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The Vikings are 5-0! Is Darnold better than Cousins? Do the Vikings need another RB? | TSH Ep. 61 · 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. Evan, I'm Austin. Where's a couple of
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  Speaker 1: dudes from Iowa. We like drinking beer talking about the Bikings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do.
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  Speaker 3: And tonight is episode sixty one of the School Hop.
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  Speaker 3: And we started off obviously talking about that big Vikings
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  Speaker 3: Jets win over the Jets in London this past weekend. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the Vikings are five and oh yeah, it's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Man, that feels really good to say. But we got
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  Speaker 1: into a little bit of a debate. We somehow Kirk
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  Speaker 1: Cousins snuck his way into our conversation tonight and we
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  Speaker 1: were debating, is Kirk better than Sam Darnold? Would we
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  Speaker 1: rather have him back? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You'll have to tune in and check that out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for some reason, we just can't let Kirk Cousins go.
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  Speaker 3: But also with a bye week coming up for the Vikings,
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  Speaker 3: so we do take a look ahead for the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the season, maybe revise our win lost totals and
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  Speaker 3: how the Vikings stack up and the rest of the
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  Speaker 3: NFC North.
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  Speaker 1: We also talked about making a light revision to the
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  Speaker 1: Wheel of Purple punishments if the Vikings make the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: which they're currently on the trajectory to do so. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you'll have to kind of follow all the way to
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  Speaker 1: the end for that one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because some interesting things happening with that, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Grab a cold one. Join us for episode sixty one,
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: Well, hey, good news for us, Great news for us
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  Speaker 3: number one, and most importantly, the Vikings are five and
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  Speaker 3: oh five and oh baby school school School, and also
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  Speaker 3: good for us.
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  Speaker 2: We both predicted that the Vikings would win and we did.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we did preseason. This was before anybody knew the
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  Speaker 3: vikings would be good at least the first quarter of
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  Speaker 3: the season.
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  Speaker 2: So we are off the hook. We do not have
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  Speaker 2: to spin the wheel of purple punishments.
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  Speaker 3: I did not want to take a shot about apple
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  Speaker 3: cider vinegar like you did last week.
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  Speaker 2: That one's off the wheel, so you won't have to
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  Speaker 2: do that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you took one for the team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, could have been worse. Like I could have been
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  Speaker 1: blindfolded for the whole episode. I could have eaten hollopenos.
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  Speaker 1: Like if I land on that one, I promise you
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  Speaker 1: we will have to like do a like technical difficulties screen.
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  Speaker 1: I will have to excuse myself and it'll be bad
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  Speaker 1: news if you want.
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  Speaker 3: I've been growing some of my own hobby and arrows.
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  Speaker 3: Oh really, I can just pick a couple and bring
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  Speaker 3: them on a night and just maybe without the pickled halopanos.
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  Speaker 3: We could just you know, like a cherry eat a.
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  Speaker 2: Hobb and arrow. That would be good, right.
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  Speaker 3: I might have to take the day off at work, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean I love spicy stuff, but yeah, that would
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  Speaker 3: be pretty intense for me too.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Good news is we don't have to spend so if
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  Speaker 1: you're looking forward to the Purple punishments, sorry, but we're
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  Speaker 1: not sorry. We're feeling pretty good about it. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: feeling pretty good about the fact that the Vikings are.
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  Speaker 3: Five and oh five and oh that's the best feeling ever.
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  Speaker 1: Close to that though, is enjoying a good beer. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I brought some beer tonight. You introduced me to
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  Speaker 1: Keg Creek Brewing. I just found it a few episodes back,
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  Speaker 1: and of course you told me that they had a.
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  Speaker 3: Red So what did I do. I went to Our
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  Speaker 3: Devil's Glenn hy Vey, and.
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  Speaker 1: I found Keg Creek's brick red Ale. So that's where
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be trying tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited.
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  Speaker 3: You have forced you know, maybe it's just because I've
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  Speaker 3: tried it more than any other kind of beer, but
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  Speaker 3: you have forced the red Ales the Ambers on me,
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  Speaker 3: and they're probably my second favorite now, So this will
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  Speaker 3: be good. And you know what, we're really starting to
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  Speaker 3: get into that like Red Amber October Fest season, like
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  Speaker 3: it's officially October.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the weather's starting to cool off a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Excited, get some bonfires going, drink some Ambers and Octoberfests
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  Speaker 3: and all that fun stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna crack another one right now while we're here.
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  Speaker 2: All right, all right, we're just gonna go. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: go full mud too, for okay, full mug right off.
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  Speaker 3: The bat, which is saying something because we don't know
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  Speaker 3: if we like this beer yet, we haven't tried it.
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  Speaker 3: Before we tried Keg Creek. I think the other one
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  Speaker 3: we tried was their Hazy Ipa. I forget the actual
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  Speaker 3: name of it, but I remember liking it a lot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was super good. Not disappointed at all by ked
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  Speaker 3: Creek so far. I can smell this one already. Yep,
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  Speaker 3: it smells great. What did we have from Keg Creek?
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  Speaker 3: We had their Midwest Hayes. Yeah, there you go back on.
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  Speaker 2: Episode fifty six. Okay, so five episodes ago. Go check
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  Speaker 2: that out. It's been a hot minute. But yeah, Keg Creek.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for brewing some good beer. And I'm excited. I've
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  Speaker 3: been tempted. This one's been sitting in this fridge right
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  Speaker 3: behind you for a few weeks now, and I could
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  Speaker 3: have easily come down here and just replaced them with For.
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  Speaker 2: All I know you have.
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  Speaker 3: And this is like the second or third of the
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  Speaker 3: six pack that you've got because you've had to replace.
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  Speaker 2: I would never taint the beer segment on the school hot.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you of So this is a raw and
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  Speaker 1: real live beer review.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, I need to be careful with my school here,
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  Speaker 3: because yeah, we got these pretty up.
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  Speaker 2: That's to the top.
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  Speaker 3: These are what, no, they've got to be twenty four
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  Speaker 3: ounce mugs, all right, light skull, skull scariness.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, the wimpiest skull ever.
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  Speaker 4: Hm.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good one, dude. These are ice cold too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, these are perfect temperature.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So pretty dark in color. Yeah, and compared to some
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  Speaker 3: of the recent dark or amber beers that we've had,
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  Speaker 3: pretty hazy. You're not seeing through it. Head retention wasn't
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  Speaker 3: quite there, but I mean we did fill it up
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  Speaker 3: to the brim and kind of let it slow, so
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  Speaker 3: that's probably on the way. We poured nice refreshing flavor,
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  Speaker 3: you know what.
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  Speaker 2: It kind of reminds me of what's up.
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  Speaker 1: This is more of a beer's beer version of the
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  Speaker 1: Kramel Apple fandango.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like we've said that about every beer we've
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  Speaker 3: had since the Caramel Apple fandg.
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  Speaker 1: Don't I don't think that this this though, has the
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  Speaker 1: hint of caramel, like you can just can the caramel
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  Speaker 1: or and.
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  Speaker 3: It's not as intense as the caramel apple Fandango because
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  Speaker 3: of course that just tastes like, Yeah, that one's a
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  Speaker 3: sour caramel apple sucker. Can you tell we like that
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  Speaker 3: karmel apple on Fandango because we've literally mentioned it every
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  Speaker 3: week since we've had it.
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  Speaker 2: But you had to get it at least.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get it at least once more before
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  Speaker 1: fall is officially over.
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  Speaker 3: I got it for my wife Miranda. She had one
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  Speaker 3: and she said it's not gross. But that's about the
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  Speaker 3: biggest compliment she will ever give to a beer. If
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  Speaker 3: she says it's not gross, then oh my goodness, that's
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  Speaker 3: the best beer in the world. But enough talking about
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  Speaker 3: a different beer, Ked Creek, the Brick red Ale. This
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  Speaker 3: can art is really cool too, Brick Brick red Ale.
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  Speaker 2: It's really good.
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  Speaker 3: It's a refreshing beer. It might help that we had
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  Speaker 3: these pretty well iced cold, probably perfect setting for these. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean beers, beers. I feel like red Ales are
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  Speaker 3: just beers, beers in the best way possible. I like
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  Speaker 3: it a lot. Ked Creek You're two for two on
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  Speaker 3: the beers that I've had from you so far. I'm
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  Speaker 3: really glad that you started showing up in our local
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  Speaker 3: high vy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Good stuff for sure.
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  Speaker 3: And if I see more ked Creek, I'll probably pick
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  Speaker 3: up a six pack and throw it in the fridge. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's probably probably a good plan.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we gotta we gotta talk about this Vikings dub.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't pretty.
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  Speaker 3: They've had uglier winds, but it was a wind, yes,
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  Speaker 3: And now they have a bye week and uh, things
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  Speaker 3: are just looking up for the Vikings. I don't it
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  Speaker 3: almost doesn't feel real like if you're if you're a
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  Speaker 3: longtime schoolhop listener, about this time last year, I every
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  Speaker 3: episode I was saying things like this is so frustrating.
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  Speaker 3: It's just it's the worst. And I would go off
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  Speaker 3: on like a random tangent every episode. Remember that I
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  Speaker 3: had like a month where every episode I just went
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  Speaker 3: off five minute shit and I just I think my
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  Speaker 3: most used word was frustrating because of all the turnovers
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  Speaker 3: and everything just felt like it fell apart last year.
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  Speaker 3: But this year, I don't know, It's like the football
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  Speaker 3: gods are like all right, Vikings fans like we've we've
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  Speaker 3: given enough in the last decade or so, like here,
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  Speaker 3: here's here's your one season every five to ten years
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  Speaker 3: where you're gonna be halfway decent, and I'm here for
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  Speaker 3: I'll take it. Every win feels like, you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: borrowed time just because of Vikings history. But they're playing
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  Speaker 3: really good, even the games that were like, man, this
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  Speaker 3: team's really frustrating.
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  Speaker 2: Even though they win everyone.
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  Speaker 3: They're still really good in all these games. Like it's
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  Speaker 3: just nice to enjoy it and to see all the
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  Speaker 3: tweets from other fandoms like the Vikings aren't real when
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  Speaker 3: the media has finally taking a turn, like yeah, like
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  Speaker 3: what's Sam sam Acho ho, I don't know he's he's
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  Speaker 3: going off on social media like, hey guys, the Vikings
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  Speaker 3: are real and it's really fun to watch. And so
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  Speaker 3: there's my tangent, just like, oh my gosh, I can't
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  Speaker 3: believe this is fun and it's awesome and it feels real.
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  Speaker 3: Something I want to talk about before we get into
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  Speaker 3: roses and Thorns from the game. I just want to
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  Speaker 3: point out and I pointed this out in our initial
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  Speaker 3: reaction video, which, by the way, if you haven't noticed,
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  Speaker 3: we've been doing our best. We haven't been perfect, but
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  Speaker 3: I think we've got three or four of the five
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  Speaker 3: games now where we've done an initial reaction, like right
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  Speaker 3: after the game's over, we hop on a call together
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  Speaker 3: and we just kind of give our hot takes and
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  Speaker 3: try to keep it short and sweet.
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  Speaker 2: That's been a lot of fun, by the way, it
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  Speaker 2: has been fun.
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  Speaker 1: I brought up, though, two interesting stats across these five games.
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  Speaker 1: The first one I brought up was the fact that
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings are outscoring their opponents forty eight to three
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  Speaker 1: in the first quarter forty eight to three in five games.
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  Speaker 1: They were up seven to three over the Giants in
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  Speaker 1: week one, three nothing over the Niners, fourteen nothing over
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  Speaker 1: the Texans, fourteen nothing against the Packers, and then ten
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  Speaker 1: nothing against.
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  Speaker 3: The Jets in the first quarter alone. Yes, because first
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  Speaker 3: quarter box score. And the other thing to note with
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  Speaker 3: that is the Vikings haven't trailed since they were down
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  Speaker 3: three nothing when they fell behind to the Giants early
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  Speaker 3: in the first quarter.
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  Speaker 2: And they haven't trailed since. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That is just mind blowing. Yeah, and did you see
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  Speaker 1: the graphic that came out today. I don't know which
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  Speaker 1: network posted it, but they posted all the other teams
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  Speaker 1: to have.
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  Speaker 2: Started out five.
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  Speaker 3: And oh and not trail for yeah, more than you know,
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  Speaker 3: X number of minutes in their first five games, and
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  Speaker 3: all of them either went.
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  Speaker 2: To the Super Bowl or won the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy, and I don't think it was started
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  Speaker 3: out five and oh now that you correct, it's it
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  Speaker 3: is the having not trailed for the least amount of
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  Speaker 3: time trailed for the first fight. There were some elite
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  Speaker 3: teams in there, like the nine Saints and the ninety eight.
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  Speaker 1: Who was it not the ninety eight? Was it the
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  Speaker 1: Broncos in ninety eight? Yeah, and then the ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: Rams the Greatest Show on Turf, Like, you had some
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  Speaker 1: outstanding teams. Yeah, in there that are just it's like
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  Speaker 1: rarefied air that the Vikings are in right now. Offensively,
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  Speaker 1: and that's after a really kind of a tough game
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  Speaker 1: offensively where you scored one touchdown on offense and it
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  Speaker 1: was by c. J. Ham, your full back. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: had to pick six by Andrew Van Ginkel, who's on
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  Speaker 1: pace to like destroy the franchise record for pick six
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  Speaker 1: is and then eleven of your points came from your kicker.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, how about that? Will record? Will the thrill he
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  Speaker 3: goes through, he isn't coming. He's here, the trill is here,
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  Speaker 3: and he's dominating. He's perfect so far, and I'm kind
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  Speaker 3: of terrified of it. You asked me in our recap video, like,
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  Speaker 3: do we wanted to miss one just to get it
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  Speaker 3: out of a system?
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  Speaker 2: No? No, stay perfect.
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  Speaker 3: That whole idea of missing it just to get out
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  Speaker 3: of your system, that's I'm not saying you're a loser,
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  Speaker 3: but that's a loser mentality. We're not losers anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say that I wanted him to miss one,
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  Speaker 1: Dustin actually said in our interview. And I'm not trying
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  Speaker 1: to throw Dustin Baker under the bus here either, but
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  Speaker 1: like he kind of said, yeah, I just want him
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  Speaker 1: to miss one so that we just did not the
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  Speaker 1: cobweb get him back down to earth a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: which I can respect the opinion for sure.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent.
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  Speaker 3: I'm mostly joking when I'm saying that's a loser mentality,
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  Speaker 3: because like I can get behind they're like, okay, pressure's off,
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  Speaker 3: Like I already missed one.
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  Speaker 2: You know if I miss.
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  Speaker 3: Another one that it's not the end of the world. But like, no,
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  Speaker 3: just foot down on the gas pedal in all aspects
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  Speaker 3: of the game, including Wilbethrill who is here, he's not coming,
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  Speaker 3: he's here well.
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  Speaker 1: And the Vikings have done that in the first quarter.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, forty eight to three. They've outscored their
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  Speaker 1: opponents through five games forty eight points to three. And
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  Speaker 1: then the other amazing stat that I kind of uncovered
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  Speaker 1: and it didn't take me along to uncover this, but
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  Speaker 1: the biggest lead that the Vikings have held on average
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  Speaker 1: in these games is.
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  Speaker 2: Over twenty one point.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's wild.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, this is just not something that we're used to,
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  Speaker 1: especially with Kirk Cousins. And you watched Kirk Cousins on
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night make this miraculous comeback and win the game
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  Speaker 1: for the Falcons, which cool, good for him, pat on
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  Speaker 1: the back, like, good for you, Kirk. But boy, am
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  Speaker 1: I glad that we're not in that situation this year
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  Speaker 1: where we've got to be on the edge of our seat,
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  Speaker 1: like are we gonna win these games? No, we've been
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  Speaker 1: up by twenty one points on average at our best
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  Speaker 1: in those games.
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  Speaker 2: I say our like I'm a part of the team.
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  Speaker 3: I know that annoys you and I do it too,
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  Speaker 3: which is the most annoying part of me being annoyed
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  Speaker 3: by that. But anyway, and we've outscored our opponents by
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  Speaker 3: a million points to basically nothing in the first quarter.
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  Speaker 3: So I think Kevin O'Connell has something figured out. You
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  Speaker 3: get up early, you keep the pedal to the medal
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  Speaker 3: for a while, and you try to rack up as
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  Speaker 3: many points as possible, and then you just let Brian
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  Speaker 3: Flores in that defense ball out and see what happens. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I will say to that point, and not to completely
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  Speaker 3: like say the opposite of what you just said, but
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  Speaker 3: I think you'll agree with me here. It does seem
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  Speaker 3: like in every game, or a lot of these games,
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  Speaker 3: there's a there's a point where even the offense and defense,
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  Speaker 3: the whole team kind of goes into cruise mode or
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  Speaker 3: coast mode and they take their foot off the gas pedal.
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  Speaker 3: And that's when you let the Packers come back, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and score twenty nine points to your three points. That's
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  Speaker 3: when the Jets are in a position to you know,
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  Speaker 3: have a game potentially game winning drive at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the game. If not for Stefan Gilmour, which best
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  Speaker 3: ten million bucks of vikings have ever spent other than
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  Speaker 3: the Sam Darnold ten million dollars. But I think that's
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  Speaker 3: something this coaching staff, and I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 3: active decisions by them to kind of go into coast
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  Speaker 3: mode or cruise mode or maybe try to bleed the
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  Speaker 3: clock as much as possible. But they got to figure
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  Speaker 3: that out because whatever they're doing, their cruising't too much.
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  Speaker 3: They're slowing down too much, and.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it is.
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  Speaker 3: You got to get credit to the other teams for
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  Speaker 3: being good NFL teams as well, but I don't know
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: many They always start off so good. I think if
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: you don't look at just first quarter those like beginning
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: of the game, leads are even bigger this year, Like
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: they were up seventeen to nothing to the Jets, you know,
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: at one point in the game to the Packers it
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: was twenty eight to nothing. Like they've had huge leads
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: and then for whatever reason at some point kind of
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: slowed down and then tighten it up usually win the game.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Every game this year they've won the game. But that
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: is my biggest concern so far, is they need to
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: figure out this whole coasting mentality and cut that out.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: So without looking at my stats, I can't even I
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: can't read it. So, in which game have the Vikings
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: held the biggest lead? Wasn't it with the Packers? It
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: was the Packers? Yeah?
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: What game have the Vikings held the second biggest lead
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: on the season. Oh man, I'm just being fsy just now,
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: but I mean it was in the Texans. It was
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: the Texans, thirty four to seven is what it ended. Yeah,
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: it was the twenty seven point lead, yeah at the end.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: And then, interestingly enough, the third biggest lead was twenty
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: two points against the Giants in Week one.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: So the Packers and or no sorry, the Niners and
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: the the Jets. Those have been the closest games.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: It's actually a thirteen point game at one point against
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: the Niners.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's a lot of good, a lot of
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: fun stuff. And I think as Vikings fans, there's that
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: quick tendency to be like, everybody's told us we're not
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: that good. Everybody says, you know, they're gonna drop off
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: at some point. We've seen these hiccups in the middle
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: of games where it seems like they're slowing down. So
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: are we seeing the cracks starting to form in the foundation?
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: I think we're just scaring ourselves, I think, because then
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: for every time you see those like, ah, they're not
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: doing that great, you see these crazy stats where it's like,
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: like you said said earlier, you know, in the history
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: of the NFL, they're amongst some of the best teams
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: in history when it comes to not trailing for what
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: it's less than three and a half minutes of game
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: time the whole season.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: They've trained much.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like you see that, and you see the
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: other stats where it's like, yeah, the only other three
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: teams in history that have ever done what the Vikings
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: are doing won the Super Bowl that year. You know,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: it's stuff like that, and maybe Dustin Baker is the
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: king of finding those those crazy stats, but like those
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: are the stats that are like, Okay, this team is good,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: And honestly, I think if they can kind of figure
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: out that momentum issue that they've been playing around with,
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: the only thing that can really hinder the Vikings so
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: far is injury.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you mentioned that in our recap video too
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: the other day, just that you know, you're not really
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: concerned about anyone else on the schedule. You're concerned about
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: keeping these guys healthy and keeping the moment them right,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: And I definitely agree with you on that. You've got
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: the Lions twice that you still haven't faced the Bears.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: They could be a little frisky.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: They've shown flashes. I think the Bears every game this year,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: the next game they look a little bit better. And
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: they just demolished the Panthers yesterday too.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: That's not saying much.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: I mean it's not saying much, but it's still another
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: NFL team, and you know, to look better than you
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: did last week. That's the goal for literally everybody in
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: every profession ever, right, Like, you just do better than
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: you were yesterday. So the Bears could be a weirdly
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: scary team in the second half of the season, and
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: that's when the Vikings play them. So I think those
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: two divisional games are the most concerning for me at
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: this point in the Vikings remaining schedule. But beyond that, like,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: you've got teams that are just not good. I mean,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: you've got the Rams who are mediocre, the Colts who
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: aren't good, the Jaguars, Titan, the Cardinals have kind of
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: proven that they can't really hang. That Falcons game will
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: be interesting. Yeah, the Seahawks, I think was more interesting
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: about a week ago until they lost this week, and
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: then it's kind of like, I don't know, maybe, but
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: then you know, it's only just one week. For sure,
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: some of these games we will get to that.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: We'll get to that.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: But I want to finish off our thoughts for this,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: this London win over the Jets. Roses and thorns, Evan,
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: what's your biggest rose? My biggest rose continues to be
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: the fact that it's not one person, it's just it's
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: it's almost as if And I think this is actually
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: I was thinking about this this morning. I was drinking
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: my coffee and I was just kind of scrolling Twitter,
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: kind of catching up on some of the all of
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: the Viking stuff that came out yesterday, and I had
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: the thought, you know, we've been doing this wheel of
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: purple punishments. It seems like Brian Flores in this Vikings
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: defense has their own wheel of Purple punished and they
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: spin it before the game and they're like, all right,
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Ben Ginkel, you're gonna have a huge game today, all right.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: And Blake Cashman against the Texans, you're gonna go out
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: and just ball out, you know, Jonathan Grenard and you
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: get this game right, And they just It's like they
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: have the wheel in the locker room and they spin
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: it and it lands on somebody and they're like, all right,
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: you're up, and that's I don't know, It's obviously not true,
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: but I love the fact that we're not relying on
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: these like heroes anymore. Like that used to be the
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Vikings narrative for so long. It was Adrian Peterson, it
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: was Stefan Diggs, it was Danielle Hunter, it was ever
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: single person.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Justin Jefferson. I mean I remember a game last year.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: It was after Kirk had been hurt, he was.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Out, and Nick Mullins was in the game.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I don't even remember who it was or what game
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: we were playing, but it just seemed like Justin Jefferson
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: had this massive chip on his shoulder and he wanted
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: to prove to the world that he could win the
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: game for the Vikings. And I don't remember the outcome
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: of the game or anything. We could go back and look, probably,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: but he hasn't had to do that this year. And
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: it goes on the offensive side of the ball too,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Like Sam Darnold had his worst game in a Vikings uniform.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: There was no touchdowns, no passing, touchdowns, no touchdowns, one interception.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Passer rating was really low, I think lower than what
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Rogers ended up with and Rodgers threw three picks.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: It was just an ugly game.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I think the weather kind of affected it because it
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: was drizzily and things were slippery and whatnot. But he
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: was just not accurate with his throws. Jordan Addison, justin Jefferson.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: They could not haul in any of the passes that
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: he was throwing their way. But it didn't matter, and
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: it didn't matter that Aaron Jones went down, right, Yeah,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: It kind of mattered a little, didn't matter. It did matter,
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: but it didn't matter in the outcome of the.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Game enough to lose. Yeah.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So to me, like the Vikings are so well rounded.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I do think now that we're removed from that game
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: by a day, the Vikings might need to figure something
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: out at running back because they proved that in the
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: absence of Aaron Jones there's really no viable solution to
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: keep that running game going. And that's what that's what's
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: kept this offense so balanced over the first five games,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: is you keep the opposing defense honest when you're able
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: to run the ball effectively. And I think, what is
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Aaron Jones averaging like four yards of carry or something
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: More like mid five four or five.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, on the season, he's four point nine, ty Chandler's
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: three point five.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: That's a pretty steep drop off.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think ty Chandler only averaged like two
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: and a half yards of carry in Aaron Jones' replacement
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: on Sunday.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: So, I don't know.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: There's there's been some talk about like Travis etn is
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: he the guy? Should we go after him? The Jag
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: season is basically over. There's probably a few.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Other names out there that the Vikings could go after.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: But all of that, to say, my rose the good,
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: the good, not the bad. There was a lot of
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: bad on Sunday, but the good was it still hasn't
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: come down to one player, justin Jefferson didn't have to
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: over extend himself and try to play hero ball and
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: put the franchise on his back and get the win.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: In fact, he finished with ninety something yards and no touchdowns.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it was just crazy, very germane. Speaking of hero.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Ball, I immediately think of Nick Mullins one that he was
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: in for one play and threw a deep, well deep
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: ish pass for like twenty four yards to Aaron Jones,
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: which might have been the play that got Aaron Jones
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: a little banged up to think it was, But of
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: course he's in for one play and they didn't with
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: the backup quarterback coming in cold. Koc didn't call a
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: run up the middle or something for one play like
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: they called the pass and it worked. And yeah, sure,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: I think on that one, if a better ball was
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: thrown on the exact same route, if everything else was
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: the same, maybe it could have gone for a touchdown
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: because he kind of underthrew him and he had to
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: slow up a little bit. But that's total Nick Mullins
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: is all right, I'm gonna throw the ball.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: And it's it's total Koc too, Like I think, yep,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: he's not gonna take the foot off the gas if.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: The backup quarterback is in.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, until they have a seventeen point lead and then
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: they take their feet off the gas. Right, what's you so,
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: my Rose, I mean, I just had they're five and oh,
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: like it's hard to argue with that. They could still
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: lose five five games this season and still make the
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: playoffs probably pretty easily. And I don't know if they're
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: gonna lose five games this season, just s based off
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: the way they've looked so far, and we could talk
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: about that a little bit later. I've actually kind of
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: predicted how many games I think they'll they'll lose.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: But they're five.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: And oh, I did have an honorable mention of a
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: rose that this might be the last game Aaron Rodgers
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: plays against the Vikings, something I saw pointed out by
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Dustin Baker in the Vikings Territory recap of the game,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: like they do the twelve snap reactions of every game
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: pretty quick after they end, and one of the things
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: he says is, yes, this might be Aaron rodgers last
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: game against the Purple. Theoretically it could be, and that
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: that kind of feels good to know, like we might
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: not have to deal with Aaron Rodgers anymore.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: And it was a win.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: So so there's nothing as a football fan that brings
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: me more joy than watching that man.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Be frustrated on the football. It was, it was really,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: it was really.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Entertaining to watch on Sunday, the fact that they struggled mightily.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: But but and this will transition me to my thorn.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: My thorn was.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: That we continue to put these teams, specifically the last
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: two weeks, the Packers and the Jets, we put them
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: in a position to come back and win after being
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: up by an average of twenty two points, after out
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: scoring our opponents forty eight to three in the first quarter.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: The last two weeks, these.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Teams have found a way to get themselves back into
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: the game, and it's really come down to our defense,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: to the Vikings defense shutting things down and saying, Nope,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: we're not going to do this, this is not going
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: to happen to it. So thankfully, Stefan Gilmour was the
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: answer to our prayers on Sunday got that game ceiling interception.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: But I was I was standing.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: At my TV with I think it was like three
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: and a half minutes left.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I'm standing. You don't sit, You're standing, You're pacing.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Your wife is rolling her eyes in the background, like,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, what did I marry into. But I'm
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: looking at the TV saying like, you don't give Aaron
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Rodgers the ball back with this much time on the clock.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: You just don't do that. And here we were. We
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: had no choice. We had to give them the ball back.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: And I'm just like I've seen this before. This has happened,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: and this is where we're going to get our first loss.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: This is gonna suck. It has been a really crappy day.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Nobody's played well at all. And fortunately, like I said,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: it wasn't bad. But that's still a thorn and I
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: think it's something that over the bye week the Vikings
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: have to address. They have to figure out how to
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: get the lead and keep the lead. And you've pointed
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: it out as well, not get soft in the middle
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: of the game, not find those moments where they can
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: just kind of yeah, you relax for a minute. No,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: keep the keep the foot on the gas, keep going.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Blow teams out, blow teams out. We were just talking
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: before we started recording because the Saints are playing the
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Chiefs on Monday Night Football right now, and we looked
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: back on the first two games the Chiefs played.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: They had like eighty five something points.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: The Chiefs are the Saints. The Saints, Yeah, yeah.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: There they were in off and some powerhouse painted. They
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: played the Panthers and the.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Well, the first game was the Cowboys, which they're not,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: you know, the elite of the elite, but they're still
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: not awful.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: So anyways, that's gonna be my thorn. What's your thorn?
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I had a thorn. Just you typically about
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: the the mid game slumps, but I feel like I've
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: we both talked about that. It's not a secret, it's
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: everybody knows. I think right now my biggest thorn is
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: And maybe it was just a coincidental. The slump was
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: going to happen anyways, but it coincided in the Jets
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: game with Aaron Jones going out, and that's scary. I'm
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: I will be the first to admit I was pretty
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: low on Aaron Jones. I didn't hate the move when
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: they signed him in the offseason, but like, you know,
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: almost thirty year old running back who has already put
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: a lot of production on the field, So what could
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: possibly be left in this tank right now? Like, I
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: didn't expect much. I think I've said, like, oh, I
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: thought you'd get one hundred yards rushing one time and
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: maybe a touchdown. You Like, I know, I said a
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: season prediction of what I thought he'd get, and it'd
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: be fun to look back. I think I said like
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: six hundred yards, you know, but he has I'm glad
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: to say he's proven me wrong.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: He's over halfway there. He really said six.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: I think he was like six hundred and then like
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: four touchdowns or something like that.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Is what three fifty in a touchdown?
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I made my prediction in one of our Dustin
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Baker episodes, so that'd be probably not horribly hard to
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: figure out. But yeah, he he is proving me wrong
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: as long as he stays healthy. And I guess that
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: was my main point, like he's not going to be
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: healthy all season. He's an almost thirty year old running back.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: And it does sound from what I've seen on Twitter
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: that whatever held him out, he was already kind of
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: hurting a little bit, and then he tried to go
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: and against the Jets and then ultimately it was like, ah, well,
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: pull ya. It's not worth trying to injure you more
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: just for one game. So it does sound like he
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: should be good to go by the time they play
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: the Lions after the bye week here, so hopefully it's
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: not nothing too serious. But this offense really took a
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: nose dive once he was out of the game. They
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: stopped being able to do things. And it's not for
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: lack of trying, because Sam Donald threw a bunch of
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: deep ball attempts, and I heard something on the radio
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: from Ron Johnson on KFN about that too, something like
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: the Jets are pretty susceptible to those deep ball attempts,
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: and the Vikings this season they've been really good at
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: those short passes, those mid range passes. Donald has had
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: a few first downs on his legs when things kind
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: of break down. You saw that a little bit early
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: in the game against the Jets, but then that went
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: away completely about the time Aaron.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Jones went out.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: I don't know if that's a correlation, but Ron Johnson
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: on KFN seemed to think it was more of a
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: game plan thing that just didn't work out. Usually those
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: deep balls against the Jets on like second down or
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: whatever Ron Johnson said the stat was, but usually those
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: are pretty decent and they just didn't work out for
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: the Vikings. Anyways, all that to say, ten minute explanation
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: of a one word answer, two word answer. Aaron Jones,
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: he's my thorn if he gets injured.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: And when you don't have your guy, though, and we
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: saw this last year too, because we didn't have the
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: presence of a powerhouse running back. We had two number
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: two running backs.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Maybe, well, I tried Cam Akers was the closest to
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: a number one the Vikings had. Yeah, and they wouldn't
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: put him in the game.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: So yeah, when Aaron Jones goes out and I think
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: you're right. I think he's not going to be extremely durable,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: and you watch him get hit and you cringe.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Every time, You're like, oh gosh, I hope he's.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Not hurt this time, you know. But I think we're
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: going to see more of this throughout the season. I
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: don't think this will be the first time that he
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: misses significant playing time. And I think the Vikings will
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: want to save him now that they're on the trajectory
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: there on. They'll want to save him for a deep
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: run in the playoffs because I think Kevin O'Connell can
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: see they need him, they need him there and they
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: need to be able to balance this offense out. Sam
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Darnold is not a Kirk Cousins who can throw for
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: five hundred yards.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just not that guy.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: And well, I will say about Kirk Cousins too, and sorry,
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: I'm totally walking over you, and I do apologize.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: I'll allow it.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: So I was on a guy's trip with some somebodies
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: over the weekend, and it started on Thursday night and
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: we were watching the Falcons game and as they were playing,
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: it just dawned on me, like everything Kirk does, even
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: if he throws a fifty yard touchdown, it just looks
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: like he's trying so hard.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Like Aaron Rodgers.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: How many times have we seen him just flick it
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: and it's an eighty yard touchdown and he's just like,
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: I guess it worked, okay, And yes, Aaron Rodgers is
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: one of the greatest of all time, but like Kirk
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: Cousins just looks like he's forcing every inch he gets.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: And maybe we felt it and we just never really
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: saw it until he was in a different uniform. But
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: so I think Sam Donald can look more like like
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: it's easier, a little bit more well rounded. But yeah,
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Kirk Cousin, I think we're just used to quarterback trying
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: to put everything on his back. I'm sorry, I interrupted,
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: you keep going.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: No, the point I'm trying to make is just simply
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: that say, I think Sam Donald more than anybody needs
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, because like the point, the point I just
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: made is that Sam Donald isn't Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: has a football acumen that I don't know that many
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: players in the league have right now. He understands the
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: game on a very deep level, deeper than I'll ever understand.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: He can read defenses very well, and he can get
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: the ball accurately into a receiver's hands.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Really well. Oh yeah, yeah, I.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Would say in terms of being a passer, not not
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: in terms of being an all around quarterback, not in
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: terms of being an all around good football player, but
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: just in terms of being a passer. Kirk Cousins's head
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: and shoulders above Sam Donald. I think Sam Darnald right now,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: the success we're seeing out of him is a product
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: of having a really good head coach who was a
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: quarterback himself, who's calling really good plays, and Sam Darnald
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: is just making the best possible read in the moment,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: and I think Kirk Cousins is very different in that
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins still had Kevin O'Connell calling really good plays,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: and he was also being put in good position to
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: make good throws and make good reads. But I think
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Kirk had a much better view of the field and
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: also a view of the game.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: We didn't see a whole lot of Kirk taking sacks.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: We saw a lot of Kirk sacks, but before he
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: would get sacked, oftentimes he would try to get rid
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: of it because he was smart and he knew that
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: if I can get rid of it without getting any
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: sort of intentional grounding penalty or anything like that, it's
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: going to.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Be better off for my offense. I don't know that
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Sam Donald can compete with Kirk Cousins that way, and
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: I'm not don't hear me say that. I wish Kirk
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Cousins were back because I love what Sam.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Donald is doing right now.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: But coming all the way back to the point I
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: originally made, if we don't have that running game to
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: back up Sam Donald, and Sam Donald has to throw
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: fifty times a game, I don't think that bodes well
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: for the Vikings. It didn't bode well for the Vikings
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: when Kirk Cousins was doing it. He had to do
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: it all year last year until he tore his achilles, so.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Half the year.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: So yeah, but yeah, we need a solid running game.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: I'm a strong advocate right now.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: If if I had a blank check, and I could
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: give it to Quacy and just say go get your guy.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: I would do it. Well.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Things change a little bit when you're five to zero
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: and a run seems possible, You're more willing to mortgage
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: a little bit of the future draft picks or things
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: like that. So it'll be interesting to see if they
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: do make any moves. I think they definitely should if
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: Aaron Jones is hurt now and if he's gonna miss
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: some time.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: But I don't know.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: I am gonna I'm gonna go back a little bit.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna disagree with you. You should say politely. I
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: still love you. But I think if everything was equal
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: and we could magically flip a switch and have Kirk
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Cousins on the team instead of Sam Donald, like, I'd
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: still easily pick.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Sam Donald right now, really easily. That's not the point
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: I was trying to.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: I know, I know, but just what I was trying,
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: what I was saying earlier, how everything about it just
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: kind of dawned on me that it just seems like
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: every everything good or bad, Kirk does. It seems like
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: he's trying one hundred percent more than everybody else has
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: to try. And I agree with you, he probably understands
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: the game extremely well we've seen it, he's proven it.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: He could probably make for a really good like offensive coordinator.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: You know, he's a good football mind. But I wonder
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: if he's.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: I think he can be.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: But I wonder if Sam Darnald. Maybe he doesn't have
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: that you know, computer in his brain where you can
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: see everything on the field kind of mapping out as is.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: But I wonder if that lack of over analytics helps
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: him because he can hear KOC say, Okay, you got
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: option one, two or three. And I'm being super simple
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: about this because I would never even understand it. But
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: maybe he just says, like, okay, only got three options.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: One's not there too.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: Oh there we go. Hey it was a fifty yard touchdown. Sweet,
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: that's awesome.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Like, I don't know, I think the mixture of KOC
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: and Sam Donald and potentially even in the future which
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: we'll get hopefully, the mixture of KOC and JJ McCarthy
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: is better than the mixture of KOC and Kirk cousins
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: because you got two elite minds going and there might
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: be some little friendly, you know, arguments going on in
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: difference of opinions, and if you're the guy in the field,
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: you can look up and make a pass and if
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: the coach says, what are you doing? I could have
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: had something better for you there, which we've seen, you know,
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: the sideline video of koc saying that to Kirk Cousins
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: after a failed fourth you know, down conversion. Like maybe
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Sam Darnold doesn't maybe he takes the something better rather
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: than Kirk Cousins doing his own thing.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: I think the like, here's the solid take that I'll
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: make right now. Kirk Cousins without a running back, oh,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: fifty one yard attempt off the upright, no good watching
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Monday night football right now.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't know what that's like. Our kicker's perfect, so
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: I know, don't jax it man come on.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Anyways, The point I'm trying to make, I think is
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: and this is the hot take that I'll make right now,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: and I'll stick with it.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: That's fine.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: I think Kirk Cousins is a better quarterback when you
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: don't have a running game to back up. I can
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: see that the quarterback position, because he is the guy
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: that can throw five hundred yards on forty whatever attempts
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: and score four touchdowns. You know, like he's not the
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: guy that's gonna get you a touchdown on his legs, probably,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: except we watched him do that once.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we did against the Cardinals.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, He's not the guy that's going to just, you know,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: make stuff out of thin air like Patrick Mahomes does.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: But he is. He is going to win.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Called upon, throw the ball a crap ton, and he's
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: probably gonna complete a lot of passes. He's probably gonna
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: throw for a lot of yards. He's probably gonna find
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: open guys downfield and get in the end zone. That's
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: just kind of what Kirk does. I think Sam Darnold again,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: he's he's a little more maybe simplistic in the way
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: he plays the game. He needs that running game to
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: back him up, to help him when the play is called.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: One of the things I've noticed a lot this season
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: is Kevin O'Connell loves to call naked bootleg plays. He
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: did a ton with Kirk Cousins, and Kirk Cousins excels
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: in that situation where he's peeling out on his own
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: and he's just looking downfield making his reeds, finds the
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: open guy and throws it. Sam Darnold does that pretty
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: well too. But if you're gonna do that, those naked
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: bootlegs typically run off of a play action, so you
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: can't have that play action game and the defense isn't
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: gonna bite on the play action if the run game
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: isn't there. And that was the case last year when
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Kirk was still healthy. We had to rely on Kirk
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: in those games because the run game just wasn't there
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: and you could fake the handoff, but the defense new
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Kirk's gonna roll out and he's just gonna slice and
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: dice us all day because that's just what he does.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: It's more effective this year because the run game keeps everything. Honest,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: I'm belaboring this point so much, but I'm really passionate
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: about it. You are, You're You're bringing me more towards
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: your side. I'm still for what I said earlier. I'm
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: still gonna hold back fast on what i said, but
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: I'm more understanding what you're saying. And I think you're
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: you're making good points and definitely take Sam over Kirk,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Like five and oh is so much better, and I like.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: That's the thing we could argue about all.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: I'd rather be five and oh and like, oh yeah,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: we outscored our opponents forty eight to three in the
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: first quarter, then like, oh my gosh, we're three and
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: two and we've barely won the three games that we've won.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I guess the last thing I'll say about
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: that point is, and you've kind of brought this idea
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: out of me by saying, like, you know, Kirk without
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: a run game is probably better. You know, Kirk can
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: be that superman. But what if we said every game
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: this whole season for the Vikings, one thing either one
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: of us or both of us have said. It's like, yeah,
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: the best thing is, like, we didn't need a superman today.
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: We didn't need five hundred yards from Jefferson, Sam Dartl
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: didn't need to throw five hundred and nine yards like
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: Kirk had to come back and do against you know,
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: on Thursday Night football. I think, and I think one
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: of us said this recently, maybe the superman quote unquote
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: is KOC and Brian Flores. And I think when you
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: have and this is going to sound probably like a
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: dig I'm a Kirk Cousins fan.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: I like the guy.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: I think he's a good dude and a good quarterback.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: I think if he's gonna win games, it's because he
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: was the superman and if your quarterback, if you're Kirk Cousins,
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: is if he's the superman on your team, then your
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: coach kind of doesn't get the chance to be the superman.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: He doesn't get the chance to shine from the sideline
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: because Kirk is wheeling and dealing and doing his own
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: thing on the field, and that's the thing. He can
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: only see what he sees on the field, and the
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: coach needs. Maybe the best teams are because the coach
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: is a superman. I mean, yeah, you're gonna get Brady
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: who obviously it was Brady and not Belichick, but it
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: was a little Belichick, you know, during those two decades,
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: but it was mostly Brady like he was a superman.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: I think I think Kirk can't win unless he's the
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: superman because he's forcing things. And maybe that's what I'm
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: picking up on is everything seems harder for him, and
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: if he is a superman and he's not very super
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: that day, then they're not gonna win. I don't know,
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: Like I guess that's that's all I can say is
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: maybe Koc is a better superman than Kirk, and that's
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: why this team is five and zero right now.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can definitely get on board with that. Well,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: let's transition quickly, because we've we've talked a lot about
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: this game.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: If you're still listening, we're sorry. We still haven't looked ahead.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Not that there's a game to look ahead too, because
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: it's a bye week, but we can still look ahead
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: to the remaining schedule after the bye week. But who
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: are you gonna give a game ball to? After this
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: victory over the Jets in London?
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: I feel like these offense because we'll do offense, defense,
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: and special teams. Okay, first off, I think the clearest
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: cut special teams, maybe the clearest cut game ball overall,
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: will the thrill? So I think both of us are
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: gonna say, will the thrill for special teams?
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: Yep?
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: Especially since special teams is kind of scary right now,
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: like outside of the field goal kicking game, like the
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: punning game is scary. And it's not even just because
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: of Ryan, right.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: It's He's not the problem. It's the coverage downfield. That's
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: all it comes down to. There was a play and
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: I brought this up in our reaction video, and I
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: think the league should I think the league should look
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: at this. I think the Jets player, the Jets returner
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: made a good play. I thought it was a smart play,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: but I don't know that it should be a legal
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: play long term. He just flung his leg out and
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: caught the Vikings gunner and made it look like he
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: ran into him. Like that's legitimately what happened. It wasn't
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: that the Vikings gonna ran into him on purpose. It
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: was that the returner put himself in harm's way to
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: make it look like he got run into.
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: And to double down on that, because you're talking about
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: when the vi one of the times the Vikings punted
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: the ball and a Caleb Evans, it was like fair
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: catch interference, kick catch interference, whatever that penalties called. A
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: Caleb Evans got called on that. And there are a
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: few factors, the biggest being that returner did seem to
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: kind of flare his leg out a little bit, but
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: also the returner did that because he noticed the Viking
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: was being blocked into his direction. So yeah, maybe a
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: Caleb Evans could have been able to do a little
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: bit different to not get called for that, but he
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: was still being blocked into the returner, and the returner
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: helped that situation a little bit.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: But I think this is a little bit of a
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: gray area in terms of officiating. I don't remember what
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: game it was, but I was watching another game yesterday.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: It was either in the late afternoon window or the
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: Sunday night game last night, but there was another pun
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: return that I watched where.
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to describe this very well, this is
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: not going to go very well. But the returner is
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: awaiting the return.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: He didn't he he did not call for a fair
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: catch and his own guy got pushed into him by
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: the defending team and the ball went awry and it
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: was kind of a mess, and I forget who recovered it,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: But there was no penalty on the play. And if
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: that's not a penalty, then the returner himself putting himself
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: flailing himself out there to get hit intentionally, it should
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: also not be a penalty in my opinion. Yeah, so
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: I think that's a little bit of a gray area
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: in the league. But anyways, special teams game ball will
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: record will record two fifty plus yard field goals, all
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: the extra points.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: I think I saw something too, like at some point
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: yesterday Record's wife like posted an Instagram post something like, hey, yeah,
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: since we've been in London. You know, it's throwing off
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: our sleep schedule and he's going off four hours of
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: sleep heading into the game, and like, I don't know
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: if that's true. Then he was going off four hours
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: of sleep heading into the game and he still nailed
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: to fifty plus yard field goals plus a couple extra points. Like, yeah,
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: we got a good one so far. I'm here for it,
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: and yeah, game ball for special teams, Will Record all right.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: Offense, defense, who are you giving game balls too? Oh? Man?
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: Offense is tough, just because it did kind of kind
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: of suck a little bit. You know what I'm going
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: I'm doing it. C J Ham, you stole mine.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: I was gonna get on him. Hey, that's fine. We
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: can both say the same one for that too.
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: C J. Ham scored the only offensive touchdown, right, yes, yeah, because.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: It was c J.
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: Ham, and then Van Ginkle scored on the pick six,
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: which made it fourteen.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: Those are the only two touchdowns.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because then will Record finished everything. Yeah, cjm
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: He had like a nine yard run earlier in the
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: game and then that handful of yard touchdown.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: Give it to him. He earned it.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: It was just good to see him back in action.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Not just like you know, blocking on an offensive play
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: or you know, gunning downfield on a punt return or whatever,
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: just contributing in a very noticeable way. I love that
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: guy famously, famously the guy that you said could be
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: cut before the cut two years.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: Ago, and I thought he'd be cut again this year.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: But here he is. He might.
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: They might sign him again after this. I mean he's
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: obviously I'm here for it.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's I don't know him personally, but I know
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: people that know him.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: So two degrees separator.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: I joked about it because I think you said those
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: exact words, like on episode one or two of the School,
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: and I said it, then we need to get him
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: on the show. So I think I even said, like, hey,
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: breaking new school hoppers. So at some point where he's
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: the c J Ham, I'll work.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: On that connection. I'll work on that connection. He might
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: do it. He might do it. He's a good dude.
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: Maybe not in season. That'd be a pretty tough ask
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: to come on a podcast when you're to get him
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: in the summer it's the bye week though, I don't know.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: Maybe Twitter is the thing. Hey c JM, come on
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: the show. Open invitation for any Vikings player didn't work
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: when we did that for president, we did that for
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: Harrison Smith, and I don't even think we got a
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: like on that tweet, Dald Riisner.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: Man, he's just sitting around right now. Oh man, we
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: can get him on.
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: I don't think he's gonna come on after you just
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: said that. I'm sure he's not just eating chips and
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: that's not sleeping on the couch.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: The implication he's injured, he's working his way back. He
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: could come back soon. He's not playing, he could all.
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: Right, defensive game ball, I think there's there's a couple
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: options I'm going unless you want to go first.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: I think the obvious one is Andrew being Gang.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: Okay, I was That's who I was going to go with.
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: But there's another clear cut option.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll take Van Ginkle. Who are you gonna take?
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: Stephan Gilmour all right, yeah, the game ceiling interception, it
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: was funny. I think he tweeted it today, Stephan Gilmore,
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: and it was like, this is a pretty good list
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: something to tune of. Like, it's a pretty good list.
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: I picked off Brady, Peyton and Rogers. Now like I
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: feel pretty accomplished and Dwight mcleothern like quoted it and
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: was like, you picked off Peyton. Dang you're old, which
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: is that's funny, that's hilarious. That's such a like, yeah,
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: the the jen what's the current one gen z like
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: or no, those kids are making fun of us for
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: being old and I think we're about the same age
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: just as a Stephan Gilmour and like, it's funny.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: You need to see that. But that's super funny.
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah we should. We should retweet that because that was
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: pretty funny.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: No, I agree with you for sure.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: Van Ginkle gets my game ball just for the pick
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: six and the fact that he's got two in five games,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: two pick sixes. Yeah, and I don't think Harrison Smith
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: has more than two pick sixes in his career.
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: I don't know he's got like six, like because for
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: a while he was on the brink of breaking the
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: Vikings record. That's something we can.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: Look up to.
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: He should look that up. So anyways, I found that tweet.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: Stefan Gilmore said, Okay, this is a list I picked
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: off Brady Peyton and now Rogers and Dwight said, Dwight
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: mcgleothern Vikings is he on the practice squad or is
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: he a fifty three man guy. I think he's a
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: practice squad guy either way. Rookie Viking cornerback said Peyton
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: bro you's so old, and then three laughing, crying faces.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: That's phenomenal. No.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: I read some today that Vin Ginkel is on track
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: for something crazy, like on track to set a franchise
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: record and possibly more.
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I mean he might be on track, but
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: it's also five games.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty early.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: But I mean, did you see you saw that play,
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: the play that he intercepted Rogers on Like he he
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: made a step in like he was gonna go blitz.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: Then he kind of hesitated for a second and then
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: he dropped back and then all of a sudden, the
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: ball was in his hands and he had Aaron Rodgers
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame quarterback, arguably one of the best quarterbacks
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: to play the game, completely bamboozled.
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like it was.
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: I've watched the replay so many times and it's it's
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: it's mastery, it's artwork.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: It's just like that guy gets it. He and Brian
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: Flores put him in that position to make that play.
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: It's just like Brian Flores is the reason Van Gonkell
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: is on this team right now and it's working perfectly
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: because it is a peekaboo. He just like, kind of
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: I'm blitzing, No, I'm not, and got you got it?
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: So I just looked it up Harrison Smith. I guess
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: I can't quickly look up specifically of their pick sixes
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: or not. But Smith has four defensive touchdowns in his career,
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: so let's just assume those are all pick sixes. Ben
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: Gingkle's got half halfway five games, He's halfway there, and
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: I know that those four pick sixes are decently high
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: up in Vikings pick six history. So Van Ginkle, Yeah,
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: maybe he's definitely on pace. I mean, he's on pace
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: to have what six so far in the season if
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: he keeps up to every five games, you know, which
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: that's not gonna happen.
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: But still he could finish with no more and it
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: will already have been worth it. Okay, It's just he's
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: been so fun to watch. Definitely a good addition, and
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: I think that you gotta go back to like if
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: we were to give a game ball to just one person,
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: I almost wonder if Kosia Dopamnza deserves like a game
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: Ball every week. Just for putting this roster together, getting
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: these guys as defense, specifically offense. He gets some credit
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: to Sam Darnold and Aaron Jones for that matter, but man,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: the list goes on and on on defense. Harrison Phillips
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: a few years ago, Jonathan Grenard, Blake Cashman, Andrew van Ginkel,
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: Stefan Gilmour, Shack Griffin. I just named six guys within
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: the last two or three years that have been brought in.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: Most of those guys were this last year, and they
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: have revolutionized this defense. And you gotta know, Brian Flores
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: is like, I want this guy. I want that guy,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: go get him. Coached him over here, I coached him
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: over there, bring him in.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: Let's do this.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: But it took quasi adopha mensa to do all of
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: the contract work and to work with their agent and
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: figure it out.
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: And he got him here. And they are one of
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: the best defenses I've seen in the Vikings team ever. Yeah.
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and statistically they're proving that point. Just to belabor
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: this talking point even more, I think for that reason,
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: I've heard specific stories on the radio and stuff about
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: how Flores had a direct hand in signing a handful
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: of those guys that you just listed off, plus some more,
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: and I think Brian Flores, which is a good thing.
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: It's not to undercut quacy at all. Brian Flores has
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: had a major hand in shaping not only the system
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: but the personnel of the Vikings current defense, and for
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: that reason we heard from Dustin Baker that Flores is
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: highly compensated. I don't think that information is out there
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: as easily as you can find player paid player salary information.
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: But if the Vikings could somehow convince Flores, and maybe
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: it's not even in his hands to make this decision
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: to stay with the team for a while. Oh, Pat
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: Mahomes just threw an interception of the end zone to
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: what looks like a defensive tackle who is already close
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: to the forty yard line and a return.
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: That was big breaking news for people listening to this,
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: you know, twelve, fifteen, twenty four, or however many hours
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: from now.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: But that's funny.
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: Anyways, Brian Floras the Vikings need, if they already haven't
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: blank check. He might be the most important piece of
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: the team, more than Koc, more than JJ McCarthy or
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson like Flora's you could argue, is the biggest
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: puzzle piece on this team.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: And that'll come down to the Wolfs and whatever they're
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: willing to pay, I think, honestly.
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: Well, and I said, maybe it's not in Flora's hands anyways,
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: because he is still actively suing the NFL, Like maybe
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: they just nobody will hire him if that's still going on.
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: And you know, he's gotten some good deals just because
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: he's such a good defensive mind.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: So well, and maybe this is just one you know,
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: I don't say these things lightly, but maybe sticking with
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: the Vikings is just one giant middle finger to the league, Like, no,
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: you don't want me to be a head coach, all right,
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: I'll just destroy every single team that you throw my
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: way with my outstanding defense.
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: Hey, I'm I'm okay with that. If that's the case
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: and it's working, obviously, I'm here for it.
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: I'm on here for it.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: And it's been super fun to watch so far.
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: All right, So game balls, we had c J. Ham,
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: we had Van Ginkel slash Stefan Gilmour on the defense,
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: and then obviously wool Record on special teams.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: I think we did it.
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: I think we belabored and we totally talked about the
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: Vikings beating the Jets across the pond. Didn't have to
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: make excuses for why the Vikings lost, because they didn't lose.
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: They they got the job done. And now they get
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: a week off, Yeah they do, and it's a good
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: time to kind of talk about the rest of the
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: rest of the season, the rest of the NFC North.
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: So I guess real quick, we don't have to blabor this,
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: but snap snap opinions and reactions, one or two sentences
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: each for each of the other teams in the NFC North.
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: What do you think about the Lions so far, how
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: they've been, and how they'll be the rest of the year.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I haven't really paid attention to the
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: Lions or the Bears, And the only attention I've given
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: to the Packers is the game that they played against
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: the Vikings where they were down twenty eight to nothing
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: shortly before halftime. That being said, going really off of
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: record alone and just the random headlines I've seen, I
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: still think the Lions.
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: Are a force to be reckoned with.
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: I think they're a well coached team, They've got a
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: good roster, I'm nervous for those two games that the
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: Vikings still have to play against the Lions.
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: The Packers.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not worried about the Packers at all. I think
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: the Vikings proved they can handle the Packers. They get
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: the Packers at home in their next game. Not worried
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: about it. I think US Bank will be rowdy. They'll
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: put the Packers to sleep, no problem.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: The Bears.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: I still think they could drop a game to the Bears.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: I think that presents an interesting like trap game scenario
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: where the Vikings aren't expecting to lose. They go in
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: to Soldier Field, or they go into us Bank Stadium
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: hosting the Bears, and you know, that could be one
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: of those situations where they find themselves in the lost
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: column just because they're not prepared for what's on the
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: other side. The Bears haven't been great, but they also
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: haven't been a like a laughing stock of the league
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: necessarily so Caleb Williams has shown flashes of being great.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: He doesn't have the offensive line to block for him,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: and he doesn't have all the weapons that Sam Darnold
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: has at his exposure.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: But you could argue, if they're all healthy, they played
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: some fantasy football over the offseason, and he's got some weapons,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: but yeah, they're not all healthy right.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: Now, so I'm most concerned about the Lions and then
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: maybe dropping a game to the Bears. That's kind of
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: where I say the NFC North right now.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'll agree with you about the Lions. I
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: think the last well, the last time they played football.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: We were recording episode sixty of The Skull Hop last Monday,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: and they handled business, didn't They win forty two to
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: something last week on Monday Night football? So they're they're
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: looking good. You can't deny that they're a good team.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, they went to the NFC Championship last year
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: and they didn't get worse over the offseason, So yeah,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: they're They're probably the biggest threat. Although I will kind
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: of disagree between the Packers and the Bears. I think
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: the Packers, I mean, they played the Rams pretty well yesterday,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: and maybe I mean the Bears beat the Rams a
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: week ago, so maybe that's just the Rams not being
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: great and Packers looking good against a bad team. I
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: don't know, but I think once Love heals up fully,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: because he's still not one hundred percent, they'll be the
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: second biggest threat for the Vikings in the North. The
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: best part is the Vikings currently have I mean it
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: could be as much as a two game lead against
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: all of these teams right now. The Lions are three
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: and one, so they were on their by yesterday, so
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: they have a two win lead against the Lions, but
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: they have one last game played. I think the Vikings
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: are in a good spot. I think they could split
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: the next couple of games or the two games they
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: play against the Lions, and I think they'll they'll beat
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: the Packers again. But like you said, I think that
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: they might fall into that trap and split lose one
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: game to the Bears because they're not gonna go undefeated.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: They're gonna have a sloppy game, or the ball's gonna
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: bounce not their way once or twice, and I feel
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: like that always happens against the Bears. So yeah, I
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: think I said earlier that I would kind of say
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: how many games I think the Vikings would lose, So
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: I just said two losses right there. I think there's
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: a chance they could lose to the likes of maybe
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: the Titans or the Seahawks. So I think probably two
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: losses remaining in the season that you can predict and
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: maybe three. Of course, injury could derail that whole thing too,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I think we're both pretty much in agreeance.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: Do you think at this point the Vikings win the division?
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: I think they win the division on the trajectory that
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: they're on, of course. I think what's interesting about the
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: Vikings schedule is they go home away home in the
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: next three games after the bye Lions Rams Colts. You're
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: gonna be at the Lions game. Yeah, that'll be exciting,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: that'll be fun. But when they get done with that
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: Colts game at home, they go on a three game
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: road trip to Jacksonville, to Tennessee, to Chicago, and then
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: they're home for three games against Arizona, Atlanta, and Chicago.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: So that's a really interesting stretch there where they're away
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: for three games and they're East Coast, East Coast, Central Time,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: and then home, home, home. I think it's going to
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: come down to those six games. I think the division
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: will come to those six games because they've got what
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: two division games. They go to Chicago and then they
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: play Chicago to kind of they end the road trip
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: at Chicago, and then they end the home stand against Chicago.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: And who knows in that time.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: I haven't really paid that much attention to the Lions
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: schedule to the Packers schedule, but if the Vikings drop
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: a few games in there, the Packers of the Lions
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: could kind of sneak in a little bit. I'm not
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: expecting that, but that could be where the Packers of
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: the Lions kind of creep into that divisional champion kind.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: Of status there.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it'll make for a really interesting end of
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: the season because they have to travel to Seattle, then
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: they get the Packers at home, and then they go
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: to Detroit to end the season. So the schedule is
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: it's really interesting, honestly, And I don't know that it's
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: a wash for the Vikings. I don't think they finished
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: seventeen and zero.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: I can't it, just because that's so hard, like something
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: bad happens, even if there were a perfect team, which
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: they're not.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: It's more impossible now than it was for the Dolphins
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: back when, or the Patriots back when, you know, when
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: they were only fifteen or sixteen games in the schedule.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: Now there's seventeen games in the schedule, and it sounds
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: like Roger Goodell wants to add another game to the
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: schedule and basically wipe out the possibility of any team
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: going undefeated. Yeah, because eighteen games undefeated in a regular season,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: Holy cow, that's unheard of.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: But I do think so. A big you know, circle
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: the calendar game is when the Vikings host the Falcons. Yeah,
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 3: I forget which week number that is, but there's what one, two, three, four, five, six,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: seven games between now and then. I think there's a
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: real chance the Vikings are eleven and one, twelve and
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: oh by the time Kirk Cousins walks into the building again.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: Injuries are about the only thing that totally scares me
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: and says they could drop a bunch of games, but
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: maybe the lack of a superman kind of shields you
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: from injuries, which is something you've said a few times
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: in recent episodes. Yeah, I think there's a real chance
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: they lose one or no games between now and when
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins next walks into US Bank Stadium, which is
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 3: kind of scary to think about.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: I think the two Lions games, the Falcons game in
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks game, and the remaining Packers game. I think
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: those are the five games that the Vikings really have
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: to be on high alert for I think KOs and
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: Brian Flores really have to game plan for. Not to
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: say that those other games they don't have to be
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: ready to go, but I feel like the Rams, the Colts,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: the Jags, the Titans, the Cardinals, those are all winnable
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: games just based on how those teams have played so far,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: based on the personnel those teams have, how they've been coached.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: And one or two of those could end up being
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: a trap game for sure, that's the definition of a
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: trap game, and you're just not expecting it and then
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden you lose because you weren't expecting it.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: But again, based on everything we know right now, those
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: five games seem really winnable. That to me puts the
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: Vikings a ten wins guaranteed.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: Man, that's tough. That's kind of crazy think about, because
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: that seems like you are just saying, worst case scenario,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: five more wins, Like.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: I'm here for it. Let's go. Yeah, it's been a
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: really fun five game.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: Let's hope they keep it up, keep making it fun,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: because this isn't like twenty twenty two when you're winning
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: every game. But it's a nail bider down to the
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: last second. There's been a couple close ones, but this
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: team is good.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: So make a hot take right now? Do the Vikings
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: yes or no? Do the Vikings need to make a
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: trade for a running back right now based on what
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: we know about.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: Aaron Jones right this second? Yeah, this moment, I don't
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: think they need to right now. Okay, I think because,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: like I said, everything that's come out seems like Aaron
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 3: Jones should be ready to go by the time the
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: Vikings play the Lions after this by a week. So
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: as of right now, if they had to make that
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 3: decision right this second, no, I don't think they have
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: to because there are some other guys on the roster
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: who knows maybe if ty Chandler not Aaron Chandler or
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: Chandler Jones or whatever I said with Dustin Baker, if
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 3: ty Chandler knows going into the week that he's going
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: to be RB one, and we kind of said they're
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: gonna have to pitch count Aaron Jones at some point anyways,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: and he's been playing a lot so far. But no,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: I think they could get to that point. But as
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: of right now, no, I think they can still move forward.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: If Aaron Jones is hip totally disintegrates, then yes they
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: need to make a move.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: That's interesting given your pessimism towards Aaron Jones the SEC season.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: But I think I'm with you. I think the Vikings
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: ride this out through the bye week. Let's see if
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: we can get Aaron Jones healthy, get him back. I'm
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: a big believer in a strong running game backing up
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: this offense. They don't necessarily need to be like scoring
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: touchdowns left and right. They need to do enough on
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: the ground. We need we need to move the ball
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: and gain positive yards on the ground in order to
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: keep the defense honest and open up plays downfield. For
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, TJ. Hawkinson, hopefully he's coming back.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: Probably not against the Lions.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, they're saying either Lions or Lions
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: or Rams.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, is that what Dustin said to us that his
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 3: source was kind of saying, hey, Rams, that's already the plan.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: So yeah, two to three weeks we'll see TJ back hopefully.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: So yeah, a lot to look forward to though, and
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: next week we'll have, you know, the Lions game to
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: look forward to. We won't have to spin the wheel
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: next week because there's no game. Correct, So that's good news.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: I was going to ask you weeks off? Are we
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: having episode sixty two a week from now? Or are
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: we taking the buy off? We hadn't really talked.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: About that well on air production meeting. Yeah, we haven't
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: taken a week off in a long time. We haven't.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: I'm here for it.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 3: Let's keep going, keep going, Episode sixty two seven days
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: from now.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: Let's go. That was gonna be my my knee jerk reaction.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: We got beer in the fridge, that's true.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've proven time and time again you and I
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: can sit and talk Vikings football for a long time.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 3: I will say I looked at the recording time earlier
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: and felt like, man, we're blowing through this. We might
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: be done quick. And it was like thirty two minutes
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: and now here we are sitting at like one hundred
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: over an hour and ten minutes, and we're just now
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: starting to kind of come down a little bit.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: So if you're still with us, we appreciate it. Yeah,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: we do.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: If you listen to the end, man, you are a
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: true school hot fan. We should hook him up with
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: a sticker or something.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, let us know, send us an email.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: If you're still here, send us an email and we'll
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: send you a sticker for sure.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: Something I wanted to point out really quick, just because
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: I can see it on your screen over there. Our
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: Bettendorf Bulldogs number one in the state.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: Right there, you go.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: I'm here for that too. Another undefeated football team. Let's go,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: yeah on Gold Eggs School Dogs.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: So our alma mater, our high school undefeated right now
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: in Iowa high school five A football, which is a
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: lot of fun. Their kicker he made a fifty something yarder.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: I think it was fifty four or fifty six.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: I'd have to go back and go.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 3: Will Reiker have our own right in our own hometown here.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he that kid was fired up. It was
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: kind of all over the internet.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 4: He was.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: He was pumped after he made that kick. It was
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: pretty awesome. He didn't have to kick that. They were
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: already winning by quite a bit, but they put him
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: out there and hey, what do you got? Kicked it,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: and I think he got a little distracted on the sideline.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: He was celebrating with his teammates, and then coach came over.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: I was like, hey, hey, kickoff. You gotta go kick off. Now,
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: that's funny. Anyways, Yeah, that's sweet.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: Maybe another maybe it'll just be a whole championship year
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 3: for Yeah, for.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: Us, it's looking like a trip to the Unidome for
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: the Bulldogs though, which is fun.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: Let's go. You mean the Skulldogs. Yeah, that's what I meant.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 3: We'll do the Skulldog chant in what I said. You're
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 3: reping you and I right now too. That's pretty sweet.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: So I know it's a couple weeks away. We'll have
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 3: a full episode between now and then. But just looking
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 3: at our picks for the Lions game, you and I
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 3: have made preseason predictions that the Vikings would beat the Lions,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 3: and the coin said they'd lose.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: So far, the.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 3: Coin is one hundred percent correct.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: That is true.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: The coin is the only one to pick everything accurately
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: so far. So if you didn't know at the beginning
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: of the season we made preseason picks, we flipped a
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: coin on an episode.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: What episode was that was that episode? Fifty something fifty one?
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: Kind of seems right to me.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: Sure it was back there somewhere, Yeah, it was backaways. Anyways,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: we flipped a coin for every game. I think heads
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: was a win to was a loss or something like that, and.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: Then we picked each game.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: We had our wives pick each game, we had our
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: kids pick each game, and we came to the episode
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: and kind of gave the picks as they existed, and so, yeah,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: the coin right now is the only perfect.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: Pick so far. Everyone else predicted.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: Either three and two or two and three, So we
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: were all kind of meh about the vikings so far.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: The vikings have.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: Been more than meh for sure, and it's been fun
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: to watch.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they've been way more than meh. Yeah, it's
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: been phenomenal. Meh zing Like, let's go.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I predicted a win, you predicted a win,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: the coin predicted a loss. It'll be really interesting to
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: see what happens against the Lions in a couple of weeks.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: Also, the coin predicted an overall twelve and five season true,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 3: So if the coin is right all year, I'm not
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 3: too mad about it.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: It's cool. The coin also predicted a wild card loss,
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: so I would be disappointing, but that's that's for episode
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: what like eighty or something like. It did have an
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: idea on air production meeting R two. Let's just extend
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: this episode.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: So I was thinking about the Wheel of Purple Punishments,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: and I was thinking about the fact that, you know,
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: now we're gonna have two weeks where we won't have
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: to spin it because we correctly predict the Vikings beating
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: the Jets and the bye week, so we will likely
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: have some things left over on the wheel when the
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: regular season ends.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: Okay, So my thought is, and you can disagree with.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 3: This, yeah, I'm listening.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: If you decide, But when we get to the playoffs,
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: if the Vikings make the playoffs, and again that's an if,
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: because that's very uncertain right now. I say we spin
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: the wheel in advance the week before the playoff games, okay,
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: and we maybe add some some things to the wheel
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: for the playoffs, and we make them interesting.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: So if we.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: If we correctly or incorrectly pick, incorrectly pick and stick with,
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: we'll have to do some interesting things the week after.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: I'm here for it. Let's go all right, we'll figure
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: that out. We'll iron out the details.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 3: Let us know if you have any ideas that we
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 3: could add to the Wheel of Purple Punishments. We've gotten
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 3: a couple ideas, like Facebook comment ideas, but uh yeah,
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 3: stuff we can do immediately on the episode with almost
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 3: no notice, something we could plan for previously. So not
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 3: like go on the polar plunge or anything, because we
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 3: couldn't pick up and go do that right now on
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: the episode, but stuff we.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: Could do we could figure that out though, we could,
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: Like I think that that would be something where we
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: could like.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: All right, Evan's gonna do the polar plunge.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: If we both picked the.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: Wrong game, we both have to do all right, and
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: then one of our wives is going to have to
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: be out there holding the camera while we go in. Now,
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: we'll figure it out. But I think the Wheel of
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: Purple Punishments is going to get pretty interesting here. We
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: both predicted the Vikings to beat the Lions. We don't
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: know if that's going to happen. The Lions are still
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: a good football team. But then we start to digress
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: a little bit. You have them winning against the Rams.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: I have them losing.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 3: The next game that we have the same pick is
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 3: Week eleven against the Titans. Yeah, we both said they
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 3: would lose, which, okay.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: What were we thinking.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: Uh, Yeah, it'll be an interesting stretch here for the
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: Wheel of Purple Punishments. One of us may have to,
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know, eat some hollopenos or.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: Are they free right now? Literally right there, eat an
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: entire jar of pickles.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: We did that once. We can't fine, I could do that.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: Drink beer out of a crazy straw.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: I do too, yea. We might need that for the
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: wear a fake beard. Yeah, yeah, all right.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 3: Man, anything else for the rest of the season. Any
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 3: any pre bye week thoughts that you had, because we'll
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 3: have to have points to talk about next week during
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 3: the bye.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: I think the Vikings make the playoffs at this point.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 3: That's not a hot take, which it seems crazy.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: It's a warm take.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just a take. If the season ended right now,
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 3: they'd have the number one seed. That's true, they'd have
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 3: the buy it's just crazy. I'm gonna say they'll make
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 3: the playoffs. But you do have the like well, in
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 3: twenty sixteen they went five and oh and they had
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 3: the best point differential in the league, and then they
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 3: finished eight and eight and didn't make the playoffs.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: So there are the naysayers out there that'll, you know,
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: swoop in and say, well, no, they won't.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say they will.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: All right. I agree with you will all right? Something
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 3: else we can agree on? Ked Creeks Red Brick Red
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: or I'm sorry ked Creek's Brick Red Ale.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: What are your thoughts? Very good?
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: Still like the the caramel kind of aftertaste that I get.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: I think that's the strongest characteristic that I get from
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: this beer, in addition to kind of its maltiness and
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: just its overall red characteristic.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: I love it. Yeah, I would definitely drink it again.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 3: Last week we had the the Taitaka Brewing the I
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 3: think it.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: Was called Rooster Tail.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: Rooster Tail, Yeah, that was another red Ale, and that
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 3: one was kind of tangy to me, kind of sweet,
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: but still an.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: Amber, you know, an ambery red Ale.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 3: This one, I'm kind of getting a similar vibe, just
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 3: without that like heavy tanginess. This is Smoky's not the
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 3: right word, but more that mellow red. Maybe it's the
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 3: maybe I'm picking up on that caramel note that you're
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 3: picking up onto and just kind of feeling it as
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 3: like a more mellow but it's definitely still a red,
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 3: still an amber. Really good.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: I like it a lot.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 3: I really I kind of wish one time we would
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 3: have a beer on this on this show that I'm like, yeah,
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 3: this isn't my beer, because then because now I know
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 3: it sounds like I just like everything, and you know
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 3: we're just shilling out for beer that we've paid for.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 3: Then we can count on one hand or yeah, one hand,
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 3: and how many beers were provided for us on this show.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 3: But this one we paid for, you paid for Ked
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 3: Creek is still really good. Like I said earlier, two
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 3: for two on the beers of yours that I've tried,
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 3: I can't wait to try. I think they have three
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 3: that are regularly stocked at our local highve. This one
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 3: definitely makes me want to try the third one. I
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 3: don't remember what the third one is.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: We'll find it if you're in Iowa brewery though. And
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: absolutely if.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: You want us to try some beer on an episode,
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: let us know. Find us on social media, send us
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: a message, just drop as a comment, even on YouTube. Yeah,
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: well we'll play ball and we will try your beer,
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: will feature your beer, and we'll give an honest review.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: And we like beer too, so it'll be honest. But
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: we like to like beer, so we don't just like
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: we love beer. We love beer.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: We wouldn't devote like probably a third of our podcast
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: to beer.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 3: I don't know, and sometimes we get pretty heavy handed
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 3: on his Kirk Cousins better than Sam Darnold or Sam
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 3: Bradford or whatever name I decided to put out there.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna officially go with we are two thirds Vikings,
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: one third beer.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: Sure, that's some episodes. Sure, that's where I'm gonna stick
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: with it.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: We have one full episode pretty much devoted to beer.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: Episode fifty.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 3: It's a bye week next week. I mean it's going
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 3: to be the rest of the NFL and beer. So
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 3: if you want to be the official bye week skull
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 3: Hot Beer, let us know. We still have some time.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 3: But either way, I think we would take on like
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 3: an official.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: Beer brewery sponsor.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be pretty awesome for sure. We had
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 3: a recent Minnesota brewery reach out to us and say
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 3: they want to send us stuff.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: YEP.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 3: We're still not sure how we're going to go about that.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 3: I think I think we can talk about it because
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 3: our bit is Iowa Breer, Iowa Breweries, and Iowa brewed beer.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 3: But maybe if I'm a Minnesota brewery sends us beer,
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 3: we can talk about it. I don't know if we
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  Speaker 3: can make it the featured beer of the episode. We
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  Speaker 3: can play by ear. If you're a brewery from Shoot,
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  Speaker 3: Ontario and you want to send us some beer, we'll
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  Speaker 3: take it.
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  Speaker 2: We like beer, so.
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  Speaker 3: If you send us beer, we will Number one, we
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  Speaker 3: will absolutely try it. Number two, we will work it
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  Speaker 3: into our show somehow, some way. And number three we'll
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  Speaker 3: mention you and all of our social stuff and we'll
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  Speaker 3: scratch your back if you scratch ours. Absolutely, yeah, but
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  Speaker 3: I agree with you. This, this red.
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  Speaker 1: Ale from k Creek has been really good. I will
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  Speaker 1: seek this out just on my own.
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  Speaker 3: I will buy this myself and enjoy it, especially as
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  Speaker 3: the weather starts to get cooler and we start to
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  Speaker 3: get into like bonfire. Oh we're here October straight bonfire
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  Speaker 3: season right now.
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  Speaker 2: Whether yeah, I'm excited.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, speaking of breweries and us scratching each other backs.
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  Speaker 3: So we tried Titanka Tanka beers last week. They sent
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  Speaker 3: us the beers and they were actually delicious, and they
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  Speaker 3: sent us like some key chains and stickers and it
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 3: was all cool. Do you remember last week I said, hey,
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 3: we had somebody buy a shirt and I figured out
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 3: it was a friend of the show, Brian, who bought
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 3: a shirt. But then there was somebody else that bought
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  Speaker 3: a shirt. Oh no way, Tanka. I think it was
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  Speaker 3: Jeff from Titanka bought the other shirt. So thanks Jeff. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: thank you for repping the Skull Hop. We will rep Titanka.
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  Speaker 2: Wherever we can.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you're wearing the Titanka shirt.
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  Speaker 2: Cover that belly. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Hops shirt school nice. So yeah, we we like to
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  Speaker 3: like beer. We like to like breweries.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, Well we'll still have plenty to
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  Speaker 1: talk about next week, even though yeah, we've droven that
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  Speaker 1: time and time again. We went all off season talking
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  Speaker 1: about the Vikings without really missing a beat.
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  Speaker 3: Our episodes in the off season were longer than our
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 3: other than tonight maybe, or more longer than our regular
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  Speaker 3: season episodes had been, so.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not worried about it. All right, man, great beer,
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  Speaker 2: great episode, school School.
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  Speaker 4: That's a good one.
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