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Ctrl Alt Bier & A Poem, Vikings Tight End Situation, 3 Mushy Spots of Vikings Roster, Hangs with YouBetcha! | TSH Ep. 41 · The Skol Hop

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  All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome in to another episode of the
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  Schoolhop. I'm Evan and I'm Austin. We're just a couple of dudes from
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  Iowa. We like drinking beer. I like talking about the Vikings. Yeah,
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  we do, and we're continuing the trend. Maybe the listeners are a
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  few that we have hate this mystery beer segment. I love it. I
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  have a lot of fun with it. I think you like it too.
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  So if you hate it, I'm sorry, we're gonna keep doing it.
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  And if you love it, you're welcome. I've got a little something special
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  for this too. Was that just a hint at the name? No?
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  Okay, all right, I guess that wouldn't make any sense either, because
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  anyways, episode forty one, Evan, episode forty one, we had to
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  doing this, so it's over a year. Forty one. You got running
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  back Dave Osborne, who wore forty one for the Vikings in the sixties and
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  seventies, way back before that time. Yeah, I never saw him.
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  If I've seen him, it's been highlights that I've forgotten about. But I
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  don't want to disrespect him. You had some decent stats and was one of
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  the og Vikings. So and then a little bit later on you had Charles
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  Gordon defensive back who returned kicks and snapped his own ankle. Yeah right,
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  I guess he didn't snap it himself, someone else helped him. And I
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  didn't realize until we just watched that clip that it was against the Packers.
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  So the stinky evil people from across the border. They broke our decent kick
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  returner's ankle and it was pretty gruesome. So if you ever have a chance,
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  just googled Charles Gordon ankle and you'll just see that pretty high high quality
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  slow mo video of his ankle just snapping a little bit. So prayers Charles
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  Gordon. But then recently Anthony Harris. Yeah, yeah, he's franchise tagged
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  by the Vikings after a few good years. I couldn't. I think he
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  was undrafted. I might be wrong on that, but I think he was
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  undrafted and then franchise tagged, And in his franchise tag year he kind of
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  kind of sucked it up a little bit for the Vikings, but bounced around
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  a couple other teams. And I don't know if he's on a team right
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  now. One of these days we'll get a stat kid who can just look
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  all these things up for it. We'll just throw it off to little Jimmy,
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  like Jimmy, what's his SATs on this? And then at the end
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  he's gonna be like, hey, guys, we got some corrections here.
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  Ten minutes ago. Evan, you said this, it was wrong, Austin,
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  you said this. You were right, because you're always right. But
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  yeah, yeah, someday, and then he'll go on to host his own
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  major show like Tony really did under the School Hop umbrella. We're just an
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  empire, you know, Tony Reality's story, right. He was the stat
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  guy for a pardon the interruption, okay, and then he left PTI to
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  go on to do around the horn. He's been doing around the horn for
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  it. That makes sense. You are way more into your more knowledgeable about
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  ESPN. I love those two shows because they're on when I get home from
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  work, and that's just what I do when I get home from work.
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  The most I ever watched ESPN is when we were in college and we had
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  the like the dorm room, you know, channels and everything will package,
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  and that's just we were guys in the dorm room. That's all that was
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  on was Ever, since I don't, I watch all of YouTube, So
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  check us out on YouTube. If you're not watching us on YouTube, you're
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  missing out on a good portion of the experience. You can watch us on
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  Spotify too, and I don't know anywhere else they could watch us. Maybe
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  a clip on TikTok, but either way, I digress. Episode forty one
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  we have is this version four point zero of the Mystery Beer. Yeah.
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  I think this is our fourth episode in a row where we have wrapped the
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  beer in tinfoil. I brought the beer this week, and like I said,
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  I've got something special my sleeve Mystery Beer reveal it really fun. Before
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  we get to that, I do want to give a shout out. I'm
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  wrapping the T shirt. You want to give a shout out to very good
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  with us through thick and thin since I don't know, in the episode twenties
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  or so. They've been with us for a while and we love them.
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  Just let them know you're interested in going on a Mexican or Jamaican all inclusive
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  trip and they will hook you up with the best price possible. So thanks,
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  guys, yeah, thanks, yeah, all right, you're ready for
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  this. I'm ready. So how do we are? We just gonna let's
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  pour them up. Okay, all right, let's pour them up first.
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  And this is so exciting. Mm hmm those are those are full? Yeah
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  that's good. I almost want to just smell it right now, to man
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  all over all over the sound equipment. No, okay, good, just
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  the just the bar alright, it's meant to take on. Yeah, yeah,
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  it's like a seasoning. You know, you should have some paper towels,
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  but we'll just use the shirt school school all right, So go ahead
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  and take a sip. I'll take a sip too, we'll just right off
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  the bat. It's a darker, but it's it's not a thick thick you
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  can see through it. But it is a darker color, a slight amber,
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  I'll say, a slight amber. So let's scold up and give it
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  a try. Oh that is that is good. That's got a very pronounced
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  flavor. So I'd like to read you a riddle that I can post.
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  This might be English teacher over here. This might be ridiculously corny. But
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  hey, if not corny, what are we doing? I was bored,
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  and I was like, let's write a riddle. All right, let's hear
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  it. Dev All right, here we go. Every week we drink some
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  beer, and this week is no different. Our beer this week is nothing
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  short of magnificent. M There's a place up north that you and I know
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  well, But only if you guess correct. Will I ever tell? Let's
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  start with style. One might say that I'm boring, but I know what
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  I like, so sue me for not exploring. Hmmm. I like IPA's
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  and I like a good logger. But my taste in beer is no shocker.
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  It's defined by its color. In fact, that's the name. I'd
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  like to think that this beer has some fame. Hopefully you have the type.
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  Now on to the brewery. I'm quite certain I love this so much
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  of it can't keep straight anywhere. All right, let me keep going,
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  keep going, pause forge, all right, all right, it's an amber
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  by the way. You're right, okay, job anyways, keep going.
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  Hopefully you have the type which you do. Now on to the brewery.
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  I'm quite certain this place is nothing new to you or me. Hmmm,
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  at this place, there's no such thing as switching gears. Just pull up
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  a chair and grab some friends and beers. So here we are on our
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  humble Vikings podcast, reminiscing on a place from days long past. I hope
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  that you won't control all delete this half baked rhyme. Surprisingly, it did
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  take me quite some time, but have no fear. The end is near.
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  I hope you enjoy this. Do you know what this is? It
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  is a single speed beer. It is and I think you I think you
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  said the name of it. I alluded to the name of it. Is
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  it picturing? It? Is it called control Alt Delete? It's called Control
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  Alt beer. Ah. I like it. I have not had this one
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  yet. I really enjoyed your whimsical your story. It wasn't really a riddle.
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  It was more of telling it what it is in a very entertaining and
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  fun way. Good job going out of your comfort zone on that. I'm
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  an English teacher. Yeah, it wasn't necessarily way outside of it. It
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  reminded me of something you'd hear in the Hobbit like or something like that.
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  I was inspired by the episode of How I Met Your Mother, of the
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  rhyming episode where they rhyme the whole time. That's a that was a solid
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  episode. If you like that show, you know you know what episode he's
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  talking about. I know what you're talking about. I have not had this
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  beer. It's a very good It is an amber like It's not one of
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  those where you're getting a hint of flavor. It is a full flavored amber
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  beer. Although like I said earlier, you can see through it. It's
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  not a thick one. It's enjoyable. I like this. I definitely definitely
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  we'll try this again. Evan, you have turned me into a one A
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  and one B. So the IPAs are one A and the ambers are one
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  B. And I would agree, and I would say for me, this
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  is one A and a good. I pa is one B so here we
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  are. It's got a rich, yet crisp malt character, fun cherry esters.
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  I don't know what esthers mean, but it sounds fancy and floral and
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  spicy hot notes. I like it. It's really good. I like amber,
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  and I like this, and I like the fact that comes from Cedar
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  Falls Waterloo, it does. That area means a lot to us. It's
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  the home of our alma mater. You stayed there for another decade after we
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  were done. I came home right away. But we like that that area.
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  We love single speed. And I liked your note in your in your
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  poem riddle in your masterpiece there about how we don't have to change gears.
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  Immediately I knew it was a single speed right there. I wasn't trying to
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  be super obvious. I was trying to be clever. It was. It
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  was nice, it was fun. That will absolutely show up on TikTok.
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  So I'll also I will post. I'll publish my writing in the comments.
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  Yeah, there were. If you have any tips, if you'd like to
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  correct my grammar, or if you have a better rhyme, please let me
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  know. I don't claim to be any sort of poet. We should partner
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  with single Speed and put that poem on the back of a T shirt.
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  That's a good idea. Yeah, there you go. All right. I
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  liked it and I can't wait to give a full fledge honest opinion after a
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  couple more. Yeah, sounds good. I already added another one to my
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  Yeah. I should probably do that as well, just to not disrupt the
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  rest of the episode. Well, why are you doing that? We can
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  transition into our first talking point. Yeah, we got a few today.
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  Yeah. So another free agent signing for the Vikings this last week. Robert
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  Tunyan, former Packer and former Bear. Yeah. And wasn't he like a
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  practice squad with the Lions. He's kind of made a tour of the NFC
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  North. Yeah, he's one of very few people in the world to be
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  able to say that he has signed contracts with all four NFC North teams.
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  Yeah. He was a practice squad member with the Lions in twenty seventeen.
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  I don't know how long he was with them, but obviously just never made
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  the fifty three man roster. But also in that same season he signed on
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  the fifty three man roster with the Packers, played a few years there.
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  His best season was in twenty twenty, the COVID year. He had five
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  hundred and eighty six receiving yards, which for me, that's like the tight
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  end version of one thousand yards for me. Of course, you get the
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  tight ends like a Kelsey on good years, you get Hockinson where they will
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  flirt with one thousand yards, maybe even get a little bit more. But
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  for like your regular good tight end, not your elite tight end, but
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  your regular good tight end. Five hundred yards and a handful of touchdowns,
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  that is the good year for them in my eyes at least. So yeah,
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  twenty twenty had five hundred and eighty six yards, eleven touchdowns with the
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  bad guys, played last year with the Bears, and now he's he might
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  be Nick Muse's enemy right now. It might be one or the other for
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  those guys to make the roster. So you've got the tight end room listed
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  out here. Yeah, obviously we've got t. J. Hawkinson, who
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  is the proverbial starter when he's healthy. Oh yeah, he is the second
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  or third receiving option on the team, regardless of position. Yep. But
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  he was quoted saying there's no timetable right now for his return, and I
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  think it's been kind of widely stated that he might end up on the physically
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  unable to Perform list to start the season. That kind of came out today
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  in the last handful of days that I think it was Ben Gesling pretty much
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  said, yeah, he expects TJ to be on the pup list. Which
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  that's that's like a mini IR to begin the season. That's an automatic six
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  games or six weeks. I think that's that's an important designation, especially this
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  year for the Vikings, right, I think it's a six week mandatory,
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  like you can't you can't play. And of course Week six for the Vikings
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  this year is their their bye week. It's after the London game. So
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  if that's true, and if we can also assume TJ is going to come
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  back fully healthy after that, which of course we don't know yet if he
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  will be on the pup list, but we let's just make it easy on
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  ourselves and assume that. But if that's true, he'll be back week seven
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  against who is that against? Oh, against the Lions. I wasn't even
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  trying to do a thing right there, but against his former team, and
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  of course uh, Kirby, Joseph Joseph Kirby, whatever his name is,
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  the guy that cheap shot injured him. So that could be an interesting storyline
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  to fill early mid season for sure. So he's obviously the number one tight
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  end when he's back and when he's healthy. After that, you've got Oliver
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  Munt and Mews and then Tanyan and then you've got a couple of were these
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  guys unsigned? Trey Knox and Sammy's Reyes? So I might be wrong on
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  this. I think Trey Knox was a UDFA from just a few weeks ago
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  from the draft, and then Samus Sammy however you say his name, I'm
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  so sorry Reyes. He's been in the league one or two years, but
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  I don't know that he's ever made a roster So those guys are probably you're
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  looking at practice squad or if they can impress in the preseason and training camp,
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  they might be a fringe guy to knock off, probably muse for a
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  roster spot. But yeah, I think it's going to be to start off
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  the season, you're tight end one. You're looking at Oliver and then Mund
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  and then either mus or Tonyan if they keep three. Yeah, and that's
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  interesting. I think a signing like that, especially with his NFC North reputation
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  that precedes him, that's kind of a splash for the Vikings to pick up
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  a guy like that. A little bit. He kind of reminds me a
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  little bit because last week we talked about free agents that are out there that
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  the Vikings could probably sign for a smart choice. We talked about Hunter Renfro,
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  who had a decent season in twenty twenty one as a wide receiver,
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  but then he's kind of not really shown up ever since then, but he
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  would still be kind of a flashy signing at this point in the year.
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  Tonyan kind of to me speaks a little bit to a tight end version of
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  what a Renfro signing could be. He had a flashy season in twenty twenty
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  and hasn't really done much ever since much to speak about, but obviously there's
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  something there, So yeah, it could be, you know, a nice
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  interesting signing. He might catch a few touchdowns, or maybe this is the
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  last time we ever talk about him. You never know, Like it's that's
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  kind of where it is at this point for sure. So definitely an interesting
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  acquisition for the Vikings and could pay some big dividends, especially with Hawkinson out
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  for the early part of the season, and you know, I think those
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  four Oliver Munt, Muse and Tunyan are fighting for those roster spots for sure.
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  And honestly, even with Hawkinson out, like you just said, I
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  think the tight end room is in a good spot. Like obviously with Hockinson,
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  who you might get some pushbacks, but you could argue is in the
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  upper echelon eliteness of tight ends in the NFL right now when healthy, But
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  even without a Hockinson, a room with Oliver Munt and then Muser Tunyan is
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  a good tight end room. Like that's one that you you're not you know,
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  you're just probably not getting a pro bowler out of there, but you're
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  You're okay with that room heading into the season, Yeah, for sure.
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  And what's hard to quantify is like they're blocking success. I know that there
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  are some advanced stats out there, and we don't necessarily have access to those,
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  so we don't pay those subscriptions to get the cool things. Some people
• 17:14
  will get the big Voice sponsors and Big Tap will still be around for us.
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  But yeah, someday we'll get the big ones and be able to spend
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  frivolously on those licenses. But I think that will be an important feature of
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  that tight end position is they can they run block We need a rushing game
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  desperately and importantly to that point, Josh Oliver, that's what he's known for
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  his being one of the upper echelon blockers in the tight end realm. So
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  I'm okay, I'm not freaking out about the tight end room yet. Even
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  if Hockinson were to miss eight games, you know you don't like that because
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  that's a good chunk of his prime I'm NFL playing career. But yeah,
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  it's almost like, let him, let him sit, let him be healthy.
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  This room can patch it over until he gets back. You have an
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  interesting little note. I knew you'd like that that Week seven, Yeah,
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  so be the best potential place for JJ McCarthy to make his first NFL start.
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  Yeah. So, in the Vikings world, we've kind of transitioned from
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  this quarterback talking point. At first, it was, man, Kirk is
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  playing like a fringe MVP player, like this is awesome. We might do
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  something and then Achilles and then man, he might not. They'd got to
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  resign him right like they might draft a guy, but they gotta sign Kirk
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  and then he signs with the Falcons, and then it was full force.
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  Okay, we've got Sam Donald as a bridge, but then they have to
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  trade the farm to get up to three to get Drake may or JJ McCarthy.
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  And that was the talking point for a while until of course, the
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  draft, and here it comes JJ. And now I think the talking point
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  is when does JJ start? Because I think it's understood JJ probably he's not
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  QB one right now, and I don't think he should be, and I
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  think we both have our own opinions on when he should start and when he
• 19:14
  could start. I think you let Sam Donald ride until, not only Sam
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  Donald, not just when he loses the job, because if Sam Donald loses
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  the job before JJ is ready, then you gotta throw Nick Mullins or whoever
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  else is in there as a patchwork QB. But I think JJ shouldn't start
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  until he's ready. But one nice little built in spot in the season is
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  after week five, you know, the London game. After that, you
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  get your bye in week six. It's early enough. Maybe the sky hasn't
• 19:48
  started falling yet on the season. But if Sam Donald hasn't proven to be
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  good enough to keep the job, and if JJ has proven to be good
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  enough to get an opportunity, I think that Week seven game after the bye
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  is a built in perfect, not too early but early enough spot for jjd
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  get his first start. And it's all the better if TJ. Hogginson is
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  healthy and ready to go that game. So that could be a fun week
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  Against the Lions that week, I'm gonna make a hot take, and anytime
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  I make a hot take, I'm excited. Usually crashes in burns. You're
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  gonna hit sometime, right, It's all right, I don't care. I
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  got nothing to lose. You can rip me apart in the comments, you
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  won't offend me. I think JJ should start week one, and if he's
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  in that camp, if he's ready, if he wins the job, absolutely,
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  I don't want him to start until he wins the job. That's my
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  stance. And if that's week one, awesome, I'm gonna trust the coaches
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  to think, Okay, he's won the job. I'm confident enough to say
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  that he'll be ready once training camp is over. The preseason will tell us
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  a lot. I think we're gonna see this will be an interesting preseason for
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  Vikings quarterback. Who, Yeah, because we haven't. We haven't seen the
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  starter play much. If anything, M Kirk hasn't really played in a preseason
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  game and he hasn't needed to. He isn't needed to. But I mean
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  we're just not We're used to those preseason games being proving grounds for second and
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  third string quarterbacks. That's what they are, like, all right, go
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  out and win the second string job, or go out and win that third
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  string job, or ope, you're not good enough, We're gonna put you
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  on the practice squad, or nope, sorry you're cut. You're done.
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  And every position's backup or the number two at that position is extremely important.
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  I think we saw it firsthand that QB two is a very important position.
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  We saw it last year when Kirk went down, So for sure, Yeah,
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  I think I think we can both agree that we want JJ to start
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  early and as early as possible. I think I'm just willing to let this
• 21:52
  season be a fun one to not care much about if they don't win a
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  ton of games, and just to watch the progression for hopefully JJ to flourish
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  into a good quarterback without having to be thrown to the wolves way too early.
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  Yeah, and that's kind of why I think he should start Week one.
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  I think that matchup is actually really interesting because it's on the road at
• 22:17
  New York, which New York hasn't been great. Yeah, but we said
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  the same thing about the Buccaneers last year. True, but you've got Daniel
• 22:26
  Jones who just signed this big contract, and I mean, to some extent,
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  I think he's kind of the like, this will sound terrible, but
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  he's kind of the laughing stock of the league. I think because he's getting
• 22:41
  paid a lot and he really hasn't proven that he's worth that much. And
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  so I think JJ's got nothing to lose if he's the starter, and I
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  don't think Kevin O'Connell or Quacy have anything to lose either by throwing him in
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  there game one and just saying all right, go out and let's see what
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  happens. The tough part is coming home and playing the Niners and playing the
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  Texans in Week two and three. Those are gonna be tough games. And
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  then to turn around and go play on the road at Green Bay that's tough
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  as well. Before you take an international road trip to London to play the
• 23:12
  Jets and Aaron Rodgers. Presumably he's healthy. Yeah, yeah, he might
• 23:18
  play another four plays and then get injured against tweet that said Aaron Rodgers,
• 23:22
  Achilles has the chance to do the funniest thing ever by snapping again four plays
• 23:30
  into the season. On I think it's primetime. I think they have a
• 23:33
  primetime game week one. Yeah, it's the second year in a row they
• 23:36
  open up Monday night football. Yeah, and they have six primetime games in
• 23:38
  the first eleven weeks of the season, and the Vikings have two primetime games.
• 23:41
  I think that counts the London game, which is at eight thirty in
• 23:45
  the morning. Drinking my coffee. Yeah, I think we can both agree
• 23:52
  we want JJ to start sooner rather than later. Yeah, it's just I'm
• 23:56
  gonna throw my own caveat is. Just don't ruin him. Don't Christian ponder
• 24:03
  him by throwing him out before he's ready. If you think he can be
• 24:07
  good, you'll let him cook. And if he never wins the job,
• 24:10
  at some point you gotta throw him out just to see what happens. But
• 24:14
  yeah, I don't know, there's never gonna I don't think there's ever gonna
• 24:18
  be a perfect time this week seven to me, seems like a good opportunity.
• 24:22
  But again, if he pulls a Russell Wilson and wins the job in
• 24:25
  training camp, awesome. What if he pulls a CJ. Stroud and leads
• 24:30
  his team to the playoffs? Anybody would be asked Texans fans right now if
• 24:33
  they're mad that CJ. Stroud started right away and turned out to be really,
• 24:37
  really really good like that guy, especially after what they went through with
• 24:41
  Deshaun Watson and all that fun stuff. But yeah, it's gonna be fun.
• 24:48
  It's gonna be fun to see how that develops, and it's gonna be
• 24:51
  a really interesting pick them when we get to that too. That's given the
• 24:56
  fact that we don't know what's gonna happen at the quarterback position, and that's
• 25:00
  that's kind of a big deal. I'll I'll give a little sneak peek for
• 25:03
  our pickum episode, which maybe next week or four weeks from now, whenever
• 25:07
  we do our you know, coin flip and season prediction on game by game
• 25:11
  who wins what I'm very I'm probably a lot higher on what I think the
• 25:18
  Vikings can do than a lot of other people in Vikings fan hood. Right
• 25:22
  now, I think I think they can do some stuff. You're right,
• 25:26
  You're right in the wave of optimism. I'm I'm optimistic. And it's the
• 25:30
  same Austin picked the games last year. No, not the same one.
• 25:36
  But I really think, and I'm still going to try to keep this as
• 25:38
  a sneak peak. I really think they are better at most positions, and
• 25:45
  then there's question marks at other positions. I don't think they got drastically worse.
• 25:51
  I don't think you can prove that the Vikings got drastically worse at any
• 25:55
  position from last year to this coming year. And obviously quarterback is the first
• 26:00
  one that you talk about, because we just don't know. JJ yep,
• 26:04
  I agree, well, speaking of positions and position groups, Yes, specifically,
• 26:10
  there's a pretty good article written by friend of the show, Dustin Baker.
• 26:14
  Yeah, so we like this a lot. Dustin keep writing stuff so
• 26:17
  that we can keep crediting you with whole segments of our podcast, so that
• 26:21
  we can talk about your articles well, and they just they give us great
• 26:25
  stuff to talk about. So obviously we're big fans of Vikings Territory, So
• 26:30
  if you haven't checked them out yet, head over to Vikings Territory dot com.
• 26:33
  That's not a sponsor, that's just something you should do because if you're
• 26:37
  a Vikings fan, it's good stuff. It's good content, and we read
• 26:41
  that stuff regularly. That's just kind of part of our daily and weekly intake
• 26:48
  of Vikings information, and it's turned out to be really good fodder for conversation
• 26:53
  on the show. Absolutely. So all that to say, we've got this
• 27:00
  article entitled three worst parts of the Vikings Roster. Currently we're kind of moving
• 27:07
  into this this next season. Yeah, and so he's Dustin has outlined three
• 27:12
  different position groups and I think if I remember right, this kind of made
• 27:19
  me laugh in kind of the let me see if I can find it quick?
• 27:25
  Where was it there? It is kind of like the preview before you
• 27:29
  click on the article. The subtitle is if you're looking for mushy spots on
• 27:36
  the Vikings roster, these are those I can hear Dustin saying that if you're
• 27:40
  looking for like I can hear him use those words. But yeah, that
• 27:42
  makes sense. So he's looking at the weakest spots where the Vikings could use
• 27:51
  a lot of help. And this kind of ties in a little bit with
• 27:53
  the article we talked about last week where it was free agents the Vikings could
• 27:57
  sign to patch up some wee spots. So this one is really just looking
• 28:00
  at what are the weak spots. He identifies three. What's the first one
• 28:06
  he talks about? Also, they're in order of least week to most week,
• 28:10
  I think is what he says. So what's the first one he lists
• 28:12
  out? So the first one he lists out is the wide receiver group,
• 28:15
  actually, which might seem surprising because we have arguably the best wide receiver in
• 28:22
  the league. I don't think it's an argument. I think he is the
• 28:25
  best. And then you had a really a guy with an amazing rookie year
• 28:30
  that gets overshadowed because his name's not Justin Jefferson. Addison had nine hundred plus
• 28:34
  yards as a rookie and a handful of touchdowns, and half of that season
• 28:38
  was without a pro Bowl level quarterback and without JJ, and he kind of
• 28:44
  was the wide receiver one for he carried the load for a while while JJ
• 28:48
  was out too. So you've got a great one and two in the wide
• 28:52
  receiver room. That number three position, I think is a really mushy spot
• 28:57
  on the roster. To borrow the term from Dust and we talked about it
• 29:02
  a little bit last week, like, well, maybe Hunter Renfro could be
• 29:04
  a good free agent signing. You know he's still available. You've got Michael
• 29:10
  Thomas listed here. Yeah, he's got to be getting old. I think
• 29:12
  Michael Thomas is almost to the point that he's it would be by name alone
• 29:18
  if he gets signed anywhere else. But Renfro and Thomas are guys that Dustin
• 29:22
  specifically names in this article. Please go read that article. It's a really
• 29:26
  good one. I'm not that old. Actually he's only thirty, but he's
• 29:30
  had some injury stuff and enough injury stuff that I don't think he's the same
• 29:33
  player he was at his peak. And that's Michael Thomas, of course.
• 29:37
  But either way, I think he would still be a better option than like
• 29:41
  an undrafted free agent right now. But yeah, after JJ and after Jordan
• 29:48
  Addison, especially with TJ. Hockinson down, you don't have a ton of
• 29:52
  good receiving threats. So yeah, if they can shut down JJ and one
• 30:00
  on one and get good and shut down Addison, the Vikings don't have a
• 30:03
  lot of guys to throw to, which is not something you like to hear
• 30:07
  when you're talking about a journeyman quarterback. Coming in and trying to ultimately talk
• 30:12
  about a rookie quarterback coming in and showing that he can develop and be good
• 30:18
  with no weapons really, which is crazy to say no weapons when JJ is
• 30:22
  on the field, But yeah, that's a scary spot right now. I
• 30:26
  will say. I read another article from today or yesterday, is recently from
• 30:33
  and I'm gonna butcher his name. I've never heard it spoken out loud Will
• 30:37
  Raggets. I've said his name on the podcast he writes for Sports Illustrated.
• 30:41
  He had an article where he pointed out the guaranteed money given to all of
• 30:47
  the Vikings undrafted free agents, which I didn't know that the UDFA contracts.
• 30:52
  It's like the same contract given to every guy. It's just teams have some
• 30:57
  leeway on how much guarantee tees they can give to a guy to entice them
• 31:03
  to sign with them. So it's like a three year just shy of two
• 31:07
  million or just shy of three million deal, and then teams can decide to
• 31:12
  give more or less guaranteed moneies. But one of the guys this year undrafted
• 31:18
  free agents, Joshan Jones, who had never heard of apparently the Vikings gave
• 31:23
  him two hundred and thirty five thousand dollars in guarantees for his rookie undrafted free
• 31:29
  agent contract. So maybe they like what they see and maybe he could be
• 31:32
  a dark horse guy to come in and compete with Brandon Powell for that wide
• 31:36
  receiver three job. I don't know anything about him, even where he went
• 31:40
  to school, But if the Vikings wanted him that bad to give him that
• 31:44
  much guaranteed money, he's a terrapin. He's from Maryland, Okay. Hey,
• 31:48
  Well, the last Maryland receiver for the Vikings to join the team post
• 31:55
  round four of the draft turned out pretty good until he wasn't pretty good nets
• 32:00
  of course, Stefan Da till he was a drama queen. Yeah, but
• 32:02
  we got the miracle from him. So some quick hitting stats on Jones.
• 32:07
  He played forty eight games between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty three for Maryland,
• 32:13
  one hundred and fifty one receptions, two thousand and forty yards, fourteen touchdowns.
• 32:17
  He led Maryland with single season career highs and receptions, receiving yards,
• 32:22
  and yards per game in twenty twenty three, and he ranked fifth in the
• 32:27
  Big Ten in each of those three categories. All right, So there you
• 32:30
  go. So a guy to potentially keep an eye out for in OTAs and
• 32:35
  training camp, just to see one. If he makes a team two maybe
• 32:37
  he makes an impact. The next position. Dustin laid out as a one
• 32:45
  of the worst and this is worse than the wide receivers, even's interior offensive
• 32:50
  line, and I personally kind of disagree with this a little bit. So
• 32:54
  he means the starters on the inside of the line, the left guard,
• 32:58
  the center, and the right guard. Of course, right now, left
• 33:01
  guard is Blake Brandell, center is Garrett Bradbury, and right guard is ed
• 33:06
  Ingram. What are your thoughts on those guys? Right off the bat,
• 33:10
  I like the second two. As long as ed Ingram doesn't step on the
• 33:15
  quarterback's feet, I think we're good. I think he's a great guy to
• 33:21
  have there. And Bradbury's just proven to be really steady and when he's not
• 33:24
  in the game, it's noticeable. Oh yeah, and I forget who who
• 33:29
  filled in from Schlowman, Austin Schloatman, who is now I don't know where
• 33:34
  he signed somewhere else. I think the Patriots. I'm probably wrong on that,
• 33:37
  but he's either way, well all that all that to say, Schlowman
• 33:40
  wasn't bad. It was just noticeable that Bradbury wasn't in the game. And
• 33:47
  Kirk when when Bradbury wasn't in the game, seemed lost, seems yeh like
• 33:52
  he didn't And there's chemistry there. So hopefully Bradbury can develop that chemistry with
• 33:58
  Darnold or McCarthy, who whoever he's snapping the ball to, whoever's touching his
• 34:02
  butt on a regular basis. All right, now there's only two centers on
• 34:07
  the roster. You've got Bradbury and then Dan Feeney who's added as a free
• 34:13
  agent. Dan Feenie his mustaches, Yeah, interesting, dude's interesting. Looking
• 34:22
  at his picture right now, Maybe we make that the like the thumbnail for
• 34:24
  this episode. I'll see what I can do with ed Ingram. I think
• 34:32
  after it kind of correlated with Dalton Reisner. Starting last season in twenty three,
• 34:37
  ed Ingram really kind of started to turn it around and you stopped blaming
• 34:43
  him for bad plays. He started to become less noticeable, which as an
• 34:47
  offensive lineman, that's a good thing. That means you're not ruining plays.
• 34:51
  So to me, ed Ingram seemed to turn it around. And start to
• 34:54
  be good. In Dustin's article, he does kind of mention when you draft
• 35:00
  an interior offensive lineman in the first or second round, which ed Ingram was
• 35:05
  a second rounder, those guys should be really good, because that's pretty high
• 35:09
  to draft a guy like that, especially not a center. So look for
• 35:15
  ed Ingram to potentially take a leap, which he should, especially when you
• 35:20
  have a continuity in coaching staff like we do for the first time in a
• 35:23
  long time, Gett Bradbury. I was concerned for a while. You can
• 35:28
  go back and listen to earlier episodes. He had a back injury that kind
• 35:30
  of derilled two seasons ago for him, and I was concerned that that back
• 35:35
  injury was essentially a career killer for him, and he missed a game or
• 35:38
  two in twenty three, I think because of a back ish injury, and
• 35:44
  I thought, man, we might never see him again. And then he
• 35:46
  only missed a game or two when he came back, and we never heard
• 35:50
  a negative thing about him the rest of the year. I think the knox
• 35:53
  On brad Burrier that he's slightly smaller than your average center, so he might
• 35:59
  get pushed around a little bit, which we did see early in his career,
• 36:01
  but I think after he's gotten over these injury concerns, he doesn't get
• 36:07
  pushed around as blatantly as he used to. So I'm a Bradbury fan,
• 36:10
  I'm an Ingram fan. And then Brandell, we've only ever seen him come
• 36:15
  in in relief, so we don't know too much about him, and I
• 36:19
  think this position group becomes not mushy at all and quite solidified. Actually,
• 36:27
  if they just signed Dalton Reisner, yeah, or for the right price.
• 36:31
  But if they signed Dalton Reisner or somebody or somebody like him, but I
• 36:36
  don't know. I'm still, like I admitted this last week, I'm very
• 36:38
  much like I'm attached to the guys, the players, and I have a
• 36:45
  hard time just watching guys go like it. It was kind of emotional when
• 36:49
  Kirk Cousins left, Like, spent six good years with Kirk Cousins under center
• 36:53
  for the Vikings and that that is kind of a meaningful thing. And so
• 37:00
  to watch him, you know, leave in free agency and everything that's happened
• 37:06
  since then has been kind of interesting as well. But anyways, Don Reisner,
• 37:09
  like man, the line seemed to do really well once Riisner started coming
• 37:14
  in yeah, and he's just he's his His locker room interviews were great.
• 37:19
  The energy he had on the sideline was great, The energy he had on
• 37:22
  the field was great. I know, he got a comment he kind of
• 37:25
  got ripped apart a little bit in a comment that would be a bad GM
• 37:30
  and it's not about sappiness, and yeah, yeah, yeah, well whatever,
• 37:35
  I don't care. That's fine, that's all good and dandy. But
• 37:37
  yeah, there was one comment though, there was a different comment that was
• 37:43
  like he only has the leg kick and that's it or something like that.
• 37:45
  His only highlight was the leg kick. I mean, I think somebody pointed
• 37:49
  out, but he was like forty first of all guards in the NFL,
• 37:52
  which I mean, that's as good as any starter. That's like middle pack
• 37:59
  of any you pointed out last week, I think is he's not as strong
• 38:04
  of a run blocker, but the line seemed to turn things around once he
• 38:09
  became a starter. And then here Ezra Cleveland goes and gets a pretty decent
• 38:15
  contract from from the Jaguars, and I didn't I admittedly didn't follow Cleveland and
• 38:22
  see how he did for the Jaguars after he was traded, So I don't
• 38:25
  know obviously well enough to earn a multi year, tens of million dollar contract,
• 38:30
  so good for him. But yeah, I'd like to see a Riisner
• 38:35
  signing or a signing of somebody who at least can come in and start,
• 38:38
  Like last week we talked about Greg Van Rotin. There's there's got to be
• 38:44
  somebody out there that can step in for a year. You're not looking for
• 38:47
  a ten year guy at this point. But and they drafted a couple of
• 38:51
  guys. I think the guys they drafted were there's a center and then a
• 38:55
  tackle, so not necessarily a guard because but maybe they're looking for those young
• 39:01
  guys to come in and earn a spot on the team somewhere. But I
• 39:07
  think correct me if I'm wrong. I think you would agree with me in
• 39:09
  saying I'm less concerned about the interior offensive line than i am about the wide
• 39:15
  receiver three and beyond position. Yeah, I would agree. I think if
• 39:20
  I were rewriting the article, which Dustin has his reasons, Yeah, we
• 39:23
  can respect those, I would maybe flip flap the two. I think I
• 39:27
  would put the interior offensive line as third most mushy, and then the wide
• 39:31
  receiver three position as the second most mushy. I'd agree. We can call
• 39:37
  Dustin out on that next time he's on just a handful of weeks. I
• 39:39
  think we've got him coming up. But I definitely agree with his number one
• 39:43
  most mushy position, absolutely, and that's the defensive tackle position. So right
• 39:49
  now the room consists of Before you say it, I didn't include every name
• 39:55
  on the list of defensive tackles, but I wrote down at least the names
• 40:00
  that probably matter at this point, so keep going. Sorry. Yeah,
• 40:04
  so the big names are Harrison Phillips, of course, who's another. I
• 40:10
  just think a wonderful acquisition from the Bills a few seasons ago. He just
• 40:15
  he's a Viking through and through, and I hope the guy retires in Purple.
• 40:22
  That'd be fun to fun to see. Oh yeah, Jerry Jerry Tillery
• 40:25
  was an off season free agent acquisition. Yeah, he feels like a by
• 40:30
  low guy for Casey A dopamenso former first round pick has never really seemed to
• 40:38
  become what you think a first round pick should become. But there's something there
• 40:43
  and he's not too old, so he could. He and Sam Darnold could
• 40:46
  be looking at similar roles this year in trying to revive some things in their
• 40:52
  careers. And then you have Jonathan Bullard and correct me if I'm wrong,
• 40:54
  but he's kind of bounced between like the edge and the intier year, has
• 41:00
  he not? Yeah, so have been He's played both. Yeah, And
• 41:02
  I think we both have a little confusion on what is a defensive tackle in
• 41:07
  the three four defense, especially the way the Vikings roster has kind of transitioned
• 41:13
  from four to three to three four. So I'm not I'm not too sure.
• 41:17
  I think in the three four the defensive tackle is the big dude in
• 41:22
  the middle and you really only have one on a given play. But then
• 41:25
  yeah, then you get those defensive ends who in a three four pretty much
• 41:30
  looks like an outside linebacker, but in a four to three is the hand
• 41:35
  and the dirt on the line. Yeah, defensive I'm just used to the
• 41:38
  Williams Wall. Two guys, two guys on the outside, you know,
• 41:44
  Jared Allen just flying out of the out of nowhere, yep, going after
• 41:49
  the quarterback, and that that's what I'm used to. So the three four
• 41:52
  has definitely been a little bit of an adjustment, and to be fair,
• 41:55
  Brian Flores doesn't even necessary really conformed to are you breaking stuff. I don't
• 42:01
  know. Something I put my arm down and something sounded weird. It'd be
• 42:05
  interesting to see what that sounds like on the recording. But yeah, I'm
• 42:08
  just not gonna put my arm down there anymore. And now now I'm nervous
• 42:13
  about leaning my arm. We're good. I tested it all right. What
• 42:17
  I was saying though, was Brian Flores. He keeps you on your toes
• 42:22
  and like he'll throw everybody on the line. He'll bring Harrison Smith up and
• 42:29
  fill the a gap for a second and then back them all off and you
• 42:32
  get Josh Mattelis, who literally at some points has played every position on the
• 42:37
  defense. The Swiss Army knife. Yeah, it's been all over the place.
• 42:39
  So, I mean, I don't know. It's tough to really define.
• 42:45
  It's tough to put a true like four three three four, you know,
• 42:49
  because it's it's so variable, it changes, and I mean that's I
• 42:54
  think the beauty of a defensive coordinator like Brian Flores is you're always keeping the
• 43:00
  offense. You're always keeping the opposing quarterback on their toes, trying to figure
• 43:04
  out what they're looking at, what's going on, who's coming at me,
• 43:07
  who's not how many guys are in the box? How many aren't you know?
• 43:10
  How many guys do we need to account for in blocks? How many
• 43:15
  are going to drop back and coverage like that? That's the beauty of the
• 43:17
  system. So anyways, all of that to say, Yeah, Jonathan Bullard,
• 43:24
  he's he's kind of a wild card. He could be inside. I
• 43:28
  feel like he's played outside though. Yeah. And then James Lynch was a
• 43:31
  big resign. Yeah big, he's a recent resigning. They had cut him
• 43:36
  and signed somebody else recently and then resigned him in the last I don't know,
• 43:39
  a week or so. He's been with a team for a little while,
• 43:43
  but never a big splash guy. But maybe he maybe he comes in
• 43:47
  and does something. I'm not too sure. I think I've kind of forgotten
• 43:52
  about jacquill and Roy, a draft pick from last season. You never know
• 43:58
  what guys do after being in the bing for a full year in the system
• 44:02
  with a very highly touted defensive coordinator. Maybe he comes in and maybe he's
• 44:08
  a way different guy than he was last year. He never really got on
• 44:10
  the field last year. That's Jacqulaim Jacquelin Roy. So maybe he he carves
• 44:15
  out a nice role for himself in the defense. And then I think the
• 44:22
  Vikings media team loved to hype up seventh round pick Levi Drake Rodriguez, who
• 44:30
  I've never heard of, but I've seen all the videos now and his interviews.
• 44:34
  He looks like the happiest person in the world to be a Viking,
• 44:38
  and I freaking love that. The draft room videos which the Vikings posted up
• 44:45
  a really cool one of all the phone calls and all the conversations. You
• 44:47
  know, not every detail, but some draft day details for the war room,
• 44:55
  and then the phone calls and the Levi Drake Rodriguez stuff was pretty cool
• 44:59
  because he, again it is the most excited in the world, and Quacy
• 45:02
  seemed very excited to be able to still get that guy and not have to
• 45:07
  compete and undrafted, free agency or somebody else draft him before they could.
• 45:10
  So you never know. There's some names that could do something. But I
• 45:15
  agree with Dustin here, it's probably the biggest obvious weakness at this point in
• 45:20
  the season above the offensive line or wide receiver. Threes agreed, and I
• 45:28
  mean Harrison Phillips is a stalwart. I think I think he's going to be
• 45:32
  the most consistent and probably the bona fide starter at this point, barring anything
• 45:39
  unforeseen like injury, Jerry Tillery remains to be kind of seen how he fits,
• 45:46
  and of course, the defense as a whole, like we just finished
• 45:50
  saying, kind of is in flux, and it's going to be interesting to
• 45:54
  see with some of these new acquisitions how Floraes puts him to work. And
• 46:00
  I don't know, there's a lot of interesting things that will develop, especially
• 46:07
  during training camp in those early preseason games. I think with these positions absolutely,
• 46:13
  and I kind of joked about it a little bit earlier, but I
• 46:15
  think I don't see any big changes to these positions or really the roster as
• 46:20
  a whole between now in the next few weeks. And like I said,
• 46:24
  Dustin Baker is going to be on in the next few weeks, so we
• 46:27
  should definitely bring this up to him in this specific article and see what his
• 46:30
  more longer thought out process of these decisions and why he ranked them where he
• 46:37
  did. But until then, definitely go again, please go check out that
• 46:42
  article. It's really good, doesn't take very long to read, and even
• 46:46
  if you disagree, you'll see what Dustin's saying and why he's ranking these positions
• 46:52
  the way he does. So yeah, yeah, good stuff from Viking's territory.
• 46:58
  So make sure you head over there and check that out. We've got
• 47:00
  something special here, and you're gonna kind of lead the charge on this because
• 47:06
  I'm unavailable. Yeah yeah, so we might have some crossover fans. There's
• 47:12
  definitely more fans of of You Betcha than there probably are of the Skull Hob
• 47:19
  at this point. But if you do follow You Betcha and all of their
• 47:23
  stuff. They have a subsidiary podcasts from You Betcha Radio. It's called the
• 47:30
  Double Bogie Show. There's a couple of guys there that talk about golf and
• 47:34
  and they all seem to be or a lot of them seem to be Vikings
• 47:37
  fans. So we've got a really cool interview coming up here that actually we
• 47:43
  haven't recorded yet. I'm gonna do it tomorrow, but I'm gonna talk with
• 47:45
  Tyler and Jared I think, from from the You Betcha crew about the Vikings.
• 47:52
  So that's coming up for you guys here in just a few seconds,
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  probably for us tomorrow. But I'm really excited about this. I'm a big
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  fan of You bet You Evan, I know you've seen some of their stuff
• 48:02
  too, but yeah, this should be a lot of fun. I'm looking
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  forward to it. Yeah, well I wish I could be there. Yeah,
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  maybe next time. Maybe maybe it'll be so much fun that they'll want
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  to come on and talk to us all the time. And probably not,
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  but you never know, don't screw it up, right, No pressure,
• 48:20
  no pressure whatsoever. So if you guys are listening to this right now,
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  I'm very excited, not nervous at all, because I don't really get nervous.
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  I'm tough like that, you know, I'm mister your macho. Now
• 48:29
  I'm a little nervous, but it'll be fun and I'm really looing forward to
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  well school, to having fun with some fellow Vikings fans. Yep. After
• 48:37
  that we will come back and we'll give our final thoughts and opinions on the
• 48:40
  control alt beer or however you want to say it, because it's not spell
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  b e R it's a German thing. Yeah, I like it. So
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  that's coming up a little bit later school. All right, welcome in skull
• 48:53
  hoppers. We gave already gave you a little bit of an intro, but
• 49:00
  we're here now now that I've got Tyler and Jared here. You know them
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  from you Bet you do, you Bet your radio, breakfast Ball, the
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  Double Bogie Show, all that fun stuff, and we'll give them a chance
• 49:10
  to talk about that here towards the end. But welcome in, guys,
• 49:15
  thanks for coming on, Thanks for having us. Austin. Absolutely, I
• 49:19
  was super stoked when you guys said you'd be interested in coming on. I
• 49:22
  listen to you guys all the time, and obviously from listening to you your
• 49:27
  Vikings fans, you can tell. But you don't really get to talk about
• 49:30
  the Vikings too much. Usually it's just Tyler complaining about the team, which
• 49:36
  I I feel you there. Every time we try to talk about the Vikings,
• 49:39
  we get shut down everyone. No one wants to hear it. As
• 49:44
  much information as possible in thirty seconds before Ryan or Miles starts barking at me,
• 49:49
  you know what, fight back at him, just tell them, you
• 49:51
  know what, Sit down, guys, this is my Vikings corner and we're
• 49:53
  gonna we're gonna fant for a little bit. We should pitch that, Jared,
• 49:57
  we should give we should get a Vikings corner one some month in the
• 50:00
  fall. They give it five minutes to just get whatever we want out,
• 50:05
  and you're already sitting in the corner, So why not making Vikings perfect?
• 50:07
  There you go? There you go. Then do you have a little skull
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  hot flag that you can you can put in some some plug there, a
• 50:14
  little bit you don't even have to say about it. Just give you one
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  of those. I'll put it up in the Breakfast Ball studio somewhere. We'll
• 50:21
  see what we can do. Okay, all right, Well, here's your
• 50:24
  chance, you guys get to rant about the Vikings. We're all die hard
• 50:29
  fans, but there's a lot of complaining that we can do. So let's
• 50:31
  let's air that out right here. First off, for both of you guys,
• 50:36
  how do you guys become Vikings fans? Is it a super cool story?
• 50:39
  Is it really boring? What is it? How are you Vikings fans?
• 50:42
  You go ahead, Jared, just through my folks pretty much. My
• 50:45
  first memories is just watching Vikings with my dad, brother, mom and kind
• 50:51
  of just they I just kind of got into it that way, just through
• 50:54
  my phone. Yeah, that's awesome. That's the purest kind of fan right
• 51:00
  there. Just know nothing else sort of similar except my dad was trying to
• 51:06
  force me to be a Vikings fan. But I was one of those kids
• 51:09
  that would just kind of do the opposite of what they were told. So
• 51:13
  I didn't. I didn't become a Packers fan. I took it so far
• 51:15
  as I just don't like football because you're trying to force me into this so
• 51:20
  much. And then I started playing football and I really loved it, and
• 51:23
  I was like, well, I have to be a Vikings fan or I'll
• 51:25
  get kicked out of So decide, like, what, what's the first year
• 51:31
  that you remember? Okay, I'm a Vikings fan now, and I remembering
• 51:37
  the first year. I remember actually caring m and like being devastated when inevitably
• 51:45
  the season was over. Was the ap rushing record year? Oh? Okay?
• 51:51
  Oh seven? Yep? Yeah, his single game record or the MVP
• 51:58
  year the single game okay, okay? It would have been his rookie season,
• 52:01
  correct, Yes, yep, yeah, yeah. I would have been
• 52:06
  in six or seventh grade right when I started playing football, so that makes
• 52:07
  sense. That's the perfect time to really start liking a sports team. Also,
• 52:13
  it's terrible because when you're a kid, you don't know how heartbroken you're
• 52:15
  going to get for the rest of you. Well, and I was spoiled.
• 52:22
  I was spoiled with AP. I just thought that all were going to
• 52:24
  be that good. Right, we have been spoiled as Vikings fans since then.
• 52:30
  Game like not until Dalton left. Last year was really the first time
• 52:34
  we had like, oh this is what we did have the Toby Gerhart year.
• 52:39
  Yeah, he was never really the starter was he was always right behind
• 52:44
  ap Well it was him. So the year after ap left, it was
• 52:47
  like a running back by committee with Gerhart and Siata and who else. That
• 52:54
  dude just scored touchdowns he was giving to him on the one I do.
• 53:01
  Look, Gar was on that team. I'm pretty sure he was, because
• 53:05
  then he went to the He started for Jacksonville the next year, right,
• 53:08
  Yeah, it was a Jack McKinnon before he left for San Francisco potentially.
• 53:15
  Yeah. I like, we're sitting at a bar right now, we're just
• 53:20
  like he played, just naming old players. We we literally did that last
• 53:25
  week on the Schoolhop with Jimmy Klein Saucer. We had an old segment talking
• 53:30
  about Jim clein Saucer. It was awesome, awesome Jim Clein Saucer story for
• 53:36
  you. So my dad played football at U and D he had me super
• 53:38
  young. So my dad was a freshman in college when I was born,
• 53:44
  and him and Jimmy played together and no friend. So my dad was an
• 53:47
  outside linebacker and Jimmy is a tight end. They were going against each other
• 53:51
  in drills all the time. So Jimmy, Yeah, Jimmy was at my
• 53:57
  baptism when I was like one or two. I don't remember how old I
• 54:00
  was, obviously, but they became friends in college, and then Jimmy Clinsauser
• 54:04
  was out the baptism, so so outside that, man, what's that?
• 54:09
  Have you ever met Cline Saucer or was outside of that? That was it?
• 54:13
  No, they buddies in college, and then my dad obviously didn't go
• 54:17
  pro, so they kind of lost. I don't know, I've only ever
• 54:22
  heard awesome things about Client soficer and how it's like a total normal dude.
• 54:27
  So that's really cool, all right, So what are you guys's favorite Vikings
• 54:32
  memories? You have any big highlights that stand out, even if it's just
• 54:36
  so I jumped around in the Minneapolis Miracle, Like, what, what's your
• 54:38
  favorite memory? I mean, that's for me, that's it. I mean
• 54:42
  Yeah, it's I was living in my college house. Every single there was
• 54:45
  five of us, and every single one of us was die hard and we're
• 54:50
  jumping and hugging and there were tears. But I know that's the basic answer,
• 54:54
  so I did prepare like a second answer for you. Oh, okay,
• 54:59
  first year the band open, what was that? Twenty sixteen? Yeard
• 55:01
  twenty sixteen? My dad bought us tickets, Me, my buddy and my
• 55:07
  dad, and we are three inches from the ceiling of the US Bank Stadium.
• 55:14
  We were way the hell up there, and it was a kickoff and
• 55:17
  while the ball is in the air, my dad goes, Cordero is going
• 55:22
  to run this back the Cardinals, and he ran it back and I had
• 55:27
  two bumps from the prediction. The crowd was going absolutely nuts, and you
• 55:30
  could see everything develop from that high up. It was just a super cool
• 55:34
  moment. So that was fun. Yeah, yeah, US think's really good
• 55:38
  for those those viewing angles. There's really not a bad seat in the house.
• 55:42
  Yeah, that's the cliche phrase, but it's true. Yeah, all
• 55:46
  right, Jared, what's your favorite memory? I think it was been I
• 55:50
  think the two thousand and four wild card game against the Packers, Okay,
• 55:54
  that was the game. Yep, that was yep. That was the Moss
• 56:00
  in the crowd game. Yeah. Oh yeah. And then during that year,
• 56:04
  the Vikings lost the Packers twice I think, yeah, we're thirty one.
• 56:07
  They both lost, and then they went to Lambo and beat him in
• 56:09
  the playoffs. Oh yeah, that was the year. Yeah, because they
• 56:14
  played the Packers like the last game of the season and then also in the
• 56:19
  wild card round the next week, So it was that seems to happen a
• 56:22
  little bit more. Yeah, now because that happened, that happened in twenty
• 56:25
  twelve. We had to win against the Packers with Ponder and then Ponder crushed
• 56:30
  his hand and we started Joe webbing the ice Bowl. Yeah, do you
• 56:34
  remember that game? The first drive, Joe Webb looked like he was gonna
• 56:37
  rush the team victory, and then they stopped letting him rush around and they
• 56:43
  just it was embarrassing. It was It's like they always scheduled like three Joe
• 56:45
  Webb plays and then just abandoned them. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 56:53
  that's crazy. It's funny because the Minneapolis Miracle game, Uh, my second
• 56:59
  daughter had been born like two or three weeks before that. And the whole
• 57:02
  game. I was sitting on the couch watching the game holding my daughter.
• 57:06
  It was awesome. And then towards the end of the game, it was
• 57:08
  looking pretty grim. So my wife just kind of came up and like gracefully
• 57:14
  took my daughter out of my hands because I was looking at this, and
• 57:17
  then the miracle happened, and my wife kind of looked at me. I
• 57:20
  didn't react. I was stunned. She looked at me, She's like,
• 57:23
  is that was that a good thing? I was like, and then I
• 57:28
  broke out of my trance and jumping around like everybody else. Oh yeah,
• 57:30
  I love that great. Well, speaking of kids, Tyler, I know
• 57:35
  your dad, Jared, I don't. I don't think you have any kids.
• 57:37
  Maybe someday one one deceased Goldfish Oh yeah, all right, man.
• 57:46
  Well, being a dad and a Vikings fan, do you do you ever
• 57:51
  feel guilty? Because I do feel guilty about bringing your kids into this fandom,
• 57:55
  not for a single second. I feel zero gil those built character.
• 58:01
  Being a Vikings fan, you need to know that life will let you down
• 58:07
  and there's not you can do about it. I think it's lesson. No,
• 58:09
  I'm I'm fully ingratiating them into the Vikings fandom. They've both had jerseys
• 58:15
  since the day they were born, So there you go. That sucks.
• 58:19
  Yeah. I go back and forth on if I should feel bad or not.
• 58:22
  One of my favorite memories of my kids being Vikings fans is two or
• 58:27
  three seasons ago. I was watching with my oldest daughter, who's like,
• 58:30
  I don't know six or so at the time, five or six, and
• 58:34
  the game was winding down the Vikings. It was close, but they were
• 58:36
  not gonna win, and it became very apparent, and she just looked at
• 58:39
  me and was like, are they They're gonna lose? And no, yes,
• 58:49
  that's great. So it made the loss feel a little bit less terrible
• 58:52
  but also cheap. It's good for you. Now you have someone to share
• 58:57
  the pain with. You can old them, and that's healing for you.
• 59:01
  Yep. I also bribe my kids every Vikings win. We get ice cream
• 59:06
  as a family, watch the game and be like, oh, are they
• 59:08
  Are they winning because we get ice cream? You'repelling them with Vikings. Yeah.
• 59:17
  Yeah, it's uh. It's funny because right now they care more about
• 59:21
  the ice cream, but someday they will care about the team. Someday they'll
• 59:24
  be like, get the ice cream out of my face. I'm trying to
• 59:27
  watch you're about the ice cream. Except my kids, they're not the oldest
• 59:31
  one, isn't. He cares that the Vikings are on, but he doesn't
• 59:37
  really get it. Yeah, younger one, somehow he cares more. To
• 59:42
  him every football game, no matter what football is on TV, it's a
• 59:45
  Vikings game, and he knows that he should watch it because it's so we're
• 59:50
  watching the college football playoffs and he's like, dad, Vikings and yep,
• 59:54
  buddy, and he sits down and he watches it all. There you go,
• 59:59
  that's awesome. So what was it like golfing at US Bank? Really
• 1:00:05
  interesting? Like so that I made this comment to Ryan and Jake when we
• 1:00:10
  were there. I've been to the Bank probably fifteen to twenty ish times now
• 1:00:17
  since it opened, to go to at least one game a year, some
• 1:00:21
  events, concerts, whatever. It was so strange to see it relatively empty.
• 1:00:27
  Oh yeah, that's true. And we're in this stadium and I'm used
• 1:00:30
  to thirty thousand plus people being in it, and there were maybe a thousand,
• 1:00:36
  and it was strangely quiet. It almost felt like a different building,
• 1:00:38
  and not in a bad way. It was you could really take in more
• 1:00:42
  stuff. You could see details that you wouldn't notice when it's filled with humans.
• 1:00:46
  But it was really interesting. The golf event they put on was really
• 1:00:50
  cool and I recommend to anyone if you get the chance to do it.
• 1:00:53
  You started in the Polaris Club and you literally just went up, up and
• 1:01:00
  down the stand, so you would hit from top of the lower bowl to
• 1:01:04
  the middle row to your as high up as you can go, and it
• 1:01:07
  was it was really neat. So if anyone gets to do what I'd recommend
• 1:01:10
  doing it. I think they're that same company is doing the same event at
• 1:01:15
  target Field. Yeah, they did one there a couple of years ago too.
• 1:01:20
  I think, yeah, yeah, I think it's coming up sometime,
• 1:01:22
  you know, sometime the next couple of months. They're doing it there too.
• 1:01:25
  So for me it's like a six hour drive to get up to the
• 1:01:29
  cities, but for stuff like that, obviously for Viking scenes, that's it.
• 1:01:32
  It's a worth it drive for us. But I think I might have
• 1:01:36
  to check out that target Field event that they put on. It seemed really
• 1:01:38
  cool. Where were you at in the stadium when you recorded that podcast talking
• 1:01:43
  about it. So we were in that Polaris Club. Okay, so it
• 1:01:46
  wasn't the player, it was the the casino, Mystic Lake. The Mystic
• 1:01:52
  Lake, yep, yep. So we're in there and that's where they house
• 1:01:58
  the event. So that's where like all the food is in the sponsor booths
• 1:02:00
  and stuff, and then that's typically blocked off like behind the booths the stadium
• 1:02:07
  was, but they knew we were coming to do a podcast, so they
• 1:02:08
  let us into there so we could have a view of the field. It
• 1:02:12
  was super cool. Probably one and only time I'm ever in the Mystic Lake
• 1:02:16
  club because I can't afford that shit. So I was the only one kind
• 1:02:21
  of soaking it in, like, hey, this is pretty sweet. Is
• 1:02:23
  there any coasters I can steal? Let's go on on here. That's awesome.
• 1:02:30
  Yeah, that's cool. I definitely if they do that event at US
• 1:02:32
  Bank again, I'm definitely signing up for that one. Yeah. I think
• 1:02:37
  you should if you had that fun. Yeah, all right, let's keep
• 1:02:39
  it on golf for a little bit. I haven't really mentioned it, but
• 1:02:43
  breakfast Ball you guys are focused on golf and Midwest stuff, so we'll keep
• 1:02:46
  it on golf. A little bit hypothetical question for you guys, both of
• 1:02:51
  you. You can pick any three current or former vikings to play around a
• 1:02:55
  golf with. Who is it and why? Okay? One more question about
• 1:03:00
  the rule. So they have to be live, no, no, and
• 1:03:05
  they are alive. So if it's Fran Targanton, it can be like playing
• 1:03:08
  days Fran Tarkenton, you know, like I'm okay, it can yeah.
• 1:03:13
  Yeah, that's just gonna make me double down on my picks. Jared,
• 1:03:15
  you go ahead, I'll do Roman Reins. He's a Viking. Yeah,
• 1:03:22
  yeah, I knew Lesner was. I didn't know Roman Reins was second.
• 1:03:27
  Okay, and let's see, let's do Rans. Oh there you go,
• 1:03:35
  okay, yeah. Classic. So I'm going with my two favorite vikings of
• 1:03:39
  all time, Chris Carter mm hmm and Harrison So both of them. I
• 1:03:45
  don't know if Harrison and golf at all. I know Chris Carter can Harrison
• 1:03:50
  Smith. Yeah, Harrison Smith. Sorry, yeah, I think he's not.
• 1:03:52
  Harrison Phillips, Yeah he's He's not one of my favorite Vikes. No
• 1:03:58
  offense to you, Harrison Phillips, if you're listening like he's totally listening.
• 1:04:01
  Yeah, I'm sure he is. You kind of look like Harrison Phillips a
• 1:04:04
  little bit. So yeah, go Chris Carter, Harrison Smith and Bud Grant
• 1:04:15
  be super cool at golf of him. Yeah, and I would take him.
• 1:04:18
  I know the course. I would even take him to. There's this
• 1:04:21
  course in Minnesota, super way up north. It's called Three Bears. It's
• 1:04:27
  in the middle of nowhere. The clubhouse is just the shed. You there's
• 1:04:31
  no tea times you show up. It's an honor system. If you want
• 1:04:34
  to get some beers or some pops out of the clubhouse, you leave money
• 1:04:39
  there and you just golf as many times as you want, and then you
• 1:04:42
  drive down the road to the bar and pay for your round at the bar.
• 1:04:45
  That's the middle of nowhere. I've seen bears out there. I've seen
• 1:04:49
  deer out there, so I think Bud would love that as well. That's
• 1:04:54
  awesome, that sounds cool. Yeah, I think mine. My first one
• 1:04:58
  would be Adam Thielen. I think he's a golfer, so that that would
• 1:05:02
  almost take I'm terrible at golf. I like it, but I'm terrible.
• 1:05:05
  But yeah, it doesn't even matter like I'm gonna get beat anyways. I
• 1:05:11
  might as well get beat by someone who's super good. I liked the Harrison
• 1:05:14
  Smith, so I'm mad in him in mind. And then Jared Allen.
• 1:05:17
  He just seems like a good time, so he would be a good time.
• 1:05:20
  He'd be the guy that rolls the cart. Yes, you want another
• 1:05:28
  another personal story? Oh? Do you have a Jared Allen story? No?
• 1:05:31
  I have a fling story for you though. Let's go that's everyone knows
• 1:05:36
  this if they they blew it up in the media coverage. Or Adam Thelen
• 1:05:42
  Detroit Lakes guy. Really, yeah, I'm kidding. That's he was almost
• 1:05:46
  a dentist too. Really did you know that he only had one college offer?
• 1:05:51
  That since? Was he he was undrafted too? Wasn't he he was?
• 1:05:56
  He was? Nobody knows? Yesh. Yeah, Adam Thlen Detroit Lakes
• 1:06:00
  boy. I went to school in DL for the first till third grade,
• 1:06:05
  and then I moved to the next town over. Frazy, but one of
• 1:06:10
  my friends grown up, so this might get a little convoluted my freshman year
• 1:06:14
  of college. After my freshman year, played football in college d three.
• 1:06:17
  After my freshman year, my friend, his older brother is best friends with
• 1:06:23
  Adam Thielen. They were best men in each other's wedding. Oh wow,
• 1:06:27
  that's awesome. Every year on the fourth of July, that family plays a
• 1:06:30
  seven on seven football game on the Detroit like high school field and they always
• 1:06:36
  bring one buddy with So I was my buddies plus one and Delynn who would
• 1:06:42
  This was the year that he was on the practice squad for the Viking.
• 1:06:45
  Okay, okay, well his older brothers plus one and they decided that in
• 1:06:49
  this family game of seven on seven that since I'm a college football player,
• 1:06:54
  granted it's D three and I didn't sniff the field once, that I should
• 1:06:59
  get put on the professional football player because we're the two highest levels of football
• 1:07:03
  player on this team. And he was super cool about it. He could
• 1:07:06
  have done whatever he wanted, he could have scored on command, but he
• 1:07:10
  was He was cool about it. But it was still cool to say that
• 1:07:13
  I've played with an NFL record holder on a high school field. Yeah,
• 1:07:17
  that's crazy. And in the midst of his we should just add that to
• 1:07:23
  the lore of Adam Steelen. When you shouldn't use from the hometown kid tryout
• 1:07:29
  player was practicing against some D three college football player. Yeah, I really
• 1:07:34
  gave him Hey, there, you can't deny that after that game he did
• 1:07:40
  get elevated to the fifty three. Yeah, you can take some credit for
• 1:07:45
  everything that happened in his career after that game. So congrats, man,
• 1:07:47
  that's awesome. I don't know why I haven't been doing this the whole time.
• 1:07:50
  You absolutely need to wear a T shirt like I made Adam feelin who
• 1:07:57
  I mean, make your welcome Adam shirts. That's awesome, Tyler. You
• 1:08:04
  went to the draft party recently, didn't you, Yeah, me and Grandpa
• 1:08:08
  Dave. That's how was that? That was cool? It was very cool.
• 1:08:12
  That was another one where it was a completely different style of event that
• 1:08:16
  I've ever been to. At the Bank, they had the entire field was
• 1:08:21
  just filled with like games and activities and whatnot, and they had like some
• 1:08:28
  of the lower bowls open up for sitting, but most of it everybody was
• 1:08:30
  on the field. And then they had a stage set up on what would
• 1:08:34
  be I think the West End zone, Okay, opposite of the main entrance
• 1:08:40
  where they had they were doing like Pa was doing his radio show live at
• 1:08:45
  the draft, So that was pumped throughout the whole stadium, which was super
• 1:08:47
  cool. And yeah, all the events were really sweet and everyone there was
• 1:08:51
  having a blast. That's cool. Well, and the whole vibe of the
• 1:08:56
  draft too. I think everybody guessed that they were going to trade the next
• 1:09:00
  hundred years of first round picks to get but then they didn't have to do
• 1:09:03
  that. What was it like in that time where it's like, oh,
• 1:09:05
  I guess the Patriots are taking Drake me, what's gonna happen? Was it
• 1:09:10
  kind of tense in there? It was super tense. It was weird.
• 1:09:12
  So again to the atmosphere. This was the first time I'd ever been at
• 1:09:16
  an event at the Bank where there's a lot of people, and for sure
• 1:09:21
  everybody there was Vikings fans, Like you can go to a Vikings game and
• 1:09:25
  there's gonna be some of the opponents fans there. Everybody in that building was
• 1:09:30
  a Vikings fan. So we all got quiet at the same time, we
• 1:09:33
  all got excited at the same time. Just the energy match and you could
• 1:09:38
  like feel the waves of everybody there and it was kind of neat. Yeah,
• 1:09:42
  after Drake May went, it was there was like a lot of looking
• 1:09:45
  around, like all right, we're still what we were, five six,
• 1:09:51
  seven picks away and everyone's like we're on the clock, on the clock for
• 1:09:56
  the next hour and a half. You never know what's going to happen then.
• 1:10:00
  And then later on Dallas Turner they traded up again. I didn't expect
• 1:10:04
  that to happen at all. No, that was actually the most surprised anyone
• 1:10:08
  was at the entire draft party. So for the JJ pick is, I
• 1:10:14
  kind of messed up a little bit. So they had this thing there called
• 1:10:16
  the Vikings Rummage Sale, and I had no idea what it was going to
• 1:10:19
  be. I assumed it was just going to be like a discounted merch tent.
• 1:10:25
  Sure, yeah, but I wanted to check that out. So I
• 1:10:28
  went in there at like pick six, I believe just I thought i'd be
• 1:10:31
  quick in and out. So you go through a tunnel where they run out
• 1:10:35
  actually, and then you go down to Hallwaii. You fall on these signs.
• 1:10:38
  All of a sudden, we're in the locker room. What it would
• 1:10:43
  go into the locker room and they it's an actual rummage sale where they have
• 1:10:46
  white folded tables just filled with gear that the players used. So they had
• 1:10:53
  a shitload of like game war and jerseys where they like took the names off
• 1:10:57
  they had game pants, they had the the shorts and like the compression shirts
• 1:11:01
  that they would wear for like shells day and walk throughs and stuff like.
• 1:11:04
  So it was just all you stuff that the Vikings were trying to get rid
• 1:11:09
  of. And so instead of me just doing my planned quick check it out
• 1:11:13
  and then leave, I got sucked in. I'm texting Jared like you want
• 1:11:15
  a jersey, dude, there's a whole bunch of and so I'm in full
• 1:11:19
  shop mode and then all these other people in the locker room like, oh
• 1:11:23
  shit, we traded up. I just four picks disappeared while I was just
• 1:11:29
  skimming through jerseys, and they took the names off the back, but it
• 1:11:32
  said that the year on the tag, so I had rosters open so I
• 1:11:38
  could figure out whose jerseys they were, and so I just lost track of
• 1:11:41
  time, and then all of a sudden, they're like, hey, we
• 1:11:43
  traded up, and so I grabbed my jerseys really quick. I run to
• 1:11:45
  the checkout thing, which is at another tunnel to get back onto the field,
• 1:11:49
  and we're on the clock, and I asked the lady. I was
• 1:11:53
  like, hey, can I just run to the tunnel and watch the pick
• 1:11:57
  quick while you ring this up, go ahead, and so I run out
• 1:12:00
  there, we draft JJ. Everyone erupts it's awesome, and I go back
• 1:12:05
  and the lady's like, hey, surprise. After the first pick, every
• 1:12:10
  jersey's five dollars, so what? I got four Viking jerseys for twenty dollars
• 1:12:15
  and then the shirts were five dollars, so we're good to go. It
• 1:12:21
  was great. So wading really saved you probably a good crap ton of money.
• 1:12:26
  Yeah, so I ended up getting we got four jerseys for eighty dollars.
• 1:12:30
  I spent eighty eighty three dollars. Some of the shirt was three bucks.
• 1:12:35
  I spent eighty three dollars to get four jerseys and a shirt, so
• 1:12:38
  it was sweet. That's awesome. Whose jerseys did you get? Do you
• 1:12:43
  remember the only cool one? Jake wanted a ninety eight jersey because that's the
• 1:12:49
  year he was born, So I just grabbed the first ninety eight jersey and
• 1:12:53
  ended up being Lindvall nice. And then there was a I think Noah had
• 1:13:00
  Gerald Hodges's jersey, right yep, Carol Hodges. He was the only other
• 1:13:03
  name I recognized. Then one I got a sixteen from like twenty nineteen,
• 1:13:09
  and it was a punter that wored in a preseason game. Who did you
• 1:13:14
  get Jared? I got Mac Brown. He was a cornerback. He played
• 1:13:16
  like one or two games in like twenty seventeen. Huh okay really yeah,
• 1:13:23
  and they're just still really cool. Yeah, yeah it was. It was
• 1:13:27
  super sweet. But then the like I said, the most hype the bank
• 1:13:31
  got was went out of nowhere. We traded up to go get Turner.
• 1:13:35
  So because nobody saw that coming, we were all just sitting there. That's
• 1:13:39
  when everyone was there's everyone was in the beer line, everyone was checking out
• 1:13:43
  the games. No one was paying really any attention, and they announced that
• 1:13:46
  and Pa lost his shit. It was awesome. He he could make me
• 1:13:51
  excited to watch somebody paint a wall. He described it right like, Yeah,
• 1:13:58
  I could listen to that guy any day doing anything. Yeah, I
• 1:14:00
  can imagine how crazy that building was when they traded up and when they got
• 1:14:05
  JJ without having to trade the next two or three years worth of first round
• 1:14:10
  picks like that crazy too, Yeah, it was. I think there was
• 1:14:14
  a ton of signs that said, let quasy cook. I think he cooked.
• 1:14:18
  Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm more and more every time Craycy does something
• 1:14:23
  I like him a little bit more. Well, it's not the bar so
• 1:14:27
  low his first draft, nowhere to go but up Lewis scene. He might
• 1:14:31
  not even make the team this year. Like that's crazy. No, all
• 1:14:36
  right, Tyler, what's worse, uh? Watching the a loss in the
• 1:14:42
  NFC Championship game or breaking your leg? Well? Yeah, I cried way
• 1:14:51
  more when we lost the NFC Championship game in twenty Yeah, so there's your
• 1:14:55
  answer, and that honestly this I'm only broken leg. It's four to six
• 1:15:00
  weeks in a boot. If to win the NFC Championship game, I would
• 1:15:03
  go six months in a boot. Yeah, easy trade, you know,
• 1:15:09
  just break both my legs if I can guarantee you know, one Super Bowl
• 1:15:13
  win, Like, let's go. Yeah, yeah, no doubt. The
• 1:15:16
  NFC Championship was worse. I remember, well, I don't remember because I
• 1:15:21
  consumed a lot of beverages after that loss, and I had a I looked
• 1:15:26
  at my outgoing phone calls the next day and I had a thirty minute phone
• 1:15:30
  call to my grandpa and I didn't remember, and then call them again and
• 1:15:35
  I was like, what happened? Why did I call you? He's like,
• 1:15:38
  you were not okay? Good old Grandfa Dave Well, Scholhoppers. You
• 1:15:44
  don't know what we're talking about. Tyler. I talked a lot about breaking
• 1:15:47
  his leg and really both you bet your radio and the Double Bowie Show from
• 1:15:54
  past week. So you'll check that out. Good listens overall. Yeah,
• 1:15:58
  it's calm almost another relevant to this podcast. Another good football story for you.
• 1:16:02
  Go check it out. Yeah, for sure, I liked it.
• 1:16:06
  Some good backyard football. And then you you rallied, you, you didn't
• 1:16:10
  leave, You were tough. Matt Stafford performance. People are saying, do
• 1:16:15
  that video of Stafford like coming out of the game, coming back in It's
• 1:16:19
  like three minutes. It's just an iron man. That's crazy. So that's
• 1:16:25
  what I picture when I hear the story of you, you coming back and
• 1:16:29
  throwing the game winning touchdown after that game tying technically Oh, I mean,
• 1:16:32
  hey, it is semantics. But Jared was there, he said he was
• 1:16:35
  the one. I think he said this was better than Matt staff five ten
• 1:16:40
  years from that will be a game winning touch Yeah. Well yeah, security
• 1:16:43
  camera footage and they'll do an ESPN thirty for thirty on it. I'm sure.
• 1:16:47
  Well, and it's your story. It can be a game winning touchdown.
• 1:16:50
  It can be you can have thrown it and caught it if you want
• 1:16:54
  to tell that story. Yes, yeah, all I know is a ding
• 1:16:59
  on leg is a hell of a long way from the heart. Yeah.
• 1:17:03
  And the Vikings they know how to break our hearts, so they do,
• 1:17:06
  Yes, they do, all right, guys. So I guess to close
• 1:17:10
  it out a little bit, I've got some rapid fire questions for you,
• 1:17:14
  and just don't think too much, both of you. I want you to
• 1:17:16
  answer, if you're all right with it. What how many starts do you
• 1:17:21
  think Sam Donald's going to have this season for the Vikes unpopular opinion seventeen?
• 1:17:29
  Okay, I agree with you. I would say twelve, okay, okay,
• 1:17:33
  all right? How many starts for JJ? Zero? Okay? All
• 1:17:40
  right? I guess five? Okay, because in theory, if Sam Donald
• 1:17:45
  doesn't start, JJ won't be the only other quarterback on the roster. So
• 1:17:49
  if he's not ready, I don't I don't think you throw it in there
• 1:17:51
  before he's ready. Yeah, I would really like Donald to start every game
• 1:17:56
  because I'm even if, like some of the pros are perdicting we start zero
• 1:18:00
  to six. I know all of Vikings fandom is going to be screaming for
• 1:18:05
  JJ to start. I do not want it. We cannot ruin this kid
• 1:18:12
  exactly. Yeah, we can't throw him into the fire if he's not ready.
• 1:18:15
  I don't want his career to get cut short because we threw him out
• 1:18:19
  there when he wasn't ready. Yep. Just a few minutes ago, with
• 1:18:24
  Evan and I talking on this podcast, I said that we can't Christian ponder
• 1:18:29
  JJ. We can't in just because we want him in. And Donovan McNabb
• 1:18:33
  or you know, save Donald's not getting the job done. You protect you.
• 1:18:38
  I think Donald. I think Donald be a little better than the Vikings
• 1:18:42
  McNabb actually, at least I think I would be a little bit better than
• 1:18:46
  the Vikings. I have a really, really sneaky suspicion that Donald might have
• 1:18:54
  himself a case keenum here. How about a Baker Mayfield year from last year.
• 1:19:00
  Yeah, and I hope that doesn't sway Quacy or O'Connell to keep him.
• 1:19:09
  Well, hey, what if he gets it, goes and gets a
• 1:19:12
  bag for like the Steelers, I don't know, they get a new quarterback
• 1:19:15
  every other week. Yeah, true, But what if the unthinkable happens and
• 1:19:18
  Donald starts every game, they make the playoffs, and they do something magical.
• 1:19:23
  What if Donald brought this team to a super Bowl? What do you
• 1:19:26
  do. I'm not saying it's gonna happen, but what do you do?
• 1:19:29
  I give him one more another one year? If pump him up the super
• 1:19:33
  Bowl, somebody's giving him at least a three year, one hundred million dollar
• 1:19:38
  contract. Yeah, if I'm the Vikings though, that's all I'm offering him,
• 1:19:41
  is like, hey, here's another one year. You're not the quarter
• 1:19:43
  back of the future, you know that. What if he does it?
• 1:19:45
  Though? Like what if? Again, I'm not predicting it. What if
• 1:19:48
  Donald throws like six thousand yards and like seventy touchdowns and he looks like like
• 1:19:55
  uh Sam Bradford did against the Saints that one year to open up the the
• 1:20:00
  season. Like what if he's just perfect? You gotta keep him right.
• 1:20:03
  It's a good problem to have. It is a great problem. And me,
• 1:20:06
  the cynic right now is saying, Nope, Nope, he's not,
• 1:20:10
  he's too old, he's not. We we have this rookie that we're gonna
• 1:20:15
  have to We're gonna be paying pennies for the next five years. We gotta
• 1:20:19
  think advantage that we can build a roster around him. We can't build a
• 1:20:23
  roster spending all our cap space on sam Donold. If he wins the super
• 1:20:26
  Bowl, Yeah, that's true. H And again I think, yeah,
• 1:20:30
  that's a that would be a beautiful problem to have a year from now.
• 1:20:33
  And I don't think that'll happen. But man, if he won you the
• 1:20:36
  Super Bowl, I don't know. I don't know the right answer. I
• 1:20:41
  think you gotta go with them. I'd be forever in his debt. That's
• 1:20:44
  all we want. All we want is won. Just give me one super
• 1:20:47
  Bowl. That's all I want. Okay, Well we kind of derailed those
• 1:20:50
  rapid fires, but I got a few more for you. Justin Jefferson.
• 1:20:55
  How many yards and touchdowns does it get this year? Okay? I think
• 1:21:00
  he I don't think he has a deal done during training I think he holds
• 1:21:05
  out during training camp and he goes starts the season off a little slow because
• 1:21:10
  he hasn't been in training camp any of the season stuff. So I think
• 1:21:14
  it's down from the last two years, but still very good. I'm going
• 1:21:17
  fifteen hundred yards, seven touchdowns, Okay, I would go about yeah,
• 1:21:23
  thirteen hundred about nine touchdowns. It always feels like a single digit touchdown here
• 1:21:28
  for him. Yeah. I think Addison is going to continue being deep ball
• 1:21:31
  touchdown guy, and Hawkinson's the threat in the red zone. So I think
• 1:21:35
  touchdowns are lower. Yeah. Well, and in theory, you're going to
• 1:21:40
  get at least hopefully more rushing touchdowns this year than the Vikings had last year.
• 1:21:45
  So could we get less? I don't know. I know Madison didn't
• 1:21:50
  have any rushing touchdowns, Didy or did you have like two? I think
• 1:21:54
  he got one and it was like Week fourteen or some shit. Yeah,
• 1:21:58
  unbelievable. Ty Chandler had more rushing touchdowns. Chandler did for sure have one
• 1:22:05
  before Madison did. Oh yeah, I think everybody Cam Akers did. Yeah,
• 1:22:15
  yeah, yeah. So I think that'll cut into any receiving touchdowns for
• 1:22:19
  everybody because hopefully you get a little bit more more from the run game with
• 1:22:23
  Aaron Jones this year. Are there any surprise cuts before the season starts,
• 1:22:30
  anybody that we don't think is going to be cut or maybe they You could
• 1:22:33
  see it, but it'd still be a surprise. I think Andrew Booth,
• 1:22:39
  I think there, Okay, I could see that I think Tanya's gonna get
• 1:22:44
  cut. I don't. I don't see him making the team tanah, yeah
• 1:22:48
  that. There seems to be a lot of hype around him right now,
• 1:22:51
  just the fun news signing. But I think at best he's even you know,
• 1:22:58
  before Hockinson comes back, he's fighting for that third tight end job,
• 1:23:01
  right and then for sure when Hockinson comes back, some tight end is probably
• 1:23:05
  gonna get cut. So Johnny Munt is going to flash in preseason. We
• 1:23:12
  joke about that all the time. One time in a press conference, Kevin
• 1:23:15
  O'Connell says, Johnny Munt is the best tight end three in the whole league,
• 1:23:21
  so we geek out every time months on the field. All right,
• 1:23:27
  that's there's another T shirt for you. Putt on the back and then best
• 1:23:30
  in the league, Yes, best T three. I don't know. I
• 1:23:34
  don't know about any surprise cuts. I do think, and that not before
• 1:23:39
  the season. But I think there's a chance we get Harry the hit Man
• 1:23:43
  retirement mid season. That was going to be mine. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:23:46
  I don't think he's not. I don't think they would ever not put him
• 1:23:49
  on the roster, but I wouldn't. I wouldn't be surprised if by like
• 1:23:54
  week eight he retires because he's getting old and he knows it, and I'm
• 1:23:59
  sure is wrecked. Yeah, he's playing on fumes, I think so,
• 1:24:04
  but he's still got that fire in that passion to be in there. But
• 1:24:08
  he's not bad yet. He's just they've already said they're gonna like almost have
• 1:24:13
  him on a pitch count, kind of manage how much he's on the field.
• 1:24:17
  I kind of think of who was a Terrence Newman a handful of years
• 1:24:20
  ago in training camp. He he like weirdly retired and then joined the coaching
• 1:24:27
  staff. But I think it was one of those like, yeah, I'm
• 1:24:30
  getting old, I still want to be around the team, but I'm not
• 1:24:32
  going to make the roster, so let's uh, let's retire before I get
• 1:24:35
  cut. Yeah, which I don't think is a bad move for him.
• 1:24:40
  I wouldn't and me as a fan, I've loved Harry since the day we
• 1:24:43
  drafted him, I think that would be a good way to go out.
• 1:24:46
  I would hate to see him finish this season, we don't resign him,
• 1:24:50
  and then he ends his career in like Tampa or something like. Well,
• 1:24:56
  he's already had the chance to do that right, Like he's it can pretty
• 1:25:00
  substantial pay cuts stick around, So I feel like, unless some other team
• 1:25:08
  offered him a huge bag, he's not really going to play anywhere else because
• 1:25:11
  he would have already done that. I hope not exactly, but Jared,
• 1:25:15
  I think I think you're onto something. I think that defensive back room there
• 1:25:19
  might be a surprise cut there, whether it's Booth or a Caleb Evans or
• 1:25:24
  somebody like that. I guess Harry's in that dB room too, so yeah,
• 1:25:28
  I think that that could be where that surprise might come from. I
• 1:25:30
  would like it if Evans got cut because he did not look second half.
• 1:25:34
  He's he's always one that he kind of he's terrible, but he'll flash,
• 1:25:39
  he'll get like an interception. It's like, oh, maybe this kid's not
• 1:25:42
  too bad, maybe he's figuring it out, but then he's not. He's
• 1:25:45
  just I played with a guy like that in college. He got all American
• 1:25:48
  because he had like six picks, but they were all underthrown balls where he
• 1:25:53
  had gotten toasted. So his stat line looked decent, but he was a
• 1:25:57
  terrible corner. Yeah. Week three last year against the Chargers, Evans had
• 1:26:03
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then they would have won the game if
• 1:26:06
  you would have held that pick. Well, the Bengals too, he let
• 1:26:12
  that crazy touchdown happen, like we had so many the beginning. The first
• 1:26:17
  half of the season last year is unreal. Thus being a Vikings fan and
• 1:26:23
  watching and then Kirk breaking his achilles exploded, and our hearts and there then
• 1:26:31
  here we go. We won what two games after that? We had a
• 1:26:38
  little bit of the the Dobbs magic going on for a little while. That
• 1:26:43
  was so much quarters of football. It was a blast. And then and
• 1:26:47
  then listening to Creed, yeah, ten years ago, it does it looks
• 1:26:55
  like a lifetime ago. Jared. All Right, guys, do you think
• 1:27:00
  way too early final record is going to be? Oh, I'm playing it
• 1:27:04
  safe. I'm playing it real safe with my record prediction eight. Okay,
• 1:27:11
  everybody always says, I know preface that I'm playing it safe for everything,
• 1:27:15
  just every team other than like the Blue mm hmm, I'll say, I'll
• 1:27:21
  say nine and eight. Everybody does it. I'm gonna go. I'm pretty
• 1:27:30
  optimistic. I think there's that huge question mark about the quarterback position, but
• 1:27:34
  other than that, I think the team got better everywhere else. I'm going
• 1:27:39
  eleven wins. I think they can do it. Okay, I'll eleven win
• 1:27:43
  season, would I'd be tickled pink. And yeah, the the NFC North,
• 1:27:47
  That's that's one thing we got to take into account. We got better
• 1:27:51
  everywhere, so did the rest of the division. Yep. But I mean
• 1:27:57
  they don't play. I think most of the division games are in the last
• 1:28:00
  like seven games of the season, so they got a lot of time to
• 1:28:03
  figure themselves out and good and then go through that Gauntlin. Yeah. We
• 1:28:09
  also have a lot of time for all of the Lions players to get hurt
• 1:28:14
  or injure themselves in practice. Yeah. Yeah, because Dan Campbell is running
• 1:28:17
  full pads four days a week. Yeah. I don't believe in them.
• 1:28:23
  I'm really happy they signed golf to that huge deal because I think it's gonna
• 1:28:27
  blow up in their faces. Do you buy into the Bears hype? No,
• 1:28:30
  not at all. I don't know why everybody's crying. Yeah, they
• 1:28:33
  played fantasy football in free agency, and yeah, Caleb Williams is supposed to
• 1:28:38
  be amazing, but so is Trevor Lawrence. Like he hasn't really done much.
• 1:28:42
  So I don't believe in Caleb Williams. I think the Bears last year
• 1:28:45
  they were getting all the hype. Remember Fields was supposed to be an MVP
• 1:28:49
  candidate. Now he's the second string behind Russell Wilson. I agree. I
• 1:28:55
  on paper, they definitely got better on paper. But we've heard this story
• 1:29:00
  how many times in our lives. The Bear the team to beat this year.
• 1:29:04
  That then the one year that they were decent when Trubisky took him to
• 1:29:08
  win the NFC North, they weren't supposed to be good. So the Bear
• 1:29:13
  just coin flip based off of what the pros are predicting. Yep, yeah,
• 1:29:20
  I don't. I don't believe it. I think the Vikings will either
• 1:29:24
  be first or second in the division, behind the Packers at least a wild
• 1:29:29
  card. Yeah, maybe behind the Packers. I hate that that. Jordan
• 1:29:30
  Love is looking decent me too, sucks. All right, guys, anything
• 1:29:40
  you guys want to plug before we wrap up here? Obviously you bet you
• 1:29:44
  everything everything breakfast Ball. What do you guys want to plug? Hell?
• 1:29:46
  Yeah, I mean go check out the Double Bogie Show. That's the podcast
• 1:29:50
  for breakfast Ball, where you can find all podcasts. You bet your radio.
• 1:29:57
  Jared is the glass Man act e lead in seat right now. That
• 1:30:00
  is the two of us and two other guys. So yeah, just check
• 1:30:04
  out our podcast, check out our content. Hope you enjoy it. Yeah,
• 1:30:10
  yeah, well I definitely listen to everything. I like it a lot.
• 1:30:12
  I think Skullhoppers would enjoy it too, if for some crazy reason they
• 1:30:15
  aren't already following you guys, So if you're not, definitely do it.
• 1:30:19
  I really love having you guys on open Door. If you guys ever want
• 1:30:24
  to come back on and about the Vikings again, and if not, definitely
• 1:30:28
  do the Vikings corner on your own podcast. Put your foot down event about
• 1:30:31
  that because you deserve it. We'll just talk over them exactly shared edics the
• 1:30:38
  podcast. We could put it in without them knowing, well you can.
• 1:30:41
  Yeah, you get to do that every once in a while. It's been
• 1:30:44
  a bit, but you guys like to mute each other, so yeah,
• 1:30:46
  we'll bring it back. Yeah all right, guys. Yeah, anytime you
• 1:30:51
  feel like venting about the Vikings open Doors, let me know you can come
• 1:30:56
  back on. I really appreciate you coming on today. Thanks for the time,
• 1:31:00
  school Hoppers. Check everything out, you bet you and yeah we'll go
• 1:31:03
  from there. Thanks guys. Yeah, thanks man, appreciate it. Austin,
• 1:31:06
  all right, hey, welcome back. It seems like you had a
• 1:31:11
  lot of fun. I'm really jealous that I couldn't join you. But next
• 1:31:14
  time, next time. So yeah, they're good. Good guys. That's
• 1:31:17
  a lot of fun. We really, I really like talking to Vikings fans
• 1:31:21
  where we live. We don't just see Vikings fans everywhere we go. It's
• 1:31:25
  still kind of exciting to see a dude like wear a Vikings hat. It's
• 1:31:27
  like, hey, school, Literally, somebody did that to me today.
• 1:31:30
  I was just picking my kids up from school wearing a Vikings hat and somebody's
• 1:31:33
  like school Vikings as I walked by. It's like, yes, that's awesome.
• 1:31:36
  So it's always fun to listen to the school. Yeah I should have
• 1:31:40
  right, we should have business cards like here you go. But it is
• 1:31:43
  always fun to talk to other Vikings fans, get their story and get out
• 1:31:46
  stickers. Oh yeah, there we go. So yeah, hopefully we can
• 1:31:49
  do that again in the future and you could be a part of it.
• 1:31:51
  And yeah, again, good, good guys. It was a lot of
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  fun. We would be remiss if we didn't talk about the fact that a
• 1:32:00
  different Minnesota sports team has advanced in the playoffs. What's the what's the the
• 1:32:05
  rally cryer right now? Who do you who? Or whatever they're saying.
• 1:32:09
  I don't even know because I'm not that big of a Timberwolves fan. But
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  the Timberwolves won Game seven against the Denver Nuggets. Yeah, to move on
• 1:32:17
  to the Western Conference Finals against the Dallas Mavericks. That's a big deal in
• 1:32:21
  Minnesota sports world. Absolutely. I've I'm on record on this podcast of saying
• 1:32:28
  about basketball, baseball, hockey, really any other sport that like. I'm
• 1:32:34
  die hard Vikings fan, and if I was to have a favorite minute or
• 1:32:39
  a favorite professional team of any other sport, I'm gonna go for the Minnesota
• 1:32:43
  teams. But I'm really just like a Bandwagon fan. Like earlier in the
• 1:32:46
  on this podcast, we talked about how the Twins had won their first playoff
• 1:32:49
  series and however many years and that was a lot of fun and that was
• 1:32:54
  the most baseball I'd ever watched at the time. And Timberwolves. Man,
• 1:32:59
  I have watched more basketball in the last few weeks than I ever had before
• 1:33:05
  and probably ever will again. It's exciting though, because I do claim the
• 1:33:09
  Timberwolves as a Minnesota sports fan. I'm a I'm a I feel like Bandwagon
• 1:33:15
  and fair Weather are different things. I feel like us Like if you and
• 1:33:20
  I were like jumping on the Miami Heat fandom, we'd be Bandwagon, you
• 1:33:27
  know. But if everybody's doing it, yeah, or like the Yankees or
• 1:33:30
  like, so I'm gonna be there. So it's still the Timberwolves are technically
• 1:33:36
  my NBA team, you know, But I'm a fair Weather Timberwolves fan.
• 1:33:42
  But you know what, I still have a lot of fun with it anyways.
• 1:33:44
  So see, the Timberwolves were good in those down years of Vikings football,
• 1:33:50
  like the early two thousands, the love Boat era and the just really
• 1:33:56
  kind of crappy years after like Dante and Randy Sure, Chris Carter, they
• 1:34:00
  had like fit A one or two. But the Timberwolves have only really had
• 1:34:04
  like one good year. But there was a year or two where it was
• 1:34:11
  Kevin Garnett, Latrell spretty Well and they were in the playoffs and they were
• 1:34:15
  really good. And I was probably like eleven or twelve or thirteen years old.
• 1:34:19
  I don't even remember when exactly. I think it was two thousand and
• 1:34:23
  four. It's literally twenty years ago. Was the last time they reached the
• 1:34:26
  Western Conference Final. That's that's probably it. But since then they've just been
• 1:34:31
  terrible, not good. Now, even with like the Kevin Love years and
• 1:34:36
  most of Kat's career, they've been terrible, which adds to me not being
• 1:34:42
  interested. Like if the Vikings are terrible for five years straight, I'm still
• 1:34:45
  gonna watch every game. But I'm just not a huge basketball fan. But
• 1:34:48
  I'm super super excited. Let's go. Ed has made the difference. I
• 1:34:55
  think he's the key acquisition and I'm hopeful. Ye. I mean they beat
• 1:35:00
  the defending champs. Yeah, and they were down at one point when we
• 1:35:05
  were recording this. The game was last night. They were down at one
• 1:35:10
  point in the third quarter by twenty points and they came back in one.
• 1:35:14
  There was a timeout. Because I didn't I fell asleep. Admittedly I started
• 1:35:18
  watching the game, but I was so dead tired I fell asleep and I
• 1:35:25
  woke up and I watched the highlights. And there was a timeout that took
• 1:35:29
  place in the third quarter, early in the third quarter, and that must
• 1:35:32
  have been like around the time they were down by twenty I think something was
• 1:35:38
  said in that timeout. I don't know who said it. I don't know
• 1:35:40
  what was said, but that was the turning point. It was early in
• 1:35:44
  the third quarter, or like just before halfway through the third quarter. It
• 1:35:47
  was still early on in the second half, and that was the turning point.
• 1:35:51
  I just based on my kind of quick review of the highlights that happened
• 1:35:58
  after I fell asleep, I watched, I saw them take a time out,
• 1:36:02
  and then all of a sudden, it was just it was all Timberwolves
• 1:36:05
  from there. So I hope they're not gassed, because I mean to win
• 1:36:10
  a championship. They have two more series ahead of them, at least at
• 1:36:15
  least eight more games, definitely eight more wins. I hope they they still
• 1:36:18
  have some left in the tank. It'll be really fun to watch and at
• 1:36:23
  least we've got four more games of excitement to watch this. This might push
• 1:36:28
  us a little longer than we're supposed to go. But should the NBA play
• 1:36:31
  seven game series in the playoffs like baseball? Because Baseball they'll play. The
• 1:36:38
  play in games are only one game, which I think is it's like Game
• 1:36:41
  one sixty three or whatever they call it. That's relatively new though it is
• 1:36:45
  in full years, but they don't play a full series for those They just
• 1:36:47
  play a single game to get into the playoffs, which I think is interesting.
• 1:36:50
  And then it's as far as I remember a seven game series from is
• 1:36:55
  it seven? All the way I thought baseball? Like maybe a wild card
• 1:36:58
  was a fiven or something. I don't know, something like that. I'm
• 1:37:00
  not the guy to ask about baseball. But but being gassed after one series,
• 1:37:04
  like I could see the Timberwolves being really tired, and I don't know
• 1:37:10
  much about their injury situation right now after seven games, but either to play
• 1:37:14
  seven games and to play your heart out for seven games, and to play
• 1:37:16
  Game seven on the road in Denver at altitude, that's I think the altitude
• 1:37:24
  thing is a little overblown. I say that as someone who is very obviously
• 1:37:27
  not an athlete, not a professional athlete, and I never played at altitude.
• 1:37:30
  I went to Colorado a couple of years ago and I tried to run
• 1:37:33
  a mile, and I run quite a bit. It's tough, all right,
• 1:37:36
  all right. They're playing indoors. Maybe they have some I don't know.
• 1:37:42
  That might be a little crazy too. Either way, it's not the
• 1:37:45
  Metrodome where they they pressurize it. Did you ever, did you ever open
• 1:37:50
  the wrong door in the Metrodome. No, but I remember walking through the
• 1:37:54
  doors of the Metrodome and feeling like I got sucked in my first Vikings game,
• 1:38:00
  my dad and I were trying to leave and we just went out a
• 1:38:02
  door and it was like very obviously like a pressure door, and we were
• 1:38:06
  getting yelled at as we were walking out, and we were basically thrown out,
• 1:38:13
  like the pressure just like don't let the door hit you, Okay,
• 1:38:16
  but it was it was jarring to be like sucked out of that thing.
• 1:38:19
  Anyways, Well, I think that the NBA might reconsider seven games the money,
• 1:38:28
  though they I don't think they ever will the money whatever DoD It's like
• 1:38:31
  if any league is concerned about the money, that's probably true. Yeah,
• 1:38:36
  but yeah, either way, it's exciting to watch. I hope they win
• 1:38:40
  the championship. Then at least maybe that that takes the monkey off the back
• 1:38:44
  for every other Minnesota sports team, because the last championship Minnesota sports is won
• 1:38:48
  was the Lynx, and it has seemed like I don't want to isolate anybody.
• 1:38:56
  It has seemed like in men's sports not to be exclusive. Sure,
• 1:39:02
  championships have kind of moved like kind of in geographic centers a little bit,
• 1:39:11
  and I would have to go back and do some research to prove this,
• 1:39:14
  but like, like, I feel like Tampa Bay has won some championships in
• 1:39:18
  several sports, and Kansas City has won some championships in several Boston area was
• 1:39:24
  notorious for a few years there for Yeah, yeah, you got New England
• 1:39:28
  and you had the Celtics and you had the Red Sox. I'd have to
• 1:39:32
  go do some research. I'd have to really compile some stuff. But what
• 1:39:38
  you're saying is this is our time. Minnesota is about to go on a
• 1:39:43
  tear and just win everything. That's exactly what I'm saying. All our high
• 1:39:45
  school just before we started going there, the year that they won everything,
• 1:39:51
  they won a lot of stuff the year our eighth grade year. Yeah,
• 1:39:55
  and they won a lot of stuff while we were in high school and they
• 1:39:58
  haven't won a lot since. And that's for three people that know where we
• 1:40:00
  went to high school. So shout out mister Spires. Yeah, Timberwolves,
• 1:40:09
  they're fun. Hopefully the Twins keep going. They were fun for a minute
• 1:40:12
  and kind of cooled down, but hey, the baseball season is still very
• 1:40:15
  young. Yeah. I have a joke with a coworker of mine that the
• 1:40:19
  nineteen eighty seven baseball season is almost halfway done. They just never they just
• 1:40:25
  keep playing baseball forever and ever and ever. Well, it's been a fun
• 1:40:30
  episode. It's been a long one, a fun one, a lot of
• 1:40:33
  good talkers. Hopefully we get to talk to you, bet you guys again.
• 1:40:38
  That was a lot of fun. Good beer too, Yes, your
• 1:40:42
  first control alt beer. Yes, I've seen this beer at our favorite Devil's
• 1:40:45
  Glenn Hivey. I've seen it a lot. I've just never jumped into and
• 1:40:50
  tried it. But it's definitely one if you like ambers and you like to
• 1:40:58
  crush beers a ton, because ambers have a they're no very little, yeah,
• 1:41:04
  but usually they're a little bit higher. Like you're not You're not throwing
• 1:41:06
  a ton of ambers back this one, they say point six, So you
• 1:41:14
  can you can very much enjoy a lot of the You'll get full before you
• 1:41:17
  get embarrassingly drunk off of these. Uh, that's not a challenge. Don't
• 1:41:23
  try to do that, guys. But yeah, maybe that's why I've never
• 1:41:27
  I've never grabbed it because I want a little little bit more punch. But
• 1:41:30
  man, this flavor, this beer, everything about it fantastic. Is that
• 1:41:32
  what you look for. I do pay attention to that. It's not the
• 1:41:35
  deciding factor, but I like to be in that six ish range. Now,
• 1:41:41
  if it's like a nine percenter' that's that's a little high for me,
• 1:41:45
  you know, for a beer, you know, just to throw a few
• 1:41:47
  back. But it's like a three percenter, I'm I'm probably not gonna try
• 1:41:51
  it on purpose, just an a beer at that point. Yeah, I
• 1:41:55
  could have it. I'll make a kombucha tea or something if I want something
• 1:41:58
  like that. But well, all in all, I like the Control Out
• 1:42:02
  beer. Yes, I'm surprised at how much I like it. I will
• 1:42:08
  have it again, Single Speed. I can't think of anything I don't like
• 1:42:11
  from them. You just keep hitting and it's nostalgic for us. Anything with
• 1:42:15
  that logo, the single Speed logo, I'm gonna grab. I know you
• 1:42:19
  are too, so thank you for bringing this. This is really good.
• 1:42:21
  Yeah, I hope you enjoyed my little poem slash riddle. I'm not joking.
• 1:42:27
  I want it on the back of a shirt. I need it with
• 1:42:30
  the front of the shirt being this control Alt beer Single Speed talk to us.
• 1:42:34
  We will We'll play ball. Let's let's make some shirts. We're open
• 1:42:39
  edits. Yeah yeah, sure, yeah no. I think it's perfect just
• 1:42:43
  the way it is. All right, Well, good beer, good show,
• 1:42:46
  best episode yet. Skull Hey Vikings fans, evan here from the School
• 1:43:08
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