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What is the Purple Punishment this time? Time to Panic for Vikings Fans? Can they beat the Rams? | TSH Ep. 63 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome in to another episode of.
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  Speaker 2: The School Hot. I'm Evan, 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 talking about the Vikings, Yeah, we do.
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  Speaker 2: And on episode sixty three tonight, we recap that disappointing
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  Speaker 2: loss against the Lions, as well as my experience in
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  Speaker 2: the stadium during that game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, wish I could have been there with ye, but
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  Speaker 1: definitely some roses and some thorns to talk about with
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  Speaker 1: that game. And we've continued our tradition of handing out
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  Speaker 1: some game balls for offense, defensive special teams as well, yep.
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  Speaker 2: And then we look ahead to the Thursday night football
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  Speaker 2: game in a couple of days against the Rams, which
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  Speaker 2: will be live streaming on YouTube by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so make sure you check us out there. And
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, we did spin the wheel of purple punishment.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. So grab a cold one and join us. Cool.
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  Speaker 2: All right, We just want to say thank you to
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  Speaker 1: All right, man, uh, we got to start this off
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  Speaker 1: with we we have to.
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  Speaker 2: We were wrong. Yeah, I do want to pre this Okay, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: our preseason picks, which is all that matters for the
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  Speaker 2: purple punishment. You know, there was a lot of p
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  Speaker 2: words there. Yes, we both predicted a Vikings win over
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  Speaker 2: the Lions in what week seven? That's what this was. Yep,
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  Speaker 2: so that's official. We're wrong on that. We got to
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  Speaker 2: spin the wheel of purple punishments. But I will say
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  Speaker 2: just a week ago, I predicted the Vikings would lose
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  Speaker 2: in my final you know, last second prediction, and I
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  Speaker 2: said the Vikings would let the Lions score thirty one points.
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  Speaker 2: I also said the Vikings would only score seventeen. So
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  Speaker 2: I was wrong there, but I did I did pick
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings to lose last week not on the purple punishments,
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  Speaker 2: but I do have to toot my own horn a
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  Speaker 2: little bit just to feel that much better about the loss.
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  Speaker 2: You did.
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  Speaker 1: One thing I'd like to point out about your prediction,
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  Speaker 1: was you the Lions winning by a lot? I did
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  Speaker 1: like correct me if I'm wrong. Thirty one to seventeen
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  Speaker 1: was your final score.
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  Speaker 2: That was my score. You can check out TikTok to
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  Speaker 2: see my score. Please, if you're a Vikings fan, go
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  Speaker 2: check out my TikTok our TikTok video because there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of mean Lions fans out there that apparently don't
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  Speaker 2: know how to be good winners because they're they're pretty
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  Speaker 2: awful in the comments there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's gonna take them what forty years to catch
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  Speaker 1: up to the Vikings and wins in the divisions.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's twenty if they beat the Vikings, if
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  Speaker 2: they go undefeated against the Vikings for the next twenty years,
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  Speaker 2: then they'll finally be tied on the series record. But
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  Speaker 2: we don't need to be those fans.
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  Speaker 1: We digress. Let's spin the wheel. Let's see what our
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  Speaker 1: punishment for today is for picking wrong.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm excited. I'm excited I'm looking forward to this
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  Speaker 2: purple punishments school school. Oh man, well, what's it gonna be.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be drink beer through a silly straw. All right,
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  Speaker 2: that's not bad at all. I like that one. That's
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  Speaker 2: one we can deal with that, all right. You want
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  Speaker 2: to find those down here, they're right behind you. We
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  Speaker 2: have the Purple Pantry below us here. The Purple Pantry
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  Speaker 2: were very creative with naming things.
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  Speaker 1: So while you're getting those out, I'll introduce the beer
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  Speaker 1: that we have the privilege of drinking through the silly straw. Tonight,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be drinking Single Speed Brewings. Hold my pretzel
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  Speaker 1: Fest beer, which I've never had this before. Single Speed
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  Speaker 1: is located in Waterloo, Iowa, which is home to well
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  Speaker 1: neighbor to our college hometown, Cedar Falls. Yeah, and so
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  Speaker 1: we've we grew up with Single Speed. Single Speed started
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  Speaker 1: while we were in college, and it's been fun to
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  Speaker 1: try different beers that they have. But I've never had
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  Speaker 1: this one, so I'm excited for it. And you got
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  Speaker 1: a nice little variety pack of silly straws. There are
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  Speaker 1: a few colors to choose from. I went with purple obviously,
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  Speaker 1: so high stress. I had this Fest beer for the
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  Speaker 1: first time, which I think this is just essentially in
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  Speaker 1: October Fest.
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  Speaker 2: I had it for the first time a week and
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  Speaker 2: a half ago almost, and it's really good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's pour these up. Let's see what they look like. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're full of cans. If I remember correctly, that's a
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  Speaker 1: single speed thing they fill their cans up.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a paper towel if you need it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: look at that. Oh my goodness, holy cow, that's an
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  Speaker 2: Austin Poor if I've ever seen one. Right there. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just gonna do the evaporation method here. Oh no, never mind,
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  Speaker 2: I I'll use the paper towel. Man Evan. That poor
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  Speaker 2: is glorious. I love it so much. It's really gold
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  Speaker 2: in it.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of looks like a butt light, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of like you're just your standard domestic.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever. Yeah, I think you're gonna be impressed with this one.
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  Speaker 2: I like it a lot. It's a lighter flavor october Fest,
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  Speaker 2: but it's really good. And I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 2: the title in it, but I kind of get like
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  Speaker 2: a nice almost savory vibe to it, almost salty vibe
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  Speaker 2: to it. So nice. Well, I'm looking forward to five
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  Speaker 2: minutes from now when your beer, our beer's died.
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  Speaker 1: In a little bit, we can read the description on
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  Speaker 1: the can. Here, Hold my pretzel is golden in color
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  Speaker 1: and pleasantly sweet. Our German inspired celebratory lagger features distinct
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  Speaker 1: notes of honey alongside subtle hints of floral and spice.
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  Speaker 1: So good you might need one in each hand, which
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  Speaker 1: means someone will have to wait for it.
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  Speaker 2: Hold your pretzel. That's funny. I like it. Five point speed.
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  Speaker 2: You did good with the description.
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  Speaker 1: The five point nine percent holds its own. This is
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  Speaker 1: very sudsy. Yeah, this is a it's gonna be a second.
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  Speaker 2: It's like when you put dish soap in the laundry machine.
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  Speaker 2: I promise I didn't shake these up before I walked
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  Speaker 2: in here. Make sure you put your straw in there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we do have to do You have to drink through
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  Speaker 2: silly straws. Was it something that went around when we
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  Speaker 2: were in college that apparently if you drink through straws
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  Speaker 2: you feel the effects faster. Is that an old wives tale?
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  Speaker 2: I guess we'll find out.
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  Speaker 1: I think you have fewer cavity because it bypasses your teeth.
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  Speaker 2: I mean if you're getting cavities from beer. I don't
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know. I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: to say about that. All right, If these beers are
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  Speaker 2: taking forever to fill.
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  Speaker 1: Up, yeah, we might have to like speed up this.
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  Speaker 2: Portion of the video. Maybe maybe dude, do do do?
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  Speaker 1: All right, get that silly straw in there, and then
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  Speaker 1: we got to scull these up.
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  Speaker 2: That is a nice thing about this one being so
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  Speaker 2: foamy as the silly straw doesn't care. So joke's on you,
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  Speaker 2: purple punishments. You're actually helping us out, all right. Here
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  Speaker 2: we go school school. Oh man, this straw hit me
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  Speaker 2: in the back of the throat.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's beer.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's I feel like I'm fighting to get
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  Speaker 2: as much as I can because that's straw. It's got
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  Speaker 2: a light flow here. It is a punishment, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get the strategy down. Maybe the next beer I'll
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  Speaker 2: open minutes before I want to pour it. Beer's really good.
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  Speaker 2: It's a nice light flavor. I'm getting that. Maybe once
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  Speaker 2: you read the can it mentioned the spicy notes. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: that's what I'm getting the spices. You know, what I
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  Speaker 2: thought was the salt from the pretzel I like it
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  Speaker 2: a lot. I would gladly have many more of these.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good bonfire beer, like, oh yeah, I could
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  Speaker 2: have a few of these on a cool autumn night
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  Speaker 2: hanging out with friends. It's a good one. Yep, hold
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  Speaker 2: my pretzel and man, I didn't think about how that sounded,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, I like it. It's a good beer. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: Single Speed for making such a great beer. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think it's year round. I think it's one of those
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  Speaker 2: specialty ones in the fall. I have seen it before
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  Speaker 2: this year, but I think I have. But it's one
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  Speaker 2: that if it's not year round, I'll be looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to it every year. So get you some of this
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  Speaker 2: whole my Pretzel from Single Speed before it runs out.
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  Speaker 2: If it runs out, if not, try some of their
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  Speaker 2: other ones. They're really good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to get more after this episode so
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  Speaker 1: I can enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: Not through the silly straw. You know what I'm doing
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  Speaker 2: this forever now, the straw, the silly straw. That's that's
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  Speaker 2: my new thing. I'm gonna be the guy that drinks
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  Speaker 2: beer out of a silly straw. So joke's on you,
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  Speaker 2: Purple Punishments. I have a feeling that's not gonna last
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  Speaker 2: for you long. No, it probably won't. I'm probably gonna
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  Speaker 2: forget at some point and try to drink out of
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  Speaker 2: the glass this episode. All right, Well, we've got a
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  Speaker 2: game to talk about, and we've got a game to
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  Speaker 2: look ahead to, and I don't know how much we
• 9:36
  Speaker 2: want to talk about this game. It was kind of
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  Speaker 2: a tough game to watch, but it is our job,
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  Speaker 2: yeah it is. It's well, it's our hobby. At this point,
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  Speaker 2: Bigtop Ventures is paying us to do this, but it's
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  Speaker 2: still it's still a hobby. So until it's our job,
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  Speaker 2: we can kind of do whatever we want with this.
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  Speaker 2: It was a fun game. I think overall, if you
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  Speaker 2: were just a fan of football and didn't have, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the love of the Vikings that we do, you would
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  Speaker 2: come away from that game very entertained. You were there,
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  Speaker 2: you were in the flesh. I was. It was my
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  Speaker 2: kid's first time going to a Vikings game. It was
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  Speaker 2: unfortunately my first time attending US Bank Stadium during a
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  Speaker 2: Vikings loss, which kind of stinks. I that was the
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  Speaker 2: point of pride for me. I had an undefeated record
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  Speaker 2: the hand. I mean I'm talking four or five games
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  Speaker 2: I've been to us Bank Stadium for a Vikings game,
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  Speaker 2: so it's not I gets this crazy streak. But it
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  Speaker 2: was still kind of fun to say, like, I've never
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: seen them lose, but yeah, first loss that I've seen
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  Speaker 2: them do. I was pretty pretty bleak at halftime. What
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  Speaker 2: was it twenty one to ten a time? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the stadium the energy wasn't quite there. There were a
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  Speaker 2: few times they tried to initiate like a skull chant
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  Speaker 2: on the video board and it it kind of went
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  Speaker 2: but not, you look awesome drinking here. I feel so dumb.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, the energy just kind of wasn't there. The
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  Speaker 2: biggest boost of energy the whole day was the Ivan
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  Speaker 2: paced scoop and score. Yes, the stadium went nuts. I
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  Speaker 2: probably little girls screamed with how much I was yelling
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  Speaker 2: for the for the Vikings. My kids were up and
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  Speaker 2: jumping around. It was awesome. Close second was the JJ
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  Speaker 2: diving or falling touchdown catch. That was really nice.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry justin Jefferson, He's still JJ for now. I mean
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  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy was in the building.
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  Speaker 2: I was for the first time this year I think,
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  Speaker 2: at a game, which when I mentioned that to my wife,
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  Speaker 2: she was like, why hasn't he been there every game?
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  Speaker 2: I was kind of like, I don't really know. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's not going to go to the away games. He's
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  Speaker 2: not going to travel. You know, he's not playing, so
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: he's not going to travel. And then he's not going
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  Speaker 2: to go to London. I wouldn't assume he was at London,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't know. I think it took Kirk last
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  Speaker 2: year a while before he started attending games on the sideline.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Anyways, it was a really good game.
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  Speaker 1: It started off strong for the Vikings and then they
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  Speaker 1: kind of petered out, and then they came back and
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  Speaker 1: they made it a really close game.
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  Speaker 2: It was I thought they could have pulled it off.
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  Speaker 1: It was frustrating to see the clock management down the stretch.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed like timeout management and clock management were not
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  Speaker 1: strong on the Vikings in.
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  Speaker 2: The first half. I would say the second half they did. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: they did with the timeouts, but still, I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 2: they I think it was more of a defensive fall
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  Speaker 2: in that final drive that the Lions kicked the game
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  Speaker 2: winning field goal. But yeah, the end of the first half,
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  Speaker 2: or really just all the first half timeout wise, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't really know what was going on in the stadium.
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  Speaker 2: You don't get all the contexts of the announcers and
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  Speaker 2: hearing from the sideline and everything, But I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Did they say anything on TV why those timeouts were happening.
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  Speaker 1: No, there was one of the timeouts, one of the
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  Speaker 1: early ones, the earliest, where it just looked like Kevin
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  Speaker 1: O'Connell saw something in the defense. Maybe he thought Sam
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  Speaker 1: Darnold didn't see, and so he called the time out
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  Speaker 1: just to regroup and maybe get a different play call
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  Speaker 1: and a Sam. I don't know, but there were a
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  Speaker 1: few moments where they caught Brian Flores on the sideline
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  Speaker 1: on camera and he looked angry, and I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's always pretty like even keeled, like he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily like explode in rage unless something really good
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  Speaker 1: has happened. He's usually pretty level headed, but he.
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  Speaker 2: Just I don't know. He had a a scowl.
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  Speaker 1: On his face towards the end of the first half,
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  Speaker 1: and I had to wonder if it was because his
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  Speaker 1: head coach didn't leave him with any timeouts there at
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  Speaker 1: the end to do anything with And not that you
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  Speaker 1: typically take a lot of timeouts on defense, but they
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  Speaker 1: are helpful when you're trying to make a stop, you're
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: trying to get maybe a break for your guys when
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  Speaker 1: they've been on the field for a long time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't know, it was interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean Flores specifically, his worst Vikings games,
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  Speaker 2: worst games as a Vikings defensive coordinator have really been
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: against the Lions. I think we can both agree. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: we're not blind. The Lions are a good team. This
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  Speaker 2: was a hard fought win for the Lions, and they
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  Speaker 2: for a lot of the game looked like the better team. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they had penalties, but the Vikings also had penalties. The
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  Speaker 2: Vikings had one turnover. The Lions had one turnover, which
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  Speaker 2: kills the super fun stat about koc being undefeated when
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  Speaker 2: he ties or wins the turnover battle. Now it's just
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  Speaker 2: he's undefeated when he wins the turnover battle, which obvious.
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  Speaker 1: It was that stat. And then it was when the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings score first.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they're more likely to win by a lot
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  Speaker 2: And I forget what the stat is, but both of
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  Speaker 2: those things happened.
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  Speaker 1: They scored first. In fact, the Vikings doubled up on
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  Speaker 1: scoring first. They were up ten to nothing, and they
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  Speaker 1: broke even in the turnover margin. By all intents and purposes,
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  Speaker 1: if those were the only two stat lines we had
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  Speaker 1: to look at and we just didn't know how the
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: rest of the game went, I would have said, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings win one hundred percent of the time, because
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  Speaker 1: that's those are the signatures of Vikings wins. They score
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  Speaker 1: first and they break even in the turnover battle. Those
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  Speaker 1: things happened.
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  Speaker 2: And they lost. It was a one point loss. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you when it was ten to nothing
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  Speaker 2: early in the game that maybe I misspoke earlier about
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  Speaker 2: the energy in the building when it was the highest,
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: but I bet that was pretty fun. Yeah, the energy
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  Speaker 2: in that building was up there so much so that
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  Speaker 2: I think it was as Aaron Jones, who played and
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: looked well, even though he's still not one hundred percent.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: As Aaron Jones was running for that long touchdown early
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  Speaker 2: in the game to score the first six points. My
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  Speaker 2: wife had taken one of my kids down in the bathroom.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: It was me and the other two kids, and a
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: group kind of walked up to us and said, hey,
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: you're in our seats, and I don't know I was
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  Speaker 2: an idiot. I immediately I had one beer the whole game.
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  Speaker 2: So this is before I had one beer. Immediately was like, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: we're not We're in our seats. Like I looked at
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  Speaker 2: my seats, I know where I needed to go. I'm
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: in my seats. Like sorry, but you've got the wrong seats.
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  Speaker 2: And they were like, I'm sorry, but no. And the
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  Speaker 2: one lady that talked to me, she couldn't have been nicer,
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: but she was still holding her ground. She pulled up
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  Speaker 2: her seats. She's like, this is the section, this is
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: a seat, and I was like, hold on, let me
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: look up mine. And I pulled it up and I
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: was like, see, we're in the wrong section. We were
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: supposed to be one section over. And immediately I was like,
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. I'm an idiot. I'm sorry. And as
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: I was saying that, Aaron Jones scored a touchdown, she
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: was like, no, it's okay, we'll sit behind. I was like, no,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: we got to move because I got more people than
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: you have. And but after that, once we got moved
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: and got all situated, then soon after the field goal happened,
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: it was ten to nothing. The stadium was feeling good,
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  Speaker 2: and I was less embarrassed about you know, holding my
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: ground about being wrong about my seats. But yeah, then
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: after that, the Vikings hit there, you know, inevitable every game,
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: loll on offense and couldn't do anything. And then the
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Lions who seemed to have what's his name, Ben Johnson?
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Is he the Lions offensive coordinator. He's got Brian Flores
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: figured out, and good to him. Hats off to him.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: He'll be a head coach soon, hopefully get out of
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Detroit because he's got the Vikings number and it's working
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: for him.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: But yeah, the field goal really quick. That first field goal,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: what was that like fifty eight yards or something like that.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Well, he's really long. I think I don't know what
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: the first one was, but Rekerd had a fifty seven
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: yarder and a fifty No, I think his longest yesterday
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: was a fifty seven yarder, because earlier in the season
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: he had a fifty eight yarder. Yeah, fifty seven yards
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: was that first field goal. And it kind of our
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: seats were super high, you know, we had the nosebleeds.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: We could have walked two feet and touched the back
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: of the building, that's how higher seats were. But from
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: that far up, you know, it's a long field goal,
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: but unless you kind of do the math in your head,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: they don't. I'm sure they listed out somewhere on the boards,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: but they don't really do a good job of telling you.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Like and roykrued attempting blah blah blah field goal. It
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: didn't feel as long, but then you look it up
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: after it's like, geez, that was almost sixty yard field goal.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Well, and then we all heard in the postgame interview
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: that Kevin O'Connell considered putting him out there for a
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: sixty eight yard or.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Something there at the end of the game. Mhm.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: They went up and spiked the ball and they unfortunately
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: had that illegal formation penalty called which backed him up
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: five yards, which didn't make sense to me. At one,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: I don't think that was a penalty. And number two,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: it doesn't make any sense to me why they would
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: let the offending team have one more play, like.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's precedent for that, and I didn't know until
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: seeing Twitter afterwards it's happened before that. It's something about
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: if it's a spiked play where it's a specific spike
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: ball and there's the the illegal formation or whatever. I
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: guess a game can't end on a penalty. I can't
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: end on an accepted penalty, and the Lions obviously accepted
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: the penalty. Usually when there's something like that, there's like
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: a ten second runoff. But there's some weird thing about again,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: can't end on a penalty, and if it's a spiked
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: ball play, then there's you get one on time play.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I won't pretend to be smarter than.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: It was just really weird, and for like a split
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: second there I was like, oh my gosh, this could happen,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: and then Sam Darnold got sacked and it was over.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know what I would have thought. I can't
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: even imagine, and it's worthless to even think about anyways,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: But if they hadn't gotten that penalty, if the spike
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: was perfect and they walked out with that field goal. Unit.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Do you remember this was a couple of years ago,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. You and I attended the Vikings Bears
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: game in soul Your field towards the end of the year.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: I think it was the last game of the year
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: at the end of the first half, and I know
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: they practiced this situation because we witnessed it. It was
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Kos's first year. At the end of the first half,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: clock was taken down. KOC had go figure burned all
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: this time out, and the Vikings were somewhat in field
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: goal range with a few seconds left. They tried to
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: sprint off the field goal team. They got everything down
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: and I don't remember if the play went off, they
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: kicked the field goal before time expired and missed it,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: or if they just didn't, if they were one second
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: too late to getting the ball snapped. But I know
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: KOC practices getting that field goal unit them out there,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: get set and go. Yeah, so I'm not shocked about that.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: But man, for what what was a sixty eight yard attempt?
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: If not for that that penalty, I mean, what else
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: are you going to do? Try to throw a bomb
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: for sixty eight yards?
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Or I think had that scenario played out, I'm pretty
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: sure Dan Campbell had one time out left, maybe two,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I can't remember.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: You I think he had one. I don't remember. It'd
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: be you don't have to go back and walk. I
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: think they burned them all to set up their game
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: winning field goal.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Oh that could be anyways, I think if Dan Campbell
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: had a time out, he probably would have iced him,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, just to you know, make him think about
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: it a little more, Like you're sure you want to
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: attempt this sixty eight yarder and set the league record.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think there's any question though, not that
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: we've ever seen it, or maybe even will ever see it,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: but I think will record. If you told him to
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: go attempt to sixty five yarder, I think he's you know,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: with the right conditions, he's got the leg for it.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Oh for sure. If you told him to attempt to
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: seventy yarder, I feel like with the perfect conditions, maybe
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: you'd need a nice breeze on your back. Maybe he
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: could do it. I think most NFL kickers could with
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: the perfect conditions, hit fifty sixty seventy yard field goals
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: with the perfect conditions. But I don't know. I'd like
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: to see it sometime. Maybe not on a you know,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: game winning attempt. That'd be too nerve wracking. But that
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: would have been crazy to see. Like I told you earlier,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: could you imagine if they had attempted it and made it,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: it would have been farv to Lewis level of pandemonium,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: insane nuts just going crazy. The half the ceiling would
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: have blown off because it's glass. It would have been
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: insane because everybody else, like before they announced one more
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: untimed play, they were already starting to leave because I
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: mean the Viking It would literally need a miracle to
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: happen for the Vikings to win at that point. But
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know all that to say, it was an
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: exciting game to attend, and I wish I wasn't a
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: vikingspan because I would have had a lot more fun
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: at that game. It was still fun either way.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's continue our kind of mini segment
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: here as we talked about the games that have happened.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Roses and thorns. What's your rose? What's your thorn? From
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: the game. Yeah, so I kind of wrote a few down.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: I figured we could we could talk about these together.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: We've I think a good rose. We haven't seen it
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: since Week one, and this is kind of, you know,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: a negative out of a positive. The Vikings until this
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: game against the Lions hadn't trailed in a game since
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: you know, a few minutes in the first week one game.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: And I think Bill Belichick said it a handful of
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: weeks ago, like we'll really know about this Vikings team
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: when they have to come back when they had when
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: they've been down by a touchdown or two or scores
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: or whatever, and they have to try to come back,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: and I mean against a really good team. Yes, they lost,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: and there are no moral victories for the skull Hop.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: We're not saying, oh, we're actually still perfect and still great.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: They definitely should have wanted they got robbed, and we're
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: not saying that. But we did see a comeback and
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: they had a lead, if not for a couple of plays,
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: could have won the game after being down by more
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: than two scores. There's that one. I think Darnold rolled
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: out to his right and he had Addison on a
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: short route, and he had Justin Jefferson behind him, and
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: I think he was just hoping he could loft it
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: up and put it where only Justin Jefferson could get
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: it between Jefferson and the boundary, and he just overshot
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: him by just a little bit. If that's a completed catch,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: I think that's the ballgame, right. Are you talking about
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: the first third and four on the last drive, Yeah, yeah,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: he had two receivers right there. And I think I've
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: seen on Twitter that maybe KOs alluded to the idea
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: that Addison didn't run the exact right route, but I mean,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: oh well, he runs it right nine times out of
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: ten anyways, so you can't really fault him for that. Yeah,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: that play, I feel like with an Aaron Jones, you
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: try to run it because if you don't get it,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: you're still bleeding more clock. I don't know we could
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: nitpick one or two plays, but ya, Yeah, that third
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: and four, that was one of the pivotal plays, that
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: non successful unsuccessful two point conversion after the Avan pace
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: scoop and score that they didn't get. Not that it
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: was easy, it would have been easy, but they didn't
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: convert that. That was a pivotal play. The whole final
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: defensive drive where they let them get they let the
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Lions get that game winning field goal. Those are a
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: few pivotal plays, but I mean, good games like this
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: do come down to a couple plays. So it was
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: just two good teams and the Lions were the better
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: team yesterday. Yeah.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I think a rose for me is the fact that
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: there really were no major injuries. The Vikings are already
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: kind of banged up, Blake Cashman out, probably out again
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: this next week against the Rams, with turf toe. It's
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: not looking good for him, I don't think. I don't
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: think they practiced today Monday.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: No, but they put out like a assumed injury review.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: So it's not looking good for him.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: But Aaron Jones, who's dealing with his hamstring, and a
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: couple other guys too, are just kind of banged up,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: and it's getting to that point in the season where
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: those those little things are starting to pile up a
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: little bit and they're affecting guys, and so I think
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: that's the good news is we kept it close and
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: nobody got carted off, Nobody was you know, seriously hurt
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: for the Vikings and got a short week this week,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: so that could be the storyline Thursday night is so
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: so so and so is hurt. Maybe hopefully not, but
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: you know that that could be the reality on Thursday.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: But but then they have the mini bye week too
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: with a longer recovery time, and so, yeah, all things
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: to say, I think things are trending upwards for the Vikings.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Even with a loss. Yeah, and that's the Rose for sure. Yeah,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: I think another Rose will record. Oh my goodness, wins.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: The last time we were almost not nervous at all
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: like we were totally confident in our kids. So it's
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: a foreign concept for Viking. Yeah, like I feel like
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: the first maybe the first year or two of Blair
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Walsh's career until that, you know, the meme of the
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: twenty seven yard field goal miss. Up until that point,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Blair Walsh seemed like an automatic guy. And so far, Yes,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: it's only been what six games now, will record perfect.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, the only mess up we've seen of his
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: might not even be his fault, and it was that
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: blocked field goal attempt maybe in the first game of
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: the preseason. I forget that might have been his first
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: field goal attempt as an NFL player. Yes, it was
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: in the preseason, so it doesn't really count. But will record,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: he's he's looking good, and that even the fact that
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: we were talking about it would have been kind of
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: cool to see a sixty eight yard attempt, like, yeah,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: he probably would have missed it. Most people in the
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: world would have missed that, but he might have made it.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: You never know, They never know. Just to be able
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: to say, like it's not an automatic miss, like that's
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: kind of fun to talk about. We're watching Monday night
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: football right now. The Ravens for the last what however,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: many handful of years have had Justin Tucker. They haven't
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: had to worry about their kicker forever. He's won how
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: many games he's so automatic and will record is not
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Justin Tucker yet? But he's still perfect? Like that's awesome. Yep.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Are you ready to panic yet about this Vikings team?
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Are you gonna push the panic button after one loss?
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: I think, well one, absolutely not not yet. But what
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: I hope this isn't is I hope at the end
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: of the season, when we look back on the season
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: at like, okay, the twenty twenty four to twenty five
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Vikings the story of it, I hope this isn't the
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: first sentence of where it went wrong. And just the
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: fact that they fought back and they even for all
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: the faults that we could point out, looked good against
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: an elite team in the NFL. I think we were
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: not delusional. We can say the Lions are one of
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: the NFL's elite teams right now. They're playing great, They've
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: got great coaching Jared Goff. I mean, there were basically
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: MVP chants for from the few drunk Lions fans in
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: the stadium for Jared Goff. He looked it.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I mean I would have voted for him. I mean,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: holy cow. He was perfect until the fourth quarter again,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: started like twelve for twelve.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah and again.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: And he's already had a perfect game this year where
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: he hasn't missed a pass, like, he looked in control,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: he looked really really good. He he's obviously on the
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: same page with Ben Johnson. And it's it's.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Difficult to defend. Oh absolutely, yeah, very difficult to defend.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: And this makes me excited not dreading that Week eighteen
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: game against the Lions in their house. I know it
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: would be tough. It's gonna be a tough game. And
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: we see it every year. A team will look one way,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: you know, the first half of the season, and then
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: they'll kind of morph and you figure out who they
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: really are by the end of the season. They could
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: be two completely different teams by the end of the season,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: and who knows that Week eighteen game for either of
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: these teams. It's not shaking out this way, but for
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: either of these teams, they could be in a point
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: where they're resting starters. One or both of these teams
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: could be deciding like Okay, our seed, whether it's one, two, three, whatever,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: our seed is locked up and there's nothing to play
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: good for bad for whatever. Let's just rest some starters.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: That Week eighteen game may not matter, or it might
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: be the most anticipated game, kind of like this one
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: was yesterday.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Honestly, I mean it could come down to the division,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: it could come down to getting a higher seed. There
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: will I think there will be a lot at stake
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: in that game. I'm predicting that, and not like rest
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the starters. Let's just get into the playoffs kind.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Of game for that. But are you panicking? I'm not panicking. No.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: I don't think one loss after you started five and
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: oh is a reason to panic. Now. The Vikings went
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: five and oh.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: What you know twenty sixteen, and then they came out
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: of the bye week.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: They had the exact same bi week Week six.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: And they won three games. The rest of the season
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: finished eight and eight. It was pretty ugly. I don't
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: think that's where the Vikings are trending. I think they've
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: proven that they have a phenomenal defense that they are
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: relying on. That is the cornerstone of this team, that
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: is the bedrock, the foundation of this team. And the
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: offense has proven that it has the ability to score
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: and to make big plays. You have the league's greatest
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: wide receiver justin Jefferson. You have a really good wide
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: receiver two, and Jordan Addison, who's been relatively quiet this all.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: That deep ball to that is beautiful. I feel like
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: I felt really dumb for a tenth of a second
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: because here I am in the three hundred's the nosiest
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: of nosebleeds, and that deep ball catch to Addison that play,
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: they hiked the ball and I could see it. I
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: saw Addison streaking forward. And I'm not saying I'm an
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: elite football mind. I'm not trying to toot my own
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: horn by any means, but I saw it. And once
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: I saw Addison kind of open up, I looked back
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: and I saw Darnold do his hop like he's about
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: to throw, and I just started yelling. I don't remember
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: exactly what I said, but I said something.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Like he's got him, He's got him.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: And everybody else was still like silent, you know, like
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: what's going on, what's going on? And here I am
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: screaming as he's letting the ball loose. Nobody else sees
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Addison and then Addison makes a freaking great catch. Yeah
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: it wasn't he with a better throw, Maybe he could
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: have scored because he had a step on the cornerback,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: but it was a little bit behind him. Addison made
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: a great catch, and on the first one, yelling and
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: screaming because I saw Addison open up right away, and
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: I almost felt dumb because I could have been yelling
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: he's got him. And then an incomplete PA and sorry, guys,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: don't look at me. I don't know anything. Yeah, sorry,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: I'm out on a podcast. I was wearing that shirt
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: you're wearing right now. Yeah you were, you were repping. Yep.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: No, but like, yeah, you've got a great supporting cast
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: on offense. And Sam Darnold can make throws like that, right,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Like we've seen him do it a few times now,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: and I think part of it is Kevin O'Connell calling
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: the right play, putting those guys in the right position
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: to make.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Those big plays.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: And it's this is not a bad Vikings offense. They're
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: a generational defense. Oh yeah, except for against Ben Jones,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: except for against the Lions apparently, But man, this defense
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: is still incredible and I think we'll continue to play incredible.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna come out with a chip on
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: their shoulder on Thursday Night. I think they're gonna want
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: to hit some guys in the mouth on Thursday Night.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: That'll be a good game to watch.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: And they'll go into that game knowing that they've got
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: an extended week, the mini bye week after the Thursday
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: night game, to rest up recover, So I expect them
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: to be flying around and hitting guys hard.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: But I'm not hitting the panic button yet. Nope.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Outstanding defense, pretty good offense. We've got a really good
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: kicker that we can rely on. There's really not a
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: whole lot to complain about, even in this loss. Yes,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: these mid game slumps are frustrating, y'all. Get out the
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: clock management, timeout management by a KOC I think needs
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: to be improved. I think he needs to go back
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: and analyze those situations and why he took those timeouts,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: and you know how he can better utilize his aspects
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: of the game.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: But absolutely, I don't know. I'm not worried. Yeah, yeah,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: as of right now, I think the panic meter is
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: still pretty low. We're not We're not even towards the
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: middle of that yet. I don't want. I don't think
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: we have to quite jump ahead to the Rams game yet.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: But you mentioned like they've got a chip on their shoulders.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: As Flora's defense, these coaches, all these players kind of
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: have a chip on their shoulders. I feel like one
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: thing I've heard from players coaches after a big loss
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: like this, you know, of course, every year after like
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, the losing team, the first thing these
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: these players say is something to the tune of like,
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: I just want to get right back out there tomorrow.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: I need to I need to play again tomorrow. Let's
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: let's go. I need to get this lost taste out
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: of my mouth. And after your first loss, obviously, this
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: is the biggest loss so far the season. This is
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: the worst the team has felt so far this season.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: How awesome is it to feel like, all right, let's
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: go right back out there. We only got a couple
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: of days until our next game. Let's just go fix it.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Let's get right and feel better about ourselves. So we
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: only have to think about this loss for another day
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: or two. And I think the Rams no offense to
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: the Rams. They could easily beat the Vikings. They're a
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: good team, but so far they're not so great, and
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: I think the Rams are one of the best teams
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: you can look ahead to to be like, all right,
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: let's go, let's go beat up. I don't know if
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: I want to do this because TikTok kind of ripped
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: us apart. But you know what I'm gonna say, I
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: don't think the Vikings really struggle against the Rams. Wait
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: to take my line. Your lines, your your line, word
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: for word, except for the team. But yeah, I think
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: it's really a good thing. You mentioned injuries, but there's
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: not a ton of like devastating injuries, just some bang
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: up stuff. I think the Vikings the best thing for
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: him right now is to turn around and get right
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: back on the field and play a football game and
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: get another win.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: You've said a very like cliche phrase that people like
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: us use all the time. I think coaches, players, even
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: like the analysts.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Use it all the time.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Oh they're a good team, They're a good team.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: I would agree with that to some extent, But like,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: I also agree with you that of all the teams
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: for the Vikings to play on Thursday night, that's a
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: pretty darn good team for the Vikings to go up against.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: To get that bad taste out of their mouth and
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: to see what can happen. The last time the Vikings
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: played on the West coast, correct me if I'm wrong,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: they played in Vegas and they turned that place into
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: US Bank West.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: And they won by three points. They won by three
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: point score the only three points in the game that was.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: That was one of our last live streams. Also, by
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: the way, Schoolhop will be planning on live streaming during
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: that Thursday night football game. So if you're interested in
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: that and you're listening before Thursday night football kicks off,
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: check us out. We'll post it on the Socials, but
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: we'll probably be on YouTube. Yep, probably on YouTube for sure.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe somewhere else, We're not quite sure yet, but
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: for YouTube.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: And then you can hear about anywhere else too.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: So we'll be sitting right here and we'll have the
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: game on. We got a TV over there, so it'll
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: be it'll be fun. Yeah, said our first live stream
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: of the year. All right, let's talk about thorns really
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: quick from the game, and then let's hand out some
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: game balls and then we'll look ahead to that Rams game.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I guess my first thorn is what we
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: both said at a handful of times. The Lions seem
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: to have figured Flora's out. Maybe it's scheme, maybe it's personnel,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: maybe it's everything. I don't know. Maybe the Lions just
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: have the perfect personnel that everybody knows about how to
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: beat Flora's. Nobody has the personnel in the Lions. I'm
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: guessing here. I don't know. I'm not an elite football
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: coaching mind, but I think it's plain to see the
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Lions have Flora's figured out. The Vikings version of Flora's
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know about his other time in the league.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: So that's my biggest thorn is, man, he's got to
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: figure himself out against the Lions if the Vikings want
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: to beat because right now it's shaken out to be
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: a Lions Vikings Division, even though the rest of the
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: other two teams are pretty good too. Yeah, yeah, man,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: this is the It's the toughest division in football for sure.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: I think a thorn for me is We've already talked
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: about it.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: The clock management, the timeout management, management from KOC and
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: just offensively, there seemed to be after those first ten points,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: there seemed to be this spark in the offense. They
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: seemed to and they've done this all season. They get
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: up by a decent amount and then they just kind
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: of coast. And Aaron Jones wasn't one hundred percent, so
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: you can't really rely on him to, you know, do like.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Does a good poor. Yeah, but it wasn't that great
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: of a poor. It was a lowed poor. I totally
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: derailed you there, Aaron Jones. Okay, it was a little alarming,
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: but you probably won't hear that on the podcast. Maybe
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: I hold not on the microphones.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: It's all right, But Aaron Jones wasn't fully healthy, so
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: you can't really lean on the run game as much.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: He still had over one hundred yards between Russias. You
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: have like ninety three rushing yards touchdown.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: He had a lot of all purpose cards, but I
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: feel like a lot of those yards came the end
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: of the game. I think his first touchdown was what
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: thirty seven yards something like that, and then he's kind
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: of quiet after that, and he was pretty quiet of
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: his total or a third of his total. Yeah, and
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: then they needed him at the end of the game too,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: So I don't know. We've got to figure out these
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: mid game slumps. We've got to figure out this We
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: lull ourselves to sleep on offense, and I think that
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: comes down to Kevin O'Connell figuring that out, figuring out
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: how to open up the playbook, figuring out how to
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: feed Sam Darnold the right plays. There were times where
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: it seemed like those two just weren't on the same page.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: And I think that's a Kevin O'Connell thing too. I
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: think he's really good at working with inexperienced guys and
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: helping them feel comfortable for a while, but once they
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: get comfortable with him, it's a different story. And Kirk
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Cousins was a different story, I think because he's a
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: more experienced quarterback. He's played in many different systems, and
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: I think Kevin O'Connell had a lot of trust in Kirk, like, Hey,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: if you see something, change it, I trust dude. Yeah,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: And I don't know that there's that same amount of trust.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: And I also don't know that Sam Darnold has that
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: same amount of football acumen to do the Kirk Cousins thing.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Nor do I want him to play like Kirk Cousins
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: because those games are frustrating to watch too, and they
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: typically come down to the wire like this one did.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: It felt like a Kirk Cousins game this week. Yes
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: it did, and I don't mean that as a total negative.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: It just like I said a few weeks ago, it
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: feels like every time Kirk does something he's it's because
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: he just tried so hard. So yeah, maybe he'll throw
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: a fifty yard touchdown, but man, it feels like he
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: tried so hard to do it, whereas like Mahomes or
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson sometimes it's like they just flick the wrists.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: It's like, oh, yeah, oh, I guess another fifty yard touchdown.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: But anyways, Yeah, I think coaching can improve. And Brian Flores, right,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: we've already mentioned him too. He's got to figure it
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: out against the Lions. And that Week eighteen game is
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: going to be the proof in the pudding for this
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Vikings team. If they are for real, that's when they'll
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: have to prove it and everything will be on the line,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I think at that point.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: And not that I'm saying you're forgetting about the other
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: teams in the North, but we can't forget about the
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Packers and the Bears too, because yeah, the Vikings have
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: played the Packers once, but they just ended up on
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: the other side of what they just did against and
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: did with the Lions. They just ended up winning against
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: the Packers. The Packers are a good team and Caleb
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Williams is starting to figure things out. Yeah, the Bears
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: were on a bye week this week, but I mean,
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: this division is going to be tough and I don't
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: see that really changing. It's just the Vikings can't really coast.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: They've got a quote unquote soft schedule looking ahead, but
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: you still can't coast. You can't. You can't have half
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: your season be trap games. You gotta put the fel
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: to the federal, to the medal, the pedal to the medal,
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: and to wrap it all up to lead back to
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: your initial point. Get rid of these slumps, get rid
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: of these I don't know, you hear the joke about like, oh,
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: the only thing that survived the plane crash was the
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: black box, So why don't they make the whole plane
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: out of the black box? Then everything had survived. It
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: seems like the Vikings offense the best part of it.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: Every game seems to be that scripted opening drive or
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: two or fifteen plays hover much so why don't they
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: script the whole game? Like, I don't know, what the
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: answer is. For all I know they do. For all
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: I know, they have a general script of the game,
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: and they just kind of go off up or down
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: from that script. I'm not a coach, I'll never pretend
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: to be, but they do need to figure it out
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: and get rid of this slump for sure.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: All right, let's hand out some game balls really quick, offense, defense,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: special teams.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: So I took all the easy ones because I went
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: first in our little outline here. Offense, My game ball
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: is Aaron Jones over. He had like ninety three rushing yards,
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: twenty thirty ish receiving yards, first touchdown, at least rushing
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: touchdown since week one, I believe, and finally got to
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: do the bank vault you texted me as I did.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: I didn't see it because again I was arguing with
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: that very nice lady who would have let me sit
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: in the seats that I was stealing from her and
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: her friends. But ultimately I had to move. I just
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: knew that the Vikings had scored, but Aaron Jones all
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: that he's still not one hundred percent. I think it
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: ultimately was a hamstring injury. Why do I feel like
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: I'm saying that word right hamstring. That's how we say it, right.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: It's because you're drinking beer through a silly straw. It's
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: really going head hard. But I'm impressed by him. We did.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: I think I saw Dustin Baker tweet out. Somebody on
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: Twitter tweeted out that Jones had about a seventy percent
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: snap rate, which has been the case when he's healthy
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: this season. So he didn't have less snaps this game
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: than he did. You know, I guess the Lennon game.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: They pulled him out pretty early, but he played as
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: much as he has the whole game and he's injured.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: So he's got my offensive game Ball for his good performance. Yeah,
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna give mine to Justin Jefferson. He's another easy
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: one to give a game ball too. He had a touchdown.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: He had what eighty something yards? Eighty three yards, eighty
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: one yards? Looks really good.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: He's I think more deserving of a game ball, not
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: for his on field stats, but just for the role
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: that he's played.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: He's not the get the ball to me. I'm the guy.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: I'm the only important person on the team type of player.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: He is a team player. He's out there blocking on
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: the run, plays he's out there running great routes. He's
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: out there trying to get open as much as he
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: possibly can, and we're not hearing about, you know, his
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: little tirades or rants. I mean, if he's complaining at all,
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: it's not making it out to the media. And I
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: don't think he's really complaining. I think he's comfortable knowing
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: that this is a process, this takes time, and he'll
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: get his shot to shine. Yeah, and he has shined.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: He had a touchdown, of course, and I thought looked
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: pretty good. But the game ball to him is more
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: so just for being an awesome teammate and being an
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: awesome guy to have on the team. He's absolutely the
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: right guy for this organization. And he's not Davante Adams
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: who's complaining left and right and wanting to get traded
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: and then goes to New York and lays an egg
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: in his first game with that, Like, we're not dealing with.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: That, right, I don't want to derail. But I saw
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: a video that was like every highlight from DeVante adams
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: debut in New York, and it was like him getting
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: announce and running onto the field and like at one
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: point he was like talking to Aaron Rodgers on the sideline.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: That was another highlight. And then immediately it cut to
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: him making a tackle. So I don't know if there's
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: an interception. I didn't watch the game. I don't know
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: if he there was an interception. He made a tackle,
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: but that was the only football play that was the
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: highlight on fun That is funny.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: But anyways, yeah, I think Justin Jefferson is not that
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: and he gets my offensive game ball.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: I think, and we could derail and have multiple episodes
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: just talking about Justin Jefferson the person, the football player,
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: the Viking. I think he's he's always been the high
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: point that he was the good rookie. You know, he
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: said all the right things and you know, waited his turn.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: He was behind Ola B. C. Johnson on the depth
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: chart his first few games. Remember it was like two
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: or three games as Rickie year before. I think Zimmer
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: finally let him loose a little bit. But he's always
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: been He's always said the right things, done the right things,
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: even amidst contract negotiations. And I think the best way
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: to describe Justin Jefferson is so far, once they put
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: that C on his chest, he has taken that to
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: heart and he is a captain. If you want to
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: see it, like just play out, you could probably find
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: the YouTube video of the preseason game where he's on
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: the radio as he's on the sidelines for like most
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: of the third quarter of a preseason game, the first
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: one actually with Paul Allen during the game call. He
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: kind of he does a really good job with Paul
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: Allen talking to him, but he also like is watching
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: the game, hyping up his teammates and going nuts and
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: he's the ultimate teammate, the ultimate captain. Evan is going
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: crazy because apparently he has Derrick Henry on his fantasy
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: football as I do.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: I really wanted him to score a touchdown there.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: It was close.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: That was a huge run. He went what seventy eighty
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: yard and something like that. That was massive, Derek. This
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: just in Derrick Henry, good football player, What breaking news
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: he had on the school. He wears purple, but he
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: doesn't wear the good version of purple. But for Evan
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: on his fantasy.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: Team, he does. We take him in Minnesota. Yeah this year,
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: I mean yeah, the running back position is kind of
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: taking a turn. A whole nother episode that we could
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: tangent into all that to say, Justin Jefferson, good guy,
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: good captain, good Viking defensive game ball. Yes, finally, okay,
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: I've in paced junior defense. Yeah. They let the Lions
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: score thirty one points. It was probably their worst game
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: of the season statistically it performance wise, but I mean
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: Jonathan Grenard still played. Okay, I've ben paced junior. Just
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: he had the highlight defensive play that scoop and score
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: and man, that stadium blew up. I wasn't there for
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: the Minneapolis miracle. Obviously, I don't have a trillion dollars
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: to buy a playoff ticket, but I can't imagine that
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: stadium was too much quieter during Ivan Pace running picking
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: up that fumble and running it in. It was. It
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: was amazing. It was a lot of fun. So he
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: gets my defensive game ball.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: My defensive game ball goes to the guy that forced
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: that fumble. That would be Josh Mattellis. And if you're
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: looking at the stat line, Ivan Pace led the team
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: in tackles with ten. Yep, Josh Mattelus right behind him
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: with eight. So those two guys were flying around and
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: they were making plays, and it was good to see
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: Ivan Pace really have a good game. He's been relatively quiet.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: I know he was injured at the beginning of the season, right.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Well, he didn't play last week. I think he's I
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: think that's the only game he's missed. Okay, Well, anyways,
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: he's been relatively quiet. I think in the first handful
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: of games here and now. To see him really come
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: out and that scoop and score was like the cherry
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: on top for sure. I say last week they were
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: on by last week. It was two weeks ago. Two
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: weeks ago against the Jets.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: Mattellus though, man, he's he was the Swiss Army knife
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: last year. We talked about him a lot last season.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: Just he plays everywhere. He can play every position, and
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: I think Brian Flores loves that about him. He just, yeah,
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: you want to be an edge rusher, let's do it.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: You want to sit back and be the you know,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: the eyes on the quarterback, Let's do it. And we
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: drop you into coverage on a receiver.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: Let's do it. Like he can do it all.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: And he proved that with that play. They were going
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: after the ball, that defense was going at any time
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: games to a fault Gibbs or Montgomery had the ball,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: they were just going after it, trying to punch it out.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: It was kind of fun to watch on TV. But yeah,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Mettelis gets my defensive game ball.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: That's interesting too because Blake Cashman he missed the game.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: I think he's got what a turf toe issue and
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: he might miss another this Thursday, and I gave too.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: But with him out, I think they initially tried to
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: fill in Dallas Turner to fill that spot with Cashman out,
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: but quickly I think by the end of the game,
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: Josh Mittelis had played most of the Cashman role throughout
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: the game, which is crazy because I think on the
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: stat sheet Mattelis is a safety and he ended up
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: playing most of the game as an inside linebacker, which
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: you'll love to see it when guys can be like that.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, he obviously did it last year too, you
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: played defensive linemen a couple of times. So that's a
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: really interesting point and it's I think some Vikings fans
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: out there are starting to kind of throw their hands
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: up at Dallas Turner a little bit, like, what the heck?
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: We got this guy super high? He was supposed to
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: be really good. Are you ready to move on from
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: Dallas Turner.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no, he's a rookie. Six games in
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: he's already shown flashes. And I think this Turner or Turner,
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: this Flora's defense, it's it's really good for a reason
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: because it's complex, and I mean, it can be difficult
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: to learn, and we talk about it. I was on
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: last week with Dustin Baker on Vikes Now go check
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: that out too. Vikes Now. We talked about trades and
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: the Viking situation right before the Lions game. But we
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: did kind of talk about players on the Vikings roster
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: that could be traded away, and I mentioned Pat Jones,
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: who it's not a unique take most people out there.
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: If you have to come up with a Viking that
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: could they could get something from Pat Jones is one
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: of the highest on the list because that position group
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: with Pat Jones, Jonathrine, Gernard Van Ginkel, Dallas Turner's a
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: group so deed. Yeah, So I think if if not
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: for that that depth in that group, we'd see more
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: of Dallas Turner, not saying he's super good and he's
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: just sitting on the field because he's still a rookie,
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: or sitting on the sideline because he's still a rookie.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: I think he's just learning and he's got all the
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: tools in the world. I'm not ready to move on
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: from him yet, what about you. I like him. I
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: want him to stay. I think it's good for him
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: to sit behind some of these younger not younger, he's
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: the younger guy. Sit behind some of these older guys.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: Learn from him.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: Harrison smith Man, what a mentor to sit behind on defense,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: even though they don't play the same position. And even
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: some of these other guys, mattel Us, cash Man, Van Ginkel,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: all all the names you've already listed, I don't need
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: to relist them. Yes, sit behind him, learn, get as
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: much as you can from them, and work in this system.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Work in this Brian Flores aggressive. I'm gonna put you
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: everywhere on the field, and you're gonna have to be
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: ready to go, and you're gonna have to, you know,
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: figure it out. I like it, and I don't think
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: they I don't think they picked him too high. I
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: think they picked him in the right spot. I'm glad
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: they got him, and boy, he could really turn into
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: something special in the future.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: I'm excited for him, even not even just the future
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: version of him. That. I'm just excited for him. Now
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: he's gonna he will be and already kind of is
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: a good and will be a great Viking. Alright, special teams,
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: special teams. Who's your game ball for special teams? I'm
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: just gonna go. You stole the easy one. But we've
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: done this before. We don't have to pick different guys
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: as a clear cut guy.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: So I picked a different guy because I felt like
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: this was his best game so far, and I feel
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: like he's deserving of a game ball because for a.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: While we were kind of low on Ryan. Right, Yeah, okay,
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: and he had some good punts, yeah, I mean, unfortunately
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: he had to punt unfortunately. Yeah.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: But and I don't know, it's not really a cop out,
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: but it's kind of a like, well, I guess he's
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: you know whatever, we'll give.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: It to him. I'll give it to Ryan. Right.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: He had multiple punts that went really far. I don't
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: know the exact distances, but I think he averaged something
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: like over fifty yards a punt or.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: Something like that. Yeah, I don't know for sure, but
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: that sounds right.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: I think he had arguably his best game, and he
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: was a guy that we were like at the beginning
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: of the season, We're like, well, maybe we need to
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: have tryouts for a punter, maybe we need to go
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: hit free agency.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: It was really just last season was a low point
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: for him. I think the the plus sized punter, which
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: I say that endearingly because I'm a plus sized podcaster,
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: but I think he had a pretty rough twenty twenty
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: three season, as evidence by immediately signing a free agent
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: in the offseason to compete with him, and credit to him,
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: he won the job and he's looked decent. I don't
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: know where he stacks up league wide, but we haven't
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: been complaining about him too much.
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: He had three punts for one hundred and forty five
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: yards forty eight point three average, one inside the twenty
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: and along of sixty one of his punts went aways.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Ryan writ's her special Teams game ball. I
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: think we can both agree will record for me until
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: he misses a kick. I mean, as long as he
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: gets in a game and attempts a kick and is perfect,
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: which he has been for six weeks so far more
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: than that if you count preseason, He's going to get
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: my Special Teams game Ball. And part of me wishes
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: we would have gotten that wish of a sixty eight
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: yard field goal attempt. That probably wouldn't have gone through
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: because if it was that easy, everybody would do it.
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: But man, that that would have been insane. But yeah,
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: either way, he's still my game ball winner for the
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: special teams.
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely deserving for sure, And it'd be interesting if
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: they like actually put him out there for something that
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: long someday. I mean, if he's if he's good enough,
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: kickers can play a long time, he might get a chance. Yeah,
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: all right, well on a short week. Yeah, the Vikings
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: are traveling to Los Angeles playing the Rams on Thursday
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: night football.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: M h, what are you looking forward to most about
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: that game? Just getting on the getting on the fields,
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: not me getting on the field and seeing my team
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: get on the field and hopefully get this losing taste
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: out of your mouth. One final point on the Lions game.
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: The I think it was Dustin Baker that tweeted out
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: the Vikings offense was had a seven point three yards
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: per play average and lost the game. That tells you
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: the offense is doing okay. I mean they score twenty
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: nine points, that's still a decent amount of points. Not
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: to put the whole loss on the defense. But anyways,
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: offense is doing good. This is not time to hit
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: the panic button for Thursday night football. I'm excited. The
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: Vikings are looking into what seems to be a softer
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: period of their schedule. The rest of the NFC North
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: already had their soft period. Now they're gonna they're running
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: into their tougher period. I think the Vikings rattle off
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: a couple more wins here in the next few weeks.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: I think they get right. And it sucks that the
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: first loss was against a division foe that is probably
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: gonna end up making the rest of the season pretty
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: tough for you. But man, what better way to look
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: up and see the next handful of games in front
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: of you? Yeah? For sure, news.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: I think like recently, within the last couple of days,
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Cooper Cup looks like he's gonna come back.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: So yeah, sounds like he'll make his debut. Did he
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: play the first week? I think he played the first
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: week and got injured. That could be right. Anyways, are
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: you at all worried about Cooper Cup making his return?
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, Cooper Cup's a really good football player, really
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: good football player. He played the justin Jefferson role in
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: the Vikings current offense with koc So and that was
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: the year they went and won the Super Bowl. Matt Stafford,
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah he's older, but he's a really good quarterback. His
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: stats aren't great so far this year, but he's still
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: a really good quarterback. And Sean McVay. I think the
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: Rams are just all around a really good team and
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: to get an elite player like that back, presumably fully healthy, yeah,
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: I think that's something to keep an eye on. Outside
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: of this Lions game. The Vikings defense has held everybody
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: aside from the Packers too. They did have their comeback
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: against the Vikings, but this Vikings defense is done pretty good.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: So I still think the Vikings do well against Cooper
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: Cup and really the Rams as a whole. But yeah,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: it's definitely something to look at.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: Something I saw on Twitter, and I would not be
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: able to go back and give credit to whoever put
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: this out there, So if you're out there, let us know,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: because you deserve credit for this. But there was a
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: really insightful tweet out there about Blake Cashman's absence against
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: the Lions and how in a scheme like Flores, Cashman
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: fills some voids and seems to kind of shrink the
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: field a little bit for the opposing offense. And I
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: felt like the Lions just had like they just could
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: do no wrong, Like they could that Jamier Gibbs run
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: that you missed. He was pretty early on in the game.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: Just the field opened up for him and he was gone.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: And then later on in the game it wasn't those
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: big chunk plays, but it was just those little dink
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: and dumb, those crossing routes over the middle, and they
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: were very content to get seven, eight, nine, ten yards
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: over the middle to amaras Aint Brown and just keep
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: moving the ball getting first downs. And you miss a
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: guy like that on the inside, who can be disruptive,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: who can drop into coverage when needed, but can also
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: just lay a big hit on a guy and maybe
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: jar the jar the ball loose, or you know, intercept
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: the ball. Like there's a lot of possibilities there. So
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: I think missing Cashman was huge. I don't know if
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: he'll be back for this Rams game, but.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: It sounds like, at least the way Twitter sounded today
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: that he might not be back. It doesn't sound like
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: he'll be out forever, but he probably won't be back
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: this week. So just for me, we should probably just
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: like assume he won't be back.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's a little concerning, not super concerning, but
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: a little concerning for the Vikings d they're gonna have
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: to figure something out. They're gonna have to put somebody
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: in his role or like figure out a way to
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: keep the field restricted for Matt Stafford in the opposing offense.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, to go back to the Lions game for
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: a second, it felt like every first down they just
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: rushed the ball for five or six yards, which I
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: mean when you see a first down rush for four
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: or five six yards? Yeah, either way, if you're a
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: Lions fan or a Vikings fan, like you're thinking like, okay,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: all right, I mean not a huge deal, but holy cow,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: can you imagine if every second down you had was
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: second and four, second and five like that just makes
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: that first down so much easier. And who knows, maybe
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: having Cashman in there, not to make excuses, but maybe
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: having Cashman in there, they would have only done that
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: half the time and most of their I mean, if
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: you have a second and eight, that's way different than
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: second and four. Like the whole offense changes a little
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: bit for that, so it'll be great when Catherine does
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: come back. Unfortunately, it sounds like we shouldn't be looking
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: for him to come back in LA this week for sure.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: All Right, keys to victory we've been I'll keep saying,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: just like I say, will record it, will get my
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: special team's game ball until you miss as a kick,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: I'll say this is a key to victory every week
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: until they figure it out. Stop that slump. Stop the
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: mid game slump. This week against the Lions looked a
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: little different because it seemed like it was more so
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: the Lions holding the Vikings because they were down that
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: they started slumping. But the rest of the season it's
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: been okay, they've gotten up to a big lead and
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: just let their foot off the gas. Quit that punch
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: them in the face, Like, just stop coasting. And if
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: you try to run the ball to clean to run
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: the clock off and it's not working, forget about it.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: Do what works and be the better football team. Stop
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: the slump. That's my biggest key to victory.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that. I also think they've got
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: to figure out clock management and they've got to figure
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: out time out management. I think this will be a
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: good game for Kevin O'Connell to work on some of
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: those things, because even if a mistake is made, it's
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: not necessarily going to be like, it won't come with
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: the same amount of pressure that the Lions game held.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: It is an NFC game, so.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: You do want to win at all possible, but it
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: doesn't carry the same divisional weight that the Lions, Packers
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: or Bears hold, And so yeah, I think that's a key.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: You've got it here, and I agree with what you've
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: written on our outline too. Those offensive penalties, those presnat
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: penalties were so frustrating. They have to clean those up.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: They got to get better. Our offensive line for the
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: most part, has been pretty okay. They haven't been amazing,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: they haven't been terrible. I think Dalton Riisener coming back
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: could be huge, and I think ed Ingram could be
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: finding himself on the bench here pretty soon. That'll be
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: interesting to see. But yeah, they've got to figure out
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: those those pre snat penalties. They they just shot themselves
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: in the foot with all of this stuff.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: And sorry, there was a big hit on a defenseless
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: receiver there in the Monday night game against the Ravens
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: of the Bucks. There was no flag, so I guess
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: it was okay, but Mayfield and Bulls are both looking
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: for the flag. Everybody looks okay, But man, that was
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: that was rough anyway. Sorry, Yeah, I mean he doesn't
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: make the catch, comes down and immediately I guess it
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: kind of looks clean, no helmets touch. It looks like
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: a shoulder shot and not a head shot. But Kyle Hamilton,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: Hamilton laid laid a lick. If he had touched that ball,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: he wasn't gonna catch it. It just that was a
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: football play. I think it was all clean though, it
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: just it looked painful.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: Well, all of that comes after a big turnover. Yeah,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson threw it backwards to Zay Flowers and it
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: was incomplete and Tampa Bay picked it up, and they're
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: down on the Baltimore twenty about ready to score and
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: go up by more than.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: Twenty four points. It was crazy. Initially it looked like
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: the Bucks had picked up that football and ran it
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: all the way back for a touchdown. But I guess
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: the recovering player had a knee down while he was
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: being touched by the Ravens, so he was down.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: We're getting we're just getting warmed up for live streaming
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: on Thursday night when our favorite team plays.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, check us out Thursday. We'll probably start a few
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: minutes before kickoff. But yeah, Vikings Rams will be live
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: streaming Thursday. Anyways, you kind of mentioned it. Dalton Reisner
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: seems like he's he's ready to go and could be
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: coming back against the Rams. Another guy that could be
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: coming back is TJ Hoson, and it before I saw
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: a tweet earlier today, I thought the timeline for Hockinson
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: was he's either going to be back against the Rams
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: or he's going to be on I AR the rest
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: of the year, because that's how his his practice window
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: worked out. But I guess his three week practice window.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: They don't have to declare TJ Hoginson ready to go
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: until the day after the Rams game, So theoretically they
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: could hold him out during the Rams game and still
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: activate him the next week without losing him for the
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: full season, which I hope that's not the case. One,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: I hope he's okay and he's healthy and he's ready
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: to go. Two, I just want to see one of
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: the better tight ends in the league back on the
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: field for my favorite team. So we could see both
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: Reisner and Hoginson back on the field against the Rams.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: That would feel like a mid season trade for two
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: great players.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be That would be a big spark
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: plug for this offense that has kind of seemed to
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: in the last three games kind of settled down a
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: little bit. They started off so hot, everything looked so good,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, against the Packers, the second half
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  Speaker 1: against the Packers was rough, and then they didn't look great.
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  Speaker 1: In London against the Jets, they they made it happen,
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  Speaker 1: they made it work, but it wasn't great. And now
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  Speaker 1: against the Lions, you know, they started strong.
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  Speaker 2: And kind of went to.
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  Speaker 1: Sleep there for a little bit and then fought their
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  Speaker 1: way back from down by eleven to make it a
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  Speaker 1: close game, but couldn't finish it out.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I agree with you, TJ.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: And Dalton coming back could be a nice little shot
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  Speaker 1: in the arm for this Vikings offense that they might.
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  Speaker 2: Need, especially heading into a quote unquote soft part of
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  Speaker 2: your schedule. That would be great to have two, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: one Pro Bowl level player and one you could argue
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  Speaker 2: pro Bowl level player in Dalton Reisener at his highest point.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, those they're really good. They're starting players in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL, and they will definitely help the Vikings no
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: matter what. What's your prediction for the game, Oh man,
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  Speaker 2: all right. I think the Vikings win. I think they
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  Speaker 2: get this lost taste out of their mouth. I think
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  Speaker 2: the Lions are a good team, and they fought them
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  Speaker 2: hard and they still Yeah, they lost, but it was
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  Speaker 2: too a good team. I think the Rams current team
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  Speaker 2: is not as good as the Lions, and I think
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings benefit from going to the West Coast where
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: it's the clock is in your favor as far as
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: your body clock. I think the Vikings win thirty five
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  Speaker 2: to twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: You've been picking the Vikings to win by a lot
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  Speaker 1: more than I would expect. I'm maybe a little more
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  Speaker 1: conservative in my score predictions.
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  Speaker 2: I was right last week, though you were right on
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: the win or I was right that the Vikings would
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: lose and that they would give up thirty one points.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: I was wrong too hard on the Vikings. They proved
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: me wrong a little bit. But I said the Vikings
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  Speaker 2: would only score seventeen against the Lions. They scored twenty nine.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying the Vikings are going to score thirty five
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  Speaker 2: against the Rams and that's Fairs will only score twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a lower scoring affair
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  Speaker 1: than that.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on, do you think the Vikings have any trouble
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: against the Rams? Check out TikTok for why that's funny.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: I want to be careful with my Hey, you got
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  Speaker 2: us forty five thousand views, so on a view on
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: a video that didn't involve a broken bone or a
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: torn acl or anything like that, You're welcome. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's all you man.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm going to say the Vikings win twenty one
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  Speaker 1: to ten. I think it's a little bit lower scoring.
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  Speaker 1: I think our defense. I think the Vikings defense, really,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, comes out with a chip on their shoulder.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're mad.
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  Speaker 1: I think they allow a touchdown and a field goal
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  Speaker 1: that's it, and they just make life miserable for Matt
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  Speaker 1: Stafford and the rest of the Rams offense the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the night. And I think one of those three
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns the Vikings score is a defensive touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Van Ginkle picks six.
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  Speaker 1: It's a I'm not gonna say it's Vann Ginkle, but
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  Speaker 1: it's a pick six. It's a scoop and score. It's
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  Speaker 1: something it's a defensive touchdown. The Vikings offense puts up
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  Speaker 1: two other touchdowns. But I think we see a lot
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  Speaker 1: more Ryan right in this Thursday night game, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of punts.
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that we'll be able to rely on
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  Speaker 1: the run game as much because Aaron Jones is already
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  Speaker 1: not one hundred percent and he played hard against the Lions.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know that, and ty Chandler hasn't really proven.
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  Speaker 2: And we didn't even see Cam Akers on offense. He
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: returned a few kicks and he didn't look great because
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: eventually they switched back to Powell and I forget they
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: had two returners back late in the game for kick returns. Anyways, anyways,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: it would be interesting to see cam Akers get some
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: touches during an offensive drive the Rams, no less, the
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: team that drafted him for the second round.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so anyways, I think it's a lower scoring affair.
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  Speaker 1: I think the Vikings offense still struggles a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: not struggles to the point where they're turning the ball
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  Speaker 1: over a lot and they're blatantly the problem. I think
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  Speaker 1: they they do enough to win the game, defense does
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  Speaker 1: enough to keep it not even a close game, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: twenty one ten.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd agree. I think twenty one to ten Vikings
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  Speaker 2: would be a turnover list game, or at least majorly
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: winning the turnover battle like plus two. You know, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think I'd love it. That would probably make for
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: ultimately like a slower paced game if the Vikings only
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: scored three touchdowns and the other team scores one and
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: then a field goal. But I mean that's still a
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: definition win. I wouldn't be mad about that at all.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, at one point win, I wouldn't be mad about,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: you know, like I'd be excited and I can't wait
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: to live stream it with you on Thursday. It's gonna
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: be fun.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: Something about these score predictions that I always find funny
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: is Yes, we did rack up quite a few views
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  Speaker 1: on TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Lions fans, and I hope you loved watching
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: us drink out of purple silly straws. It was. It
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: was a lot of fun purple punishments. And we'll we'll
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: double check and see what purple punishments we might have.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: We can look at that in a minute.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: But the point I'm trying to make here is just
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  Speaker 1: simply that all of these media pundits that we watch
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: weeke in and week out. They make predictions just like us,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: and none of them are ever correct. Ever, they make
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: score predictions just like we do, and none of them
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  Speaker 1: are right. I don't know that anybody that I've seen
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: make a score prediction is accurate. Sure, they might pick
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: wins and losses, and those are a little easier to
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: get right down the stretch, and you can like, goh, yeah,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: I think this team's going to win or that team's
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: going to lose.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: Whatever that makes sense. Yep.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: But all that to say, we're just a couple of dudes, yeah,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: from Iowa, and we like drinking beer and talking about
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: the vikings, and you know what, we'll keep making these picks.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: We'll probably be wrong most of the time.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: And that's okay. I don't know about most of the time.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: I'm talking score picks. Specifically.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: You did pick the Lion's score total, which that is impressive.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I can't hang my hat. I mean, it's
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: still a loss. I don't really care. Ultimately, I don't
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: really care about that. I'm trying to find our purple
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: punishments or really it's the what do we pick the schedule?
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: Pick them all right, I've found it. You pick a
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: RAMS win, I pick I picked a win against the Rams.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: You pick a win against the Rams. Yes, I said
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: that wrong. I pick a loss against the Rams. And
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: so one of us will be spinning the wheel next week?
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: Oh man, only one. What do you think there's a
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: chance we could do a live that's not as fun?
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: I was going to say a live purple punishments to
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: where we do it on the live stream, but then
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: we don't get that in a regular episode. What if
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: it's one of the ones that it's funny to see
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: us with like a fake beard on or something. But
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: we could we could spin the wheel live and then
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: recap it and then suffer the punishment on the episode
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: next Monday, and then we have to live like the
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: whole weekend knowing that we're going to have to record.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: An episode to eat a spoonful of penios. I'm dreading
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: that one. I hope that you have to land on
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: that one because.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: You'll just love to Yeah. I wouldn't even do it
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: right now. Okay, so we picked opposite of each other.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: If the Vikings win, Evan will be suffering the wheel
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: of purple punishments. Next week, if the Vikings lose, then
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: I will be suffering it. What have you thought about
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: purple punishments this week? Not that bad? Right, could be worse.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: I will say, I'm going to go to the store
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: and buy this beer so that I don't have to
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: drink it out of a straw, because I feel like
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: I didn't get up the full effect.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: It has affected our review, which I've had this without
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: a silly straw, so I can't definitely say single speeds.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: Hold My Putzel is up there with the best of
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: the best of Octoberfest beers this time of year, regardless
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: of Iowa Beer or anywhere else. It's a solid Octoberfest beer.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: It's really good, and I think that like blend of
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: spices kind of puts it over the top.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really good. It's got a good complex flavor. Again,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: not doing too much. I always say this about a beer.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: I don't like beers that do too much.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: It's easy drinking. I can taste the honey, I can
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: taste some of the maltiness that's in an Octoberfest. It's
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: really good.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: I would love to go outside and have a bonfire
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: this weekend, drink a.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: Few of these we need to do that. Sometimes you
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: should have all the families over and we got a
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: good s'mores making bonfire. Yeah, let's do it. It's still
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: pretty warm around here too. It's been like like eighties
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: today in Iowa, which is crazy for.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: Today for the end of October. All right, Well, a
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: lot to look forward to. We're gonna be live streaming
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: Thursday night, so that'll be fun. We'll be right back
• 1:17:06
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• 1:17:10
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• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: We'll be gamed for that. And I mean we'll just
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: look forward to sitting here for a couple hours and
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: watching the vikings hopefully notch another win.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. I can also tell Evan has to pee pretty
• 1:17:25
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• 1:17:27
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• 1:18:58
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• 1:19:02
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• 1:19:08
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  Speaker 2: Well, I liked this beer.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: I wish I could have had it without the silly straw,
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: but I'm also glad that this was our punishment today
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: and not really anything else.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Single Speed, hold my pretzel, Single Speed, you made
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: a great fest beer. I'm sorry that we belittled it
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: with a purple silly straw, but that's how the wheel spins. Sometimes.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: We'd love to drink it again. Single Speed. We'd love
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: to work with you too. They'd be freaking awesome. We
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: love all your beers. Anyways, I like it a lot,
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: You like it a lot? Great beer? Is there anything
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: else we can say?
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