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What have we Cine so far from the 2024 Vikings? Are they making the Wright choices for roster spots? | TSH Ep. 53 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome into another episode of
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  Speaker 1: the skull Hot.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Evan, I'm Austin. We got Forest here with us.
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  Speaker 3: Intro.
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  Speaker 1: We're just a handful of dudes like drinking beer and
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  Speaker 1: talking about the Vikings.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thanks Big Top Ventures. Tonight's beer, I had the
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  Speaker 3: pleasure of bringing We've gotten an exile brewing company beer.
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  Speaker 2: We've had a few of theirs before, or two.
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  Speaker 3: Or three before, I think, and then of course we
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  Speaker 3: hit up the brewery in Des Moines on the brew
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  Speaker 3: hop last month. But Tonight's is GNOME's Travelers, and the
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  Speaker 3: art kind of looks like who is the who is
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  Speaker 3: the Golder's Travel? Goliver's Travel? So the movie was made
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  Speaker 3: Jack Black, Oh played that part nice. So we were
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  Speaker 3: kind of talking about Jack Black a little bit before
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  Speaker 3: the before we started recording, so I did not know
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  Speaker 3: Goliver's travel, but either way, the art on the can
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  Speaker 3: is reminiscent of Goliver's travel. You got so many hops,
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  Speaker 3: people trapping a gnome, a giant gnome in the sand
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  Speaker 3: on the beach. So, uh, this is a hazy India
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  Speaker 3: pale ale made with what does that say? HBC ten
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  Speaker 3: nineteen and citra hops. So I've heard of citra. I
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  Speaker 3: haven't heard of the other kind, have you. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's a kind of a hybrid. I think it has
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  Speaker 3: like a floral and cetra flavor to it.
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  Speaker 2: So allright, have you either of you tried this one
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  Speaker 2: yet before? I have not to know.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I don't think I've had it either, So we
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  Speaker 3: should crack these open and say what we think. Since
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  Speaker 3: we're rolling three deep on this episode, we do not
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  Speaker 3: have enough mic stands for all three of us, so
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  Speaker 3: Evan has to put his microphone down so we could
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  Speaker 3: totally make him not answer questions that are detrimental to.
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  Speaker 2: The multitask. That's an amazing poor.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So if you're watching us on YouTube or Spotify
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  Speaker 3: or anywhere else, you can see how I poured my beer.
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  Speaker 3: And that is just a good poor right there. That's
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  Speaker 3: a good poor. It's releasing all the aromas it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's got good head retention. This beer, I can tell,
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  Speaker 3: is very hazy. It's got again good head retention. It's
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna be a good one. I'm excited, cool school
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  Speaker 3: hell for.
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  Speaker 2: Us again as a misschi can fin. Mmmm, that's nice.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good one.
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  Speaker 3: A little hazy in the taste, pretty refreshing, not not
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  Speaker 3: too crazy of a like an intense happy flavor, but
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  Speaker 3: it's there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was axe balance and I spent. I was
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  Speaker 2: going to say that very well balanced. Yeah, I exile.
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  Speaker 3: It's good refreshing. Yeah, definitely one that you could throw
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  Speaker 3: a few back at six and a half percent. So
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of my personal sweet spot of where I
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  Speaker 3: like my beers to be.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I like it a lot. Thanks for bringing them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: of course I'll do it again. I know you will.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, we should probably make mention of the fact
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to be headed to the Iowa Podcast
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  Speaker 3: It's just a handful of weeks really, next next month
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  Speaker 3: at this point, less than a month away.
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  Speaker 2: But that is a good reminder.
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  Speaker 2: And is that it?
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  Speaker 3: That's it And although a fan voting is only for
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  Speaker 3: if you'd go vote for us. For us, I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: you've already voted for us. I have. Oh yeah, well
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  Speaker 3: even if you hadn't, you're on the show now, so
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  Speaker 3: you kind of have to. You're kind of obligated to
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  Speaker 3: vote for I voted.
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  Speaker 2: I remember I texted you. Okay, yeah, perfect, I don't
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, again, we'd be honored if you go
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  Speaker 3: give us a vote.
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  Speaker 2: Either way.
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  Speaker 3: It's just really cool to be to be nominated to
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  Speaker 3: be a part of that, and I know Evan, you
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  Speaker 3: and I are both really excited about the opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: do a live podcast at the awards.
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  Speaker 1: Episode fifty eight, if my math is correct, will be
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  Speaker 1: recorded live in Cedar Rapids at the Podcast Awards, so
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  Speaker 1: it'll be pretty cool too.
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  Speaker 3: Immediately after the Vikings forty nine Ers game, which is
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  Speaker 3: week two, right of.
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  Speaker 1: Week two, Yeah, it's the home opener, but week two
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  Speaker 1: of the regular season.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, like the game will hopefully be over, and then
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  Speaker 3: you go to your well.
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  Speaker 2: Three o'clock slot.
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  Speaker 3: Our recording time slot is three pm and the Vikings
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  Speaker 3: kick off at noon as tight.
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  Speaker 2: So we may be.
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  Speaker 3: The first few minutes of the podcast may be us
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  Speaker 3: watching the end of the Vikings game, so hopefully they
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  Speaker 3: don't go to it overtime.
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  Speaker 2: But regardless, it'll be a fun experience and I can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. I'm excited. So that's coming up.
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  Speaker 1: We deserve well, thank you, all right, So there's.
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  Speaker 2: Been some some news pieces in the Vikings world and
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  Speaker 2: the NFL world as a whole. So Forrest he's much
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  Speaker 2: more of a Michigan Wolverine s fan, but he's definitely
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  Speaker 2: a Bears fan and we can respect him for that.
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  Speaker 2: He has a team and he doesn't waiver.
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  Speaker 3: So we don't like the Bears on this podcast, but
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  Speaker 3: we like Forrest, so we'll let him chime in a
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  Speaker 3: little bit at some point about the Bears this week.
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  Speaker 3: But some things have happened, Some big things have happened
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  Speaker 3: since the last time we recorded.
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  Speaker 2: Evan a week ago.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we were talking a week ago about JJ's knees soreness,
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  Speaker 1: and I was trying to, you know, be the optimist
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  Speaker 1: of like, oh, you know, it's fine.
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  Speaker 2: You know, these guys.
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  Speaker 1: They'll play a game during the regular season and they
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  Speaker 1: won't practice for three days because they're just recovering and
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  Speaker 1: all that, and so I just kind of wrote it
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  Speaker 1: off as now, whatever, it's just, you know, he's just
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  Speaker 1: kind of getting settled into his new role as a
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  Speaker 1: professional quarterback and all this. And turns out it was
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  Speaker 1: his meniscus and he's done for the year.
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  Speaker 2: So that sinks.
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  Speaker 3: So I was talking to Forrest, who again was a
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  Speaker 3: Michigan fan, and the Wolverines were in the college football
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  Speaker 3: playoffs last year they won the whole championship, and I
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  Speaker 3: was telling him On Twitter, I saw some people kind
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  Speaker 3: of ragging on Michigan saying, I think I think JJ
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  Speaker 3: injured his knee initially in the Alabama game, which was
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  Speaker 3: the game before the national championship. So Michigan sold the
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  Speaker 3: Vikings some damaged goods, So thanks for us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for that.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, Michigan didn't sell you damage goods. I
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  Speaker 3: think you guys don't know how to bring up a quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: He clearly injured him right right when he got into
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  Speaker 3: training camp.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, well we could argue about that anyway, but
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings can't have nice things. That's just how it
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  Speaker 1: always goes.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, he may.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, no quarterback or really NFL player at all
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  Speaker 3: is ever fully healthy. So even if he did come
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  Speaker 3: in a little bit damaged it, I'm not saying he
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  Speaker 3: got injured in college and brought that injury in He
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  Speaker 3: probably actually got injured during the Vikings preseason game.
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  Speaker 2: He guys still made the right choice, I think with JJ.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I agree. It's just another year.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have to worry about kind of rooting for
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  Speaker 3: the Vikings because JJ won't be playing, so yeah, but
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  Speaker 3: he's still j The Vikings are still It was only
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  Speaker 3: going to root for him when he was on the
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  Speaker 3: field though, so anyway, but yeah, he's He had surgery
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  Speaker 3: to hopefully fully repair all the ailments on his knee
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  Speaker 3: and he should be good to go. It sounds like
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  Speaker 3: if they had gone with the quick and easy, little
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  Speaker 3: patch up surgery that could have been detrimental to his
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  Speaker 3: career later on. But from everything I'm hearing, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: not a doctor. Everything I'm hearing is, yeah, he'll miss
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  Speaker 3: this year, but he should as far as that singular
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  Speaker 3: injury goes, he should be fine for the rest of
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  Speaker 3: his career.
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  Speaker 1: And the blows kept coming on Monday, because the news
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  Speaker 1: came out that he was going to have the surgery
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  Speaker 1: and he was gonna maybe it was Tuesday, I guess
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  Speaker 1: it would have been last week that he was going
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  Speaker 1: to be out for the season. And then Jordan Addison
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  Speaker 1: got carted off. Yeah, that practice too.
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  Speaker 2: And it sounds like that's not going to be as
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  Speaker 2: big of a deal as it could have been. Either.
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  Speaker 3: Jordan Addison might still miss a little bit of time
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  Speaker 3: in training camp and maybe still be healing up the
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  Speaker 3: first week or two of the regular season, but sounds
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  Speaker 3: like he shouldn't miss any significant amount of times, so
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  Speaker 3: at least at least there's the silver lining of that.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it did seem kind of.
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  Speaker 3: Dark and gloomy there for a minute for Vikings fans, like,
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  Speaker 3: what the heck, we're just getting over Kirk Cousins missing
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  Speaker 3: the whole season and then we missed out on trading
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  Speaker 3: up for the third overall pick, and you know it
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  Speaker 3: just it just seemed doomy and gloomy for a while.
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  Speaker 3: But I think we're gonna be okay. I still I'm
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  Speaker 3: still optimistic about this team.
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  Speaker 2: We can win this season. You're optimistic about this season? Yes, okay, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I want to make sure.
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  Speaker 3: So I will say in our pick episode what three
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  Speaker 3: or four, two or three episodes ago I predicted?
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  Speaker 2: What did I predict? Eleven?
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  Speaker 3: And well that was based on before you know, JJ's
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  Speaker 3: injury was still not QB one at that you you
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  Speaker 3: had had had speculation he was going to be at
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  Speaker 3: least halfway through the season at some point. It wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: have been crazy for him to take over the But
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  Speaker 3: you're saying it probably to impact your picks that much,
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  Speaker 3: not a whole time. Okay, So now that he's out,
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  Speaker 3: if you were to redo your picks, would they would
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  Speaker 3: you change any of them?
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  Speaker 1: I think you did have the highest record of all
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  Speaker 1: of us that picked games.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I picked him to win like eleven or twelve games.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's over the sheets either way.
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  Speaker 3: I was pretty and am still pretty optimistic about the
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  Speaker 3: Vikings this year.
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  Speaker 2: But for a couple of days last week, it seemed
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  Speaker 2: pretty gloomy. It was rough. They did sign Stefan Gilmore
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  Speaker 2: as of yesterday officially.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, whenever he signed officially, it was within the last
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  Speaker 3: day or two.
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  Speaker 2: That's exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And that kind of seemed like it was like
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  Speaker 1: a long time coming. It just seemed like we'd been
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  Speaker 1: I mean even we talked to Dustin what two weeks
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  Speaker 1: ago on an episode, and even then we were talking about, oh,
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: maybe the Vikings could snatch up Stefan Gilmore, and I
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  Speaker 1: mean it just it seemed like, what are we waiting for?
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  Speaker 2: Either let's let's sign.
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  Speaker 1: Him or not, you know, And they finally got it done.
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  Speaker 1: Seven million guaranteed, ten million possible.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so which you knew. I think that was the
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  Speaker 3: main hold up was how much were the Vikings willing
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  Speaker 3: to offer to him? And then pure speculation, how much
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  Speaker 3: was he willing to take? Today, being Monday, the nineteenth
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: of August, he had his first practice with the team,
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  Speaker 3: and then he kind of held like a after practice
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  Speaker 3: outside little press conference with some reporters, and one of
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  Speaker 3: the first questions he took was how long how long
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: has this been in the works? How long have you
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  Speaker 3: thought the Vikings were a good possibility for you this year?
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  Speaker 3: And he said. His answer was like, yeah, probably the
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  Speaker 3: last couple of weeks. Really, I thought it could be
• 12:56
  Speaker 3: a possibility, and I thought I might want to come here,
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  Speaker 3: So it's definitely been in the works. He you know,
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  Speaker 3: it was public that he visited with the team I
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  Speaker 3: think a week ago to day officially, and yeah, just
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  Speaker 3: put pen.
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  Speaker 2: To paper yesterday or today. I'm excited. I'm just glad
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  Speaker 2: they made a move.
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  Speaker 3: And we're not waiting for Fabian Moreau to be a
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  Speaker 3: starting cornerback or anything. So we got we got Caleb
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  Speaker 3: Williams in Chicago to worry about. So we need to
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: have some good defensive back. You say that, I don't
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: think you're being honest about that. Okay, So Caleb Williams,
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: he has looked okay, he's looked pretty pretty good. And
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: I said it a whole bunch last week. You can
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: only look so good when you're on the field, and
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: Caleb Williams has looked pretty good. So as a Vikings fan,
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  Speaker 3: I really hope he turns it around and really starts sucking.
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  Speaker 2: But he's he's looked okay so far.
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  Speaker 1: What about your thoughts on the rest of the Bears
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  Speaker 1: preseason so far?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think everything.
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  Speaker 2: I was happy to see that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we played our first string starters a lot longer.
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  Speaker 3: I think in the last game, I think they need
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: all the reps.
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  Speaker 2: They can get. You team definitely.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the defense is I I think the
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  Speaker 3: defense should be fine. Actually it's it's it's the the
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: old line is always an issue in Chicago. So that
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  Speaker 3: didn't make me feel any better. It seemed like they
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: were still not great. So and with a rookie quarterback,
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: you know, that's what you need, is a the old line.
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  Speaker 2: I know it. I mean, but there's weapons out there.
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  Speaker 2: I mean between.
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  Speaker 3: Cole Comet, DJ Moore, I mean, hopefully Keenan Allen stays
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  Speaker 3: healthy and then you got dons A, So I mean
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  Speaker 3: you you definitely got weapons. So we'll see what they
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  Speaker 3: put together. So yeah, I mean, as a Vikings fan,
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  Speaker 3: it's pretty It would be crazy to think or crazy
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  Speaker 3: to say that the Bears don't don't have some upside.
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  Speaker 3: They obviously have some upside. They they brought in a
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  Speaker 3: lot of good talent this past offseason. They should be
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  Speaker 3: better than they have been in a while.
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  Speaker 2: I think they continue to move up.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I I think they're definitely not contenders this year.
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  Speaker 3: I think they could press for definitely over five hundred,
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  Speaker 3: maybe maybe ten wins. I clean maybe probably nine, but well,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if the Vikings are as bad as all
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  Speaker 3: the media says they're going to be, then there's two
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  Speaker 3: wins right there for the Beers.
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  Speaker 2: You just don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think it will be interesting to see how the
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: NFC North shakes out because I think there are a
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: lot of question marks in the lower part of the division.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: I think the Lions are still kind of the the perennial.
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  Speaker 2: Power lines should be should be the their favorites.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to win the division like they did last year,
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  Speaker 1: is my prediction. I think the Packers are better than
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: they were last year, but I still think there are
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  Speaker 1: going to be some growing pains with Jordan.
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  Speaker 2: Love Yeah, and I don't I don't know. I think the.
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  Speaker 1: Packers remain one of the most mysterious teams to me
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  Speaker 1: in the NFC North, and then the Vikings and the
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  Speaker 1: Bears are kind of the obvious like bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: the NFC North, and you know, it's just kind of
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  Speaker 1: a toss up who's going to finish last.
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  Speaker 3: Almost hopefully you're wrong. And I know you hope you're
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  Speaker 3: wrong on that. I hope I'm wrong too, for sure,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, I agree with you. I think we all
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: tend to think the Lions until they get knocked off,
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  Speaker 3: they're the team to beat, at least in the division.
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  Speaker 3: And I would argue they've been the better team in
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  Speaker 3: the division since later in the twenty twenty two seasons.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Absolutely making strong.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah because half so the Vikings won the division. Not
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: this past year obviously, but the year before and towards
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: the end of the year before the Lions were given
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: the Vikings, they were on a lot of troubles. Yeah,
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: so give credit where it's due. I think the Lions
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: are definitely a team on the up and up. The Packers,
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: I just go back to last year. Jordan Love obviously
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: finished off the back half of his season his season
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: looking pretty good, but the whole Packers team as a
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: whole didn't really look too good until their run games
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: started figuring things out.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: And I mean.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Running back isn't on the team anymore now. Josh Jacobs
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: who they got is no, he's no slump. He's a
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: really good running back. But I don't know, I feel
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: like the Jordan Love hype is all just smoking mirrors
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: mostly right now? Well, I mean last year, I mean
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: he was either good or he was horrible. I mean
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: there was I can't remember a game where he was
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: just okay, like he was just hot or cold stuff.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: And again, and I haven't watched every minute of Packer football.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: You know I never will, but I do know the
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Packers really turned it on and when their run game
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: figured it out, which is kind of how football should be.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: They always say established a run first.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: So got to have a balanced offense. Yep.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: And if the Packers can't keep it going with their
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: run game the way they finished off last season, I
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: think Jordan Love has not proven yet to be a
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: guy that can put the team on his back and
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: win as a quarterback. And I say that as a
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Vikings fan who we don't know what we have in
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: a quarterback. Our most experienced Vikings quarterback right now on
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: the Vikings team is Nick Mullins, and he's just a
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: fit throw it up and see what happens, which can
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: be exciting but also very frustrating.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: When he is ninety.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Nine percent sacked and he tosses the ball up in
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: a defensive tackle.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: You might depend on that run game a little bit
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: more this season.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, which have to Yeah, as far as the preseason goes,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: we haven't seen Aaron Jones.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: We don't need to see Aaron Jones in the preseason.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: He's an older running back.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Stay healthy, keep him wrapped up, and don't don't risk
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: injury or more wear and tear. There's no reason to
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: ty Chandler has kind of gotten a similar treatment. He's
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: played a little bit, but he hasn't really played much
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: and he hasn't looked electrifying. I would argue the best
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: looking running back on the Vikings in the preseason has
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: been Kane Wanmwu.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah. He's looked good.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, with a few flash plays and definitely he's just
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: fifty yard in touchdown that.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Was exciting, got an enormous amount of speed. He's just
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: so fast. Yeah, but still unproven.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: He's what three four years in the league now and yep,
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: probably doesn't have a one hundred rushing yards on his
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: career yet. So a lot of unprovenness in the Vikings backfield,
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: all capitalized by the idea that the future QB one
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: isn't even an option.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: This year, So we'll see.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: I'm still optimistic about the team as a whole, but
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: maybe my eleven twelve wins is a little bit more
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: in jeopardy than it was a week or so ago.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: So let's really quick go down the line and let's
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: do NSC North final standings.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Okay, where do you think everybody ends up one through four?
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, I wouldn't be surprised. I think we both
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: we're all agreed. I think we're we'd think Detroit would
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: be on top. And I'll let you guys speak for yourself.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: You know, I hate to say it, but yeah, green
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Bay probably has enough to pull out that second, but
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I don't I think two, three, four are all going
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: to be in like within a game, maybe two games
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: of each other. I think I think Detroit kind of
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: runs away with the division again. So and then I'll
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: say Chicago just because I think we have a little
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: more potential this year, but we'll see. And then yeah, Vikings,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: but it could be like last year where Chicago and
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Vikings end up in dead you know, last as a
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Tide record.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I'll go Liones one, Packers too, And then
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I would say it's gonna be very close between the
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Bears and the Vikings as a Vikings fan, I'm gonna
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: take the Vikings at three, and I'll.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Say the Bears finish and fourth.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: But I could see the Lions obviously getting the the
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: playoff spot as the division winner and then no wild
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: card team coming from the North.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's almost Yeah, I would put money
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: probably on that. Yeah.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's probably the more accurate thing that could happen,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: is only one playoff team in the North, even with
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: seven playoff teams from the NFC. Yeah, Evan, I agree
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: with you. I think the Lions are the team to
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: be until they prove otherwise. I think, just off of experience,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: I think the Packers have to be number two so far.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: And then I'm just gonna take the cop out answer
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: and say the Bears and Vikings are just going to
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: be tied, same as last year.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think they might finish with.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: The same record, and really the quarterbacks for both teams
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: because Sam Donald is still relatively unproven. I mean, he
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: he has shown that he's a couple he's played in
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: a couple systems. Yeah, but if you really look when
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: he's had solid opportunities outside of the Jets, he has
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: shown that he he's got some tools in there. I'm
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: not saying Donald's going to be a five thousand yard
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: fifty touchdown passer, but I mean, outside of being a
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: backup on the forty nine ers last year. I'll say
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: it again, it's almost cliche at this point. The Vikings
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: are the best team. Sam Donald has been the QB one.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: I mean, look at who he can throw to. I mean,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: if if that's that's why I even with Cale Williams.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's coming into a good system, full of
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: weapons to throw to.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Now whether he actually does.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: It is another you know thing, but uh And honestly, truthfully,
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: the only reason I would give a solid reasoning on
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: the Vikings finishing better than the Bears this year without
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: being in jest and without being home a Vikings fan,
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: I am biased, I'm a Vikings fan, but I think
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: I truly believe the Vikings coaching staff has a one
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: up on the Bears coaching staff. I would I would
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: agree with that. Actually, I would actually agree with you.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: You have probably the better coaching staff so far, and
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: anything can have. Injuries can derail any team whatsoever. I
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: just I think looking at defenses, I think that's why
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: I give the Bears the edge. I think I think
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: they'll keep them in more of the games.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: So yeah, definitely.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: So let me ask you this, So what you define
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: as a good season knowing that the Vikings are gonna
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: not or the Bears, they're not going to make the
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: playoffs obviously, what we're telling ourselves. I mean, we finished
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: what seven and nine? It would have been seven and seven,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: and we have the NFL have the extra game, so
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: seven and ten.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: What do you consider like taking the step forward? What
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: do you think of.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I think not finishing last in the division is a success.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Not getting swept in all of your division games it
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: would be a success for the Vikings. I mean, I
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: think you're going to drop a handful of them, but
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: you know, if you can avoid a sweep from any
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: of the other three division teams, that's a success. I
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: think if you want just a number a record, I'd
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: say eight to nine wins would be That would be
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the Vikings on a trajectory to be a playoff contender
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: next year.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Prior to JJ's surgery, I would have said some semblance
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: of development from him, whether it's you know, as long
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: as he would have passed the eye test like he
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: could have thrown a bunch of interceptions, but as long
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: as it wasn't like totally his fault and he didn't
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: know what team he was playing for, you know, like sure,
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: just some semblance of him looking like an NFL quarterback,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: which yes, it was against backups in the first preseason game,
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: but I think we kind of got a little taste
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: of that last week against the Raiders before his injury,
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: of course, but now I just think, I mean, I
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: don't know, it's almost kind of like like what I
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: just said about Nick Mullens. The Vikings are kind of
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: playing fit ball, and there's a lot of guys that
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: are going to try to make something of their careers.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: I think obviously, I think Stefan Gilmore signing with the
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: team when he probably had other options elsewhere, maybe for
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: more or less money. We'll never know, but I guarantee
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: the Vikings were not the best team that tried to
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: sign him, and maybe there's some small sense of belief
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: in the Vikings from that, And maybe I'm overreading into
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: it too much. Maybe the Vikings did offer him the
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: most and you're just like, yeah, give me the money.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: But I think when you're able to bring in a
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: respectable free agent at this point, even after a pretty
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: devastating injury to a future quarterback one, maybe not all
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: is lost. I just think the biggest thing is if
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: the Vikings defensive backs can figure it out and if
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: their O line can figure it out, because their backups
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: have not looked good on the offensive line so far
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: in the preseason. But yeah, just seeing some solid development
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: from some of these younger players, like the Ivan Paces
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: of last year. If we can get one more like
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Ivan Pace this year, maybe Levi Drake Rodriguez, I don't know. Yeah,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: it would be nice to see something to be excited about.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Well, should we talk about the Browns game? Yeah, the
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: one that neither of us really watched.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: So we've said it before, Warren I will.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: We're out of market, and the preseason can be kind
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: of difficult unless you sign up for that like NFL
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Game Pass or whatever they call it, where they show
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: every preseason game. We I think all of us here
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: have Sunday ticket or at least access to Sunday tickets.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: So the regular season we're good, but preseason we kind
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: of live in the Bears territory right now, so I'd
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: rather not watch the Bears games, but we did see
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: all the highlights. Really, yeah, what were some of the
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: biggest things to come out of the game.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: I thought Nick Mullins looked pretty good.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Obviously he's not starter material, but we've always known him,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: and you've referenced it already tonight to be the gun slinger,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: the Brett Favre, the you know, I'm just gonna chuck
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: it up there and see what happens kind of guy.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: And I felt like he played with a little more
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: control and he was under pressure a little bit from
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the Browns. I'm assuming second third team defense. Yeah, guys
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: that might not even make the team, so he was.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: He was getting hassled a little bit here and there.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: But he had that great touchdown at Tristan Jackson in
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the corner.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Right in the early part of the game.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: And then before that, he had a really long completion
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: to was it Jalen Naylor? Maybe I can't remember who
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: it was, but he had a nice completion, long ball
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: it was. I mean, it had to have been in
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: the air for forty yards probably yep. But yeah, he
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: looked good as a passer, was able to get out
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: from some of the pressure that was coming after him
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: made some good completions and yeah, yeah, you have it
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: written down here on our notes, and I agree with you.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: He's not a bad option.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: QB two Well, and I've said before, even like last year,
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: I think Nick Mullen's ideal position in football is to
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: be the off the bench, oh crap, QB two, the
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: guy that can come in if something happens to QB
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: one during the game, if he needs to spot start
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: a couple of times. He's gonna throw it for three
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: four hundred yards, two to three touchdowns, three or three scs.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: But it's at least you know, if it's third and nineteen.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: We've said this before, and I think Dustin Baker has
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: said it before too.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: If it's third and.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Nineteen and Nick Mullens is your quarterback, it's almost like,
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: all right, let's see what can happen because he's gonna
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: throw it up, you know, and you have okay receivers
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: to do that. But uh, I don't know you got
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: enough of taste of Mullins last season to know what
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: you're I'm not saying he he couldn't got better, knowing
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: the system a little bit more, but uh, you kind
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: of know what you're getting yep, and he's coming into
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: his third year.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Oh that's right, that's right.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: At least in Minnesota. So he can't say he doesn't
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: know the system. Ye can't say he's not familiar with
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: because it's been the same head coach and offensive coordinator
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: now all three seasons for Nick Mullen. So should be
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: all the same stuff. He should know this backwards and forwards.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: I just think he's a little too overconfident sometimes, which
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: is why.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: He's okay throwing that forty yard deep pass.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I for me, the times I've seen him play, Yeah,
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: he's got arm, you know, and he can make the throws.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Should he make those exactly?
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: His decision making is not always and no one's one percent,
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: but yeah, he's I think sometimes he forgets to do
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: his check downs and stuff like that, so he know,
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: like when they come out of the huddle, he knows
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: exactly what he's gonna do with that ball. Nothing's changed
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: his mind, no matter what the defense shows him. It's
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: kind of my read on him sometimes.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I think as Vikings fans, we look at him and
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: we go, Okay, yeah, he's not a bad option.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: QB two.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: He was a great option at QB three, like you have.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: You go into the season with Sam Donald as your starter.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: All right, let's see what happens. Then you have first
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: round draft pick tenth overall, JJ McCarthy out of Michigan
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: on the bench at QB two. Granted Nick Nick Mullins
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: and JJ were both listed at QB.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Two initial depth a little before you get him that.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: I think people in Minesota would have rioted if if
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: they would have brought Mullins in before JJ as QB two.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, yeah, oh yeah, for sure in the
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: first preseason game.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think I was talking just season. I'm
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: not talking preseason at all.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I think had JJ not gotten injured, it would have
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: been a pretty clear Sam Donald was one, JJ was two,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: and Mullins was going to be three.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Possibly practice squad.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: I don't know if he's Yeah, I think he might
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: be eligible. I think veterans are now eligible for the
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: practice squad. I think if JJ wasn't injured, Mullens is
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: either traded away or just doesn't make the team. I
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: think your practice squad option right as of right now
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: is either Jaron.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Hall or Matt Correll. Jaren Hall.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: We're not talking about starters. We're not talking about provols here.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I think had JJ not.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Gotten injured, Mullens wouldn't have been on the team.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it would have been interesting to see what happened
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: in that quarterback room had JJ not been injured. But now,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: obviously they went out and made that kind of I
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: don't know if you call it a desperation move or
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: what you call it.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: But Matt Carrall from the Panthers, I.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Think Carral is just a camp arm at his highest
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: of heights would be to maybe sniff on the practice squad.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: I don't we will know, just like we never saw
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: Josh Rosen make it to be I don't think he
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: ever touched the Vikings fifty three men roster in twenty
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: twenty two. I think he was only on the practice squad,
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: maybe elevated.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: For a game.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: But yeah, Mac, I think their Josh Rosen at this
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: moment has a better chance to make the Vikings than
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: mack around.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: But Macrral didn't help himself by getting sacked for safety
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: in the end zone.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: He wasn't really given the best opportunity, but still he
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: was not.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: But let's move on from the quarterback situation, we can
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: move to the defensive side of the ball. Yeah, because
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: there's some good stuff happening over there.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a couple of rookies right now that against
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: second third, fourth stringers are flashing.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Uh. So we've got Bo Richter from Air Force. He
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: he's starting to turn some heads a little bit. He's
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: he's I heard him on the radio today or yesterday.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: He sounded pretty pretty good, like he just sounded like
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: he knew what he was talking about. But I'm on
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: the field, he's definitely making some good plays. It's a
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: crowded position, but I still think he has he's at
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: least a lock for the practice squad and he could
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: he could make the team. The other guy, thinking of
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Levi Drake Rodriguez. I am fully on the bandwagon for
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: that guy, seventh round defensive tackle. I think if he's
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: not careful, he might start a couple of games for
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: the team this year. I think he makes the squad.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Wow, And I think he's Ivan paced two point zero.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: He might be this year's Ivan Pace a little bit.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: He I've watched because there's been a few I think
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: even fikes now on YouTube have like put out videos
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: of like every snap for some of these players, and
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: Levi Drake Rodriguez with one of them, and he just
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: looks like he knows what he's doing. He doesn't look
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: like a guy from whatever small school nobody's ever heard
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: of a guy that got drafted in the seventh round.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: He looks the part. He definitely passes the eye test.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: For me, I'd almost be a little surprised if he
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: doesn't make the fifty three man roster. And again, I
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: think he. I think he's going to start at least
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: two games for the team this year.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, he's living that good. That's a very specific prediction. Yeah.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: I mean he's still a seventh round rookie.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: You never know, but I think, yeah, even outside of injury,
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: I think he's got a chance, especially later in the year.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, I have in Paced was undrafted. He started
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: how many games last year?
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that was helped a little bit by injury,
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: a little bit by Brian Asmoo not being very good
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: at football. But yeah, I've in Pace it is legitimately
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: good too.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: So Yeah, another early round Vikings draft pick flashed a
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: little bit.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the most life we've ever seen out
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: of Lewis scene.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: I didn't say that sentence on purpose the way I
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: said it, But yeah, Lewis scene first round pick, not much.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: We seen him break an ankle pretty gruesomely in London
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty two, and ever since and even before then,
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: he's been non existent.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: We haven't seen anything.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: But now we seem to have seen Lewis scene a
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: little bit. Sorry listeners, please come back and continue listening
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: to our podcast. But yeah, he flashed. I think he
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: led the team against the eleven tackles. Eleven tackles. I
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: think he had a sack in there.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple of yeh yeah.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: And then probably probably his prettiest highlight was a play
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: that was called back via penalty and the penalty was
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: on somebody else, not on him, but the Browns quarterback Huntley.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: I think it was Huntley.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Rushed and Lewis syene blew him up and it was
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: beautiful to see. And again his hit was clean. There
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: was a penalty on the play by somebody else, but yeah,
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: he he definitely made it look like, oh, he remembered
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: that he knows how to play football. And again the
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: caveat in the preseason it was against second third, fourth
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: stringers so who knows if he's actually figured it out,
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: but at least he's shown some life.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: And I mean you get into the dog day as
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: a camp, it's, you know, mid to late August, some
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: of these guys are just fighting to make the roster.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean he's kind of had the luxury
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: I guess you could say of you know, kind of
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: being on a team and being hurt and just kind
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: of riding that wave. But now the proof is kind
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: of going to be in the pudding, like you gotta
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: you gotta play.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean you only get so much leeway.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: You can only be exclusively injured so much. And uh, yeah,
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: he's definitely the rubbers meeting the road time wise for him.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: And honestly, it might be making some difficult decisions because
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: if he's been doing this stuff in camp in practice,
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: then yeah, these coaches have definitely seen it so seen.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: I can't get away from it now, sorry guys, But yeah,
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: it'll be interesting to see how that safety room plays out.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: See who makes a team. Even with Brian Flores being
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: notorious for keeping a lot of safeties.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we got a good kicker too, well, right, kids
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: looking like basically perfect through camp good thing.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: That the Schoolman's center is made out of wood, because
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: you just jinxed it. So I had to not say perfect.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: How many kicks has he I think here's three or
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: four on field goal attempts, and then I think he's perfect.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: The miss wasn't his fault. The miss was a block.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was just busted coverage over the
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: middle potentially, And like I said, I think last week,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know enough about special teams performances to know
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: if he had anything to do with that, if he
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: could have done anything different to not make it blocked.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: But either way, it was a block kick. But outside
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: of that, he's looked pretty good. And I guess again,
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: you can only perform when you're asked too, and every
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: time he has, outside of a block kicked, he's, uh,
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: he's been perfect.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: So where Vikings fans were, we're a little sore on kickers, bears.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: I remember some kicker of yours being pretty much perfect
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: and then not so much. Oh man, well, I know
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: you're talking about the ninety eight season Anderson when he
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: was perfect all year except for against the Falcons to
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: go to the Super Bowl, and I was only like seven,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: I wasn't even a die hard Vikings fan by then,
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: But if they had made it, I would still have
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: the VHS and be watching that all the time.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: So I was flipping through last night and I was
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: watching the couple preseason games, you know, and of course
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: the Packers are on, and I just happened to tune
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: right when Joseph was doing a kick and he missed it.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: So I mean to you, guys, you're probably happy that
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: you don't have him anymore. So yeah, yeah, I don't think.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: I don't think he's got long in the league. He's
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: one guy that he's I think he made a sixty
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: one yard field goal.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: This is a dang it, Kevin Joseph. What was his
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: first name, Greg Joseph Greg. He made the kick to
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: win that game right there, the biggest, the.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: Biggest comeback in NFL history. But I think last year
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: he made like a sixty one yarder.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: He definitely has.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: The ability to be a good kicker. It's just he
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: wasn't as consistent as you need to be to be
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: in the NFL.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: So mental, man, it's all mental.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: I'm very glad well record is our kicker right now,
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: ours because we are the Vikings, I guess, but yeah,
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: I'm glad he's the Vikings kicker. I guess we never
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: really got to see John Parker romo, but it doesn't matter.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: We don't have to worry about it until he starts
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: missing kicks. Also, the Vikings punting job has been wrapped
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: up because I think it was today the Vikings cut
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: the second string punter Seth Vernon, and now it's just
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: Ryan right on.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: The roster, the plus size punter.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: I don't think he's plus size anymore. I think he
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: lost a bunch of weight, which maybe, like.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: What's Paul Allen gonna do? Because that's Paul Allen's tagline
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: for him.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: I think he could weigh fifteen pounds and you'll still
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: be the plus size punter. I don't think Pa is
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: going to go away from that. But yeah, it's gonna
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: be Ryan right at least as of right now, until
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: he starts being Ryan wrong.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: That was a good one. That was terrible. I'm so
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: sorry that was probably your scene.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's definitely better than the scene one, but we
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: all seen those comings, So.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Ryan right, all that that's all making it into
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: the title of this episode for sure.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: Scene seen right right left, you know, all the fun stuff. Yeah,
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: the Vikings kicking situation overall looks like it's as good
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: as it's been as long as we've been Vikings fans.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: So let's hope that they keep that up.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: There.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: You go, all right, Well, there's one more week in
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: the preseason and then it's the regular season already, which
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: is crazy.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: We're there forrest real quick. Yeah, you're not.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: You're not a die hard Vikings fan from what you've
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: been able to put together honest thoughts. You already said
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: fairly that you predicted they'd be fourth in the in
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: the division this year. What are you thinking about the
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: team this year? I mean your Vikings you probably only
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: really know too much about JJ.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I don't follow.
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: I mean your podcast is what keeps me the most
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: I guess informed on Vikings. I guess regular schoolhop listener.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: Do you listen to any Bears podcasts on regular I
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: do not, But like I said, I think you said
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: at the beginning and multiple episodes that been on. Yeah,
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: I follow the NFL and I do cheer for the Bears,
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: but it's not like I have a hatred necessarily for
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: the Vikings, just that their rivals. So anyway back to
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: your original question, I I honestly think your offense is
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: actually gonna be fine. I think you have enough weapons
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: on on the offense side that they can make a
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: you know, decent quarterback like Darnold.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: You know, look good. I I have questions on your defense.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: I think they're gonna let you down. I think I think,
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: you know, with close games, they're gonna let you down.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: Then you don't have the bang bang offense that you
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: need to make that that two minute offense role maybe
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: as as you've done in the past.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: So very fair.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the Vikings biggest weakest, biggest week points
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: definitely the cornerback room.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that dB Areas is that that can make a
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: break a team.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: And I think defensive tackles unless Levi Drake Rodriguez really
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: turns it out. But outside of that, I think the
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: offensive line might be the biggest weak point on the offense.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: And then just injury. You gotta hope everyone else who's
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: not already injured stays healthy. Yeah, I mean that's with
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: any team. Injuries can obviously make or break in It
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: could change all our predictions, you know, along the way
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: of what happens. So I do have one slight hot
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: take that might not be so hot of a take.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: It sounds like Dalton Reisner might be in the hot seat.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: He might not make the team.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: You got an insider? No, but I have.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: Seen Vikes now and Dustin Baker and everybody at Viking's territory,
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: they kind of they've made it seem like they might
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: have an insider and that Reister might not make it
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: out of fifty three, might not make it into the.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Final roster cuts. And I think a lot of.
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: It is because he's been low key injured a little bit,
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: so that would be a little disappointing. Another fan favorite,
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: Duke Shelley. I think, just off pure numbers, Duke Shelley
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: might not make the team either. Former Bear, also former Viking,
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: but current Biking as well.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: So we'll see. It'll be interesting.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: As of right now, it's Monday, August nineteenth. We are
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: about exactly one week away from cutdown day.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, a week.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: And a day seventh I think is ye, a week
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: and a day from now, we will be We're probably
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: going to push our recording back week Tuesday, yep, so
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: that we can talk about that that.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: Would be smart, and I think we've talked about that too.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: Another another little interesting school hop tidbit. I think we're
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: going to add another segment into our regular season episodes.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: We haven't knocked out all the.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: Details, but I did come up with a name on it.
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: We can have an on AIO production meeting about that.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: But if you have ever followed Dude Perfect at all,
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: you know that they have their real unfortunate segment. I
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: think we might try to emulate that a little bit.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: So a couple episodes ago, Evan and I made our
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: official picks, game by game picks for how we thought
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: the season would go, and I kind of texted Evan
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: with an idea, something of a punishment for myself every
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: time the Vikings lost, and he said, I think that's
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: a decent idea, but here's a better one. So Evan
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: kind of came up with every time we Evan and I,
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: Evan or I get one of our picks wrong. These
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: picks we made a few weeks ago, so we picked
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: the Vikings to win and they lost or vice versa,
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: then we would spend our own little virtual wheel of punishments,
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: and then they they would be taken out right then
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: and there on that episode.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: This is this is intriguing.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: So Evan, feel free to shoot this name down. The
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: microphone should not influence which we haven't talked about this,
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: so I'm.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: This is this is live in the moment, all right,
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: we're doing it so a little cheese good.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: But I think for that segment we could call it
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: the Purple Punishments.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: Okay, I like it, and I.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: Think each of us us would have our own wheel. However,
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: it would be the same wheel, just duplicated twice. Sure,
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: and however many things we have on the wheel ten
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: fifteen seventeen, whoever knows items? If we get our pick wrong,
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: we clip the virtual wheel and then things along the
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: lines of eat hobannaro or I don't know, I'm either
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: pepper right here on the episode or something like consume
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: an entire jar of pickles in one say during the episode.
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: So that would be one of the first things we
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: would do on the episode, is welcome in talk about
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: the beer, and then if either of us got our
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: pick wrong, do the Purple Punishment segment if.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: We have to. So what do you think? Do you
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: think that's what? I like it?
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're just trying to We're trying to up
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: the entertainment value a little bit.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: So so I'm gonna I'm gonna extend this on airduction
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: meeting Forrest. You're a Bears fan. Last season, you're on
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: our show after it was either after or before it
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: was one before one after it was it was in
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: connection to the Vikings Bears game. There's two of them.
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: I think, am I okay with extending the offer to
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: come on the show at least for those two games?
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: I'd love to. So what do you think being a
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: part of the I will on those two weeks, I
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: will take part.
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: In the the whatever, the purple punishment I all have
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: to call something different the Bear basher.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: That's pretty good actually, But so we'll be prepared as
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: that comes along. We'll have you.
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: I will say, as a listener, you may want to
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: at the end of every episode remind your audience the
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: next uh picks.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: That way they they know.
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: Who's going to potentially get punished to get absolutely so,
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: after towards the end of next week's episode, we'll remind
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: everybody what our prediction will be for the first Our
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: predictions are for the first game, and then we'll have
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: finalized the actual wheel of punishments. And my my thought
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: too is once you land on a punishment and that
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: one gets taken out for you, So remind me on
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: not that I'm gonna how the season goes, may not.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Get it right.
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: So you got to remind me the week before to
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: make my pick and you can announce it on the podcast,
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: and then following the game, that's that's when I'll come
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: on and do that.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: So okay, cool, excited?
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: All right, it's a little little engagement, a little punishment
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: here school a little fun school.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Hell yeah, that's gonna be a fun segment and we'll
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: definitely increase the entertainment value.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: Could uh add some.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Gray hairs and and you know, shorten our life span
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: a little bit.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: Depending on what we plan on.
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: Well, it'll be it'll be entertaining punishments, but it won't
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: be grueling. We're not going to like staple our foreheads
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: or anything like that.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: But they'll be entertaining.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: So one of them, one of them that we texted about,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: did involve a package jersey, which would.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: Be also that's cool.
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: That would force us to go out and acquire a
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: package jersey, so guaranty guarantee.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: Could you would you'd have a willing friend of some
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: probably diving a little bit too, Yeah, that might be true.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: There was a friend of mine that lived somewhere that
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: I used to live, and he was selling a bunch
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: of hats and one of them was a packers hat
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: and it was like, this whole lot of hats for
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: like ten bucks, and I thought about buying it just
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: to to file a packer's hat in some gruesome way,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: but I decided against it.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a good choice.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll figure it out, we'll finalize the wheel of punishments.
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm excited, should be fun.
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: Excited, nervous. You could ask your fan base to for options.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: There you go, fours.
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: Look at you, listeners, viewers, If you have any idea
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: for a punishment that is kind of lighthearted but still
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: something we wouldn't love doing, but also something we could
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: immediately follow up on on the episode. So if it's
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: something like I'm trying to think of some of the
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: dude like, we're not going to put on the wheel
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: like fly to Wisconsin for no reason because we can't.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Do that on the episode.
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: But if it's something, you know, something we could reasonably
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: do immediately on the episode and have prepared for most
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: of the season. So if it's like I don't know
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: something that would expire within a few days, like, no,
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: we probably can.
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: We can shave your beard on the episode.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: So we did also talk about if the punishments should
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: be for our lock episodes, because we both picked games
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: that were locks to win and locks to lose.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: And if we get those locks, how many locks did
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: you pick? So one?
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: I think that might serve as like a double or
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: something like that. I don't know if I could throw
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: up the beard. I think my wife might have something
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: to say about it, but.
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: You don't know it before you can do it. Again.
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: That was on my own accord, but something along those lines,
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  Speaker 3: something we could do right away. Sorry, on the episode. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: let us know if you have any ideas. Otherwise, keep
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: your eyes peel.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: Take it easy on us too. If you're gonna recommend something.
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: We are also the final decision maker. It's true we
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: don't have to put everything on there, but if you
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: like something, you never know.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that I don't land on eating a spicy
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  Speaker 1: something or other, because I would lose my mind.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: One hot an arrow you don't think you can pound
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: it out. No, I think you could, especially not while
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: drinking beer. That's like that might help it. Beer amplifies spiciness.
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: I did think it.
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: Would be kind of funny to have to drink our
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: beer out of like a coffee stir for.
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: The whole episode. That's one awesome less spicy beer. I
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: don't like.
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: I love spicy food. I can't do spicy beverages. It's
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: like that could be, that could be something. It would
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: have to be an Iowa beer. You'd feel the repercussions
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: of that after the I mean it's more so in
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: the in the heartburn area. It would be after burned.
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: But you know that's okay.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, what do you guys think of this?
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  Speaker 1: Uh Gnomes Traveler No Me's no means, No meis mees
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  Speaker 1: No Me's travels travel from Exile Brewing Company.
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
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  Speaker 3: I like it a lot. It's definitely one that if
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: it were like a half a percent weaker, I would
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: definitely say it's totally crushable, Like if it were five
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: and a half or six percent, you could throw these
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: back all day just because flavor. It's really light, refreshing,
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: it's hazy, but I don't know. I feel like, even
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: if you hate I p as and somebody handed this
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: to you, it's pretty good, you'd still be okay with it.
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: It's not a I think it's a it's a good
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: one for people that you know, don't like a lot
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: of hot betterness, betterness because it's definitely hoppy. It's happy,
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: but it's pretty. It's pretty light.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: It's a sweet, florally yeah type of happiness, not the
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: like super in your face intense.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I picture, you.
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: Know, if you're going out fishing and you don't want
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: to just throw a bunch of the stereotypical like light
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: beers in, you're cooler.
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: This is definitely one that you could, you know, sip
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: on it. I'd buy this again.
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: It's not like if if there's other options, it may
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: not be my first go to, but I would definitely
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: consider buying this again.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: Do you think? Yeah?
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: I like it a lot, really good I PA Maybe
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: one of the better I p as that I've had
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: since we've started recording.
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I think it's it's up there. There were
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: proving what we've said.
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: If you're not in love with hoppy I pas, maybe
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: this is your go to. I feel like this is
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: one that, like you don't have to limit yourself to
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: like five ounces, Like you could get handed of old
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: large portion of this and be perfectly fine with flavor
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: and with alcohol content. I think you're you're doing pretty good.
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: It's good stuff. Thanks, thanks again. Yeah, yeah, anything else, guys,
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: any last minute Bears or NFC North or Michigan or Habernero. No,
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: I just that one knows. College football starts the week
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: before well technically next week they have the week zero.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: Do you have one big game Floor State versus Georgia
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: Tech in Ireland? Oh?
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Week one starts August three. First, pretty excited soch
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: Fresno State.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: So hopefully it's not another Appalachian State.
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: I I you you're at the Apps taking.
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: Forrest yikes.
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but as we've talked before, that's almost like a
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: ride of passage for Michigan fans. I I can honestly
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: say I've seen the worst. Yeah, and man, that seemed
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: the best. But no, I'm excited about college football. I know.
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: I know you guys still fall college, you know, and
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: it should be an exciting season. Yeah.
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: Fourth, about a p S five just for the college
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: football video.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: I did. There you go, so I still have to play.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: And Madden came out too. That was exciting last week. Yeah,
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: shout out to your Iowa Hawkeye Tory Taylor Man years
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: Bears punter. Did you win the job officially yet? Oh?
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: He was going to? I mean, there's no doubt about it,
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: but yeah, I was.
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: I don't know if they officially announced it yet, but
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: I was definitely.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: I was upset when they when the Bears drafted him.
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: I wanted the Bikings to draft him. But hey, if
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: Ryan Wright is the guy, the right guy for the job,
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: then we can only.
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: Tailers come pin you down at the one yard line.
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Taylor is a future Hall of Fame punter. All right, Well,
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: we've had some good talks on the NFC North and
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: the Vikings and the Bear and the Beers.
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: Anything else. I think we've gotta scoll it up. Yeah,
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: all right, man, best episode yet Scold School.
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