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The Skol Hop Picks the Vikings 2025 NFL Season | TSH Ep. 99 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome in to another episode
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  Speaker 1: of the School Hop. I'm Evan and I'm Austin. We're
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  Speaker 1: a couple of dudes from Iowa. We like drinking beer
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  Speaker 1: talking about the Vikings. Yeah, we do.
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  Speaker 2: And the beer we tried tonight was really really good
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  Speaker 2: from Reunion Brewery. I loved it a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, super good beer. We also hit on just a
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  Speaker 1: few training camp talkers, nothing major, but a few little
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  Speaker 1: things coming up from Camp yep.
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  Speaker 2: And then after that we give our annual ever anticipated
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  Speaker 2: game by game prediction of the Vikings schedule for twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five and that was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely a highlight episode for us every year, one
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  Speaker 1: that we've done now, all three seasons that we've done
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  Speaker 1: the School Hop for make sure you check it out
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  Speaker 1: and grab a cold one and join us for episode
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine School Hop School all Right, we are going
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  Speaker 1: So thanks Big Time. Well you better talk about this beer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah excited.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently this beer that we're going to have is in
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  Speaker 2: honor of a specific event that I guess happens every year.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know about the event until just a few
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  Speaker 2: minutes ago, But we are going to have from Reunion
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  Speaker 2: Brewery their venue Hopper Pilsner, which I guess is in
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  Speaker 2: honor of a festival in Iowa City called the Mission
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  Speaker 2: Creek Festival. They play music. I saw something on their
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  Speaker 2: website about reading literature.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know anything about that festival, but I guess
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  Speaker 2: they brew a beer for it every year, so I
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  Speaker 2: guess it was back in April. Was that festival? So
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  Speaker 2: we missed it. Sorry guys, maybe next year. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: but if you know about it, let us know.
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  Speaker 1: Is it fun?
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  Speaker 2: Is it cool to go to? The can is kind
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  Speaker 2: of trippy?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one thing about Reunion that I think has
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  Speaker 1: always kind of stood out to me as their can art.
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  Speaker 1: If you're watching on YouTube or Spotify video, you can
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  Speaker 1: kind of see the cartoon style and yeah it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's got some like cartoon characters and they are hopping
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  Speaker 1: through the venues. But it's also kind of got this like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, try tone color scheme to it that
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  Speaker 1: looks kind of creepy. One of the characters looks like
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  Speaker 1: Stimpy from Ren and Stimpy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It says the can art is designed by Jonathan Simms
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  Speaker 2: from skelinot dot com. So I mean, if you like
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  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff, check it out. Good job, Jonathan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really excited to try the speeder. It says it's
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  Speaker 2: like a hoppy pills.
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  Speaker 1: Hoppy pills in there, so let's crack them open and
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  Speaker 1: soe we got Oh, that sounded like a juicy one, to.
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  Speaker 2: Be clear, Evan, you talking about the can that I
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  Speaker 2: cracked nothing else. I'm already liking this color.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's it's very light. How light.
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  Speaker 2: It definitely looks like I would think a hoppy pillsner
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  Speaker 2: would look.
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  Speaker 1: It's got a little bit of haze to it, but
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  Speaker 1: you can mostly see through it. You can see the
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  Speaker 1: bubbles rising up.
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  Speaker 2: Good head, Yeah, good, good head.
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  Speaker 1: Retention.
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  Speaker 2: I did kind of a really hard pore there, so
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  Speaker 2: it might take me a few seconds to get as usual,
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  Speaker 2: this one's gonna be a mustache beer for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Smell it though. You can smell the hops in there.
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  Speaker 1: They're very happy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I'm really excited about this one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and if the can doesn't have it written on there,
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  Speaker 2: but if untapped is to be believed, this is a
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  Speaker 2: five point zero percent alcohol beer.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll put back a few tonight. Oh yeah, school, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I like that. It's crisp, it's refreshing. It's a really
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  Speaker 1: good beer for like a hot day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think it's perfectly described as a hoppy
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  Speaker 2: pill It's definitely a pilsner. You got that light, crisp,
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  Speaker 2: refreshingness to it. But then yeah, and for me, it's
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  Speaker 2: a nice addition of a little bit of happiness too,
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  Speaker 2: So I like it. Yeah, that's pretty good. Good job, reunion,
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  Speaker 2: good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I figured we could talk for just a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes about just some minor training camp kind of updates.
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  Speaker 1: There's not a whole lot that's coming out, and then
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get into our our Pickham episodes. So
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  Speaker 1: we have the infamous quarter that went for a swim
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  Speaker 1: last year.
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  Speaker 2: I've laughed really hard a few times on this show.
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  Speaker 2: That has to be the hardest I've ever left. I
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  Speaker 2: think we actually had to stop stop recording for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I had to drink to the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the beer to get the quarter out. I think that
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  Speaker 1: was another reason we had to stop, was because we
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  Speaker 1: needed another quarter. But anyways, we'll get to that here
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  Speaker 1: in just a little bit. We will each of us
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  Speaker 1: have made picks, our families have made picks, and then
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna let George Washington make some picks as well.
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  Speaker 1: But what's going on with training camp?
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  Speaker 2: So it sounds like JJ McCarthy just keeps looking really good,
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  Speaker 2: unless you are that random what reporter from Alabama who
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  Speaker 2: wrote something earlier this week saying JJ McCarthy was looking rough.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't even see it. I just saw the backlash
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  Speaker 2: from it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was just like there was one day
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  Speaker 1: where the offense struggled in practice, and which you're going
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  Speaker 1: to get that.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, apparently he's looking really good as we speak.
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  Speaker 2: The we're recording Monday night on the fourth of August.
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  Speaker 2: As we speak, they are just about to wrap up
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  Speaker 2: the first night practice and it actually might be over
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  Speaker 2: because I'm reading right now on Twitter from Will Raggetts
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  Speaker 2: that JJ looked really sharp in seven on seven tonight,
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  Speaker 2: but in eleven on eleven, and he does say without
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  Speaker 2: four key starters, a couple on the offensive line, TJ.
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  Speaker 2: Hoginson and Justin Jefferson. Will said it's been kind of
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  Speaker 2: rough on eleven on eleven. So yeah, well we'll take
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  Speaker 2: with the good with the bad. But overall, j J
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  Speaker 2: McCarthy has been looking pretty good. I've seen a lot
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  Speaker 2: of highlights from of JJ to Jordan Addison specifically, which
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  Speaker 2: is really encouraging but also kind of stinks because we
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  Speaker 2: don't know yet what Jordan Addison's official punishment is gonna
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  Speaker 2: be from the league. He's still facing a probable suspension
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  Speaker 2: due to his was it a d w I or
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  Speaker 2: falling asleep at the wheel last year?
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  Speaker 1: Reckless?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, wet reckless? Dustin Baker said, believe it was the
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  Speaker 2: term said he was being a little reckless while being
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  Speaker 2: wet or something like that. I don't know, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it is nice to see some of that chemistry happen.
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  Speaker 2: And on top of all that, sounds like the defense
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  Speaker 2: is looking really good too. Just a few minutes ago,
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  Speaker 2: Leyton Glodek on Twitter said this Vikings defense is going
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  Speaker 2: to be special. So that's all I need to hear
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  Speaker 2: is lighton say something and I believe it.
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  Speaker 1: So I do you think, uh, do you think the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings make a move for Like, isn't Christian Wilkins still
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  Speaker 1: on the market? Isn't it still available?
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  Speaker 2: I think he's still out there, but I think I've
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  Speaker 2: seen some pretty out there stuff about why he's available.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently it's not just the uh.
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  Speaker 1: He's kind of a he's a loud mouth on the field.
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  Speaker 2: I know that, well, yeah, but apparently he made some
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  Speaker 2: people uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just about his foot and his rehab from that.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's apparently a whole list of things. And you
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  Speaker 2: just if you don't have to invite negative things into
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  Speaker 2: the locker room, especially at this point when the Vikings
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  Speaker 2: seems so well put together. I said, don't don't do it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, don't don't rock the boat too much if
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to. Granted, I don't know if some
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  Speaker 2: of the things I've heard about Wilkins is true, but
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  Speaker 2: it just seems like, yeah, you don't to rock the
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  Speaker 2: boat too much. So I guess I thought you were
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  Speaker 2: gonna say Micaeh Parsons when you were starting to say I.
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  Speaker 1: Forgot about him. But yeah, I mean, I guess any
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  Speaker 1: any additions at this point, offense or defense? Do you
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  Speaker 1: think that the Vikings are needy? Do the Vikings need
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  Speaker 1: to go after a free agent wide receiver to kind
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  Speaker 1: of fill the gap? I mean, I don't, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I've heard some good things about Jalen Naylor as well.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently he's put on some good muscle and it's been
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  Speaker 2: good for his play. I would like to hear and
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  Speaker 2: see some encouraging things about Justin Jefferson's health. I've seen
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  Speaker 2: at practice he's very very out there and very you know,
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  Speaker 2: participating in practice in the sense of he's out there
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  Speaker 2: and helping people around.
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  Speaker 1: He's not.
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  Speaker 2: Actually it's it's as if he's injured. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if they're just being super cautious with Justin Jefferson
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  Speaker 2: or if there's actually some kind of crazy injury that
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  Speaker 2: we don't really know about yet, because as of now
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  Speaker 2: publicly it's just like hamstring tightness and they're taking it easy.
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  Speaker 2: And if that's what it is, Justin Jefferson does not
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  Speaker 2: need training camp like he will be fine. If they're
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  Speaker 2: just like, hey, no need to throw you out there,
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  Speaker 2: just make sure you're one hundred percent by week one
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  Speaker 2: will be good, then I'm happy with that. But I'd
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  Speaker 2: kind of want some some clarity on that, And especially
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  Speaker 2: with Jordan Addison facing a suspension, it could be one, two, three, four,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it could be a handful of games and
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  Speaker 2: you might be onto something there. The Vikings might have
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  Speaker 2: a sudden immediate need at wide receiver, even if it's
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  Speaker 2: just on the short term. So I don't know as
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  Speaker 2: far as signing anybody big, I don't think they really
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  Speaker 2: need to, like a Micah Parsons. I don't think they
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  Speaker 2: need to go out and you know, break the franchise
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  Speaker 2: just to get a guide a position that's already pretty
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  Speaker 2: strong for the team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I don't really think they need to
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  Speaker 1: go out. What do you think? Do you do? You disagree?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that I disagree. I definitely think going
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  Speaker 1: after a wide receiver could be a need or relying
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  Speaker 1: on the guys that you already have in the locker room.
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  Speaker 1: Who is it CD Lamb that's still available? Who's available?
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  Speaker 2: Terry McLaurin is pretty he's the Commander's receiver who's requested
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  Speaker 2: a trade. But I don't know how available he is,
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  Speaker 2: just that he's requested a trade. Yeah, I don't really
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  Speaker 2: know of anybody who's on the free agent market just
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  Speaker 2: ready to go. That's a big name. But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I guess if the team were to go out and
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  Speaker 2: sign a big receiver, I would trust him, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But it's not anything I would think they have to
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  Speaker 2: do right now.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm just thinking about like who's available right now?
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  Speaker 1: You know, maybe it was a Marii Cooper. Maybe that
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  Speaker 1: was the name that was in my mind.
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  Speaker 2: They do have a lot of receivers on the roster
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  Speaker 2: right now, just looking at it. Jordan Addison, Silas Bolden
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  Speaker 2: Ty Felton, Dante Fleming, Lucky Jackson, Justin Jefferson, Joshawn Jones,
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  Speaker 2: Tim Jones, Robert Lewis, Rondell Moore, Jalen Naylor, Miles Price,
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  Speaker 2: there Thomas And that's just what the website lists. So
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  Speaker 2: the room's pretty crowded as far as people, But I mean.
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  Speaker 1: You're not gonna carry more than six of those guys.
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  Speaker 2: I think five or six is what that any normal
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  Speaker 2: team carries anyway, So we'll see. It'll be interesting to
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  Speaker 2: keep an eye on, especially if they get through like
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  Speaker 2: the first preseason game and there's a lot of drops
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  Speaker 2: or a lot of specifically negative plays from the receivers
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  Speaker 2: that are out there, then you might start thinking like
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  Speaker 2: kind of like right now, I'm kind of thinking like,
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  Speaker 2: what's going on with the backup quarterback position? Hopefully you
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  Speaker 2: don't need it, Hopefully it's not anything we need to
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  Speaker 2: worry about. But QB one is currently a guy who's
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  Speaker 2: never played an NFL down, partially because of injury, remote
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  Speaker 2: all because of injury last year. So and it does
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  Speaker 2: sound concerned with the quarterback depth chart right now. Sam
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  Speaker 2: Howell and Brett Rippon and Max Brosener. So if somebody
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  Speaker 2: else were to be available, say a former Vikings first
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  Speaker 2: round pick, that might be intriguing. You're talking about Teddy
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  Speaker 2: Teddy Bridgewater. Yeah, a few minutes before we started recording,
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  Speaker 2: I saw a tweet that said he might come back
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  Speaker 2: to the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: So you never know.
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  Speaker 2: He's definitely not a starter at this point.
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  Speaker 1: But no, but he would be that he would be
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  Speaker 1: a depth guy and he would be that veteran presence
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  Speaker 1: in the locker room where maybe like JJ McCarthy had
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  Speaker 1: that in Sam Darnold last year doesn't really have that now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the most veteran guy in the quarterback room
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  Speaker 1: right now is Brett Rippon with seven years in the league. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so and that guy hasn't started well.
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  Speaker 2: And I would argue too. Now we're getting back to
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback whisper coach Kevin O'Connell. He does have that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, veteran NFL presence. It's just also in his
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  Speaker 2: headset and designing the place. So maybe that's even better.
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  Speaker 1: So we've got just like another minute or so here
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  Speaker 1: before we need to get into the pick him. We
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  Speaker 1: know a little bit about TJ. Howkinson, Ryan Kelly, Josh
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  Speaker 1: mittelis Josh Josh mittellis I already said that name. Christian
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  Speaker 1: Darisov was the last name that I was gonna say.
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  Speaker 1: Dariso is kind of on the upswing. The other three
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  Speaker 1: are kind of if he At this point, we just
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  Speaker 1: don't know a whole lot. When it comes down to it,
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  Speaker 1: which one do we absolutely need to have week one?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm kind of taking darrisaw out of that equation
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  Speaker 2: right now just because he is the one that's trending well.
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  Speaker 2: But honestly, with the state of the offensive line, I
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  Speaker 2: think Ryan Kelly of the three, Hockinson, Kelly, and Mattelis,
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  Speaker 2: like the other two are great and definitely help the team,
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  Speaker 2: but you can't do much if the quarterback looks up
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  Speaker 2: every two seconds and boom there's a defensive lineman in
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  Speaker 2: his space. Ryan Kelly, you want to make sure he's
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  Speaker 2: good and ready to go. Coach O'Connell did kind of
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  Speaker 2: come out and say those three specifically Hockinson, Kelly and
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  Speaker 2: mattel Us they just have like normal training camp pumps
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  Speaker 2: and bruises and they should be back sooner rather than later.
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  Speaker 1: So as of.
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  Speaker 2: Now, apparently nothing to worry about. But the team JITs
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  Speaker 2: did sign a tight end. Today, they've been kind of
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  Speaker 2: making a couple moves here and there somewhat recently, and
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  Speaker 2: I think the offensive line has been a part of
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  Speaker 2: some of those moves. So you just with the limited
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: information we have in your basement, not because we don't
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: get to be in meeting rooms and stuff. It is
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  Speaker 2: kind of concerning, Like, hey, center number one, a big
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  Speaker 2: reason why everybody's saying the Bikings are going to be
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  Speaker 2: better this year. He might be a little banged up,
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  Speaker 2: so hopefully he's okay. I'll take KOs at his word.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, I'd like to see Josh Mittellis in there.
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  Speaker 1: And again, I don't know that we're sitting here hitting
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  Speaker 1: the panic button on any of these guys right now,
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  Speaker 1: but I think he is the heart and soul of
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: that defense. I think he's that vocal leader. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that he's necessarily the like the brains. I think
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  Speaker 1: we saw last year how important Blake Cashman is to
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  Speaker 1: have the green dot on his helmet, and when he's
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  Speaker 1: not on the field, the defense kind of crumbled. But
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  Speaker 1: I think Josh Mattellis is kind of the fuel to
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  Speaker 1: the fire and when he gets going, all ten of
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  Speaker 1: those other guys get going. Yeah, and it's fun to watch,
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  Speaker 1: So I don't think there's a wrong answer there. I
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  Speaker 1: think all of those guys are really important. I think
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  Speaker 1: maybe most important would be Justin Jefferson. I think that,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, get him back, make sure he's healthy. He's
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's like top ten player in the league,
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  Speaker 1: possible MVP.
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  Speaker 2: Although Devil's advocate when he missed all those games a
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: couple of years ago, that vikings, I don't I don't
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  Speaker 2: think lost any of them. I think they would start
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  Speaker 2: the win streak when he missed true some games, but
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  Speaker 2: still you want him on the field. He makes a
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  Speaker 2: team better, definitely with a young not rookie anymore quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: but a young quarterback. So hopefully everybody's good by week one.
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  Speaker 1: That's all that matters. Speaking of week one, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's time to make some picks.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do it to pick them. I love this episode
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  Speaker 2: every year.
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  Speaker 1: It's always fun and so well, we should kind of
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: recap really quick what we've done in the past, and
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: I mean I think we're basically playing on doing the
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: same thing. Yep. So we will flip a coin. We
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: have two coins. We have a backup coin, this year
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: because one of them did go into uh it took
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: a swim lest your last year. So we'll flip a coin.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Heads is a win, tails is a loss, and we'll
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: just keep it simple. So for every game, one of
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: us will flip a coin. If it's heads, the Vikings win,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: if its tails, the Vikings lose. We'll leave that up
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: to fate, and then we'll reveal each of our picks.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: We have not talked about our picks at all with
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: each other.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Not to each other. I mean, we've talked about the
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: team and we kind of know our general feelings about
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: the team. So if you were to sit here and
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: tell me, oh, I predict a three win season, I'd
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: be shocked. But we haven't gone game by game yet.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Something we didn't do last year but I think we're
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: gonna do again this year is we're gonna pick locks. Yep.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: So we're gonna pick a lock to win, meaning, without
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: a shadow of a doubt, I think the Vikings will
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: win this game, and without a shadow of a doubt,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: I think they'll lose this game. So we'll each select
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: one victory and one loss to be our locks as well,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: and then we'll also talk about the picks that our
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: family made. We have our wives go down the schedule
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: and pick wins and losses. We also had our kids
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: go down the schedule and pick wins and losses. So
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I'm interested to see whose kids were nicer to the
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Vikings this year.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Aren't mine always nicer?
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: But mine also have the ice cream rule? And I
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: don't know if they think in their predictions they're making
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: sure their ice cream happens.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: But I can get that ice cream.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: But my five year old literally said that. Every like
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: halfway through, he had only said win, win, win, And
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: I just kept saying, like, buddy, they're probably not gonna
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: win them all. Why do you keep saying win? And
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: he straight up said, because I want ice cream. It's
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: good logic, buddy, yeh good, I totally understand it. All right, Well,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: shall we flip a coin for this first game? Week
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: one at Chicago? It's Monday night.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: At the Bears, all right?
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: So are we gonna say all of ours and then
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: finish off each game with the coin or we're going
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: to do the coin first?
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Oh? I was thinking we could do the coin first.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Whatever works, man, should we do it? Yeah? Why don't
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: you flip this one. I'm nervous.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: The pressure is on it is, Coin says tails Coin says,
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: the Vikings lose, all right, and I think Dustin Baker
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: would agree with that. Friend of the show, Dustin Baker says,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Soldier Field is always weird for the Vikings, so it
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: would be totally a Vikings thing to do for them
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: to come out and lose this game. But all right,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: what do we think?
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: So I'm with Dustin on this one. Oh man, I
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: actually picked a loss as well. All right, why is that?
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know that I have a ton to back
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: up my claim here. I think the hype around this
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: team has been pretty high, at least with Vikings fans.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: It's Monday night. Even the players are gonna be watching
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: all the games all weekend long. They're gonna get to
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Monday night and they're just gonna be I think, maybe
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: over pumped, over excited, and I think that's just a
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: it's a prime recipe to go out and that's the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: bed they say.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: All right, So well, I'm gonna shock you, ev I'm
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: gonna agree with you. I have this down as a losses. Really,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I just think for all the reasons you just said,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: the Vikings I still think are the better team of
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: the two as of right now. But I mean, there's
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: so much going into this game.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: It'll be the.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: First game for the Bears head coach, and so much expectation.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Suddenly Bears fans think their team is right back up
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: there with the best games in the league. For some reason,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: I think Dustin Baker has influenced me more than anything
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: on this decision for this game, because Soldier Field is weird,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: and for a long time a lot of our Vikings
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: fandom that Vikings could not win in Soldier Field no
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: matter what. And it's been a little bit better recently.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think this the hype the offseason comes
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: out and hurts the Vikings, But I think ultimately losing
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: this game will be a good punch in the face
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: to be like, whoa, this is the NFL. WHOA. Just
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: because we're better and everybody expects us to be better
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: than the other team doesn't mean we're going to win.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: So it'll be close, it'll be weird. Dustin Baker even
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: said like it's going to be some like weird six
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: to seven game or something like that. And yeah, I
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: think the Vikings wives this one.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, all right, what did our wives pick? What
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: did your wife pick? All right?
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: So basically, my wife just kind of went through last
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: season and saw the records for each team that the
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Vikings were playing this year. She did research, yeah a
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: little bit, but uh, Miranda said the Vikings would win.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, I hope she's right. Yeah, I mean too, I
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: hope I'm wrong. My wife also said that this would
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: be a Vikings win. Nice, So it's kind of us
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: against the wives. So I don't know.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: It looks like my wife is the only one that
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: did preseason games. She said they're gonna win all three.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be at the one next thing. Yeah, I'm
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: excited for that. I'm just gonna go with one of
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: my kids because I for the sake of like stirring
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the pot a little bit. She definitely my oldest picked
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: a very different outcome for the Vikings than anyone else
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: in my family. So my kids picked a loss as well.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: What about yours? So I have three children, so mine
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: was kind of easy. I just went.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: With the consensus of the three. So if two of
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: them said win, then it was a win. If you
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: know all three, you know what I mean? Democratic Yeah, yeah,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: it just seemed easy enough, which kind of backfired because
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: my middle child always said what my oldest child said,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: and I was like, wait, wait, okay, you can't start
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: saying the answer first. Anyways, all that to say, my
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: kids predicted a win in Chicago for the Vikings. Okay,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: all right, coin time, So you've got them. We've all
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: got them, both of us have them.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: At oh and to one right now? Yes, so oh
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: and one to start the season again Monday night. All
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: this hype, you know, in the words of Carrie Underwood,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: been waiting all night for Monday and I've been waiting
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: all off season. Yeah night. It's been a long wait,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: and I just don't know that the Vikings shine in
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: that moment. Unfortunately. Let's see what the coin thinks about
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Week two home against the Falcon I'm gonna do it
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: over here. That's ahead, Okay, that's the heads. So the
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: coin says win. Nice, Okay, Week two.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Was it last year or has it been the last
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: two years? The coin has predicted some like crazy win
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: streak for both seasons.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so the coin predicted the first six wins last
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: year and two years ago, one, two, three, four, five, Okay, nice?
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: So at least the Coins switching it up a little
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: bit this year. It set a loss against the Bears
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: and a win against the Lions. What do you have
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: again or open against the Falcons? What do you have
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: against the Falcons?
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I've got this as a win. I think the Falcons
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: are gonna be young with Michael Pennix starting a quarterback,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: and who knows, I mean week two, he could find
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: himself on the bench and Kirk Cousins could find that'd
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: be crazy back in the starting I don't know. Their
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: lineup just doesn't stand out to me as one that's
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: gonna win a lot of games. Yeah, I don't know.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: And I think the kick and the teeth, like we
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: were talking about at Chicago Week one for the Vikings
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: will be enough to light a fire under them and
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: say all right, let's go, let's go win this game. Now,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: this is another primetime game. This is a Sunday night game,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: so two primetime games in a row. The Vikings historically
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: in our lifetime haven't performed super well in primetime games.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: They've been on one player.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I would even say, sure, he's maybe the scapegoat for
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: all of that, but even before and after him, the
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Vikings have struggled Kirk Cousins that is. But yeah, I
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: think the Vikings will win this one. It's at home.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: US Bank Stadium is going to be rocking that night,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: it's the home opener. I think they get it done.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I agree with you. I think the Vikings are going
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: to beat the Falcons. The last time the Vikings and
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Falcons played, was it in It was in Atlanta?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Was it was in Atlanta last season?
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: But Kirk Cousins looked terrible. Uh, say what you want.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I do think the nerves of playing against the Vikings
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: probably contributed to that, and ultimately that was like the
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: last straw for him. He got benched. I think that
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: not during the game, but the next week I'm pretty
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: sure is when Michael Pennock started. Maybe I might be
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: a little wrong about that, but either way, that was
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: that was a tough There might have.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Been one more week after that. Yeah, Kirk might have,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: but he threw four picks the Vikings.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: But this year it'll be Pennix. I think it'd be
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: shocking if it wasn't Pennix. He would have to get injured,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: like in the next few weeks for him. Not Yeah,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: but like you said, it's it's in Minnesota. If the Vikings,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: even if they don't lose to the Bears, but especially
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: if they do lose to the Bears, you gotta think
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: they're they're not gonna let the next game be a
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: lost no matter what. So that are gonna come out.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: If they got punched in the face the week before,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: they're going to punch the Falcons in the face this week.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: It'll be a fun game, I think. But yeah, I
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: don't see the Vikings losing this one at all.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: What about the wives? What did the wives say?
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Marinda said they would win against the Falcons. Okay, probably
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: just because she saw the record for the Falcons last
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: year and the record for the Vikings last year and
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: just went with that.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Raven also says a win. Okay.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: My kids all agreed, or at least the consensus. I
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: don't know if it was a unanimous they agreed a
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: win as well against the Falcons.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Well, that makes unanimous across the board. Nice because my
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: kids also predicted, So we're my oldest predicted a win.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: We're either going to be all right or all wrong.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: So we're all in on the Vikings winning Week two
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: against the Falcons at home. Again Sunday night game. I
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: think that is worth noting. In two primetime games again
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: to start the regular season. That's kind of a bang
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: bang start. It'd be interesting, it'll be fun, all right.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: You're flipping for Week three, the first noon game home
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: game against the Bengals. I thought that was going to do.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Oh no tails. The coin says it's a loss against
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: the Bengals.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I almost wonder if we retoss that though I did
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: drop it.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Should I retoss it or we're going to take it
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: for what it is. I think we take it for what.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: You take it for what it is. Yeah, all right,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: you tossed it, so it's your call.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: All right, So coin set a loss, and I agree
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: with the coin. I think this season there's so much expectation,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: and I think it's founded. You keep saying like it's
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: the Vikings are right to be expecting high things and
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: to have high expectations and have all the hype. But
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: because of all the hype, it's going to take a minute.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be one of those like
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: after the first couple incompletions, the frustration is gonna sit in.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: There's so much pressure on JJ's shoulders, right, now on
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Koc's shoulders, on everybody's shoulders to keep being good and
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: hopefully break through and continue being better. But I think
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: against the Bengals, who had a rough year last year,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: if I remember correctly, they're just it's gonna be too much,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: even at home. So I think the Bengals are gonna
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: best the Vikings this week.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: I disagree. Okay, I'm calling this a win. And I
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: think the Bengals are, in my mind, kind of the
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Falcons of the AFC. They've got a kind of a
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: flashy name quarterback, and they've got a few stars here
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: and there. They're just not a well rounded team. I
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: think they struggled defensively last year. I don't think they
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: did much to really build their defense up in the offseason.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: And I don't know Jamar Chase and T Higgins. I
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: just don't think they're as good as Justin Jefferson and
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Jordan Addison. But that's my personal opinion.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Nope, that's the schoolhops official opinion.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Except yeah, and honestly, I don't know Joe Burrow. Sure
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: he's he's won in some big games, he's made it
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl, but I don't know his injury
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: his injury history, I should say, is definitely concerning absolutely,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: so I don't know. I think in the Bengals too,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: I'm rambling maybe a little bit, but I think the
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Bengals have started out slow every season Joe Burrow has
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: been under center, so that would be my final like
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: reason why I think the Vikings are going to win
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: this game is the Vikings will and this is a
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: home game for the Vikings, so again they'll have the
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: home crowd behind him, and I think for all those
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: other reasons, I think this is an easy win. I
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: think maybe the Falcons is maybe a little bit more
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: kind of back and forth, two young quarterbacks going at it, yep,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: But I think this one the Vikings handle things well.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: I did forget to say, not to completely disagree with you,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: but I did forget to say. One of my reasons
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: for thinking the Vikings might lose again some angles is
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: it's right in front of a very big trip across
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: the pond, and there's a lot of pressure with that too,
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: because the next game is against the Steelers with you know,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: famous Viking hater almost Viking himself, Aaron Rodgers. So I
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: think there's going to be a little bit of looking
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: ahead to the week after probably a lot of decisions
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Koc has to make, so I think there will be
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: a little distraction. However, he's gone overseas twice now and
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: all he's done is win both games overseas, and I
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: guess I don't know how he did the weeks before
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: those games. But yeah, those were my reasonings. The wives.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: What'd your wife say for the Bengals game?
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Raven says, this is.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: A loss, okay, and Miranda said it was a win
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: against the Bengals.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Okay. I agree with your wife. I'm not mine. What
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: about your kids? My kids?
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Just second, I was finishing poorn my beer there, my
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: kids said that the Vikings would lose against the Bengals
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: and I don't remember why.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: And my kids also said a loss. And honestly, like
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I didn't really talk to them about this while they
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: were doing it. I just kind of told them what
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: to do. Yeah, And my oldest is eight and she'll
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: be nine next month. She knows enough now, and like
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: she knows who some of these teams are. She doesn't
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: know all the players or anything like that. But she's
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: also the one that, like she likes to rub it
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: in my face she'll say that I'm a Packers fan
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: just to get me going and stuff like that, so
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: that's funny. Anyways, I did not consider fully the fact
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: that that Bengals game is on the heels of the
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: two game road trip across the Pond, and that's unique
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: because no NFL team has ever done that in the
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: regular season. I think two weeks.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: The Jaguars did two weeks in a row last year,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: but they went and played at least both in London.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know if they were.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Both, So it's unique then because it's in two different countries.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: I still even if they're the second ones to do it,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: that's still two you know, that's not very many in
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: the history of the NFL.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: And I don't think it went great for the Jags either.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: I think they went one and one. They won the
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: second one and lost the first one.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Well, that's a good place to start because I'm gonna
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: say that they're going to lose to the Steelers in Dublin,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: which I don't want to lose to Aaron Rodgers. I
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: don't want to lose at all. But I do think
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: the travel will wear on the guys a little bit.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: I think the hype leading up to the trip for
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: all of the things that we just said thirty seconds
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: ago will wear on the guys a little bit. And
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: I think that game will be close too, because the
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Steelers are gonna feel it just as much as the Vikings.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm gonna feel the jet lag. They're going
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: to feel the different energy in the stadium in Dublin.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: All of the above, but with a young quarterback going
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: up against the future Hall of Famer Mike Tomlin's a
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: heck of a coach who's really never had a losing season,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna they're gonna get the best of
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell and JJ McCarthy in Dublin.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny you mentioned future Hall of Famer against
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: a young quarterback. I saw something on Twitter the other
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: day that as of right now, the listed qb ones
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: in the league. The oldest, of course, at forty one
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: years old, is Aaron Rodgers. The youngest JJM is JJ
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: McCarthy at twenty two years old, So that's kind of crazy.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: I feel like Aaron Rodgers has had a couple of
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: games like that in the last few years where he's
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: been like twenty years older or literally the oldest against
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: the youngest, stuff like that. But it is funny that
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: that's going to happen and overseas and probably a big matchup.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: But even if one of these teams is way better
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: than the other one, it's still early enough in the
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: season that it's still a big game no matter what.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: So with all that saying, and we will need to
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: get to the coin after.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I realize we forgot that, but I figured it
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: was a good segue kind of into the next game.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I said, the Vikings are gonna win. They're
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: gonna beat the Steelers in Dublin. I remember last year,
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: friend of the Show, Dustin Baker, leading up to the
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Vikings Jets game, he was saying, like, hey, guys, if
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: there's one good thing, even if the Vikings end up losing,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: one good thing about this game is it's the last
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: time we'll ever have to see the Vikings play against
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers. And I believed him, and it definitely made
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: sense because you know, we all thought Rogers he was
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: either going to retire or stay with the Jets, and
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: they're not gonna play the Jets again for a while.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: So that's it's kind of.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Funny that literally a year later though, why he's are
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: gonna play Aaron Rodgers. I don't really believe in forty
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: one year old Aaron Rodgers, not that much. Not that
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: he's garbage, but he's not MVP Aaron Rodgers anymore. Mike
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Tomlin's a really good coach, but I think Kevin O'Connell
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: is coming up, and he will be when everything's all
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: said and done. Kevin O'Connell hopefully is viewed as just
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: as good or if not better than Mike Tomlin. Preposterous
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: thing to say right now. Tomlin's won at least one,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: if not two, Super Bowls, He's had one of the
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: greatest coaching careers of all time. But I feel like
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell, he's he's gonna be there.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Well and side note, and something we texted about talking
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: about on this episode was the fact that just this
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: week an ESPN reporter put out an article ranking Oh yeah,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: coaching stabs in the NFL, And Yeah, I texted it
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: to you and you're like, well, this is either really
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: really bad for the Vikings or really really good, and
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I don't think you'd read it yet. Yeah, No, I
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: texted you that before I read it, I was like,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't be sending this to me if he was
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: like fifteenth. And then you read it, and like a
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: couple of minutes later, I got a text.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: He's like, whoa because Koc and Koc and the rest
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: of the Vikings coaching staff, according to that one ESPN writer,
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: were ranked the best coaching staff in the NFL, which
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: is crazy and probably just because of the Coach of
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: the Year award. I did say, I'm pretty sure the
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Eagles coaching staff was ranked like number eight, which is
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: insane to say about the reigning Super Bowl winning team.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: I think the Chiefs were number two, so there's some
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: a little lower than maybe even Yeah, I don't remember.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: So it's a little crazy to think that Koc is
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: the best coach in the NFL right now. I don't
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: know if I totally agree with that, but it is
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: nice to know like other people think he's good just
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: like I do, so that is kind of fun.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Well, let's see what the Coin thinks about this week
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: for game in Dublin against the Steelers. The Vikings are
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: technically the away team too. Coin says, that's a win.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: All right, let's go Coin totally.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Spread so far, but it's a win. So yeah, all right.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: My wife said that this would be a win.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, my wife said this would also be a win.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, my kids decided that this would be a win.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: My kids did not. They picked a loss. Well, I
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: hope your kids are wrong. Interesting you and the coin
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: are mirroring each other right now. Loss win, loss, win
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: so far, so kind of interesting leading into week two
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: across the pond, different country, as we pointed out in London.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: But the second week in a row playing an eight
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: thirty am us time, Yeah, that'll get causting.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: I can't decide if that's a good thing as a
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: fan or a bad thing. Just get it out of
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: the way, or like, just have to wake up early
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: and go through all that super long time.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: But so they're playing the Browns and again they're technically
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: the away team. Should we flip the coin, Yeah, let's
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: flip the coin before we forget.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: It.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Almost dropped it again.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: The coin says tails. I feel like every time I
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: flip the coin says tails.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Well, the coin has an alternating record right now, three
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: and two lost win, lost, win loss.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: All right, so I said the Vikings would win. This
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: is the first time me and the coin are disagreeing, Okay,
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: I think the Vikings are going to be locked in.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: They're gonna lose to the Bears, get punched in the face,
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: get embarrassed, and then come out and beat the crap
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: out of the Falcons, and then in anticipate of this
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: big London trip, London and Ireland trip, they're gonna lose
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: to the Bengals. But then they're just gonna totally rocket
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: and they're going to be so prepared for the overseas
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: trip that it won't even matter that they're there for
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: a while or who they're playing. It's nice that it's
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: both away games or not losing any home games. They're
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: gonna win both of them, and they're better than both
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: of these teams as they stand right now, especially the Browns.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and especially the Browns. Is why not only have
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: I picked this as a win, this is my lock,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: so it's our first lock, all right, this is my
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: lock to win. So I'm gonna get this locked emoji
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: in there to symbolize the fact that that is my lock,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: and I think it's a lock for a few reasons.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: What you just said is absolutely true. The Browns are
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: terrible they are a dumpster fire of an organization. They
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: drafted shaduor Sanders and right now the projected starting quarterback
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: is Joe Flacco. Yeah.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Hey, they did just today sign a Pro Bowl quarterback.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: And who's that?
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Tyler Huntley, former Ravens quarterback who made the Pro Bowl
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: one year after throwing for like two hundred yards in
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: the season or something like that. It was one of
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: those like everybody else said.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: No, and it's like, well, come on, Tyler, and.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: He's like, yes, so he's a pro bowler, former Pro bowler.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: But yeah, they signed him today. They've had some injuries
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: with Kenny Pickett a little bit, yeah, and even shoulder
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Sanders has had some injuries, I think, But yeah, I
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: think Flacco is still listed QB one right now for them.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: So for those reasons, I think this is a win. Also,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: I predicted that they would lose against the Steelers the
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: previous week, so again I think there's there's just that like,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: all right, we didn't come all the way over here
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: just to go oh and two, we're gonna go one
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: in one. It's not ideal to go one in one.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: You've got him going to and oh over there, over there,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: yeah over there because what I saying, Yeah, but yeah,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: I think the guy's rally. I think the guys also.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: I think it's underestimated how hard guys play when they
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: know the bye week is coming up.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Yea.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: I think they're like, all right, I get a week
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: off after this. I'm gonna go all out now because
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: I know that I have extra time to recover. So
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I'll i'll, you know, tackle a little bit harder. I
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: will dive a little bit farther for the ball, I'll
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: you know, stretch my legs a little bit farther to
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: get the toe tap touchdown. Whatever. So I don't think
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: this is a like an eke By win. I think
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: this is like the Vikings just totally demolished. It's the
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: game's over by the middle of the third quarter. You know,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: maybe maybe Max Brozemer or someone else comes in and relief.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know the team, but I'm
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: not going to throw around any you know, any super
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: big predictions there. But I think this is a win.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: I think it's an easy win. That's why it's my lock.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: One thing, I wonder if players I feel like having
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: a bye week after an overseas trip like this one,
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: you have to like he. I think the Vikings in
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell's first year they went overseas and then didn't
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: have the bye week. They came back and played right
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: away the next week. But I feel like he got
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: to especially being over there two weeks. But I wonder
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: if having the bye week start while you're already overseas
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: kind of sucks for the players. I imagine a lot
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: of these players they go to like they call up
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: Big Top Ventures and they go to kN Kun, you know,
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: or they go somewhere for at least a couple of
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: days over that bye week, and that's made all the
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: more difficult when you already have to come back to
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: the country and then you're trying to fly somewhere else.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe I'm overthinking it, and maybe they
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: don't really care because they're flying straight from London to
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Kan Kun or whatever. I don't know, and I don't
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: know if the teams allow them to do that, Like
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know, if you have to fly back on
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: the team plane back to Minneapolis and then once you're
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: back you can do whatever you want, or if like
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: oh no, I guess we're already over here. If you
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: want to go to Greece, or if you want to
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: go to Spain, whatever, I mean, we're already here. Yeah,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: you want to buy your own ticket plane, I'll just
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: be a little emptier on the way back. I guess
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: I wonder how that works. I don't know how it
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: works either, but yeah.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: But all that to say, I guess we still need
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: our wives and kids.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: So we got to inform everybody on our family picks here.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: So I'm actually pretty shocked. My wife has predicted the
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: Vikings heading into the bye undefeated. She said they're going
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: to win against the Browns as well. Okay, and be
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: five and oh I have them at the bye at
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: five and two, three and two, three and two, Yes,
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: there's five total gas three and so do I? Yeah?
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Further, okay, I haven't at three and two going into
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: the bye. My oldest daughter picked this as a loss. Okay,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: And what'd your wife say? You didn't say, sorry, I
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: need to back up. You picked this as a wink.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: So my wife picked a win, my daughter picked a loss. Okay,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: what about your kids?
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: My kids said win against the Browns?
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right?
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: So I feel like I'm a happy camper for the
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: most part. If they enter the bye at three and two,
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: I wonder what my predictions were last year. I feel
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: like because I had the same bye week last year,
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: I feel like I also predicted three and two heading
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: into the bye as well.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: So I don't know, maybe it's just you did predict
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: three and two, but they were five and zero.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And then I went to the next game after
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: the buye and lo and behold that was the first loss.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Of the season. So don't go to games this year.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: I don't have any planes too, so.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: All right, So coming out of the bye week, things
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: get kind of interesting, and I think this. I think
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: that like the first five games, maybe you take the
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: two games overseas is kind of out of the equation,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: but they still almost kind of seem like more preseason
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: games to me. They kind of seem like things are
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: just gonna get warmed up a little bit. Maybe maybe
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: the Vikings could go five and zero through those five
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: like your wife is predicted. But we hit week seven
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: and it's like things are getting real, yeah right where
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: where it's and it's not just one game here, one
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: game there. It's like this is the tough stretch of
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: the schedule. Yeah, you got a lot of divisional games
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: in here. You've got a lot of games against some
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: really really good teams, really good coaches, really good players,
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: a couple of primetime games tossed in there.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: By this point in the season, you really start to
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: figure out who these teams are.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: Which is kind of crazy because I think the Bears
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: last year kind of at this point in the season
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: were undefeated or it only lost one game and then
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: the wheels fell off. But typically for most teams, especially
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: after the Gauntlet the Vikings will have in the first
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: part of the season, we should have a good idea
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: of like, oof, JJ McCarthy is actually terrible and this
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: is going to be tough, or holy cow, we've seen
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: some flashes. JJ might actually be something, you know, stuff
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: like that. Hopefully there's no knock on the Skullman center
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: would hopefully there's no big injuries before then. Hopefully guys
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: like Christian Daris are showing like, yeah, he is healthy
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: and he is good. JJ Hockinson that remember that weird
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: day in training camp when he didn't practice that one day, Like,
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: hopefully that's what we're saying, you know, but yeah, did
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: did you say if you made your prediction yet for
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: the Eagles game? Or should flip the coin?
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: Let's flip the coin first and then we'll see where
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: we're at after that. So here's the official coin flip
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: that says tails. All right.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: The coin said the Vikings is going to lose to
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: the Eagles at noon on October nineteenth, and that's in Minnesota.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: What do you think, keV? So this is a loss,
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: and unfortunately this is my lock to you, and I'll
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: tell you why. Let me just record this quick. You're
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: coming off a two week road trip overseas, You're coming
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: off of bye week. Historically, the Vikings don't play well
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: coming off of bye weeks. Last year they lost two
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: in a row coming off the bye week. And all
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: of that doesn't really matter because you're playing the defending
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl champs. And it also doesn't matter that this
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: is a home game. It doesn't matter that it's a
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: noon game. You're playing the defending Super Bowl champs. So
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: I think the odds are stacked against him. I'm still
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: really optimistic about the Vikings. And let me tell you,
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: I've got a wind streak coming pretty soon here. And
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: I know I just said, Oh, the schedules gets really
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: scary here. But I'm not that scared. I'm a little
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: nervous about the Vikings playing the Eagles coming off the
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: bye week. I don't like their chances. I think that's
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: that's my lock to lose.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, Evan keep that lock emoji copied oh boy,
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: because this is also a lock for me. But and
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: it's also my lock to lose. Okay, I thought you
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: were gonna say, but I think for me this comes
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: down to one player, Barkley. I feel like at this
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: point in the season, unless he's injured, he's warmed up,
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: he's ready to go. And if last year taught us
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: anything it's that he's still got plenty left in the tank.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: He is probably entering his prime right now. He's a
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: tough player to play against. And I think he was
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: one of many reasons, but number one of many reasons
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: why the Eagles were so dominant when they were last
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: year and led to the Super Bowl for them. Yeah,
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: the Vikings did beef up their defensive line. Their pass
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: rush should be better than it was last year, but
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: you can't win them all. The Vikings have not had
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: success against the Eagles in recent year years, and I
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: just think this is one of those that it's gonna
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: be a loss. So unfortunately, you're just not gonna win
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: every game.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: So funny thing about my wife's schedule here that she
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: wrote on it looks like she wanted to start writing
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: a double year. It did.
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like at and then she's like no, So
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: my wife, my wife has this as a loss, and
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: unfortunately I think she's right.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my wife also has this as a loss, probably
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: for just because they had a better record last year.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: Well did they have a better record last year than
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: the Vikings.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a good question.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: They may have had the same regular similar there are
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: a lot of especially it was really pop heavy last year. Yeah,
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: the Viking, the Eagles and Vikings were both fourteen and
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: three last year in the regular season. Obviously the Eagles
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: were a way better team, but still so.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: My daughter had the Vikings going one and four after
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: the buye or going into the box, but she picked
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: them to win against the Eagles.
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: Hey, remember a few minutes ago when I said, I
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: hope she's wrong all the time. I hope she's right
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: on this one. My kids also put this down as
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: a loss.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, so everybody but my kids, yep, are picking this
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: as a loss. All right. So the next the next
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: six weeks are kind of interesting for the Vikings. Last year,
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: if you'll remember, they went on a three game road
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: trip before coming back for a three game homestand and
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: I really emphasized that and last year's pick them, and
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: I I think I was kind of right. I don't
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and say I was like,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to pound the table and say that
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: was I was, you know whatever, But I think I
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: think I think I was onto something with that three
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: game road stretch followed by the three game home stretch
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: that proved to be pretty pivotal for the Vikings.
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: It was very pivotal.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: They already had proven that they were a good team,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: but didn't they go six and oh in those games?
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Yes, I was just checking that last year in the
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: three games away and three games home in the stretch
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: you're talking about, it was all wins.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: And there was some adversity tossed in there too, like
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: there was that twelve seven win. Who was that the
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: first away game the jag Jaguars was tough games.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Titans were tough. After both of those games,
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: koc was getting questions.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: Like what are you doing at quarterback?
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: After both of those he kept saying like, no, Sam's
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: our guy. I'm not making any changes, and to his credit,
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: that ended up being the right decision until the last
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: game was year.
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: So interesting about this season is week eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: and thirteen. You have two away games, two home games,
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: two away games. So it's kind of this like snip snap,
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: snip snap, Michael Scott kind of thing. You home, you're away,
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: you're home, you're away.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: Games and two away games does to a person.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: But I think, well, actually, what I think we should
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: do is we should flip the coin first, and this
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: is it's your turny flip, and then I'll get into
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: what I think.
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a win against the Chargers. Is
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: that with US gate we gate at the LA Charger.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: The Chargers says a win. I'm calling this a win too,
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: all right. I think this is the beginning of a
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: nice little streak.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, we're going to go streaking here. I'm not going
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: to tell you how much, but they're going to go streaking,
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: all right, That's what I think all right.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: I also think this is a win. It's the only
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: tricky part is it's a Thursday night game. True, it
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: is four days after the Eagles game, and it's away.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: It is heading to the West Coast, which you've said
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: a thousand times, and I think it's a very accurate take.
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: Teams have teams who are not in the West Coast
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: have a tough time going to the West Coast and
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: playing this one. Yes, it's a Thursday night game, but
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: the Vikings, their body clock will be thinking it's more
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: like dinner time rather than bedtime, so maybe that'll help.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but I do think it'll be a
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: win against the Chargers. I think Harbaugh is going to
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: lose against his college national championship winning quarterback, and I
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: just think koc He is too good not to win
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: this game.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: I agree. I also think like those Thursday night games again,
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: kind of like players looking ahead to the normal bye week.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: I think when they play in those Thursday night games,
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: they look forward to the minibi that comes after that. Like, Okay,
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: I get Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. I don't really
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: have to be in the office again until Wednesday. I've
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: got some time. I can go home, I can be
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: with my kids. This is kind of smack dab in
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: the middle of the season, week eight, you know, so
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: I think they look forward to that, and I think,
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: you know, even if it's a long plane ride home
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: from LA to Minneapolis, it's very worth it. Yeah.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So all right, my wife said that the Vikings
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: would win against the Chargers as well.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: Well, hey, so did mine.
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: And my children said that this would be a.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: Loss, and my kids said this was a win. So
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: my kids are starting to be more optimistic about the
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: bike tast here. All right, So we two of this
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: road stretch, Week nine, overall, we go to Detroit. We
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: I know when you love it, I know you love it.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: The Vikings travel to Detroit.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think at this point the Lions will have
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: something like two or three wins total.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, I do not.
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: I do not believe in the Lions in twenty twenty five.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: Maybe they'll bounce back and figure it out after this season.
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: But this season, with all these high expectations, and everybody's
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: gonna still be saying, like, oh, who cares about those coordinators.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be tough for them. It's there are brains
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: of the football field left the team. So I guess
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna jump the gun before the coin. Oh, and
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say the Vikings are gonna win this
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: game against the Lions. I'm surprised that it seemed very
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: obvious that I was going in that direction. That's why
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: I cut the coin there.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: Let's see what the coin says, right, and then we'll
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: get to mine. That's the tails.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: Oh all right, well, the coin is an.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: Idiot, So I think this is a win as well.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: I said going into Week eight at the Chargers, I
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: said this would start a win streak, that the Vikings
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: were going streaking, and I wasn't kidding. I think you're right.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: I think you're onto something that the Lions won't be
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: as dominant as they were last year. I watched the
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame game. I don't know how much of
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: that you did.
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: I watched it and keep going.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: I don't want any You've got to take a game
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: like that with a grain of salt. It's not anything
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: close to what the you know, final product will be
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: on the field week one, and it's probably nothing even
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: remotely close to what it will be week nine when
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: the Vikings see them for the first time. I totally
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: understand that, but still I think I think Dan Campbell
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: got out coached in that game, and not that his
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: goal was to out coach his opponent, but he definitely
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: got out coached. And there were some situations in some
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: scenarios where I'm like, why did you do that? Like,
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: even if you have your fourth string guys that won't
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: even make the roster, why would you do that? Why
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: did you call that play and your quarterback got picked off?
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: Because that happened, And there were a few other just
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: head scratchers that I was like, what what are you doing?
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: This doesn't make sense unless you're trying to put those
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: guys through adversity to see. But I don't know that
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: you do that on the national stage, in the Hall
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: of Fame game, when you know all the lights are
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: on you and you're literally the only football game on
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: and it's the only football game that's been on in liked.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: So again, take all that with a grain of salt.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: It was the Hall of Fame game, it doesn't matter,
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: it's a preseason game. But they did not look good
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: and I think he got out coached, and I don't
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: think his goal was to be out coached in that game,
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: and I think that says a lot to what you
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: were saying that he's gonna get out coached a lot
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: this season.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: I think, Yeah, So not to totally just keep crapping
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: on Dan Campbell in the Lions because it does eventually
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: does make us look, you know, hey, But I really
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: think this is the year because they did mention in
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame game, like you guys might forget
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: that before Ben Johnson really started calling plays, Dan Campbell
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: was calling plays and he was in the Hall of
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: Fame game, he was calling the offensive place and I
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: think this is gonna be the year where it's like
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: Dan Campbell is gonna have it dawned on him that crap,
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: I need to focus on being a CEO and not
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: a coordinator. And he's definitely been the one that's like, no,
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: we're going for it, I don't care, and then Ben
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: Johnson draws up something great and it works. Now he's
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: gonna be the one that's saying I'm going for I
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: don't care, and he doesn't have a Ben Johnson to
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: drop something great, So it's gonna be whatever messed up
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: stuff in Dan Campbell's head, and it's not gonna work.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: It'll accidentally work sometimes, but it's not gonna work. Dan
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: Campbell after this year will realize, oh crap, I need
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: to just break the bank and hire the best coordinators
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: anybody can hire. Otherwise I'm gonna get fired and this
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: year will be a very down year for the Lions
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: because of that. My wife said that the Vikings would.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: Lose to the Lions. Okay, so did my wife, And
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: maybe maybe my wife did what your wife did and
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: like looked back at recent history.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: You know, I will give her some credit because my
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: wife she doesn't know nothing. She definitely, I mean, she's
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: not a diehard football fan. She'd say she's a Vikings fan.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: She wears the Viking shirts and stuff like that. She
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: enjoys watching the games. But like, it doesn't They could
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: lose by one hundred and she wouldn't. It wouldn't ruin
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: her day.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: But she did.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: I'll give her credit and say she did some research
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: and she at least cared enough to know, like, Okay,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: I shouldn't just say like win lose. I like the mascot,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: you know, stuff like that. She she looked it up
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: and put a little bit of thought into it.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: So sports bull Yeah.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: She well, and she's not one of those like, oh
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: go touchdown, yay home run, you know, like it's not
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: she's not sarcastic about it, right, but yeah, my kids
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: have this as a loss and so did mine.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, our kids need to learn a lesson or.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: Two, right, uh real quick. I will say recent in
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: recent days it has kind of sounded like will record
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: in training camp has been a little bit hit or
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: miss literally. But they ended off the the night practice
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: tonight with something like six or seven straight kicks for
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: him at varying distances. He made them all short and long,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: so it's nice. When the lights were literally bright with
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: fans in the stadium, he made all the kicks. So
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: that's that's good to hear, good to see.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: It is encouraging. I just I hope you can stay
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: healthy because he was like untouchable before he got hurt,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: and then that quad muscle started to come unattached from
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: his leg and then he was not great. Yeah, it was.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: It was. It was kind of ugly, all right. Week
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: ten starts a two game home stretch starting with the Ravens.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: Yep, all right, So the coin Coin says, heads.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: That's a win. Okay, So through nine games the coin
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: has what one, two, three, four wins? Oh kind of losses?
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: Interesting, that would be pretty disappointing.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: Four to five would be tough. But I'll take a
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: win against the Ravens. The Ravens were a playoff team. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: I'll just come out and say it. I think the
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: Vikings win this one too. All Right, it's a home game, obviously.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: I don't remember the last time the Ravens came to Minnesota.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: I think I may have been in attendance the last
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: time the Ravens visited Minnesota. That was a US Bank Stadium.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: Pretty sure, Yeah, and I'm pretty sure they won against it,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: But it was like twenty seventeen. I want to say
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: it's it's.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: Been a while, it's been a minute.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: Let me let me look it up as you explain
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: why you think the Vikings are gonna win.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: I think this will be a really close game. I
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: think this will be a really evenly matched game. The
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: Ravens are a really good team, obviously. John Harbaugh is
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: a great coach. Lamar Jackson is always in the MVP conversation,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: and Derrick Henry just doesn't stop, like, yeah, he just
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: he's got this motor and I don't I don't know
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: that he's obviously older than like a Saquon Barkley, but
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: he's he's just gonna keep trucking, you know, He's just
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: gonna keep going. So, like I said, this will be
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: a really evenly matched game. I think this is where
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: the Vikings run game will have to come out. And
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: that's where the addition of Jordan Mason I think will
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: be really important and that'll be huge. Yeah, I saw
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: all but yeah, I saw a picture today of Jordan
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: Mason and Aaron Jones standing on the sideline next to
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: each other, and you think, like, when you think of
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, what do you think of.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's kind of smaller, but like.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: But like he's an NFL player. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: mean if we were standing in the presence of Aaron Jones,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: it'll probably be like looking up at him and I
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: don't know how tall he is. Jordan Mason, his legs
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: are like tree trunks to Aaron Jones little toothpick legs.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: I mean Pro Football Reference has Aaron Jones at five nine,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: two hundred and eight pounds. I am larger than Aaron Jones.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: Wow. Yes, interesting.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: Now I'm physically larger, but I'm also larger than a
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: lot of five to nine people. He and I are
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: the same height, if you can believe five to nine.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: He also was born three years after us.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: That's crazy. So anyways, I think the addition of Jordan
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: Mason is huge, and I think against a really stout
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: defense like the Ravens, you're gonna need to rely on
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: that run game, and you're gonna need to rely on
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: not just the speedy scatback like Aaron Jones who can
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: be shifty, but you're gonna need that big power guy
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: to just bowl thoze through the line and wear those
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: guys down.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, through four quarters. So I think Jordan Mason to
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: tangent a little bit. I think he will end this
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: season as the true statistical Vikings RB one.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: Really yeah.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: I think maybe he won't start every game. I think
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: Aaron Jones is still RB one, But I think when
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: you look at stats and really impact, I'm gonna hot take,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: I'll say I think Jordan Mason will eclipse Aaron Jones
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: in all of those stats, and in the hot take,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: maybe it'll be closer than I think it will be.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: But I think maybe three years from now, Jordan Mason
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: will still be a Viking, whereas Aaron Jones will either
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: be retired or moved on. But I think Jordan Mason
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: will truly be the you know, the actual RB one
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: when you really think about it.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: Anyways, for the first time in a while, the Vikings
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: had that true one two punch oh yeah, running back,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: which is exciting.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: So I looked it up. The last time the Vikings
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: and Ravens played, at least in the regular season, it
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: was it was in Baltimore. The Vikings lost thirty one
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: to thirty four. But the last time the Ravens visited
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: Minnesota it was in twenty seventeen and I was in
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: attendance for that one. The Vikings won twenty four to sixteen.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: Nice.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: Totally different teams. I mean that was darn near a
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: decade ago, so right, different quarterbacks. Adam Thielin I'm pretty
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: sure scored a touchdown in that game, So like, yeah,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: totally different teams. But still, yeah, have I said my
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: prediction for this one yet?
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: You have not?
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: All right, I think the Vikings will win this one.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: It'll be tough. I think you just laid out wide.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: It'll be tough. Derreck Henry is always you know, he's
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: a creative player. It's insane how good he is. As
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: much as I just drooled over Saquon Barkley a few
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: minutes ago, I think Derek Henry is every bit as droollable,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: you know, like he is just as good of a
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: running back. Even now when they're both getting up there
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: a little bit. You have MVP worthy apparently, Lamar Jackson.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: I don't really think he deserves all those accolades. He's
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: an electric generational athlete, but I don't think he's an
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: MVP quarterback. But fight me if you think I'm wrong,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: that's fine. But yeah, I think the Vikings they'll find
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: a way to win this one. The edge for me
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: on this one was that it was a home game.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: If it were away, I think they're close enough teams
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: that that home field advantage is really big enough to
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: and tip the scales.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: And at this point in the season November ninth, you're
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: starting to get into the colder months and Baltimore plays outside,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: and so yeah, the home field advantage from here on
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: out is very important.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: Although funny enough, I think this is absolutely a game
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: that if you were listening to the Ravens version of
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: the Skull Hop, like they're, you know, a couple of
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: dudes in the basement podcast, They're absolutely sitting there like, Oh,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: the Vikings are gonna totally get dominated in this game.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: The Ravens are gonna make the Vikings look like an
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: arena team, Like they're saying stuff like that that, you know,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: like each fan base in this one. The teams are
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: close enough that they're both gonna be like, yeah, Mark,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: this is a win, Like this will be an easy
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: win on to next week.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: It's just that's the nature of the NFL. They're they're
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: so close that I'm still standing by a win. But
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: I could definitely see why Ravens fans would be like,
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: you know, the Vikings are gonna lose this one.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: And I think one other thing that I would say
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: before we keep going is I think the Ravens and
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: the Vikings have similar divisions and similar kind of paths
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: to the playoffs. The AFC North is that black and
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: blue division on the AFC side, Like it's it's tough
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: to win in that division with.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: Ravens, Steelers, Browns and who else. Alway, is it. No,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: the Bills are in the East. Yeah, they're with the Dolphins.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: The other team in the North.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: It is the Bengals, It's the Ohio teams and then
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: the Okay yeah, yeah.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: I thought the Bills were in the North for some reason.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: But anyways, still it's a tough division. I think, especially
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: the Bengals and the Steelers always give the Ravens a
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: run for their money. And all of those teams play outside,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure, so like when you get into November
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: and December, it's they all play outside of chaotic like
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: I think that was when we saw I think was
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: it Brown Steelers last year. That was the really snowy
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: game and James.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: Winston I just sucked all the crazy so.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: Happy to be playing out here in the snow. That was.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: That was awesome. But anyways, yeah, so I think they've
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: got a tough road forward, not only in their division,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: but just on the a FC side of things. Anyways,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: I think they're positioned kind of like the Vikings. They're
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: kind of that like scrappy underdog team that definitely has
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: a chance and can definitely make some noise in the
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: playoffs given the right environment, given the right timing the
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: right game, no injuries or minimal injuries, that sort of thing.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: So yeah, all right, my wife said that the Vikings
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: would lose to the Ravens.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: So did mine, and I agree with them that.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: Your wife said that the Ravens would win. That's so weird.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: I don't think there's any bias to that at.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: All because her name is Raven. Yeah, yeah, I throw
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: that one out. I don't even believe that one. My
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: daughter said they would win this game. Oh okay, so
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: she sided with the Vikings and not with her mom.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: So my kids said that this would be a win
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: for the Vikings as well. All right, we are pushing
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: like an hour and ten minutes here. Yeah, I think
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: We need to keep going. So week eleven playing the
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: Bears at home?
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: All right, is it my turn turn to flip? I'm
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: gonna flip you flip.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: I don't remember.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: Coin says the Vikings will win this game. Okay, I
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: like the coin the last couple of couple of games here.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: I also call this as a win.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: Yep, you've used both of your locks so far, right, Yep,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: my locks are gone. Well I'm about to use my
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: last lock. Good, I'm saying that the Vikings apps a
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: freaking lootly are going to demolish the Bears. This is
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: a lock for sure. The Vikings are definitely going to
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: be showing the difference between a fourth year, very established,
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: very good coaching staff as compared to a first year
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: coaching staff who is still figuring things out. There's gonna
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: be I think by this point the Bears there will
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: be some televised sideline argument between Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: Not necessarily in this game, but at some point in
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: the season we will have seen that. I think there
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: might be a coordinator fired for the Bears at some point,
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: which is kind of a bold take in the first year.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: But things are gonna look desperate for the Bears by
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: this point. I don't think the Bears are going to
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: be looking too good and the Vikings are definitely gonna
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: benefit from that.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: And on a noon game at home.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: It's it's gonna be good, especially after losing to the
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: Bears in Week one. Yeah, the Vikings are winning this one.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: It's a lock rited down for sure.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: Yep. I can't agree with you more. My wife agrees
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: with us. She said it was a win. My kids, however,
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: said this was a loss, but I think they were
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: just trying to get my goat.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: So all right, Well, my wife said this was a win.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: Again.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: I think this was just based off of their records
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: from last year, and my kids said that the Vikings
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: would win this one. Well, win this one as well,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: even though I think that was more ice cream motivated
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: than anything.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: Well, I can sponsor that ice cream purchase if they
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: win that game, all right, all right, So I mentioned
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: this a little bit ago Week eight and nine on
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: the road, Week ten and eleven at Holton. Now we're
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: back to week twelve and thirteen on the road, and
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: I think this is where for the Vikings the proof
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: will be in the pudding. If you win even let's
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: take those six games, two away, two home, two away.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: If you win four of those, that's a lot. I
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: think you're a playoff bound team. If you lose anything
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: beyond that, if you can't make it out with four wins,
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: that'll stretch. I don't think you make.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: The playoffs interesting. That's what take Well, what does the
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: coin say for the Vikings at green Bay in Week twelve?
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: Week twelve at green Bay? That's a win, all right?
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: According to the coin.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: I have a specific coworker who will laugh at that
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: because he is a drunken Scannie. That's actually not fair.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: He's a Scannie and he's a diehard Packer fan, and
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: we have a lot of fun with that, but he
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: would not like to hear that. I also think this
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: will be a win for the Vikings at Green Bay.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: Vikings have done pretty well in Green Bay in recent past.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: This is a noon game, should be pretty easy. November
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: twenty third. We shouldn't see snow yet, but it might
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: start being getting a little chilly.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: That's my birthday.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I always you're right around Thanksgiving.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: I did think when the schedule first came out, I
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: was like, man, that'd be fun to go to Green
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: Bay on my birthday and watch the Vikings win.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: You know, I might know somebody who could get the
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: hookup to get tickets that aren't one thousand dollars if
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: you were interested.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: I that I.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: Was just dragging on.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: I'm always interested. I think this is a Vikings win
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: as well, but only if that doesn't jeopardize my ability
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: to get to I'm straight. Sorry, Tom, No, I don't
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: think I think I said this within the last couple
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: of weeks in one of our episodes, I don't think
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: the Packers are going to be that great. Okay, I
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: think they'll be okay, but I don't think they're gonna
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: be They're not going to be like the fifteen and
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: two Lions last year. They're not going to be fourteen
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: and three like the Vikings were last year. They're may
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: be good for nine, ten, eleven wins somewhere in there.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: They may get a wild card spot. We'll see.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think Jordan Love is I think we've
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: seen the peak of Jordan Love, or at least what
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: we're gonna get from him. He may be a borderline
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: Pro Bowl quarterback for the rest of his career, good
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: enough to keep getting pretty decent deals, but I think
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: they overpaid on his current deal. Yeah, I think Jordan
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: Love is fine. He is a Sam Donald level quarterback,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: and that Sam Donald maybe early with Kevin o connall,
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: not late with Kevin O'Connell. You know, like, he's fine.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: My wife and kids both picked this as a win,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure when my daughter picked this one
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: high five, I'm like, yes, you better not pick against
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: the Vikings in that game.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: My wife and kids also both picked this as a win.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: So I think this is the only time that we
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: all no, there was one.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: I thought that was a loss. Week two oh two. Yeah,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: Week two, you're right, yep. Sorry, for some reason in
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: my very lame.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: Yep, I also jumped the gun in what you were saying.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: You were going to say, we all picked a win.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: We all picked a win.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I took it as we all picked the same.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: But yeah, Week two and Week twelve twelve, I think
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: are the ones that we all agree on a win.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: Which is pretty cool, all right.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: Week thirteen, three h five game in Seattle against the
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: Seahawks and Sam Darnold and all that fun stuff. The
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: coin coin says this is going to be a loss, okay,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: and and I agree with the coin. I think this
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: one's gonna be tough. I said earlier it's tough for
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: teams not on the West Coast to travel to the
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: West Coast. The Vikings, I think last year played in
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: Seattle and they won, but it was a.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: Very close game.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: I just think it's just you can't win them all,
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: and the Seahawks only got better. I think I think
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: Sam Donald is an upgrade over Geno Smith. Even if
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: he's not, you know, Vikings version of Sam Donald, He's
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: still going to be a better quarterback than Geno Smith,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: who was. Okay, I just think the home field advantage
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: gets the Vikings this time and the Seahawks win this one.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. Unfortunately, I wish I could pick differently,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: but late November on the road, it's probably gonna be
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: rainy outdoors West Coast. All of the above just doesn't
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: bode well for a Vikings win. So I have that
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: ending a five game win streak at that point, And
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: at this point in the season, I've got the Vikings
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: at five six, seven, eight winska and four losses, so
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: eight and four going into Week fourteen. I'm I'm happy
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: with that.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm the same eight and four, which is
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: crazy to think that.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: We've picked some different games, but yeah, we did. We
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: picked that same five game win streak, yep. So coming
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: off of that loss against the Eagles, which both of
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: us picked as the lock to lose, we've got that
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: five game win streak.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: I think you're you're onto something with that two at
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: home or the two away, two at home and two away,
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: that six game streak, I think you might be onto
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: something in that being like a microcosm of who the
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: team really is, and if they can come away with
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: more wins and losses in there, then that means they're
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: a playoff team. And I think you said four wins
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: out of those six, then they're in the playoffs. Maybe
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: a little concerned on my part, but I think you're
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: you're onto something like if if they can do well
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: in that stretch, that means they're a decent team and
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: they should make the playoffs. And it's fun that we
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: both are pretty high on the team, and we both
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: predicted the same amount of wins and losses in that
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: stretch too, and.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: We have them at five and one through that stretch,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: you and I both do, so I'm excited to see
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: how that fares for them. I think again, that'll tell
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: us a lot about how this team will fare in
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: the playoffs.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: Yep, all right, five more games left in the regular season.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: I think I flipped for the Seahawks. What does the
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: coin say for the Vikings hosting the Commanders on December seventh?
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: That's coin says it's a win.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: Coin says win.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 2: That is a day that never mind, I'm not even
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: gonna go there.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: Anyways, we forgot to update real quick. Our families pick
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: for the Seahawks. Seahawks. My wife said loss, my daughter
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: said loss.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: My kids said loss, but my wife said that would
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: be a win.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, so your kids said loss. We'll just update this
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: as we go.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: I think your wife might have the best record prediction
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: so far. Maybe all right, Commanders, the coins said win.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: Coin said win. I say win, nice.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: And so do I. I think the Commanders. We've said
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: this a few times so far that I think this
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: team is very similar to the Vikings. But I think
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: the Commanders are also very similar to the Vikings. Same
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: experience of quarterback in terms of years, but not in
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: terms of NFL plays, because obviously Jayden Daniels has played
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: a full season, whereas JJ played a few plays in
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: the preseason game and then was injured. Coaching staff Dan Quinn,
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: he's the Commander's coach, right. He did lead the Falcons
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: to a Super Bowl appearance at one point. He's a
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: good coach. They did lose that famous twenty eight to
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: three Super Bowl game. But I do think this is
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: at home. The Vikings will have just proven to everybody
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: that they continue to be a good team with a
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: good record so far.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: I think at this point.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: JJ and JJ are showcasing their chemistry together. I think
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: Jordan Mason and Aaron Jones are really coming into it.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: Barring injury, I think the Vikings are about to start
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: cooking and they're definitely going to win this game against
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: the Commanders.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think I would add just I know
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: we're like running real long here, but if you're still
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: with us, man, you are a true true Schoolhopper and
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: we appreciate you. I think the Vikings are a few
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: years ahead of the Commanders. The Vikings have had their
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: coach now for three years and he's locked in. He's
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: got it going on. The Vikings have a star wide
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: receiver that wants to be here, not Terry mcclaurin try
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: and get out. The Vikings have their stadium. I think
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: I saw just this week that d C just approved
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: some big Commander's stadium in d C, so not even
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: in Virginia, in the district of Billing, which is a
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: big deal, I think. But again, there there's all these
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: exciting things happening that I think will probably lead to
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: some hype and some success later on. But I don't
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: think it's going to lead to success. Now, I don't
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: think there's this like you know, I don't think there
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: are all these hail Mary moments like they had against
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: the Bears last year where they get these magical endings
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: and that was hilarious, by the way, and still makes
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: me laugh that the Bears whatever, I forget that guy's name,
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: that was like taunting the things and then he ended
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: up tipping the ball that the Commanders got caught in
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: the end zone. But anyways, I think the Vikings are
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: a few years ahead of Commanders. I don't think the
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: Commanders are a good team. Shoot, they could be a
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: playoff team again this year, but I think they're They're
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: not quite to where the Vikings are yet. And I
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: think that experience. I think that stability in the Vikings
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: organization odes well. Let's not even I mean, we could
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: sit here and talk for an hour about ownership. Oh
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: my gosh, Like the Vikings ownership is tops in the league,
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: and the Commanders just got rid of one of the
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: worst owner. Yeah.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: Ever, they upgraded for sure.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I think new ownership, new coach, new stadium,
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: all that is, it's happening. There's maybe some good momentum
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: happening in DC, but I don't know that a little
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: it will affect the product on the field immediately. So yep.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 2: My wife and children both said the Vikings would beat
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: the Commanders as well.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: So this is another unanimous win across the board. Coin,
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: you and your family, Me and my family. Yep. All right.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: So we've got four games left, yep. Going into week fifteen,
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: two game road trip again, ye, this time traveling to
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: Dallas on Sunday night.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: I will say before we dive in, I would rather
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: finish off with a two game road trip and then
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: a two game home trip because you never know those
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: last games. I mean, you need everything you can get,
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: even if it's wrapped up before then, Like it's nice
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: to know. Like, Okay, we're at home. So the Cowboys
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: coin is it me or you me?
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: Okay? Of oh no, that's on the floor. It is tails.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: That's a tales. That's a loss, all right.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: The coin says that the Vikings are gonna lose to
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: the Cowboys in Dallas on Sunday night, December fourteenth. I disagree.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be a win for the Vikings.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: The Cowboys are like quietly a huge laughing stock of
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: the league. There's not much difference between the Cowboys and
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: the Browns. And yeah, maybe you can point to a
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: record and be like, the Brons are obviously way worse,
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: But you know what, no, because the Cowboys are terrible too.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: They have one of the worst owners in the league
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 2: and definitely one of the worst gms in the league.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: Oh wait, they happen to be the same person. They
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: just they can't figure it out. Dak is the Kirk
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: Cousins of Dallas, which would have been really offensive to
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: me two years ago. But you know what, it's true.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 2: I just I don't believe in the Dallas Cowboys and
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: I definitely don't think they're gonna beat the Vikings this season.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, the Cowboys are terrible. This is an
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: indoor game in December, which is nice to have. You
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: don't want to be playing outdoors at this point in
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: the season if you can help it. Not that any
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: team gets a choice, really, but for the schedule makers
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: to place the Vikings in Dallas at this point I
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: think is a good thing. Yeah, the Cowboys just aren't
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: a good team. Micah Parsons wants out Dak Prescott probably
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: wants out but doesn't have any other options. It's just
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: a mess. They're a laughing stock, like you said, quietly though,
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: it's not like they're the Browns. It's not like they're
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: openly the the the laughing stock of the league. But
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: I laugh at the Cowboys a lot, and I expect
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: to be laughing at how bad they play against the Vikings.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: I expect to have a stephen A Smith type of morning.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: When she say, I want to hear your impression of
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: that when when it does happen.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, we'll have to recall this moment, and I will.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: I'll do that. I would practice my stephen A. Smith
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: laughing at the Cowboys impression just for that episode.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: Do you remember your other cowboys impression from a couple
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: of years ago. No, it was a Dak impression. I think,
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: there we go, Here we go.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: That still drives me nuts, Like, come.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: On, man, yeah, what if it works for My wife
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: and children both said that this would be a win
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: for the Vikings against the Cowboys, so it's a Medicean sweep.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: It is not in the deuth household. My wife said,
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: when my kids were being stubborn, they picked the Cowboys.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: This one all right.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: So the next week, the Vikings travel to New York
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: or actually New Jersey to play the Giants on the
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: twenty first of December at noon, the coin coin says
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 2: the Vikings are going to lose. The coin has not
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 2: been very nice to the.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: Viking coins a jerk tonight. Jeez, I don't like this.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: I don't agree with the coin. I think the Vikings
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: are going to beat the Giants. They played him in
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 2: Week one twenty twenty four, and man, it was bad.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: It was the beginning of the end for Daniel Jones
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: in New York. Funny enough, Daniel Jones ended up being
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: a Vikings quarterback at the end of the season, and
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: I kind of wish he was still with the Vikings
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: right now. We wouldn't have those QB two questions anymore.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think this end of season game is
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: a win for the Vikings. Hot take. I do not
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: think coach Dable, who is the Giants head coach, right,
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 2: Brian Dables, I think he will not be the coach
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 2: for the Giants win the Vikings kick off this game.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: That's actually not a bad take because he was ranked
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: the lowest on that list.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell and his staff were the best coach on
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: that ESPN reporters list that came out this week, and
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: Brian Dable was thirty second. Rough, So yeah, I don't
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: disagree with you that that could be a possibility. I
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: definitely think the Vikings win. My family has this as
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: a Vikings sweep as well. Okay, so.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: My wife said win and my kids said win as well.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: All right, So now we're into the final two weeks
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: of the regular season. The NFL does this all the time.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: They like to stack those divisional games that I like
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: the season. It's fun, but it definitely creates some stress because, like,
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: even at this point last year, like the division was
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: squarely in reach for the Vikings, and had they not,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: you know, laid a huge egg to end the season,
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: you know, who knows what could have happened. Yeah.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 2: Last year, the Vikings entered Week eighteen against the Lions.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: All they needed was a win and that would have
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: got the number one seed. And the lights were too
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: bright for Sam Donald and the rest of It's a
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 2: team sport yep, the rest of the team too, but man,
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: it was rough. It made it easy to move on
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: to Sam Donald. Either way, what does the coin say
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: for the Vikings to play the Lions on Christmas Day,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: December twenty fifth.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: Let's see. Oh yeah, this one's on Netflix too.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 2: And it's a Thursday night game. The coin says, I
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: haven't even looked yet.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: I don't want to look. The coin's wrong anyways, is it?
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, the coin's not wrong. Yes, we're good again. Well,
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: I will say, as of right now before I reveal
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 2: my win loss record for this game and the last game,
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 2: I'm predicting up to through the Giant's game, the Vikings
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: to be eleven and four. Okay, pump that up to
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 2: twelve and four, because I think the Vikings are going
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: to sweep the Lions this year. The Lions are gonna
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 2: have a rough year, and losing all or most of
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: the division games is going to be indicative of the
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 2: Lions season. I don't think this will be a blowout
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 2: by any means, because when you have Dan Campbell as
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 2: your coach, even if you are completely defeated, you haven't
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 2: won a game all year. I'm not predicting that. But
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 2: even if you haven't won a game all year, you're
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: still gonna fight because he's that kind of coach. But
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 2: I do think the Vikings will out coach the Lions,
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: they will outclass the team, and they will definitely be
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: more than playoff bound by this point.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: In the season. So I picked the Vikings to win
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: at Detroit. I think Detroit at this point will still
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: be in the playoff conversation, and I think they're going
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: to rally under Dan Campbell. I think they're going to
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: come out and bite some knee caps. I think this
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: is a loss for the Vikings. I think, unfortunately, the
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: Vikings will kind of crumble. I think there might be
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: some injuries unfortunately that will pile up. Hopefully not, but
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to rock the boat too much.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: I think it's one of those that you're like, well,
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: it's all right, we're still sure, kind of in control
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: of our own destiny. Will still make the playoffs. It's
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: not a big deal. But yeah, I think this one
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: is a loss. And I don't know that you I
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: don't know that you sweep the fifteen and two division
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: champions from last year immediately one season after that. I
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: think they're still a good football team. I think the
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: NFC North is going to be a tough division. I
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: don't know that any one team will be like head
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: and shoulders above the others. I think it'll be kind
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: of like it was last year, maybe even at the
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: beginning of the season, where it was like, man, all
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: these teams have a winning record. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah,
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: not at the end of the season, obviously, but at
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: the beginning. Sure, maybe towards the middle of the season
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: that could be.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: That's what it was in twenty twenty four. So my
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: wife and children both disagreed with me. They say it's
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 2: a loss against the Lions.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: They also.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 2: Both predicted a season sweep for the Lions over the
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 2: Vikings this year.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, my wife has this as a wink, So
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: I like that, and so it does my daughter. Actually,
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: she was kind of ragging on the Vikings there for
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: a while and she's kind of come around here at
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: the end.
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 2: So all right, final game of the regular season, hosting
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 2: the hated Border Battle rivals Green Bay Packers.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: The coin.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: Says that the Vikings are gonna lose. Also, I want
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: to congratulate the coin. We are now one full year
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: removed from the most recent beer swim for the coins,
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 2: so good job coin. Also, I guess I don't remember.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 2: You probably predicted a terrible season for the Vikings. So
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: eight anyways, eight nine. Yeah, I definitely disagree with the
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 2: coin overall in the season. I also disagree with the
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 2: coin this week. I think the Bikings are gonna end
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: the season on a five game win streak to include
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 2: beating the Packers on a yet to be determined day
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 2: and time in Minnesota. So your final record is a
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: twelve win thirteen and four thirteen win. Okay, So I
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 2: also think this is a win again coming off of
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 2: an ugly loss. Not an ugly loss, but a tough loss,
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 2: we'll say.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: Sure against the Lions. I think the Vikings are going
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: twelve and five. I think we're pretty similar in our
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: records there. I think we're both really optimistic about this team.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: I'm excited to see how they play. I think there's
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: no doubt that this team makes the playoffs in some capacity,
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: and I think given both of our records, there's a
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: strong chance that they win the division.
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and I think we get to that.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: We talked about that, I don't know a week or
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: two ago, so we can get our family picks in
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: here quick. My wife said, win my kids said.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: Win, and my wife and kids also both said win
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 2: for this one. On the flip side, my wife and
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: kids both predicted a season sweep of the Vikings over
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 2: the Packers as well, so did I. But yeah, should
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 2: be a fun season. I did go as far as
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: to predict their division status and how far they would
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 2: go in the playoffs.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: Oh you did? Yeah, I don't know if you did.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: My wife did as well as well. So my kids
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 2: predicted that they'd be a wild card team, so whatever
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 2: that means second or third in the division, and that
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: they would make it to and lose in the divisional round.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, So they win in the wild card, their kids,
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: and then they lose in the divisional Okay.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 2: My wife said that they would at least play in
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 2: the wildcard round.
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: She didn't.
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 2: I guess that means they're not number one seed, whether
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: she meant that or not. That they would win in
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 2: the wildcard round and in the divisional round, and then
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 2: she doesn't clarify after that, So I think that that
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: only means a prediction of a loss in the NFC
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 2: Championship game.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: We'll put it down as a question mark for now.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 2: Okay, what did you predict? So I predicted Vikings are
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 2: going to win the division this year. They're going to
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 2: be the NFC North Division champs. They will be the
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 2: number two seed in the NFC, and I think the
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: number one seed will be like a surprising team like
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: the Commanders or somebody else. I don't believe in the
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: Lions in twenty twenty five. I don't think they'll they'll
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: repeat as a number one seed, but I do think
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 2: the Vikings will somehow make it to the number two seed.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 2: It's hard to be number one with four losses, and
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: I couldn't bring myself to fully predict the end of
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 2: the season, but I do think they'll reach the NFC
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: Championship Game, which means this is the hump buster for
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell and his playoff victory ability. I just think
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 2: as a number two seed, with the season i'm hoping
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 2: they're having, I think they're gonna reach the NFC Championship Game.
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 2: All bets are off after that.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: Before I talk about my predictions, here's what I think
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: we should do. I think we should both flip the.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 2: Coin, okay, for the playoffs.
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: For the playoffs, it's possible that an eight and nine
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: team could make the playoffs, they'd have to be the wildcard.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: It happened last year.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure.
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: So let's flip, and let's both flip at the same time.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: Let's see what happens. I don't know what do we do.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll flip again. I guess I don't know.
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: You're flipping wrong. Though, you have to put heads up.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: You always put heads up. Well, okay, never mind, then
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: it's heads So.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 2: The coins agreed and said the Vikings would win in
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 2: the wild card.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: No, so, I think I clarified. This meant they would
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: make the wild card as okay, so they are in
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: the wild card. Now, I think you flip for that
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: game and off flip for the next game. If they
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: win this game, Oh that was a terrible flip. Now
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: you put heads up for the start.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: Oh okay. The coin says they're gonna win in the
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 2: wild card round, Kevin O'Connell's first playoff win.
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: And they lose in the division better all right. I
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: think twelve and five is definitely gonna get them to
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: the wild card. I think they win wild card, and
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: I think they win divisional too. I'm going quickly through this.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: I'm also not gonna call anything beyond that. I like
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: the Vikings chances of getting to the NFC Championship game,
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: but at that point, I think it just it gets personal,
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: you know, especially for US Vikings fans who've experienced our
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: team getting there and then just having your heart ripped out.
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: Damn exactly. So we're gonna just leave it unwritten. And
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: my family didn't make any predictions, so I don't have
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: anything for them. But I like what we have here
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: and I'm just I want to get the football. Yeah,
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: let's do it.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 2: The night practice was tonight. We're seeing all the highlights
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 2: on Twitter. Apparently it was relatively okay. I guess the
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 2: offense is still a step behind the defense overall, which
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 2: I think says more about the defense, the Vikings defense,
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: than anything else. Vikings also didn't have Justin Jefferson, they
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 2: didn't have TJ. Hockinson, they didn't have Ryan Kelly. I
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 2: don't know if they had Will Fries tonight, So you
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 2: just don't know exactly what we have yet. I'm excited
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 2: for preseason football. I'm super pumped for you to go
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 2: to the Texans. Viking Texans, right.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: Texans, yep? Next week yep Saturday. It'll be great. I'm
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: bringing my kids. That'll be their first game at US
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: Bank Stadium.
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: And that'll be just your third third third time Banks
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 2: Stadium right down there, first time without me, so first
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 2: there in spirit. Maybe we should print off like my
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 2: face and you can like hold it around. I'll FaceTime, okay,
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 2: so I'll be there with you in spirit.
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be fun. It'll be a lot of fun.
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: I'm excited to, you know, expose my kids to that
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: and all the excitement that comes with an NFL game.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: It's preseason, Yeah, it doesn't matter, but I think it'll
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: it'll just be fun.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 2: I did mention, I think yesterday to Miranda that oh yeah,
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 2: Evan and Raven they're going, and they got really good,
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 2: really good tickets. They are really good priced tickets, and
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 2: there's still nosebleeds, but like it's still like less than
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 2: fifty bucks just for the tickets. And she was like,
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 2: maybe we should do that. Not this year, but like
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 2: it'd be super easy and less stressful to bring the
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 2: kids because I want my kids to be around it.
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 2: But man, it's tough to like try to watch the
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 2: game while still being a good dad. And I don't
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 2: know if I fully succeeded in that last year when
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 2: we went to the Lions Vikings game, but I think
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 2: the preseason game with young kids, that's probably like the
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 2: cheat code. You'll have to let me know what you
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 2: think of your experience.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: So I won't be able to do that on episode
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: one hundred because episode one hundred is coming out next week.
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: We took our brew hop tour a few weeks ago
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: now with friend of the show Forest. We hit ten
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: different breweries over two days across the northeastern part of Iowa.
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: It was awesome. We've got that footage all put together
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: and that'll be coming out next week for episode one hundred.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: But in episode one on one, I'll definitely make sure
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: to circle back around to the preseason game and let
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: you know how that was, and maybe I'll share some
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: footage or something with that as well.
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be a lot of fun. I can't wait
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 2: to hear your thoughts. I also want to hear your thoughts.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: On this beer that we had tonight.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 2: This Oh no, I still have some beer left?
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: You still have some? Yeah, lucky? What was this again?
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: It's from Reunion Brewer Reunion Venue Hopper Pilsner which is
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: a Mission Creek Festival beer that they brew every year
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: for that music festival. Here are my thoughts on the beer.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: It was so good that I forgot it was even there.
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: Like I just kept drinking it, and I was like,
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: this is just it's good, and it's like, that's not
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: a knock on the beer. I think it's just solid,
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: easy drinking. And I think that's probably what they want
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: it to be, Like they want people to just forget
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: the fact that they're drinking it, and they want them
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: to have a good time at the music festival. And
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: that's how I felt sitting here predicting Vikings games and
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: going through pretty much three of them. So this is
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: really good.
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 2: And for me, I love a good hazy ipa and
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 2: I like the happy flavors, and I also really like
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 2: a nice, refreshing, no nonsense pilsner.
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 2: The core is light of those things. This is the
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 2: best of all of those worlds, Yeah, for sure, And
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: I don't want to go overboard. I think I want
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 2: to have like another handful of these beers, you know,
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: in the near future, to really say what I think
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say right now in that this is one
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 2: of my favorite beers. Wow, And I know it's crazy.
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 2: I'm finishing my third, can you know, Like it's I
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 2: that's a little insane to say. But the happiness and
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 2: the refreshingness of the pilsner, especially in the summer like.
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: A hot day. Oh man, dude, this might be it.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 2: So Reunion, you really did it. You broke me a
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 2: little bit. This is a freaking fantastic beer and I
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 2: love it a lot.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, really good beer, Really good episode, albeit kind of
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: a long one.
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for sticking with us.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: But I'm excited for the Viking season. Hopefully, hopefully we're
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: kind of in the ballpark with thirteen wins, twelve wins
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: somewhere in their playoff team making the NFC Championship game.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: That would be awesome. No matter what, we're Vikings fans
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: through and through, and we'll be here and we'll be
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: breaking down each game and looking forward to each one
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: that's on the horizon. Yep.
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 2: So yeah, good beer, Maybe best episode yet.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: That's it's up school and there and there.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 2: And there.
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 3: Sh