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

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On These are Vikings fans. Let's be nice.
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We'll raid some Vikings fans. If it doesn't go well, then
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we're going to judge the entire fan base based off this
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interaction, because that's there.
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We're getting a raid. We're getting a raid.
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Grossy raid. Grossy raid.
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Holy Holy Cow. 202 people? Oh, I have 200 people in there.
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Right. What is up?
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Let's go. Hey, they.
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Are you happy about it? Happy It's a Grossie raid.
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We're getting rated by grassy fans.
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Is that what's happening? That's what it is.
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Hey, we like. We like grassy.
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We like Tom Grassy. He's hey, grassy Raid, let's go.
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All right. Hey, Vikings fans, welcome into
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another episode of The School Hop.
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My name is Evan and I'm Austin. Just a couple of dudes from
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Iowa. We like drinking beer.
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We like talking about the Vikings.
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Yeah, we do. Skull, Skull.
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What are we drinking today? Tonight, Evan, you have graced
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us with Reunion Brewery Zone. There it is, The Can Reunion
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Brewery Zone Cobbler. Gobbler.
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This is our last episode before the Thanksgiving holiday.
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Feeling a little festive? Not quite Christmas.
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I I hope I'm going to be a little little controversial
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here. It's not time for Christmas.
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No Christmas lights, no trees. Wait until after Thanksgiving.
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I agree with you. But we are celebrating.
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We're celebrating some of the only thing we can right now as
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Vikings fans. Thanksgiving.
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A holiday. We can all enjoy food and
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Thanksgiving. And this cobbler gobbler.
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What do you think of it, EV? Well, I was just looking at the
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description on the can and it says it's a fruit cobbler
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inspired sour with cherry, blueberry, Peach, apricot,
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cinnamon, lactose and vanilla. And we both read that and we
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were like, that doesn't sound like our kind of beer, but if
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you're following us on TikTok, we did a little preview before
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we started the podcast here and we took a first sip and we were
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just reacting live in the moment.
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And we are, we are not. Hiding anything or trying to put
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on a show. We liked it.
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It's sour beers are not my thing and you said the same.
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Nope. It was kind of just a a flash in
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the pan timing idea to have this beer.
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I believe you're the one that got.
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It, yeah, I saw it on the shelf and I'm like, well, it's the
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Monday before Thanksgiving. We should probably You even got
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a different option and we still decided to go with the Reunion.
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Cobbler. Gobbler.
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So Reunion is not a sponsor yet. So truthful, truthful thoughts.
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It's it's fruity. The one thing I don't really
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like about sours is that they're sour.
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They're tart. That's not my cup of tea.
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That's not my favorite kind of beer.
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But this one, I really think, and this is not an expert
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opinion, I'm I'm no expert in anything, but I think that
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lactose that it lists out, I think that's what's cutting away
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the, like, tartness of the the fruit flavor.
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So. Yeah, I have to agree with you.
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It's for a sour. It's not that sour, and it's
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pretty easy drinking. It kind of reminds me of like
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like a red fruit smoothie kind of flavor in a good way, like a
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beer version of that. And I think in a good way I'm
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yeah, I'm enjoying this so. At 5%, it's it's a good one to
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have a few of yeah, it's it's crushable, it's.
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Crushable. So yeah, crushable.
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Thanks, Reunion, for the opportunity to buy your beer.
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If you're on the fence about sours, This one, this one I I
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would say if you don't. If you don't love sours, give it
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a try. And these are fresh, too.
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We looked at the cans. These were canned on Halloween.
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Yeah. So just like, not even a month
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ago. Yeah.
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So nice and fresh. Really good.
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Thanks. Reunion.
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Yeah, we're enjoying it, all right.
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I think we have. We've procrastinated.
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We've delayed the inevitable long enough.
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The Vikings lost to the Broncos not 24 hours ago.
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Yeah, on Sunday Night Football and I the only thing I can take
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away from that is obviously Josh Dobbs is terrible on prime time
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games. That's the only thing you're
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taking. That's it.
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No, that's more of a dig at the people that said that about Kirk
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Cousins. But yeah, it wasn't, it wasn't a
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clean game. They only lost by one on the
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road after a lot of mistakes on the Vikings part, but some some
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iffy calls or no calls on the referee's part.
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The biggest one being that no flag on the Kareem Jackson spear
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to Josh Dobbs right at the beginning of the game.
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But no game ever comes down to one play.
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So yeah, it was it was kind of frustrating to watch, but you
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gotta move on. Well, and you're talking about
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Josh Dobbs. Let's look at his stat line for
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a minute and just take it for what it is.
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I mean, if the Viking. If you didn't know the Vikings
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lost the game, tell me what you think of the stat line. 20 of
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32221 yards, one touchdown, one pick, A rating of 80.3.
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Yeah, I mean, and that's not even listing out any rushing
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yards he might have had. Oh yeah, sorry. 8 rushes for 21
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yards and a touchdown. OK, so honestly, that is about
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on par with his other two games. Yeah, I'm not mad at those
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stats. I mean, sure.
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Could he have made different decisions?
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Yeah. Could TJ Hawkinson have caught
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some of the balls that were thrown his way?
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Yeah. Could the play calling been a
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little bit better or decision making on a certain 4th down and
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one where you should have gone for it but you didn't and you
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punted? Yeah, those.
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I mean Josh Dobbs didn't lose the game for the Vikings.
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He wasn't the only reason they lost, but he also didn't elevate
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everybody perfectly like Tom Brady would have to make the the
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win happen. I I guess my main thought about
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that is I'm seeing on Twitter a lot of people ready to be like,
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all right well obviously Josh Dobbs is terrible.
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He's been on a bunch of different teams and he's, you
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know, he's old. You know, for a guy that's never
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started and look at what he did in Arizona, obviously this is
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going to happen. He, he sucks, look at him.
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But I don't get that like he had one mid game.
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I mean, how many times have we seen a Vikings quarterback have
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less passing yards than that? What?
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220 passing yards? Kirk has a game of Kirk.
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I was looking back at Kirk's stats this year.
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He threw like 180 something in Carolina.
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Granted we walked away with the win.
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Yeah, that was a little bit different.
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But yeah, I mean, it's happened. I mean, just think about like
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Christian Ponder. You could probably count on half
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a hand how many times he had as many as 220 passing yards in his
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Vikings career, judging off of that one Broncos game.
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I'm not mad at Josh Dobbs. Everybody on the team could have
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made better decisions and the refs could have helped out with
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that one. You know Kareem Jackson call
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that ended up being a turnover because if they would have
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thrown the flag, it would not have been a turnover.
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I don't know it frustrating, frustrating game.
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Well that play was really interesting because it was the
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first drive right? It was the 1st Dr. of the game
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and TJ motions from his tight end position over under center
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and Dobbs who is in the shotgun motions out wide to the right
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and then TJ gets the ball on the snap and then pitches it to his
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left. The Dobbs who runs left and then
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gets smoked by Kareem Hunt like it was just a weird play from
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the get go. Yeah, I didn't like that.
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Not a play call that I think many Vikings fans were excited
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to see. Yeah, I don't know.
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I just feel like when you got a guy in Dobbs that he can't know
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much of the playbook yet, he can't get cute.
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I mean, getting cute is when you'd is when you hit fumble
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like that or later in the game when was it?
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Alex Madison took a Wildcat snap, and I think that Wildcat
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snap actually gained a couple of rushing yards.
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But yeah. He did.
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But I don't think you're ready to get cute on those play calls.
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Not. I mean, if you're talking about
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that fake punt, that was fun, That was fun.
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But. Well, in that play proves that
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Ty Chandler just needs to have the ball in his hands.
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Yeah, and I think I figured out why Ty Chandler is not on the
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field of blocks. Yeah, exactly.
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He's he is not as good at picking up the blitz as Alex
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Madison is, but he's way better at rushing the ball than Alex
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Madison is. So I don't know, maybe that
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maybe we found the reason Madison is able to fumble the
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ball a billion times a day and still keep his job because he
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can pick up a blitz every once in a while.
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You're a. Master of hyperbole.
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But yeah, I don't. I don't know.
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It was frustrating. I guess we can talk until the
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cows come home about the bad parts, but what were the good
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parts of the game? I mean, we already talked about
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the fake punt. That was fun, yeah.
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And I think came at a really good time and I was thinking it
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in my head. I mean all all they answered
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that way. Like I I called it in my head,
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but I I truly thought. And no one will ever know this
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but me and my thoughts. Yeah, and you can discredit me,
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but I I I thought like this would be a good time for a fake
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punt. It was a fourth and four, too.
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It wasn't even like a fourth, and one that you should have
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gone for it at the end of the half, but you punted it away and
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ultimately lost the game. I'm really sour about that whole
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decision to punt the ball away, Yeah.
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That was, and that's Kevin O'Connell continuing to prove
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that he's still a young, developing play caller.
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And we saw it in the second-half of last week's game against the
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Saints and we saw it pretty much all game this week against the
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Broncos. Just conservative, but then
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wildly unconservative with these you know, Wildcat and a tight
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end taking a snap and or something like it's just.
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I don't know. Yeah, I I'm sorry I brought us
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back down to negativity. We were talking about good parts
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of the game. I thought first parts of the
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game. The running game looked as good
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as it's ever looked this season, which may say a lot more about
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the Broncos than about the Vikings.
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Josh Dobbs had a passing touchdown that any other
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quarterback would have been sacked?
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Well, yeah. He was like, on the sideline,
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about ready to go down, and he somehow maintains his composure
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and gets the ball off and finds Josh Oliver.
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Yeah, who had his best receiving game as a Viking.
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Yeah, it was awesome. Yep.
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And Dobbs, his rushing touchdown, that was, that was a
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lot of fun. Kind of broke down a little bit
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and he just, he committed. He went for it and it worked.
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I mean, there were good things. I thought Madison, not Madison,
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Addison, he, he had a few decent plays, but he was pretty quiet
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most of the game. But I think that's more for
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opportunity than anything. TJ dropped some key balls,
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especially at the end of the game.
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That was frustrating, He. Was still the leading receiver
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with 55 yards. TJ was yeah, it was.
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It was a game that made me miss JJA lot.
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I missed JJ more in this game than I really have the entire
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time He's been out, but maybe we'll see him for the Bears
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game. I think today the Vikings
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activated Chris Reed off of IR, the offensive lineman.
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They put Dean Lowry back or on IR.
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Probably out for the year, yeah, and he may be done as a Viking
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too. He's on a one year deal, and
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that's a guy too. I saw somebody on Twitter make a
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good point about Dean Lowry. Yeah, he's not leading the team
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in any statistical category. He's not like an automatic Pro
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Bowler, but he does do some good things that we don't see on the
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stat sheet and things that allow other people to do things.
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So that is a loss. He's a veteran too.
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So any time you get a guy who has played a little bit and you
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lose that experience that that's never good couple.
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Of sacks on the defensive end, Want Em and Hunter both had?
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Yeah, yeah, those are nice. But more so in the beginning of
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the game. The Vikings overall looked a lot
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better in the first half. Yes, aside from that poor
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decision to punt it away on 4th and one when he should have gone
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for it. I'll get over that someday.
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Yeah, but you just you're you're not going to win many games if
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you play offense or defense the way that they played against the
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Broncos. Which again, brings me back to
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the whole hate on Josh Dobbs. He's not going to be perfect
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every day and and we got pretty good.
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We just didn't get perfect. So I'm not done with Dobbs.
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I'm not saying, you know you still need to sign him for a 10
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year contract but just don't don't flip the script too quick.
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I would be upset if the Vikings right away were like, Oh yeah,
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Jaren Hall he's he's out of concussion protocol.
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He's back where he's starting. That's too soon.
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Dobbs is still doing good things.
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And you roll with the guy that I, I would argue now has.
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More quality experience in the offense than Jaren Hall does.
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Yeah, on the field, you know, in in real time games.
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Yeah, so. Yeah, you roll with Dobbs until
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he has a meltdown and then go from there.
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And that being said, too, I just said I'd be upset if they
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switched. But I mean, obviously this
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coaching staff, they know what they're doing.
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So if Koc was more comfortable with Jaren Hall or really
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anybody at any different position for that matter, I'm a
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Vikings fan. So I'm gonna roll with it.
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And hopefully, I mean, we're just watching reality TV at this
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point, so all we can do is trust the coaching staff to do the
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right things and make the right calls.
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But I don't know. I'm personally not ready to just
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give up, give up on Dobbs right now.
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That doesn't make sense to me. And the good news is the Broncos
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game didn't really damage the playoff chances for the Vikings
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as of right now. I mean, I think we were what,
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80%? Likely to make the playoffs
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before that game and now after that game, it's down to 75%.
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Yeah, I actually saw on Twitter, somebody asked Dustin Baker on
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Twitter what the percentage was and he he entered it pretty
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confidently. So I I tend to believe him.
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He said it's 78% right now, which five weeks ago it wasn't
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even close to 78%. So we're still sitting pretty
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good. I was thinking about it today, a
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few games a few episodes ago, and I meant to look this up, but
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I forgot you and I posed the question of where will the
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Vikings be in five weeks when they hit the bye week?
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And I said something something like either two and three or
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three and two. And you said boldly.
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And now you're looking pretty good for this statement.
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You said the Vikings would be above 500 by the time they hit
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the bye week. Yep, we got one more game left
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in the bye week or until the bye week.
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Right now they're a game above 500, so 6:00 and 5:00.
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Yeah. So if they beat the Bears,
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they're two games above 500, and that's pretty awesome.
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I think that's better than you even thought they would be when
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you said that they'd be above 500.
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Yeah, yeah. And.
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I guess I don't really know what I was going off of on that.
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It was more just kind of shooting in the dark.
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But I felt, I mean we were definitely in the middle.
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I forget what episode that was, but we were in the middle of
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that win streak, that five game win streak, and I felt
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confident, you know, hey, we've got stuff turned around.
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Vikings are playing well. Offense is clicking.
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I think that was before Kirk's injury.
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Maybe, Yeah. So it probably would have been
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the episode after the Niners game, yeah?
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The defense, the defense was really clicking at that point.
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So I still feel good about it. And I mean, even if we go into
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the bye week at 500, that's still a huge step forward from
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where we were in Week 4/5. Oh yeah, so, and I know this
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upcoming Bears game in the preseason, we did our preseason
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pick Em, which we can talk about a little bit later too.
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But we both had a lock to win and a lock to lose.
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And your lock to win was this coming Bears game, which was
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also my lock to lose. At this moment, I don't.
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I don't think the Vikings lose this game against the Bears.
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I think they've got a bad enough taste in their mouth.
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This is the biggest adversity they've faced since Kirk's
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injury. By losing a game by one point.
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Now all of a sudden people are calling for Dobbs to be benched.
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I think. I think this team is good enough
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to rally at home against a divisional opponent.
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And I I really do see the Vikings beating the Bears next
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Monday. Well and.
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Of course, when we did the Pick Em episode back in the fall back
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in August or I think it was like July, Yeah, when?
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Whatever that was, it was a long time ago.
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We had no idea what the storylines were going to be.
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We had no idea. Kirk goes down and you know, JJ
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sits out for now six games in a row.
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You know, we didn't know any of that.
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But I just felt, you know, the Bears are the Bears are the
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Bears. And the Bears will continue to
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bear, because they are the Bears.
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As long as they're starting their best running back at
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quarterback, they're not going to do anything substantial.
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And I. Think you made an insightful
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comment and you might have even tweeted it on our account about
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how the Lions. Bears game this last weekend
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kind of indicated a lot about both teams, really.
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Yeah, I forget exactly what you said.
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It was something to the tune of I'm not afraid of any of these
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teams right now. Now, when when I tweeted that,
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it was early, about almost midway through the Bears, Lions
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game on Sunday, and the Bears were actually beating the Lions.
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And I mean the Lions, credit to them, they came back and won.
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But by kneecap, Yeah. But even now, like that game I
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think was very telling for both of those teams.
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The Lions did come out. Yeah, they won, but they came
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out looking better than they had mid game because they fought
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back and they, you know, fought the adversity and won a game.
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But yeah, I still, I think the Vikings are much better than
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their record indicates right now.
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And I think the Lions aren't quite as good as their record is
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indicating right now. So, I mean, with that being
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said, there's still games to be played.
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I think this division we talked about on our live stream last
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night, this division is gonna come down to those two season
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ending Vikings, Lions games. Yep.
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Week 16 and Week 18, So you got Christmas Eve at U.S.
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Bank Stadium, Vikings hosting the Lions, and then New Year's
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Eve we host the Packers. And then the last week of the
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season, we go to Detroit. Yep.
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And that that road trip to Detroit really could determine
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the division it very. Well might.
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I mean, the divisional championship game right there.
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So it'll be interesting to see how it all pans out.
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Obviously a lot of football to be played, but I think this bye
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week also comes at a good time. Oh.
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My gosh. Yeah, I think I I agree with
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you. And of course, like I said
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didn't know the storylines but I've always felt like the
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Vikings would win against the Bears at home right before the
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bye. I just, I think that's a good
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setup for the Vikings and like you said and I agree with you
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that yeah they've got a bad taste in their mouth after this
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loss to the Broncos by one on the road, the game was there
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could have been one and they didn't slipped away from them.
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So yeah, they, I think they come home, I think they win nicely in
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front of their fans and look forward to an extended break,
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Yeah. I just hope.
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I just hope they're not looking too much forward to that bye
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week. Yeah, 'cause I I don't know if I
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texted you earlier or tweeted it.
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This bye week against the Bears could be a little bit of a trap
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game for the Vikings. Also for the Bears too.
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They go into their bye week the same week the Vikings do.
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It's just. I don't know, maybe.
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You you hope they're they're excited to get out there and go
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on vacation on a good note, you know, maybe we get JJ back.
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I think there's a possibility JJ is held out until after the bye
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week, which would only help health wise for him.
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I I've heard the sentiment that even if he's 95% good to go,
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they're not going to let him go out there until he's 100%.
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I think if if the Vikings were sitting in the same record that
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the Panthers are sitting at right now and there's no chance
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of the playoffs, then yeah, sure, throw them out there.
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I mean pad the stats a little bit, yeah.
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Pad the stats. Let him get out there.
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If he gets injured again, it's never good to get injured again.
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But you're not mortgaging the rest of your playoff chances.
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I'd rather have him good to go and healthy for the playoffs,
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then risk injury against the Bears.
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That being said, if he is 100%, send him out there.
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I don't know. I I don't know what else can
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really be said about the Broncos game.
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It was a loss. It sucked.
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I'm going to be salty about that.
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Kareem Jackson, No flag penalty. There's another hit, wasn't it?
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Was it on Madison or Chandler? Someone else got hit in a
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similar fashion and I think it was Alex Madison.
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I can't remember. I'd have to go back and watch.
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We were we were slightly distracted during the game while
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we watched it. Do we want to mention that?
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Absolutely. So one of the coolest things
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that has happened to the skull hop.
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I think maybe my favorite memory so far of the skull hop we we've
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kind of been you've you've been doing a lot of legwork to get
23:22
this whole live stream. Setup going we we'd like to be
23:25
able to get something going to live stream a la Tom Grassi
23:30
during football games. And so we did.
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If you go to our YouTube you can find a three plus hour video of
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of us sitting there live streaming.
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The beginning is mostly you EV Well, and to be clear, the live
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stream that we did last night during the Sunday night game
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against the Broncos was truly just a test.
23:53
Yeah, I mean, I sent a link to my sister and brother-in-law and
23:58
then my wife's sister and her husband.
24:01
So like basically my siblings had the link and I don't know if
24:06
you sent a link I. Didn't I didn't, And I didn't
24:09
like our socials. We didn't tweet out.
24:11
We didn't post out at anywhere that we are going to be live.
24:14
I don't think other than your texts to your family and through
24:19
the the whole first half we would maybe have 1-2, maybe at
24:23
most 3 viewers. My wife Raven jumped in the chat
24:28
a couple of times. Yeah, you just kind of tested
24:31
out the chat on our account little.
24:33
Personal account. And then all the sudden during
24:37
halftime we were just sitting there, I was blabbering on about
24:42
something stupid. I don't even remember what I was
24:44
talking about. And your face in the recording?
24:49
That's hilarious. We we posted a video
24:52
specifically of the whole excitement on YouTube and
24:56
ticket. I think everywhere you can find
24:57
some version, well, it's the it's the intro to this episode,
25:00
so if you're this far in, you've probably seen it or at least
25:04
heard the audio of it, yeah. So, Tom Grassi, who I said
25:08
Grossie last night. I'm sorry he'll never hear this.
25:10
But if he does, Tom, I'm sorry for saying your name wrong.
25:14
As a a person who gets their name said incorrectly more often
25:18
than not, I do. I do apologize.
25:20
But Tom Grassi, he identified our stream.
25:24
We were a low viewer stream. We probably didn't have any
25:29
viewers. I think maybe on the video you
25:30
said we had one. He posted out the link of our
25:33
stream to the people that were following his stream, and out of
25:37
nowhere we went from one viewer to 300 in an instant.
25:42
Yeah, and. The comment section just blew
25:44
up. At one point.
25:45
Somebody's, like, acknowledged the raid.
25:48
So yeah, well, that's funny, 'cause that's, that's what I had
25:51
no idea. I was just sitting there
25:53
talking. I was trying to have a
25:54
conversation with you and you're like, I'm distracted and then
25:59
you're like, we're being raided. I'm like, what?
26:01
And I thought, I thought we were being spammed.
26:04
Yeah. I like my fear.
26:05
At first I looked over and I'm like, 'cause I I know YouTube
26:09
isn't perfect. And I know there are some things
26:11
out there that are kind of sketchy and shady.
26:14
And I'm like, well, maybe this is just like what normal
26:18
Youtubers experience. Yeah, maybe this is just how it
26:20
goes. Or maybe we're so low on the
26:22
totem pole that we're just susceptible to that kind of scum
26:26
or whatever. That was not the case.
26:28
No, it was not the case at all. It.
26:30
Was really exciting to have instantly 300 plus people.
26:35
Talking to us and some people were talking trash about the
26:38
Vikings and some people are saying skull and it was it was a
26:42
lot of fun I mean if you we posted the the highlight video
26:45
of that on really everywhere and you can kind of see the.
26:49
The joy in our faces as this is happening.
26:51
We didn't. You even said we're not prepared
26:53
for this at all. We don't really know what to do,
26:55
but welcome, you know? And you told me.
26:57
You told me after the fact, you were like, I was about ready to
27:00
just like, Oh yeah, sign off and be like, all right, this is a
27:03
fun test. Yeah, it's halftime before the.
27:05
Raid. It was halftime.
27:06
Yeah. I was going to be like, hey,
27:08
I'm, you know, I'm going to go to the bathroom and then just
27:10
kind of watch the rest of this. I mean, it was like frustrating
27:14
game up to that point too, but. Yeah, I'm so glad I didn't, You
27:18
would have texted me like, what is happening?
27:20
Get back on here now. And we actually probably had
27:24
what, I don't know, 5 or 10 people stick around, yeah.
27:28
Towards the end, I think it kind of definitely went down to like
27:33
15 and ultimately and we had you know between 10 and 15 there
27:36
were a couple of people that stayed on and were interacting
27:40
quite a bit trying to. Joey Bag of Doughnuts was
27:43
commenting quite a bit. Very sad, sports fans.
27:47
You have an impressive memory. I didn't remember that the.
27:49
One guy, Michael and JK, the Browns fan.
27:54
So yeah, they they may be watching here.
27:57
Our YouTube channel went from 2 subscribers to like 83 and those
28:01
two subscribers were you and me on our personal accounts.
28:05
So we've had some interaction that was a lot of fun, I mean.
28:09
And I don't know if if the skull hop turns into some crazy Tom
28:15
grassy esque style success and fame or even bigger whatever.
28:22
We will always have that that raid as like one of the first
28:26
awesome memories of of this channel we did.
28:29
We do have a question and maybe we can cut this out in our edits
28:34
this week and we can send it to him.
28:35
But, Tom, we would like to know because before you sent our link
28:41
to your Grassy posse, you made a comment about how we were
28:46
Vikings fans and you were going to base your opinion of the fan
28:52
base on the interactions that we had with your Grassy Posse.
28:58
So we want to know, did we pass the test?
29:00
Yeah. What do you think?
29:01
You did say we were chill and I don't know how long you were you
29:04
were checking out our our stream, at least for a minute
29:07
because. We kind of you did a mashup of
29:10
both of our streams and what we were both looking at.
29:12
But yeah, how how long did you stay, Tom?
29:15
What did you think? I know you were you're kind of
29:17
in just joking about, totally judging all Vikings fans off of
29:21
us because you've obviously met other Vikings fans.
29:24
But yeah, let us know. Give us a a letter grade on how
29:29
we did, how we represented the the school family and we would
29:35
also just like to say thanks. Absolutely.
29:37
That was that was awesome. That was.
29:39
Fun. Even if we don't do anything
29:43
bigger and better than that, even if that was the skull hop
29:46
high, like that was a lot of fun.
29:49
The hope is to have that be one of the lower.
29:54
Viewed live streams of our our school hop lifetime.
29:57
But well, there was definitely before you were on it.
30:00
It was basically audition tape for me to be a play by play
30:03
caller. Hey, and I would probably fail
30:05
that audition, so like. I told you as long as whatever
30:09
network hires you knows that we are a package deal.
30:13
And I said that you didn't even say that.
30:15
So I agree with you. I support it, yeah.
30:18
But all that being said, we do want to live stream some more
30:22
we're talking about. Plans.
30:24
Maybe this upcoming Monday night game.
30:26
We'll see. But yeah, we'll we'll get that
30:29
all figured out and hopefully if we do, we get some of those same
30:32
guys or even gals. I think we had a Packer fan in
30:36
there saying that she enjoyed our our content a little bit.
30:40
So we'll see, Get some people to come back.
30:44
If you were there, comment on the YouTube video or leave us a
30:48
review on the podcast. Reach out to us, let us know
30:50
you're there and what you thought of us.
30:51
Yeah, yeah, that was. That was a ton of fun though,
30:54
and definitely, like, caught us off guard and in a very good
30:57
way. Yeah, it.
30:58
Was it was a blast. Again a very good way thanks to
31:01
Grassy and the Grassy posse, I think.
31:05
I think our content aligns. Obviously he's, you know, way
31:09
bigger and better and you know. Way more professional.
31:13
But as far as like mentality and the kind of kind of stuff we put
31:17
out there. Yeah, yeah, it's good stuff.
31:20
Yeah. All right.
31:21
Well, how's this sitting with you right now?
31:25
I'm. Liking it, I really am.
31:26
It's it's fruity. Like, it's more so of a fruity
31:31
beer than a sour beer. I would agree with that.
31:33
Yeah, and it's not. I don't know.
31:35
I also don't like fruity beers either.
31:38
Yeah, like if you've watched us for any length of time, you know
31:41
that like amber beers, Oktoberfest, Marts and style red
31:47
beers. Like, for me, I I just want a
31:49
beer that tastes like a beer, you know?
31:52
And so this is not something I gravitate towards, but I I
31:55
genuinely like this, yeah. Yeah, I do too.
31:58
I seriously, I I would buy this. After having it now, like if we
32:03
had never tried this on the podcast, if I saw it at the
32:06
store, I would have never. I would.
32:08
I'm not even looking at that section.
32:10
But I mean, yeah, I like it. I don't know.
32:13
I don't know why I like it, cuz I don't like fruit, really
32:16
fruity or sours at all. But yeah, maybe Reunion can tell
32:20
us why it's the best sour that I think I've had.
32:24
It's, it's definitely a good one.
32:26
Enjoying it a lot, yeah. And if you didn't know, we only
32:29
drink Iowa beers on the podcast. So we featured a different Iowa
32:35
beer. This is now our 15th episode and
32:39
we've had reunion before. Yeah, what have we had?
32:42
Of theirs so far we had. Oh, here, I can look it up.
32:45
I have the list. Yeah, we've definitely had them
32:48
before, I think at least once, if not more.
32:51
I think they're one of the first episodes, yeah.
32:53
Episode two, we had you. No, I brought them.
32:57
I brought their Amber Ale and their Tank Puncher IPA.
33:01
Yeah. That was the only episode we've
33:03
had where we featured two different two different views.
33:06
Yeah, So yeah, And I remember that Amber was pretty good.
33:10
And I think we both started with the ones that we liked, but then
33:14
we switched and you had the Amber and I had the IPA about
33:19
halfway through. So, yeah, good stuff from
33:22
reunion, yeah. I liked them a lot and I think
33:26
I've been there. I think I may have mentioned
33:28
when we had them on episode 2, I'm pretty sure I've been there,
33:31
but depending on the time of the evening that I was there, I may
33:35
not totally remember specifically that friend of the
33:39
show Forest could probably give me more information about that,
33:42
that experience, and then I could give.
33:47
But yeah, I don't know if anything else.
33:50
We want to talk about Broncos. I think we can put the Broncos
33:54
game to bed, but we can maybe look ahead to the Bears game a
33:56
little bit talking about that. We've kind of.
33:58
Dabbled a little bit on that. We've all we both obviously said
34:01
we we both think they're going to come away with a victory on
34:04
that one, which flies in the face of my pre season lock to
34:08
lose, but I'm OK with that. We were kind of looking at our
34:12
pre season picks earlier today and texting about it and I was
34:16
surprised to realize that up to date.
34:21
I've only picked one game incorrectly, and that was the
34:24
first game of the season, right? Yeah, so.
34:26
I picked the the Buccaneers game to be a win and obviously the
34:31
Vikings lost but every other game and I'm not like patting
34:35
myself on the back. It was all luck.
34:37
But every other game, these pre season picks I picked correctly.
34:41
Let's hope after you know a week from today that I can say that I
34:45
picked two games incorrectly because I did pick the Bears to
34:49
beat the Vikings. Preseason wise, my wife did not
34:53
pick really any of the right well.
34:58
She picked some of the right games, but she has a lot of wins
35:03
where we lost or losses where we won.
35:06
But at this point, she has the Vikings at a six and five
35:10
record. Yeah.
35:11
Yeah, which is pretty impressive.
35:12
I mean that is impressive it. And that's obviously realistic.
35:18
It's right on the nose. The coin do you if you remember
35:23
I. So I listened back to episode 3
35:25
again today where we did the coin flips and the pics.
35:28
The coin was very favorable through the first five games of
35:32
the season. It was.
35:33
And then even through what the coin has the Vikings at 9:00 and
35:39
2:00 after the Broncos game, the Broncos was a loss via the coin
35:44
and it was the second loss. So.
35:47
So let's hope. And the coin also picked the
35:51
Bears game. This coming Bears game is a
35:53
loss. Let's let's hope both the coin
35:56
and I are incorrect, because everyone else picked this Bears
36:01
game as a win. Both of our wives.
36:04
All of our kids and me, yeah. This season, really just kind of
36:11
looking at the schedule on paper, there's not much.
36:14
We keep saying like there's a lot of football left.
36:16
There's not much left. I mean, we got and they have
36:20
three home games left and three home.
36:22
Games and after the buy that's the the only time we have
36:27
back-to-back home games all season Lions and Packers.
36:31
Which is followed by yeah, followed by the only
36:34
back-to-back away stand. Then we finish it up at home
36:39
against the Lions. You got that back I.
36:42
Do I'm. I'm looking.
36:44
OK, so yeah, we're at Raiders, at Bengals, then at home against
36:49
Lions Packers and then at Detroit to close out the season.
36:52
OK. OK, well, I don't know.
36:57
The season's coming down to the wire.
36:59
You're you're right. I was.
37:02
I mean, we're always kind of looking at tickets and kind of
37:05
keeping our eyes on possibly getting ourselves to a game.
37:09
And I mean, we've both said that our families would really be
37:14
upset with us if we were gone for Christmas Eve.
37:17
So that kind of puts the Lions game at U.S. bank Stadium off
37:21
the table this season. And then the following week is
37:24
the Packers on New Year's Eve, which is also, yeah, that's.
37:27
A. No, no.
37:28
Well, and even if we did wanna go and could make it happen,
37:33
tickets are gonna be yeah. The podcast has not produced any
37:37
revenue, so definitely not enough revenue for us to
37:39
justify. That's not true.
37:40
We've generated 10 cents. Oh, we're.
37:42
Up to $0.10, we're up to $0.10. We got a whole dime there.
37:45
Is 1 platform right where you might hear ads during the
37:48
episodes? Yeah, so if you're if you're
37:50
not, if you're not opposed to hearing the occasional
37:56
advertisement, head on over to Spreaker.
37:59
SPREAKER, it's an affiliate of iHeartRadio.
38:05
I think it's iheartradio's podcasts branch.
38:08
OK, I'm not entirely sure on that.
38:10
But anyways, they don't have any sort of like minimum requirement
38:16
for podcasters that are wanting to make money.
38:19
So I think you get like a penny a listen.
38:22
Hey. So we've had 10 listens on
38:24
there. So there you go, theoretically.
38:26
Yeah, check us out on Spreaker. And if you just find our link
38:29
tree, which is posted pretty much on all of our platforms,
38:35
YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, you can find the link to our
38:39
Spreaker account and you can give us a listen there and you
38:43
know, give us a penny here or there.
38:45
Yeah, we'd. Take it where all it would cost
38:47
you is time and, you know, listening to the ads.
38:49
But we're listening to ads everywhere.
38:52
I don't think I'd listen to many podcasts that don't have ads in
38:55
it. We're we're young, we're still
38:59
pretty new, but we we'd like to turn this into something and a
39:02
part of being able to turn this into something is you know,
39:06
funding different things of equipment and subscriptions.
39:11
We've had conversations about different, you know, software
39:14
and hardware we could we could acquire for the podcast.
39:18
We've been very lucky to have a lot of those things already, at
39:22
least hardware wise, a lot of the things that we have.
39:25
We're already within reach. But yeah, listening for you guys
39:30
to just listen to all that's huge and for a get A to get a
39:35
grassy raid that was probably big for opening up the door for
39:40
who knows, maybe we'll get one die hard skull hopper out of
39:45
that random grassy raid. That'd be really cool.
39:48
But I think we need to set up a battle between the Grassy Posse
39:52
and the Skullhoppers. Oh my gosh.
39:54
Well. I think at this point absolutely
39:59
the grassy posse wins without even questioning it and and down
40:04
the road, I mean also at this point I would say at least on
40:09
YouTube, all of the Skullhoppers are grassy posse people.
40:14
We. We can work on converting them,
40:16
yeah, so. But yeah, we love the support.
40:19
We we love it if you stay. We're not going to beg for
40:22
support too much, but every once in a while maybe an ad here or
40:25
there, but definitely interact with us that that's, that's a
40:30
lot of fun to comment back and forth between each other.
40:33
But it also gets our name out there well, and we just, I mean,
40:37
we're a couple of dudes from Iowa, we like drinking beer and
40:39
we like talking about the Vikings.
40:41
So if you like those things, you will make us very happy by
40:45
reaching out and giving us a like giving us a comment letting
40:50
us interact with you, even if you're not a Vikings fan per SE,
40:53
yeah. I think on that, on that stream
40:56
last night, we might have had one of the two or three people
41:00
that were, you know, interacting with us pretty good.
41:02
Maybe one of those was an actual Vikings fan.
41:05
I'm, I'm not. I think it was Joey Bag of
41:08
doughnuts. I think that's who was the
41:10
Vikings fan. I'm so sorry if it if you're not
41:12
a Vikings fan, but I'm pretty sure you were because there was
41:15
an Eagles fan that was interacting with us quite a bit,
41:17
which is kind of. Kind of made me feel a little
41:19
icky, but he was cool. And there was.
41:23
What was the other one? A Lions fan?
41:25
Yeah, that sounds right. Yeah.
41:27
And there was a Browns fan too. So one Packer fan did kind of
41:32
give us a compliment. We got a few compliments.
41:34
But one that I remember specifically was that Packer fan
41:37
said that we we came across as some of the few nice and polite
41:43
and entertaining Vikings fans, which.
41:46
Felt good to hear, but also kind of felt bad to hear that about
41:49
the rest of our Vikings fan friends and colleagues in this
41:53
fandom. But yeah, we're, I mean, even if
41:56
you're not a Vikings fan, we're not going to straight up be evil
42:00
to any fan base. I mean, or team.
42:03
I mean, we we don't like the Packers, but I have friends who
42:06
are Packers fans. We don't like the Bears, but our
42:10
only guest of the show is a Bears fan.
42:13
Which keep that in mind for the next Bears episode.
42:18
Wink, wink. But yeah, we, we we'd like to be
42:22
relatable and approachable. So yeah, even if you're not a
42:25
Vikings fan or anywhere that you can get Iowa beer, we'll we'll
42:30
tell you about it. You can experience Iowa beer
42:32
vicariously through us. This is true.
42:35
Yeah. We should quit talking about
42:37
ourselves, though. And it's so fun, though.
42:40
Talk about the Bears. Yeah, the Bears game coming up
42:43
Monday night. The Bears had an emotional game
42:48
against the Lions. They lost, gave up that fourth
42:51
quarter lead to the Lions. Were they in Detroit or were
42:55
they in Chicago? I can't remember.
42:58
I wanna say it was in Detroit, but I'm not 100% sure on that.
43:02
I'm pretty sure it was in Detroit.
43:03
I was shuffling leaves around my backyard and stuff, so I was
43:07
listening on the radio, but I was not watching it.
43:10
I even. Watched it and I think it was in
43:13
Detroit. Yeah.
43:14
Anyways, so kind of an emotional game for them.
43:17
You mentioned the Bears are also headed into the bye week 13
43:21
after this game. It's a game at home for the
43:25
Vikings and it's a Monday night game.
43:28
Yeah, so prime. Time.
43:30
They also announced they're gonna wear the classic jerseys
43:33
again. I like those.
43:34
Those are super cool a lot. Of people have said they just
43:37
need to make them the like primary jerseys.
43:40
I I don't know about that. I really am a fan of the Vikings
43:43
regular jerseys. I think they're they're a good
43:46
mix of classic and modern, but I really like the the classic
43:50
ones. The old school ones are really,
43:52
really cool. And I, I personally on my own
43:56
Twitter interacted with somebody about, I think they asked the
44:00
question they're like, should these become the new normal?
44:03
And I just responded like 1000% yes.
44:06
Oh yeah, because I like them a lot.
44:08
I I would be a fan of those becoming the normal kind of
44:14
primary home jerseys. But I.
44:16
So I don't mind the ones we have, yeah.
44:18
The one thing I like the most about the.
44:21
The main uniforms is the matte finish on the helmets.
44:26
I don't know. For me, I mean it doesn't equate
44:29
to wins or losses or anything, but I just, I feel like every
44:33
football helmet should be a matte finish.
44:35
Like it just it looks good to me.
44:38
I don't dislike any other finish but like and I do enjoy that
44:42
they kept that matte finish for the classic jerseys.
44:45
Kind of still mixing in the. The current Vikings too, which
44:49
may be a a cost saving measure more so than a an aesthetic.
44:53
But yeah, the Bears to their credit too, they have a really
44:58
good looking classic uniform. It's got the like the stripes on
45:03
the top of the shoulder and the side of the shoulder and then
45:06
the like 3 stripes on their helmet too.
45:09
Yeah, Yep. And that.
45:10
One is specifically a white jersey, so.
45:14
In theory, I mean you. You could see a total Vikings
45:18
Bears classic uniform battle of the throwbacks, yeah.
45:21
That would be cool Night Football.
45:22
That would be cool on ESPN. Yeah, that'd be pretty sweet.
45:26
Yeah. And.
45:27
I think, I don't think there would be any rule against that.
45:29
I think, yeah, I don't know. I mean, the NFL can do whatever
45:33
it wants to do so, but outside of the way they'll look on the
45:38
field, I think. This, this loss could no, this
45:43
Broncos loss could be kind of an eye opener, this win streak,
45:48
when all these bad things are happening to the team, yet they
45:50
still keep winning, kind of could give you a false sense of
45:54
we're unbeatable, like nobody can touch us.
45:57
I don't know if that's the case for the players, but maybe a
46:01
loss kind of brings you back to reality and wakes you up a
46:04
little bit more and I think Dustin Baker has on Twitter said
46:09
a few times. Like guys.
46:10
I mean, this loss doesn't really hurt the the playoff hopes like
46:16
you're still in the similar boat as you were before the loss.
46:20
He also has said if you're somebody that thinks the Vikings
46:23
are going to win out and win the Super Bowl, then the Broncos
46:28
loss is devastating. He has said he's not won that,
46:32
thinks they're going to win the Super Bowl, haven't done it yet
46:35
in their career or their lifetime.
46:36
So it'd be crazy to think that they could, but.
46:40
I don't know. I'm I'm still optimistic about
46:43
the season but I don't know if the Super Bowl is in the future.
46:47
I think given the rough start and then given all of the
46:51
adversity with the injuries, I think the playoffs are a huge, a
47:01
huge goal to reach for. I think if you can get to the
47:05
playoffs, you've. I've heard you say this
47:08
countless times. I don't know if you've ever said
47:10
it on the podcast, but you tell me all the time there are no
47:13
moral victories in this Football League.
47:16
And that's true. You you play to win and you play
47:19
to win the big one and you try to get there every single year,
47:22
regardless of what your roster looks like and regardless of how
47:26
you start the season and the season whatever.
47:29
But I I think, consolation prizes aside, I think for this
47:33
group, getting to the play offs will be a success in its own,
47:38
yeah. And honestly, once you get
47:40
there, like you just got to get there.
47:43
Once you're there, it's everybody's zero and zero.
47:47
And that's the case as you go through.
47:50
You just got to it's literally A1 game season every time.
47:53
Look at the Vikings last year. They had a great season.
47:56
Everything looked awesome. They won 13 games with their
47:59
first year head coach and GM and you know, they they seemed like
48:03
a team of destiny. Then they lose to a team that
48:06
they beat just a few weeks before, so anything can happen.
48:12
It's overwhelmingly likely that the Vikings won't win, because
48:16
there's other teams that have their act together more between
48:19
health and experience and luck and whatever.
48:23
But if you get in the playoffs, that's all you need.
48:27
Just punch your ticket and do what you can.
48:29
See what happens. Yeah, I mean, you never know
48:32
when the ball's going to bounce your way when.
48:34
You're going to decide to go for it on 4th and one when you
48:36
should and not punt the ball well.
48:39
And I I think that gives the Vikings a lot more to play for
48:43
in this Bears game, because there's a lot more to play for
48:47
as the Vikings, right the the Bears don't have much to play
48:50
for. They are looking at moral
48:53
victories. I mean, they are looking the
48:56
coach is trying not to get fired.
48:57
You know the the GM who in his opening press conference, this
49:02
is polls. Said something like, yeah, we're
49:05
gonna take the north and never give it back.
49:07
And he has yet to beat an NFC North team since saying that the
49:14
the Bears are a lot more of an S show than the Vikings.
49:18
And yeah, they they're a lot more desperate right now.
49:22
But the Vikings like they actually have an opportunity to
49:25
do something this year. The Bears, they've already lost
49:27
their opportunity. Yeah.
49:30
So I I think that'll make Monday night's game really interesting,
49:35
and with the bye week looming on the other side of it, that adds
49:39
an interesting wrinkle. Justin Fields came back for his
49:44
first game against Detroit and. Looked decent and looked OK.
49:47
He ran well. Yeah.
49:49
I think if the Bears are going to win, he's going to have to
49:52
run well. And I think he's going to keep
49:55
Brian Flores on his feet. And Flores isn't going to be
49:59
able to blitz as much. Yeah, because if you send the
50:04
house, Justin Fields is going to slip out somewhere.
50:06
Yeah, and he's going to be 20 yards down field before you know
50:09
what's what. Well.
50:10
To that point, if anybody, if any team is going to win, they
50:14
need their their top running back to run well.
50:16
So I mean, that's the only way the Bears can can win is if
50:20
their top running back and Justin Fields plays well.
50:25
The Vikings are 3 1/2 point favorites, or at least they were
50:28
earlier this afternoon. We're recording a little bit
50:31
earlier this week. There's Thanksgiving, so we're,
50:33
yeah, with the holiday, we bumped up our recording timeline
50:36
a little bit. It's usually.
50:37
Wednesdays when we record, but it's Monday now, so that might
50:41
change slightly. I could see that going even more
50:46
in the Vikings favor if Justin Jefferson is slotted to return.
50:51
Yeah, and I'm the more I think about it, the more I just, I
50:53
don't feel I don't get the sense J JS coming back.
50:56
I don't feel like they're gonna rush him into it, yeah.
50:59
I don't know. And they could literally
51:02
announce it tomorrow that he's coming back.
51:04
And this is all a moot point. But it just the way the coaches
51:08
have been talking and the way everybody's kind of been talking
51:11
about it, it just seems like they're going to wait until
51:13
after the bye week, which, I mean, ultimately, they've won a
51:17
lot of games without him this year.
51:20
Jordan Addison's looking really good.
51:22
So I'm not. I'm not super mad about it right
51:26
now. Speaking of looking after the
51:30
bye, we play at Las Vegas and then at Cincinnati, both of
51:38
which are without the quarterbacks that they started
51:42
the season with, Yeah. Vegas benched Garoppolo.
51:46
I don't even Is it Aidan O'Connell?
51:48
Is that their starter right now? And they fired their coach,
51:51
which sometimes that can kind of give a little bit of life to
51:54
some teams when they have an interim coach.
51:57
Kind of get the sense that this is Antonio Pierce.
52:00
Yeah, yeah he's kind of he's a players coach right now.
52:06
But admittedly I haven't. I haven't paid attention to
52:08
their wins and losses since he's met in the interim coach.
52:11
So I don't really know. But yeah, they they've they're a
52:16
team in turmoil already. When you fire your coach, you're
52:19
you're already looking at the next year.
52:22
And yeah, with Joe Burrow. He's on.
52:26
He's done for the season, right? Yeah, I think he's done that's.
52:29
Crazy. That's That's big.
52:31
I mean, that makes that game more winnable than the Niners
52:35
game was earlier in the year, I think.
52:36
Jake Browning's going to be under Center for the Bengals,
52:39
yeah. And there's a lot of time
52:40
between now and then. Maybe they figure something else
52:44
out. I mean, hopefully you you
52:46
wouldn't want Jake Browning as far as the Vikings go to, like,
52:50
figure it out and be the next Josh Dobbs of the league.
52:53
You know, maybe they maybe they call up Colin Kaepernick or
52:57
something. That that dude's done.
53:00
He's been done for. That was really tongue in cheek.
53:03
That was not serious at all. Yeah, but yeah, definitely an
53:08
interesting stretch here for the Vikings.
53:12
Hopefully a win on Monday night. A week from tonight against the
53:16
Bears at home. And then a week to rest.
53:18
And then at Vegas, at Cincy. Both winnable games.
53:25
Both teams are struggling right now.
53:27
And then we have that divisional onslaught to end the season.
53:30
Lions. Packers.
53:31
Lions. I'm.
53:32
Excited for that? That'll be.
53:34
That'll be a fun stretch. Hopefully it'll be fun because
53:38
hopefully you have JJ back fully and, you know, running around
53:42
healthy out there. I mean, in theory, Dobbs has
53:45
just that much more time. KOC has that much more time.
53:49
I think this bye week is. Necessary.
53:52
It's at a really good time of the season just to get everybody
53:56
ready, Just kind of reset a little bit.
53:59
Yeah, I'm. I'm optimistic about the rest of
54:02
the season. There's no heavy hitter where
54:05
you're like, oh, there's a loss automatically right there, like
54:08
they should be favored in some of the games, betting wise.
54:12
And the toughest part of the Vikings schedule is behind them
54:14
now. They had the Eagles, Chiefs and
54:18
Niners in the first six weeks, yeah.
54:22
Well, the first two weeks was, I mean, you had two games in
54:27
within what, five days? Five days, Yeah, Yeah.
54:32
So I don't know. Hopefully we're talking about
54:34
the playoffs here in the next few weeks.
54:37
Things are looking up even though they went slightly down.
54:42
Yep, on. On a happier note, I Kirk seems
54:46
like excuse me. Kirk seems like he's kind of
54:49
going to start being around the team a little bit more, yeah,
54:51
which in theory that can only be a good thing.
54:54
I mean, meeting rooms and rehab and everything like that.
54:57
It's only going to be good to see him around, especially
55:00
because he's not going to be like a cancer in the locker room
55:03
like he's going to be. He's going to be Josh Dobbs or
55:05
whoever the starter quarterback is.
55:07
He's going to be their biggest fan and another coach in the
55:11
room. Like, Yep, it's only going to be
55:14
good to get him around. Yeah, that'll be good for the
55:16
team. It'll be interesting to see if
55:18
there's any positive effects on the field.
55:22
Yeah, related to that. So.
55:24
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55:27
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55:34
to save her one. So.
55:35
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good. Thanks for reunion for very
55:41
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55:44
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55:50
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55:55
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