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End of Season Superlative Awards for the 2024 Minnesota Vikings | TSH Ep. 75 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome into another episode of
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  Speaker 1: the School Hop. I'm Evan and I'm Austin. We're just
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  Speaker 1: a couple of dudes from Iowa. We like drinking beer
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  Speaker 1: talking about the Vikings, of.
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  Speaker 2: Course we do. And this week we did not have
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  Speaker 2: to spin the wheel purple punishments. We're recording a little
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  Speaker 2: bit different you know, a little bit different timeframes, so
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  Speaker 2: we kind of missed out on the purple punishments. But
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  Speaker 2: don't worry. That'll be back next week when Evan hopefully
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  Speaker 2: has to wax a lamb. I don't know, hopefully that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't happen. We also tried a really really good beer
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  Speaker 2: from a Reunion brewery.
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  Speaker 1: It was definitely interesting and maybe not something that we
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  Speaker 1: would normally gravitate towards typically, but very delicious.
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  Speaker 2: Nonetheless, Yeah, I'm really glad we tried that one. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: for bringing it. But other than that, we gave out
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  Speaker 2: some season superlative awards for to celebrate this historic twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four Minnesota Vikings regular season. Season's not done yet.
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  Speaker 2: We still got the playoffs, but a regular season. It
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  Speaker 2: was fun to look back and give some awards to
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, so wherever you are go, grab a cold
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  Speaker 1: Well, thanks Big Top for all of your sponsorship work
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  Speaker 1: for us.
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  Speaker 2: We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Good news for us tonight. We do not have to
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  Speaker 1: spin the wheel of purple punishments.
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  Speaker 2: No, actually, I'm gonna throw in a challenge flag on that.
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  Speaker 2: I think we just you have to have waxed a
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  Speaker 2: limb right now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna h veto that right now. Say no, thanks,
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that you did it. How's the leg hair coming?
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  Speaker 2: I was just feeling the spots. Yes, both spots that
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  Speaker 2: I waxed. They're still really smooth. And it's been so
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  Speaker 2: we're recording a day earlier than normal. We're recording on Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: so it's been six days. Yeah, so six days exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know what's the brand we used. Again,
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  Speaker 2: they're pretty good. I guess I'm down there there and
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  Speaker 2: I are not a sponsor, not a sponsor yet, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if I ever had to wax something else,
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  Speaker 2: I'd judge by the whole experience. You're going to do
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  Speaker 2: your beard next time? No, this would that would be torture.
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  Speaker 2: I am feeling like I need to I need to
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  Speaker 2: get rid of it. I need to shave it. I
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  Speaker 2: think it was about this time last year I shaved
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  Speaker 2: it down to the to the skin. So maybe maybe sometime,
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  Speaker 2: but all right, let's wax a lim there.
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  Speaker 1: No, we're not going to do that, and we we
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  Speaker 1: are kind of letting ourselves off the hook. We are
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  Speaker 1: recording a day early. Vikings actually play tomorrow, so by
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  Speaker 1: the time you're listening to this, you'll probably know the
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  Speaker 1: result of the Vikings game like we will, but we're
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  Speaker 1: going to wait to spin until next week. We both
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  Speaker 1: made picks in episode seventy four last week. We both
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  Speaker 1: picked the Vikings to win. Hopefully they do. If the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings do get out of that game with a win,
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  Speaker 1: then we won't have to spin.
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  Speaker 2: But if they lose, we will spin the wheel. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: see what happens. Yeah, And the way things are looking
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  Speaker 2: right now, our next episode, which we're not too sure
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  Speaker 2: on the details of how we're gonna do all this,
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  Speaker 2: But our next episode that we release after this one,
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  Speaker 2: which is episode seventy five, will be at the Manstreams
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  Speaker 2: still going to record it and release it on all
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  Speaker 2: we will be live in Bellevue, Iowa, on January eighteenth,
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  Speaker 2: and what four or five other podcasts will be having
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  Speaker 2: live sessions. But yeah, that's that's gonna be really exciting.
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  Speaker 2: And who knows, maybe we'll have to do a live
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  Speaker 2: Purple Punishment. So I don't know. I'm just just speaking
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  Speaker 2: that out there right now. Maybe Evan will have to
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  Speaker 2: wax a limb live. Maybe maybe not. I'm gonna throw
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  Speaker 2: those away before we leave. Well I'm gonna take them
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  Speaker 2: because I mean, if you're just gonna throw them away,
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  Speaker 2: they work really well. So I don't know what I'll
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  Speaker 2: need to wax next, but at least they'll be prepared.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get into this beer. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about waxing stuff anymore. I brought the beer today,
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  Speaker 1: you did, and I'm really excited. It's from Reunion. It's
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  Speaker 1: been a hot minute since we've had a beer from
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  Speaker 1: Reunion Brewery out of Iowa City. I saw this one.
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  Speaker 1: The can art alone just kind of popped off the
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  Speaker 1: shelf at me, and then I read the description. It's
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  Speaker 1: called Blender and it's a smoothie sour with mango, peach
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  Speaker 1: and guaba.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting. I've never had a smoothie sour before, but I've
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  Speaker 2: heard that they're super good, so I'm excited to try this.
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  Speaker 2: I think I've had one at least once with Front
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  Speaker 2: of the Show Forest. If there's ever like an obscure
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  Speaker 2: beer type and I've tried it, it's probably been with
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  Speaker 2: Front of the Show Forest. But I'm really excited about
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  Speaker 2: this one. This is definitely not one that I would
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  Speaker 2: immediately think to grab off the shelf, but it's here
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  Speaker 2: and I'm pretty pumped, So yeah, we should just crack
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  Speaker 2: into these guys.
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  Speaker 1: Is juicy smelling, I can tell you that already. And
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  Speaker 1: it's thick, thicker than a norm it is, which is
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  Speaker 1: characteristic of.
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  Speaker 2: A smoothie sour. I think from what I've heard, it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty hazy in color. Sorry, I'm just taking in the experience.
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  Speaker 2: Very very fruity. You can sell them the peach and
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  Speaker 2: they's gonna be tart. I don't know how we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: we'll find out that vinegary tartness that we've talked about before.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's let's just dive in. Let's go cool.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely has that tartness to it, but it mellows out
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  Speaker 2: really quick. Oh yeah, it's not a lot. It's immediately
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  Speaker 2: really tart, but then like really nice. I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: is not one like I said that I would immediately
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  Speaker 2: grab off the shelf. But I wonder if it's the mango.
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  Speaker 2: The mango kind of keeps it from being super tart
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  Speaker 2: and super crazy sweet like this is. I'm liking this.
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  Speaker 2: I like it too. Yeah, that's really good. The the
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  Speaker 2: can's really fun. It's got like this maniacal, crazy looking
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  Speaker 2: blender with a face on it, and there's just color everywhere,
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  Speaker 2: and the the name of the beer kind of looks
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  Speaker 2: like it's in Nickelodeon's Slime And it's a fun can.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody had a lot of fun making that can art.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, this beer is actually really good. I did
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  Speaker 2: not expect to like it this much. Yeah, I like
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  Speaker 2: it a lot too, So thanks to Reunion for blender.
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  Speaker 2: It's a really good blender. Don't finish that, sorry, finish Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: I'm on a roll right now. It's a good smoothie sour. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited for the rest of them. Yeah, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: for another one. Yep, while we're here, and thinking about it.
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  Speaker 2: I will do that here in a minute. But and
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  Speaker 2: I'm still trying to figure out ways to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that you wax a limb. I don't know, we just
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  Speaker 2: need to. Maybe I'll just secretly bring the strips to
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  Speaker 2: the live event and we'll go the whole crowd into
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  Speaker 2: just chanting wack a limb until it's finally like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I don't do it. Yeah, all right, So if you're there,
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  Speaker 2: you know what you should do.
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  Speaker 1: You should make a Facebook group Evanduth should wha excellent
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: I've tried that before and I don't remember. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think it worked.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you made one when we were in high school
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  Speaker 1: because he wanted me to play football. Yeah, and you
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  Speaker 1: didn't play football and then I quit football. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it actually kind of maybe maybe if I try to
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  Speaker 1: get you to wax a limb, it will unwax the
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  Speaker 1: limb that I already waxed. I don't know, are still
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  Speaker 1: talking about I just want to speak it into existence.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about what we have planned to talk about tonight,
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  Speaker 1: and that is a list of ten superlatives.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that we're going to hand out ten awards, so
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  Speaker 2: to speak. Just kind of recapping the Vikings regular season.
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  Speaker 2: It was a pretty memorable one, one that most of us,
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  Speaker 2: including us, didn't expect to go this well. I was
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  Speaker 2: certainly not expecting them to be a playoff team. And
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  Speaker 2: here we are fourteen wins and could win a playoff
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  Speaker 2: game or two. Yeah, so I was trying to think
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  Speaker 2: just right now. Otherwise I would have actually looked it up.
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  Speaker 2: But obviously we have the ninety eight season where they
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  Speaker 2: won fifteen games. But is there any other season in
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  Speaker 2: Vikings history where they won fourteen games? I don't think so,
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  Speaker 2: but we could go look pretty quickly pro reference. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is a historic already right now, it's a historic
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  Speaker 2: Viking season, and I mean, hopefully things go our way here?
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no good save. And then, of course,
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  Speaker 2: as I was sorry, my beer almost overflowed as I
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  Speaker 2: was picking it up to drink it. I just remembered
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  Speaker 2: that I was holding it over our recording equipment here,
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  Speaker 2: and luckily I don't think I dropped any Gods.
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  Speaker 1: All good to answer your question, though, this was the
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  Speaker 1: second most wins by a Vikings team in franchise history.
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  Speaker 2: But like it's not tied second, No, it's like the
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  Speaker 2: second most wins ninety eight twenty twenty four, and then
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  Speaker 2: they had thirteen wins twice in twenty two and oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because what was the stat The Vikings have won thirteen
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  Speaker 2: plus games four times, and two of those seasons where
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  Speaker 2: koc coached seasons, which is awesome. Ye, so yeah, obviously
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  Speaker 2: historic Viking season. But it's just the regular season. Now
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  Speaker 2: we're into the playoffs and at this moment it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: matter how many games you wont. Nobody cares because all
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  Speaker 2: it takes is one loss and then the season's of failure.
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  Speaker 2: So let's embrace the fun regular season that it was.
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  Speaker 2: We'll give these awesome awards and then we'll move on
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  Speaker 2: and we'll look ahead to the Rams and hopefully, hopefully
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  Speaker 2: by the time you're hearing these words come out of
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  Speaker 2: my mouth, listeners, it will be happy time. The Vikings
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  Speaker 2: will have beat the Rams and we'll be looking onto
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  Speaker 2: the divisional round. But I can't do that yet. So
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  Speaker 2: that's the hope, that's the goal. Let's start though, with
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  Speaker 2: the best rookie, who is the best last draft pick
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  Speaker 2: that played, and then there we were looking at this
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  Speaker 2: before we started recording, not too many of the rookies
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  Speaker 2: actually saw the field, the drafted rookies. So who in
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  Speaker 2: your mind gets the best rookie or the rookie of
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  Speaker 2: the year for the Vikings. Yeah, so just to recap,
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  Speaker 2: I guess this doesn't take into account undrafted rookies, but
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  Speaker 2: as far as drafted rookies go, the Vikings had what
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  Speaker 2: seven seven rookies this year. JJ McCarthy, Dallas Turner, Kyrie Jackson,
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  Speaker 2: Walter Rouse, Will Reiker, Michael Jurgens, and Levi Drake Rodriguez.
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  Speaker 2: So on that list. Not a whole lot of production
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  Speaker 2: from from a lot of them, obviously. JJ McCarthy injured
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  Speaker 2: before the season started, missed the whole year. Rest in peace.
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  Speaker 2: Kyrie Jackson, he didn't ever have a chance to participate
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  Speaker 2: with the team in games at all, which is that's
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  Speaker 2: such an an awful story, But yeah, rescipiece him, Will
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  Speaker 2: rekerd obviously pretty solid but a little shaky towards the end.
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  Speaker 2: And then the rest of the guys didn't really either
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  Speaker 2: ever see the field or rarely saw the field. Levi
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  Speaker 2: Drake Rodriguez, I think you said, was injured for a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, but also inactive most of the games. You
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  Speaker 2: wrote down a name, and I kind of thought about
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  Speaker 2: disagreeing with it, but I think you hit the nail
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  Speaker 2: on the head. I think as far as actual production,
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  Speaker 2: the best Vikings rookie this year has to have been
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  Speaker 2: Dallas Turner. Yeah. I think he gets the award for me.
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  Speaker 1: He when he's been in and now that I think
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  Speaker 1: he's comfortable with Brian Floor as his system and he's
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  Speaker 1: comfortable kind of flying around the way that b Flow
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  Speaker 1: wants him to fly around, I think he wins. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's certainly the best rookie. You could have made
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  Speaker 1: a case for Riker there for a while before he
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  Speaker 1: went on IR he wasn't missing anything. Yeah, he made everything,
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  Speaker 1: and then he got hurt and he kind of hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been the same since. And we're still not sure if
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  Speaker 1: he's still dealing with some injury or if he's.
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  Speaker 2: You know, just up in his head.
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  Speaker 1: But Dallas Turner finished the regular season with twenty total tackles,
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  Speaker 1: he appeared in sixteen games, had three sacks.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you.
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  Speaker 1: Really can't argue with those stats from a rookie ed
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  Speaker 1: rusher who was drafted really to be kind of the
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Hunter.
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  Speaker 2: Air apparent. Yeah, which is crazy because I mean, he
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  Speaker 2: flashed and he had good moments, but he also didn't
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  Speaker 2: have a ton of opportunities because there's two Pro bowlers
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  Speaker 2: at his position ahead of him, yeah, Grenard and Van Ginkel.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very loaded defensive team this year. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: just pulling up the list of all the guys that'
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  Speaker 2: signed undrafted rookie contracts after the draft with the Vikings,
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  Speaker 2: just to make sure we weren't missing, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: an obvious name and really not not really anybody made
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  Speaker 2: an impact. I think was Jalen Redmond considered a rookie.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that's a good question, because he flashed
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  Speaker 2: and he might have had better stats, you know, overall
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  Speaker 2: than Dallas Turner, but not you know, night and day
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  Speaker 2: crazy better stats. Other than that, not not a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot of guys on that undrafted list that made any
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  Speaker 2: splashes at all. So yeah, I think Dallas Turner. The
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  Speaker 2: only other one I would have said, like you you
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  Speaker 2: mentioned was Will Rekord, who was really solid but got
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  Speaker 2: injured and then he's kind of been shaky ever since
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  Speaker 2: coming back from injury. So hopefully that returns back to normal,
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  Speaker 2: you know, first half of the season fourm for him,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, that can be scary going into the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's hope that he's got a figured out all right.
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  Speaker 1: Moving along here this we could probably sit on this
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  Speaker 1: one for a little bit because even though there's one
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  Speaker 1: name listed here, there were a lot of free agents
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  Speaker 1: brought in this year, and a lot of really good
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  Speaker 1: free agents. So the next award that we're gonna give
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  Speaker 1: out is for the best free agent, the best newcomer
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  Speaker 1: to the Vikings team that played somewhere else previously.
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  Speaker 2: So just off the top of our heads, were you
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  Speaker 2: going to say we should put a pin in that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's maybe do some honorable mentions, okay, before we
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  Speaker 1: can kind of build some suspense here before we get
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  Speaker 1: to our winner.
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  Speaker 2: Because I think we agree. I think there's consensus there.
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  Speaker 2: There's a few names that absolutely could you'd be fine
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  Speaker 2: with giving this hon or two, but you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: just gonna decide on one. But just to kind of
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  Speaker 2: rehash some of the bigger free agents of Viking signed
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  Speaker 2: this year. Obviously you have Sam Darnold. You know he's huge,
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't He was pretty controversial when he first signed.
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  Speaker 2: I think I or really the school hops mentality on
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  Speaker 2: Sam Donald when he signed. Wasn't like, oh, this team
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  Speaker 2: is awful. It was like, okay, they're signing a bridge
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  Speaker 2: guy and then they're gonna draft a rookie and go
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  Speaker 2: with the rookie, and we were we were all pretty mean. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like Sam Donald didn't didn't really make us too happy
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  Speaker 2: or too angry. It was like, yeah, okay, at least
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  Speaker 2: it's better than better than nothing. I think I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to think who the other names would have been. I
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  Speaker 2: think initially there was the idea that Baker Mayfield could
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  Speaker 2: have been available before he got his his nice contract
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  Speaker 2: with the Bucks. Yeah, I don't know. Joe Flacco was
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  Speaker 2: kind of a nice thought for a minute. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean all that to say Sam Donald. He was
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  Speaker 2: a pretty impactful free agent this year. Jonathan Garnard huge,
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  Speaker 2: you know, pro bowler, Andrew van Ginkel. Another guy in
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  Speaker 2: the defense that was huge, Stefan Gilmour who was signed
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  Speaker 2: pretty late in the off season. Griffin Shack Griffin, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: my goodness, Jerry Tillery.
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  Speaker 1: He's played a pretty good role plugging up the middle,
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  Speaker 1: contributing to that really good run defense.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, a lot of really good some other ones too,
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Jones, for sure, he's been pretty solid.
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  Speaker 1: Jahad Ward, Yeah, flashed a little bit here and there,
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  Speaker 1: trying to think if there's anybody else.
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  Speaker 2: I think, and he didn't make a big enough splash
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  Speaker 2: to win this honor. But Kamu Grusier Hill, Yeah, he
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  Speaker 2: definitely stepped in and has stepped in anytime he's been
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  Speaker 2: asked and done a really good job. Yeah.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: So a lot of big time names, a lot of
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: really big contributors that were brought in, and Quasia Dopa
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Mensa really kind of flexed his muscles I think in
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: free agency and showed what he can do as a GM.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: I think he's I can't remember how many teams he's
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: been a part of now, definitely the forty nine ers
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: and the Browns, right before he was with the Vikings.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know any other teams before then.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: But I think he's he's utilizing those relationships that he's
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: made with other people across the league and he's leveraging
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: those in some big ways to get some players to Minnesota.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: So that's pretty awesome. There is one name we haven't
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: said yet, and he's our award winner.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a Minnesota guy himself. Went to Minnesota, yep,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Golden Gopher, and he played for the Jets, and I
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: think I don't know, maybe the Oh definitely the Texans
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: right before coming to the Vikings.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Who is it Blake Cashman. Yeah, Yeah, he's been solid,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: he's been huge, And he was injured for those two
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: games Week seven and Week eight playing the Lions and
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: the Rams, both of which were losses for the Vikings
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: and the only losses that they sustained until they lost
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: in Week eighteen. So when he's on the field, he's
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: a difference maker. Yeah, he's the green dot, isn't he?
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: On defense? So he's the one getting coach communication in
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: his helmet and he leads the team in tackles.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: He's also got four and a half sacks. He doesn't
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: lead the team in sacks, but he's just he's the guys.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: He's the captain of the defense, and he's been a
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: super important acquisition.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely the heart and soul, but probably more more aptly,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: the brain of the defense. Yes, him doing his job
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: makes it easier for the guys, the likes of Ivan
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Pace and you know, Jonathan Gernard and Van Ginkel makes
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: it easy for them to just run around and hit
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: people and make splashy plays because everything else is taken
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: care of. I think you you know, mix Blake Cashman
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: with guys like Harrison Smith, and you know the thought
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: process the coaches on the field, so to say they're
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: they're taking care of everything and then it's just play
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: with your hair on fire. Yep. So yeah, he did
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: lead the lead the team in tackles, but it's not
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: like he had twenty sacks or you know, fifteen interceptions
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: or anything like that. He just did his job and
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: the Vikings it showed that he was on the team
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: in a good way.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I just had a thought while we're doing these and
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: as you out there are listening, drop your award winners
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: in the comments. Let us know who's your best rookie
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: from this Vikings team this year, Who's the best free agent?
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: And as we get into some more of these categories,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: drop drop your nominees in the comments below.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Yep, I think and you'll probably agree with me. Here
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: honorable mention for best free Agent, it would be Sam Darnold.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah he's got to be. He's gonna win another award
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: here pretty soon. Yeah, But yeah, I mean, there's definitely
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: for all these awards. There's a few guys that could
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: win any of these awards, but yeah, I think it's
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: when you really look down deep into the award. Blake Cashman,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: he's definitely deserving of this award, yes, for sure.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: All right, Next, we're going to get into the three
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: phases of the game. Offense, defense, Special teams. Player of
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the Year in those three phases, let's go in reverse order.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Let's start with special teams and then defense, and then
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: we'll finish with offense. Special teams has been kind of
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: weird this year. It was great to start the season.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: You have arguably the league's best long snapper. He's just
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: rock solid, never really misses. He just always goes out,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: does his job super well. Ryan, Right, he's a pretty
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: decent punter. He's definitely had a bounce back year this year. Yeah,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: he struggled a little bit last year, seemed to be
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: stronger this year. You don't like to use your punter
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: a whole lot if you can help it, but it's
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: nice to have a good one, and he's a good
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: one for sure. And then, like we said already, will
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: record Man. He started the season on fire, couldn't miss.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: And then he got hurt and it's just been a
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: little bit of a struggle since he's still hitting kicks,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: but he's still missing some kicks too, which is frustrating.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: So who do you got. Well, there's also another name
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: that probably won't win any ofs, but definitely stepped in
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: and helped out the team in a tougher spot than
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: a lot of people would have to step in and do.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: John Parker Romo or I think he just goes Parker Romo,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: so I mean, don't forget about him. He definitely helped
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: win win a couple of games for the Vikings. Yeah.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the kind of the backup kickers, so to speak,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the replacement kicker for Will Reichord while he was on IR.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he definitely. I think he missed one kick, yeah maybe,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: but he was other than that. Other than that, he
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: was on it and made some pretty long kicks too,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: which is cool. But yeah, we got to pick one guy.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Who are you going with? I think as the skullhop
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: we gotta go with one of the only first team
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: All pros at his position, Andrew Dupaula. I mean, was
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: he officially a first team he was? He and another
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: guy whom we might mention on this list. The Vikings
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: had two first team All Pros and then a couple
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: second teamers. But yeah, Andrew Depaula, he's maybe one of
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: the most decorated long snappers in the league at this point.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I think he holds the record now for most Pro
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Bowls as a long snapper with three, so it's not
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: like a crazy, you know, twenty year record. But yeah,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: he's been on fire the last handful of years. And
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know where his career has been before. I
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: know he's in his mid to late thirties at this point,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: so he's definitely been in the league for a while.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: But for the Vikings, you just you don't know how
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: great it is to have a solid long snapper until
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: you don't, and the Vikings haven't had to worry about
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: that for a while. Agreed.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Yep, Defense, I feel like we could talk for a
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: half an hour about all of the great players on
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: defense and we've already name dropped a ton of them.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: This defense is just stout. Yeah, this year, they are
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: super strong. I'd put them up against any team, and
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: they I mean even against one of the best teams
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: in the league, the Lions. This last week they held
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: that Lions team in the first half pretty tough.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: They held him till they didn't. But I think, like
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: you alluded to last week, there was definitely a little
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: bit of a relaxation towards the end, when.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: There was a point in the probably late in the
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: third quarter, where they're like, Yep, this game is over.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: We're gonna start looking ahead to the playoffs.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Defensive Player of the Year, Who do you
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: think it is? A We've already talked about him.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: He's probably the best free agent pickup, and there were
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of really good ones, but I think he's
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: the defensive player of the year as well.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: It's Blake Cashman.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: It has to be for all the reasons we've already mentioned,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: and probably a bunch of other ones that we didn't mention.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Just a super solid football player. And I think he's
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: what's his contract.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Right now, he's I know he's definitely signed through next season,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: but maybe even the season after. I think if anyone
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: involved with the decision making Cashman, the Vikings, anybody, if
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: they had their way, he'd, you know, he'd re up
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: and be a Viking the rest of his career. Yeah. Solid.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: I think this Vikings Defensive Player of the Year award.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: This is a little bit close. I mean, there's definitely
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: other guys, like you said, there's there's a handful of
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: guys that are definitely deserving of this award. And this
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: is kind of a tough one to give because, I mean,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Grenard he was really good eleven and a half, so
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: really good. Gink Byron Murphy Junior led the team in interceptions.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Definitely a lot of great names and that we haven't
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: even said Harrison Smith or Josh Mattelis, you know, those
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: those guys. The whole defense really had some some elite
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: players and it shows because it was one of the
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: best defenses in Vikings history. Yeah, for sure, we could
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: probably award that to any of those guys that you listed,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: and they would have been very deserving. Oh yeah, absolutely.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: But Blake Cashman, he's gotten two awards so far from us.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: We'll go with Blake. That's how much we like. Again, well,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: it's kind of hard to give him, you know, best
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: free agent pickup without also saying, yeah, he's deserving of
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: a few more of these awards. Yep. Sure, so keep
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: your eyes out to see if he shows up on
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: this list again. But I won't surprise or I won't
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: ruin any surprises here.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: All right, Offensive player of the Year, and again, I
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: feel like this one could go to a few different
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: people too.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, but I mean, you can't have a good team
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: without a good quarterback and Sam Donald. While there were
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: other guys, I mean, justin Jefferson, kind of a down
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: year for him. He only was second in the league
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: and receiving yards with only fifteen hundred plus receiving yards
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: and ten touchdowns. You know, still kind of a down year,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: but you can't do anything without the signal caller doing
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: his job. And Sam Donald he had a couple downs,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: but he had a ton of ups this year. He's
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: been better than anybody could have imagined he would be.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: He's going to get thirty forty million dollars a year
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: if not more in free agency here and just honestly
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: a handful of weeks at the beginning of March when
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: that starts. Yeah, he's definitely, for me, hands down, the
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: offensive player of the year for the Vikings. And just
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: like with defense, there's a handful of other guys that
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: could have been the offensive player of the year.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: It's just you can't. You have to start with the quarterback. Yeah,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: some honorable mentions. I think Justin Jefferson would be an
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: honorable mention for Offensive Player of the Year. And yeah,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: he didn't produce maybe as much as he has and
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: it certainly isn't his best season.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: But it's close. I mean, it might be a second
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: best in yards and best or second best in touchdowns,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: but it's his third best in yards. Okay, he had
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: eighteen hundred and twenty two. He had sixteen hundred in
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: twenty one, but he led the league in twenty two
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: with receptions and yards and yards per game. Nice. So yeah,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: And I mean there's Aaron Jones who was pretty solid
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: on offense. I'm surprised I haven't gotten a lot of
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: flak for this. Before the season started, I wasn't like
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: hating on Aaron Jones, but I definitely didn't expect much
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: from him. I figured we'd get, you know, the old,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: washed up version of a once great, once good running back.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: I expected to get the Packers sloppy seconds. Yeah, kind
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: of little bit. I think I said at one point, like, yeah,
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: he'll probably have a game or two where he gets
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: one hundred yards, but like, I don't really expect much
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: from that. I think he'll get injured and that'll be
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: the end of this season. I'm so happy to be
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: wrong about that. I'll own up to that terrible opinion
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: from me because he proved me wrong. Aaron Jones was
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: way better than I thought he would be. And I
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: mean a lot of other people knew he'd be pretty good.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: So I was in the minority thinking he wouldn't be
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: that great. But yeah, enough that I wouldn't be mad
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: at the Vikings signed him up for another year. Yeah,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: and he's shown his age a little bit, and he's
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: you know, left some games or gone to the locker
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: room and come back even was it the Lions game
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: or the week before maybe where he was late coming
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: out to the second half because he was getting an
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: ivy or yeah, that was the last game of the season. So, like,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: his age is going to show more and more. And
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: you've been notorious for saying you don't pay running backs. Yeah,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: so I wouldn't expect that they'll sign him to a
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: huge contract. But I think the model that's working right
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: now in the NFL too is having multiple backs. Oh yeah,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: the Lions have proven that a lot of these playoff
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: teams have proven that unless you're the Eagles and you
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: have Saquon Barkley who can just.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Run all over Kingdom come. But yeah, he's definitely an
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: honorable mention as well. Offensively, I was I was kind
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: of hoping for more out of TJ Hockinson.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this year is kind of just going
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: to be almost a last year for him, unless he
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: like turns it on the playoffs and it's one of
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: those like, yeah, twenty four for Hockinson. It wasn't great
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: in the regular season, but oh my goodness of playoffs,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: that's what he turned it on. I think it was
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: just tough. He got a new quarterback, new kind of system.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: It's the same offensive system. But coming back from that
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: tough of an injury, he did come all the way back,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: and he did. You know, I think he had one
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: hundred yard game at one point towards the end. But yeah,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: I don't think he got it. He never got a
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: touchdown this year. Yeah, he never exploded. But that's okay.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: He'll be back next year better than ever and we
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: still have the playoffs. But yeah, I agree with you,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: I expected a little bit more. He also came back
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: later than we all expected. To Yeah, it did take
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: him some time, and I think they were just being
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: cautious and that they were playing so well. It's not
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: like they were in a rush to get him back.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: It's like, well, we're playing pretty good football right now.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: We'll just.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Keep you out until we're for sure that you're good
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and then it'll just be you know, added firepower to
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: the attack exactly.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: All right. So to recap so far, we have best
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: rookie Dallas Turner, best free agent acquisition, Blake Cashman, special
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Teams Player of the Year Andrew Depaula long snapper, Defensive
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Player of the Year again Blake Cashman, and Offensive player
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: of the Year Sam Darnold. What's the next one? Next
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: one we got?
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: So we're gonna go back to kind of free agency here,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: and I want to know who you think is most
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: likely to return in twenty twenty five. They are a
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: ton of The list of free agents going into the
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: twenty five season is extremely long. I want you to
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: I want us to determine who's most likely to return
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and who's most likely to leave.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, in twenty five. So I kind of just said
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: this a few minutes ago, but Aaron Jones, I think
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: the Vikings have proven that they're a better team when
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: he's on the field and when he's playing playing well,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: and he's kind of proven that he's good no matter what.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: But I think it would just behoove everybody to re
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: up this unless for some reason one of the parties,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: the Vikings or Aaron Jones didn't want to come back
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: next season. He is going to be, you know, thirty,
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: turning thirty one late in the season next year, which
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: is actually pretty old for running backs. I think even
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: with all of that, he's probably still the most likely
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: of the big name free agents to leave to be
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: a returning player on the team. But I do think
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: he might test out the market.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and there are a whole bunch of guys
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: I want to come back. I will probably get this
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: wrong because I can't remember which of the defenders signed
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: one year deals and which of them signed longer contracts. Cashman,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: I just looked a minute ago, three year contracts.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so he's through what twenty seven, well, twenty six,
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: twenty seven?
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but Grenard, did he sign a one year deal?
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah? No, he signed a big like seventy million. I
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: think it was four or five years okay, And I
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: think Van Ginkle was two years. Okay, so those three
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: are coming back. I forget who Stefan Gilmore. I believe
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: was just the one year Gilmore Griffin, Shaq Griffin. I
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: believe he might have just been a one year at
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: the at that point in time. And then I'm pretty
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: sure cam Binam he's up. His contract's up, so that
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: I need to re up and Byron Murphy right, Byron
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Murphy yep. And then I don't know specifically how Harrison
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Smith's contract is looking, but it kind of feels like
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: he's either going to retire or he'll be back. And unfortunately,
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: I just get the feeling that this might be it
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: for Harrison Smith. I would take him, give me twenty
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: more years of Harrison Smith, That's okay with me, even
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: if he didn't play, just like take up a roster
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: spot and suit up every week and you know, walk
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: out with your cane, like let's go just be on
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: the team for.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: It looks like he's a free agent after this season,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: but he's got three void years on his contract where
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: he'll still get money. And I think some of that
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: was when he took the pay cut to keep him
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: on the team two years ago.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and even I think with him it's a year
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: to year yeah until the team says no, or until
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: he says I've had enough. Yeah, which I feel like
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: this will be this will be it for Harrison Smith.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: It just I hope it's not. He's like one of
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: the last, Like I think he's the longest tenured Viking
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: at this point.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: He is.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: We were in college when when he was drafted, you know,
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: just still that tie to childhood a little bit, like,
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: all right, he's he's still there and it's funny because
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: he's probably like the same age we are. But yeah,
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: he's like almost two years older than you or I am.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: But still I like the Vikings better when Harrison Smith
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: is on the team.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Agreed, all Right, So Aaron Jones most likely to return.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: I would agree with that for sure. I'm gonna say
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Cam Robinson is most likely to leave. Okay in twenty five,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: he'll have a big market, a solid market. There will
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: definitely be a team that will be willing to pay
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: him more than the Vikings will, just because the Vikings
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: already have really good players at both offensive tackle positions,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: so it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: re up with Cam Robinson, especially if he has options elsewhere,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: and you'd have to compete and probably give a lot
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: of money for what would essentially be a backup. The
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: only caveat to that Darris Darrisaw's return. Yeah, we don't
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: know exactly when he'll return. He got injured in a
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: similar timeframe that TJ. Hockinson got injured the previous year,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: and it took Hockinson like eleven months to come back,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: and I think it was a pretty similar awful injury
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: for both guys. So if that's a case, Garsaw might
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: be looking to miss. I don't know half of next season,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: half of twenty five, so I mean, if they know that,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: they might be a little bit more inclined to re
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: up with Cam Robinson. But even then, he's gonna have
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: a market and I don't know, you have both parties
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: have to won it, and I don't know anything about
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: the relationship. I feel like Kim is perfectly happy being
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: a Viking, but also like money. If he can get
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: a good deal elsewhere, like go for him, man. Yeah, no,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I definitely think most people like playing for the Vikings. Yeah, yeah,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: don't know very many players unless you're Marcus Avinport.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's true. I think, what's the nflpa's like
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: best teams to play for? Whatever? The Vikings have been
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: near the top, I think at the top one one
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: of the last couple of years, and very close to
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: the top the other of the last few years. So facilities, coaching.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: I think, unless there's some big secret hatred of being
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: a Viking, I think people more often go out of
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: their way to say I love being a Viking and
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: I like being in Minnesota. It seems like a good
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: spot all the way around. But I mean, if the
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Vikings are offering you five million and some other team
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: offers you seven million, two million dollars is a lot
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: of money, right, you gotta take the money as much
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: as you can as an NFL player. And I wouldn't
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: fault Cam Robinson at all if he took a better deal.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't fault the Vikings at all for not giving
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: the best deal. But I would expect them to still
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: come to the table and at least talk about a reup.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: But I think, yeah, all of that to say, there's
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: some other free agents coming up for the Vikings. I
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: think the likes of Byron Murphy and Cam cam Binam
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: are probably higher on the priority list to re sign
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: than Cam Robinson just because of the way the depth
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: chart looks as of right now. So yep, he's probably
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: gonna get a better deal elsewhere. Yeah, and like you said,
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: it'll definitely be dependent on what happens with Darisaw. Yeah, yeah,
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: because I mean if it is one of those I
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: like Cam Robinson, I think, yeah, he's had He started
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: off hot, hot hot for the Vikings, and he's had
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: a few mishaps since then, but nothing bad enough to
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: lose a game for the Vikings. I think he's overall
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: been a positive addition.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: That left side of the line is definitely the weaker
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: side of the line now than it was before Darrisaw
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: got hurt, and like you said, he was playing well.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that I want Cam Robinson to go.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: In fact, if Darrisaw isn't healthy and can't start at
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: the beginning of the twenty five season, then yeah, let's
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: keep this guy around if you can, because he's been
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: a really good.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Replacement in that position. So maybe a season saving move.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely could have been for sure, We'll never know,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: but we had a few more categories here, let's go.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Let's get through these best victory best win for this
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Vikings team.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: There are a couple of really really good ones. I mean,
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: there's fourteen victories to talk about here, a lot of victories.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Which one was your favorite? Which one did you enjoy
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: watching the most? So when you wrote this list out,
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: you kind of wrote two games that come to the
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: top of mind, and I agree with him. Excuse me,
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: you got a burt. So one of those games is
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: the early season win against the Texans, and the other
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: one is a little bit later in the season against
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: the Falcons. Both of those great wins the Texans. That
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: was still in the time when I mean, I think
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: I had said, like, I feel like the Vikings are
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: a year behind the model that the Texans are in,
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: you know, young quarterback, young coach, a little bit of
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: success early. Now it seems like the Vikings, I mean,
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: they beat them in one game, but I'd say the
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Vikings are maybe a little bit better than the Texans.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: So that's that was a pretty solid win in the moment,
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: felt really good and gave the Vikings some validity early
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: in the season. And then the Falcons game that was
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: huge because for a lot of the game is pretty
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: pretty close, and then what was it, late third quarter
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: early fourth quarter, the Vikings just turned it on and
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: turned it into a blowout, and all the same it
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: was against the former franchise quarterback who you shouldn't have
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: bad blood against, Kirk Cousins, but if you did, that
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: probably felt pretty good to watch the Vikings beat him. Ultimately,
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: I know which way I'm leaning. Do you know which
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: way you're leaning on? That game? The best best victory?
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: We might be split on this one, all right, actually,
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: and that's all right, you go first, So I'm gonna
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: go the Falcons game. It was one of the few
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: times the Vikings just beat the crap out of another team.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: It felt good, it was fun. And then they just
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: kept beating them, like, oh, another turnover, Oh the fumble
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: on the kickoff return, Oh it's another touchdown, Like yes,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: this gave is aus. The funniest play of the season
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: was when Donald was kind of running around in the pocket,
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: running for his life and you see out in the
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: like fifty yards away from him, justin Jefferson's wide open
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: like probably like cooling off the first row of fans
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: because he's waving so hard and the defensive back falls
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: face and Justin Jefferson just catches the ball and like
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: kind of walks into the end zone. That was the
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: funniest play of the season. That's not an official award
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: we're giving, but that's mine that I'm giving right now.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: But yeah, that Falcons game, for me, it felt the best.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: It was the most fun, and I couldn't even watch
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: half of it. I was in a speeding car in
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: Jamaica going from the airport to the resort at the time,
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: so I was and I couldn't like even illegally find
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: a stream because Jamaica, I guess you can't stream video.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know. So it was still really fun to
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: watch the game cast on ESPN and follow along like,
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: oh fubble yes, yeah.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: I was on a hunting trip actually somebody, so I
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: wasn't really watching. I was watching it as I could, uh,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: but I was kind of in the middle of hunting.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna say the Texans win because for
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: a few reasons. Actually, Number one, I felt like that
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: was the moment where we all as fans of this
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: team were kind of like, oh, Okay, this team is legit.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: We are not this six win you know, we're going
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: to finish at the bottom of the division and we're
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: just gonna, you know, all right, we'll look ahead to
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: next year kind of thing. Like that was a beat
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: down thirty four to seven, and like you mentioned, it
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: felt like maybe the Vikings were in a similar spot
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: to the Texans coming into the season, and then JJ
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: McCarthy got hurt and that whole thing kind of seemed
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: to like hit pause, like, okay, maybe next year, you know, right,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: And then they just came out and they poured it
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: on against a playoff winning Texan team. They won their
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: playoff game this weekend and are moving on to the
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: divisional round. So and the other reason that I'm going
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: to say that game is I'm pretty sure I could
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: be wrong on this, but I'm pretty sure the Vikings
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: have used the like media team at the.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: With the team, the Vikings Entertainment Network.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they've used Koc's post game speech from that game.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's this game where he told the
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: guys he said, remember this feeling, because this is what
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: this team is made of, and I know that we
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: can go out and win some other games. And I
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: think that was just kind of a a defining moment
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: for that team, kind of a turning point obviously for
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: us as fans, but I think for all the guys
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: out there playing and the coaches on the sidelines, that
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: I think that's when everybody kind of.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: We put the league on notice. Yeah, hey, look out
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: for us. Yeah. It was after the Texans game that people,
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: you know, like us who talk about the Vikings every week,
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: people started like changing up their predictions, their win totals
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: for the Vikings because like before the season, it was like, yeah,
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: this team, you know, I think Vegas had them six
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: and a half, you know, over under six and a
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: half wins, and everybody's like, yeah, they might go seven
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: and ten, agains six and eleven or whatever. And then
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: after that Texans game, it's like, oh, like you said,
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: could be twelve win team. Yeah, I don't know if
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: they haven't lost to the Niners and the Texans, which
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: at the time the Niners game, even without Christian McCaffrey,
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: that was still a pretty solid win. And beating the
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: Texans when you know, the Texans were trying late in
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: the game to score touchdown even when the game was
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: all bit over, the Vikings still held them. Yeah, that's
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: when the Vikings started showing up in the higher top
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: five of the Nflower Power Ranger, which they're so annoying
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: because they don't mean anything. That's when people were saying, oh, yeah,
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: they might not win seven games, they might win nine
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: to ten to eleven win. You know, that'd be pretty crazy.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: That's when the whole mentality started changing. So that was
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: a pretty solid win. But still going with the Falcons
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: just because of the cousins of it all.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: We can agree to disagree, but I think both of
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: those games were awesome. Obviously, there are fourteen wins that
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: we could look back on, and they were all fun
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: to watch because of how they ended. But yeah, we
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: do need to talk about the worst loss, though I
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: don't think we need to spend a whole lot of
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: time talking about it because it just happened last week. Yep,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: and we talked it to death last week. But that
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: week eighteen lost to the Lions. Yeah, just bad.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: It was ugly. There were some bright spots where you're thinking, Okay,
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: the scheme's working, Sam just can't hit anybody. The defense
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: was looking great until they weren't. It was just it
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: was awful and then what they lost. It wasn't just
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: a loss of a game. It was the loss of
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: the division title of the what second time they've ever
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: been the number one could have ever been the number
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: one seed in the NFL, the loss of a bye week,
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: which it just you lost a lot by losing to
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: the Lions. Plus Lions fans, I know you're watching and
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: listening because you all suck and you need to. You
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: care more about the Vikings than Vikings fans, do, You
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: guys are the worst and losing the Vikings losing to
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: the Lions really brought out the worst in the worst
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: of the Lions fans. And let's just say it right
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: here again, at least in my own opinion, you the
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: Lions have the worst fan base in the history of
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: the NFL. As of this moment, they're even worse than
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: the dilly dilly Philly fans. I don't know saying something.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: I feel like Philly is still my at the edge
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: on that one. That's just my opinion. When when you
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: can get Vikings fans and Packers fans to like like
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: talking to each other because they hate Lions fans so much,
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: that's how you know you're a bad fan. Base. There's
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: probably just like with every fan base, there's a small
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: number of just awful fans and then most of everyone
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: else is perfectly fine. So there's probably a lot of
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: great Lions fans out there. There are definitely some awful
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: Vikings fans out there, but man, those to never have
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: a good team until recently. Those Lions fans are pretty entitled,
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: which made that loss to the Lions all the worse. Yeah,
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: it was a hard one to suffer.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know that we need to be, you know,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: starting battles with other fan base.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Lines fan and suck. You were the worst main base
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: in NFL history. But still check out the skull Hop
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: because we want more listeners. Oh, I'm getting them to
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: check it out by saying you suck. You all suck.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: All right, I'm making an uncomfortable right, you're not making
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: me uncomfortable. I just don't want to talk about the
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: Lions anymore. That's true. We're not a line. That's it
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: worst loss of the season. Congrats, Lines, You've earned that award.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: It's your last award, you'll learn. Let's end these superlatives
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: on a high note.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: Here, favorite play or the best play of the season.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: Well, I've already accidentally given my funniest play, which was
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: a deep touchdown from Sam Donald to Justin Jefferson. But
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: I think we can both agree on what our favorite
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: play or best play was, and it's a different Sam
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Donald deep touchdown pass to Justin Jefferson. Which one is
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: that ev it was against the forty nine Ers week two.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: We were actually at the IOWA Podcast Awards, yeah, for
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: that game, and watched this like on my computer score
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: in between things. But it was Sam Donald to Justin
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: Jefferson ninety seven yards. I think it's the longest play
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: of the season, perhaps in the league, definitely for the Vikings.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: Definitely for the Vikings. It might it might be the
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: longest offensive play maybe I have Maybe it would have
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: to have been, you know, ninety eight yards to be longer,
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: so that'd be pretty difficult. But a few things about
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: that play in particular.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: First of all, the Vikings were on their own like
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: one or two yard line or three yard line.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: I guess it would have had to have been. But
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: Sam Donald was in the two or three yards deep
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: in his.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: Own end zone, and he chucked that thing fifty plus
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: yards in the air, and that ball flew fifty yards.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson caught it at midfield, So that's impressive feet
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: number one.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: Number two, Justin Jefferson made an amazing just pivot and
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: he had two defenders with him as he's sprinting down
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: kind of the left side of the field and he
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: aang to his right and cuts him off to score
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: the touchdown. That was impressive feet number two. Impressive feet
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: number three is the official I was gonna say, you're
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: going to bring this up. That stuck with them the
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: whole play, Like that guy looked like a track star
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: out there. It was awesome. So that play in every
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: aspect was amazing. Yeah, yeah, that's got to be our
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: favorite play. I think an honorable mention, there's a few.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: There's a few good ones. We can talk about a few.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: We can definitely list some honorable The touchdown pass. I
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: think it was against the Seahawks where Sam Donald had
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: been getting beat up all dry but kept doing okay
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: things and then it was what like a forty something
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: yard touchdown pass to Justin Jefferson where Donald had just
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: taken a big lick or I think it was on
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: that play after he threw the ball, he took a
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: big lick, maybe both, and he just steps up in
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: the pocket and just throws a dart a perfect is that.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: The one like on the left side of the field,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: and Justin Jefferson kind of like did a little like
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: spin move to get into the end zone.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, which fun you're talking about. That was such
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: a great play. If we can, we should try and
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: see if we can get clips of these plays. Yeah,
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: talking them up. We can dig them up. Yeah, they're
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: out there somewhere. Another one it was in a loss,
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: but for me, the fumble return touchdown by Ivan Pace
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Junior against the Lions in the first Lions. Yes, that
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: was pretty exciting. I was at that game. It was
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: the loudest moment the stadium had been really all game.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: Definitely since the early game touchdown run from Aaron Jones.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: I would say both of the Andrew Van Ginkel picked
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: sixes early in the season. Those were awesome and deserve
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: to be on that honorable mention list for.
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: Sure, absolutely, especially since one of them was against Aaron Rodgers,
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: which talk about a drop off. That guy has just disappeared.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: My goodness, that's okay with me.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Let's hope he retires and let's hope he doesn't repeat
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: the Brett farv pattern and play for the Jets and
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: then come play for the Viking.
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: But the difference between that is, at the time Brett
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: Farr was still good, right, and Aaron Rodgers has not
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: looked good at all his entire Jets career. Yeah, any
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: other honorable mentions. This is fun talking about.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: I think of like I think Aaron Jones again, it
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: came in a loss, but he ripped off that big
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: run like right away at the beginning of the first
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: Lions game.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that touchdown. Yeah, it was like right as the
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: first drive, and I think it was like a thirty
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: or forty yard rushing touchdown, like he just found the
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: scene and then just took off. Yeah. I sadly missed
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: that play because right I was in the stadium. I
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: was just slightly politely arguing with another group of that
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: you were in the wrong Vikings fans. They said I
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: was in the wrong seats, and I knew I was
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: not in the wrong seats, and then I looked it
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: up and I was absolutely in the wrong seats. And
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: I apologized profusely because I was borderline rude. I'm talking
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: about mean Lions fans. Was I was kind of rude,
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: but I was totally wrong, And if those other Vikings
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: fans are listening, I'm sorry. I apologize to your face
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: right then, but I'm sorry again. But yeah, so I
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: kind of missed that play because in the middle of
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: a near in my seat. No I'm not touchdown, Yescol Vikings, No,
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: but really, I'm not in your seat. And then all
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: you know, my wife was in the bathroom with my son,
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: and that was crazy. One of my daughters cried because
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: we had to move seats. That was nuts. But yeah,
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: great play, I'll never forget.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: Not a great play for you, but I enjoyed watching
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: it on TV. I wish I could have been there
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: in the stadium.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: More have been fun.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: Plenty of other great plays. I don't think we have
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: time to recap all of them. But if you have
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: a favorite play out there, or if you have any
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: thoughts on any of the other categories that we've talked about, drop.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: Us a comment.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: Let us know who you think should have won instead
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: of the people that we nominated.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: But I had fun with this.
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: This was a good way to just look back on
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: the regular season, A really fun and exciting regular season.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: To be a part of as a Vikings fan. Yeah, yeah,
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: it's been fun. We need to We didn't do this
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: last year. We kind of not officially did this last year,
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: but uh, definitely something we'll need to keep doing. I've
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: heard of other shows kind of actually week by week
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: making like little trophies and like, you know, the school
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: Hot Player of the game, and they physically send those
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: little trophies to the Vikings facility, and in some of
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: the like you know, tell us what the tell us,
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: you know, those videos in the locker room, you can
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: kind of see those little trophies in players' lockers sometimes.
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: So maybe next year we should make up like eighteen
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: little trophies and have a school Hot Player of the game.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: That'd be kind of fun. Yeah, that's not a bad
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: idea at all. Well, the Vikings are gonna play tomorrow night.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: By the time you guys listen to this episode, you
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: will know, uh what happened with that, will know what
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: happened with that, will know the Vikings fate. Are they
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: done for the season or are they gonna live to
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: play another week either at Philliladelphia or at Detroit, depending
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: on what's happening, which we should check right now. The
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: Commanders are currently losing by four with eleven minutes left
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: in the fourth.
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think if the Commanders win, then the
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: Vikings will go to Philly Philly, and if the Buccaneers win,
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: the Vikings will go to Detroit, which my goodness. And
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: did I mention this before? Lions fans suck? They're the
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: worst fans in the history of the NFL. You did
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: mention that. I'm just kidding. I'm like I said, I'm
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: sure ninety nine percent of really every fan of every
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: team is solid and would have a great conversation. But man,
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: it's just the stories that have come out about that.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: I hope the Vikings. I don't know. I don't know
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: what I want. What do you prefer? I think I
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: prefer going to Philly a little bit more than I
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: prefer going back to Detroit. I'd like to see somebody
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: else beat Detroit. I felt like the Vikings can't do it. Apparently, well, yeah,
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: there's that. And I just felt like, especially that Week
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: eighteen game, they just got their butts handed to them
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: and it was so hard to watch, and Ben Johnson
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: and Aaron Glenn had it all figured out, and there
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: were some famous shots of Aaron Glenn just like sitting
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: there on the bench is just chilling out.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: Len's crossed and you know, he's like he's not on
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: the sidelines, He's just chilling there on the bench, you know,
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: and he's like, Yeah, we're.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: Up by twenty five points right now or whatever. We're good.
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: I don't need to do anything.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: And I still can't figure out what Dan Campbell actually does,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: Like what's his job just to say it's fourth down,
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: all right, let's go for it.
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: I think he just makes gutsy decisions and it sometimes
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: works out, and choose tobacco, lots of it. Have you
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: seen his teeth? Yeah, very pretty bad. Anyways, Oh, Washington
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: just scored. Oh good?
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: Uh so, yeah, I would prefer to go to Philadelphia.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: It'd be a cold weather game, which would be maybe
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: a little tough. But I was telling you this before
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: we started recording. If you can stop Sakwon Barkley, I
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: think you can stop the Eagles, and the Vikings have
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: a top running defense, rushing defense in the league. And
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: I would put my faith in this Vikings defense any
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: day of the week, even more so than the offense.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: And I think the offense is pretty done good.
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: Too so and I'm sam Darnold had a pretty rough
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: Week eighteen against the Lions. I think he has proven
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: who he is throughout the course of the entire season,
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: and who he is is a pretty solid quarterback with
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell. I think Week eighteen was just it was
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: a tough game for him, and everybody has tough games sometimes.
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: I think he is fully capable of bouncing back, and
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: I think even if he doesn't get back to his
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: elite form, his highest form he had at the peak
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: of the season, which was he peaked towards the end
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: outside of that week team game, he was peaking. Even
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: if he's only you know, mostly back to his normal self,
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: the Vikings should win pretty well. So I hate to
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: overlook this Rams game. I really we both have already
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: predicted a victory, and another week of conversation hasn't changed
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: my opinion on whether or not the Vikings will beat
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: the Rams. Not that it's going to be a blowout,
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: but I think I think they'll get past it, and
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: they'll they'll either be playing Philly or Detroit, which by
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: the time this podcast is out, will know, you know,
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: at least where they'd be going if they win tomorrow night.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: You didn't share your preference. What would you prefer as
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: a Vikings fan? Would you prefer going to Detroit or Philly?
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Division around. There's the adage where they
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: say it's hard to beat a team twice, and then
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: it's definitely really hard to beat a team three times
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: in a season. I mean, obviously, the Lions have proven
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: that they know how to beat the Vikings this year.
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: The first game was real close, second game not close,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: not close at all. And I don't know, I don't
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: know if I can deal with those awful, awful Lions
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: fans again if if they beat the Vikings again. So
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: Philly fans aren't much better, but it's we've we've had
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: a few years since awful Philly fans in the playoffs.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: So either way, neither of those games would be easy.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: I tend to agree with you. If the Vikings can
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: stop Saquon Barkley, which is a huge if nobody else
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: has really been able to stop them all year. If
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: they can stop him, I think Jalen Hurts, who is
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: still not, you know, not a pushover. I think the
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: Vikings can do it. I guess I'm just I'll say
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: I prefer Philly like you there, you go fair enough,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: and hopefully we get to have that that conversation again.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: Let's hope, so that would be good news for us.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: But anyway, beer, what do you think of this wonderful
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: my first ever smoothie sour yea blender from Reunion?
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: What do you think? It was really good? I'm opening
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: my last one here. You said it was thick earlier.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: I think, well that's accurate. It is kind of it's
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: got some body to it. Is that the right term? Yeah,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: it's also not like it's not like it's not like
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: what's what are those the naked smoothie drinks that are
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: like like smoothie? It's not like that, but it it
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: does have some thickness to it. It's really good. I
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: like it a lot. It's got a perfect blend of
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: an initial tartness and then it mellows out really quick
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: in a nice way. Sweetmen, not too sweet. It's fun.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: The can's fun. I like it. Yeah, it's a good beer.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: I'm pleasantly surprised. I was kind of on the fence.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: I was like, we're either gonna like it or we're
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: gonna hate it and I definitely don't it, so yeah,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: good stuff. I would definitely after having this, I would
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: absolutely reach for a smoothie sour again easy.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: Drinking too, like just it goes down nice and easy.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: So thanks again Reunion Brewery out of Iowa City for
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: blender Smoothie Sour.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: Pretty good, yep. And we purchased these beers ourselves. Actually
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: you bought them yourself. But if you're a brewer out
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: there and you want to send us some stuff to
• 1:02:27
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• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: we'll always give an honest opinion. But I mean, how
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: many bad beers have we ever? Really?
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: We really haven't had a bad beer and we're now
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: seventy five episodes.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I mean there's definitely beers we like better
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: than others. But I mean we'll give an honest opinion,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: and we're pretty we're pretty easy to please. Yeah, we're
• 1:02:50
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• 1:02:53
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• 1:02:56
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• 1:02:58
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• 1:03:02
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• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: This coming Saturday, January eighteenth, we will be live at
• 1:04:38
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• 1:04:44
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• 1:04:48
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• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: it though, the Manstream podcast, Beautiful View podcast, which is
• 1:04:56
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• 1:04:59
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• 1:05:05
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• 1:05:09
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• 1:05:14
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• 1:05:19
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• 1:05:22
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• 1:05:25
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• 1:05:31
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• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: I'm excited to have that vanilla Porter. Yeah, the is
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: it the Friend's Vanilla Porter? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's even better on tap, like it was good
• 1:05:41
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• 1:05:43
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• 1:05:45
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• 1:06:04
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  Speaker 2: Also, I was I had the chance to be on
• 1:06:08
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• 1:06:14
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  Speaker 2: I think they've had one more recent episode as of
• 1:06:20
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• 1:06:29
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• 1:06:31
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