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TSH Ep. 15 - Thankful for Cobbler Gobbler · The Skol Hop

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On. These are Vikings fans. Let's be nice. We'll raid some Vikings
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fans. If it doesn't go well, then we're gonna judge the entire fan
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base based off this interaction, because that's fair. We're getting a raid.
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We're getting a raid, Grocy raid, Grossy rail. How two hundred and
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two people? Oh, I have two hundred people in there? What is
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uh? Let's go hey, they seem happy. It's a grosser raid.
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We're getting raided by Grossy fans. Is that what's happening? Hey? We
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like we like Grossy, we like Tom Grossi. He's gay. Let's go
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all right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome into another episode of the School
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Hot. My name is Evan and I'm Austin. We're just a couple of
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dudes from Iowa. We like drinking beer. We like talking about the Bikings.
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Yeah, we do school school. What are we drinking today tonight?
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Evan? You have gracetus with Reunion Breweries. There is the can Reunion Breweri
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Zone Cobbler Gobbler. This is our last episode before the Thanksgiving holiday. Feeling
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a little festive, not quite Christmas. I hope I'm gonna be a little
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controversial here. It's not time for Christmas, no Christmas lights, no trees,
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wait until after Thanksgiving. I agree with you, but we are celebrating.
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We're celebrating some of the only thing we can right now as Vikings fans,
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Thanksgiving holiday. We can all enjoy food and Thanksgiving and this cobbler gobbler,
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what do you think of it? Up? Well, I was just
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looking at the description on the can and it says it's a fruit cobbler inspired
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sour with cherry, blueberry, peach, apricots, cinnamon, lactose, and
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vanilla. And we both read that and we were like, that doesn't sound
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like our kind of beer. But if you're following us on TikTok, we
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did a little preview before we started the podcast here and we took a first
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sip and we were just reacting, live in the moment and we are not
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hiding anything or trying to put on a show. We liked it. Sour
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beers are not my thing, and you said the same, Nope, it
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was kind of just a flash in the pin timing idea to have this beer.
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I believe you're the one that got it. Yeah, I saw it
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on the shelf and I'm like, well, it's the Monday before Thanksgiving.
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We should probably you even got a different option, and we still decided to
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go with the Reunion cobbler. Gobbler. So Reunion is not a sponsor yet,
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so truthful, truthful thoughts. It's fruity. The one thing I don't
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really like about sours is that they're sour. They're tart. That's not my
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cup of tea. That's not my favorite kind of beer. But this one
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I really think and this is not an expert opinion. I'm no expert in
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anything, but I think that lactose that it lists out, I think that's
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what's cutting away the like tartiness of the fruit flavor. So yeah, I
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have to agree with you. It's for a sour, it's not that sour,
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and it's pretty easy drinking. It kind of reminds me of like like
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a red fruit smoothie kind of flavor in a good way, like a beer
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version of that, and I think in a good way. I'm yeah,
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I'm enjoying this so at it's it's a good one to have a few of
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them. Yeah, it's uh, it's crushable, crushable, so yeah,
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crushable. Thanks Reunion for the opportunity to buy your beer. If you're on
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the fence about sours, this one, this one, I I would say,
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if you don't, if you don't love sours, give it a try.
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And these are fresh too. We looked at the cans. These were
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canned on Halloween. Yeah, so just like not even a month ago.
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Yeah, so nice and fresh. Really good. Thanks Reunion. Yeah,
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we're enjoying it all right. I think we have. We've procrastinated, we
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have laid the inevitable long enough. The Vikings lost to the Broncos, not
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twenty four hours ago, yeah, on Sunday night football. And the only
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thing I can take away from that is obviously Josh Dobbs is terrible on primetime
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games. That's the only thing that's it. No, that's more of a
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dig at the people that said that about Kirk Cousins. But yeah, it
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wasn't It wasn't a clean game. They only lost by one on the road
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after a lot of mistakes on the Vikings part, but some some if he
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calls or no calls on the referees part, the biggest one being that no
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flag on the Kareem Jackson spear to Josh Dobbs right at the beginning of the
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game. But no game ever comes down to one play. Yeah it was.
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It was kind of frustrating to watch, but you gotta move on.
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Well, and you're talking about Josh Dobbs, Let's look at his stat line
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for a minute and just take it for what it is. I mean,
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if the Viking, if you didn't know the Vikings lost the game, tell
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me what you think of the stat line. Twenty of thirty two, two
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hundred and twenty one yards, one touchdown, one pick, a rating of
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eighty point three. Yeah, I mean, and that's not even listing out
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any rushing yards he might have had. Oh yeah, sorry, eight rushes
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for twenty one yards and a touchdown. Okay, So honestly that is about
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on par with his other two games. Yeah, I'm not mad at those
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stats. I mean, sure, could he have made different decisions? Yeah?
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Could TJ. Hockinson have caught some of the balls that were thrown his
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way? Yeah? Could the play calling been a little bit better, or
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decision making on a certain fourth down and one where he should have gone for
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it but you didn't and you punted. Yeah that was I mean, Josh
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Stabbs didn't lose the game for the Vikings. He wasn't the only reason they
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lost, but he also didn't elevate everybody perfectly like Tom Brady would have to
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make the win happen. I guess my main thought about that is I'm seeing
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on Twitter a lot of people ready to be like, all right, well,
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obviously Josh Doabbs is terrible. He's been on a bunch of different teams,
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and he's you know, he's old, you know, for a guy
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that's never started. And look at what he did in Arizona. Obviously this
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is gonna happen. He sucks, look at him. But I don't get
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that like he had one mid game. I mean, how many times have
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we seen a Vikings quarterback have less passing yards than that? What two and
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twenty passing yards? Kirk has a game Kirk. I was looking back at
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Kirk's stats this year. He threw like one hundred and eighty something in Carolina.
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Granted we walked away with the win. Yeah that was a little bit
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different, but yeah, I mean it's happened. I mean, just think
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about like Christian Ponder, you could probably count on half a hand how many
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times he had as many as two hundred and twenty passing yards in his Vikings
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career. Judging off of that one Broncos game, I'm not mad at Josh
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Dopps. Everybody on the team could have made better decisions and the rest could
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have helped out with that one. You know, Kareem Jackson call that ended
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up being a turnover because if they would have thrown the flag, it would
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not have been a turnover. I don't know, it frustrating, frustrating game
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Well, in that play was really interesting because it was the first drive,
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right, it was the first drive of the game, and TJ motions from
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his tight end position over under center, and Dobbs, who was in the
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shotgun, motions out wow to the right and then TJ gets the ball on
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the snap and then pitches it to his left to Dobbs who runs left and
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then gets smoked by Kerreem Hunt. Like it was just a weird play from
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the get go. Yeah, I didn't like that. Not a play call
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that I think many Vikings fans were excited to see. Yeah, I don't
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know. I just feel like when you got a guy in Dobbs that he
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can't know much of the playbook, yet he can't get cute. I mean
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getting cute is when you is when you hit fumble like that or later in
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the game, when was it Alex Madison took a wildcat snap and I think
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that wildcat snap actually gained a couple of rushing yards. But yeah, he
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did. But I don't think you're ready to get cute on those play calls.
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Not. I mean, if you're talking about that fake punt, that
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was fun. That was fun, but well in that play proves that ty
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Chandler just needs to have the in his hands. Yeah, and I think
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I figured out why ty Chandler is not on yeah exactly. He's he is
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not as good at picking up the blitz as Alex Madison is, but he's
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way better at rushing the ball than Alex Madison is. So I don't know,
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maybe that maybe we found the reason Madison is able to fumble the ball
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a billion times a day and still keep his job because he can pick up
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a blitz every once in a while. But yeah, I don't I don't
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know. It was frustrating. I guess we can talk until the cows come
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home about the bad parts, But what were the good parts of the game.
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I Mean, we already talked about the fake punt. That was fun
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and I think came out a really good time. And I was thinking it
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in my head. I mean, I'll answered that way like I called it
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in my head, but I truly thought and no one will ever know this
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but me and my thoughts. Yeah, you can discredit me, but I
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I thought like this would be a good time for fake punt. It was
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a fourth and four too. It wasn't even like a fourth and one that
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you should have gone for it at the end of the half, but you
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punted it away and ultimately lost the game. I'm really sour about that whole
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decision to punt the ball away. Yeah, that was And that's Kevin O'Connell
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continuing to prove that he's still a young, developing play collar. And we
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saw it in the second half of last week's game against the Saints, and
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we saw it pretty much all game this week against the Broncos. Just conservative
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but then wildly unconservative with these you know, wildcat and a tight end taking
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a snap or something like. It's just I don't know. Yeah, I'm
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sorry I brought us back down to negativity. We were talking about good parts
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of the game. I thought first parts of the game the running game looked
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as good as it's ever looked this season, which may say a lot more
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about the Broncos than about the Vikings. Josh Dobbs had a passing touch down
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that any other quarterback would have been sacked. Well, yeah, he was
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like on the sideline about ready to go down, and he somehow maintains his
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composure and gets the ball off and finds Josh Oliver. Yeah, who had
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his best receiving game as a Viking. Yeah, it was awesome. Yep.
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And Dobbs his rushing touchdown that was that was a lot of fun.
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Kind of broke down a little bit and he just he committed, He went
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for it and it worked. I mean, there were good things. I
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thought. Madison not Madison Addison. He had a few decent plays, but
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he was pretty quiet most of the game. But I think that's more for
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opportunity than anything. TJ dropped some key balls, especially at the end of
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the game. That was frustrating. He was still the leading receiver with fifty
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five yards. TJ was Yeah, it was just it was a game that
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made me miss JJ a lot. I missed JJ more in this game than
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I really have the entire time he's been out, but maybe we'll see him
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for the Bears game. I think today the Vikings activated Chris Reid off of
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IR the offensive lineman. They put Dean Lowry back or on IR. Probably
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out for the year. Yeah, and he may be done as a Viking
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too. He's on a one year deal. And that's a guy too.
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I saw somebody on Twitter make a good point about Dean Lowry. Yeah,
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he's not leading the team in any statistical category. He's not like an automatic
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pro bowler, but he does do some good things that we don't see on
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the stat sheet and things that allow other people to do things. So that
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is a loss. He's a veteran too, So anytime you get a guy
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who has played a little bit and you lose that experience that that's never good.
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A couple of acts on the defensive end want them in Hunter both.
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Yes, Yeah, those are, but more so in the beginning of the
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game. The Vikings overall looked a lot better in the first half, aside
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from that poor decision to punt it away on fourth and one when he should
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have gone for it. I'll get over that someday. Yeah, but you
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just you're not going to win many games if you play offense or defense the
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way that they played against the Broncos, which again brings me back to the
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whole hate on Josh Dobbs. He's not going to be perfect every day,
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and we got pretty good. We just didn't get perfect. So I'm not
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done with Dobbs. I'm not saying, you know, you still need to
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sign him for a ten year contract, but just don't flip the script too
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quick. I would be upset if the vikings right away. We're like,
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oh, yeah, Jernhall, he's out of concussion protocol, he's back where
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he's starting. That's too soon. Dobbs is still doing good things, and
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you roll with the guy that I would argue now has more quality experience in
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the offense than Jaron Hall does. Yeah on the field, you know,
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in real time games. Yeah, so yeah, you roll with Dobbs until
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he has a meltdown and then go from there. And that being said too,
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I just said I'd be upset if they switched. But I mean,
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obviously this coaching staff, they know what they're doing. So if KOC was
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more comfortable with Jaron Hall, or really anybody at any different position for that
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matter, I'm a Vikings fan, so I'm gonna roll with it and hopefully.
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I mean, we're just watching reality TV at this point, so all
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we can do is trust the coaching staff to do the right things and make
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the right calls. But I don't know. I'm personally not ready to just
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give up on Dobbs right now. That doesn't make sense to me. And
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the good news is the Broncos game didn't really damage the playoff chances for the
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Vikings as of right now. I mean, I think we were what likely
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to make the playoffs before that game, and now after that game, it's
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down to seventy five percent. Yeah. I actually saw on Twitter somebody asked
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Dustin Baker on Twitter what the percentage was, and he answered it pretty confidently,
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so I tend to believe him. He said it's seventy eight percent right
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now, which five weeks ago it wasn't even close to seventy eight percent.
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So we're still sitting pretty good. I was thinking about it today a few
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games, a few episodes ago, and I meant to look this up,
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but I forgot you. And I pose the question of where will the Vikings
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be in five weeks when they hit the bye week and I said something something
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like either two and three or three and two, and you said boldly,
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and now you're looking pretty good for this statement. You said the Viking would
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be above five hundred by the time they hit the bye week. Yep,
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we got one more game left in the bye week or until the bye week.
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Right now, they're a game above five hundred, so six and five.
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Yeah, so if they beat the Bears, there are two games above
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five hundred, and that's pretty awesome. I think that's better than you even
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thought they would be when you said that they'd be above five hundred. Yeah.
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Yeah, And I guess I don't really know what I was going off
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of on that. It was more just kind of shooting in the dark.
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But I felt I mean, we were definitely in the middle. I forget
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what episode that was, but we were in the middle of that win streak,
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that five game win streak, and I felt confident, you know,
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hey, we've got stuff turned around. Vikings are playing well. Offense is
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clicking. I think that was before Kirk's injury, maybe, yeah, so
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it probably would have been the episode after the Niners game. Yeah. The
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defense, the defense was really clicking at that point. So I still feel
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good about it. And I mean, and even if we go into the
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bye week at five hundred, that's still a huge step forward from where we
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were in Week four or five. Oh yeah. So, and I know
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this upcoming Bears game. In the preseason, we did our preseason pick them,
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which we can talk about a little bit later too, but we both
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had a lock to win and a lock to lose. Yep, and your
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lock to win was this coming Bears game, which was also my lock to
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lose. At this moment, I don't think the Vikings lose this game against
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the Bears. I think they've got a bad enough taste in their mouth.
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This is the biggest adversity they've faced since Kirk's injury by losing a game by
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one point. Now all of a sudden, people are calling for Dobbs to
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be benched. I think this team is good enough to rally at home against
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a divisional opponent, and I really do see the Vikings beating the Bears next
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Monday. Well, and of course, when we did the pick them episode
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back in the fall, back in August or I think it was like July
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whatever that was, it was a long time ago. We had no idea
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what the storylines were going to be. We had no idea Kirk goes down
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and you know, JJ sits out for now six games in a row.
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You know, we didn't know any of that. But I just felt,
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you know, the Bears are the Bears, are the Bears, and the
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Bears will continue to bear because they are the Bears. As long as they're
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starting their best running back at quarterback, they're not going to do anything substantial.
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And I think you made an insightful comment and you might have even tweeted
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it on our account, about how the Lions Bears game this last weekend kind
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of indicated a lot about both teams. Really, I forget exactly what you
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said. It was something to the tune of I'm not afraid of any of
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these teams right now now. When I tweeted that, it was early about
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almost midway through the Bears Lions game on Sunday, and the Bears were actually
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beating the Lions, and I mean the Lions. Credit to them. They
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came back and won, but bye kneekapp. Yeah, but even now,
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like that game I think was very telling for both of those teams. The
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Lions did come out, yeah they won, but they came out looking better
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then they had mid game because they fought back and they you know, fought
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the adversity in won a game. But yeah, I still I think the
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Vikings are much better than their record indicates right now, and I think the
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Lions aren't quite as good as their record is indicating right now. So I
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mean that being said, there's still games to be played. I think this
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division we talked about on our live stream last night, this division is gonna
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come down to those two season ending Vikings Lions games yep, Week sixteen and
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Week eighteen. So got Christmas Eve at us Bank Stadium, Vikings hosting the
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Lions, and then New Year's Eve we host the Packers, and then the
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last week of the season we go to Detroit, YEP. And that that
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road trip to Detroit really could determine the division. It very well might,
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I mean be the divisional championship game right there. So it'll be interesting to
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see how it all pans out. Obviously a lot of football to be played,
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but I think this bye week also comes at a good time. Oh
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my gosh, Yeah, I think I agree with you. And of course,
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like I said, didn't know the storylines, but I've always felt like
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the Vikings would win against the Bears at home right before the bye I just
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I think that's a good setup for the Vikings. And like you said,
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and I agree with you that, Yeah, they've got a bad taste in
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their mouth after this loss to the Broncos by one on the road. The
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game was there could have been one and they didn't slipped away from them.
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So yeah, they I think they come home. I think they win nicely
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in front of their fans and look for to an extended break. Yeah,
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I just hope. I just hope they're not looking too much forward to that
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bye week because I don't know, if I texted you earlier tweeted it,
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this bye week against the Bears could be a little bit of a trap game
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for the Vikings. Also for the Bears too, they go into their bye
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week the same week the Vikings do. It's just I don't know. Maybe
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you hope they're excited to get out there and go on vacation on a good
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note. You know, maybe we get JJ back. I think there's a
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possibility JJ is held out until after the bye week, which would only help
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health wise for him. I've heard the sentiment that even if he's ninety five
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percent good to go. They're not going to let him go out there until
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he's one hundred percent. I think if the Viking were sitting in the same
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record that the Panthers are sitting at right now, and there's no chance of
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the playoffs, then yeah, sure, throw them out there. I mean,
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pad the stats a little bit, Yeah, pad the stats. Let
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him get out there. If he gets injured again. It's never good to
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get injured again, but you're not mortgaging the rest of your playoff chances.
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I'd rather have him good to go in healthy for the playoffs than risk injury
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against the Bears. That being said, if he is one hundred percent,
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send him out there. I don't know. I don't know what else can
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really be said about the Broncos game. It was a loss. It sucked.
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I'm gonna be sealty about that. Kareem Jackson, no flag penalty.
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There's another hit, wasn't it? Was it on Madison or Chandler? Someone
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else got hit in a similar fashion, and I think it was Alex Madison.
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I can't remember. I'd have to go back and why we were slightly
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distracted during the game while we watched it. Do we want to mention that
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absolutely so one of the coolest things that has happened to the Skull Hop.
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I think, yes, maybe my favorite memory so far of the school hop.
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We've kind of been You've been doing a lot of legwork to get this
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whole live stream setup going. We we'd like to be able to get something
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going to live stream a lah Tom Grossi during football games, and so we
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did. If you go to our YouTube, you can find a three plus
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hour video of us sitting there live streaming. The beginning is mostly you ev
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well. And to be clear, the live stream that we did last night
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during the Sunday night game against the Broncos was truly just a test. Yeah.
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I mean I sent a link to my sister and brother in law and
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then my wife's sister and her husband. So like basically my siblings had the
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link, and I don't know if you sent a link. I didn't.
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I didn't, and I didn't like our socials. We didn't tweet out,
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we didn't post out anywhere that we are going to be live. I don't
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think other than your texts to your family and through the whole first half,
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we would maybe have one, two, maybe at most three viewers. My
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wife Raven jumped in the chat a couple of times. Yep, you just
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kind of tested out the chat on our account, on a little bit of
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account. And then all of a sudden, during halftime, we were just
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sitting there. I was blabbering on about something stupid. I don't even remember
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what I was talking about. Your face in the recording, that's hilarious.
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We posted a video specifically of the whole excitement on YouTube and technie, I
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think everywhere you can find some version. It's the it's the intro of this
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episode. Yeah, if you're this far and you've probably seen it or at
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least heard the audio of it. So Tom GROSSI, who I said Grossy
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last night. I'm sorry he'll never hear this, but if he does,
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Tom, I'm sorry for saying your name wrong. As a person who gets
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their name said incorrectly more often than not, I do. I do apologize.
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But Tom Grossi he identified our stream. We were a low viewer stream.
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We probably didn't have any viewers. I think maybe on the video you
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said we had one. He posted out the link of our stream to the
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people that were following his stream, and out of nowhere we went from one
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viewer to three hundred in an instant. Yeah, and the comment section just
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blew up. At one point, somebody's like acknowledged the raid. Yeah,
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well that's funny because that's what I had no idea. I was just sitting
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there talking. I was trying to have a conversation with you, and you're
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like, I'm distracted, and then you're like, we're being rated. I'm
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like what, And I thought I thought we were being spammed. Yeah,
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I like my fear. At first. I looked over and I'm like,
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because I I know YouTube isn't perfect, and I know there are some things
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out there that are kind of sketchy and shady, and I'm like, well,
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maybe this is just like what normal YouTubers experience. Yeah, maybe this
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is just how it goes. Or maybe we're so low on the totem pole
26:22
that we're just susceptible to that kind of scum or whatever. That was not
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the case, No, it was the case at all. It was really
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exciting to have instantly three hundred plus people talking to us, and some people
26:37
were talking trash about the Vikings and some people were saying skull and it was
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it was a lot of fun. I mean, if you we posted the
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highlight video of that on really everywhere and you can kind of see the joy
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in our faces as this is happening. We didn't you even said we're not
26:52
prepared for this at all. We don't really know what to do, but
26:56
welcome, you know. And you told me after the fact, you were
26:59
like, I was about ready to just like, oh yeah, sign off
27:02
and be like, all right, this is a fun test. Yeah,
27:03
it's half time before the raid. It was a half time. Yeah,
27:07
I was gonna be like, hey, you know, I'm gonna go to
27:10
the bathroom and then just kind of watch the rest of this. I mean,
27:12
it was a frustrating game up to that point too. But yeah,
27:17
I'm so glad I didn't. You would have texted me like what is happening
27:19
to get back on here. Now. We actually probably had what I don't
27:26
know, five or ten people stick around. Yeah, towards the end,
27:30
I think it kind of definitely went down to like fifteen and ultimately end we
27:34
had, you know, between ten and fifteen, there were a couple of
27:37
people that stayed on and were interacting quite a bit, trying to Joey Bag
27:41
of Donuts was commenting quite a bit very sad sports fans. You have an
27:48
impressive memory. I didn't the one guy Michael and JK the Browns fan,
27:53
so yeah, they they may be watching here. Our YouTube channel went from
27:59
two subscribers to like eighty three, and those two subscribers were you and me
28:03
on our personal so we've had some interaction that was a lot of fun.
28:07
I mean, and I don't know if if the Skullhop turns into some crazy
28:15
Tom Grossy esque style success and fame or even bigger whatever, we will always
28:22
have that raid as like one of the first awesome memories of this channel we
28:29
did. We do have a question, and maybe we can cut this out
28:33
in our edits this week and we can send it to them. But Tom,
28:37
we would like to know because before you sent our link to your grassy
28:42
passe, you made a comment about how we were Vikings fans and you were
28:48
going to base your opinion of the fan base on the interactions that we had
28:56
with your grassy passe. So we want to know, did we That's the
29:00
test? Yeah, what'd you think? You did? Say? We were
29:02
chill and I don't know how long you were you were checking out our stream
29:06
at least for a minute, because we kind of you did a mashup of
29:10
both of our streams and what we were both looking at. But yeah,
29:12
how how long did you stay? Tom? What'd you think? I know
29:15
you were? You're kind of ingest joking about totally judging all Vikings fans off
29:22
of us, because you've obviously met other Vikings fans, but yeah, let
29:26
us know, give us a letter grade on how we did, how we
29:30
represented the the Skull family, and we would also just like to say thanks
29:37
absolutely, that was. That was awesome. That was fun. Even if
29:41
even if we don't do anything bigger and better than that, even if that
29:45
was the skull Hop high like that was. That was a lot of fun.
29:48
The hope is to have that be one of the lower viewed live streams
29:56
of our our Skull Hop lifetime. But well, there was definitely before where
30:00
you were on it. It was basically audition tape for me to be a
30:03
play by play caller. Hey, and I would probably fail that audition.
30:06
So, like I told you, as long as whatever network hires you knows
30:11
that we are a package deal. And I said that you didn't even say
30:15
that, so I agree with you. I support it. Yeah, but
30:18
all that being said, we do want to live stream some more. We're
30:22
talking about plans, maybe this upcoming Monday night game. We'll see, but
30:27
yeah, well we'll get that all figured out, and hopefully if we do,
30:30
we get some of those same guys or even gals. I think we
30:34
had a Packer fan in there saying that she enjoyed our our content a little
30:40
bit. So we'll see get some people to come back. If you were
30:45
there, comment on the YouTube video or leave us a review on the podcast,
30:48
reach out to us, let us know you're there and what you thought
30:51
of us. Yeah, yeah, that was a ton of fun though.
30:53
Yeah, definitely like caught us off guard and in a very good way.
30:57
Well, yeah it was. It was a blast thanks to Grassy and the
31:02
Grassy Passe. I think I think our content aligns obviously, he's you know,
31:08
way bigger and better and you know, way more professional. But as
31:14
far as like mentality and the kind of kind of stuff we put out there,
31:18
yeah, yeah, it's good stuff. Yeah all right, Well,
31:22
how's this sitting with you right now? I'm liking it, I really am.
31:26
It's it's fruity like it's it's more so of a fruity beer than a
31:32
sour beer. I would agree with that. Yeah, and it's not I
31:34
don't know. I also don't like fruity beers either. Yeah, Like,
31:38
if you've watched us for any length of time, you know that like Amber
31:42
beers, october Fest, Martsen style red beers. Like for me, I
31:48
just want a beer that tastes like a beer, you know, And so
31:52
this is not something I gravitate towards, but I I genuinely like this.
31:56
Yeah, yeah, I do too. I seriously I would buy this after
32:01
having it now, Like if we had never tried this on the podcast,
32:06
if I saw it at the store, I would have never would I'm not
32:07
even looking at that section, but I mean, yeah, I like it.
32:13
I don't know. I don't know why I like it because I don't
32:15
like fruit, really fruity or sours at all. But yeah, maybe Reunion
32:21
can tell us why it's the best sour that I think I've had. It's
32:24
it's definitely a good one. Enjoying it a lot. Yeah, and if
32:28
you didn't know, we only drink Iowa beers on the podcast, so we
32:34
featured a different Iowa beer. This is now our fifteenth episode and we've had
32:39
Reunion before. Yeah, what have we had of theirs? So we had
32:43
Oh, here, I can look it up. I have thee Yeah,
32:46
we've definitely had them before. I think at least once, if not more.
32:51
I think they were one of the first episodes. Yeah, episode two
32:53
we had. You know, I brought them. I brought their Amber Ale
32:59
and their tank Puncher IPA. Oh yeah, that was the only episode we've
33:02
had where we featured two different two different viewers. Yeah. So yeah,
33:08
and I remember that Amber was pretty good, and I think we both like
33:12
started with the ones that we liked, but then we switched and you had
33:15
the Amber and I had the IPA about halfway through. So yeah, good
33:22
stuff from reunion. Yeah, I liked them a lot. And I think
33:25
I've been there, and I think I may have mentioned when we had them
33:29
on episode two. I'm pretty sure I've been there, but depending on the
33:32
time of the evening that I was there, I may not totally remember.
33:37
Specifically that a friend of the show for us could probably give me more information
33:42
about that experience than I could give. But yeah, I don't know if
33:49
anything else we want to talk about Broncos, I think we can put the
33:52
Broncos game to bed, but we can maybe look ahead to the Bears game
33:57
a little bit, and we've kind of dabbled a little bit on that.
34:00
We've all we both obviously said we both think they're going to come away with
34:04
a victory on that one, which flies in the face of my preseason luck
34:07
to lose, but I'm okay with that. We were kind of looking at
34:12
our preseason picks earlier today and texting about it, and I was surprised to
34:17
realize that up to date, I've only picked one game incorrectly, and that
34:24
was the first game of the season, right, Yeah, So I picked
34:27
the Buccaneers game to be a win, and obviously the Vikings lost. But
34:31
every other game, and I'm not like patting myself on the back, it
34:36
was all luck. But every other game these preseason picks I picked correctly.
34:40
Let's hope after, you know, a week from today, that I can
34:45
say that I picked two games incorrectly because I did pick the Bears to beat
34:50
the Vikings. Preseason wise, my wife did not pick really any of the
34:58
right well, she picked some of the right games, but she has a
35:01
lot of wins where we lost or losses where we won. But at this
35:07
point she has the vikings at a six and five record. Yeah, yeah,
35:12
which is pretty impressive. I mean that is impressive, and that's obviously
35:17
realistic. It's right on the nose the coin if you remember. So,
35:23
I listened back to episode three again today where we did the coin flips and
35:27
the picks. The coin was very favorable through the first five games of the
35:31
season. It was and then even through what the coin has the vikings at
35:38
nine and two after the Broncos game. The Broncos was a loss via the
35:44
coin, and it was the second loss. So so let's hope and the
35:50
coin also picked the Bears game this coming Bears game is a loss. Let's
35:54
hope both the coin and I are incorrect, because everyone else picked this Bears
36:00
game as a win, both of our wives, all of our kids,
36:06
and me. Yeah. This season really just kind of looking at the schedule
36:12
on paper, there's not much. We keep saying like there's a lot of
36:15
football left. There's not much left. I mean, we got they have
36:20
three home games left and games and after the bye, that's the only time
36:27
we have back to back home games all season. Lions and Packers, which
36:31
is followed by yeah, followed by the only back to back away stand then
36:37
we finish it up at home against the Lions. Oh you got that back?
36:42
Oh I do? Oh I'm looking Okay. So yeah, we're at
36:45
Raiders, at Bengals, then at home against Lions Packers, and then at
36:51
Detroit to close out the season. Okay, okay, Well, I don't
36:54
know the season's coming down to the wire. You're You're right, I was.
37:01
I mean we're always kind of looking at tickets and kind of keeping our
37:06
eyes on possibly getting ourselves to a game. And I mean we've both said
37:13
that our families would really be upset with us if we were gone for Christmas
37:16
Eve, So that kind of puts the Lions game at US Bank Stadium off
37:22
the table this season. And then the following week is the Packers on New
37:24
Year's Eve, which is also no. No. Well, and even if
37:30
we did want to go and could make it happen, tickets are going to
37:34
be Yeah. The podcast has not produced any revenue, so definitely not enough
37:37
revenue for us to justify not true. We've generated ten cents to ten cents.
37:44
We got a whole dime. There is one platform right where you might
37:47
hear ads during the episodes. Yeah, so if you're if you're not,
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if you're not opposed to hearing the occasional advertisement, head on over to Speaker
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s p R E A K E R. It's an affiliate of iHeartRadio.
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I think it's iHeartRadio's podcasts branch. Oh okay, I'm not entirely sure on
38:09
that, but anyways, they don't have any sort of like minimum requirement for
38:16
podcasters that are wanting to make money. So I think you get like a
38:21
penny a listen. Hey, so we've had ten listens on there, so
38:24
there you go. Theoretically, Yeah, check us out on spreaker and if
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you just find our link tree, which has posted pretty much on all of
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our platforms YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, you can find the link to our
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spreaker account and you can give us a listen there, and you know,
38:44
give us a penny here there. Yeah, we'd take it where all it
38:46
would cost you is time and you know, listening to the ads. But
38:51
we're listening to ads everywhere. I don't think I'd listened to many podcasts that
38:54
don't have ads in it. We're young, we're still pretty new, but
39:00
we we'd like to turn this into something and a part of being able to
39:04
turn this into something is you know, funding different things of equipment and subscriptions.
39:10
We've had conversations about different you know, software and hardware we could we
39:16
could acquire for the podcast. We've been very lucky to have a lot of
39:21
those things already, at least hardware wise. A lot of the things that
39:23
we have we're already within reach. But yeah, listening, for you guys
39:30
to just listen at all, that's huge. And for a get a to
39:36
get a grassy raid, that was probably big for opening up the door for
39:40
who knows. Maybe we'll get one die hard skull hopper out of that random
39:45
grassy raid. That'd be really cool. But I think we need to set
39:50
up a battle between the grassy Passe and the skull hoppers. Oh my gosh,
39:54
well I think at this point absolutely the grossy Posse wins without even questioning
40:04
it, and and down the road. I mean also at this point,
40:07
I would say, at least on YouTube, all of the skullhoppers are grassy
40:13
posse people. We can work on converting them. Yeah, sou But yeah,
40:19
we love the support. We loved If you stay, We're not gonna
40:22
beg for support too much. But every once in a while, maybe an
40:24
ad here there, but definitely interact with us. That that's that's a lot
40:30
of fun to comment back and forth between each other. But it also gets
40:34
our name out there well. And we just I mean, we're a couple
40:37
of dudes from Iowa. We like drinking beer, and we like talking about
40:40
the Vikings. So if you like those things, you will make us very
40:45
happy by reaching out and giving us a like, giving us a comment,
40:50
letting us interact with you, even if you're not a Vikings fan per se.
40:53
Yeah, I think on that on that stream last night, we might
40:58
have had one of the two three people that were, you know, interacting
41:01
with us pretty good. Maybe one of those was an actual Vikings fan.
41:05
I I'm not. I think it was Joey Bagga Donuts. I think that's
41:09
who was the Vikingspan. I'm so sorry if if you're not a Vikingspan,
41:13
but I'm pretty sure you were, because there was an Eagles fan that was
41:16
interacting with us quite a bit, which is kind of kind of made me
41:19
feel a little icky, but he was cool. And there was what was
41:22
the other one, a Lions fan? Yeah that sounds right. Yeah,
41:28
there was a Browns fan too, So one Packer fan did kind of give
41:32
us a compliment. We got a few compliments, but one that I remember
41:36
specifically was that Packer fan said that we came across as some of the few
41:42
nice and polite and entertaining Vikings fans, which felt good to hear, but
41:46
also kind of felt bad to hear that about the rest of our Vikings fan
41:51
friends and colleagues in this fandom. But yeah, we're I mean, even
41:55
if you're not a Vikings fan, We're not gonna straight up be evil to
42:00
any fan base I mean or team. I mean, we don't like the
42:05
Packers, but I have friends who are Packers fans. We don't like the
42:07
Bears, but our only guest of the show is a Bears fan, which
42:14
you keep that in mind for the next Bears episode. Wink wink. But
42:20
yeah, we'd like to be relatable and approachable. So yeah, even if
42:24
you're not a Vikings fan or anywhere that you can get Iowa beer, we'll
42:30
tell you about it. You can experience Iowa beer vicariously through us. This
42:35
is true. Yep. We should quit talking about ourselves though, and oh
42:38
it's so fun though, talk about the Bears. The Bears game coming up
42:44
Monday night, the Bears had an emotional game against the Lions. They lost,
42:50
gave up that fourth quarter lead to the Lions. Were they in Detroit
42:54
or were they in Chicago? I can't remember. I want to say it
42:59
was into Detroit, but I'm not one hundred percent sure on that. I'm
43:01
pretty sure it was in Detroit. I was shuffling leaves around my backyard and
43:07
stuff, so I was listening on the radio, but I was not watching
43:09
it. I even watched it, and I think it was in Detroit.
43:14
Yeah. Anyways, so kind of an emotional game for them. You mentioned
43:17
the Bears are also headed into the bye week thirteen after this game. It's
43:22
a game at home for the Vikings and it's a Monday night game. Yeah,
43:29
so prime time. They also announced they're going to wear the classic jerseys
43:32
again. I like those, so those are super cool. A lot of
43:36
people have said they just need to make them the like primary jerseys. I
43:39
don't know about that. I really am a fan of the Vikings regular jerseys.
43:45
I think they're a good mix of classic and modern. But I really
43:49
like the classic ones. The old school ones are really really cool, and
43:54
I personally on my own Twitter interacted with somebody about I think they asked the
44:00
question, They're like, should these become the new normal? And I just
44:04
responded like a thousand percent yes, oh yeah, because I like them.
44:07
Yeah, I would be a fan of those becoming the normal kind of primary
44:14
home jerseys. But I so I don't mind the ones we have. Yeah.
44:19
The one thing I like the most about the the main uniforms is the
44:23
Matt finish on the helmets. I don't know for me, I mean,
44:29
it doesn't equate to wins or losses or anything, but its just I feel
44:32
like every football helmet should be a Matt finish like it just it looks good
44:37
to me. I don't dislike any other finish, but like, and I
44:40
do enjoy that they kept that Matt finish for the classic jerseys, kind of
44:45
still mixing in the the current vikings too, which may be a cost saving
44:51
measure more so than an aesthetic. But yeah, the Bears, to their
44:57
credit too, they have a really good looking classic uniform. It's got the
45:01
like the stripes on the top of the shoulder and the side of the shoulder,
45:06
and then the like three stripes on their helmet too, And that one
45:10
is specifically a white jersey. So in theory, I mean you could see
45:16
a total Vikings Bears classic uniform. Yeah, that would be cool. That
45:22
would be cool on ESPN. Yeah, it would be pretty sweet. Yeah,
45:27
And I think I don't think there would be any rule against that.
45:30
I think, yeah, I don't know. I mean, the NFL can
45:32
do whatever it wants to do so, but outside of the way they'll look
45:37
on the field, I think this, this loss could know this Bronco's loss
45:44
could be kind of an eye opener. This wind streak, when all these
45:49
bad things are happening to the team, yet they still keep winning, kind
45:52
of could give you a false sense of we're unbeatable, like nobody can touch
45:55
us. I don't know if that's the case for the players, but maybe
46:00
a loss kind of brings you back to reality and wakes you up a little
46:04
bit more. And I think Dustin Baker has on Twitter said a few times,
46:09
like, guys, I mean, this loss doesn't really hurt the playoff
46:15
hopes, like you're still in a similar boat as you were before the loss.
46:21
He also has said, if you're somebody that thinks the Vikings are gonna
46:24
win out and win the Super Bowl, then the Broncos loss is devastating.
46:30
He has said he's not one that thinks they're gonna win the Super Bowl.
46:34
They haven't done it yet in their career or their lifetime, so it'd be
46:37
crazy to think that they could. But I don't know. I'm still optimistic
46:43
about the season, but I don't know if a super Bowl is in the
46:45
future. I think given the rough start and then given all of the adversity
46:52
with the injuries, I think the playoffs are a huge, a huge goal
47:01
to reach for him. I think if you can get to the playoffs,
47:07
You've I've heard you say this countless times. I don't know if you've ever
47:09
said it on the podcast, but you tell me all the time there are
47:13
no moral victories in this football league. And that's true. You play to
47:17
win, and you play to win the big one, and you try to
47:21
get there every single year, regardless of what your roster looks like and regardless
47:25
of how you start the season and the season whatever. But I think consolation
47:30
prizes aside. I think for this group, getting to the playoffs will be
47:37
a success in its own Yeah, And honestly, once you get there,
47:42
like you just got to get there once you're there. It's everybody zero and
47:45
zerop. And that's the case as you go through you just gotta it's literally
47:52
a one game season every time. Look at the Vikings last year. They
47:54
had a great season. Everything looked awesome. They won thirteen games with a
47:59
first your head coach and GM and you know, they seem like a team
48:04
of destiny. Then they lose to a team that they beat just a few
48:07
weeks before. Ye, so anything can happen. It's overwhelmingly likely that the
48:14
Vikings won't win because there's other teams that have their act together more between health
48:20
and experience and luck and whatever. But if you get in the playoffs,
48:27
that's all you need. Just punch your ticket and do what you can see
48:30
what happens. Yeah, I mean, you never know when the ball is
48:31
going to bounce your way, when you're going to decide to go forward on
48:36
fourth and one when you should and not punt the ball. Well, and
48:39
I think that gives the Vikings a lot more to play for in this Bears
48:44
game, because there's a lot more to play for. Yeah, as the
48:47
Vikings, right, the Bears don't have much to play for. They are
48:52
looking at moral victories. I mean, they are looking the coaches trying not
48:57
to get fired, you know, the GM who in his opening press conference
49:01
this is Poles said something like, yeah, we're gonna take the North and
49:06
never give it back. And he has yet to beat an NFC North team
49:10
since, saying that the Bears are a lot more of an s show than
49:16
the Vikings. And yeah, they they're a lot more desperate right now.
49:22
But the Vikings like they actually have an opportunity to do something this year.
49:25
The Bears they've already lost their opportunity. Yeah, So I think that'll make
49:31
Monday Night's game really interesting. And with the bye week looming on the other
49:37
side of it, that adds an interesting wrinkle. Justin Fields came back for
49:44
his first game against Detroit and looked decent and looked okay, he ran well.
49:49
Yeah, I think if the Bears are gonna win, he's gonna have
49:52
to run well. And I think he's gonna keep Brian Flores on his feet,
49:58
and Flores isn't gonna be able to blitz as much. Yeah, because
50:02
if you send the house, Justin Fields is going to slip out somewhere.
50:07
Yeah, and he's going to be twenty yards downfield. Before you know what's
50:09
what. Well, to that point, if anybody, if any team is
50:14
going to win, they need their their top running back to run well.
50:16
So I mean, that's the only way the Bears can can win is if
50:21
they're top running back and Justin Fields plays well. The Vikings are three and
50:27
a half point favorites, or at least they were earlier this afternoon. We're
50:30
recording a little bit earlier this week. There's Thanksgivings, so we're Yeah,
50:34
with the holiday, we bumped up our recording timeline a little bit. It's
50:37
usually Wednesdays when we record, but it's Monday now, so that might change
50:42
slightly. I could see that going even more in the Vikings favor if Justin
50:47
Jefferson is slotted to return. Yeah, And I'm the more I think about
50:52
it, the more I just I don't feel I don't get the sense JJ's
50:55
coming back. I don't feel like they're going to rush them into it.
50:58
Yeah, I don't know. And they could literally announce it tomorrow that he's
51:04
coming back. And this is all a moot point, but it just the
51:07
way the coach has been talking and the way everybody's kind of been talking about
51:10
it. It just seems like they're gonna wait until after the bye week,
51:15
which I mean, ultimately, they've won a lot of games without him this
51:17
year. Jordan Addison's looking really good, so I'm not super mad about it
51:25
right now. Speaking of looking after the bye, we play at Las Vegas
51:36
and then at Cincinnati, both of which are without the quarterbacks that they started
51:42
the season with. Yeah, Vegas benched Garoppolo. I don't even is it.
51:46
Aidan O'Connell is at their starter right now, and they fired their coach,
51:52
which sometimes I can kind of give a little bit of life to some
51:54
teams when they have an interim coach. Kind of get the sense that is
51:59
in Tone Pierce. Yeah, he's kind of he's a players coach right now.
52:06
But admittedly I haven't I haven't paid attention to their wins and losses since
52:09
he's met the interim coach, so I don't really know. But yeah,
52:15
they they've bet are a team in turmoil already. When you fire your coach,
52:19
you're you're already looking at the next year. And yeah, with Joe
52:23
Burrow, he's on he's done for the season, right, Yeah, I
52:28
think he's done. That's crazy, That's that's big I mean that makes that
52:32
game more winnable than the Niners game was earlier in the year. Jake Browning
52:37
is going to be under center for the Bengals. Yeah, and there's a
52:39
lot of time between now and then maybe they figure something else out. I
52:44
mean, hopefully you wouldn't want Jake Browning as far as the Vikings go to
52:50
like figure it out and be the next Josh Dobbs of the league. You
52:52
know, maybe maybe they call up Colin Kaepernick or something that dude's done.
53:00
He's been done for that was really time in cheek. That was not serious
53:04
at all. Yeah, but yeah, definitely an interesting stretch here for the
53:09
Vikings. Hopefully a win on Monday Night a week from tonight against the Bears
53:16
at home, and then a week to rest and then at Vegas at Sincy,
53:23
both winnable games. Both teams are struggling right now, and then we
53:28
have that divisional on slot to end the season. Lions, Packers, Lions.
53:31
I'm excited for that. That'll be That'll be a fun stretch. Hopefully
53:37
it'll be fun because hopefully you have JJ back fully and you know, running
53:42
around healthy out there. I mean, in theory, Dobbs has just that
53:45
much more time, Koc has that much more time. I think this bye
53:50
week is necessary. It's at a really good time of the season. Yeah,
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just to get everybody ready, just kind of reset a little bit.
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Yeah, I'm optimistic about the rest of the season. There's no heavy hitter
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where you're like, oh, there's a loss automatically right there. Like they
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should be favored in some of the games betting wise, and the toughest part
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of the Viking schedule is behind them now. They had the Eagles, Chiefs
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and Niners in the first six weeks. Yeah. Well the first two weeks
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was I mean, you had two games within what five days? Yeah,
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yeah, so I don't know. Hopefully we're talking about the playoffs here in
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the next few weeks. Things are looking up, even though they went slightly
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down. YEP. On a happier note, I Kirk seems like, excuse
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me, Kirk seems like he's kind of going to start being around the team
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a little bit more. Yeah, which in theory that can only be a
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good thing. I mean, meeting rooms and rehab and everything like that.
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It's only going to be good to see him around, especially because he's not
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going to be like a cancer in the locker room, like he's gonna be
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he's gonna be Josh Abbs or whoever the starter quarterback is. He's going to
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be their biggest fan and another coach in the room, Like it's only going
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to be good to get him around. Yeah, that'll be good for the
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team. Be interesting to see if there's any positive effects on the field related
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to that. But good beer tonight, yep. I enjoyed. Surprisingly.
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I would get this again. Absolutely. I'm surprised. My wife wanted me
55:34
to save everyone, so oh, well, there you go. I'll have
55:36
to save everyone. But it was good. Thanks for union for very palatable
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sour beer. Yeah, I had two guys that don't like sours. Yeah,
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so it was almost a joke right when you got it, Like it
55:46
was kind of like, well, I picked it up on my Well,
55:50
it is the Thanksgiving week, so this could be a fun one to have,
55:52
And but I bought another one a backup just in case, and we
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