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A New Look for TSH, Reactions to Free Agency Additions/Subtractions, and a Conspiracy Theory | TSH Ep. 32 · The Skol Hop

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All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome in to another episode of the
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school Hop. Kind of got some new digs here, Yeah, the new
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look skull Hop. What do you think? I love it. I like
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it too. It's gonna throw me off if we don't introduce ourselves, So
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we do need to introduce ourselves. I'm Evan and I'm Austin, and we're
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just a couple of dudes from Iowa. We like drinking beer and we like
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talking about the Vikings. We do. And Evan, you brought the beer
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tonight. I did. This is a continuation of the beer series that we
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started a few weeks ago on our podcast. So No Coast Brewing is based
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out of Oscaralusa, Iowa, and they have at least available to us at
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our local grocery store, which is not in Oscar Lusa, Iowa. We
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have three different No Coast Nitro beers. So just a few weeks ago,
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episode thirty I believe it was, we tried No Coasts cookies and cream and
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nitro and that was really good. We both would agree that it's not something
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that we would naturally gravitate towards. Yeah, I mean, but it was
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good. Yeah, maybe every once in a while thing. But yeah,
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I never really you know, Divin in the pool. Divin never really dived
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into the pool of nitro beers. So yeah, so here we are trying
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number two in the series. In our series, it's not like they have
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them numbered or anything. We're trying the second one of the nitros that we
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have available to us, and it's the coffee stout. So it is a
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cold brew coffee milk stout five percent. And we learned how to pour a
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nitro beer on the last episode. You have to tip it three times.
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I'm not going to do it now because this one's been open and it would
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drip everywhere. But then you pour it hard and I just splashed everywhere.
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Oh that's all right, But that's okay, no big deal. We need
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to get like a roll of paper towels just to have Yeah, we'll get
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some. But anyways, that's how you do it. And it's it's been
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a learning experience pouring and drinking these nitro beers. But they're good and I
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like them absolutely, I agree. First impressions on this one so far.
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Yeah, so have we mentioned the one that we tried a few weeks ago,
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So if you're not a regular school hopper. We tried the cookies and
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cream a cream a few weeks ago tonight. If you just said this,
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I'm sorry, I was kind of half I was really looking to see if
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they only had three on their website, and I couldn't find it at all.
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So this is the coffee, nitro h, what is it actually called?
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Am I rehashing something? You just said? The cold brew coffee?
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That's right? And then the next one in our series, which may or
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may not be next week, it is themores. Yeah, so cookies and
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cream two weeks ago, We've got the coffee today, and we'll try the
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smores sometime soon hopefully. Yeah, all right, ready, just a good
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old, good old let's let's really do this. Although we have some really
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some electronics. N alrighty, it's just a hollow sound. I don't know.
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We've had so many good ones, and I think it's all in my
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head at this point. That one wasn't bad. The first one we did
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tonight was worse. Yeah, on the on the TikTok. Yeah, that
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was one of the poorer ones we've had before. But that's all right,
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that's okay. Yeah, I'm well, we'll live, we'll be here for
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more episodes. Yes, we will so episode thirty two. Yeah, we
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got Toby Gerhart. He was a good one. He was short lived.
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Short lived. I feel like, I mean, when a team has Adrian
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Peterson and drafts you at his position in the second round, but it's a
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lot of pressure. And then it's Adrian Peterson, You're not gonna get a
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bunch of opportunity to get on the field, and if you ever do anything
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wrong, it's just like super magnified. So I think he got a bad
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rap and then I think he went to the the Jaguars after the Vikings and
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he never really turned into the Heisman level running back he was in college.
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Yeah, Toby Gerhart, I liked him. Currently, Ty Chandler, yes,
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who I think even with the Aaron Jones signing, we're still looking at
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Ty Chandler as RB one maybe like RB one A or RB one B.
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I don't know. Yeah, I mean we could theoretically have another little two
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headed monster kind of thing with Aaron Jones and Chandler. Yeah, that remains
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to be seen, but it could be. And then how can we forget
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the goat mister Wizenader himself? Ontario Smith good old Ontario Smith. Yeah,
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I always got to check that bag before you get on the flight there,
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buddy. Literally, So those are some memorable number thirty two's. Yeah,
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yeah, you said you had one up your sleeve. I do so.
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Uh. I went to my favorite Daily Norseman series of articles where they kind
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of take the vikings by the numbers and list out all the Vikings to wear
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different numbers. And I started looking through this list, and you can probably
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look over my shoulder here and see it. Of course Ontario Smith, Ohilly
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Gerhart on the list. But as I'm looking at the rest of it,
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I'm like, I don't really know any of these other names. So I
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scrolled down and I came across this pole that they had, all right,
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who was the great gatest Viking to war the number thirty two? And we're
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we're obviously timeline biased because we weren't alive for the first what thirty years of
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Vikings existence, and then even then we need another like ten years to really
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wake up, right, yeah, oh for sure, yep, I mean
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we're really in the peak years of our fanhood. Oh yeah, right now,
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yeah for sure. Anyways, Toby Gerhart received twenty eight percent of the
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vote, Yeah, just respectable. Yeah. Twenty six percent of the vote
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went to Amp Lee, who played from nineteen ninety four to nineteen ninety six.
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I was a child, Yeah, we were alive then, like kindergarten.
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Ish don't remember him at all. But forty six percent of the vote
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went to Oscar Reed. Oscar Reed played from nineteen sixty eight to nineteen seventy
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four. Where do you think Oscar Reid sits in the echelon of Vikings running
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backs all the time? Just oh, I'm going to be in the top
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fifty, top forty, top thirty, top twenty, top ten. Where
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do you think he lands. I don't know that I've heard his name before
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you just read it. I hadn't either. I just want you to make
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a guess. I mean, I could tell you Top five is probably Ap
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Yep, Dalvin's probably in there, obviously, Robert Smith. In terms of
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yards, we'll go with yards. Yeah, as the key stat. Okay,
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well, if it's just yards then I'm not sure. But as far
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as like overall best, yeah, it's got to be Ap, Robert Smith,
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Dalvin Yep. Those are the top three, and then from there you
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got a lot of guys who are good. But you know, so where
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where? What what's the stat here? What's the You didn't take a guess
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which ten fifty? It's one of those. It's got to be a shock
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value because otherwise you wouldn't bring if he was like the worst ever. He's
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either like top ten or the worst ever. That's why you would bring it
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up, right, not top ten? Is he the worst ever? Rushing?
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Now? I don't know. Is he eleven? No? All right?
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Laying on me. He's top twenty, all right, he's number nineteen
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all time in rushing history. And the Vikings have had a lot of running
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backs. I mean this list, well, is that running backs or is
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that all people with rushing yards? I think in Vikings history just well,
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it's career rushing leaders, because like even Kirk Cousins is going to be on
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that list. I suppose you're right. Anybody who's got it. I mean
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C. J. Hamm, who's a fullback and isn't known for being a
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rusher, he's going to be on that list. All of these players in
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the top thirty are running backs. Yeah, and not to diminish you know
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the names on that list, but yeah, I was just I was surprised.
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Yeah, he was a decent running back. Oh I misspoke, Dante
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Culpepper number fourteen all time. That's kind of talking to number thirteen. Well,
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friend was the he was the og Mike Vick in terms of running around
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and extending plays. Correct, those are the only two quarterbacks in the top
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thirty though. That's interesting. Huh. Anyways, there you go, Oscar
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read all right. Now you know, now you know arguably the best number
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thirty two. I mean, if he's he's got to have the most rushing
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yards. Of the three names we mentioned, ty Chandler, Gerhart, and
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Ontario Smith, so the four guys Ontario, he probably has something like I'd
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be surprised if you had any more than like a thousand. I think he
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only played for the team for two parts of two seasons. Yeah, that
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sounds right, But that was in the early two thousands. That was when
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that YouTube video you just showed me. It was super popular about drinking beer
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and stuff. Beer is good. Let's go drink some beer. Well we
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are right now, all right, man, I feel like we're warming up
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into the episode here, up into this new set, two set, new
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episode. I feel like we're off a little bit so sorry listeners if we
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say and off. We're still getting used to everything. Our old set,
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we were pretty set in it. We had twenty plus episodes in that set.
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We're waiting in, but we'll be in the deep end before too long.
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Yeah, we're getting it all right. Since our last episode just a
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week ago, we recorded last we record on Mondays now. So there's been
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some things, not only for the Vikings but in the NFL overall. A
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big thing is the Vikings signed the guy who at the moment is sitting in
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the QB one spot and we kind of talked about him a little bit last
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week as a possibility, but Sam Donald is officially a Vikings quarterback as of
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right now. Yes, he is. What do you think about that?
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Well, I think it's interesting that Quacy very publicly and very directly stated that
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he doesn't believe in bridge quarterbacks and Sam Donald is not a bridge quarterback.
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But it's pretty obvious that that's what he is. And we'll talk I'm sure
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about I see it on our notes here. We'll talk about the trade for
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some draft picks with the Texans later on. Oh yeah, but if he
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truly believes that there's no such thing, as a bridge quarterback, and he
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believes that Sam Donald is the bona fide starter week one. He's not holding
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his cards very close to his chest, so to speak. So I believe
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in bridge quarterbacks. I think that's why Sam Donald was brought in. I
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don't have high hopes for him being with the team long term as far as
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past this coming season, correct, And I mean he could be traded before
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that too. I think ten million dollars is a little much to cut a
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guy and just eat that. Yeah, unless he's just terrible and isn't a
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good locker room guy. But I've never heard anything bad about Sam Donald.
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Yeah, honestly, away, Yeah, I think we've never. Really,
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I can't think of a time where Sam Donald's been in the news negatively outside
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of like performance, Like I can't think of oh, yeah, I remember
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that time he was arrested. Like, I can't think if anything bad.
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So it seems like a stand up dude. Yeah, So, I don't
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know, it's pretty obvious to me what's going on with him. I'm sure
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it's obvious to him. I'm sure it's obvious to everyone else in the organization,
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and I'm sure it's even obvious to Drake may or JJ McCarthy or Jayden
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Daniels or whoever like Koc. Yeah, who in the quarterbacks, but going
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after in the draft too well, I think these young guys probably see it
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too, like, oh yeah, Like I know JJ McCarthy, he's been
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in the news because the Vikings scheduled a private workout with him, and I
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know they've had an interview that JJ McCarthy really gushed about with the media.
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He really liked meeting with Quacy and Koc. So I don't know. I
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think everybody kind of sees through this facade of oh, there's no such thing
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as a bridge. That's what Sam Donald is at ten million dollars. It
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is what it is. We'll see what happens. Yeah, I kind of
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think this is the move Quasi makes this year because of what happened with Kirk
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last year. So obviously it's a strategy. I don't think it's any secret.
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Everybody who follows the NFL and even slightly thinks of the Vikings knows Vikings
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are going to do everything they can to get a rookie quarterback. I think
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Sam Donald, while not by any means a pro bowler or above average quarterback,
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I mean, at this point he hasn't really He's only shown that he
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is a guy that gets benched in his career, but he's also had a
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little bit of a respite since being a full fledged starter. I think quarterbacks
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leave San Francisco better quarterbacks than they were when they entered San Francisco. I
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think, you know, Shanahan and all of their coaching staff are really good
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at developing quarterbacks specifically. I mean not to diminish Rock Purty as a quarterback
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and a person. Maybe he would have flourished into what he is now in
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any other team, but I think Shanahan has had a lot to do with
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that, for sure. I think so just speculating, you got to imagine
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Sam Donald's a better quarterback after having been in San Francisco for a year than
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he was before then. I think genuinely, I really think the Vikings are
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heading into the season regardless of what they do in the draft, They're at
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least heading into training camp. Sam Donald is QB one. First day of
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training camp, Sam Donald will be taking QB one snaps. He will be
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on the first step chart. He'll be listed as the first starting quarterback.
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Even if the Vikings were to somehow get the first overall pick, which they
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won't. But even if they were to get the first overall pick and draft
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the guy Caleb Williams or anybody like whoever they draft, is automatically listed quarterback
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too heading into training camp, and I think that takes a little bit of
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a pressure off of that first round pick quarterback, but also lights a fire
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under that quarterback as well. It's just not you know, if he throws
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a pick on his first pass in practice, he's not in danger of losing
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the starting job that he was pretty quickly put into. So I think Sam
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Donald gives you a little bit of a little bit of a buffer, and
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if he has to start the first couple of days, first couple of games,
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I don't think that's the end of the world unless we're also hearing,
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hey, this rookie is garbage, like you know, whoever it is.
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So I like the move. I'm not saying, hey, Sam Donald's going
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to lead the Vikings to the Super Bowl, because I think the ceiling is,
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you know, maybe something that Baker Mayfield did with the Bucks last year,
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and that's a high ceiling. I'm not saying Sam Donald's going to do
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that, but he re signed for what three years and one hundred million dollars
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you have to contract. Yeah, so I think it's just the you signed
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Sam Darnald now why you can and maybe overpay a little bit, which ten
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million dollars. I mean, that's in this salary cap that's almost nothing for
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a guy that could start at quarterback for your team. You overpay a little
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bit in March so that you're not kicking yourself because you have to hurry up
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and start Jaren Hall or start a Josh Dobbs who's been on your team for
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five days because guys are injured and unexpected things happened. So my question to
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you is do you think this is the more proactive Josh Dobbs move rather than
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the reactive actual Josh Dobbs move that we saw in October or whatever it was
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this last season. Yeah? Probably. I mean, I don't know.
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This is kind of hedging your bet. That's kind of how I see this
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Sam Donald's signing. Like, yes, I think everybody in the world knows.
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Like I said earlier, the Vikings are going to draft a quarterback,
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or at least try their hardest to draft a quarterback really high with the intention
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of that guy being the long term starter for many, many years. But
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and maybe this is I'm describing a bridge quarterback quote unquote, but at least
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this gives you a little bit of insurance in case the rookie doesn't pan out.
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Then you have a guy that at least has started some games and has
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shown you can pull up a highlight reel of Sam Donald. Yeah, it
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might only be a minute, but you can pull up some good plays.
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And I mean look at Nick Mullin's with JJ last year. You know,
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with a sufficient offensive line and weapons, I mean, anybody can do something.
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I'm not saying Sam Donald's going to be a pro bowler, MVP or
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win many games, but he's better than a fifth round rookie or the guy
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that the Cardinals let go. You know, he's at least an option that
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you're glad that you signed now rather than kicking yourself for not signing later.
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Well, and whoever the guy is, I agree with you. I think
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Sam Darnold is probably the Day one starter and then what happens from there will
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remain to be seen. But moving down our list on free agent signings,
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here, in the last week and a half ish and We already kind of
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mentioned his name when we were talking about episode thirty two, ty Chandler.
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The compliment to ty Chandler could be very well Aaron Jones, and I think
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having a guy like him and having ty Chandler, who now has some significant
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starting experience, those two could be kind of that double headed monster that we've
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needed for a while, and that Dalvin Cook and Alexander Madison were for a
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while until Dalvin LEFTS and Alexander Madison kind of elevated to that RB one role.
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So I like that signing a lot. I think I like the signing
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the most because it really pissed off Packers fans. They were very upset.
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Who was it Tom Grossi's video about losing to the Vikings like that was that
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was comedy gold. That was hilarious And yes, just anything that makes Packers
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fans mad makes me really happy. Yeah, so that's that was good.
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But it was also good that the Vikings got a really good running back.
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He's if healthy, yeah, yeah, he's definitely had some some injury concerns
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and he's getting older. Definitely hitting kind of the end of the road for
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a typical running back. Yeah, if you're if you're a running back and
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you turn thirty, you may as well turn eighty. Like I mean,
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just even look at Adrian Peterson, you know, look at the top of
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the top guys, Derrick Henry. Once they hit that age, like it's
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just a it's a position that they get beat down on every single play,
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and their production just plummet. Yeah, even if they're a guy that's not
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like they're still in practice getting hit just as much. It's just not when
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they're you know, in the money time, you know, in games.
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So that's that's why I have that mentality of hashtag don't pay running backs because
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second contract running backs have a lot of miles on them, they're older.
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It's also probably one of the outside of cornerback, maybe one of the more
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like demanding of physical abilities like speed and agility and stuff. Except for corner
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like, not everybody is gunning you down on every single play. Running Backs
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are getting hit on every single play, even if it's a pass play,
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because they're probably blocking or going out for a pass and somebody's gonna touch them.
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Like it's a it's a demanding position. And that's why thirty seems to
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be just that that retirement age for running backs and is he gonna is Aaron
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Jones gonna be thirty by the time the season starts. He's either twenty nine
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or thirty at this point, which is close enough. But to your point
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you mentioned he recently. I think his last five games he is one of
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the better product producing running backs in football. I think he was a big
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part of their the Packers playoff run on top of Jordan Love, you know,
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figuring something out. He'll turn thirty on December second, okay this,
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yeah, so he's twenty nine right now. Towards the end of the season,
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he'll be thirty. Yeah. It's just I like the deal. I
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sound like I don't like it. I do like the deal. One year.
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I'm pretty sure it's like seven million dollars, maybe a little bit more
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or less, depending on incentives and non guarantees. But seven million for a
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guy that, I mean, you could probably say is RB one. And
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I don't think you're gonna get much pushback. But the coaches also gush over
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ty Chandler in a way that they never gushed over Alex Madison, who Alex
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signed with the Raiders. So good for him. Yep, got a little
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like triangle of trades going on there. That Josh Jacobs came to the Packers
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from the Raiders, Aaron Jones went to the Vikings from the Packers, and
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Alexander Madison went to the Raiders from the Vikings. Yeah, and I think
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every team feels a little good about that move, except for maybe the Maybe
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the Packers hate that Hale Johns went to the Vikings. And I mean Josh
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Jacobs, He's a really good running back, So the Raiders are probably Raiders
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fans are probably not super happy they lost him either, But I don't know.
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As a Vikings fan, I'm good with it. We'll see how it
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pans out. I think the Vikings are the big winners. They seem to
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be, at least for this season. Thing. Ye, we'll see what
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happens long term. But yeah, we can probably like spit fire through some
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of these other signings. And yeah, I was thinking that Brandon Powell and
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Tres Sherfield. I like the Brandon Powell signing, bringing him back, and
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further down our list when we get to departures, kJ Osborne has left and
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he's signed with the Patriots now yep, which means Brandon Powell, he's your
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penciled in wide receiver three. Right now, he's effectively number three behind JJ
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Jordan Addison. And I think that's a wonderful move for the Vikings, and
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I think for Brandon Powell too. And I think he proved that he's the
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guy. He had that game winner against his one of his former teams,
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right the Falcons. Yeah, in that crazy Josh Stapkstobs game. Yep.
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And uh yeah. I don't know much about Trent Sherfield, but I mean
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he seems fairly cheap and could be some good depth there at that position.
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If you scroll down to some of the school Hops TikTok videos, we have
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a video highlight of me reacting to Trent Sherfield catching like a toe tapping behind
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the end zone, like back of the end zone, falling down touchdown catch
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oh this past year. So we'll link that in the description this episode.
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Once I saw they signed him, that's the first thing I thought of.
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I think, Trent Sherfield, this is his fifteen in five years. I've
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heard decent things about him being apparently a decent special teams player, and then
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obviously he'll get in a few plays a game here and there on wide receiver.
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Other than that, I don't really know anything about him. But at
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this point, especially with if you remember me last year saying I have the
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loss of Adam Thielen really sucks, but it it's lessened because TJ. Hockinson
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is really going to turn into that third wide receiver threat option. Even though
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TJ. Hockinson, Hockinson's obviously a tight end, he was like that third
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target, especially you know, behind JJ Jordan Addison and then TJ. TJ
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has some question marks in the beginning of the season. So that wide receiver
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three role is going to be even more important for the Vikings this coming season
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than it really has been the last few years, definitely the last two with
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TJ Hockinson, because you're not getting yeah, they've got some decent backup tight
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ends, but you're not getting that major receiving threat from the tight end position.
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So Brandon Powell has a chance to do something kJ Osborne never really did,
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which was solidify that third wide receiver role. And maybe the draft a
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guy and free agency still not done, so you never know. I expect
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to see more names in that wide receiver room before cut down day for sure.
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Yeah, definitely, Well, continuing with offensive players and on the tight
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end thread. With TJ there's obviously the question mark of if he will be
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healthy or not for the start of the season, and chances are he probably
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won't be. Yeah, I've heard as much as like the first half of
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the season he might not really be there, which that'd be crazy, that
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would suck, but so get better. The Vikings have signed Johnny Munt,
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who was on the roster last year. Was this his first year, second
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year, I can't, I can't remember, but he was definitely on the
25:55
team last year, maybe the year before, but they signed him. They
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previously already signed Nick Muse, and they still have Josh Oliver, So I
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mean, you're really solidifying that tight end room in a year where your highest
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paid tight end in the league, you're tight end one is injured. So
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you want to have some consistency and some on fire production from the guys that
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are in there. And it kind of is nice to see that the Vikings
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are doubling down on the guys that are there, which means they're confident in
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those guys other than like, oh crap, we're losing our main guy.
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We need to find somebody big to fill that role. They seem at this
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point, before you know, end of free agency, before the draft,
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they seem to be okay with rolling it back with the guys that they still
26:41
have in you know, waiting for TJ to come back. Johnny Munt second
26:48
year, this past year, Vikings, the previous five seasons with the Rams.
26:52
Yeah, and he came over. He was one of koc's first,
26:56
one of the first free agents to sign after KOs hired. Yep. So
27:00
skipping down our list here a little bit. Another former Ram now Viking that
27:07
just signed, I mean an hour ago, an hour and a half ago
27:11
before we started recording. Jonah Williams had forty nine tackles last year, two
27:15
sacks for the Rams as officially signed with the Vikings today. Yeah. And
27:19
a guy that he's been playing alongside Aaron Donald his whole career, who just
27:23
retired and he'll be a Hall of Famer in two seconds, you know.
27:27
But Jonah Williams, I don't know too much about him. This could be
27:30
it could be this year's version of Dean Lowry, or it could be a
27:36
diamond in the rough. I think Quac likes to find guys that he can
27:38
quote unquote buy low on and maybe maybe you know, sell high or reap
27:45
the benefits of buying low, and then a guy flourishing just knowing he had
27:52
been with Koc on the same team for a few years. There's that familiarity,
27:56
and that familiarity wasn't enough for Koc to be like, no, I
28:00
don't want him. If anything, it said, yeah, bring him in.
28:04
We kind of skipped over Dan Feenie center guard. I think that's kind
28:08
of a joke of a signing and kind of a slap in the face to
28:14
Dalton Riisner. A little handlebar, mustache mullett kind of guy. Dan Feenie.
28:18
He'll be with the Vikings at most this one year, and then he'll
28:22
probably bounce around another few years. I'm guessing he has a good agent.
28:26
I don't think he's a very good player. I think he's still rolling off
28:29
some steam that he had coming into the league out of the draft. Yeah.
28:34
I don't think this may be the last time we say his name on
28:37
the podcast unless he makes it way his way into a game and really f
28:41
something up. That's my harsh opinion on him. I'm sure he's a good
28:45
dude. Hope he's a good dude. But yeah, interesting a couple other
28:49
quick hitting ones we've kind of I think we mentioned this last week perhaps I
28:53
don't know if we did or not for sure, but Harrison Smith restructured his
28:59
contract. Yep, that's just that's awesome. He is arguably the greatest Viking
29:07
of our era. I think he's entering his thirteenth season. This will be
29:11
thirteen, I believe, Yeah, yeah, which is just kind of unheard
29:15
of in today's league. And the fact that he's just continued to restructure,
29:19
take pay cuts, do whatever it takes to stick with the Vikings. I
29:25
get the feeling this dude just loves being a Viking because he has been through
29:30
I think his rookie year was Leslie Frasier as a coach, and then obviously
29:36
we went through all of Mike Zimmer and now we're a couple of years into
29:40
KOC. He has been with this team since Winter Park. He has been
29:45
with this team since the Metrodome. He has been with this team since before
29:49
the Vikings switched their uniforms to their current iteration. Pretty sure his rookie year
29:56
was Adrian Peterson's two thousand yard rushing year. Tells me, and you know,
30:03
if Harrison Smith had been a free agent, and I know safeties have
30:06
kind of big name safeties have been they're still on the market, so it's
30:11
not like he would have broken the bank this year. If he would have
30:14
hit free agency and signed with somebody else, he probably would have gotten more
30:18
than nine million dollars. Yeah, and I just I don't know him,
30:23
but the marketing team seems to like throwing his name and face and voice out
30:27
there, and he's only ever been entertaining to watch. If anything, he
30:32
kind of seems like a chill, laid back guy, not a loud,
30:34
you know, raw ra guy that seems to be like a Josh Mattelis type
30:37
guy on the defense. But Harrison Smith seems to love being a Viking because
30:42
look at his rookie year, just the state of the franchise to now the
30:47
state of the franchise. They've been playing in a different stadium, like different
30:51
coaches, different everything, and he's still here. That just tells me he
30:55
loves being a Viking, and I love that he is. He is the
30:57
new Adam Theela. He's the epitome of being a Viking player. Yeah,
31:03
and probably arguably one of the best in our era of fan hood. So
31:08
it would be really cool to like talk to him and just get his mindset
31:11
of like, I guarantee he's had better opportunities elsewhere, even not even money,
31:17
but I guarantee you I had better opportunities to win more like so,
31:22
open invitation, Harrison Smith. If you're out there, I'm sure you'd have
31:25
better opportunities to go on podcasts. But if you want to come, sit
31:30
and have a beer with us right here, if you even drink, I
31:33
don't even know if you do, but we'd have whatever you want. If
31:36
you want pine floats, if you want a toothpick and water, we'll have
31:40
I'm just kidding. That's a really terrible joke. I don't even my grandpa
31:45
used to tell me that all the time. Interesting, pine floats, toothpick
31:48
and water. Okay, we'll have whatever you want. If you want a
31:52
and w root beer or I'm not a root beer guy. I know you're
31:55
not anyways, Harrison Smith, open invitation. You hit us up and up.
32:01
There's no way you're gonna hit us. I mean, you never know.
32:06
Yeah, we're fans. I'd love to get behind the mentality of why
32:10
why you keep committing to the Vikings? And I like that. So,
32:16
yeah, I'd love to hear that story. Why we're gonna clip this out
32:20
and send it to him. Let's do it and see what happens. All
32:22
right, that'll be a banner day in the school. Hop. Yeah,
32:27
that'd be fun. Now we can really quick hit some other ones. Jonathan
32:31
Bullard was re signed. He's one of those kind of just keepers from the
32:37
previous roster. That's definitely a good signing. Jerry Tillery was signed for a
32:43
year just over while just under two million dollars. I guess, former first
32:46
round pick. He could be another guy that we're either we the quasis either
32:51
buying low or it's another Dean Lowry type deal where it's yeah, and then
32:57
I don't think. I don't think our former kicker has officially left yet.
33:04
No, he's I mean, he's a free agent, but he's on the
33:06
free agency market and I don't think we'll re sign him. So John Parker
33:13
Romo has been brought in. XFL kicker from last year allegedly hit a like
33:20
a seventy three yarder or something, probably with the wind help him. Maybe
33:23
still, you could give me a thousand mile an hour wind behind my back
33:28
and I still wouldn't hit a twenty yard field goal. I probably couldn't hit
33:31
a five yard field goals. So anyways, we've got at least a kicker
33:37
and probably at least one more coming. I would I would definitely expect unless
33:44
this guy has already won the job, I don't know. I don't know,
33:47
but I would definitely expect, just with his pedigree that he's had in
33:52
the NFL practice squad bouncing around, and then with the XFL, I definitely
33:58
expect the Vikings either to draft it guy late or identify another guy in free
34:02
agency, or pick up an undrafted guy there. There could even be a
34:06
few guys like that's definitely as fluid that the kicking position has been since since
34:13
Greg Joseph signed and even then before since Dan Bailey, So it'd be cool.
34:17
John Parker Romo seems like anytime you got anytime you say a guy's first,
34:22
middle and last name, which I'm assuming it is here and not just
34:25
like his last name, being Parker Romo kind of gives you some serial killer
34:30
vibes, which I don't know anything about this dude. That is totally unfair.
34:34
But what if his first name is John Parker, maybe it might be.
34:37
I mean, what if he's related to Tony Romo, that would be
34:40
kind of cool, that would be And then we get some CBS games and
34:45
there I feel like we'd heard about that though, but it would be kind
34:47
of funny to say, like he murdered that kick. We need to move
34:55
on from that. Yeah, and you need to move on from that.
34:59
The the Vikings have murdered some contract. The way this transition is going it
35:07
is not a good one. But there have been some departures. Yeah,
35:13
they've left. Yeah, obviously they lost Kirk Cousins to the Falcons, which
35:17
the Falcons are apparently under some investigation for tampering, which I think is totally
35:22
fair. I don't know how you can ride up and agree to an entire
35:25
contract in less than an hour or two. I texted you I had a
35:30
theory that perhaps Kirk Cousins spilled the beans in his very first yeah interview,
35:43
very first press conference with the Falcons, spilled the beans that he had contact
35:49
with Falcons staff prior to the official legal tampering window. Let me back up,
35:59
I think the NFL brought all of this upon themselves by creating a legal
36:04
tampering window because tampering is tampering. It's illegal. Quot's negotiation. That's all
36:09
it really is. So then call it a legal negotiation. That's what it
36:13
is called. It's just you know, the media has like, oh,
36:15
it's legal tampering. Media spun it into something that shouldn't be. Yeah,
36:19
they never do that anyways. I wonder if it was a little not of
36:23
the cap to the Vikings because it could turn into a draft pick for the
36:29
Vikings. If the league decides to come down hard on the Falcons and penalize
36:32
them, it won't affect Kirk Cousins really at all. I mean, it's
36:37
a what if. Okay, So the quote unquote punishment that's been going around
36:43
is that the Falcons could be Usually when the league punishes a team, they
36:46
just did this to the forty nine ers today because of a error in a
36:55
clerical error in their salary cap computation. The forty nine Ers made some math
37:00
errors which apparently were totally like innocent, They didn't know that they were making
37:06
any errors, but they basically calculated their salary cap wrong and because of that
37:12
they forfeited like their fifth round pick in twenty twenty five, and then the
37:15
NFL made them move their fourth round pick to the end of the fourth round.
37:20
So when the NFL punishes teams, it's usually monetarily or with draft picks
37:24
or some version of bull So people are saying like, oh, they can
37:30
rip the forty nine ers the falcons eighth overall pick and give it to the
37:35
Vikings, Like a highly doubt, highly highly highly doubt that that would happen.
37:42
At the most, they would, you know, make the Falcons lose
37:46
a pick and maybe a first round and maybe even this year's first round,
37:51
but they would definitely not give it to the Vikings. Like, I don't
37:53
see any version of Falcons punishment that the Vikings would directly benefit because as of
38:00
it, other than maybe if the Falcons lost their first round pick that would
38:04
mean the Vikings eleventh pick, would it would have fewer picks in front of
38:08
it, So sure they're not going to get the falcons eighth overall pick.
38:13
I'd be I will eat a shoe on this episode, on this podcast if
38:17
if the Falcons had to give their eighth overall pick to the Vikings. I'm
38:22
just saying it seems interesting. I also saw something that made it seem like
38:28
the Patriots are kind of colluding is the wrong word because it has a negative
38:34
connotation, but it almost it seemed like whoever was suggesting this seemed to think
38:39
that the Patriots were helping the Vikings in some way. Did you see that
38:45
tweet too? Yeah, and I wish I saw who had it, But
38:50
like that, hey, what if? What if the Patriots really were demanding
38:55
an extra third round pick from the Vikings or second round pick for next year
39:00
year and for this upcoming draft the third overall pick, and the Vikings were
39:05
like, Okay, well we don't want to do that, And the Patriots
39:07
are like, well, what if we sign this guy, then you get
39:08
another comp pick and then it doesn't hurt us bad. That's some next level
39:15
thought that. I mean, people are smart enough to do that. The
39:20
Patriots are widely known for, you know, Bill Belichick manipulating to his advantage
39:27
and within rules that comp pick scenario. So I don't know, I'd be
39:31
a little surprised. I'm not going to eat any shoes over it, though.
39:36
Well. Another big departure is kJ Osborne and he signed a contract yesterday,
39:42
I believe with the Patriots. And there's some news and that could be
39:46
part of this whole scheme could be because the Vikings will receive a third round
39:53
compensatory pick next year. I think so, And I think there's a whole
39:58
formula that nobody really knows. It's just people guess based off of previous years.
40:04
But if that's what people are saying on the internet, I'll trust other
40:07
people more because I know I don't know anything about it, So sure,
40:12
we'll go. We'll go with that. It was just interesting to me,
40:15
And I'm not one to get super big into conspiracy theories, but when I
40:21
see a good one, I definitely I scratch my chin a little bit.
40:24
I'm like, huh, it could be interesting. I feel like the NFL
40:29
is pretty shrewd enough that if, like the league could prove that another team
40:36
signed a player just to give that player's former team a comp pick so that
40:42
that team could then trade it or another pick to the team signing the player
40:47
to make a bigger deal easier to do, I feel like the NFL would
40:52
not be happy about that and they would either punish people, or if it
40:57
was within rules, if you're not technically breaks. The NFL is also good
41:00
at changing rules to make things a little bit. I don't know, more
41:07
fair to the entire league or more vanilla to the entire league. I don't
41:13
know. In a world where they could prove. The Patriots signed kJ Osborne,
41:15
so the Viking's going to get a better pick to send it, or
41:19
another one to the Patriots. The NFL would do something about it, I
41:23
believe. But if it worked out, it worked out well, maybe it's
41:28
just a matter of quasi and whoever's now making those decisions in New England know
41:34
the rules better than everyone else, maybe manipulated them better. That's another aspect
41:38
of this. I guess whoever is the GM in New England is the interim
41:44
GM. So how much power does an interim GM have, especially during draft
41:50
time? Do they have more because the owners like I need somebody in here
41:53
to do it, or do they have less because the owner just says,
41:57
no, you're not going to be here in five weeks, or I don't
42:00
know, if you're going to be here in five weeks, you're not gonna
42:02
dictate moves that will affect the franchise for years to come. I don't know.
42:07
I would guess Robert Kraft is probably not like giving this guy a super
42:14
long leash, But I don't know, he's probably not. He's probably not
42:19
Jerry Jones either. Yeah, he's probably not. I mean, Jerry Jones
42:22
is effectively the GM. I think he is. The Cowboys don't have a
42:27
GM because Jerry Jones fills their role well and prior to Bill Belichick leaving in
42:32
New England, he was the coach and the GM, so right like he
42:37
was making those decisions. Yeah, yeah, that's the whole point. I
42:40
think that's why he's not the coach of the Falcons right now, is because
42:45
he wanted to continue having full control over any team that he's the coach of.
42:50
That's a tough thing to tough thing to get, no matter who you
42:53
are. Other departures, not to belittle that. All that to say,
42:59
KG Osbourne's patriot. Good for him, good luck to him. Didn't work
43:01
out with the Vikings. Austin Schlattmann Schlutmann, I'm actually a little upset about
43:07
this because he filled in very well to the point that you didn't feel like
43:13
you had a backup center in there. And good for him for getting a
43:17
contract with the Giants. He signed with the Giants. It's not like a
43:21
big tens of millions of dollars. I don't even know how much he signed
43:24
for. He might also be a backup there, but he has played well
43:28
enough to earn a good amount of money in the NFL, and for him,
43:32
I'm happy for the Vikings. I'm a little sad because he played well.
43:38
While you look up, look up what he got. Dean Lowry,
43:42
He's gone. I'm surprised. No, Dean Lowry is not the one that
43:46
signed with the Lions. That was Marcus Davenport. Either way, they cut
43:52
Dean Lowry save some cap. Chirostanga, another defensive tackle for the Vikings.
43:57
He signed with the Cardinals. Tong is another that when he came in,
44:00
at least we didn't say how bad he was, so I don't know how
44:02
good he played, but he probably could have resigned, but it didn't fit
44:08
someones that hurt DJ want him. I really wanted him back. He was
44:14
starting to be on fire until the injury. Yes, the Patriots signed him
44:17
really good for him. I just I wish, I wish they would have
44:21
figured out a way to bring him back. Dustin Baker had a really good
44:24
thought on him that before the trade deadline, he was thinking the Vikings might
44:29
go out and try to find another edge rusher, another DJ Wantum guy.
44:34
But then DJ Wantum started playing so well that he probably made it so the
44:37
Vikings didn't have to sign anybody. So good for him. He's with the
44:40
Panthers. Hopefully he does well. Daniel Hunter, this one hurts, but
44:45
it makes sense money wise. He's going to the Texans. It'll be weird
44:51
to see him in another uniform, but yeah, that one sucks. Did
44:57
you did you find Schlupman's contract? There's nothing out there, at least not
45:00
that I can find in a quick cursory search that I mean, for all
45:07
intents and purposes, on Pro Football Reference and over the cap. He's still
45:10
a Viking, so obviously that's not true. But there's there's no information about
45:15
his contract with the Giants. I agree with you, Daniel Hunter hurts.
45:22
I think we knew that was happening. We knew that was coming. The
45:24
riding had been on the wall for a long time. I think DJ want
45:29
him hurts more, maybe because he could have been kind of the next guy
45:36
into that edge rush. He'd been playing well, he complimented Daniel Hunter so
45:42
well, and then he got hurt and now he's a Panther. Also,
45:47
I'm really gonna miss Paul Allen d j W. I just every time he
45:52
gets a sack. That was that was so much fun to listen to.
45:55
I just guess the Panthers want him more than the Vikings day. Probably true.
46:01
The Panthers should want a lot of people because they wanted dj they they
46:08
want them more than the Vikings did. That's such that's such a bad joke.
46:15
I actually saw that board somewhere in here. Of all the times one
46:21
of us make a joke and the other one doesn't get it right away and
46:24
you get a mark for that one. Well, either way, the Vikings
46:29
didn't want him anymore, so he's a Panther. That's not my joke.
46:32
I saw that on Twitter. Jordan Hicks. He's a Brown that sucks,
46:36
but he'll probably retire a Brown. He was a really good, really good
46:40
fringe free agent signing a couple of years ago. Turned out to play really
46:45
nicely for the Vikings last season, even with those missed games for that pretty
46:49
big injury. We already talked about Alex Madison, but I think I kind
46:54
of want to talk about this big trade we have. We briefly mentioned it
46:58
earlier. Yeah, but the Vikings acquired another first round pick, and it
47:01
didn't seem to cost a whole lot. No, And I think the the
47:08
implications are with the trade that they're going to move up in the first round.
47:15
Yeah, in a month, I would expect to. So, yeah,
47:17
the Vikings they have their own eleventh overall pick, and then they acquired
47:22
the Texans twenty third overall pick, and to get that, they sent over
47:30
this year's second round pick, which was the forty second overall pick, also
47:34
this year's sixth round pick, which was one hundred and eighty eight excuse me,
47:38
and then also next year's second round pick, So they paid a sixth
47:45
and next year second to turn this year's second into a first, which if
47:51
you look at it that way, it makes me feel even a lot better.
47:53
And you can kind of look at because the Vikings signed a couple of
47:57
Texans in free agency, the Texan obviously they got Daniel Hunter from the Vikings,
48:01
you can kind of look at it as one big trade, which I
48:05
think if you do that makes you feel even better about it for the Vikings,
48:07
really for everybody overall. But if you look at it that way,
48:10
the Vikings sent a second, a sixth, another second Daniel Hunter, and
48:15
they received a first a seventh, and then Jonathan Grenard and Blake Cashman,
48:24
two guys that may end up starting for the Vikings. So you're looking at
48:30
if that first round pick turns into a starter or they use that to get
48:34
a higher first round pick, half of a starter. You're looking at two
48:37
and a half starters for a couple of second round pick, a lower pick,
48:43
two second round picks a lower pick, and then Daniel Hunter, which
48:45
is I mean pretty good. I think overall that kind of a big deal
48:52
works out really for both teams. Do you think this is kind of a
48:54
small offshoot of this conversation, but do you think Daniel Hunter ultimately his way
49:00
into the Ring of Honor at US Banks for the Vikings? I mean,
49:02
just based off numbers, it's definitely not impossible. I mean I could definitely
49:09
see that happen. I would get behind it. Oh I would. I
49:12
would too if they said that. I would. I mean not that putting
49:15
somebody in the Ring of Honor costs anything or takes anything away from your team.
49:20
So it's not like you're, oh, we paid a first round pick
49:22
to get this guy in the Ring of Honor or. No, but I
49:23
think he's deserving. He has been a loyal Viking. There's been a few
49:30
bumps between him advocating for fair pay for himself a few times in his career,
49:36
and then also he's had a couple of seasons where he's had a bunch
49:38
of injuries, but really just like stretches of two seasons overall. But overall
49:45
he's been a really good Viking. And for what was he a third round
49:49
pick. That's I mean, that's really good. He's been another guy that
49:53
the team, the marketing team has put out there in the past. He's
50:00
another guy we've never heard publicly of any issues. Again, he's not one
50:05
we've ever heard Daniel Hunter got arrested. Like, he's always been a good
50:09
player, somebody you can buy your kids his jersey publicly, never complained about
50:15
anything and on the field, always performed. Yeah, I could see ring
50:21
of honor for sure. Yeah, great guy, great player. He will
50:24
definitely be missed. But I like how you broke down what the Vikings got
50:30
kind of in replacement of him, and I think honestly, the Texans are
50:37
getting a really good player for sure, Vikings. The Vikings get a lot
50:42
of flexibility and they still got a couple of good players. I wouldn't say
50:46
amazing, great and probably not. I think Grenard he will be. I
50:53
had never really heard of him until Free agency day when he was announced he
50:58
was going to sign with the Vikings. I think he has the potential to
51:01
turn into a guy that PA. And there's Gerard like He's gonna have something
51:08
that he says and I'm here for it. It's the second Paul Allen impersonation
51:12
we've tried to do, and we've both fallen short horribly right in the comments,
51:15
who did a better? Pa? No, you definitely did. Oh
51:20
terrible. I don't know. I really hope PA never hears either of ours.
51:25
But Gernard could turn into a Pro Bowl type player. Blake Cashman,
51:30
he's like a Minnesota favorite and he's from what Eden Prairie is from. Wants
51:35
to go bounced around. It's kind of cool. I've I've known of his
51:38
name just because I do listen to K Fan. I'm more aware of Minnesota
51:45
sports than really anything, so I've definitely heard Blake Cashman's name for a long
51:49
time. But yeah, I mean the big deal, which is just a
51:53
bunch of other deals. The big deal between the Texans and the Vikings really
51:58
I think ultimately worked out for both. I think so, and I think
52:01
it puts the Vikings in a position to go get their guy at quarterback right
52:07
absolutely, because I would be very upset at this point unless some crazy stuff
52:13
happened on draft Day and the Vikings lucked into a player that at eleven that
52:16
you didn't think would ever be there at eleven. But I fully expect,
52:21
I think most fans and people in the building fully expect the Vikings to package
52:24
eleven and twenty three and then maybe whatever else, hopefully not next year's first,
52:30
but eleven and twenty three to be able to move up into the higher
52:36
picks, whether it's three or four or five. Maybe three or five is
52:39
probably more likely to get your quarterback of the future. And even then,
52:45
if you think about that pick, to gain the twenty third overall pick,
52:52
you essentially gave up two seconds, Like, yeah, you gave up that
52:55
six but oh well, the six round pick's not ever going to make the
52:59
team when I'm major basis. Anyways, unless their name is Tom Brady,
53:04
it doesn't hurt because theoretically you don't you might not have to give up next
53:08
year's first round pick, which before you got that twenty third overall pick.
53:14
Yeah, we kind of all expected the Vikings to try to move up,
53:15
but that was assuming they were giving up next year's first round pick. Whereas
53:21
now you could move up, draft a quarterback and if he turns out to
53:25
be awful, then theoretically you're also drafting high next year and could maybe draft
53:32
a new quarterback next year. Could be your printer just went to life and
53:37
it scared the crap out of me, and somebody's printing something. Oh man,
53:43
you know who owns that number three pick? That's the Patriots to the
53:45
Patriots. Although I did see on Twitter not too long ago, from an
53:50
aggregate site or an aggregate page that has been known to not always be totally
53:55
right, they did say something to the tune of, yeah, the Patriots
53:59
are for sure stick and people within the organization are saying they're not trading it.
54:02
But you can't even if the GM or coach says that right now,
54:07
you can't believe anything Calacy just said within the last week or two. Yeah,
54:12
the Bikings have flexibility. We might not have to draft a quarterback,
54:15
Like, come on, come on. Yeah, well, I mean we've
54:17
already talked about that, right, Like that goes back to one of our
54:21
first talking points tonight, like Sam Donald is not the answer at quarterback.
54:25
We know that, and I really I would bet Sam Donald starts at least
54:31
one game this year. Oh yeah, I don't disagree with that at all,
54:36
But that's the definition of a bridge quarterback. You start one, two,
54:39
three, four, five, maybe even half the season to get the
54:44
young rookie acclimated to the system, acclimated to playing pro football. And you
54:52
know, the Vikings may not win a ton of games this year, that's
54:54
okay. You get by with what you can. You throw the new guy
54:59
in, the rookie in, you know, halfway down the road, let
55:02
him kind of get acclimated to real game time scenarios, and then you hope
55:09
for the best in twenty twenty five. That's the dream, right. So
55:15
there's a lot of a lot of crazy stuff coming up in just the NFL
55:21
world in general. I mean, we're coming up on the draft obviously,
55:24
free agency is still humming along at a pretty good clip. And yeah,
55:29
I mean guys are even signing still today, yep. And I mean we
55:32
may have a few more to talk about next week. I don't think anything
55:37
groundbreaking will happen that doesn't seem to be in the works right now, but
55:42
you never know. I never know. Quacy could have all of us just
55:45
right where he wants us and then boom. I mean. Quacy was on
55:50
Paul Allen's radio show to start the show off today, that being Monday the
55:53
eighteenth, and apparently Pa he mentioned something like everything going okay there. I
56:00
heard there was a closed door meeting with you guys. That's why we were
56:02
a couple of minutes late to the start of the show, and Casey just
56:06
kind of laughed it off, like, ah, yeah, you know,
56:07
there's always stuff going on. I'm always burning the candle at both ends of
56:12
the stick right now, so you never know. I mean, I kept
56:15
an eye on Twitter this whole time we've been recording, just to see if
56:19
we could break some news on a pre recorded podcast, but yeah, nothing
56:22
so far. One more thing about the Texans. I've been kind of thinking,
56:27
like, why would they make that trade to give the Vikings the first
56:30
first round pick, Because that single trade, if you don't look at the
56:35
other free agent signings between the two teams to me, it kind of seems,
56:39
you know, like it leans the way towards the Vikings winning that trade
56:45
as of right now, and it just seems like why why would they do
56:47
that? But then I thought today, like last year, they had what
56:52
the second and third overall picks back to back because they traded up for the
56:58
third pick. With those picks, they hit home runs which kind of took
57:02
some pressure off. They made the playoffs with a rookie head coach, and
57:07
that whole franchise seems to be on the up and up. And a rookie
57:09
quarterback, Yeah, rookie quarterback, rookie head coach, and then outside linebacker
57:15
edge I think it's Will Anderson who they got third overall. Yeah, when
57:20
those are two big positions on a football team, as quarterback obviously the biggest,
57:23
and then you know your defense where you can really make a statement with
57:28
a really good I think it was rookie Offensive Player of the Year and rookie
57:31
Defensive Player of the year, like both of them they had on their team.
57:36
So I think you're not as desperate to make the perfect pick in the
57:42
first round when you're set up with the way that the Texans are right now.
57:45
They seem to be on the up and up, So I really think
57:47
they gained value and spread out value between a second this year and a second
57:52
next year in being able to build their team long term. When you hit
57:59
home runs on your coach, your quarterback, and a defensive stalemate not stalemate
58:05
cornerstone defensive player. So that's why I think the Texans were moved to be
58:09
able to make that trade. And now the Vikings have a lot of pressure
58:14
on them because they have a you could argue, good head coach. I'm
58:20
gonna say, a good GM and the defense is okay, offense is pretty
58:24
stacked. You need to get that quarterback, yep, yep, And hopefully
58:29
they can use these picks to negotiate their way into I would hope a top
58:35
five and get your guy. Yeah. Draft Day will be exciting because at
58:42
this point I don't expect the Vikings to trade up in the draft with those
58:45
two picks until really, I mean, after Chicago has taken Caleb Williams.
58:52
I think that's gonna say a lot. Whatever Washington does, obviously, whatever
58:55
New England does, that's gonna say a lot. And the first half hour
59:00
to forty minutes of Draft night could really dictate what the Vikings franchise looks for
59:06
the next upwards of a decade. Yeah, I mean that's kind of crazy
59:12
to think, But I don't think that's you know, over that. I
59:14
don't think that's hyperbole. I think it's a true state. I agree with
59:16
you, And I think the Bears kind of tipped their hand this week by
59:20
trading Justin Fields like for pennies. If it's ever been more obvious that they
59:24
were going to stay at number one and take a quarterback, I mean it
59:30
is, It's right there in front of everybody's face, so hard to deny
59:34
that that's what they're going to do. I think their current quarterback one is
59:37
is his name, Tyson Tyson Bagent, who started a few games and actually
59:42
looked He looked better than just Fields. He looked okay, he didn't look
59:45
bad. I talked to a Bears fan today who was not happy about the
59:49
trade. He really am too. He wanted them to negotiate a little bit
59:52
more and try to get a little more value out of Justin Fields. But
59:55
I think the value wasn't there right. They could have kept him and waited.
1:00:00
Because I don't and I guess I don't know his contract and if he
1:00:02
would have cost more on a given day, if unless they got rid of
1:00:07
him before then. But theoretically they could have kept him into training camp because
1:00:13
I mean, what if Baker Mayfield breaks. It's like what if a Kirk
1:00:15
Cousins type person tears their achilles in training camp? Yeah, like people will
1:00:20
be desperate. I mean, we saw what the Vikings did when Teddy Bridgewater
1:00:24
his need disintegrated a week before the first game of the season. They spent
1:00:30
They sent a first round pick to the Eagles to get Sam Bradford. Yep,
1:00:34
you just and you can't bank on that. You can't know, like,
1:00:37
Okay, we're gonna keep Justin Fields until whatever, but you're probably always
1:00:42
going to be able to get at least a six round pick, which is
1:00:44
what they got for him for Justin Fields, which if you think about it,
1:00:47
the Vikings sent a six round pick and a conditional seventh round pick to
1:00:52
the Cardinals for Josh Stapps, and the Steelers sent a six round pick which
1:00:58
could become a fourth round pick, so it's a little bit different, but
1:01:01
essentially the Bears could get the same thing for Justin Fields as the Cardinals got
1:01:07
for Josh Dobs, which is awesome. I love that so much. It
1:01:13
is it is kind of laughable. I think Ryan Powles will either turn out
1:01:16
to be brilliant or the laughing stock of the league. Yeah, I don't
1:01:21
know why you get rid of Like you said, I don't know why you
1:01:23
get rid of Justin Field's when you do, yes, because you don't have
1:01:27
to. He doesn't cost anything. And again he might his contract may have
1:01:30
triggered some multiple millions of dollars something today. I don't know enough about that,
1:01:36
but as far as I know, it doesn't hurt to keep him until
1:01:38
training camp, until the first week or two of the season. Here's what
1:01:42
I do know. We're not a Bears podcast. Oh, we are a
1:01:45
Vikings podcast, unashamedly, and so we need we need to resurrect this,
1:01:50
we need to bring it back. And we also drink beer. We do,
1:01:53
and maybe that's how we end this today. And we're both getting pretty
1:01:57
low. So I think we both kind of liked it. What did you?
1:02:00
I like it. As I got into it, it didn't really occur
1:02:04
to me that it was heavy on the coffee and light on the beer.
1:02:07
That was my first impression was like whoa Like, we are we're drinking cold
1:02:12
brew coffee here. But as we got into it and as I had a
1:02:16
few, I like it. It was good. Again, not something that
1:02:21
I would reach for every single time, but I could see myself having one
1:02:25
of these on occasion. Yeah, oh yeah, the nitro. I'm surprised
1:02:30
at how much I do like the nitro beers, I especially with them being
1:02:34
cookies and cream coffee, you know, those types of beers that I wouldn't
1:02:37
normally reach for. I didn't have this opinion when I first tried it,
1:02:42
but now I do that the nitro I think kind of smooths out the coffee.
1:02:46
Oh absolutely, because I'd mentioned I can't remember if I mentioned it at
1:02:51
the beginning of our episode or on our TikTok, but I mentioned that you
1:02:54
and I had a coffee stout together when we were in college, probably,
1:03:00
and we both kind of agreed, like, yeah, not really our thing.
1:03:02
Maybe would have one every once in a while. But here we are
1:03:07
and we've had a few, and I don't know, I think the nitro
1:03:09
helps with that. I think it kind of levels things out, smooths it
1:03:13
out, and makes it a little more of an easy drinker. Yeah,
1:03:15
for sure, that's where I'm at. I agree, excuse me, I
1:03:20
like it. I will have more. Yeah, good job, No Coast,
1:03:24
thank you for making these. And we've got the No Coast s'mores nitro
1:03:30
on hand ready to go, so possibly in the next episode, if not
1:03:34
the next one, definitely soon because beer doesn't sit forever, but it's right
1:03:38
here in the mini fridge behind Austin and it'll stay cold until we're ready to
1:03:44
enjoy it. Yep, it'll be good. We should call that the skull
1:03:46
fridge. That's the fridge, skull anything, it's the school fridge. They
1:03:50
save the school fridge, the school bar, the skull bar. The I
1:03:53
like the like headquarters, though I don't know we didn't name skullbar. It
1:03:58
probably sounds better. Well. We like this setup because we think it feels
1:04:02
like if you grabbed your favorite beverage, whether it's a beer or something else,
1:04:06
we feel like you can just step right on up to the bar and
1:04:11
have a conversation with us. And that's why we're here. So drop us
1:04:14
a comment. Whether you're watching on YouTube or Spotify, maybe you're listening to
1:04:20
us on some podcast type of outlet somewhere. I think we're in a lot
1:04:28
of places. Podcatchers I think is what they're called. Podcatchers. Yeah,
1:04:31
I like Overcast. I don't know if you've ever used that one, but
1:04:34
that's my preferred podcast player. It's very good. Spreaker I like Speaker is
1:04:40
good too. Yeah, I've used that or there too, or even on
1:04:43
TikTok. You can see our setup on TikTok. Yep. We have one
1:04:46
video right now that's kind of kind of blown up a little bit. It's
1:04:49
got a quarter of a million views at this point. So you make a
1:04:54
lot of those videos, not all of the ones that we put on TikTok,
1:04:57
but most of them are are definitely your thing, and you found a
1:05:00
little niche you you like to you like to take pleasure in other people's pain.
1:05:04
I thought I was the only one that. Once. You know,
1:05:08
if I'm watching a sporting event and somebody goes down, the second the announcer
1:05:12
says something to the tune of like oh, and we're not going to show
1:05:15
that replay it's too gruesome, the first thing I do is go up Twitter,
1:05:19
YouTube, Google trying to find video of like this horrific injury for this
1:05:26
poor athlete that just had their the next year of their life, if not
1:05:30
more ruined because of some terrible leg break or acl tear or whatever. I
1:05:35
think there was a Bears tight end one time. That is, his knee
1:05:39
just literally like went on a swivel. It's crazy. But currently we we
1:05:44
did catch the the Florida Gators, I think sophomore basketball player and I'm forgetting
1:05:49
his name, but yeah, he he went up for a ball for a
1:05:53
rebound, came down and broke his leg potentially in two places. Currently too
1:06:00
hundred and seventy one thousand views on that one. So if you're interested in
1:06:02
seeing a slightly slow mo fifteen second video of that, check out our TikTok
1:06:08
just the skull hop We've got a couple more injury videos, which is not
1:06:13
funny, but it's kind of interesting that people seem to like those videos.
1:06:16
So I'm not the only one that likes those gruesome videos. There's something wrong
1:06:19
with me, and there's something wrong with a lot of us. You can
1:06:21
be a skull hopper if you like tho well, and I don't know that
1:06:25
it has anything to do with liking that sort of thing, but it's just
1:06:28
like this need for information, like what happened. I gotta see it,
1:06:30
and it's like a gruesome curiosity. Yes, and you've done a good job
1:06:34
of capturing that. You got a couple of those, you know, putting
1:06:38
those out there. So yeah, that's not our only content on TikTok,
1:06:42
but it is definitely some of our content out there, So go and check
1:06:47
that out and h yeah, we've got some other stuff out there as well.
1:06:51
You can follow us there. We're we're pretty much everywhere, right TikTok,
1:06:56
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, I'd say we're probably the most active on
1:07:00
Twitter probably, and uh, we got our website too on the school hop
1:07:06
dot com. Yeah, school hop dot com, so you can find us
1:07:11
and we're playing. We're starting to put together a little giveaway, so keep
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your eyes in the ears open. Yeah we are. We're gonna have a
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giveaway something where you share out our information and you're gonna be entered for a
1:07:20
giveaway. But yeah, a little school Hop giveaway that's coming coming soon.
1:07:26
Yes, it is all right. Well it's a good conversation, good beer,
1:07:30
good beer. Until next time, school school. That was it.
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