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Jauan Jennings Juxtapositions, Schedule Small-talk, Honored Halfback | TSH Ep. 138 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome in to another episode
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  Speaker 1: of the Schoolhop.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Evan and I'm Austin.
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  Speaker 1: We're just a couple of dudes from Iowa. We like
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  Speaker 1: drinking beer and talking about the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do. And the Vikings added another wide receiver
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  Speaker 2: to their wide receiver room. Might be one of the
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  Speaker 2: best rooms in the league. Evan, what are your.
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  Speaker 1: Thoughts, Yeah, I'm pretty excited. Should be a good addition,
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  Speaker 1: and if the stats say anything, he should be up
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  Speaker 1: there in terms of Vikings receivers. We also looked at
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  Speaker 1: Vikings twenty twenty six opponents. We won't know the schedule
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  Speaker 1: till next week, but what are your thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's still a little too early to know anything
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  Speaker 2: for sure, but it was fun to make predictions and
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  Speaker 2: kind of speculate what we think might happen.
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  Speaker 2: dorm room. Yeah, yeah, all right, man, I'm really excited
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  Speaker 2: for this beer that we've got.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to know what compelled you to pick
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  Speaker 1: this beer over the others.
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  Speaker 2: I just haven't had this one before. But our beer
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  Speaker 2: tonight is from a very local brewery, Front Street Brewery
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  Speaker 2: out of Davenport, and they have a popular one called
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  Speaker 2: the Cherry Bomb blonde. Cherry Bomb, Yeah, very popular. I
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  Speaker 2: like that one a lot. That's not what we're having tonight, though.
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  Speaker 2: We've got something called their blue Jacket. It's a blueberry blonde,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm assuming it's going to be very similar to
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  Speaker 2: the cherry just blueberry. I don't know if I've ever
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  Speaker 2: had a blueberry beer, but I know there's quite a
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  Speaker 2: few of them out there.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we had a blueberry beer on the show.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's very possible.
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  Speaker 1: I can smell the blueberry.
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  Speaker 2: It is strong, so I hope it's I hope it's
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  Speaker 2: not like a sour type tasting beer. It's definitely. It
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  Speaker 2: says it's a blonde, so it should still be a
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  Speaker 2: beer's beer. But I'm interested to see how the blueberry
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  Speaker 2: works out.
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  Speaker 1: We had a blueberry Graham Smacker from Green Tree Brewery
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  Speaker 1: in Leclaire, Iowa, on episode thirty one, way back in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: I think my wife got us that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you pack.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she was pretty proud of that at the time.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I guess I forgot about that one. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: poor here.
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  Speaker 1: Typical here, grab a coaster.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, our Tatanka coasters here, all right, But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm really excited for this one. Blueberry obviously really good
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  Speaker 2: head retention. It looks it looks like a beer, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's got a nice golden color, blonde color.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of got some sediment that I'm seeing
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  Speaker 1: kind of just a little floating in there, which means
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of flavor in there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so say we dive right in school.
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  Speaker 1: It's not as blueberry as I thought it would be.
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  Speaker 1: The aroma is there, but the flavor is more beer heavy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's more beer forward with a little bit of blueberry.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's definitely a nice hint of blueberry. But it's
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  Speaker 2: not like I was kind of concerned that it would
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  Speaker 2: be like a sour where it's like, oh man, that's
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  Speaker 2: like a full bite of blueberry pie or something. No,
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  Speaker 2: it's like a nice hint of blueberry. Yeah, it's good.
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  Speaker 1: I like it.
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  Speaker 2: I think their cherry bomb blonde has a maybe a
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  Speaker 2: more prominent hint of cherry, but still not like cherry pie,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So, Yeah, I guess right in that wheelhouse.
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  Speaker 2: I like it a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good stuff, good find. Yeah, I would have it again. Sure?
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  Speaker 2: And what is it?
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  Speaker 1: Five something?
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  Speaker 2: Five point four percent? I think yeah, you could definitely
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  Speaker 2: crush these. It's high on the the lawnmower scale.
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  Speaker 1: It be like a like a about this time of
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  Speaker 1: year May June. Flowers are out, the sun is out,
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  Speaker 1: it's a nice sunny day. It's refreshing. It's got a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of that fruity flavor to it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it. Good jobb Front Street.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, we could also applaud the Vikings for
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  Speaker 1: making some moves here now that the draft is over
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  Speaker 1: and we've spent a couple of weeks kind of going
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  Speaker 1: through draft picks and and all that. We had front
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  Speaker 1: of the show forest on last week. But the Vikings
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  Speaker 1: aren't done, and they made a pretty splashy move at
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  Speaker 1: receiver that we could spend a little bit of time
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  Speaker 1: talking about you want to tell him who it is?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Vikings signed Juwan Jennings. I think it was
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  Speaker 2: officially done today, Monday the eleventh. Yeah, one year. I
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  Speaker 2: think I saw one year eight million dollars with the
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  Speaker 2: potential of being up to thirteen million dollars. We talked
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  Speaker 2: about him. I don't know if it was last week
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  Speaker 2: or the week before quite a bit because he had
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  Speaker 2: done an official visit. I think while we were recording
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  Speaker 2: the podcast a couple episodes ago, he was on an
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  Speaker 2: official visit with the Vikings. I've always been, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a fan of Juwan Jennings, at least on the field.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know much about him off the field, but
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  Speaker 2: I think I said at the time he's one of
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  Speaker 2: those players that I always ended up drafting in fantasy
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  Speaker 2: just because I got to a certain point in the
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  Speaker 2: draft every time and realize, oh, you know, I should
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  Speaker 2: probably grab a wide receiver. And for the most part,
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  Speaker 2: he's done well for my fantasy teams, and I think
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  Speaker 2: from everything I've seen he should be a really really
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  Speaker 2: good wide receiver three for the Vikings. He could probably
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  Speaker 2: be a wide receiver two on most teams. Yeah, I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's probably the best wide receiver three the
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  Speaker 2: Vikings have had in quite a while.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's take a look at his stats, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: a numbers guy. I like to see how those stats
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  Speaker 1: add up. So he is sitting at He's got five
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  Speaker 1: years in the league, all with San Francisco. He's played
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  Speaker 1: seventy five games, started thirty two of them. So he's
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  Speaker 1: not a starter, at least he wasn't to start his career.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's always been Deebo, Samuel and Brandon Ayuk,
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  Speaker 2: and he's he's become.
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  Speaker 1: More of a starter of the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: Two hundred and ten catches for almost six hundred yards,
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  Speaker 1: twenty two touchdowns. Let's see anything else there yards per
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  Speaker 1: game thirty four point four. So yeah, I like that.
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  Speaker 2: I think his at least yardage numbers, they seem to
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  Speaker 2: stack up really well with Jordan Addison, who also seems
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  Speaker 2: like maybe I think Jordan Addison his stats are maybe
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  Speaker 2: a little bit better too. But guys that seem like
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  Speaker 2: they're on the cusp of being a thousand yard receiver
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  Speaker 2: handful of touchdown a year. Guys. Yeah, I think this
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  Speaker 2: makes the Vikings have arguably one of the best wide
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  Speaker 2: receiver rooms in the league right now, which is something
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  Speaker 2: that will only help whoever ends up starting at quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if we could do a quick little Jennings
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  Speaker 1: versus like a kJ Osbourne, for example. Let's look at
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  Speaker 1: those two and I guess we could add who is
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  Speaker 1: the Who's the guy that I'm thinking of that the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings just let go.
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Naylor. Jalen Yeah, yeah, let him go so much
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  Speaker 2: as he got a good deal with the Raiders that
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  Speaker 2: I think the Vikings were gonna sign. But it's comparable.
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  Speaker 2: It's worth mentioning Jalen Naylor. His money per year is
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  Speaker 2: very similar to what the Vikings gave Juwan Jennings. It's
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  Speaker 2: just that they gave Jennings a one year, dear one
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  Speaker 2: year deal, whereas Naylor got a I believe a three
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  Speaker 2: year deal with the Raiders. So you got this comparison up.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we could even like throw.
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  Speaker 1: It up to Yeah, I'll take a screenshot of it
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  Speaker 1: and we'll put it up on the on the screen
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  Speaker 1: here right above my face here, yeah, right over your face.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see that one time that I actually did that?
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  Speaker 2: I know was it when I was joking a few
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  Speaker 2: episodes ago.
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  Speaker 1: Actually I did that for like a split second and
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  Speaker 1: then I moved it. It was pretty fun. Yeah, So
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  Speaker 1: Juwan Jennings actually leads all three of these guys and
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  Speaker 1: most receiving categories. kJ Osborne leads everybody in the rushing categories.
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  Speaker 1: Oh interesting, and Jalen Taylor yards per game, receiving yards
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  Speaker 1: per game. I should say he leads these guys. Juwan
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  Speaker 1: Jennings is not a backfield guy, so it doesn't look
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  Speaker 1: like he's used to lining up and taking handoffs. But
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned fantasy fantasy points three hundred and ninety point one.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's like a cumulative number or.
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  Speaker 2: That might be, you know, when you take into account
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  Speaker 2: the points per reception and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: But he's not not just productive there, but it looks
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  Speaker 1: like he's productive everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: And that's over the course of what five years in
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  Speaker 2: the league, So average it out, that's not bad.
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  Speaker 1: He might be just a step above kJ Jalen So
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  Speaker 1: I like it. I think that's a good get.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean I think it only helps the
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  Speaker 2: Vikings and is the run game. I think what he
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: has been said about Jowan Jennings is he's pretty decent
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  Speaker 2: as a run blocker, so he'll help out as a
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  Speaker 2: supporter in that area. Admittedly, I don't know that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for my own personal observation, but that's just what I've
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  Speaker 2: seen Twitter say that he's pretty good run blocking, So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it definitely only helps the team.
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  Speaker 1: And I think if over the cap is accurate, the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings still have twelve million in cap space, So.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have seen people kind of liken this Jennings
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  Speaker 2: signing and kind of looping it in with the whole
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: big picture of trading away Jonathan Grenard. People are saying,
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: and if you want to kind of stretch it to
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  Speaker 2: say this, you could get me to believe it too.
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  Speaker 2: By getting By trading away Jonathan Gernard, the Vikings got
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: two third round picks, which one of them was Jacoby Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: Is that the safety they drafted. The other third round
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  Speaker 2: pick is in next year's draft. And then they also
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  Speaker 2: signed Joan Jennings, So I don't think they're signing a
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  Speaker 2: thirteen million dollar player right now if they still have
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: Jonathan Grenard on the roster. So, whether you hated the
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: trade or not of getting rid of Grenard. There's some
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  Speaker 2: silver lining, and hopefully, hopefully Jennings can actually turn into
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  Speaker 2: a decent target rather than being one other guy on
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  Speaker 2: a long list of free agent wide receivers the Vikings
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  Speaker 2: have signed in recent years that kind of don't really
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  Speaker 2: turn out to do much on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hopefully he's productive, and hopefully he's the guy that
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: can step in and draw attention away from Addison and Jefferson,
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully he's also the guy that when Jordan Addison
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  Speaker 1: inevitably does something stupid has to sit out for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of games, he can step into that wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: to roll and ease the burden on Justin Jefferson to
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  Speaker 1: make make those big plays.
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  Speaker 2: So I wonder if you could rewind the clock and
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  Speaker 2: go back to this time last year when the Vikings
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  Speaker 2: ended up trading they had another, you know, need at
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  Speaker 2: wide receiver and they sent what was it the equivalent
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: of like a fourth round pick to the Panthers to
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  Speaker 2: bring back Adam Thielen. I wonder if they could go
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  Speaker 2: back what the trade value Juwan Jennings would have had
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  Speaker 2: with the forty nine ers, and if it would have
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  Speaker 2: been something like a fourth round pick, if they if
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  Speaker 2: that that was the move they should have done a
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  Speaker 2: year ago rather than sign him a free agency this year.
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  Speaker 2: He probably I'm guessing he probably would have cost more
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  Speaker 2: than a fourth rounder from San Francisco even going into
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  Speaker 2: the final year of his deal. But that's it's a
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  Speaker 2: fun thought experiment to have, Like in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: would we have rather have Juwan Jennings than Adam Thelen
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  Speaker 2: because obviously we know how that Theling experiment worked out.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't It didn't and then he pouted and you know,
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  Speaker 2: asked for his release and didn't really work out for
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  Speaker 2: him there either. So yeah, I wonder if we could
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: go back in time and do that, if that would
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  Speaker 2: have been a better situation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he might be onto something there, and here we
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: are now getting to see it. You know, it would
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  Speaker 1: have been nice to see it a year ago instead
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  Speaker 1: of having gone through all of what the Vikings went
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  Speaker 1: through with the Harrison Smith stuff, but.
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  Speaker 2: That Adam Thelen stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, sorry, that's what I was thinking of too
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  Speaker 1: many different players to keep track of. Yeah, you're right, though,
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  Speaker 1: what other additions have the Vikings made and are they
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  Speaker 1: good ones? And are there more that the Vikings need
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  Speaker 1: to make do you think before training camp and the
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: season and all that.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, So since the draft they've had their rookie Mini
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  Speaker 2: camp now and I think still some voluntary workouts are happening.
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  Speaker 2: But they had that, like I think, just one day
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  Speaker 2: of rookie mini camp, and afterwards they ended up signing
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: a couple of guys that were invites to that rookie
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: mini camp, kind of like Adam Thielen was way back
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  Speaker 2: in the day where he was not even undrafted. He
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: just got invited to a mini camp. Two guys they signed,
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: a defensive lineman, Smith Vilbert, sweet name yeah, and another
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: sweet name, a linebacker. I'm probably gonna say this wrong,
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: but Bengali Kamara Kamara Kamara. So I don't know.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: We're a family friendly podcast here and cut the exploitives out, man,
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  Speaker 1: come on, have to bleep it out.
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  Speaker 2: I know, right, But yeah, I don't know anything about
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  Speaker 2: these guys. I read the quick little article the Vikings
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  Speaker 2: put out when they announced that they signed both of them.
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  Speaker 2: They seemed like they had decent experience in college when
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  Speaker 2: they were in there. Much like most of the draft
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  Speaker 2: picks they got, these guys had a lot of games
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  Speaker 2: played in college outside of that, I got nothing. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I do know it's probably difficult with so
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  Speaker 2: many limited reps in one day of practice, and I
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: don't know whatever else time they had meeting rooms and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Probably difficult to impress enough to get a spot on
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  Speaker 2: a roster when you're just a warm body in a
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: rookie mini camp. So I don't know if the Vikings
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  Speaker 2: were still looking and saying, we really need to bolster
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  Speaker 2: up our we need one more guy in the defensive
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  Speaker 2: line room and one more guy in the linebacker room,
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  Speaker 2: and those were just the ones that stood out, or
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: if they just were truly like, hey, anybody that stands out,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to really keep an eye on them. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. These guys could be nothing. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they could end up not making the team, or they
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  Speaker 2: could be another Adam Thielen or Jalen Redmond who was
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: an undrafted guy, So you never know. Another thing I
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  Speaker 2: thought was interesting was that during the rookie mini camp,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: the Vikings they have four quarterbacks on the roster right now,
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy, Kyler Murray, Max Brosmer, and Carson Wentz in
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  Speaker 2: no particular order, But none of those guys were at
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: at least throwing at the mini camp, so they brought
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  Speaker 2: in a couple of guys and I forget the aiden something,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: I forget where he was from, but long time, you
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: know number two quarterback in the league, Cooper Rush, he
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: was there too, so really interesting. I know, in Kevin
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: O'Connell's press conference after the practices were all done, somebody
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: asked him like, hey, what'd you think of Cooper Rush today?
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  Speaker 2: And KOs was basically like, you know, it was just
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: another good time to get him in kind of feel out,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: like hey, how do you like us? How do we
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: like you? You know, just get to know each other.
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  Speaker 2: And Kosi said something to the tune of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe he could be our first phone call if they
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  Speaker 2: needed to make some moves in the quarterback room anytime
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  Speaker 2: in the future. So I don't know. I do remember
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Cooper Rush as a cowboy, made a spot start against
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: the Vikings a handful of years ago and actually ended
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: up beating the Vikings. So some Vikings fans out there
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: may remember that name. But I mean, that's always smart
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: and good whenever you can bring in some vets and
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: get basically a free look to be like all right, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you're here today, So what's it like. They can learn
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: just as much whether they like him or didn't like him,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: so it's always valuable to gain that information.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, I question bringing in another quarterback. And
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know that Cooper Rush will make it past
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: these rookie mini camps.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he didn't get signed, so right, but I.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Don't know unless they've lost faith in Max Brosmer completely
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: and they need that practice squad guy. Because I'm predicting,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: and I think most people are in this boat. Kyler
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Murray and JJ McCarthy will battle for that starting role.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I think it'll be a pretty easy battle. Disagree now,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: but we'll see. And then I think Carson Wentz will
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: be that emergency third string guy, and then whoever else
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: they have will be a practice squad.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, guy. Yeah, I don't think bringing Cooper Rush
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: in for this mini camp was really going to turn
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: into anything other than like get to know you KOs
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: kind of. He had answered questions earlier in that press
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: conference about Juwan Jennings and how he had visited a
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, and you know that visit ended
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: without a contract, right then, But he said the Jennings
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: visit was really just getting to know each other and
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: how could you know this relationship work and you know,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: how could this be beneficial to everybody? And ultimately Jennings
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: did come back and sign, but he said this Cooper Rush,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: you know, mini camp tryout was similar, like almost like
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: a free agent visit, like, hey, come in, run around
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: on the field a little bit, put the helmet on, call,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: a few plays in the huddle, and kind of get
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: to know each other. So I would think, unless Cooper
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Rush ends up signing somewhere else, I would almost think
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: if the Vikings have one or two injuries at quarterback
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: this season, it wouldn't be shocking to see Cooper Rush
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: come back to the team because there were other guys.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure Desmond Ritter, who was on the team
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: a couple of times last season, I'm pretty sure he
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: was a veil because the Packers had him, but they
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: just released him after signing somebody else. So it's something
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: to at least get in the building because now they
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: know each other a little bit.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So it'll be interesting to see what happens with that.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: And it's always interesting to see how the dust settles
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: from the draft and free agency and who sticks and
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: who doesn't. And I'm not predicting any like super crazy
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: departures or additions from now on, but I guess I
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: could be surprised.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: That's true. I feel like we're probably done with any moves,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: any big moves. I think if you were to predict
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: any big moves. Obviously there's still at least publicly the
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: question mark about Harrison Smith. So it would be big
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: either way if he announced all right, yeah I'm done,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: or obviously be huge if if the team announced like
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: all right, yeah, hey, we're signing him back. I predict
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: if he does sign back, it's just gonna be a random,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: like one o'clock in the afternoon tweet where the Bikings
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: are like, hey, Harry's back, like you know, just out
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: of nowhere, especially now when the team doesn't have you know,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: they haven't hired a full time GM yet, so they're
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: big moves for setting up the roster this season are
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: probably done as far as adding people.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's really just kind of sit and wait
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: and keep your ear to the ground at all the
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: training camp news coming out, rookie minting camp, OTAs, all
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: that stuff, and just you know, you follow the people
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: that are there, and they're tweeting stuff out and writing
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: articles and whatnot, and you're listening to the press conferences
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: from the coaches and players, and you're just waiting with
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: anticipation for September to roll around.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because now we are entering the time of year,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: at least as far as the NFL is concerned, where
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: you don't want to hear names of your favorite teams
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: players in the news because while it could be something
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: exciting like hey, we locked, you know, a new contract
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: for this big name player, more likely it's going to
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: be something like, hey, this this guy got arrested again,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: or you.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Know, this guy's sleep at the wheel of their car
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the interstate at three in the morning. Weird.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: I wonder what you're talking about. But yeah, this is
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: definitely the time where we don't want to hear about
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: those guys. So if Jordan Addison can make it between
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: now and what is it the end of July mid
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: July when training camp starts.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Just to handcuff him to Justin Jefferson, they can play video.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Hire him a babysitter. Kyler Murray likes playing video games.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Let's get that sit in the basement and play video
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: games and work actual yeah. Yeah, yeah, hopefully we don't
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: hear too many. Hopefully we get more stories like Adrian
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Peterson joining the Ring of Honor.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we should say that for the end. Okay,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I nuck in a little segment here since it's happening
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: this week. The schedule comes out on Thursday, and I
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: thought maybe, since you know, we're not gonna have a
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: ton of stuff to talk about, we could talk a
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: little bit about opponents, our predictions for the schedule that
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: comes out. Because by the time we're back here next week,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: we will know the Vikings schedule top to bottom, front
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and back, yep, and we will we'll be able to
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: dissect the actual you know, week one through week eighteen,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: all of that. But we know the Vikings opponents.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: If they're home and away. We don't know times, we
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: don't know primetime, we don't know if maybe an away
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: game is going to be in Paris or something like that.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: So but we can talk about the actual opponents.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, first of all, let's just note that there
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: are more home games than away games. That's always a
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: good thing. I would venture to guess that the league
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: will send the Vikings somewhere for one of those home
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: games outside of Minnesota.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Potentially, that's always a good bet, especially in the NFL now,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: but I almost I would guess like they might leave
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: them alone. This year.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: They did do the two week back to back games
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: in two different countries albeit last season, one in Ireland
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: and then one in England. So granted they're basically I
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: mean part of the United Kingdom, but they still there's
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: some travel and they weren't in the same hotel probably
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: for the whole trip.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Actually, Brian O'Neil was on right tackled. Brian O'Neil was
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: on another podcast, I forget which podcast it was, I'll
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: we can probably find it and link it below recently,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: and they asked him how was that experience being you know,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: away from America for I think they were gone. Their
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: trip was like ten or eleven straight days, and O'Neill
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: he kind of gave a company line answer where it was,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: you know, very nice to the NFL, but also he
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: was honest when he said, like it was good to
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: be together and eating every meal and spending every minute
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: with all your teammates and kind of break up, he said,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: break up the monotony of the NFL season where your
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: dad looked a little bit different. But he did say, like,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I like an international game, but I only like one.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: You know, two is a long time.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Well, you remember hearing Kevin O'Connell saying after the second one, like,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: let's get the heck out of here, Like he was
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: excited his locker room speech at the end of that
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: second game, which I think they won. I forget who
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: they played, but they lost the first one to the
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Steelers maybe, and they won the second one against.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: The Browns Dylan Gabriel and the Browns.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, he was like, And I could see
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the league finding him for saying something like that. I
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: don't know if they don't yet, I don't know. Anyways, Yeah,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: he kfoc was more than ready to get out of there.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: So all that to say, will they go international? Who knows?
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: You could be right, they might leave them alone. Being
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: that they did the first back to back regular season games,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I think they were the first in NFL history to
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: do that to they.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Were, so they were the first to do it in
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: different countries, different countries because two years ago the Jaguars
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: did it. But they were they played both games in London.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: I think they might have been in different stadiums, but
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: they were still in London for both the games.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: You might be right. Well, all I had to say,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I think that'll be an interesting thing to track is
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: if there is an international game, and I think because
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: the Vikings have more home games than away games, one
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: of those home games maybe get snatched up as a
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: an international game, and they still get treated as the
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: home team when they travel, but of course course it's
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: not exactly the same.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: So I do think I'm pretty sure. So the full
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: NFL schedule is going to be released on I believe Thursday, Thursday,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: the fourteenth of May, but I'm pretty sure. I've also
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: seen that the international games, those will be fully announced,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: if not beforehand, by Wednesday the thirteenth, so we should
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: know at least that by then. And I think I've
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: heard people saying if the Vikings are going to go
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: international at all, their best chance is as an away
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: opponent against the New Orleans Saints. Okay, because I don't know,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: I don't have the full list in front of me
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: of all the announced international home teams, because I think
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: they've they've announced those already.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Oh really, I guess I didn't know.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: I think so, I'm pretty sure I might be wrong,
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: but please double check that out. I'm goog so I
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: think if the Vikings are going international at all, it
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: will be as an away team, and I think the
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Saints are playing in Paris. So yeah, you've got a
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: graphic pulled up and it looks like they have at
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: least the home teams announced.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Yep, so you're right. The Vikings will not have a
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: home appearance internationally. They're playing the NFL is playing games
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: in London, Paris, Munich, Madrid, Melbourne, Rio and Mexico City.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: They're playing three games in London, two of them by
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the Jaguars as the home team, so I would assume
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: those will be back to back weeks like the Vikings did,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: perhaps in the two different.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Because there's Tottenham Hotspur and then there's Wembley that they
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: play in London, and I'm assuming, well, I think the
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Tottenham isn't London, it's Tottenham, but yeah, either way, it's
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: all very close.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: So there have been two games that have already been
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: announced with both opponents. Baltimore will play Dallas. Dallas is
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the home team in Rio and then San Francisco plays
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the Rams. The Rams are the home team in Melbourne, Australia,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: so the other home teams are We've already talked about
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: the Jaguars, the Commanders, the forty nine Ers, the Saints,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: the Lions, and the Falcons. So the Vikings won't be
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: a home team. So that means there are nine games
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: at us Bank Stadium. You know what that means. We
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: got to go to a game. Yeah, we gotta get
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: up there.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: We've attended the most recent game at us Bank, the
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: end of the season Vikings Packers game where the Vikings won.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Now the Packers were playing like third stringers at best, yes,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: but they still won. We can say that we've attended
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: a regular season Vikings Packers game when the Vikings won,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: So that's always fun to say. But yeah, just looking
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: over really quick, just to put one more final note
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: on international games. I do think it looks like the
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: only opponent the Vikings have that have been announced for
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: the international Games are the Saints. So it's either Paris
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: or nothing. And I wouldn't be shocked if the Vikings
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: got announced to go to Paris, but I would be surprised,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: like just because they did a back to back last year, like,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: let them get one year where they don't have to
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: do that.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: But either way, okay, So with the rest of the schedule,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: as it's gonna come out on Thursday, let's make a
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: couple of predictions. Let's predict Week one matchup just for
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: fun sure, and then let's predict how do I want
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: to do this? I have a few thoughts that are
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: swirling in my head. Let's do that. First, Let's predict
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: the week one matchup and then let my thoughts percolate
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: for a minute. What do you think Week one matchup
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: is for the Vikings?
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: So for the last I mean probably what has it
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: been the last decade or so, the NFL has really
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: liked front loading team's schedules with divisional opponents and backloading
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: the schedules with divisional opponents and the Vikings. In twenty
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: twenty five last year, where did they start off? They
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: started off in Chicago and then they hosted the Packers. Crap,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: this is another AI.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Let me go, we went to the Packers game at
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the end of the season. This is great.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Okay, So week one they visited Chicago and then they
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: hosted the Falcons, And I was trying to think, Yeah,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: they didn't have another division game for a while until
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Week nine at Detroit. So all that to say, I'm
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: predicting Week one to be hosting Green Bay or hosting
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: the Line. I think it'll be a divisional opponent, probably
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: not Chicago because it was Chicago Week one last year
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: and it was also away last year. So overall, I
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: think the Vikings they played in Chicago and in Green
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Bay pretty early on in the season when the weather
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: was still warm. I'm predicting it to be flipped this year.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: They're going to play in Chicago and in green Bay
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: late in the season when it's cold, which is cool,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: like I like outdoor games. But that's kind of my
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: overarching prediction. So if I have to pick one, I
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: think it'll be let's just say they will host the
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Packers week one, Okay.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: So that answers my second question then, because I was
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: going to say when is the first home game, and
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: so you're thinking Week one is the first home game
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: and it's against the Packers. I think you said they
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: were on the road at Chicago last year to start
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: the season.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: That was JJ's breakouts. You know, he went off, it's
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: a player of.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: The week he had a great game.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: He threw a pick six pretty early on, he had
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: a great fourth quarter.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Yes, I remember that. Now I'm going to predict maybe
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: that Week one isn't a home game, and I'm going
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: to think that the Vikings are going to go on
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: the road somewhere kind of far away and maybe like
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: a more challenging opponent, just to you know, see what
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: happens if.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Nothing says it has to be Week one divisional opponent,
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: just early season dision.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to say the Vikings go to New
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: England and take on the team that was in the
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl last year, Drake May And yeah, I think
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: that's Week one away. And then Week two I'll say
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: is home against the Lions, because I'll go opposite you.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: You said Packers are Lions. You said Packers week one,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: I'll say Lions week two.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And that's another thing too. The Vikings hosted the
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Lions on was it Christmas Day last year? Yep, so
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: late in the season. It was like their second or
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: third to last game. So that would tell me, hey,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: they're just gonna switch it up. So if they're going
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: to host the Lions, it'll be earlier in the season.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: So, I mean, I'm a high school coach, and that's
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: kind of how high school games work. Like you typically
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: do a home and away series with your opponents and
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: your conference, and this year it'll be you know, this way,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: it'll be ABC, and the next year we'll go CBA.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: You know, we'll just kind of flip flop it, and
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: that way it keeps things kind of on a rotation.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: It's easy to plan and schedule, but it's also different
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: and it's not the same exact thing every single year.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: So all right, one more just like really off the
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: wall prediction surprise win and surprise loss on the Viking schedule.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Who are those opponents? Just we we'll do our official
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: pick him later on, you can definitely change our answers.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: But so I think there's gonna be and this is
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: just my personal opinion. I think a surprise win is
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: going to be the the home game against the Buffalo Bills.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: The Vikings, justin Jefferson has always weirdly played well against
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: the Bills. We have that magical, unbelievable game from was
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: it four years ago? Three four years ago? The ketch
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: of his life? And then Eric Kendricks got recovered a
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: fumble in the end zone because they were so close
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: to the end zone that Josh Allen couldn't even kneel
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: the ball. I'm just gonna say to me, that'll be
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: a surprise win. But I think you know, any of
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: these games, they could win or lose any of these games.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: That's why they play them.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: You know, there's always just we're just like this is
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: like Calshi predictions right now or just throwing stuff at
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: the wall.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Yep. And I'll say a surprise loss, it'll be an
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: away game against the Jets. Oh yeah, just because that
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: would be probably, looking at the schedule, the most surprising
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: loss that they could have. And I mean any team
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: can beat any team. Every Sunday prop.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Bet on that game. Is Geno Smith the quarterback for
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: the Jets when the Vikings play the Jets.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: And that's a good question because all we know is
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: home and away. We don't know that could be Week one,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: They could be in New York or East Rutherford, New
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Jersey week one. It's close to your prediction going to
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: New England week one, so.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: It's not pretty much New York, it's New Jersey.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: I'll do a lot of things. No, that's a good question.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Because do you know, off the top of your head,
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: I don't who their QB two is.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I know Justin Fields was there for a while.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: But he's gone. He's in Kansas City. He may be
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: the week one starter for the Chiefs, depending on how
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: homes Meeks recovery goes.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know that there's any other notable names in
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: New York. And I think I heard what's his name
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: their new coach say like, oh, yeah, Geno's the guy.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: He's my guy.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: They traded for him.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: So I don't know, but that'll be a really interesting thing,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: right especially if the Vikings play the Jets, you know,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: middle or end of the season. Is that still true?
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Is Geno still the starter or has that kind of
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: shifted and changed? And truth be told, I'm not really
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: trying to make fun of Jets fins right now. I
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: am a little bit, but like the Vikings could be
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: in a very similar spot where the Vikings start one
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: of the two guys we think is going to be
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: the starter, and then we get halfway into the season
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: and just like last year, Carson Wentz is you know
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: a rag doll out there and getting limbs torn off
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: and then they're like all right, Well, JJ just try
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: to not mess up, I guess.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: So I don't want to derail too much. And we're
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: not Jets Yet's podcast, but they are going all in
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: on Geno Smith here. So it looks like and I
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: don't know what the final depth chart's gonna look like
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: for them, but right now it seems like QB one
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Geno Smith and then QB two Caid Club Nick. I've
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: never heard of this dude. Nope, QB three Brady Cook again,
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: never heard of this dude. And then QB four Bailey Zappi,
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: who started a few games for the Patriots a few
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: years ago, and he's bounced around. So they're not there's
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: no obvious plan after Geno Smith. It's just some guys
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: that can throw the ball. So and and watch I
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: say that. And this time next year, the reigning NFL
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: MVP is going to be Caid Club Nick and everybody's
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: gonna have his jersey and I'm gonna.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Be eating Crow Sam Darnold of.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: But yeah, the I'd say, just looking at that, it's
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: pretty good odds that Gino Smith is going to be
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: the starter for barring injury, for the Jets all of
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: next year.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: So there you go, all right, Well, so your surprise
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: loss was the Jets, right, and your surprise win was
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: home game against the Bills, both AFC East opponents. Interesting, Okay,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: my surprise loss. I'm gonna start with the loss because
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I like to finish on the good news here. Surprise
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: loss is going to come against the Dolphins at home.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: The Dolphins right now, I think are basically the armpit
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: of the league. They like totally cleaned house. Their roster
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: is like pennies compared to most other rosters in the
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: league right now, and I think they're kind of the
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: laughingstock of the league. They don't look good and I
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna be a good team. But I
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: think the Vikings in my lifetime have almost always had
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: that one game against that one team that they should
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: beat and they didn't. And it's a home game. I'm predicting,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: and this will all change a week from now. Is
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: everything I'm about to say won't official.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, pick them until like late July, But this is just.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: The art of speculation. Everything you say could be completely
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: wrong and flipped on its head tomorrow. But I think
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: that game will be somewhere in the middle of the season.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: The injuries will start to pile up for the Vikings
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: and it'll be a true gut punch like reality check
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: game for the Vikings. Like, guys, we just lost to
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: the Dolphins. Yeah, that's bad. That's like, that's like losing
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: to the Browns. You just don't. You don't lose to
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: the Browns.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Which even the twenty twenty five Vikings didn't lose to
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: the Browns.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: So correct. So that's my surprise loss. Now. I hope
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: their season is good, but there's still that you know
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: they're they're going to lose some games.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they won't go on this year.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: I think the surprise victory, I'm just to say it
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: right now. I think it's that week one away game
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: that I predicted against the Patriots.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: What do you have against the Patriots?
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Man, Well, I don't care if they were in the
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl or not. I think Mike Rabel's in trouble
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: right now. I don't know if they're going to keep
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: him around.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: Maybe they will, I will say, I think if they
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: were gonna him, that would have already happened. He missed
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: a day of the draft. The head coach of an
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: NFL as was away from the team during the draft.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: That is kind of crazy's wild. He's going to show
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: up and be like, who are you well?
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: And he'd like when he had like a public appearance,
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: maybe draft related, after the draft was over, and when
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: he was walking in it was like at an actual
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: event with people there. He got like a standing ovation
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: as he was walking in, like dude, where.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: Are we well? Where are we as a society? Or
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: that's yeah, that's anyways. I don't know. I think maybe
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: some of the drama surrounding that, and there's always that
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: super Bowl hangover and I know they lost the super Bowl.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I know the Patriots didn't win, but that super Bowl
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: hangover is real, and I don't know, we've seen it
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: all the time, right These teams, especially maybe even teams
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: that lost the super Bowl and then come back thinking
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: they're gonna run the table and win it all. The
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: next year, they come in with such high expectations and
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: it's super Bowl or bust, and then they come in
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Week one and they just lay a big fat egg.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: And that's where I think the Vikings have this opportunity,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: like nobody's really looking at us, like we're not expected
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: to win the division. Probably we have this really interesting
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: quarterback battle. We do have some good talent on our
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: team and we've made some good moves. But the defense
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: will be interesting with some pretty significant turnover there. The
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: off defensive line has seen a lot of turnover there.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: The Vikings will probably enter that game if it's Week one, yeah,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: as underdogs, and I don't know, I like the Vikings
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: chances in that.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: That'd be fun. We have seen a situation where a
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: high profile person connected to the team is suddenly wrapped
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: up in extramarital fair or situation, and after high expectations,
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: it turns out to be terrible. In the twenty ten Vikings,
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: remember Brett Farv, I think Paul Allen always jokes like, hey,
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: if snapchat had existed in twenty ten, the Vikings would
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: have won.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: The Super Bowl.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Gosh, I mean Brett Farv had all that stuff. I
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: think Ben Leeber has even said in the past like yeah,
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: it was a distraction, like more than you think it
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: would have been. And the Vikings twenty ten season derailed
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: after being one game away from the the super Bowl
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: the year before. So there's not nothing to it. I mean,
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: anytime you're head coach, this is a big deal, Like yeah, yeah,
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: and it seems like everything they try to do is
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: to try to move on from it. But like ESPN
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: is not gonna let this go, and like people aren't
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: gonna let this go. The jokes are gonna keep coming,
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: and it could be a looming cloud over that organization
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: at least this coming season. So yeah, you're probably not wrong.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: Well, all of it is speculation. We'll see what happens.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Everything we just said will probably not even be correct
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: a week from now. It's okay, but it is fun
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: to talk about. Man. I'm excited to see what the
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: schedule is like, and I'm excited to put our picks
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: in for a fourth season. Yeah on the podcast, that'll
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: be fun. Track wins and losses and.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be good real quick. Just to kind
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: of wrap up the schedule and upcoming season thoughts, at
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: least for this episode, I want to ask you things
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: sit right now, early May, so we don't even know
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: dates and times of these games, how do you think
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: the NFC North as far as like outside predictions will
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: shake out, Like who do you think ESPN is going
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: to say, like, Okay, this team should win it, second, third, fourth,
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: Like we're biased we're going to say, yeah, I think
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: the Vikings could win the division. But what do you
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: think the perception among you know, the talking heads, the
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: quote unquote experts will be for the NFC North ranking
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: one to four.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: I think the media always has a bias towards the Packers,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: and I think right now the Bears are the hot
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: team as well, so I think they're the pundits will
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: say Packers Bears, it's going to be a toss up.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Either one of them could win the NFC North, And
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: then I think they'll say it's really a toss up
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: at the bottom half. It could be the Viking, it
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: could be the Lions. It could and I think they
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: might say this could be the division that gets three
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: teams into the playoffs. It's happened before. It was close,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: and it was really close, and it's been close for
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: the last couple of years. This division is a tough division,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: and so I wouldn't be surprised if if that's kind
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: of how they shake out. I think it's Packers Bears
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: up top. I think it's Vikings Lions down below, and
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Steven A. Smith would probably say one thing,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: and yeah, Dan Patrick would say another. But I think
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: that's where most people are going to be in terms
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: of that, and then it'll be interesting to see too,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: Like you know, who the playoff contenders are, because I
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: think all four teams legitimately could be in contention for
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. It's just going to come down to playing
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: good football down the stretch and probably winning those divisional
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: games at the end of the season that we know
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: they're going to schedule.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really think like you, I think this is
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: going to be another year where the NFC North is
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: going to be very competitive within the division. And again,
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: I agree with you. The pundits are going to say,
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: like Bears, they're going to win it. Yep, they'll get
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: some heat from the Packers, but the Bears are going
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: to win it. And then they're going to say Packers
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: number two. And then I think a lot of people
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: are going to discredit the Vikings because of the state
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: of their QB one situation, at least the way the
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: public views it right now. So I think most people
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: are going to say like Bears, Packers, Lions, Vikings, and
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: I think there is almost an equal shot of every
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: other combination happening. I think any of these teams could
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: win the division. I think the Vikings. I'm still a
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy believer, and I think if he wins this
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: job out of camp, that will say a whole heck
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: of a lot, because you know, it's his biggest challenge
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: in the NFL so far, competing with a guy who's
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: won Rookie of the Year and multiple Pro Bowl appearances
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: and was you know, signed a one hundred plus million
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: dollar contract at one point Like this is JJ McCarthy's like,
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: gut check, like do it?
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: So?
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: I think whoever wins QB one job is it's going
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: to be good for the team. I think the Vikings
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: are going to be better than a lot of people
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: will think they'll.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: Be this year. Yeah, and I don't disagree with you
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: just because I think everyone else would say Packers and
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: Bears up at the top. I wouldn't be surprised that
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: the Vikings sneak their way into second place or maybe
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: even first place. And it could be one of those
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: years where you know, the division winner has been a thirteen,
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: fourteen to fifteen win team. It could be one of
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: those years where the division winner is a ten win team.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, I was going to say the opposite. I think
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: there could be another fourteen win team out of this division, but.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: We've never Like in the NFC South, for example, I
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: think I I think I texted you and maybe even
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: talked about it on the show last year, Like it
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: just seemed like nobody wanted to win the NFC South.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: It's like everybody was kind of right there at the
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: same the Saints and the Bucks and whoever else. I
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: think they were at the top of the race at
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: that point. But like, I could see this division being
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: something like that too. Like I don't think the Bears
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: are the Bears. To me, the Bears aren't super Bowl
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: contenders right now. I think they've got some really good pieces,
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: but I think Ben Johnson still has a lot of
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: work to do to figure out how to be a
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: head coach in the league and how to structure a
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: roster and all that. I think the Packers are kind
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: of flimsy, I don't. I think Jordan Love is a
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: talented quarterback, but I don't think he's a super Bowl
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: caliber quarterback like they're used to having in game day.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: And honestly, I don't know much about their roster besides
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: that I know their wide receiving corps was super shaky
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: last year, and they basically went through like seven or
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: eight different guys because they all kept getting hurt. So
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Jordan Love doesn't really matter a whole lot if he
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: doesn't have anybody to throw to.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: They do have at least two really good tight ends too,
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: and their offensive line has always been at least decent serviceable.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so, but yeah, I think there's there are
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: holes in both of those teams. The Lions were not
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: the same team last year as they had been the
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: previous couple of years, and we knew that going into
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: last season. We kind of predicted that, and I think
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: everybody saw that, Like Dan Campbell is not the same
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: coach without those two coordinators underneath him, and he was
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: kind of exposed for that. Now they still have a
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: talented roster and Jared Goff and Aman Ross, Saint Brown
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: and Jimmy Gibbs, and like they'll they'll still probably do
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: some stuff.
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they'll get some fantasy points and they'll definitely win
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: some games. But I said it this time last year,
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: and I'll stand by it. I was kind of proven
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: right a little bit, but not in the way that
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: I thought I would be I said last year, like
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: the Lions are back. They're back to same old Lions,
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: and they started off better, but their whole season had
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: the same record the Vikings did, and they lost to
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: the Vikings both games. I think, I know Christmas in Minnesota,
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: they lost, and I might be wrong.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: I think they Yeah, the Vikings swept the Lions.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so which you know, it's not like they
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: blew them out either game. But still I'll still stand
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: by it. I think the Lions are back to the
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: same old Lions. Yeah they're not. They're probably a perpetual
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: eight win team rather than a perpetual three to four
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: win team like they had been most of our lives.
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: But they're still not. They're not going to be their
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: window that they had a few years ago. As closed.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: Well schedule comes out on Thursday, we will inevitably talk
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: about it next week on the next episode and dissect
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: all of the ins and outs, the week ones, the
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: week eight's, the bye week, the end of the season, everything,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: we'll talk about it.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: I think I've told you before we may have an
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: inn for the Vikings Packers Lambeau game. Yes, I think
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: you did tell me that, and at a fair price,
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: I think too, So maybe this year is the year. Maybe.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: And that's something that if we were going to plan
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: a Lambo trip, I feel like we'd have to start
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: planning that in May rather than unless we've lucked out
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: a couple of times on end of season tickets where
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: you know, prices were reasonable. But I think we can
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: have those conversations here once the schedule comes out. Yeah,
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: And I think this time next week we could have
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: already started talking about this.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we might maybe we'll like we could do
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: it live and we could like start digging into that
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: a little bit. That could be kind of fun. We'll see,
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: all right, Well, last thing, I threw you a curveball there,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: but it was a good one, it was, and you
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: hit it. You knocked it out of the park. Oh yeah,
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: Team effort. Adrian Peterson. He was surprised by the Vikings
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: today with news that he will be inducted into the
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Vikings Ring of Honor at US Bank Stadium. Sounds like
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: they were kind of sneaky with how they did it,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: Like they brought him in just to you know, I
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: don't know how they pitched it to him exactly, but
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: just you know, hey, come hang out and blah blah blah,
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: and then oh yeah, by the way, you're gonna get
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: a pretty huge honor. It sounds like he was pretty surprised.
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: Here's how Johnny Randall out of nowhere come come talk
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: to him for a minute.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: So that's a pretty cool thing. He was obviously one
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: of the most prolific running backs in the history of
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: the league, not just team history. I think he still
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: holds some team records in the Russian category. And he
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: was almost the first player to rush for what was it,
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: three hundred yards.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: To get ninety six what he rushed for and that's
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: still the standing single game.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: Record, yeah, which is absolutely nuts. So thoughts on Adrian
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: Peterson his career and I don't know, maybe like what's
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: your favorite moment.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: Obviously huge fan. I know he had, you know, the
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: off the field stuff that isn't it isn't very nice.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: It's kind of icky, you know, you don't love to
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: dwell on that. But he he was drafted in two
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: thousand and seven. We were sophomores in high school when
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: he was drafted, so like the perfect age to really
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: be huge fans of an NFL team. Adrian Peterson instantly
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: was the best, and we always heard his entire career like, oh,
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: he's got a bone crushing handshake, and he's just like
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: this physical specimen that like he you know, he could
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: break his leg and play in a game the next week,
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: you know, like he It was just a one of one, truly,
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: and I think, honestly, deep down a good guy. Now again,
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: off the field stuff can't take it away, and we
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: would want wouldn't want to. But I was trying to
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: look up his his NFL records. I don't know how
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: many records he has, but I do know that single
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: game rushing record two ninety six his rookie year, Like
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: that's less than sixteen games into his career. He puts
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: up the most ever in one game. And I'm pretty
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: sure he not only holds the single game record for
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: most rushing yards, he has the most rushing yards in
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: a single half because the first half of that game
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: that he got to ninety six, he ended with like
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: fifty something yards, So he got two hundred and forty
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: something yards in one half, which is wild.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, He's one that I could sit and watch highlights
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: of him all day. You asked me, did you ask my.
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: Favorite Adrian moment and any of the moments. It came
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: in a game that the Vikings ultimately lost, but it's
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: the one where he just trucked over and literally ran
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: over that Pittsburgh Steeler and it wasn't even a rush.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: I think he caught a pass, lowered his shoulder and
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: dropped down. I think it was like William Gay for
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: the Steelers and like trucked him down to the ground
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: and then like just ran him over.
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: That that's probably my favorite. There's a couple other ones.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: There's maybe one specific one that you might say, and
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: if you don't, I'll say it next. But yeah, that's
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: my favorite single Adrian play.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: I think my favorite moment has nothing to do with
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, it has something to do with, I guess
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: his football career, but it had nothing to do with
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: the NFL. It was a bad lip reading. Did you
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: ever watch those videos? And it was he was being
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: interviewed after the three hundred yard game or near three
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: hundred yard.
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: Or was it the two thousand yard season where he
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: was maybe that was it. It was one of those two,
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: and I think it was Pam Oliver was interviewing him
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: and then on the bad lip reading video, he said
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: something like an orange peanut for me, that's my favorite
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: Adrian Peterson moment, just because it's really funny. I think
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: in reality he was saying something like he was reacting
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: to finding out that he was nine yards short. That's
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: what it was, a single season.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: Record, that's exactly.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was funny. The one I thought you were
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: going to say was that rush he had against the
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: Browns in the first game of the two thousand and
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: nine season.
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: Where he like didn he like truck over like well
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: and dragged a bunch of people with Now, it's.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: The one where he was running and then he like
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: juked out of one person and literally threw another Brown
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: out of his way and then rushed for like it
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: was something like an eighty yard touchdown. It was I
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: remember that super long touchdown like that, just the pure domination. Also,
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: that was the first Vikings regular season game with Brett
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: favre And and Percy Harvin and they definitely won that game,
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: and that was that was a fun one too.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, heg of a player go ahead.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: Do you remember the commercial? It was like a fantasy
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: football commercial or no, it was like a commercial about
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: watching games on your phone. Maybe NFL Network or something
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: like that, and it was a dude by the pool
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: and he's like sitting at lounger by the pool and
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: Adrian Peterson like comes in full football uniform, helmet and
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: everything and like lays down in the lounger next to
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: him and says something like are you watching the game again?
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: He's like, you're so silly, Adrian Peterson. And then it
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: snaps and it's his like wife or girlfriend or whatever,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: and it's like, Nope, not Adrian Peterson. But it's it's
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: the it's about being able to watch games on your phone.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: That's a fun.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: Well. Speaking of Adrian Peterson commercials, one of my favorites
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: was that this is ESPN commercial where he's talking about
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: his nickname and I think he's talking with Scott Van
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: Pelt and he's like, yeah, so what's your nickname? And
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, my dad started calling me all day
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: because I just I just kept going all day, you know,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: I just had this battery and it kept going. So
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: that's how I got my nickname all day. What about you?
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: You've got a nickname? And Scott Van Pelt's like, nah,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: I don't have a nickname. And someone walks by and goes,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: what's up, Bedweather, and he's like, I told you that
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: in confidence, Kenny.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: Yep. So all that commercials on top of him being
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: a great maybe the best ever. I think he's the
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: best running back in the history of the league. But
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: obviously I'm biased. Evan. I've got a I got a
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: little bit of a question for you. Here A p
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: A d he Uh. He played for seven NFL teams?
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: Can you name all seven? Doesn't have to be in order,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: but maybe an order would be easiest. Can you name
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: all seven? Q?
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: The uh the dial up internet noise, because this is
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: gonna take me a minute.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: Well, I think you got this all right.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: Team number one, the Vikings, WHOA, Okay, you got it.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: I know he played for the Saints. Was that team
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: number two?
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: That was team number two?
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: I also know he played for the Titans at one point.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: Ok yep, I think I might have gone out of order.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: I'm not looking me, but I know he played for
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: the Titans at one point.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: You got Vikings, Saints, Titans.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: Yes, those are in order, not in order? Not okay,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: but I've got the teams and we'll just give up
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: on the in order part. I think he played for
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: Seattle he did? Yeah, okay, I think he played for Hmm.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: Did he play for the Cowboys?
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: He did not.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, did he play for Carolina?
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: No, he did not. I did see him at a
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: game in Carolina though. Interesting playing for the Vikings.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: Of course. He played for seven total teams.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, you got four of them.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: We got four, the Vikings, the Saints, the Seahawks, and
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: who is the other one?
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: I guessed the Titans?
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: Titans.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: There was one other team that he was probably second
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: most successful with in his career.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: He played for the Lions. Oh yeah, I know that
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: that's not the team you were referring to, though.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: He he he only rushed for a thousand plus yards
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: in the season with two teams, one being the Vikings,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: the other one being.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: This other team. Okay, I don't think it would be
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: the Falcons. I don't think it was. Can you tell
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: me AFC or NFC.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: Both of the final two NFC, NFC.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: Ok it narrows it down a little bit. I don't
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: think it was the Falcons, right, I thought for I
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: was pretty sure he played in Dallas because I know
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: he's from Texas.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: One of the teams is in Dallas's division.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, so in the in the East, the NFC East,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: the Eagles. Oh yeah, no, okay.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: You're halfway there.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: So then it's uh, well, shoot, who else is in
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: that division? I don't even know.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: They have a different name now, Oh.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Commander's slash Redskins, but it was the Redskins
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: when he played for, the one had Skins and the
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: one more the final one he played for in the
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: same season that he played for with the Saints, which
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: was his first season not on the Vikings.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: He started with the Saints and then finished the season
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: with a different team, also an NFC team. Correct.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: You might not actually get this. I might not know
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: Southwest teams.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: Southwest NFC Arizona.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, do you remember that or was it?
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: Just honestly, I don't really remember him playing for most
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: of those other teams. I think I remember him h
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: playing with the Saints, I remember him playing with the Titans,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: and I remember him briefly with the Lions. I don't
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: think he was with the Lions for very long. Yeah.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: I think he and Everson Griffin were both on the
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: Lions at the same time, which is interesting, and that
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: was twenty twenty, the COVID year. Interestingly, his first game
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: as a non Viking with the Saints was in Minnesota
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: against the Vikings.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: I think I do vaguely remember that. It's kind of crazy. Yeah, well, uh,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: he was a heck of a player. I think it's
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: a well deserved honor, and I don't think any other
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: organization is probably gonna extend anything like that to No,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: he didn't really contribute anywhere else.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: Far by, far and above the best with the Vikings.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: Pro Football Reference has his AV. His second best AV
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: approximate value as a player with a team was thirteen
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: with Washington, and the next his first best was one
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: oh six with Minnesota. And truthfully, anytime you see a
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: guy with one hundred plus approximate value from Pro Football Reference,
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: that's where you're starting to talk Hall of Fame territory,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: Like that's that's an average of ten a year. If
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: the guy plays ten seasons and that's ten is good.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: You know, that's Pro Bowl levels. That's a really good player.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: So I think Adrian his first year of eligibility for
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame is the next class twenty twenty.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: Maybe it was this class. I might be wrong, but
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: it might be the next class twenty twenty six, Yeah,
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: because he got to be five years out and he
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: played with the Seahawks in twenty twenty one and the Titans,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: so maybe it was this year and he missed out
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: on it. Either way, he'll be a Hall of Famer
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: so and for sure right now he's a Vikings Ring
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: of Honor.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: So. Friend of the show Dustin Baker tweeted today he
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: said this, after Adrian Peterson is in the Vikings Ring
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: of Honor, who's next? And he listed out some possible players,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: So we'll list him out here. Give us your prediction.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: C J Ham, Anthony Barr, Adam Thielen, Anthony Carter, Harrison Smith,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: Tommy Kramer, Eversince Griffin, Chad Greenway, and Twine winfield Man
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: and he off the cuff just like knee jerk reaction.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: This is who's gonna go in next?
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: So this is just looking at Vikings Ring of Honor,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: and honestly, we're we're biased Vikings fans. We know all
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: of these names. I do I appreciate Dustin when you
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: put this list together, throwing in some of the legacy guys,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: Anthony Carter and obviously Tommy Kramer.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: That's Winfield's kind of in that lace category.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's definitely getting there. I mean in the league now, Yeah,
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: that's and he's been in the league for shoot, he
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: was in the league. He was there for a long
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: time with his I think his rookie year was Tom
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: Brady's Buccaneers super Bowl year. That was twenty twenty, wasn't it.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: So he's been in it for a while. But yeah,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: I think I don't know as far as next, I
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: get skewed because you think if the team was gonna
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: put a Tommy Kramer, a legacy guy, in the Ring
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: of Honor, they would have done it already. Like he
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: he I'm pretty sure he started one of the Super
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: Bowls for the Vikings like that. That's a that's a
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: while ago.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: So and I wonder if they're not only looking at
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: like on the field stuff, but if they're looking at
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: some off the field stuff too, because I know Tommy
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: Kramer has been attached to the organization in his retirement
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: for a while, so, like he still hosts people at
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: his house. I think we've talked about maybe trying to
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: go to a game at his place.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: I know, I know Ros does that.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think Tommy Kramer does something similar though. But anyways,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: I know that he's attached to the organization and still
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: has a good rapport in the building and whatnot, and
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: probably has the like emeritus favor, you know, like, yeah,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: come on in, you got the keys to the building. Whatever.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: So I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised if it's
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: a guy like him, just because he's I think deserving
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: and it's been a while. But I wouldn't be surprised
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: too if it's somebody that's a little bit more recent.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: I think I'm thinking Chad Greenway. I think he's to me,
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: the more logical one. He was a heck of a player,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: and I think he's still in the area.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I think he's based in.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: He's got areads that are in school in the Twin
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: Cities area, and I think his daughter is a basketball stud.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: But that's not Vikings related.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: I wonder who be for Adrian who was the most
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: recent to be in the Ring of Honor, Jared Allen
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: maybe was it. I mean, they don't just do it
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: every year. Jared Allen was in twenty twenty two. We
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: actually went to the game that they gave him that honor. Yeah,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: it might have been Jared Allen was the most recent,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: and so if that was twenty twenty two, Jared Allen's
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: last season with the Vikings was something like twenty thirteen
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: or something like that.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: I think we were also at the game where Jim Finks.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: That's ringing a bell.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: Too, inducted into the Ring of Honor.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: So by this logic, Adrian Peterson last played with the
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: Vikings in like twenty seventeen, and it's now twenty twenty
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: six and they're putting him in. So it seems like
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: there's a ten year wait list for guys.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: I stand corrected. We were not there together when Jim
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: Finks was in. That was October nineteen ninety eight, oh man,
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: when he was inducted. But I think they like recognized him.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: Maybe he had just passed away or something that might.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because yeah, you're right, that's ringing a bell. We've
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: been at a game where they've announced his name before.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think by that logic, pull that list
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: up again that Dustin put out, let's look at guys
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: that have been out for ten years.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: Winfield, Greenway.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: It might be a Winfield or a Greenway, yeah, or
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: the Temple guys. Yeah. So yeah, maybe Winfield or Greenway
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: or the best bets for a Ring of Honor. I
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: think both are deserving. You know, depending on who you ask.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: Winfield might be the best Vikings free agent in team history. Like,
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: he had an amazing career after signing with the Vikings,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: and that's with being after being with Buffalo for a
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: few years too, So yeah, either way, it was a
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: formality to put Adrian Peterson in the Ring of Honor.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: I'm glad enough time has passed since his separation with
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: the team and since his off the field issues, at
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: least with the team. I know he's even in recent
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: memory had like he fought some guy over a poker
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: game or something like that, but and that they were
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: able to do it before I looked it up. He's
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: Adrian's first year of eligibility for the Hall of Fame
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: will be next year, so he could make it in
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: the next induction class. Yeah.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: Well, it'll be interesting to see. And the cool thing
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: is the Vikings have had a whole lot of really
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: really good players come through, and even in the Ring
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: of Honor, it's not just players but really good people.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: I think it's a good organization overall. People have the
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: people in the league, people involved, the players mostly have
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: ranked the Vikings as one of the top organizations to
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: be a part of in football. So that makes me
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: feel good as a fan that they're taking care of
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: people and they're doing right by people. And I hope
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: that that all turns into success on the field, because
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: I think when you do that, when you do the
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: right things outside, the things inside will take care of
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: themselves and hopefully turn into some wins and maybe a
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl championship.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: Hopefully sometime in her lifetime.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: You're looking at hockey scores right now, the Wild are
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: down three.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so by the time anybody listens, they'll know the
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: end of this game. But they're down three to two
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: and with the right about four minutes left, so hopefully
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: they can they can figure it.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: Out and crunch time.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, boom two to one in this series, so if
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: they if they lose this game, it's elimination next game,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: So hopefully they can.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: Figure it out. Well. Minnesota's got two teams in the
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: playoffs right now, the Wild and the Timberwolves, and both
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: have shown that they can play well and beat the
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: big teams. So who knows. Maybe it's maybe it's high
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: time for a championship to come back to Minneapolis.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: Who do you think that it has the best chance
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: right now, the Wild or the Timberwolves.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: I think the Timberwolves do. I just really haven't followed
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: the Wild too much.
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  Speaker 2: If you would have asked me a week ago, I
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  Speaker 2: definitely would have said the Wild. But this series has
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  Speaker 2: been tough.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think getting Anthony Edwards back has been helpful.
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  Speaker 1: And I know he's kind of on a pitch count
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, but he's arguably one of, if not
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  Speaker 1: the best player in the NBA right now, so getting
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: him back was huge, even if it's in a limited capacity.
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  Speaker 1: And I think he's proving that he's going to do
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  Speaker 1: everything he can to push forward. And I think he's
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  Speaker 1: probably even challenging that limitation a little bit, like, Nope,
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  Speaker 1: just put me out there and if I gotta get
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: surgery in the off season, I will kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Hockey's also such a fickle thing, like
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: goals are few and far between usually, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: as a team, you can't always just will your way
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  Speaker 1: to victory because you might make the world's greatest shot
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  Speaker 1: and then it ricochets off three sticks before it gets there,
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  Speaker 1: and then it doesn't go in. And I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I think I like the Timberwolves. Chance is just a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more at this point than the Wild.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully they both figure it out and keep going.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, school Wild and school Timberwolves.
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  Speaker 2: All right, ev what'd you think of this blueberry beer here?
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  Speaker 1: This was good. It was like a hint of blueberry
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  Speaker 1: with just a good ale, a good blonde ale underneath. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and not pretending to be something that it's not. It's
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  Speaker 1: not like it's not even blue in color. Like that's
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  Speaker 1: what I was expecting. I thought, this is like that
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  Speaker 1: pure that we had a couple of weeks ago that
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: was like thick and it was pink because it was
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: strawberry banana. That's kind of what I was expecting. And
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  Speaker 1: I was pleasantly surprised. Is good and very crushable, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I'd probably have it again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it. It's it's an easy drinker. It's
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: it's nice five point four percent, so you're not, you know,
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: killing yourself. It's it's decent flavor. It's just a good beer.
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  Speaker 2: It's a beer's beer. You know it's solid for somebody.
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  Speaker 2: If somebody were to hand me one at any time,
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  Speaker 2: I'd be like, yeah, sounds good. Okay, Yeah, I mean
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: some beers. If you hand me like a an Na beer,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be like, you got anything else?
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  Speaker 1: You know? Thanks?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this one I'm appreciating every single time. Nice hint
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  Speaker 2: of blueberry flavor, and I like that. I don't need
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: a strong fruity flavor.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good stuff, all right.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: Ev If people want to keep the conversation going, how
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: can they reach out to us?
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, find us out there on social media, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: We're out there. Yeah, probably most active on Twitter, I
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: would say, But you can find us anywhere. Watch our
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: podcast on YouTube. It's probably the best place to do that.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: You can also watch the videos on Spotify, but if
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: you're just listening on your AirPods or as you're commuting
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: or whatever, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, all of those places work
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So we need to we need to figure out
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: I think we need to fix some things to get
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: on every platform. But also I know Apple's starting to
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: let video podcasts happen a little bit easier, So we
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: need to get that figured out. But yeah, other than that,
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: every everywhere else. If you Google us, you will find us.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: Yep, just type us into Google, you'll find us.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: We're out there, all right, man, this uh, this was
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: a lot of fun, and we're about to enter a
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: time when there's not gonna be hopefully, knock on wood,
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: not a ton of news because, like I said earlier,
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: if there's a ton of news, somebody probably got in trouble.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, we have some we have some plans to
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  Speaker 1: kind of fill in the time with some non Vikings
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  Speaker 1: specific things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, punishment related.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it should be fun. Hopefully in the next
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks we'll get there. We'll have plenty to
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: talk about with the schedule coming out next week though,
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: that'll probably fill up most of our time next week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll be fun, all right man, good beer, great conversation,
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  Speaker 2: maybe best episode yet. School School a A A.
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  Speaker 2: A A A A A A a