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Kirk Cousins to Atlanta reactions, What’s next for the Vikings at QB, Favorite Kirk Moments, Other Vikings Free Agency Moves | TSH Ep. 31 · The Skol Hop

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All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome into another episode of the School
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Hot I'm Evan and I'm Austin. We're just a couple of dudes from Iowa.
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We like drinking beer talking about the Vikings. Yeah, we do school
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and school. Oh that that was good. I think I'm too self conscious
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about our We got better at our schooling because I don't. I think we've
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always had great ones until I started thinking about it. Don't overthink it,
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all right, I'll try not to. Just got to make adjustments. Go
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get it, go, get it energized. Totally bluffed that one up.
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That's all right, How I am not your mother. It's a good reference.
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It is one that we make quite often. Yeah. Something we don't
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do quite often is drink a beer like this though. Yeah. Something we
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don't do ever is drink sours. And that's what we have tonight courtesy of
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my wife. Miranda was at Green Tree Brewing Brewery Bruco establishment Green Tree in
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Leclaire, Iowa, yep. And she was there with a friend and saw
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this beer and just based off the name, thought it would be hilarious to
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make us try it on the podcast. So joke's on her. We are
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trying it and it's not bad. The name of the beer is Blueberry Graham
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Smacker, and I joked that she tried to smack us in the face with
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this smacker. And it is a sour yep. It is a fruity sour
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yep. It is not in my wheelhouse of beers that I typically go for,
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nor is it mine. It's also not bad. I would agree.
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It's not my favorite and it's not one that I'm going to go to all
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the time. But and then we talked about this on the TikTok. I
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said, if you are someone who enjoys a sour that's not like a super
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puckery like you know, make you look like you're eating a warhead, but
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as fruity and a little refreshing, I mean, it's refreshing. If you
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enjoy that, especially blueberries, you're gonna like this one. I don't mind
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blueberries, but I'm not much of a sour guy. I don't hate it.
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I'm not gonna go to the well time and time again. I wouldn't
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be angry if somebody hated me. One. The one redeeming quality, even
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though we haven't really given it a negative review, is it's purple. It
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is purple because it is a blueberry beer. So I like that, and
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I'm with you. Blue sours, blueberry sours, any sour really is not
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something that I'm going to reach for, just kind of based on my beer
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preferences. My wife loves sours and she always asks me to pick up a
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sour for her. She might want to try this, Actually, yeah you
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should. You should do a mid episode. We could raven review. We
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could summon her see if she'll come down and give her I'm on board.
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If she's on board, yeah, I'll text her here in a little bit.
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We'll see what she's up for. But anyways, of all the hours
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I've tried, because I try most of the ones that I get for her,
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whether we're out somewhere or if I pick up, you know, a
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six pack from the store or whatever, I try him, and most of
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the time I make the face that she makes when she tries whiskey. Which
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is that? And yeah, I don't like sours for the most part.
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Their vinegary there, they're tart. I don't I don't know, I just
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don't like them. But this is drinkable. This is good. When we
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cracked it open, you immediately were like, oh, yeah, I can
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smell that vinegary smell. But yeah, and correct me if I'm wrong.
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I'm not taste. I smelled what you were smelling, the vinegary souriness,
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but as far as actually tasting it, I'm not getting that. Like it's
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just fruity, refreshing. It's a sour, there's no mistake about that,
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but it's not like the offensive, you know, warhead flavor, vinegary,
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puckery, intense sour flavor. It. Yeah, it's refreshing, it's good,
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it's good. We have had one other sour on the show, the
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Cobbler gobl the Cobbler Gobbler, and I think one key difference between that and
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this is the Cobbler Gobbler had lactose in it. Oh yeah, that kind
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of mellowed things out a little bit and made it a little more up our
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alley, which is why I think we liked it so much. This doesn't
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have that, And it's again, it's not bad. It's not that we're
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giving this a horribly negative review. Yeah, but I can definitely tell the
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difference between a sour with lactose and a sour without. Yeah, that is
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a good point. The only sour. I think I've found that I actually
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like, wholeheartedly enjoy, and I wish I knew the name of it,
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but I know it's made by Big Growth, and for all I know,
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they made it once. It's like a one off, but it tasted exactly
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like a margarita, and it had to be. I think at most it's
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a seasonal one. I think I know which one you're talking about. I
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think we've had it before too. Yeah, that's the only sour, because
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I mean, if you handed it to me and said here's a margarita,
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I'd be like, oh, thanks, and never know the difference. Like,
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so, yeah, if you like blueberries and you like sours, this
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is a good one. I like the river Bottom X or the river Bottom
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Red whatever they were calling it, calling it from Green Tree, the last
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one of their beers that we had. Yep, I like that one a
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lot better. But I mean Green Tree is not bad at making beverages,
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and this one packs a little bit of a punch at six point eight percent.
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Yeah, so yeah, I would maybe only stick with a few of
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these. Yeah, that's probably smart always, you know, drinking moderation.
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Yeah, good stuff. It was a pretty heavy hitting day in the NFL.
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Yeah, pretty big day. First day of your spring break and first
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day of negotiation period in the NFL. Free agency technically starts on Wednesday,
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and we're recording this on Monday, and today's the first day people could negotiate
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and all kinds of deals are announced but can't be physically signed yet. Biggest
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news, can't bury the lead. Kirk Cousins, a former Viking. Yep,
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that is the big news. And it was the news that everybody was
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waiting for. Yeah, I mean even some of the biggest pundits out there.
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Diana Rassini I think had the most famous tweet or the most retweeted,
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quoted tweet, whatever however you want to say that she basically just said everything
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hinges on this one decision. Even teams that don't need a quarterback want to
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know what's happening with Kirk Cousins. I mean everybody, I think NFL fans
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anywhere, Vikings fans, Falcons fans or not. They just wanted to know
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what's going to happen. He's a really good guy. He is now not
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just football famous, but has a documentary, the Netflix Quarterback Series. Yep,
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and he's a good quarterback in his own right, coming off of a
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pretty horrible injury, the first severe injury, the only injury in his career
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to keep him out of a game. Yeah, multiple games at that.
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And yeah, so the NFL world just kind of hinged on this one decision,
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and you and I were both just refresh, refresh, refresh, I
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mean pretty much as soon as eleven am Central time, twelve Eastern hit.
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Oh yeah, we were on it. We were waiting, and you actually
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texted me first. I don't remember what I was doing, but I'd put
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my phone down for a little bit and came back to a text from you
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that said he was gone. Yeah. Yeah. His agent tweeted I think
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his agent was the first official news that came out, and basically said,
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like, congrats to my client Kirk Cousins for signing a four year deal with
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the Falcons, which that was crazy. I was like blown away, like,
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oh four years, Like that's more than the Vikings were going to give.
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So obviously the Vikings, whatever negotiation they were trying to do, were
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beat out by that. And then a little while later, I think it
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was Tom Pellisero tweeted out the financials or at least what's out there so far
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four years, one hundred and eighty million dollars, which I think he even
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had a later tweet Tom pellisera did that said, like the total max value
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with like other incentives is like one hundred and eighty eight million dollars, but
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still essentially a hundred eighty million dollars with one hundred of it guaranteed, one
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hundred million dollars guaranteed, which is way more than I think the Vikings would
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have and something me Austin thinks the Vikings should should have given him, Like
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I don't. I don't think they should have gone that far. So good
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for Kirk. He I agree with what you said earlier. Fantastic human being,
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obviously a savvy businessman. Nobody should be shocked that he got such a
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high contract. And I mean, without a doubt you could argue with this
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last point if you wanted, but it would just be because of argument.
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He's a good quarterback and at the time of his injury he was playing at
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an MVP type level and could have done some amazing things for the Vikings this
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year if given a full healthy season. Yeah, he deserves, he deserves
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to get paid, and good for him for getting that out of the falcons.
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I think I said this to you when you first came over a little
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bit ago before we started recording, and I said something to the effect of,
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you know, if Kirk would have signed a similar contract to what was
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allegedly offered to him by the Vikings, And again, this could be totally
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false information, but from what we know and from some of the research we've
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done two years, seventy six million dollars and not fully guaranteed, was kind
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of the offer that was put out there by the Twitter experts anyways, who
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may or may not know anything. Yeah, that's the other thing, All
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this stuff on Twitter, like you never know, especially if it's not from
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like Adam Schefter or Tom Pellisero, if it's from anybody else, or you
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know, some of those top tier reporters Rappaport and Rassini all those guys.
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If it's from like a sketchy account that doesn't have a face or a name
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to it, like I don't care how many followers they have, Like it's
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you can't really trust anything you see. And then these kinds of accounts can
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tweet, you know, five days ago they could send out ten tweets and
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they could all be just a little bit different, and they oh, all
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of a sudden, there's only one tweet because it's the one that was kind
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of similar to the news that came out, and they're saying like, oh,
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look, I was right, Like you just never know, there's a
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lot of smoke. There was that one tweet today that made the rounds about
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Kirk's neighbor who shoveled his driveway. I don't know if you saw that one.
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Apparently his neighbor was told he didn't have to shovel his driveway anymore or
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something like that. I don't know. I didn't even see the original thing.
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I saw Pete Burstich tweeting like joking about it, like who can you
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even trust on this? Like right, anyways, all of that to say,
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like, from what we know, maybe he was offered two years seventy
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six million dollars and not fully guaranteed. If that truly was the Vikings offer,
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and this is what the Falcons offered him, it's a no brainer,
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my Falcons more than double whatever. Yeah that if that was true, let's
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pretend that's true. And like you were saying, like if Kirk had signed
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with the Falcons for like two years eighty five million or something close to that
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reported or rumored amount, Like absolutely, I agree with you. That would
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have felt like a slap in the face, like, oh, you really
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did just want to leave. It would have felt really bad. It would
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not have felt good. And I don't know if Kirk would have made that
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decision, Oh yeah, yeah. I think the Kirk Cousins we know would
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have said, well, I've got a really good thing going here. I've
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got a good coach who supports me and who is on my side. He
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calls plays for me. I've got one of the league's best receivers. I've
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got one of the league's best tight ends when he gets back from injury.
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I've got a really good offensive line that really developed some chemistry this year despite
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a lot of adversity. Like yeah, I would say if things were closer
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between the Falcons and the Vikings offer, we might be talking about something different
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right now. But because the Falcons and we kind of knew this, the
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writing was on the wall. The Falcons were rumored to be like selling the
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farm. Yeah for Kirk Cousins, I think, and they kind of did.
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In the media, the rumor was that the Falcon's owner, Arthur Blank,
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was kind of giving his people, his team, essentially a blank check,
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like, do whatever you have to do to get Kirk in. So
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if that's true, seems like they did what they had to do. One
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hundred million dollars guaranteed upwards of almost two hundred million dollar potential contract, Like
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good for Kirk, Like that's that's crazy, and I'm me personally, I'm
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glad the Vikings didn't give that contract to Kirk because I would be very concerned
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age wise, health wise, I'm sure. I mean, I don't think
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his achilles is going to be much of a big deal. Paul Charchiin was
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on Vikes Now with Dustin Baker this past week and he basically said, like,
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I'm not concerned about the achilles at all. I don't think that's a
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that's a concerning thing that anybody should pay any attention to at this point,
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just based on what he's Kirk has posted and information we've seen, so I
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could see that not being worried about it. But it's still like it's not
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like he sprained an ankle, like that's a pretty massive injury. So there's
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some some unknowns and me, just a dude in a recliner in your basement.
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Like, I would be kind of concerned about that if it was one
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hundred and eighty million dollar contract. I don't think the vikings are set up
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for that right now. Yeah, I think and I saw something. I
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think it was gosh, I don't know. I looked at so many tweets
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and watched so many snippets of podcasts and stuff that were posted to Twitter today.
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It's kind of hard to keep him all straight. But somebody said,
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and I should go back and look to give credit where credit is due.
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But somebody said, you know, Quacy did a good GM thing today.
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He drew a line in the sand. He said, this is as far
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as we're going to go. We're not going any farther. If this is
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an attractive deal to you, great and if not, also great. Like
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and I don't think Quaysey has rattled. I think he was expecting something like
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this. And maybe Quacy knew even a year ago when he didn't extend Kirk
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that. I mean, you have to be a chess player in a position
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like that, and you kind of have to think multiple moves in advance.
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And so hopefully he was thinking about this a year ago and even two years
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ago when he took the job. Well, and just think about Quacy's last
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two professional stops in the NFL in the office with San Francisco, and then
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I think he had one year with the Cleveland Browns organization, and I think
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that one year was like he was there when they made the giant move to
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get Deshaun Watson. So just think about the forty nine ers prior to what
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three seasons ago they had gone through the whole getting Jimmy g and putting a
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lot of money and value into that, and then when that wasn't working out,
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putting a lot into trading up for and drafting Trey Lance. And I
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might be wrong on the timeline, but I'm pretty sure Cuacy was in San
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Francisco when they drafted Trey Lance. Not that he was the one making those
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decisions, but definitely seeing what a front office looks like and involved in the
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problem, what a GM is thinking or doing when making those types of moves.
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So to see two different organizations, be a part of two different organizations
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who make massive moves with varying degrees of success. At quarterback, the most
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important position in sports. I mean, honestly, it probably gives you a
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lot of experience. Lets you think about what you would do if you were
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the one calling the shots. And I think we're definitely seeing at least some
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of the repercussions of that type of experience. I guess what a few weeks
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ago we heard that last season in the draft the Vikings tried to do everything
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they could to trade up and get Anthony Richardson. If that's true, that's
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another bit of experience that Quacy has in trying to solidify the quarterback position.
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I'm still in the I'm trusting Quacy right now, and I'll feel a lot
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better if sometime in the next few days we see a news report that,
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hey, the Vikings traded up for the third overall pick or the fourth or
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you know whatever, they traded up in the draft to try to poise themselves
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to get a quarterback of the future. Like, I'll feel a lot better
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about it than I do right now, because right now, I mean,
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you're looking at Nick Mullins and Jared Hall, and that's who's on the roster
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as of this second unless Sam Darnold signs, and even then that doesn't make
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it so much better. Hey, don't short change him. Josh Dobbs is
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still on the roster too. Yeah, he's I mean, his contract's about
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to expire as of Wednesday, he will be a free agent. Still there
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today, all right, Yeah, I'm kidding. Can't even can't even wrap
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my mind around that. No, thanks, Do you think that I just
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lost my thought and Josh Dobbs distracted me? Oh man, he's really good
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at that for a little bit of time, and then it just derails everything
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until he injured four quarters You could argue that five quarters in seper games,
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Yeah, most of four quarters. Anyways, I don't think I'm gonna get
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that thought back. That's okay, I did have I had mentioned Sam Donald
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does that? Oh no, that was Jameis Winston, we did. That's
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the other one that the Vikings are apparently interested in right now is Jameis Winston.
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And you already have Nick Mullens, who's a guy that is flinging the
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ball left and right and getting four hundred yards and throwing for a few touchdowns
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but also a few interceptions. And I think that's also Jameis Winston as well.
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So yeah, I'm in agreement with you. You might as well just
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roll with Mullins if that's the plan, well, yeah, as far as
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if you're in the camp that the Vikings need a bridge quarterback, because right
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now, I think the best thing then this is my opinion. I think
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the best thing they could do is, you know, trade up and draft.
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And if you're thinking they, yeah, sure they need to trade up
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and draft, but they also need a guy with experience to start off,
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and then once little rookie's ready handed off, then I think you might as
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well stay with Nick Mullens because I mean, Sam Donald, he hasn't proven
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to be a starter. He's not going to be the cheapest of cheap contracts.
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Baker Mayfield he signed a starting market setting contract just yesterday back with the
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Bucks for thirty thirty million or no, yeah, three years, one hundred
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million dollars was his contract. I mean, he'd have to trade for somebody,
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but who's trading you a franchise quarterback? And if they do, that's
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going to cost even more than trying to move up. So yeah, I
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don't I don't know who who else is available. Gardner Minshew signed with the
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Raiders, which I wouldn't have been okay with him, but also at that
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point, just stick with Nick Mullens. Like, we've never seen Nick Mullens
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enter a season as the bona fide starter. I think he started a handful
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of games with the Niners when he was there, obviously a couple of games
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this year with the Vikings, but he's never been the guy all throughout an
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offseason. And who knows, maybe that would work some wonders. Is he
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the guy that you'd want Drake may or JJ McCarthy sitting behind for a year
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learning from well? I kind of think back to the year that Russell Wilson
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was drafted by the Seahawks that year before the draft in free agency, I
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think it was free agency. They may have traded for him, but the
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Seahawks made a pretty big move to acquire Matt Flynn and again he may have
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been a free agent from the Packers or I don't remember if they traded for
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him, but they gave Matt Flynn starting quarterback money in what twenty twelve,
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twenty eleven, twenty thirteen, whenever it was. But then also Russell Wilson
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was drafted in like the third round, and in that offseason, Russell Wilson,
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who again was a third rounder, not the third overall pick. He
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progressed and was the obvious starter and started that season as a starter. Matt
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Flinn never got to enter the season as a starter. I think that's the
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ideal situation, is you get a guy who yes in certain name here,
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if it's Nick Mullens or Sam Darnold, if he's QB one, when you
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sign him or when you make the decision, but you also have first round
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pick quarterback. You give that first round pick every opportunity, but less pressure
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because you have the guy that has the experience and isn't perfect, but is
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going to be your starter. And then if the rookie beats him out.
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That's the ideal situation. I don't. I mean, that's not something that
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happens every day, you know, you don't. If it was that easy,
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everybody would do it. But I guess that's kind of my hope.
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Are you still Drake May? I don't have a ton of it the drafts,
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on many of them. Front of the Show, Dustin Baker he has
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said, I'm pretty sure Drake May is his, you know, cream of
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the crop. And I think he has said, assuming Caleb Williams is drafted
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first overall, which I think we've we can say that's a foregone conclusion at
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this point. So if I mean, if Dustin Baker is on board with
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that, I think influenced by Wes Johnson. He said a few weeks ago
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on our show that Wes is the one that kind of pointed him to Drake
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May So if that's who he thinks his best, I definitely respect Dustin's opinion.
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But other than that, I don't really know too much about all these
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guys. I just want I just want them to get up and go get
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a guy and have it not feel like, oh crap, now we have
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to get a guy. Like when Christian Ponder was drafted. I'm sure the
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Vikings were looking at a different guy, but they panic picked Ponder. Like
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I don't want a panic pick. I want the Vikings to feel confident and
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know this guy is our guy. So I'm not smart enough yet on any
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of these guys to know this is the one that they should pick, and
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I'll be upset if it's anybody else. What about you, I mean,
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do you do you have a guy that's like I want this guy. I
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don't know. It's I don't watch a ton of college football and the college
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football I do watch didn't involve any of these guys, so I don't have
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a lot of game film to go off of. I would probably tend to
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lean on Dustin and Wes's knowledge and expertise on the matter and say, yeah,
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Drake may would probably be my preferred pick if he's still available, and
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if the Vikings need to move around trade up to go get him, sure,
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why not that that would seem to be a good fit. I did
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get to watch JJ McCarthy in the National Championship and was a little underwhelmed,
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I think, but that's because Michigan ran the ball a ton ye and did
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so effectively, so he didn't have to do a whole lot. So he
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might be like number two. And he's only number two solely for the fact
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that the one game I watched of his, he handed the ball off a
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lot, didn't throw, didn't prove to be an effective quarter He could be
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a game manager, I think, just based on what I've seen, But
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yeah, I don't know. The quarterback market is an interesting place in the
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league right now, and the Vikings have options, which is good. Yeah,
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an option that literally minutes ago became available at running back is Joe Mixon.
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Oh, that's an interesting angles. Just released him, okay? Or
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are releasing him? I guess. I don't know. He's older though,
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isn't he twenty seven? So on the you could get a year or two
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out of him as an option at running back, but maybe not. I
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don't know. He's he is in that entering that bubble time where running backs
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start to decline. I think twenty seven typically for athletes tends to be like
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that magic year, like they're they're as good is they're ever going to be
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at twenty seven, So I don't know, could be an option for a
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year or two at the right price. Earlier today, I was thinking,
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oh, Saquon Barkley might be an interesting option if they can get him at
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the right price. And holy cow, did the Eagles pay for him.
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I forget the exact contract, but way more than I thought a running back
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should get. Josh Jacobs got darn near fifty like forty eight million dollars from
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the packers, which is probably with max incentives and stuff, but my goodness,
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and both of those don't make sense to me because they had perfectly serviceable
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backs to begin with that they released or cut or whatever. I mean,
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DeAndre Swift was a good back who was also a free agent, like he
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signed with the Bears. But somehow the Bears negotiated rode up agreed to from
26:45
scratch this contract with DeAndre Swift in like ten minutes, Like apparently they went
26:53
from never talking to his agent at all to totally agreeing on this wonderful magic
26:59
contract. And at like twelve twelve or eleven twelve, they announced, oh,
27:04
yeah, DeAndre Swift's gonna sign with the Bears. So that's record breaking
27:10
speed on negotiating a contract. That's impressive. Obviously they had been tampering or
27:15
figuring out, you know, negotiating whatever they had to beforehand. But but
27:19
even even Josh Jacobs to the Packers like Aaron Jones perfectly serviceable back. I
27:26
think Packers fans were actually kind of licking their chops for a minute, like
27:30
thinking Jacobs and Jones would be on their roster. And then shortly after they
27:36
agreed to terms with Josh Jacobs, they released Aaron Jones, who, as
27:40
far as I know right now, is still available. He is, I
27:44
was there time we're recording. Yeah, he's he's older too, I think
27:48
he's twenty eight or twenty nine, and yeah, I think Jacobs is like
27:51
twenty six, so a little bit younger. And maybe that was the move
27:55
for those two franchises, for the Eagles and the Packers. Yeah, both
28:00
franchises the bane of our existence as Vikings fans. But maybe that was the
28:07
move, was just get younger at the running back position, get some and
28:11
we'll see what the Vikings do it running back too. At this point,
28:15
I think you're looking more in the draft, yeh, because if Joe Mixon
28:19
is your best option, he's twenty seven, like he got a year or
28:22
two before he's approaching that magical age of thirty where running backs are completely washed
28:29
to just fall off and they're done. Yep. But I guess to close
28:33
it out a little bit, I wanted to ask I threw it out on
28:37
Twitter. I wanted to ask you, what's your favorite Kirk Cousins memory with
28:41
the Viking. Do we need to like bust out the green Day good riddance
28:45
like Time of our Lives song here or the I don't think we can afford
28:52
that? Of all right, well, I could grab my guitar and just
28:55
play it. I think they would still get us for that, Okay,
28:56
all right, we'll avoid any copyright controversy. My favorite memory, and I
29:02
responded to our tweet this afternoon, this is maybe not like all time,
29:08
but definitely like the best memory in recent memory was Kirk silencing the haters against
29:15
the forty nine ers on Monday Night this past season. It was kind of
29:21
a like a crucial moment in the Vikings season. It was a kind of
29:25
do or die. If they lose that game, the season's kind of a
29:29
wash. It was Monday night, it was against arguably the best team at
29:33
the time in the league, and Kirk for his entire career had been kind
29:41
of tagged as you know, unable to win in the big primetime games,
29:47
can't win on Monday Night for a while. He hadn't won on Monday Night.
29:51
I think he won previously on Monday Night. But that was just a
29:56
that was a fun game to watch. He played lights out and it was
30:00
game before or two games before, I can't remember he went down with his
30:04
injury, but like he was playing at such a high level. He was
30:10
making great throws and everything, just everything for the Vikings just seemed to click
30:17
in that game, and he seemed to be very much at the center of
30:21
that. It was it was his team, and that was just I don't
30:26
know, that was fun to watch. It was a special game. I
30:27
agree. It's actually kind of funny you say that because two days ago I
30:33
literally rewatched that game, did you like? Just it was I think it
30:37
was Saturday. We were kind of just hanging out at the house and I
30:41
just pulled up that game and started watching it and skipped through commercials best I
30:45
could, But yeah, watched it start to end, and I was thinking,
30:49
like, this was the mountain top of the season. Sure there were
30:53
a few other like high moments, but nothing that high, like if you
30:57
could graft the mountaintop like the mountain range of the twenty twenty three season.
31:03
That was the peak. And we stayed there into that next game against the
31:07
Packers too. Yeah, and the next peak, the next closest peak might
31:11
have been that Packer game, right after Josh Mattelish intercepted the ball, and
31:18
then I think it was in the very next play, the Vikings just came
31:21
out and threw a dagger, took a shot, and it was Kirk to
31:25
Addison for Kirk's last touchdown pass as a Viking. Addison Lambeau leaped. It
31:30
was awesome, So and that was the next closest peak. But I think
31:33
that the culmination of that forty nine er game was the absolute mountain top of
31:38
the Viking season, and everything else was a little bit less exciting. So
31:42
yeah, that's a that's a good memory. Recency bias maybe a little bit
31:47
on my part, but I don't know, it was still a really good
31:49
memory. What about you Mine is probably also a little bit of recency bias.
31:53
But I kind of kind of chickened out a little bit and I said,
31:59
just the hired twenty twenty two seasons, so not this past season,
32:01
but the year before, Koc's first year as the coach. A lot of
32:08
close games, but a lot of fun games, and it really gave you
32:10
a sense that like the Vikings could almost do no wrong if it was getting
32:15
to the end of the game and it was close, like he just felt
32:19
like, oh, yeah, they're gonna win again because that's what they've been
32:21
doing all year. The playoff game sucked, but that wasn't on Kirk.
32:25
That was not all on Kirk. The defense could have pulled their own weight
32:30
a little bit against Daniel freaking Jones, but then to relive that season again
32:37
in watching the Quarterback series. That was a lot of fun. So that's
32:42
probably my favorite memory of Kirk as a Viking is just the twenty two season.
32:47
I almost said the time that Kirk won the game and then went over
32:52
to the sideline and it looked like in celebration, but he grabbed the collar
32:57
of Mike Zimmer and I've I would pay a good sum of money to know
33:01
exactly what he was saying then, But that just seeing that and not even
33:07
knowing what they were saying, that's a good memory too. Yeah, that
33:09
was definitely interesting. I think maybe another honorable mention could be the it wasn't
33:17
quite a hail Mary, but it was it was a bomb to Adam Thielen.
33:22
I think it was twenty eighteen in the playoffs against the Saints, and
33:25
oh yeah, there was the play right before catching it, right before Kyle
33:30
Rudolph's alleged shove catch game winner against the Saints. Was that eighteen or nineteen?
33:37
I think it was his second year with the Viking, so eight maybe
33:40
nineteen, well, well coulendar maybe January of twenty nineteen or something, but
33:45
eighteen nineteen seas yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a good memory,
33:49
and we might be wrong on the timeline on that, but yeah,
33:51
that's Somebody on Twitter had posted that, like, this is the greatest Kirk
33:53
Cousins moment in Viking's history. Well, I mean you could argue, actually
33:58
sure, as far as like production value like that, that's his only playoff
34:02
win as a Viking. Yep, So yeah, I don't Yeah, it'd
34:07
be hard to disagree with that whole last drive and game winning drive against the
34:13
Saints. I think it was January ish of twenty nineteen, so sounds right.
34:20
Some other big departures though, I mean, Kirk's not the only one
34:22
leaving the Vikings. Yeah, Marcus Davenport, Yeah, he The Vikings might
34:29
actually get a comp pick for this, depending on how things work out,
34:32
because he signed something like a one year ten ish between ten and eleven million
34:38
dollars with the Lions, and I kind of joked. I tweeted out that
34:45
it's crazy to think that the greatest player to ever wear number zero for the
34:49
Vikings is now playing for the Lions, Like yeah, but somebody commented back
34:54
and said, like, well, now Ivan Pace is going to take that
34:58
over. So I don't know if I miss something Ivan Pace is gonna switch
35:00
numbers or if that's just like assumed, I don't know enough about Ivan to
35:05
know what number he wore in college. Maybe he wore that in college,
35:07
so Pace will immediately be the best player to wear that number if he switches,
35:13
like yeah, the second they tweet that out that he's switching numbers,
35:15
like yep, he's in that slot as the best number zero ever. But
35:22
yeah, he is Marcus Davenport with Alliance, and you have a note here
35:29
that unfortunately the Vikings will see him twice a year if he actually plays a
35:35
big if I think he ended up playing in four games with the Vikings if
35:39
I remember right. So, but the most Viking thing ever is for Marcus
35:45
Davenport to actually be healthy and dominant, because he's a really good player when
35:47
he's healthy and on the field. He proved that the very minimal time he
35:52
was with the Vikings on the field, So it would be very Vikings if
35:57
he was dominant and got like ten sacks against the Vikings next year, you
36:01
know, but which very well could happen with a possible rookie quarterback or rookie
36:07
quarterback and an offensive line that you're still looking. I mean, one big
36:13
free agent that's out there right now is Dalton Reisner. Yep. And if
36:16
you're watching us on Spotify, viewing, or YouTube, you may have seen
36:22
me very frequently reach over to my computer and refresh Twitter. I'm waiting for
36:27
that Dalton Riister news. That's a good dude that I hope gets a requisite
36:32
contract. He played very well and I hope it's with the Vikings. I
36:37
hope he gets a good deal with the Vikings. But yeah, Davenport could
36:43
have an easy an easy hole to go through with the Vikings offensive line next
36:46
year. Another big departure, probably one of the more influential guys on the
36:53
defensive side of the ball, Jordan Hicks. Yeah, is now a Cleveland
36:58
Brown. Yeah. I think I don't remember specifically. I think he was
37:01
actually a captain last year on the team. But even if he didn't have
37:06
the Sea on his chest, because I can't remember for sure, he definitely
37:08
seemed like a bona fide leader on the defense. I think he did really
37:14
well in the Brian Flores scheme, so well that he suffered a very significant
37:20
injury and was able to make it back and play at a high level again
37:25
after that injury compartment, compartmental compartments, compartment syndrome syndrome. Yeah, but
37:35
yeah, he signed with the Browns. I think for something like north of
37:38
ten million dollars. I don't remember if I saw it, but good for
37:42
him getting a deal. It did kind of seem like one of the guys
37:45
that I can signed earlier in the day. Made it seem like the Hicks,
37:52
like Jordan Hicks was probably gonna move on just based off age. But
37:57
yeah, I mean, I would have loved to see Hicks back with a
37:59
Vikes. But good for him for getting getting a deal elsewhere. Yeah.
38:04
So because he's gone and Daneil Hunter's still kind of hanging in the balance,
38:09
that's probably another one. We're sitting here at nine to twenty five on Monday,
38:15
March eleventh, just waiting for something to happen with But I think it's
38:22
the writing's kind of on the wall that Daniel Hunter's also probably on his way
38:27
out, I think. And I don't know anything. Again, We're just
38:30
a couple of dudes. We don't have any sources or whatever. But I
38:32
feel like the idea that Daniel Hunter is still at least publicly available might bode
38:40
well for the Vikings, like I don't know, we haven't seen Daniel Hunter
38:46
signs a four year I don't know, eighty million dollar deal with somebody else,
38:52
Like he's going to get paid. But maybe maybe he's being patient,
38:57
maybe the league's being patient. I would imagine the Viking have expressed an interest
39:01
and maybe told him what they would offer. I hope he's back, but
39:07
he's going to be expensive, so if it doesn't make sense, then I
39:09
could see him not being back. The Vikings signed to this point, they've
39:15
made three signings of guys that were not already on the team, two other
39:22
signings of guys that were on the team last year, and now they're re
39:24
upped. But those three guys that weren't on the team last year are all
39:29
linebackers. Jonathan Greenard from the Texans. He got a big deal, seventy
39:37
two million dollars for four years, forty two guaranteed. But he is that
39:43
that edge rusher type guy, that that Daniel Hunter Marcus Davenport position. And
39:49
then another guy who is in that edge rusher type guy Andrew van Ginkel from
39:54
the Dolphins, A fellow iowin, that's right. I didn't know that I
40:00
wrote that here, but that's kind of cool. Yeah, he got two
40:02
years, twenty million dollars, fourteen of it guaranteed. And it sounds just
40:07
from Twitter, sounds like man ginkool I hope I'm saying that right. Sounds
40:14
like he's a good like a fan favorite, like a lot of people were
40:16
like, yeah, hey, Vikings fans are gonna love this dude. It
40:19
reminded me of when the Vikings signed Harrison Phillips a couple of years ago,
40:22
and all the Bills fans were like, hot, dang it, like,
40:24
yeah, Vikings fans, he got a good one, Like, you're gonna
40:28
like this dude. So the other linebacker they signed was Blake Cashman, Minnesota
40:32
Golden Gopher played for the Texans, and he's a Minnesota boy too. He's
40:37
from Eden Prairie. Yeah, so so he's probably pretty jacked about that.
40:40
I couldn't The only thing I could find for his contract was that it was
40:44
three years up to twenty five and a half million. I couldn't see anything,
40:47
at least at the time I was putting this together about guaranteed money,
40:51
so pretty decent sized contracts, but probably aside from Greenard Grenard, I don't
41:00
know how we'll figure out how green He got a pretty massive one, But
41:04
the other two I think are products of the salary cap spiking up so high,
41:09
So not small contracts, but not you know, cap breakers mid majors.
41:15
Yeah, we're in March's basketball season, so the green Yard and the
41:20
Van Ginkel signings make me think like they're at least hedging their bet on not
41:25
being able to get Hunter back. Obviously, Davenport is already with another team.
41:34
Oh dang it, what's dj Wanham. He's still recovering from injury,
41:37
but he's another openly available player, so we'll see. I'd love to see
41:42
him back, just based off the way he was playing before he got injured.
41:46
But if not, at least they're they're trying to fill those holes a
41:49
little bit too. And the other signings that were vikings that are going to
41:54
continue to be vikings are Yeake Blake Brandell and David Questenberry. Yep. And
42:00
actually I just saw like less than ten minutes ago, Aaron Wilson tweeted out
42:06
the numbers on Brandell's contract. Question Berry, sounds like he signed a one
42:13
year, two million dollar deal, which is interesting. I mean, I
42:17
think he's thirty four to thirty five ish years old getting up there. But
42:21
when he came in, Questenberry played pretty well as a step in backup.
42:24
I think he's a tackle. He played for Brian O'Neal, didn't he Yeah,
42:29
yeah, So, I mean if he can keep up that level of
42:30
play, that's awesome. Did he He wasn't He didn't fill in a center
42:36
too, he I don't believe he did. I think Brandell is the inside
42:38
backup, so that center guard type guy that steps in and he said,
42:42
my wires crossed. Brandell sounds like he got a three year deal for nine
42:46
and a half million dollars with four point seventy five guaranteed. So when you
42:54
consider the size of the salary cap right now, which is what upwards of
42:58
three hundred million dollars like for essentially three million a year, just over three
43:05
million a year, that's not bad. And Brandell's a solid backup, yep,
43:08
I would agree. I think both of those guys are good signings,
43:13
good guys to keep around. Oh yeah, and I mean I think the
43:16
other all the other guys on the line, except for Reisner, the starters,
43:23
they're all under contract. Yeah. If I'm not mistaken. Yeah,
43:28
except for Risoner. So you got Christian darasaw it left tackle. I think
43:31
he is entering is this fourth here now he's still on his rookie deal.
43:37
He's still on his rookie deal, but he will get hopefully it's with the
43:42
Vikings. He will get a massive contract within the next couple of years.
43:47
Right or left guard was Reisner last year because Ezra Cleveland, who was traded
43:52
away, he got a pretty massive contract above twenty five million dollars with UH
43:58
with the Jaguars, so good for him. I was surprised by that.
44:00
I think I even tweeted out that that was surprising that he got that much.
44:05
But center is Garrett Bradberry, who is under contract but apparently a cut
44:13
candidate based off of CAP. I feel like if we're gonna see that,
44:16
we would have by now, maybe because unless they signed some massive deal with
44:22
another guy and they need to clear cap space, I don't know, but
44:25
I think we're already entering away from that cap casualty time frame, which I
44:36
like Garrett Bradberry. I was concerned about his back being healthy, but what
44:40
he missed a couple of games last season, but then he came back full
44:44
force and was solid. Yes, I felt like our entire offensive line,
44:49
especially once Riisener really solidified his starting position, I didn't really have a lot
44:53
of concern about our starters. And even you go back down the line right
45:00
guard at Ingram, I think he started off rocky, but once Reisner came
45:04
in and was solidified, I feel like we stopped hearing complaints about ed Ingram
45:09
too. Like something clicked for him halfway through the season or partially through the
45:15
season, which is awesome, and that's what you want to see. So
45:17
hopefully he can keep clicking, because what was he a second round pick,
45:22
like maybe third? Yeah, that would be huge if he developed into a
45:25
pretty decent starter. And then obviously right tackle was Brian O'Neill, who was
45:30
starting to get up there in age. I don't know how old is he.
45:32
Is he like twenty eight or so right now, I don't know,
45:36
but yeah, I mean when healthy, He's had a couple of health hiccups
45:39
the last couple of years, but when healthy, he is as good of
45:44
any right tackle in the league. So the Vikings may have an argument for
45:49
one of the most elite tackle tandems in in the NFL. When healthy.
45:55
Yeah, you need I need to see all you do. I will ask
46:02
you with one final question, here can you reach it? I thought the
46:07
one that I was reaching for was my previous empty or your previous empty.
46:13
Don't want that one? No, no, you want the full one.
46:15
There we go a marine. I actually like this one the more we get
46:17
into. So here's my question, what do you predict is the most surprising
46:31
move from here on out? Obviously the biggest domino has fallen Kirk Cousins,
46:37
and we knew that was probably going to happen, whether we wanted to admit
46:42
it or not. But there's still a lot of time left in free agency
46:49
and the draft is coming up. What do you think? What do you
46:54
think the biggest surprising move is? I mean, we can make up anything
46:59
we would think of of like a surprise. Like I think it would be
47:02
a huge surprise for the Vikings to go out and trade for a starting franchise
47:08
level quarterback. Couldn't even tell you who that could be. Like, For
47:12
all we know Herbert from I've seen from stuff about the Chargers might be available,
47:20
but I can't imagine he'd be available, and he would cost an insane
47:25
amount. But that would really surprise me some bubbling moves. I mean,
47:30
Harrison Smith, we never know, like he may or may not be back
47:34
based off of his or the Vikings decision. Daniel Hunter. I'll be interested
47:39
to see what happens. I'd love to see him back, but I'd almost
47:44
be surprised if he did come back. Yeah, I don't know, riisener.
47:49
I kind of really want back, Like, I'll be upset if they
47:52
unless he signs like a massive, massive deal with somebody else, like,
47:55
then good for him, But I'd like the Vikings to give him a REQ.
48:00
What's a contract? I don't know. Surprising, Yeah, my biggest
48:05
surprise would be if they sold the farm and traded for a starting Pro Bowl
48:10
ish caliber quarterback. That would be my surprise because I want them to trade
48:15
up and I expect them to draft the quarterback of the future. What about
48:19
you surprising moves? Well, I just have to ask does that does that
48:23
tag even mean anything anymore? The Pro Bowl tag? Like, if you
48:29
are a Pro Bowl player, does that mean anything? Who does the Ravens
48:32
backup Huntley? What's his name? Tyler Huntley? Is it Tyler Huntley?
48:37
When he made the Pro Bowl after throwing for like two hundred yards in that
48:43
whole season like that, that's all garbage. Honestly, when Teddy Bridgewater made
48:47
the Pro Bowl the year before he got devastated and injured. Yeah, he
48:52
was like an alternate to the alternate to the alternate. Like it's it almost
48:57
doesn't matter anymore. It's cool, like it is nice when you see your
49:00
team gets like eight nine ten Pro bowlers, like that's really cool. And
49:04
it's crazy when guys like Harrison Smith don't make it, or really good guys
49:08
don't make it. But he almost. It's a popularity contest, but it
49:15
does still hold some weight, I guess some but not important. Wait,
49:22
yeah, I don't know. I think that was kind of a side track.
49:27
My prediction is I think the Vikings might go out. This could be
49:31
a horribly off the mark take, and I'm fine with that. Hey,
49:37
let's go. We're just a couple of dudes. We're not professionals here,
49:40
No, we're certainly not. I think the Vikings may go out and try
49:44
to find a kicker, and not in the draft. I mean they have
49:46
to. They don't have a kicker. I mean because Greg's contract will expire
49:52
in less than forty eight hours, Like, yeah, he's not going to
49:55
be under contract, and I okay, that would be surprising if they re
49:59
signed him. Is just statistically, you're easily going to be able to find
50:04
a better kicker. I'm sure Greg Joseph is a good dude, probably gives
50:08
money to charity. I don't know. Maybe I don't have I don't have
50:13
problems with him as a person, but he is just statistically an inefficient kicker
50:19
and he can't get the job done, and I think he needs to go.
50:22
So maybe it's not even that surprising, But I don't think they bring
50:25
him back, and I do think maybe they make the I think Quacy the
50:30
kicker, if you think about it, the kicker, next to your other
50:36
skill players can contribute points and a lot of times games come down to field
50:44
goals and extra points. So it can kill a game. A missed kick
50:47
can lose a game, or it can make a game. I mean,
50:51
you can win a game on a field goal. So I think Kraayzy might
50:54
do well to give a concerted effort to the kicker market who's out there,
51:00
and see if he can't get on a good contract. Nothing that's going to
51:06
break the bank for the Vikings, but on a good contract, find somebody
51:10
who's more reliable and more consistent than Greg Joseph has been. Yep. And
51:15
it sounds like Brandon McManus, who was a free agent, is one guy
51:19
off the board. Adam Scheffer just tweeted that he signed with the Commanders for
51:27
three point six million dollars. So was he a former cowboy? Maybe?
51:31
I'm not sure. I've heard his name, but I couldn't tell you his
51:34
history, But now he's a commander. Now a commander is just three point
51:38
six yep. And official numbers have come out on question Berry's contracts since we'd
51:44
mentioned it a few minutes ago. One year, one point eighty eight five
51:47
million dollars with one point three seven five guaranteed, So most of his contracts
51:52
guaranteed. I can be okay with that. Yeah, especially for a guy
51:57
who at this point in his career until he retires, he's probably going to
52:00
be on that this type of a one year, one to two million dollar
52:05
deal. But if he's solid, and if he's still playing, I mean
52:09
keep him. Like backup offensive lineman can also make or break a game,
52:15
Like how many times have we seen multiple offensive linemen go down? For a
52:19
team and they get to the point that they're putting like tight ends out there
52:22
and it's not going well. Like yeah, so yeah, I'm definitely on
52:24
board with that. You gotta have depth, and you got to have depth
52:28
in the trenches because those guys are going in there play after play and fighting
52:32
literally to keep their team going in the right direction. So absolutely, yeah,
52:38
I like it. I'm okay with that for sure. Now I think
52:43
Reisner, we got to get him back, We got to keep that unit
52:46
together. Yeah, I really I want him back because like Harrison Phillips and
52:52
like Andrew Van Ginkel, Reisner is definitely the kind of guy that most fans.
53:00
He's a good dude, at least publicly. I guess he never truly
53:02
know people behind closed doors, but like publicly, Reisner and the other two
53:07
guys, like they seem like good dudes. They do good things in the
53:12
community. They got a little bit of following on social media. People like
53:15
these people. They are the Tuesday guys, you know, for the teams
53:19
when they do like the public events and they go out and do toys for
53:22
tots and stuff like that. Like they're the guys that are there, like
53:25
you like to root for those guys. And on top of that, Riser
53:29
is really good. Like when he stepped in, he played amazing. We
53:34
were not complaining about Riisner. He never stepped on Kirk's toes. He was
53:37
always the guy like we joke about it, you know, when he ran
53:42
up and shoved a player down and then did like an awesome leg kick,
53:45
Like that was awesome, but like he had the motor to be able to
53:49
run down and give an extra shove when he needed to. Like, he's
53:52
a good dude and a good player, And I want the Vikings to sign
53:55
him back. Darn it, darn it, just sign him back, do
54:01
it crazy back and again. If he doesn't, somebody's gonna sign him.
54:07
Yeah, Like for sure, he's going to get a good deal. And
54:10
some of the deals I've been seeing for linemen have ranged from like you know,
54:15
a Brendel who's getting less than ten million dollars for three years, all
54:20
the way to some of the guards I'm seeing you're getting like sixty seventy ish
54:23
million dollars, Like I don't know. At some point, you got to
54:28
take care of your line, Like the game is won and lost at the
54:30
offensive and defensive lines. So get Reisner, get a defensive lineman that can
54:37
actually plug the holes like like Wilkins could, but not for one hundred and
54:40
fifteen million dollars. Yeah. Yeah, they just need to do it.
54:45
Fix the team. Well, I can almost guarantee, I not almost,
54:52
I think we can guarantee that we'll have more to talk about this time next
54:57
week. Hmm. I mean, this is only the beginning. A lot
55:00
of big pieces, a lot of big dominoes have fallen. Kirk should maybe
55:06
get an endorsement deal with Dominoes because he was the biggest domino. Yeah.
55:10
Do they have pizza ranches down in Atlanta? Probably not, because he's gonna
55:15
have to maybe cut ties with that that endorsement. Yeah. Anyways, Yeah,
55:22
this is only the beginning, the tip of the iceberg in terms of
55:24
free agency and moves that all NFL teams will make between now and and I
55:31
don't know about you, I'm not above doing like an emergency podcast, Like
55:36
let's pretend this Kirk deal didn't get announced until, you know, after we
55:39
record a couple of days after, Like we would have to come on and
55:43
do fifteen ish minutes at least on Holy cow, think about this huge deal.
55:46
So I know you're on spring break this week, not to diminish anything
55:52
else you're doing, but you're you're a little bit more free than on a
55:54
normal week, a little bit. I wish I would have contacted Big Top
55:58
Ventures. Oh yeah, because I'm on spring break. I woilsh would have
56:00
been a little more on top of the game, that's true, gotten a
56:05
good deal on an all inclusive, either in Mexico or Jamaica. Where would
56:08
you have gone, Mexico or Jamaica. I probably would have stuck with Mexico,
56:13
just because I think it'd been Have you ever been to Mexico. I've
56:15
been across the border, so I've been like in Arizona and like walked across
56:21
the border in two It's not like Cantcoon or anything like that. I haven't
56:23
been to a resort in Mexico, no, but I have been. My
56:28
feets have been on Mexican soil. Interesting. Well, if you get the
56:30
chance, obviously reach out to Big Top because they'll get you the best price
56:36
ever. But you gotta do it, man, it's so much fun.
56:40
If beer is not a prevalent thing, they have it at the at the
56:45
all inclusives. They definitely don't have Iowa brewed beer. So they have Corona
56:50
Corona for sure, Dosa keys. But when you go there, you're getting
56:52
the fruity umbrella drinks, not me. Oh come on, man, even
57:00
or you can do some some fruity gurly drinks. Maybe one in Mexico,
57:06
one every hour, Zachary. Yeah, so my wife and I we went
57:09
in twenty twenty one and we're going in June, like we're less than one
57:14
hundred days out I think from our next trip, both with Big Top Ventures.
57:19
And it's so much fun, dude, it really is, and you
57:22
got it. If you ever go, you have to promise embrace the Gurly
57:25
drinks. They're the best ones. I'll have one and I will post it
57:30
on our Twitter. Yeah. Oh, I will get ready for the drinks
57:32
that I'm about to post on on our social media. Yeah, it's it's
57:38
a good time. I'm beer, beer, whiskey wine. I mean they
57:45
have whiskey and whine ish stuff in Mexico. You could do good old fashion,
57:50
it's fair. Last time I was there, I will shoot. When
57:52
did I go with Big Top Ventures? I want to well, no,
57:57
So I went on a different, shorter trip with Big Top Ventures in September.
58:02
Oh, that's right, I forgot about that. Yeah, so I
58:05
think that was a five day trip and I was drinking Tennessee sours the whole
58:08
time, which is just it's just a whiskey sour with Jack Jack Daniels.
58:14
So you can do it and oh my goodness, delicious. Man, that's
58:19
the best part. The food and the drink and the beach. That's the
58:22
only reason you go. Well, maybe next spring break, I'll have plans.
58:29
Oh, you better do it before spring break. Man, you're teacher.
58:31
You got all summer off. Well, you want to go to Mexico
58:35
when it's like colder. That's true. That is true, because it's nice
58:37
there and you couldn't escape. When we went in twenty one, it was
58:42
the end of July and it was pretty hot. I would I would get
58:45
off the lounge chair and there would be a my shape still soaked into the
58:52
lounge chair. That's how hot it was. I'm guessing you were a different
58:55
shade than you are now too, Yeah, a little bit. It's redder
59:00
shade. I don't tan very well, but well, it is definitely something
59:05
on my radar, something that I'm hoping to take advantage of. Sooner rather
59:08
than later. For sure, they'll hook you up. Well, we should
59:14
probably wrap things up for now, and I mean we're gonna be We're gonna
59:17
be keeping our eyes on Twitter for the whole week, oh sure, and
59:25
we'll track everything and we'll have more updates next week when we get them.
59:31
But yeah, a lot of big things happened today. It's been a very
59:37
busy agency for the Vikings and for the NFL as a whole. So what
59:44
do you think of the beer? Any other enhanced thoughts? I asked you
59:47
this on our TikTok, and I know how I feel about it. I
59:52
don't know how you feel. I asked you if you tasted the gram Cracker
59:55
because it's supposed to be a blueberry Graham Crackers, and I have yet to
1:00:00
really taste the graham Cracker, So I've been thinking about that. And I
1:00:04
think because we both said it's not like the like in your face vinegary,
1:00:08
like like pucker sour, I think the hint of gram Cracker is mellowing that
1:00:17
like like oof sour. I think it's kind of taken that edge off that
1:00:22
could be in a really good way. Because really thinking about it, I
1:00:25
think I am getting some kind of a warmer flavor, not like because you
1:00:30
get the blueberry, which is a pretty prominent flavor and a good flavor,
1:00:35
but then there's like almost that that back end of like a mellower I can
1:00:40
I can see that on the back end, and it's not Yeah, it's
1:00:44
not as powerful and strong as a typical sour. So I wonder if the
1:00:47
blueberry Graham smacker might taste different than like a hypothetical blueberry smacker without the gram
1:00:54
Like I think we would notice more of that pucker sour flavor. So I
1:01:00
like it. I'm definitely warming up to it. And maybe that's because it's
1:01:02
a six point eight percenter and it's like making me warm up to it.
1:01:07
But I'm not mad about this. I really would say if like I couldn't
1:01:12
do it, like if you handed me a pickle holopenno beer, I would
1:01:15
be not saying nice things about it. But I mean, there's nothing bad
1:01:20
about this blueberry, Like it's a flavor. I'll admit I was a little
1:01:24
leery about the cookies and cream nitro last. Oh absolutely, yeah, me
1:01:28
too. This could be bad. Do we have any emergency beer that we
1:01:31
can try right to keep our good vibes going and no, it was.
1:01:36
It was good. And here we are again going off the beaten path and
1:01:40
just enjoying something that we wouldn't normally enjoy. But it's still good. And
1:01:47
even if your wife was slightly vindictive and thought maybe she could pull a gotcha
1:01:52
on us, Yep, she didn't get us. She didn't give us this
1:01:55
time. So you'll have to try again, get absolutely, get us something
1:02:00
else. We'll try. Don't don't challenge her like that. She will find
1:02:05
something. Will she actually listened to hear the challenge, No, she won't.
1:02:08
She is she has this quote unquote listened to one of our podcasts.
1:02:14
We're buried pretty deep into the end of the episode. Here, how she
1:02:16
makes it this far? Congratulations? Yeah, that'd be amazing. Yeah,
1:02:22
that's true. We'll see. Maybe she can't challenge us. Maybe that can
1:02:25
be a summer challenge. Well, I'm bringing the beer next week, and
1:02:30
I think I will grab one of those no cots nitros, either the coffee
1:02:35
or the s'mores, one of the two. Keep it, keep it a
1:02:37
secret for now. I will make it under wraps, but we'll probably continue
1:02:44
our journey down that road with no coast yep. And well, now that
1:02:49
I said it, I pretty much have to do it. But yeah,
1:02:52
I mean we will. It'll be good and we weren't disappointed last week.
1:02:57
I don't think we'll be disappointed again. Yeah, for sure. So where
1:03:00
can people reach out to us? We want to have some fan interaction.
1:03:02
We want to talk to you guys. Would you think of free agency?
1:03:06
I would say find us on Twitter. I'd say that's the best place to
1:03:08
find us, probably where we're the most active. You're kind of in charge
1:03:14
of all that. So the voice of our Twitter is Austin, sure,
1:03:19
but a very trustworthy voice. Don't give me. I've never ever once balked
1:03:25
anything that you've posted there, So keep doing what you're doing, all right,
1:03:30
But yeah, I would say go there. We're also pretty much anywhere
1:03:34
else Instagram, Facebook, we have a website. We do have a website.
1:03:37
We update our website a little bit, but I'll work on that while
1:03:40
I'm on spring break. The schoolhop dot com yep is where you can find
1:03:45
us. We have merch on there too, we do, yeah, so
1:03:47
have limited control on that, but there is availability YEP through t public,
1:03:52
Yeah, which is a kind of direct to consumer merch site, So we've
1:03:58
got shirts. This flag was at actually purchased from there, and I think
1:04:01
blankets, blankets, coffee cups. There's some options. There's a handful of
1:04:06
items. Check it out. I know there's at least one other shirt,
1:04:11
one other Skull Hop shirt floating around out there, and we have one we
1:04:14
want to give away. So we're still trying to figure out the best way
1:04:16
to give away that shirt. But yeah, if you're interested in merch,
1:04:20
even just clicking around check out tea public. There's only to it from a
1:04:25
merch page on our site, and there's more available available options than might immediately
1:04:31
look like. There's some shirt and sweatshirt and stuff like that. If you
1:04:36
dig around a little bit, you'll find other things like tapestries and things like
1:04:41
that. So it's good stuff, all right. Well, good beer,
1:04:45
good beer, Yeah, good chats always good chats and purple beer. Yeah
1:04:51
it's a good color. Yeah, Rest in peace, Kirk Cousins time in
1:04:57
Minnesota. We might get gigged if we keep going further on that. We'll
1:05:03
stop till next time. School Hey Vikings fans, Evan here from the School
1:05:26
Hop and we just wanted to say thank you again so much for listening to
1:05:30
the School Hop, and we also wanted to take one more opportunity to let
1:05:32
you know that this episode of the School Hop has been brought to you by
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