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  Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings fans, Welcome back to the Purple People Leaders Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: He's Aaron, I'm Chris, and we're here to unfortunately talk
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  Speaker 1: about the Vikings lost. It's been a long time since
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: we lost. Funny enough, it was back to back games
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  Speaker 1: Detroit and then you guessed it the Rams and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we went on a hell of a one of the
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  Speaker 1: longest streaks we've had since we've been watching the Vikings,
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  Speaker 1: so or the longest streaks since we've been watching the Vikings,
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  Speaker 1: and we're talking, you know, they had longer streaks like
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  Speaker 1: in the seventies. But yeah, it was. It was a
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  Speaker 1: rough one. It was a rough one. Sam had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of issues. I think that's the main focus. The
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  Speaker 1: offensive line interior had more, you know issues, no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: I thought they planned some you know, they the blitzes
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: and all that was really good. I would liked to
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  Speaker 1: see them run the ball more, if I we're we're
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: just talking about it. The defense played pretty damn good
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  Speaker 1: until the levee finally broke. So we're gonna break it
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  Speaker 1: on down. This one hurts because of what it meant, right,
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  Speaker 1: the number one seed, a week off in home field advantage,
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  Speaker 1: that no longer is the case. So we'll break this
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  Speaker 1: one down and then preview and predict next week against
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  Speaker 1: the Rams. The rematch against the Rams, can they get
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  Speaker 1: and that's eight in a row. Now, eight bowl game
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  Speaker 1: let's go ahead and bring in Aaron the co host
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  Speaker 1: of the show. Aaron Man. It was a rough one
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  Speaker 1: and through about three quarters it was sitting there right
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  Speaker 1: for us and they just couldn't get it done. My friend.
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  Speaker 2: You muted by the way, Hey, sorry as I'm mute. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure we left off there. I We've been
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  Speaker 2: saying for years, Chris, and we'll say it again that
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  Speaker 2: there's problems with this team. We thought, you know that
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  Speaker 2: we were skating through a little bit with it. But
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  Speaker 2: running the ball is a huge thing, and if you
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  Speaker 2: can't run the ball, particularly in the red zone, you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have problems. That comes back to offensive line, interior
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  Speaker 2: offensive line in particular. I think Cam's good enough. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: Brian O'Neil's a really good tackle, and if you had
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  Speaker 2: Darrisaw that might change a little bit. But you're still
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  Speaker 2: Bradbury Brandle and now Reisner, who we know is not
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  Speaker 2: a great run blocker, supposed to be a better pass
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  Speaker 2: protector than a run blocker, and so it just kind
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  Speaker 2: of showed its ugly head again. Obviously, you know, Sam
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  Speaker 2: could have hit more passes a lot of those overthrowers.
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  Speaker 2: He was nervous. It was just we'll get into the
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  Speaker 2: whole Sam situation there, but you know that to me
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  Speaker 2: was really the thing. When you're down in the red
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  Speaker 2: zone multiple times and you have to throw the ball
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  Speaker 2: three out of four times. I think the total was
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  Speaker 2: something like eight out of twelve or I don't remember
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  Speaker 2: exact numbers. I'm sure you have them, but you're throwing
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  Speaker 2: the ball down there more than you should have to.
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  Speaker 2: That just means that you can't run, and we haven't
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  Speaker 2: been able to run down in the red zone for
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  Speaker 2: quite a long time. Effect. I kin'd of remember a
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  Speaker 2: team that was good in short yardage now, it's been
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  Speaker 2: at least four or five years before, and it's just
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  Speaker 2: one of those things where that's got to get fixed.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously it won't be fixed in the next week or so,
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  Speaker 2: but looking ahead, that's just been a problem defensive line
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  Speaker 2: as well. But I really don't blame anything from that defense.
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  Speaker 2: They held in, you know, very very well, and you
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  Speaker 2: know you can't just hold a team like that out
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  Speaker 2: for four quarters, especially when the offense is just doing nothing.
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  Speaker 2: There's some missed opportunities, I think more so in the offense,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, Van Gek could have caught that and
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  Speaker 2: maybe changed the course of the game. But by then
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  Speaker 2: it was just so frustrating seeing the frustration on Sam's face,
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  Speaker 2: and you know O'Connell's phase and all that stuff. It's just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you were in a position to make that
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  Speaker 2: a really good game or win, and had you thrown
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  Speaker 2: some better balls or just brought things down a Floyd.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's just multiple times Jefferson in back to
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  Speaker 2: the end zone, Addison in the flat, Addison on the
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  Speaker 2: slant TJ. There's just a lot of opportunities that it
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  Speaker 2: just seemed like the moment might have been too big
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  Speaker 2: for Sam and it was a big moment last game
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  Speaker 2: of the season. You're in Ford Field for the division
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  Speaker 2: number one seed. It's a lot, but you should be
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  Speaker 2: able to handle that, or at least keep your poise.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's really the problem here. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of complaints about koc and whatnot. I really don't think
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  Speaker 2: that has anything to do with it. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: just quarterback lost its poise, got in his head and
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  Speaker 2: just couldn't get out of.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean I did hear a lot of well,
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  Speaker 1: they needed to make adjustments and all that stuff. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you're talking about minor stuff, sure, the one thing
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  Speaker 1: I will say is the run well was effective. It
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: wasn't all that big run by Acres. There was more
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  Speaker 1: to it. So I guess that's my biggest takeaway would
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  Speaker 1: be an adjustment. I mean, nineteen carries a buck twenty
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  Speaker 1: six point three a pop, and like I said, Acres
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  Speaker 1: you could say most of his running was that fifty
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  Speaker 1: eight yard running because he had six for sixty five.
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  Speaker 1: But Aaron Jones had ten carriages for forty five yards
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  Speaker 1: four pointy five eclips, so I would have liked to
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  Speaker 1: see them run the ball more. But in the end,
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  Speaker 1: you know. That's really the only thing. Otherwise, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of this came down to Sam Darnold. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people because we're winning, overrated him, no doubt,
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  Speaker 1: Like they have MVP and all that, And I've always
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  Speaker 1: made I can understand the debate or the argument or
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  Speaker 1: like if you have a top five pole of who's
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  Speaker 1: the MV began at the top five or seven, I
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  Speaker 1: understand why Sam would be in there. He's having a
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  Speaker 1: great year and his team's winning, so I get that part.
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  Speaker 1: But he's just not He's he was nowhere near the
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  Speaker 1: MVP though, like the actual MVP, A lot of it
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  Speaker 1: was his environment because he would have already had solid
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  Speaker 1: to great years prior to getting here, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: he just misthrows left and right. Whether he was off target,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, it started out really high. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of the balls were high. And of course you could say,
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  Speaker 1: oh TJ on the first that first uh, that first
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  Speaker 1: throw early that was on a on a third down,
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  Speaker 1: it would have been a first down. Could TJ made
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  Speaker 1: a great catch Shirt or JJ in the back of
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  Speaker 1: the end zone, Sure I could have. But pretty much
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  Speaker 1: Darnold was just off its timing his accuracy and he
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  Speaker 1: holds the ball. We know that he held the ball
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  Speaker 1: too much and he just didn't pull the trigger. There's
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  Speaker 1: times where it looks like when you're watching it on film,
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  Speaker 1: that the helmet's turned right to the guy Addison on
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  Speaker 1: the slant and he just didn't throw the ball, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And then it's like now, because like I said, there
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  Speaker 1: was plenty of pressure on him, and some of that
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  Speaker 1: pressure he couldn't doing about. And some of those ten
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  Speaker 1: hits he couldn't doing about. That's fair not talking about
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. Some of those hits though, and some of
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  Speaker 1: those sacks were on him too because he held the
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  Speaker 1: damn ball or he tried to do that spin where
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  Speaker 1: if if it's clogged up over there, especially when he
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  Speaker 1: goes out to his left, don't do this spin. If
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  Speaker 1: they're like, if it's there, if there's an open lane
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. Sure, but he.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it turns. It turns a six yard sack into
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  Speaker 2: a thirteen fourteen. Yeah, you get caught exactly.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly it. It's in fact, I'm looking right at
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  Speaker 1: one need to throw the ball away. It was on
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  Speaker 1: a play action and it turned it into a second
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  Speaker 1: and twenty seven to your point, and then when he
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  Speaker 1: was third and eighteen, another ball was high on that one.
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  Speaker 1: So like it just that's why we lost the game
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  Speaker 1: because Sam didn't come to play. He just didn't. Like
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  Speaker 1: I said, I'm not talking about when he got hit
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  Speaker 1: and thrown or when there was no time or the
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  Speaker 1: blitz was timed perfectly or called perfectly. I'm not talking
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  Speaker 1: about any of that, but there was times where and
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  Speaker 1: I give credit to the coverage too. Their their defense,
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  Speaker 1: their defensive back generally do well against us these last
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  Speaker 1: two and a half three years. They're rough and tough
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  Speaker 1: with us. And that's why when people say they kept
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: saying those short stuff throws screens are not screens, but
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  Speaker 1: like just short stuff whatever, slant screens, whatever, it's like,
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  Speaker 1: I hear you. I'm not saying some of that wouldn't work,
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  Speaker 1: but they were on. These dudes ran the line, roughing
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  Speaker 1: them up. It just doesn't you know, And then and
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  Speaker 1: ay that, but that's exactly what Addison was running was
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  Speaker 1: a damn slant that was wide him for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: So he didn't come to play. That's it. There's no
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  Speaker 1: other thing there really isn't. The defense did enough to
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  Speaker 1: win this game due to the corners and then the
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  Speaker 1: levee broke. Could you, like you said, the interior of
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  Speaker 1: the line. It's better this year, it's still not up
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  Speaker 1: to a championship level and it's not all that close.
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  Speaker 2: Really, yeah, I mean, it doesn't help that Sam was
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  Speaker 2: holding onto the ball so much. It never has helped,
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: but I think that you know, Sam's been under a
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  Speaker 2: lot of pressure for most of the season, particularly from
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  Speaker 2: the inside, and has managed to deal with it. I just think, man,
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  Speaker 2: he was probably in his head last night, tryina and
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  Speaker 2: don't lose this. And you know, a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: talk today is how much money he lost in that
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  Speaker 2: game last night, and maybe he was thinking about that.
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: Just don't throw picks or whatever it was that he
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: was thinking. It's hard to you know, maybe he was
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  Speaker 2: just thinking, throw a safe pass. But whatever it was,
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: it got in the way. I mean, you missed wide
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: receivers that were open, particularly in the red zone. You
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  Speaker 2: know some of the stuff. You threw a couple of
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  Speaker 2: good balls too. That's always how it is with Sam,
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  Speaker 2: and he does hold the ball. We've become accustomed to
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  Speaker 2: that throughout the year. But it's where it costs you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you got Detroit's defensive line is and
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  Speaker 2: what it was back in week five, but even before that,
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: and it was great before we even saw him, and
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: then Hutchinson went down. But you know, you're putting one
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: on one out with Addison and Jefferson. It's a ballsy
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  Speaker 2: thing to do. If you can't make them pay, that's
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: an issue. And if you're throwing high or you're missing guys.
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: I mean that's why I get, you know, really upset,
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: because today I'm hearing either two things. I'm either hearing
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  Speaker 2: Darnold or I'm here in KOC. And okay, you can
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: I can handle a couple complaints about k See, like
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: maybe you thought should have kicked the field goal instead
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  Speaker 2: of going on fourth down. Reasonable argument. We can argue
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: about that, fair argument. But when you're talking about play calling,
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: you know, he's just doing what's worked for us all
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  Speaker 2: year and it just has it. It just didn't work
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  Speaker 2: last night. It was one reason. And you know, I
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: know a lot of people hitch their boats to Donald
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  Speaker 2: way too early. It's like, all right, we wanted to
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  Speaker 2: see how it played out. Now we know, high pressure
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  Speaker 2: game situation that kind of melted down. Now, that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean he can't bounce back. We were talking about this a
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  Speaker 2: little bit off air. He can bounce back, have a
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: couple of really great games. We're back in Detroit or
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: whatever it is, in Philly for the NFC Championship game,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is. But at this point in time in
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  Speaker 2: the season, we've seen, you know, a progression of Donald
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  Speaker 2: play really well, had a bad couple of games Detroit Jaguars,
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  Speaker 2: Rams wasn't particularly great, hit his stride again. And now
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  Speaker 2: we're at this game, game eighteen in Detroit, game seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: but eighteen week season, and we're starting to see some words. Now,
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  Speaker 2: is it all Donald? Obviously no, it's not all Donald,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a large chunk of the pie the way
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  Speaker 2: he played last night. And you can't help but say, okay,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you didn't see it coming, but you also can't
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  Speaker 2: just you know, you can't dismiss the fact that some
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  Speaker 2: people have been waiting all season for this to happen.
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  Speaker 2: It's terrible timing. I'm not one of those people. I
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: thought maybe it was that, but you know, it's one
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: of those things where you can say and try to
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: put lipstiff on a pig, but I really think long
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  Speaker 2: story short, that it's Donald last night, his nerves whatever.
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  Speaker 2: It was just you know, blew some great offensive opportunities
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  Speaker 2: which would have gave us some more points, keep us
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  Speaker 2: in the game, possibly win that game.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you can really say that we would
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: have had a lead. Now you can. You can you know,
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: count everything a touchdown, which I don't like to do,
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  Speaker 1: or you could say some field goals, touchdowns, whatever, but
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: at least ten points we could have had the lead
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  Speaker 1: on I mean, you know, both teams came out ransom
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  Speaker 1: plays didn't get many yards. It was zero zero. They
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: had that touchdown drive. You know, that was a little
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: bit frustrating on that one. Obviously, Gibbs ended up having
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: a twenty five yard run, but there was a third
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: and twelve holding call. Williams had a first down, Mattellus
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: almost got the sack. Maybe if he would have tried
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  Speaker 1: for the ball, that would have helped a little bit.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Saint Brown kids in Saint Brown just kill us every time.
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  Speaker 1: But so it was seven zip, No big deal, we
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: come right back, we lose. That's I think that that
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: play I'm talking about what we were talking about for
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  Speaker 1: him holding the ball three plays negative eight yards, then
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: held them to a three and out negative twenty one yards.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, that's with Gnard and somebody else I
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: think went nuts. You know. It's like, Okay, got the
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: ball back all the you know, had a nice drive
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  Speaker 1: nine plays forty seven yards, turnover on downs, he missed
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown, and and also there's you know, in this,
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  Speaker 1: in this timeframe, there was what should have been a safety.
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  Speaker 1: Clearly it was a safety. He did not throw it
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  Speaker 1: to anybody, he was just getting rid of it. It
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  Speaker 1: should have been a safety. But that's so it's it
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  Speaker 1: would mean seven to two, but it also means they're
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: they're ticking to you. So unless we get some huge return,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: it's still only seven to two, and we lost thirty
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  Speaker 1: one or nine. So that's not that's not some big
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: turning point, you know, because we got the ball at
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: the seven yard line because there was a pick, you know,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: a tip from a tellus and who was it that?
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  Speaker 1: Why am I missing it? He almost got a second
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  Speaker 1: touchdown against them, So we got it at the seven
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  Speaker 1: four plays, zero yards and two times where it's like, dude,
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  Speaker 1: you either overthrew it or you missed a wide open guy.
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  Speaker 1: So okay, whatever, got a field goal out of it.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: They got a nice little drive turnover on downs. The
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: defense now got to pick and a turn around downs
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: and had him punting twice already. We're still in the
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: first half. Go down there, nice drive. It sounds familiar.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Nine plays forty five yards, had to settle for another
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  Speaker 1: field goal, and then the fucking kicker. First of all
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: that extra point. I mean, those kicks are looking shaky
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: as well now, just barely making it. And then he
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: kicks no trickery. KOs said, no, we were just having
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: a kickoff. Dude. We're not gonna do any trick year.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: And we allowed them to have some life there. And
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: when you and you can say, o, well, the defense
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: should give it up. Those plays, okay, but you're you're
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: facing the number one offense in the league by a lot.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: They score thirty three points. We still held them under
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: their average. That's two times in a round. Oh, and
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: then we come out and we drive, drive, drive, We
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: get it to the two yard line and we can't
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: it's a turnover round downs, but halfway you know, at
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  Speaker 1: a deep ball. I don't know why he threw it,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: but Harrison made a great catch. Actually it was a
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: tough catch because he had to go way up high
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: and we get the ball at half field or or
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: you know, midfield half field, midfield had to sell for
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: a field goal. Now they finally put a hell of
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: a you know, a hell of a drive together, thirteen plays,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: seventy yards, seven to twenty five in the clock. That
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: was impressive, but we're still only seventeen to nine, and
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: that could be twenty to seventeen at that point, still
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: us having the lead, missed another field goal, punt, turnover
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: around downs. It it's it was just ugly and and
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: it just I don't know, I don't know what to
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: tell you. It's it was mostly Sam just mission people do.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: When you see some of these clips that people are posting,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: and even in the game, when you're watching just normal
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: game tape and you can see guys open, that's not
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: a good sign. But when you see the refirst thing,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: they're like, oh my god, there's two guys open. I
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: didn't even see that guy. It was just frustrating. It
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: should have been a game that came all the way
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: down to the wire. Last team at the ball type
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: thing and they're gonna win.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think both teams kind of know that because
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: again we're at the end of the third. Now defense
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: is still holding this in seventeen points over three quarters.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: To that offense is impressive. Place you got two turnovers,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: could have been a safety, turnovers on downs, you're playing
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: well defensively. And then of course the floodgates start to
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: open in the fourth because what is the offense doing.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Like you said, you make a good drive, you miss
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: a field goal, you turn the ball over on downs,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: you're just missing guys in the end zone. Sam's not
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: playing well. And then you know the double whammie is
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: you can't run the ball from the two yard line
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: because you shortyardage is just crap. You can't run the
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: ball in short yards. And I got Aaron Jones, cam
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Akers a little bit bigger, but none of them are,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: you know, great goal line guys. And of course, if
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: your offensive line is getting pushed, you don't necessarily need
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: to have a goal line guy. And that's just not
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: a strength of this offensive line. Is is is shortyardage
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: and goal line. You want to do a tush push
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: or whatever whatever you wanted to do, that's fine, but defensively,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: you just can't put anything on I mean they almost
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: turn the game. Start the fourth VN Gigle drops what
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: usually he makes a play on that ball. You and
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I both thought he just kind of got ahead of
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: himself and thought he was running before he cut the ball.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: But he was there to, you know, drop what would
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: have been a pick six. I would have made it.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: You know, twenty four looks like twenty four to sixteen,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: and that was still a pretty good ball game. But
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: then you know, offense comes out, gets sack, puts forces,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: you get a punt, and then Gibbs breaks another run and
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: the floodgates are opens thirty one to nine, and you
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: know that's what it ended, and everybody goes into prevent
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: and does their thing. But obviously, in those preceding three quarters,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: if you could have got one touchdown, two touchdowns, made
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: a field goal here, you want to argue about the
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: turnover on downs with O'Connell trying to be aggressive in
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: the red zone, go ahead and make that argument. I
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: know where his head was at. I think you got
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: to get something in the head zone. You gotta try something.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Maybe that first one was just trying him trying to
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: be aggressive, but I really don't have that much of
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: a problem with it would have been nice to have
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: those field goals, but it's not. That's not the reason
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: you're missing guys in the end zone. You're missing plays. Now,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Jefferson can make some great catches, everybody knows that, but
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: you know, you throw it two feet up, it's just
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: not gonna it's just not gonna work. And then, like
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: you said, and I agree, which is even more alarming,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: is if you can notice open guys running free on
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: the television broadcast without replay and you're telling him to throw.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: It's just I mean one two stick out to me.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: One is overthrow Jefferson in the back right corner where
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: you should have just kind of faded that ball in
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: and Jefferson would have caught it. And then Addison running
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: a streak toward the pylon and he missed that one too.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Now he wasn't under great pressure, but you know, any
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: one of those would have kept it a ballgame for longer.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: And if you add up the summation of this game
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: and you say, make this play here, make that play here,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: what it could have should all that stuff, it's win
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: You won that game. Now obviously didn't win that game.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: In fact, you the score says, you got your ass kicked,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: but we know it wasn't that. But man, it's just
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: really disappointing to see that at this point in the
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: season when you should be gearing up for a playoff running.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Had you played well, you know you'd have the week off. Nonetheless,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: you got to take your hat off to the defense
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: that held us in there, man for three quarters, and
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: it just you can't ask. It's just asking too much, man,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: to get them to win, to win a game like that,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: and they tried. God it Ginkle gets that. I mean,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: that's that's great. But you won the turnover battle, you
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: everything else that you wanted to do. You just your
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: quarterback you just freaked out, man, And you can see
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: his body language and even Koc's body Languge Jefferson tried to,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: you know, give them a little pep talk on the sideline,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: and I thought that was pretty cool because it wasn't
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: like arrogant or look at me. It was just like, hey, man,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: you know, we got three more quarters to worry about it.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Just get the ball down, throw it to me. We'll
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: get it done. Just like Sam wasn't in the right
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: place head wise, and it just didn't work out. Man,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: it's uh, it's shocking, but again we're Viking fans. And then, lastly,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: before I turn it back over to use this kicking
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: situation is yeah, man, it's like, okay, what do we
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: gotta do? We draft these kickers? You know, they're great
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: kickers in college, have some really great kicks, and then
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: they fade out. I'm more mad at Will about the
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: kickout of bounds before the half than I am about
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: missed field goals because he'd give them three points in
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: that situation where he would have went to the half
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: seven to six instead of seven to ten. In the
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: long stretch of things, maybe that doesn't make a whole
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: hell of a lot of difference, but momentum wise, at
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: that point, it is like you can't give them three
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: points on a routine kickoff. It's just it's shocking what's
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: happened to Riikert lately. And all of us can sit
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: here and pick our brains trying to explain it. But
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: it's just a reoccurring thing with this franchise.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is, man, it really is. And you know,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: we didn't get defensively, we didn't get as many hits
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: on the quarterback as we normally do. We did get
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: six seven tackles for loss, like we said, two picks,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: they forced to turnover on downs. It played at a
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: very high level, let's say E league level, like you
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: said three quarters, and you know, combines the offense combined
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: six of sixteen on third and fourth downs. You know,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: turnover on downs. Some of this red zone shit. Look
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: at this, This is opt to stats. Four times reaching
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: the reds So the Vikings four times reaching the red
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: zone but not scoring a TD, three times had a
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: goal to goal but not scoring a TD, two failed
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: fourth and go attempts at a missfield goal. No other
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: NFL team in the last thirty years has done all
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: that in the same game. Okay, so you have the
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Vikings ran fourteen plays in the red zone in Week eighteen, right,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: one of those one was successful. Minnesota seven seven point
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: one red zone success rate was the worst by any
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: team in a game in the last five seasons. And
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: someone followed up saying, there has been thirteen and twenty
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: eight games in the last five regular season and they
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: have the worst success rate in the red zone in
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: any game in that in that time. I mean, that's
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: how bad. I don't know. I don't know if people
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: understand just how bad. And I one agree with you
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: about they even brought the stat Well, they don't go
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: for it as much. And the kid you're playing the Lions, Okay,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: you have to match them. You have to. Plus the
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: defense is playing good and you can get the ball back.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: They got the ball back twice when that happened on
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: that Mattella's tip in the pick by pace and then
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: that deep bump. Both of those were after that. So
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: it's just it's hard to equate how bad he was playing.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: And then the other stuff, like you said, the interior
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: line and all that, and you had Mackie tweeting Kirk
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: would have scored at least ten points by now. It's like, dude, dude,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Kirk's gone. He got benched in the last aren't you
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: happy at some point about what happened this season? Like, dude,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: just leave it alone. What are you doing? It's just
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: so funny, dude, But yeah, man, I mean it just sucked.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: There's really no other way around. At the game, we
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: should have been right in there and had the lead.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: They would have came back a little bit, okay, and
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: then like I said, whether it's victory formation or a
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: field goal to win the game. I really felt like
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: it could have came down to that, but it did.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: We got beat and it took a few weeks last
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: time Aaron for Sam to get his confidence back in
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: KOC to say fuck it, let's go and all we
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: documented this pretty well at Arizona Cardinals game when we
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: were down nineteen to six. We had no choice but
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: to say let's open this bitch up. And ever since then,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Sam is confident. You know, he did it, and he
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: proved he did something like that, and that was his
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: first fourth quarter comeback, not game winning drive, but or comeback,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: because you can have a game winning drive when it's tied,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: obviously so and it really sparked both of those two together,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: him as a play caller and Sam as a as
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: a pastor obviously doing some shit that has been really impressive,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: and we've been talking about it. You know, just because
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: we would say he is who he is, doesn't mean
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: we didn't think he wasn't having a great season. It's
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: just all the extra stuff that comes with winning. People
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: get blinded, and it's it's fine for fans for that
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: to happen. That's you're a fan and half these motherfuckers
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: are drunk or hi and include me into some of that.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: But when it's media members, that's where it's like, all right, dude,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: what are you doing? You know, it's just get it's
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: so unprofessional, and I get it it's Twitter, but come on, dude,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: like some of the ship that they're saying, it's just
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: ridiculous and you think that they'd be happy at some point,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: but I guess not. But yeah, I mean, and it
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: was just bad and it's not as bad though, just
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: to reiterate where we're talking about, it's not as bad
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: as that final score appeared. Like you mentioned, it's not
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: We're not just like blindly hopeful, but we're just saying, dude,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: we could have had a lead, like a healthy lead,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: so you never know what happens past that. So unless
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: you have anything else on this yr, you know, rough
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: loss in the fourth quarter, we can you know, at
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: some point move on to uh, Monday night, NFL dude,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Come on, guys, can you not have a game on
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: every fucking night of the week. You already took away
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Thursday nights for college football Thanksgiving? You know, actually back
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: of the day was college football, but it's been that
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: way for a while. Cool, so they moved to Friday,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: and you have games Friday like Saturday, Like, come on, guys,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: why do we have a Monday night football playoff game? Sorry?
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: End of grand I agree with on that rant. And
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: I think it's been obvious, and it was obvious last night,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: and it's been refreshing to kind of see over the interwebs.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: You know, people are pretty much in agreement of what
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: happened last night, and Sam kind of melted down, and
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: that's just kind of how it was. I thought we're
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: not the only ones. In fact, even some Detroit fans
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: were like, man, if you guys would have had, you know,
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: some better quarterback play, it would have been a lot
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: closer and he possibly would have won. So that's good.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: But yeah, let's put that to bed. I'm not even
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: sure offense wants to watch tape on that. I think
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: you just you just put that away one of those
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: things where we'll we'll move on and moving on at
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: the number five seed. Like you said, weird Monday night
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: game for the playoffs. It's just maybe we're not used
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: to it. Maybe we're used to the morning playoff morning
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: get up watch stuff, you know, it's gonna be nice,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: get the games a nice succession. But now they go
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: and they have to get a money grab and go
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: on Monday night. So we're playing Monday night in Soulfi Stadium,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: La Ram. They beat us last time it was the
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: infamous uh face mask no face mask? Would they have
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: a chance to win? And with you and blah blah blah,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: it all matters bouncing back here? Uh you you mentioned
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: a little bit. Sam did a little bounce back start
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: with that Arizona game. And this is really what it
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: comes down to here. That was the missing ingredient last night.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: If Sam can bounce back, get some fire in his
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: belly and you know, beat us Sam that he was
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: for that late stretch of the year. You stayd a
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: really good chance to win this game. Obviously they have
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: a good defensive line in LA that's a little concerning.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: There are some concerns running the ball. Darren Jones uh
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: and Cam Akers and then obviously McVeigh and O'Connell will
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: just like to throw the ball around the yard and see,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: look at this great pass I invented.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: For seven years.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Should be this one?
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: You like that?
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: You know, it's really hard to talk about this game
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: because it's like, well, what Sam, Sam gonna go into
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: a shell or is he gonna, you know, bounce back
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: with some grit. I tend to lean on the grit thing.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: I tend to think that he's gonna play a lot better.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: We talked a little bit before we started the pot
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: about flushing this one down the toilet, and it's just
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: all bad. And maybe it's the best thing that could
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: happen to them, rather lose to Detroit regular season than
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: in the playoffs, that type of thing. But in order
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: to do that, you've got to get better quarterback play.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: You've got to go down now on Monday and beat
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: a Rams team who's hot right now, playing really well
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: good defense. Obviously, Matt Stafford, you're not gonna get away
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: with blitzing him like we blitz other quarterbacks. So yeah,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: it's it's a matchup that you know, there's a lot
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: of variables here, Chris, and mostly the biggest one I
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: think is the state of Sam Darnold's mind.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a good point. And they are hot.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I mean six out of last seven. They lost to Philly,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: they lost to Miami, but since that win, they had
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: a win right before but since that win, they got
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: all healthy. Remember that, just some time to play us.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: I mean they beat Buffalo forty four to forty two.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: They kind of done it in weird ways thirty to nine,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: nineteen to nine, forty four to forty two, like they can.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: You know, they they did lose their last game. But
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: you know, it is what it is. That Yeah, it's
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: it is gonna be tough. The line opened at two
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: and a half favoring the old Minnesota Vikings. It is
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: one and a half now. The over under is forty
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: seven point five and we didn't sustain a bunch of
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: injuries or anything like that. Jones did get back in it.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: It seemed like he was doing when fine, and I'm
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: sure maybe it was just taking a Corter zone shot
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: or something. I don't know. You know, they were able
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: to run the ball enough, like it started out as
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: like it was just gonna be a shootout fourteen to fourteen.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: We were up I think seventeen to fourteen at one point,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: and there was just this stretch show it's tied up
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: fourteen fourteen, and we had a three and out punt,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: three and out punt, had a field goal. We should
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: have scored a touchdown, another field goal. Should have scored
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: a touchdown at least one of those, maybe not both.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: They get up twenty eight to twenty and we punt,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: and then they punt, and then it goes down to
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: that safety thing, and you're all right, I mean, clear
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: as day, it was that it was it should you know,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: it should have been a safety. Now we still obviously
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: you know, would have had to go eighty yards or
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: whatever and not just score a touchdown, but also get
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: the two point conversion, and then that just gets you overtime.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: So some folks out there say, well that it came
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: all the way down to that, I'm like, well, I mean,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: we had enough time to go down there and score.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that they wouldn't have been able
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: to score, but you still did. That's just getting into overtime.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: So it's not like, oh, we would have won the
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: game if it wasn't for that. I've seen a lot
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: of that. It's like, yeah, maybe maybe you just can't
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: give points though in two point conversions and overtime wins
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: off of that one little play as bullshit as it was, like,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I didn't see it and then you see, then you
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: see it and you're like, well, you're standing right there,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: what were you looking at? You know, breaking down their numbers. Man,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: their offense can be very hit or miss. It's not
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: this explosive juggernaut like it was a chunk of years ago.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: But they obviously are very talented. Still, the biggest thing
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: that stands out to me is their defense gives up
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty yards a game. Okay, that's not great,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: that's pretty mediocre. And so I really think that they
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: have to mix that pass, run, play, action, all that stuff,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: maybe more like a Zimmer type of offense chaos. He's like,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: don't you dare No. I think that plays into it
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: as well, where you're just like, hey, you know, we
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: gotta make sure we run because when we run it,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: it has opened up a lot of stuff. And you know,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: the first I'm not saying we didn't get any yards
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: the first time or anything like that. They did manage
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: to get over one hundred and seven, but that's on
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: thirty two carries because they got a little bit of
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: that lead and then they kind of stuck with it
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: and we weren't able to run successfully. And like you said,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: if they're you know, we've said this before too. If
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: they are trying to like really take away the run,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: then that's invited. You know, Okay, cool, fine, that that
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: means you're gonna have another safety come down or whatever.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: You're gonna have one high safety. We can mess with that.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: So you know, we need at least we gotta hit
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: their average one hundred and thirty yards. They give up
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty for a game. Let's try to
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: hit that. Let's try to hit that. If we get
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: it in there, I think that really helps. And if
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: you want to calm him down, like I understand, like
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: early in the game giving him easy throws, I get
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: that everyone was kind of staying that during the game,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: but they a bunch of those thows were fairly easy. Dude.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: For this isn't college dude. You know this isn't college football, man,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: And for a guy. If you're talking about a guy
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: being an MVP, and if you look at his numbers,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: they're they're really high level this year. But you can't
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: baby this shit. Either. There's no time to ease your
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: quarterback in or baby your quarterback in in the playoffs
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: and in these high level games, there just isn't. That's
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: not how you do it, dude. This is the professional football,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: this is in college dude. So I understand with the
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: thought process of play action, getting in the flat, you know,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: throwing something quick, get rid of the ball quicker, and
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: some of that is just a three step drop get
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: rid of it, you know, because obviously he does hold
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: the ball, so that's partly Sam's but if it's a
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: three step drop, you know he won't hold it as
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: much likely. But yeah, start out with some easier plays. Okay,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: you know, something quick, get in space or whatever we
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: do have. You know, those wide receiver screens are kind
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: of funky with our wide receivers if I you know,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: we mentioned the last few weeks Addison has gotten better
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: at blocking those. But you know, the the flip side
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: of that was Jefferson. Actually, they they ran a screen
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: to Addison, you know, a little quick, little out and
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Jefferson missed the block. You know, he didn't. He couldn't.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: He couldn't handle their their little guys. They're not big guys.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: So that is the one one thing about this receiver
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: corps is blocking. And also, like blocking for a run
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: is even different than blocking for a wide receivers right
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: behind you. You know, and you see that in the
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: league a lot, and those are easy throws for the quarterback,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: but are they effective? And that's that's kind of interesting
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: right there. So you know, I don't think Cock played
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: his best games? Do what best game? Last game?
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Do?
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: I think he could have caught a couple. Sure. I
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: think Sam missed them a couple of times as well.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: I think that, you know, sometimes you get away with
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: something as a defender, sometimes you don't. Usually in NFL
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: you don't as much. But I did think that their
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: captain of their you know, that linebacker. He he played great,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: but he also was rough and he did hold arms
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: and shit and got away with it. But if you
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: get away with it, you get away with it. Is
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: what it is. But I think this will be another
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: type game I have it. Let me see where I right?
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Do I have it right around like twenty three, twenty
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: seven to twenty three, something like that. I do think
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: we'll bounce back. I think having another look. I mean,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: look what Floras did with another look at the Detroit
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Lions through three quarters. You know, it's pretty fucking good.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: I mean I even saw people I know that are
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: from Detroit that were like questioning Johnson. You know, it's like,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: hold on, dude, like give Flora some credit, you know,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: And that's why I want to give back third de
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: I can't remember his damn name right now, but the
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: third decordinator for the Lions, he had he called some
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: really good plitzes. But I have the Vikings getting the
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: job done. I do think they'll bounce back it maybe
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: just get it out of your system. But you know,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: if we're gonna have, we're gonna have to make it.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Not if we're going we're gonna have to make a
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: decision on Sam. So what better way to I mean
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: talk about, you know, on the job experience. This is
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: the perfect time to see what he's got.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm there with you too. I'm gonna take it
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: a little more to the extreme. I think you're right
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: about the perfect time to see what Sam's got. But
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: I think it's gonna get more confusing because I think
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: the Vikings are gonna come out. I'm not gonna say blowout,
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: but it's gonna be convincing victory against the Rams. I
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: like what you said about running the ball. If you
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: can get those run yards around their average, that helps
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: out a lot. But I think Sam's got so much
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: on the line here and what he's done, you just
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: want to piss it away in one game. I think
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: he's gonna, you know, really come back in this game
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: and make a statement. Now, a lot of that's wishful thinking,
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: but also it's just kind of the way it goes,
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: because then it sets up another meeting with the Lions.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: I'm sure the league will like that. Then you get
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: into the hard to beat a team three times, you know,
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: in that sense, a whole revenge thing. So I like
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: the vikings here. I think the vikings by ten thinks
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: by ten or more. I think the game's over late third.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: I just I really think defensively they're embarrassed. They should
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: be embarrassed. I thought not defense. Don't get me wrong there.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: I think the whole team is a little bit embarrassed.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: I think defense is doing just fine. I like what
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: you're saying about about Flores with another look. Now McVeigh
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: is one of those guys who give him another look.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah too, so, but I just think you know that
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: if you're gonna I really don't think it's gonna be
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: short passes, Chris. I think it's gonna be balls to
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: the wall live or die by the sword on this one.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Either they you know, they lose because they made a
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: bunch of long throws and they didn't work out, or yeah,
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: I just think they're gonna go with what got him there,
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: and that's what there and a Sam can relatively play
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: relatively well. Of course he holds the ball. We know that.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: We've been saying that. Everybody knows Sam Daro holds the ball.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: So he likes the ball. I guess he's got emotional
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: stuff to it. He doesn't want to he just you.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: Know, it's just Bubba his little blanket to the ball.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: But yeah, we have to uh yeah, I mean I
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: think that's the way it goes. Chris. I some people
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: say optimistic, but to me, I just gotta feel that
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: that's how it's going to go. So I say probably
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: Vikings twenty eight. I want to say fourteen thirteen for
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: the Rams. I think defensive performance, you know, like it
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: should have been last game. We'll just get hyped up
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: with offense actually you know, contributing this time, and it'll
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: just it'll be a powder keg thing where it's just
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: you know, then you start thinking, well, can they keep
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: this intensity for the next game and blah blah blah.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: But I think that that's how it's going to go.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: So I say, Vikings by by a wide margin. I
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: lost my ass on the over in this last one,
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: so I don't know, I.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Think most people did. Man, I didn't think it'd.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Be that yeah, I mean, I didn't think it'd be
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: so little. But then as a game approaching, like, man,
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: maybe you should the high over and blah blah bah.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: But yeah, so take the Vikings on this one. I
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: think they win.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and even about that quick little maybe just on
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: the first drive or whatever, you know, short stuff or whatever.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: But I agree with the overall as the game plan.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: You can't change it now. We're built a certain way.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: We have a lot of success doing it. You gotta
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: do what you gotta do. And uh, yeah, we'll see,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: we will see. Hopefully we were just a week to
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: early in that, you know, with that Green Bay game,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: both of us thinking we're gonna lose it, and then
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: we both thought we were gonna win. So hopefully, you know,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: he bounce back and you know, you get that's how
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: sports is. I know, PJ. Flex speaking of the Gophers,
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: doesn't believe you know, I think he believes in the momentum,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: but he doesn't like to say he believes in the momentum.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: And I kind of get that from a mentality of like, dude,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: you could change it on this play. Who cares about
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: what just happened? I get that. But momentum exist, you know,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: it just does. Now you can stop it, but you
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: need to make plays to stop it. But yeah, we'll see, man.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: I think though, like you said, we will have a
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: lot of confidence that next week if we if we
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: get the dump, because we've already proven that we can
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: lose two in a row and then string off nine
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: in a row or whatever. So speaking of in a
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: row eight in a row, it is now for the Gophers,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: and a lot of it obviously is with PJ. Flack
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: got the job done. And in fact, I didn't know
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: Daniel Jackson had like a little minor thing done to
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: his knee and he wasn't able to come back. So
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: there was a couple of things like that. We knew,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: you know, I didn't think Cody was gonna play. We knew,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: or say, wasn't gonna play, But there was actually more
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: players out than we thought, so it wasn't quite where
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: Virginia Tech was with literally like eleven starters or twelve starters,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: but it was closer, way closer, I thought, once we
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: got there. So but it was nice to see, like
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: on that offensive line, only one guy has gone on
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: that one that played. Now, obviously we brought some folks
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: in and all that, but like it was, That's what
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: I like about, not just the fifteen bull practices to get,
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: but the actual game time that these young players get.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: And you know, a guy like Hayes made some plays.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: He freaking pancaked a ship out of some dude. Brockington
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: made some play, So there was some young defensive players
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: made some play. So it was nice to see some
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: some youngsters get in the game. It did kind of
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: take a while to get going. We freaking missed a
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: field goal that was very makeable, but we we kind
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: of stormed them at mid to late second quarter and
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: never really look back. It wasn't for a pick. You know,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: we may have even been able to get a more
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: of a look at Drake Lindsay, the right now freshman
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: but will be the red shirt freshman next year who
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: there I believe hoping will win the job. But they
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: did bring in you know that George Tech QBA who
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: has more starts and experience of him, so they can
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: always go to him. Maybe it'll win the job, who knows.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: But either way, you know, when you're two and three
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: and you win eight games, you win, you go six
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: and two or not six and two. But when you
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: when you're two and three, dude, it's it's rough. Dude.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: After five games, it's like, oh my gosh. And so
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: I do like that. That's that's bigger than people think.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: And we've said it before, like you know, eight and five,
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: eight wins. If you look at that two and three,
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: I mean that that is a lot. To go six
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: and two the last eight that that's huge. That's huge.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: And you know, we all know the North Carolina game,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: if not just the last field goal, but just one
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: of those field goals that he missed two of them
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: go in the Michigan thing, we know if we get
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: that call, there's a good chance we could win that game.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: I'll never say we could have won that Iowa game,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: just how that second half played out, you know, because
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: we got our ass kicked. And I don't think you
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: can just give give give all the time. Just like Rutgers,
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: our offense down the stretch not only didn't show up,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: but then it fumbled and gave them great field position
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: to win that game. Defense showed up in that game, though,
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: So I'll give those are two losses. But then the
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Penn State game to lose by one right there. If
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: you're ten and two and you beat Penn State, right there,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: you're in the college football playoffs. Ten and two with
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: the top I think there were fifth or fourth when
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: we beat him, So we were so close to being
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: that team. And this also comes from, you know, last
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: year and being able to return starters and add to
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: the starters and so and some of the guys like Spencer,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: who had the MVP in the game, he came on
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: really strong, man like he this year. He popped off
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: last year not as much. Taylor got a hundred yard
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: game and he threw a touchdown. That was nice to see.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: But these next two years are really vital to try
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: to keep a guy like Taylor or try to keep
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: Koy Perrish. You know, you gotta show that you are
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: moving forward as well. And I'm not saying we gotta
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: be an eleven one team next year, but we gotta
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: be knocking at the door. You know, I think that
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: the floor has to be like eight wins, and you
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: gotta get pretty close to nine and ten, I believe,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: and that could be a bowl game and all that
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: too with the with the ten wins or whatever. But
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: it does appear that they're going back to the full
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: on run game play action. I wouldn't be shocked if
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: the two leading reception leaders, like just the number of
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: receptions are the tight end and Taylor. I mean Taylor,
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: you know, set the record for running backs catches this
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: year and which has been around for a while. They
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: used to do all those things way back in the
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: day a lot too. And then you know, completions, the
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: number of completions. Max got that as well. So it's
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: it's interesting, man. We got we got two tough, really
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: tough games, but a good chunk of the schedule is doable,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: you know. I do like how they have two more
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: gimme games to start the season and then go on
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: the road at Cal and then face Rutgers at home,
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: and so there's not like a heavy hitter there or
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: even on that Thurst night. You have to play like
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: a power for a team that's always kind of a
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: weirdest thing. So I think people kind of overlook just
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: how well PJ. Fleck is done, and it's in a
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: good spot. We're producing pros. In fact, I like that
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: we had multiple guys out in this game because it
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: tells you, you know, they're gonna try to go pro
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: and a couple of them are gonna make a team.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: So yeah, overall, I'm happy where the program is. I
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: do think these next two years, though, are gonna mean
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: a lot, because if we can get even if we're
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: nine and three right next year during the regular season,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: that next year we are not gonna be losing a
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: whole lot of starters, you know, as far as being
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: you know, to eligibility, so that would be huge. So
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: we'll see. But obviously just a good way to end
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: the season. And it really shouldn't be underestimated to think
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: that how close. I mean, nine to three and ten
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: and two were right there on the table. Like I said,
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go eleven and one and all that
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: type of shit, But it was it was a season
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: that we may look back at, let's say five to
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: eight years from now, and go, man, if Fleck could
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: have broke through that year, that helps everything. And I
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: hope that's not why we look back at it. But
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: I think he's done a hell of a job and
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: people just kind of forget how bad the program was.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: And that's not taking any credit away from what Mason
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: did when he was here mostly an offensive running team.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: His defenses got worse as the time went by, if
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: we're being honest, and then Kill deserves some credit, especially
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: for defense. We had a damn good defense and set
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: to Kill regime. Obviously, you know, we had to let
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: him go because of his health things. But Flet's doing
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: a pretty damn good job in.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, seven wins is your is your floor? Seven eight wins,
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: that's a far cry from what we grew up with.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: And yeah, that progression from like you know, Mason to
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: Kill to Clay's and then and then Fleck. You know,
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: you could say it was gradual, but Fleck's really kind
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: of been that, I mean, kind of put you in
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: there and got you to respectability as a program. Again,
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: I'm sure the stadium had something to do with it.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: You're not playing in that wretched dome, but you know
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: Kill had that as well. So yeah, I mean I
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: think it's a good season. Chris, Uh, you left a
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: little on the table, a little meat on the bone.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: I think in Michigan, like you said that Rutgers situation
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: North Carolina, I mean, it's ten wins there, and then
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: you're looking at a different viewpoint. But you know, I
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: really thought the Rutgers was more of our bowling green
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: this year and that's gotta go away. But and you're
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: right about the Iowa where you just you know, I
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: would just kick your ass on the second half. What
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: are you? What are you gonna do? But the Michigan
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: thing was the thing. I mean, so I guess with
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: the state of the Big ten now the new teams,
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: how things are gonna start to even themselves out. I mean,
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: obviously Oregon, Ohio State, you know, they're gonna be blue
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: blood sort of in the Michigan will probably pop back
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: in there or they'll fade down one of the two.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: But you're gonna have power teams. Ohio State will probably
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: be the constant one, and then you're gonna have you know,
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: Washington's a good squad. I mean there's a lot of
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of good squads now and I think.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: They got a really good coach too.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so in USC you know those guys will
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: get their ship together. U. C. L. A. Will probably
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: flash at times. So you know, if you gotta stay
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: competitive in that arena, now, you have to be able
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: to show progress. Like you said, to keep your guys
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: here mkoy. You know, maybe he's a guy that's going
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: to go four years, but Taylor, you know, I might
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: seek a different opportunity at some point if you're not
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: using him or winning games. I did see the Philip lindsay,
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: you know is what it is. I think you're right
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: about them going back to more of a run based scheme,
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: but you never know. I mean, you never know how
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: it's going to go. I know, with the backs they have,
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know what they've got exactly on that offensive line,
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: but you said everybody but one that you saw on
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: the bowl game, So I think offensive line is going
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: to be something that's always kind of steady in this
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: Some will be better than others, but they'll all be good.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: So that's you know, that's bodes well for the offense.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: I thought this was probably one of the weaker offensive
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: lines this season that I can remember. If you were
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: if you would have took the nineteen offensive line and
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: put it on this squad, they were talking about the
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: whole different thing. Defensive line is steadily improved, and that's
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: been the most gradual thing. I think the coordinators now
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: have kind of found their groove and what they want
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: to do, and so I think it's just kind of
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: full steam ahead. Uh, you know, are you going to
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: bounce into the college football playoff at some point? You
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: know you might get a lucky year, but you're gonna
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: be in the mix in the Big ten consistently with
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: Fleck it appears that way anyway, and you'll have a
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: respective program, you'll get on TV blah blah blah, all
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: that stuff, which is all stuff you need for the
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: nil for recruiting and all that stuff to keep your
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: program relevant. Obviously, beat Illinois this year, which was a
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: big thing which took so I think, yeah, long story short,
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: a good year. Wasn't great, but a good one and
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: could have been great. We need to have another great
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: again here soon. But you know the two and three
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: with Fleck in the beginning, you know, there's it's just
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: knee jerk, knee jerk on everything these days. And I
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: were talking about that earlier. It's just there's polarized. It's
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: either he socks or he's great. You know, there's no
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: pretty good coach. You know, he'll do none of that.
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: It's just you know, one or the other, and it's
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: getting frustrating. But yeah, I mean I'm happy with Fleck. Yeah,
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: way way it goes. I like the fact that they're
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: gonna run the ball because it's big ten. You're an
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: outdoor stadium, you gotta be able to run the ball.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: I thought maybe they got away from it a little
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: more than I would have liked this year. But yeah,
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: you know, it was nice to see him fling the
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: ball around for once, you know, you know, so it
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: was refreshing to see that. So you guess you get
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: one or one or the other. But yeah, I mean,
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: I think it looks good in the future going forward.
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: So pretty happy with the state of the program under Fleck.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: And again, you know the Michigan thing, that's the one
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: that sticks out the most to me is just the
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: on side kick as I came. You know, every year,
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: you're gonna get some of those and you're gonna miss
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: some of those, and that was when we missed it.
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: Woul him been huge. You get a win over Michigan.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, if you have a good line
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: of scrimmage, the game's gonna be pretty close, you know.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: And the defensive line, like the three guys that really
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: stand out are not only pretty damn good, but they're
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: big too. You're talking like six six three ten six four.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: The dude who's real versatil six six to eighty five
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: that could on the outside in inside. I mean, this
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: is the talent that we hadn't had prior on the defense.
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: And you know, we we took a minor step back
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: on defense last year. A lot of that had to
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: do with u who We lost our depth, and we
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: had some injuries and we didn't have experienced guys. And
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: this year we didn't lose those same guys and they
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: got the defense right back to where it was. So,
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: you know, I think they're gonna lean in based off
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: their transfer portals to the defense. Three offensive linemen, I
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: think they're definitely gonna lean into the run and kind
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: of get back to that and try to hit up,
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: you know, big plays. And I think that you know,
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: a guy like Brockington can make place. You know, the
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: guy I think it's Lacy who we brought in. He
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: might be able to make place. We got some young guys.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: So we'll see, we'll see how that goes, but we'll obviously,
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: you know, talk that. You know, we're not gonna talk
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: too anymore stuff about the Gophers unless something happens with
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: the transfer portal or whatever. Why don't you get us
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: out of here, sir?
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: Well, it kind of felt like last week was the playoffs,
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: but these are real playoffs. You wan die, so fourteen
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: to three season, yippie. Let's go to the Sofi Stadium
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: play the Rams, bounce back, and we'll talk about it
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: next week.