.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think you're a little bit ahead of me.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: I'm I'm feeling the eight point two percent for sure.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 3: Not in a bad way. Yeah, I'm not in a
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: way that I'm going to regret tomorrow.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: But I'm definitely I'm feeling it, and I'm I'm enjoying it. Yeah,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: it's it's good. It's a good, good beer, good feeling.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: I will be happy to have it again. It's almost
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: as good as the Easy Eddie, which that one's almost perfect.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: The Easy Eddie is this It's the same thing, just
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: a little boozier. I like it a lot, And I
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: almost wonder if, like with those beers, with all of
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: the Eddie beers, if they just kind of took the
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: same recipe and just same base.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 3: Probably, let's put it on a spectrum.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: We'll have super boozy here and we'll have really a
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: light over here, and we'll have everything in between. So
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: no matter where you're at what you're looking for in
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: a beer, we got you covered. Yeah.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I like it super good. Well, if if people
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: have had this beer or any other Big Grove, how
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: could they let us know what they think about it?
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: They could comment on the YouTube video. Yeah, they could
• 1:17:49
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• 1:17:52
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• 1:18:02
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• 1:18:07
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• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: beer related, if it's Vikings related. If you think we
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: got it wrong on our doomsday scenarios for the Vikings,
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: I thought we did pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we did.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: We did just fine. But if there are other like
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: scenarios out there too that you're like, hey, this could
• 1:18:26
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• 1:18:30
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