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The Vikings Tailgate: Missing The Minneapolis Miracle & The Bizarre 2022 Season | Wild Card Weekend | Week 19 · The Vikings Tailgate

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  Speaker 1: a Minnesota based guest this week, incredible comedian Brian Miller.
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  Speaker 1: You've seen him on the Late Late Show on CBS.
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  Speaker 1: He's fantastic, diehard Viking fans. I didn't want anything adversarial
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  Speaker 1: this week. Weird season, fun season, hard, fought season. I
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to spend this week enjoying it with somebody
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  Speaker 1: What's up? Viking fans? Welcome to The Tailgate presented by Cambria.
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  Speaker 1: Your Minnesota Vikings are in the playoffs. They are hosting
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  Speaker 1: they are we are? How should I separated? I am
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  Speaker 1: too emotionally connected. I'm going with we. We are hosting
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  Speaker 1: the New York Giants at US Bank Stadium on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: and joining me. Normally, this is an opposition show. We
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  Speaker 1: bring on a guest of the other team and we
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  Speaker 1: have fun. It's playoff time. I don't want to do it.
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  Speaker 1: We've I've already talked to a Giants fan. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to do I want to be hopeful and insane
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  Speaker 1: with somebody who understands a Viking fans psychology. So I
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  Speaker 1: got a comedian that I came up with, incredibly funny.
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  Speaker 1: He's been on the Late Late Show on CBS, one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorites. Ladies and Gentlemen, bron Ian Miller and
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  Speaker 1: Brian You and I have experienced this football season together,
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  Speaker 1: Yes we have. We have not like holy hands exactly,
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  Speaker 1: but like but holding texts. I think we were emotion
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  Speaker 1: We've been emotionally holding hands this season. Yeah, yeah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's been some support. There's been some support. It's been Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's been one of those things where both it's like
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  Speaker 1: talking someone through a relationship where you're like, no, I
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  Speaker 1: think you should stick it out, and then they're like
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  Speaker 1: they lost to the Cowboys by how much? Are you
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  Speaker 1: sure you should stick it out? And then the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: game happens, like, that's a good thing. You stuck it out.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how to I know we're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: into all things Playoff related in this game. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: warrior and a psycho. You are, I think it's fair
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  Speaker 1: to say you're neurotic, Sure, a bit neurotic. How have
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  Speaker 1: you experienced this absurd season? Well, you know, here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a very passionate sports fan, but I'm I'm not
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  Speaker 1: one of those people who's like weak or day is
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  Speaker 1: ruined by a bad game or anything. I really carry
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  Speaker 1: on the rest of my life like a pretty normal
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  Speaker 1: person with just a strong interest in the game. The
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  Speaker 1: thing is, from the moment that the first kick is
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  Speaker 1: kicked until the last second is kicked off, I basically
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  Speaker 1: have to chain myself to a radiator like the Wolfman,
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  Speaker 1: because I completely go insane, to the point that we
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  Speaker 1: were going to watch the Packers game at my in
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  Speaker 1: laws with my whole family, and my wife said before
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  Speaker 1: we left, She's like, Hey, just the thought like we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be with my whole family, maybe tone it down
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  Speaker 1: a little bit with the game. And I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: come on, and then she just ran through some of
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  Speaker 1: the elaborate profanities that I had yelled at the TV
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  Speaker 1: the week before, which would definitely get us all canceled
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  Speaker 1: from the radio and the planet Earth. And I was like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I shouldn't yell that series of words every time,
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  Speaker 1: justin Jefferson makes a good catch. When I was, I
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  Speaker 1: taunt the other team, like I do a lot of
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  Speaker 1: trash talking to the other team through the TV, so
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  Speaker 1: and so, you know, especially when Jefferson's hot or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: I'm it's as though I'm standing over the carcass of
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  Speaker 1: some like exposed cornerback, screaming in his face, and like
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  Speaker 1: my wife will leave the house, my cats will go upstairs.
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  Speaker 1: It's I have to be careful about it, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I have to sequester myself. I am very I liked
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  Speaker 1: what you said about it not ruining your day. What
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  Speaker 1: I've always said. For me, the vikings and sports can
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  Speaker 1: make my day. Yeah, they can make my week. They
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  Speaker 1: can improve my existence by a ton, but they can
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  Speaker 1: only negatively affect it by a little bit. Like I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna be sad if they lose in the playoffs, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be sad. I'm gonna be disappointed, But I'm
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the healthy thing. You move on. I
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  Speaker 1: think you gotta put yourself in a position where sports
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  Speaker 1: can can improve everything but only hurt it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit for a little while. You know, if
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  Speaker 1: if you weren't disappointed and you weren't sad, you know,
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  Speaker 1: why are you watching? Like? I don't think you can't
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  Speaker 1: not be sad? Yeah? I did, I use too many negatives.
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  Speaker 1: There can't sure can't not un be sad? None land
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  Speaker 1: with a circle through it. I'm from Kentucky originally, so
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  Speaker 1: that sentence had been perfect sense to me. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think as that is a thing that
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  Speaker 1: being a Vikings fan has actually taught me, because I
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  Speaker 1: do think there was a time that I would maybe
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  Speaker 1: carry it over for a day or two. A couple
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  Speaker 1: of particular playoff losses really really haunted me and to
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  Speaker 1: the point where I was like, I can't let this happen.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you gotta shake it off. And I will
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  Speaker 1: admit though, I do think there is a little element
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  Speaker 1: where when you guard yourself a little bit, as in
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  Speaker 1: life and romance and everything, you don't quite have the
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  Speaker 1: raw high that you get when you are just like
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  Speaker 1: a maniac who's totally invested. But I don't, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as I get older, I don't know that being that
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  Speaker 1: maniac is the best idea. We both came up at ACNE,
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  Speaker 1: one of the great clubs in America, and Lewis Lee
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  Speaker 1: the most important person to me in my can I
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  Speaker 1: say comedy journey? Is that corny enough? He is? He
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  Speaker 1: is the most important person to me in my career.
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  Speaker 1: What he's done, I appreciate him a lot. But one
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  Speaker 1: thing he does do is he knows how to pray
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  Speaker 1: on the emotions of a sports fan. And he found
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  Speaker 1: early young sigh the MC when I was an MC,
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  Speaker 1: just a just a dumb young comic. He recognized my
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  Speaker 1: emotional connection to this football team and he prayed on it.
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  Speaker 1: He would make so. He liked to make bets, but
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  Speaker 1: not financially. To him, it was about, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: want something large, like something different than money on the line.
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  Speaker 1: And the first bat I entered with him was as
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings were making their run in oh nine. I
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  Speaker 1: thought they were going to make it to the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: and he just goaded me and goaded me and goaded me,
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  Speaker 1: and finally I agreed to a bet that at the
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  Speaker 1: time I believe what I had to do if the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings lost, I had to dress in an Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 1: jersey and let them film me doing something outrageous, which
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  Speaker 1: I ended up losing. And he did. He played it
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  Speaker 1: at my shows in front of my family. But if
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  Speaker 1: he lost, and Lewis is a private he doesn't like
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  Speaker 1: to be the star of the show. He's in the background.
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  Speaker 1: He has no interest in everybody looking at him. He
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  Speaker 1: was going to have to introduce me with an intro
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  Speaker 1: that I wrote. And so I was so heavily invested
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  Speaker 1: in that oh nine championship game, and what I didn't
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  Speaker 1: foresee is I was like, oh, yeah, Lewis has my
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  Speaker 1: cell phone number, and so as Adrian Peterson would fumble
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  Speaker 1: or as things would go wrong, as I was riding
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  Speaker 1: the emotions of this game, I would be getting text
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  Speaker 1: from him. And so when my heart broke, there was
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  Speaker 1: Lewis were just this jab at the end, and that
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  Speaker 1: was like, that was different. Not only was it, oh
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  Speaker 1: my gosh, I thought we were going to go to
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  Speaker 1: the super Bowl, and then Brett Farve through it an interception,
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  Speaker 1: look at my phone like it was just it was
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  Speaker 1: this weird double Wyami Well I can't even imagine, because
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  Speaker 1: that oh nine Brett Farve interception was one of the
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  Speaker 1: two moments that did kind of ruin like forty eight
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  Speaker 1: to seventy two hours for me. You know, I was
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  Speaker 1: really heartbroken over that one. But also I have participated
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of your lost bets. In fact, I
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  Speaker 1: believe I was a member of the gambling intervention that
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  Speaker 1: we did. Yes, I've I've lost consecutive uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: non money bets to Lewis Lee, and one of them
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  Speaker 1: was that I had to This one was the worst,
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  Speaker 1: he because he basically he was developing a mini documentary
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  Speaker 1: about me as what I believe was happening. Every time
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  Speaker 1: I would lose, there was always a cameraman around. And
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  Speaker 1: so the third one was if I lost, I had
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  Speaker 1: to let someone throw an intervention for me, a gambling
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  Speaker 1: intervention for me on Acme's stage during the most popular
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  Speaker 1: show of the week, the open Mic. And then he
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  Speaker 1: got to videotape me going and meeting with a counselor.
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  Speaker 1: It was he got to he got to hire a
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  Speaker 1: counselor and videotape the whole thing. And yeah, you were
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  Speaker 1: part of the on stage intervention. I think you were
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  Speaker 1: one of the people who read the letter. I was.
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  Speaker 1: And this year he has Tommy Ryman lucked into a bet.
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  Speaker 1: And if the Vikings don't win the Super Bowl, I know, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm hopeful, I'm rude for Tommy, but if
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  Speaker 1: they do not win the Super Bowl, our good friend
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  Speaker 1: Canadian Tommy Ryman has to read a three minute apology
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  Speaker 1: letter that I personally write with my friend Dad Abrasher.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, oh, yeah, that is that is outrageous. I
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  Speaker 1: I I am at the point where I know well enough,
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  Speaker 1: I've learned my lesson and I'm not saying I'm done
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  Speaker 1: getting sucked into his nonsense, but I I'm gonna pick
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  Speaker 1: and choose my risks against him in the future because
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's really it's really tough when it goes
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  Speaker 1: the wrong way, and I never have the bets when
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  Speaker 1: when you would want it, like the Minnesota miracle year,
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  Speaker 1: which was not a year that we thought we would
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  Speaker 1: get to that record. It's not a year you know,
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  Speaker 1: we we were We overachieved that season and it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: involved with him in any way, shape or form that year,
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  Speaker 1: So I missed out on what would have been one
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  Speaker 1: of the great moments in and defeating him. Because that's
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  Speaker 1: the other thing about Lewis famously famously never lost one
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  Speaker 1: of these bets with with his staff. His staff is
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  Speaker 1: filled with sports fans and his comedian sports. He's famously
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  Speaker 1: never lost one of these. Yeah. No, and he knows
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  Speaker 1: that I've told it. I shall not bet because I
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  Speaker 1: know what happens. I've seen it too many times. But
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  Speaker 1: I will participate in the humiliation of others who lose
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  Speaker 1: the bet so I get some fun out of it.
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  Speaker 1: Mineappo's miracle. By the way, oh man, I learned a
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  Speaker 1: very important lesson that because I didn't see it. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this. I never saw Well,
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  Speaker 1: I've seen it now a million times on my phone.
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  Speaker 1: Are you one of the guys who shut it off?
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  Speaker 1: Threw my remote control across the room and it broke.
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  Speaker 1: And when the broken remote when the remote control hit
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  Speaker 1: the wall, the TV turned off, and I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're done. And I just walked away from my broken
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  Speaker 1: remote control. But then I went on then because I
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  Speaker 1: was so mad, I wouldn't go online, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: just gets in and I went back into my calm place,
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  Speaker 1: and I like made dinner and then I went to
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  Speaker 1: bed and I woke up the next day and I
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  Speaker 1: checked my phone and I kept seeing on Twitter all
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  Speaker 1: these things. It was like, why are people being so mean?
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  Speaker 1: We lost? Why did they have to pretend that we won?
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  Speaker 1: And it took me a few minutes to realize, Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, we won. So I didn't know the Vikings
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  Speaker 1: won for full twelve hours after that, Oh that, I
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  Speaker 1: lived in the loss for like twelve hours and then
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  Speaker 1: had this weird happiness but like delayed echo, like I know,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't see the play in the moment. But
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  Speaker 1: it did teach me the valuable lesson because when in
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  Speaker 1: the Buffalo game, when they were down thirty three to zero,
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  Speaker 1: I was supposed to go Christmas shopping, and I said
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  Speaker 1: to my wife, now we gotta keep watching. I'm not leaving.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not leaving until I see what happens. And then
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  Speaker 1: lo and behold. You know, an hour and a half later,
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen fumbles in the end zone and I was
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  Speaker 1: dancing around where the former grave site of my remote control. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't. That's the reason you don't. You can't have
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  Speaker 1: the Minnesota miracle happen and then turn off. For example,
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  Speaker 1: the Colts game, you just to stick it out just
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  Speaker 1: in case. And maybe in this the Buffalo game, the
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  Speaker 1: Colts game. Yeah, the Colts game. I didn't turned up
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  Speaker 1: the Buffalo game. I never now because the Buffalo game
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  Speaker 1: was similar though, if you had never had the Colts
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  Speaker 1: game happened because Josh Allen did fumble in the end zone.
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  Speaker 1: That was why there was a moment in that game
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  Speaker 1: where they are such a good team and we were
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  Speaker 1: in a situation where I think there are people who
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  Speaker 1: are like, no, thank you. There was a vibe there
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  Speaker 1: was a real reason some people might have turned away
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  Speaker 1: from that game. Oh sure, I mean, I mean I
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  Speaker 1: was actually more surprised that they beat Buffalo than I
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  Speaker 1: was that they came back at halftime from thirty three
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  Speaker 1: to nothing to the Colts. Basically like I I's still
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  Speaker 1: the Buffalo game was almost more miraculous. But but now
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  Speaker 1: because of the miracle that did now, I never I
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  Speaker 1: never really do give up. That was like a lesson
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  Speaker 1: of like and I didn't even entirely mean to give up,
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  Speaker 1: but it seemed like when the TV turned off as
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  Speaker 1: the remote hit the wall, I was like Okay, that
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  Speaker 1: says enough. I'm sure I've told this story on the
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  Speaker 1: podcast before. But my nephew, my oldest nephew, left the
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  Speaker 1: Brett Farve to Greg Lewis San Francisco touchdown. Really he
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  Speaker 1: left it. He heard it in the parking ramp, which
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  Speaker 1: is such a bummer butt in a fun full circle story,
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  Speaker 1: he took his oldest son. It was his oldest son's
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  Speaker 1: first ever Viking game was the Colts come back, So
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  Speaker 1: he missed one of the greatest regular season moments and
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  Speaker 1: then you know later on got to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of it. Here, let's talk about this, uh, this game, Brian,
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  Speaker 1: I have I like to think I'm not a football analyst.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not. I can't break down xs and os, but
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  Speaker 1: I like to think that I often have a good
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  Speaker 1: read on this team. Going into this year, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I generally feel like my skepticisms are warranted and my
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  Speaker 1: enthusiasm is warranted. Like I feel like I'm pretty close
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  Speaker 1: to some good narratives when it comes to my favorite team.
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  Speaker 1: This year, I have no idea. It has been so
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  Speaker 1: bananas and I and I have no idea going into
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  Speaker 1: this game. I think I've spent all week going. Oh man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind of really worried about this Giant's team, who's
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  Speaker 1: already seen us on tape, given the way we've struggled
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of games coming in here. And if
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  Speaker 1: I was not a Viking fan, the Vikings are the
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  Speaker 1: obvious team you would pick to be upset in this round.
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  Speaker 1: And I mentioned that to someone who really knows football
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  Speaker 1: that I respect, and his first response was, they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: crush him. Dude, he goes, I just think they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: and so, and then I bought into that. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I have no idea what to expect this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's amazing that we're playing meaningful playoff football
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  Speaker 1: at home, and we should enjoy that given the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of years. I do think they're gonna win, and
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  Speaker 1: I actually think they're gonna win a not one score game,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I think they're gonna in a convincing, thorough game.
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  Speaker 1: I just I don't. I think the Giants are much
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  Speaker 1: more troubled even than the Vikings, but this is the
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  Speaker 1: hardest to predict team. Yeah, I don't think there's any
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  Speaker 1: outcome that would shock me. I think there are worst
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  Speaker 1: teams that have won the Super Bowl than this Vikings team.
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  Speaker 1: It just depends on what streak they're on. That is
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  Speaker 1: that is very like is literally I'm gonna take your
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  Speaker 1: sentence literally. Is there any outcome that could surprise you
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  Speaker 1: if they're like, hey, I don't know if you guys
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  Speaker 1: saw the end of the Vikings game, but a cat
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  Speaker 1: got on the field, they had to delay the game.
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  Speaker 1: The cat gets taken off the field. On the next play,
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  Speaker 1: the Kirk Cousins throws an eighty yard touchdown with two
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  Speaker 1: seconds left, cat celebrating in the end zone. It'll forever
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  Speaker 1: be called the kit and come back like there is
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  Speaker 1: no there is no amount of weirdness, like if our
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  Speaker 1: mascot suits up this weekend and runs for two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty eight yards, Like you have to go far
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  Speaker 1: off the beaten path to do something that would feel
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  Speaker 1: weird to people you know in in this Yeah, right,
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  Speaker 1: Like who's who've lived this season? It's I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: NFL season has been particularly bonkers this year, but I mean, like,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, arrest through a block against one of our defenders. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and it was people forgot about that. That's not even
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  Speaker 1: a memorable moment. It's like ninth on and he was
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  Speaker 1: like it was a really good block, Like if you
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  Speaker 1: go back and watch that, it was like a better
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  Speaker 1: block than some other Like I've seen kickers not do
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  Speaker 1: quite as well on runbacks, you know, trying to do
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  Speaker 1: play a little defense. You know, there's been so many
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  Speaker 1: bizarre things. I would argue that in any other season,
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  Speaker 1: Greg joseph sixty one yard field goal would still be
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  Speaker 1: like a top three Minnesota Vikings news story, like our
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  Speaker 1: famous the famously troubled Vikings had a kicker who won
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  Speaker 1: a game on a sixty one yarder and it was
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  Speaker 1: like barely an eyebrow raiser for people. Yeah, and you
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  Speaker 1: think about I've said, you know, a lot has been
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  Speaker 1: made of the statistical place where this defense exists, but
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  Speaker 1: have you ever seen anything in your life where, despite
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  Speaker 1: statistical categories, a defense has made more clutch stops, like
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  Speaker 1: any number of the clutch stops at the end of
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: the game, like literally ripping the ball. I can't remember
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: who the who it was for the Bears, but lit
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: was it? It was It was our old guy, wasn't it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that play alone would be a play like we had.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: We had a really crazy defensive ending this year, but
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: like the Washington game where they come across the center
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  Speaker 1: on the field goal and we get the ball again
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: after the Harrison Smith interception, the interceptions against the Cardinals
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  Speaker 1: like the end of the Buffalo that everybody talks about,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: like the Buffalo Jefferson catch, but you pointed out like
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: the thing in the end zone. Even beyond that, intercepting
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen in the other end zone, the amount of
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: crazy defense stops. And I think that's what you like
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: if you are someone who's trying to buy into a
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Vikings run here, like a miracle run. Let's not say
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: miracle that. I think that's a little underhanded with how
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: well this team has done this year, but it would
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: be impressive to win this game and if everything holds,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Chalk go to San Francisco and win, Go to Green
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Bet or excuse me, Philadelphia and win. If you're somebody
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: who's buying into that, you have to buy pretty big
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: time on this defense having some more of these clutch
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: moments in each of these next few games. You're gonna
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: need turnovers and you need you're gonna need to go.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I can't believe the defense did that at the end
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: of the game. Yeah, I don't, and I don't think
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: it's at all impossible. But I think if if I
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: think the Vikings can just win a pretty straightforward game
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: this week, do I think the game will be straightforward?
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: That is a different question, but I think they could
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: win a regular straightforward Oh look, we won by eleven
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: and it was kind of comfortable after halfway through the
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: third quarter. I could totally see that happening. But after that,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: every round after that, I think they're gonna be weird.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Wins doesn't mean they're gonna be deserved it wins, right,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: but it's gonna be weird turnover situations, big plays, clutch
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: clutch defensive plays, some long bombs. It's gonna be It's
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: gonna get weird. But I think there's something to be
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: said about a team that's very successfully playing weird football.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I think that I think kind of like you don't
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: you'll bounces only go your way so often, all this stuff,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: and like I think they're they're really motivated United team
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: and they invite good strange luck. I've said this, you know,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I'm repeating myself a lot on this show now, But
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: locker rooms are weird places. I you know, I coach basketball.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I've been in locker rooms, and locker rooms start to
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: believe their own history. And so if you I've seen
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: teams that they go out and they really come through
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: and win a couple of games. Right at the end,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: they play really well in the last couple of minutes,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, they just have this mental
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: like it doesn't it's okay, guys, relax, six minutes to play,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: we're down eight. We've done this, we know how to
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: do this, and they start believing it. The opposite is true,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: you know. I think we kind of saw that the
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: last couple of years, where it's like, oh no, here
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: we go again. So I don't think you can I
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: don't know how much you need to value it, but
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: you certainly can't minimalize a team that has won that
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: many one score games in that way. Now, if you
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: go out and you wind up down twenty, like in
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: some of the blowout losses, you wind up down a
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: bunch of points early, yeah, they're much you can do
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: in that situation. I'm not I don't have huge expectations there.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: But if if you play good football and you're in games,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: this team, I truly believe they have the utmost belief
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: in themselves. I don't know that they're going to get
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: into the fourth quarter and it will be their nerves
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: or their inexperience that will cost them. I agree, And
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: you know, this is not one of my more popular theories.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: But you know, Kirk has gotten a lot of He's
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: gotten dinged by people at times by saying, oh, he
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: plays well during garbage time, but whatever. But I've come
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: to think that I don't think Kirk sees garbage time.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I think he's a true never give up. He's just
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: so steady and never give up. He that like, he's
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: like there is no garbage time, and the only difference
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: between garbage time and a miracle comeback is a slight
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: twist of the score, you know, a couple of you know,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: an onside kick goes this way or that way. So I, yeah,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I do I do think that that. I think he's
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: a really really impressively steady dude in a strange way.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Who I just I'm kind of I'm more fascinated by
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: him every year. I kind of I kind of get
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: a little more into Kirk every year, and I can
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: see him making strange magic. Our producer Jay we were
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: talking about the weird ways this game can end. I
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: just saw one of the comments he put into the
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: thread that was like, I said, you know the kitten
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: comeback he goes. He said, the next game will have
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: kitten come out on the field and he'll have chains on.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: That will be amazing. Yeah. The the interesting thing, you know,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: there's a lot, a lot is made of Kirk's He's
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: a big talking point. The one thing that is undeniable,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: And I don't know that that all that it means
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: that that what I'm about to say will hold in
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the playoffs because nobody ext Michael Jordan misses shots right,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: And I'm certainly not saying Kirk Cousins is Michael Jordan.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Leave me alone, stay out of my DMS. I was
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: just using a pop culture reference. But what I was
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: gonna say, it's pretty undeniable that the man can handle
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: a team in the fourth quarter the last two years.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Say whatever you want about all the years previous, but
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: you have to get rich. You can't carry that forward.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: The last two years game on the line, fourth quarter,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: he has succeeded and as a whole, honestly, on both
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: sides of the ball, clutch moments in the fourth quarter.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: This team has succeeded. Interestingly, the defense has kind of
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: succeeded in quarters one through three. Yeah, you know, the
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: offense has really succeeded on opening drives and then in
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: the end of game. So like, we're still floating in
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: this area where we haven't really been consistent very often
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: all the way through a game. I would love for
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: what you're saying to happen what you said earlier, where
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: it's like, oh man, they like it happened the Giants game,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: it all comes together. I'll take a win. I don't
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: care how we get it, but wouldn't it be sweet
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: to get the sort of win where it's like, man,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: that would we are the better team and they're no
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: one can question that. That would be That would be sweet.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I'll take a win either way, but that would be sweet.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I'll take the Cat game win, by the way, and
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I'll put the chains on the cat, so I'm fine
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: with weird. I'll put that cat in the Pro Football
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. I'll adopt the cat and raise it.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I'll I'll put it through college. I don't care, give
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: me the Super Bowl. I don't care how we get
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: People have said before they're like, people, go, if you
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: want to. I was rooting for the Packers or the
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Lions to get in because I thought, and maybe I'll
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: be proven wrong, that they had a better chance of
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: upsetting the Niners. And then then we get a second
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: home playoff in the second round, and you know, and
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I had people say like, you want to be the best,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: you got beat the best past I'll beat the best
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: if that's who I have to beat. But I don't
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: care who I have to beat. I don't I don't care.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I want the super Bowl. I want, I desperately need
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: a super Bowl. And I don't think Eli Manning is like, well,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: I just really wish in the divisional round we would
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: have played this team. Then my first super Bowl would
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: have been more meaningful. That's like Aaron Rodgers against the
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Bears and Jay Cutler. When Jay Cutler went out in
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: that championship game, He's not like, it just doesn't mean
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: as much. Jay wasn't out there though whole time. I
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: totally agree. And also it's like it's the playoffs. It's
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: not you know, this isn't one of those things where
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: you have like a really weak schedule and you look
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: back on it and you like played all cupcake teams,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Like there's not really cupcake teams left, and I mean,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: I would argue Seattles. The Seattle is the closest thing
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: to that left in the NFC right now, and they're
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: still not bad by any stretch. I'm just holding out
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: hope that that the weirdness that can exist in divisional
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: matchups like the Vikings. Remember that was the Randy Moss
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Moon game. The Vikings needed somebody I believe to lose
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: to back their way into that game. And then they
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: went to Lambo, a superior team and didn't beat them,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: thumped them. So there is some offensive firepower on the
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Seahawks team. You know, they are a rallied team. So yeah,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm hoping for that. I'm hope being that they
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: go in there and something weird happens and we can
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: beat the Giants and we get the Seahawks round two.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: That's very pipe dreamy of me, But I think we
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: just need to We're very ahead of ourselves. We just
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: need to focus on this weekend. Brian Dayball's a hell
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: of a coach. Uh Sequon Barkley is very good. I
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: think with our all line out you know their d line, Cavon, Thibadeau,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: all these guys. It's gonna be a it's gonna be
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: a really, really hard game. I hate to put you
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: on the spot, but we do it every week. I'm
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: gonna make you do a prediction for the game. Normally
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: this is more fun because we're doing opposing predictions. Sure,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: but we'll both make a prediction for the game. What
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: do you what do you think the score is gonna be?
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Vikings seventeen twenty eight. Ooh, that was very firm. That
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: was very direct, so Viking seen. Yeah, Okay, I like that.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. I think I'm gonna go Giants ten uh,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Vikings one hundred and eighty five. Brian, I sure care
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: about you a lot. I love you, buddy. Thank you
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: for doing the show and hopefully I will be texting
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: you throughout the playoffs and not just in this one game.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I hope it keeps going. Thank you, buddy, and I
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: will watch to the end of this game. Guy. Started
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: appreciate you man, Yes, lady, dude. Thank you guys for
• 28:18
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