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TSH Ep. 10 - A Bears fan, Lion Bridge Beer, and a Mutual Dislike of the Packers · The Skol Hop

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All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome into the tenth episode of the
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School Hop Evan here got Austin. Hello, Hello, and we've got because
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we're in our tenth episode and we've just celebrated one hundred listens. Yeah,
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we have a guest on the podcasta would you like to introduce our guests?
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All right, we have. He's a Bears fan, so don't love against
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him. He is way more of a Michigan Wolverines fan, but he still
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claims the Bears, which is honorable. Good friend of ours. How long
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have I known you for? It is probably pushing a decade? Yeah,
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that's crazy. Well, we've got Forest here, and Forrest is our friend.
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He's been mentioned a few times on the show. Uh, mostly as
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our friend who bruis his own beer and because he's a Bears fan, because
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he's our first guest and the Bears lost. Uh, he had the honor
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of providing the beer Forest today. Forest, what are we drinking today?
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Well, first of all, let me say thank you for having me on.
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Absolutely glad. I wish I wish it was it was better circumstances.
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It was the best circums I figured for you guys, But for a celebration
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beer for you guys. I brought Lion Bridges Yard Sale, I PA and
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Lion Bridge out of Cedar Rapids. It's a great brewery. This is one
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of their year round beers that they make, so so forrest. I have
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had hundreds, maybe even thousands of beer with you, and I think you
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know exactly the kind of beer that I like. I have never had this
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beer to my knowledge. This is dead in the middle of my perfect beer
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category. Had about half a one so far. This is amazing. Thank
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you for bringing this awesome, quite delicious. Yes, I would ask is
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is the lion Bridge name any sort of foreshadowing as to what's going to happen
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in the NFC North that the Lions are going to bridge the gap and win
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the NFC RD for the first time. You said it, not me.
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That was definitely not my intent, but I mean a small tangent. We
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all know the Lions have never won the NFC North. That's true. They
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have won a division. I believe they've won the NFC Central, but since
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they switched it up, I'm pretty sure, and I may be wrong in
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this, I'm pretty sure the Buccaneers have won the division, our division since
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like most more recently than the Lions have won this division, did the Bucks?
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The Buccaneers were in the NFC Central, Yeah, Central, but they
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they went before they designed the North. Yeah, I don't know exactly the
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timeline. Yeah, no, I believe you. I do know the Lions
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have lost the division race against the Buccaneers since they have won a division.
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So that's pretty believe that, and it they very well may win the division
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this year. Hopefully things turn around and the Vikings figure it out and the
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Lions really mess it up again. But doesn't look like that's the case so
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far. So according to Wikipedia here, I don't have the timeline right now,
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but the Lions and the Buccaneers are tied for division titles at three a
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piece, like total total NFC Central and oh Central. Oh well, because
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the Bucks, what are they in the NFC South. They're in the South
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now yourself, But I don't think they were River in the North, I
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mean North. Yeah, it became the North after the Brighton years. Yeah,
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yeah, there was that realignment where they went to more of the geographical
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but I mean, for a while, the NFC Central was kind of a
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weird conference with or a weird division. Sorry, with the Vikings, Packers,
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Bears, Lions, and the Bucks. Yeah, it's like, where
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did they come from? I don't know. It must have been something about
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merger timelines and even when franchises started. I don't know too much about that.
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That's that's an off season fun fact. In my display case, the
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ticket stub up there is for a Buccaneers game. Anders. Yes, and
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this would have been oh gosh, this probably would have been late nineties,
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early two thousands when Andy on the ticket stubs. So it's got Matt Randy.
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That's twenty four. That would be oh, Robert Griffith. Yeah,
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yeah, Oh dang it, Evan can't talk for the rest of the episode.
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That's gonna be rough. No, but that would have still been during
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the NFC Central Interesting. That's still when they had the orange and white the
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dream circles. I don't know when that changed either. No, they were
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wearing the red at that point. I don't think they had still been in
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the orange, but they did wear the orange this last year. That was
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pretty cool. That's what the retro Yeah, those are cool. I do
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like those. We are diving way too deep into Buccaneers. I think that's
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the first time the Bucks that come up on the podcast since week one,
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when yeah, we would have talked about in week one. Anyways, let's
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uh, let's go back to the our guest of honor Forrest. You're Bears
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fan, I am. You have talked in jabbing against me that in your
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lifetime you have witnessed your favorite team win a Super Bowl. You were very
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young at that time. That is technically correct. I guess. I don't
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know if you witnessed it, but you were alive during it. Well,
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witnessed at a later age, I mean not when I would when the actual
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event was happening. But yes, I saw the replays the Super Bowl shuffle,
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I mean, yeah, we've all seen it. Yeah. So,
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uh, what's what's the history? Why? Why are you a Bears fan?
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Why do you claim that team? So? Being from the state of
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Illinois born and raised, I guess I kind of just grew up being a
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Bears fan. Not that anyone in my family. They weren't really big NFL
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fans. I'm grew up with the college background, that's so, but just
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felt felt like I needed to follow the home team, as I call it.
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So yeah, and at the time, Saint Louis didn't have the team.
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Okay, so yeah, because you're a Cardinals, I am a Saint
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Louis Cardinals fan, So I'd say if the Rams were there, you know,
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longer or earlier, I would have a Rams fan. But because as
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such Bears fan, it's been painful most years, but you stick with it.
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As Vikings fans, it's painful for us to all the way around.
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I mean, I have that one shining moment, you know that I actually
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watched when Devin Hester, you know, or turned the opening kickoff Super Bowl.
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That's about the highlight of my Bears fan hood right there. So that
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would be crazy, and Vikings fans we don't even have. The closest we
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have to that kind of a moment is the Minneapolis Miracle, which was amazing
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and awesome and we'll remember it forever. But it was in a regular playoff
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game. It wasn't even the Super Bowl. So I am envious of that
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memory. I know they went on to lose that game, the Bears did,
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but we did at least you've seen your team in the Super Bowl.
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I think seeing my team lose a Super Bowl would crush me to the point
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that I'd never want to watch football again. But I don't have any control
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over that. You just you know, stay in bed for the next couple
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of days. And then that's kind of what I did out Yep nine,
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that that Saints Championship game, that that we were in college at the time,
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and I can attest to the fact because we lived in the same dorm
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and yeah, it was it was. Those are some dark days. Yeah.
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I always described that game as like the the ending point of my childlike
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fanhood of the Vikings. They kind of took the kid joy out of watching
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your favorite team. Obviously, I'm still a huge fan, still love the
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team, but you know, when you're a kid, you see these players
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in there, you know they can do no wrong, they're gods on the
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field, and it's your favorite team. And then to just put so much
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effort and so much not effort, but like so much of your emotional self
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into this kid's game, and to watch your team lose that kind of sucked
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the fun out of it a little bit. For me. I'm probably back,
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I'm probably back to that childlike fanhood, but the season is kind of
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sucking it out of me a little bit. But again, not about me,
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Forrest, You're a Bears fan, But the season isn't It's not demoralizing
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for you as a Bears fan because you are probably a bigger Michigan Wolverine fan.
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Yeah, and not to goordon to Michigan, but yeah, it's it's
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my saving grace. They're clearly dominating college atmosphere. But it'd be the best
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team in college right But look back to the Bears. I mean I thought
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they'd be a little bit better than what they're producing right now and what they
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what the overall what they were last year. But no, I was never
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expecting them to be a playoff contender this year. I just was hoping to
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see some some strides. So there was a lot of off season hype for
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the Bears, especially around Justin Fields, who I like to call RB one
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for the Bears. I no, you do, or maybe some certain people
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were saying like, oh, MVP candidate for Justin Fields, and oh,
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this is year he breaks out, and I mean there was some hype there.
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Yeah. So first of all, definitely year three, you know,
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you hope to see some progress and uptick. But I remember having this discussion
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when we drafted Justin Fields. I was not very optimistic about this. This
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could be being the Michigan fan and him being from Ohio State. But I
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was I, you know, I stood by the pick and support our quarterback
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as a Bears fan, but I never thought he was going to be a
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great quarterback. And he's kind of proven me, right So Yeah, And
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on the other side of that, I think I've mentioned this, if not
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on the podcast, definitely out loud in front of you guys before that draft
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night, I wanted the Vikings to get Justin Fields and he was falling and
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it looked like the Vikings were going to land him. And then out of
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nowhere, the Bears jump up like ten spots to go get in front of
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the Vikings and I think one or two other teams and get Justin Fields.
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And I was pretty salty about that. At this point, I'm not too
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upset. Well, let's be honest, he'd probably be running back number one.
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Yeah, he would be RB one on the Vikings, and statistically right
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now, the Vikings have one of the better quarterbacks in the league. Yeah.
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Yeah, Say what you want about Kirk. Even after that down game
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against the Bears, I mean, what less than two hundred yards passing one
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touchdown? Did he throw an interception? I don't remember I should know this,
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but yeah, the two poorest games of his have been the only two
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wins this season for the Vikings. That is true. I mean you look
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at fancy points and your defense was like, I think, twenty points in
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Your next highest scorer was at eleven. I mean yeah, yeah, Well,
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the defense that happens when you get a fumble return for a touchdown I
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think two other interceptions. Outside of that play, the defense was really solid
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outside of probably one or two drives, and even one of those drives where
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they were pretty poor, they were starting to melt down at the end.
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Byron Murphy saved the Vikings face at the end and he you know, got
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the game ceiling interception which kind of masked the problems of the defense on that
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drive. But it still worked and it's they still looked good overall. Yeah,
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I would say give credit to your defense. I mean they played.
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I mean, you know, whoever's on the field, you still got to
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play. I would also say that, you know, first half, we
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run the ball pretty good against you. Yeah, I wrote that down the
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Bears well, and not to take anything away from the Bears, but the
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Vikings have had a difficult job defending the run all season, which is only
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exasperate whatever the word is exemplified when the other team's quarterback is very talented as
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a rusher. I joke that he's lab one, but there's a reason like
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he's he's an electric athlete that can run the ball very well, especially when
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plays breakdown, and that kind of thing is what really gets at the Vikings
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defense this year for whatever reason. But yeah, do we just want to
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go in and talk about this Vikings Bears game especially, I mean, you
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talk about fields as a running back, he only had forty six yards,
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but he went halfway third quarter. True, Beijing came in and filled in.
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Beijing had more passing yards. He had eighty three passing yards. Oh
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yeah, he I mean he had he had the one rushing the one yard
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rushing touchdown. Yep. But that was a solid drive, the drive that
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ended with his rushing touchdown. He didn't look bad. That was probably his
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best drive of his NFL career. Is really the only game he's played.
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But he he didn't look awful. He had that really sloppy play where it
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was a fumble their strip sat That was the first drive you know, he
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was put into and out of nowhere. It's not like he had a full
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week of practice. It's not like he knew he was going to get put
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in then. But outside of that, he didn't look terrible. I mean,
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the Bears fans shouldn't be, you know, burning the city down because
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Field isn't there. I mean, is that his name. He seems like
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he he could do something. It's yeah, I mean, you gotta you
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gotta put in perspective. I mean, the dude, I mean, yeah,
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he played at Division two Shepherd University, but do you know that I
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actually read this that he is the n C double A record holder for touchdown
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passes. Isn't that nuts? That's so, the dude definitely knows how to
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play ball. I mean, I think, you know he needs more snaps,
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but give him some more more time with the first string. I think
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he can show some some some different looks than than what Justin Fields obviously does
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so, and that's that's as good as you can hope for in your backup
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As long as they are your backup quarterback. You know somebody, somebody like
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a case Keenum type that can come in and at least try to not lose
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the game. I mean, you never want QB one to go down or
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RB one in this case. But I mean, Bagent, he showed you,
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and granted it was at home against a defense that hasn't been super great
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this year, in the Vikings defense, but he showed that Bears fans shouldn't
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be super worried. And he may be playing fields. What did they say
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was just located thumb or something. And today's Wednesday. I don't think if
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I was looking at Twitter, right, I don't think he practiced today.
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No, he's not playing. I would highly doubt he's playing on Sunday.
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I think the coach already said he's doubtful. And it's Wednesday, so I
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mean, you never know. But I mean maybe i'll get some running back
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snaps like as you keep you know, it's the justing. I mean,
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you don't you don't need your thumb to throw that all true wildcat scenario.
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I mean, I mean it could happen. I mean, if the we'll
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see yeh. All right, So the rest of the game. I got
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some notes here. First thing, I thought, overall, the defense looked
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pretty good outside of those couple of drives. Jordan Addison. He just he
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scored another touchdown and I think he finished with something like thirty eight yards receiving
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on like three passes something like that. So not a crazy, you know,
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career day, but he looked good. He got the first the first
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pass attempt of the game, or at least of the Vikings game, was
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to Jordan Addison. He caught it for fifteen yards for a first down.
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And that was good. You you wanted that on the first game where JJ's
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out. And I saw some tweet or stat or something this week that he
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is second only behind Randy Moss in touchdown receptions in their first like six games
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or something like that. That's cool. So he's even surpassing Justin Jefferson in
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terms of touchdown production. Yeah, well, and JJ, he's never been
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like a crazy, crazy touchdown No, he doesn't have a year with double
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digit touchdowns. I should, we'd have to go back if he does.
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It's it's not twenty you know, like right, he's he's great and electric
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and amazing. But any anytime a receiver is compared to Randy Moss, Yeah,
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I mean that's that's you like to see that an eye opening stat for
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sure, Like wow, maybe this kid could be something and and we could
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go back and I've I think I said this in the off season. I
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didn't. I did not have a lot of faith in Jordan Addison. I
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reserved a judgment. That's probably the better way to say that. I reserved
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a judgment on what he could do. And he's He's surprised myself and a
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lot of people with what he's done. And I think he's He's definitely a
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good addition to the team, especially after losing Adam Thielen. Yeah, and
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I mean the talk about him, you know, ever since ota is all
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off season, I mean, outside of the stupid speeding situation he put himself
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in. Outside of that, he's it's only been positive talk on the field,
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off the field everything. I had never heard his name. I'm not
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a huge college fan. We've talked about being Hawkeye fans on the podcast here,
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but not a huge college guy. I'm entertained by it, but I
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don't know much about it. Forrest really does. That's his bread and butter.
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But I remember, Forrest, do you remember you and I were sitting
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next to each other at a venture Is brewing and watching the draft, and
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when the Vikings drafted Jordan Addison, one of the first things you said was,
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oh, that guy's a stud. He did this at PITT, he
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did this at USC. I think you told me more about him than the
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TV did when we were watching the draft. Yeah, I mean his first
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three years that Pitt were electrifying. I think he took a step back,
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and not for his you know, I think it was just the system he
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was in at USC. But I knew you had a winner, you know,
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when you drafted him, and that got me excited about him. So
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you having that, that enthusiasm about him made me look into him a little
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bit more. Still, I wasn't an expert on Jordan Addison. I still
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aren't. I am still not excuse me, but just seeing your enthusiasm about
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him that night draft night, because what was he the twenty third overall pick.
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You're outside of the casual draft follower guides like, I didn't know much
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after Jalen Carter, But when you were excited about that, it got me
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excited about that. And he's been producing. Obviously he's not leading the league
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in receptions and yards and touchdowns, but you know he was number two behind
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JJ until last time. I mean, I think he's doing everything as a
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rookie wide receiver. I've I think he's putting up great numbers for you guys.
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He's got twenty two catches, two hundred and seventy seven yards, and
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four touchdowns. Yeah, and at this point through six games, only Randy
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Moss has more touchdowns in the Vikings at six. That reminds me of But
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he had that one I was sorry, let me just interject, Randy had
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that one crazy game where he thought caught three pass three and three. Yeah.
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Yeah, three passes, three touchdowns, one hundred and sixty three yards.
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That'll forever be the It might not be one sixty three it's something like
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that though, but that'll forever be the like most ridiculous stat line for any
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receiver anywhere. Yeah, but anyways, just an interesting comparison. Yeah,
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Well, anytime a rookie is starting to do things that Randy Moss did.
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It's not like, I'm not saying Jordan Addison is Randy Moss. I'm not
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even saying he's JJ. But when they do a few good things, that's
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when you're excited about it and you're happy. That's things to build on.
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Well, he's he's a totally different type of receiver than JJ. I mean,
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yeah, he's more of a slot guy. I mean looks for for
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his speed and and and for out running. Really, I mean to get
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that separation where he's he's not gonna be JJ, where he's doing contested throws
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as much. Which on a team where you have JJ, if your number
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two is Jordan Addison, that's a good look right there. And that's exactly
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it had to be exactly what the GM and coaches were thinking when they put
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Daddison's name down in draft Knights. So, yeah, those were my my
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big positives from the game. Obviously, it's always nice to win. So
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so you didn't want to mention the debatable fumble recovery in the Okay, I
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will say, I will say, you're absolutely right. I'm surprised they called
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that in favor of the Viking. I this is what upsets me, and
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I had not set that it went in favor of the Vikings. What upsets
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me is you have instant replay and this happens all the time, whether it
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be NFL or college, and they still fail to get the call right.
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Yeah, everything shows if you slow it down that he was in bounds.
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Yeah, the only thing and got the possession of the ball. Yep.
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And I see what they're saying, because if you look back at that play,
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the Bears linebacker, I forget who it was. It was Edwards.
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He yeah, he grabbed the ball. He had possession of the ball,
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but I think they said he didn't establish full possession before one of his toes
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hit the sideline. And honestly, I'm a Vikings fan, and cut me
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open, I'll bleed purple. Honestly, I didn't see that. I thought
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he recovered the ball, and I was very surprised and happy when they called
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it, I would say, because they called it Bears football on the initial
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field. Actually, there's not enough to overturn that. Now, to your
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point, how do you debate whether he had partial control full control. I
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just that's what aggravates me, and I would be saying the same thing if
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it was the Vikings player versus the or roles were reversed. It just drives
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a fan nuts when when the wrapping crew, the replay official cannot get that
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right. Yeah, and not even get it right, but they couldn't come
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on and give an explanation that makes you feel good about it. If they
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came on and gave a good explanation of well, it's this rule and we
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know how it looks. But because of pozz or because his hand moved or
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for whatever reason his helmet touched the ground, I don't know if they they
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didn't give a good solid explanation. They just said the ruling is confirmed that
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it was an incomplete or a fumbled pass out of the sideline. I don't
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know. They just the refs have not been great this year all around the
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Yeah, it's been rough, and especially I don't know, maybe I'm playing
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the victim here, but especially as a Viking fan, like it's been.
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It's been rough. Yeah, absolutely believe it. And you see it.
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Not not to get off, but you see it in every game. I
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mean you saw at the last play with the Bills Giants game where yeah,
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they don't call a past interference on on I mean, I just don't get
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and I was rooting for the Bills, but how you cannot throw a flag
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when the ref is right there looking now at the two players. That just
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it blows my mind. How how bad. I know it's it's a second
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second thing, but and I hate ragging on the refs. I'm the guy
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that's saying, you know, usually these refs they get it right. And
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I don't know how they get it right, because it's all they're watching it
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in the same speed we are, and even with replay, they're usually proven
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right. And I hate the excuse of, oh, we lost because of
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the refs, or oh, they're the chiefs so they get all the calls.
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I'm pretty sure I said that last week. But again, I hate
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doing that. But when it's plain as day, when seventy thousand people in
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the stadium can see it plain as day from the nosebleeds, you'd think with
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the refs and their control center in New York, they'd be able to get
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these calls at least close enough that you feel good about their call, even
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if you think maybe they weren't right. But I don't know that one right
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there. I think the Bears they have a case there in that play.
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I just bring that up as like, oh, absolutely the one thing that
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could have gone right in the Bear's favor and gave us a good field position,
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but not saying that would have changed the outcome of the game. Yeah,
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well it might have. I mean, you never know, every drop
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pass, every turnover, it can drastically change the game. There was also
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that no call on the Brandon Powell PI that I think you and I were
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texting. We typically text back and forth if we're not in person watching the
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game together, and I said right away that was a borderline past interference call
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that wasn't called on a Brandon Powell target. And I was looking back at
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our text there a second ago and like ten, I don't know, fifteen
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twenty minutes later, you were like, yeah, the more I think about
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it, yeah, that could have been called as a PI. Yeah,
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Because initially I was I did the thing where that I I was like,
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you know, I'm okay with the ref's not calling it there. It seemed
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incidental. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought,
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I mean, it's still in that incidental realm, but the refs probably could
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have called it there. And then as the rest of the game went on
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and the refs seemed to be making some ify decisions, it just seemed more
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and more like how they probably should have called p I there, especially later
27:25
on when the Vikings got called for past interference and you same thing. You
27:30
texted me and said, well, if that's past interference against the Vikings,
27:34
then the one against Brandon Powell or you know, inflicted upon Brandon Powell earlier
27:40
in the game. Definitely should have been past interference. I agree with you.
27:44
It's it should be equal, and it's it's a second by second,
27:48
you know game, Like we all say, but these these guys are paid
27:52
to do that type of job, you know, so, and like I
27:55
said, usually it's uncanny how good they are. It's kind of like Vegas,
27:59
how I guess, usually has the money line set so accurately that it's
28:03
it seems weird, like how did they do that? Like, oh,
28:06
the Vikings lost by seven and you said that they were, you know,
28:10
minus seven and a half, Like, how did you do that? Usually
28:12
the refs are so good that it's like, I mean, I don't how
28:17
did you see that in real time? But like you said, for us
28:21
across the league, the refs seemed to I don't know, I feel like
28:23
they're having a down year and some player I think it was JJ Watt.
28:29
He tweeted sometime over the NFL weekend this past weekend something about frustration of the
28:36
refs don't have any recourse or there's nothing against them as the league, they
28:41
don't get punished excuse me. Players, you know, they get fined,
28:45
they get called, They win and lose games based off of these refs calls.
28:49
And you know, not just the refs calls, but how they play
28:52
and stuff like that. But the refs like, excuse me. Occasionally you'll
28:57
hear the league like come out and say, oh, yeah, this call
29:03
should have been made differently. But that's all they do. They can't go
29:07
back and change the game. There's no They've been getting more and more with
29:11
the replay process, which is going in the right direction, but still not
29:15
perfect. And I don't know how you would make it perfect. But it's
29:18
not like you hear a ref is fined because they make this egregious call or
29:22
no call and it changed the outcome of a game. Like, right,
29:26
at what point do you do that? Yeah? I mean you always fall
29:30
back, you know, people, and I'll be the first to follow my
29:33
own sword with this ref thing and then we can move on. But you
29:40
always talk about, oh, they screwed my team. Well, you know,
29:44
there's a lot of plays in the game and you look back and what
29:48
did your team do wrong or did not execute as they should have to maybe
29:55
win the game or be better at the game. So I will also follow
29:59
my slurd that you cannot just slowly blame the rests on one. So yep,
30:04
that's my mindset as well. Right, Should we just like, as
30:10
Vikings and Bears fans, should we just like come to terms with the fact
30:15
that we're just going to be screwed over by the rest every single time we
30:19
take the field. Well, especially in our fan hood, it seems like
30:23
anytime you go against the Packers, you're playing against the Packers and the rest.
30:26
I mean, I think that's the one thing we can all agree on
30:30
is destroy the Packers at all costs. So it's funny we bring that up
30:34
because Evan and I we attended last year's Bears Vikings game. It was a
30:40
last game of the season at Soldier Field and first time at Soldier Field for
30:44
both of us. Yeah, how did you like the venue? It was?
30:47
I enjoyed it. It was pretty good. Yeah. I had heard
30:48
from a few people that knew that I had been to US Bank Stadium and
30:53
a couple other stadiums. They told me like, hey, lower your expectations.
31:00
Honestly for us, you may have been one of the people expectations for
31:03
Soldier Field. Evan, you and I were, we were in the nosebleeds.
31:07
But I really liked it. I mean, it was a cold day,
31:11
it wasn't a frigid day. It wasn't a negative experience. He has
31:15
really lucked out being in January and you didn't get the lake effect. Yeah,
31:18
well, I mean, I'm sure it was colder because of the lake.
31:22
But I think we mentioned this last episode or a few sometime on this
31:25
podcast that we went there and we were all bundled up, but like I
31:27
think, I you know, it unzipped my coat. You know, I
31:30
didn't activate the handwarmers that I brought. It wasn't that frigid. And I
31:36
didn't mind the stadium, you know, as a spectator, as a fan,
31:38
even a fan of an opposing team. And the Chicago fans were fairly
31:42
friendly too. Yeah, most fans anywhere you go, except for Philly,
31:45
most fans anywhere you go are going to be, you know, courteous,
31:48
especially if you're nice and courteous too, like people just like sports. So
31:53
I don't know, I I enjoyed Soldier Field. It was a good experience.
31:56
I would go back for sure. Yeah. I think I think I
32:00
said the lower your expectations actually I went with Austin Evan last year to a
32:05
Minnesota Cardinals game for the first time, you know, going up to US
32:09
Bank, and that was a blast. It was it was It was an
32:13
amazing experience. It was actually a cool game to watch. They it was
32:19
very exciting, and I did not have an interest, you know, in
32:22
either team, so I just got to enjoy the game as as football is.
32:28
So yeah, no stress. When I watched football and home on the
32:32
couch, I'm usually pretty quiet. You know, I might clap once or
32:37
twice. I'm not really want to yell and scream at home on the TV.
32:40
But if I'm at us Bank, especially at that Cardinals game, if
32:45
you remember, it came kind of came down to the wire. It was
32:49
exciting, it was loud, it was awesome. You know, I stood
32:52
up, I was screaming. Both lost. I was going to say to
32:55
all those listeners, these two are animals when they're at live at a stadium
33:00
event. And Austin may not be the same way at home, but I
33:05
am exactly the same way at home, like you were at least dialed up
33:07
a little bit more in the stadium. Well, yeah, I think maybe
33:10
I egged you on a little bit maybe, But to that point, Forrest
33:13
said he didn't have a rooting interest either way. The Vikings could have scored
33:16
an eighty yard touchdown and Evan and I would have been chest bumping and going
33:21
nice yeah and waving our Jared Allen fake mullets and everything like that. And
33:25
then we turned to Forest and he maybe would give us like a two finger
33:30
high five, you know. I mean, I respect the play and the
33:34
excitement it raised, but I can't give you, you know, props,
33:37
you know, being a Bears fan. So it was it was almost a
33:42
year ago this week. It really was almost a year ago. Like I
33:45
think it's like fifty one weeks ago. Oh man, that we were all
33:49
at us Bank Stadium together. Now, I just want to go to a
33:52
game. Yeah, can we go? That was a good time. Maybe
33:53
we'll post up on Instagram. We have to have a picture of them.
33:55
I'm sure we did at that game. I'm sure we do. Yeah,
34:00
good times. All right. So I think we've talked about the Bears Vikings
34:04
game. I do want to make I did write one thing down for the
34:08
Bears. What's his name, Vilus Jones? Yes, that dude. I
34:15
think he returned some kicks. He had a couple of decent plays on offense.
34:20
This is preposterous, and I understand that he reminded me a little bit
34:24
of Percy Harvin. Yeah, he has had some comparisons like that. He
34:30
has some really electrifying like moments, and then he has the stupidest, you
34:36
know, bonehead plays you know as well. I think maybe it's a learning
34:42
curve. I think he's been in the league couple of years at least,
34:45
though well, and I'm pretty sure he at one point, if only for
34:49
a day, was a Viking. I think he had been like an off
34:52
season you know, ninetieth man type guy on the roster and then didn't make
34:59
the team or whatever happened. I don't know how that how that worked.
35:01
But athletically he I mean, he perked my years up, like I noticed
35:07
him and even wrote it down like he Yeah, they would do well to
35:12
design a couple of plays around his way. I did, like I did,
35:14
like the when they put him on the running game a little bit string
35:19
out the defense that could have been just because I mean we're then on running
35:23
back being being without our first to to you know strings. I mean yeah,
35:29
technically, yeah, yeah, I mean, so as actually shocked how
35:34
well we ran the ball with being on our third you know, string,
35:37
and then Evans who we had signed just the week. Yeah, just so,
35:43
so, I was actually shocked how well we ran the ball. But
35:45
uh, yeah, I'd like to see Jones, to your point, being
35:49
the more involved with the offense. I think he has has that dynamic ability.
35:55
Whether he can do it consistently is another question, sure, Evan.
36:00
Anything more on the Bears Vikings game, I think we should make predictions end
36:07
of season predictions week eighteen. Where do these two teams end up? I
36:14
like it. You guys want to go first, then sure, go for
36:19
it. So I think what will probably happen for the Vikings is that they
36:25
win two or three more games throughout the rest of the year. But what
36:30
could happen and what I hope to happen is I think the Vikings could lose
36:36
as many as four more games and still be in the conversation for at least
36:43
that third wild card spot. Sure, I think even if you lose these
36:49
games, if you lose to the Niners this week and then later on the
36:52
season the Bengals and both of the Lions games, and win everything else,
37:00
that's against the Packers, Falcons, Saints, Broncos, another game against the
37:06
Bears, the Raiders, and both Packer games. All of those games,
37:10
arguably, they're winnable games. I'm trying to think who the hardest one might
37:17
be. Yeah, the Saints aren't bad. The Saints aren't bad, but
37:22
they just lost this past week the Falcons. Okay, yeah, that's going
37:27
to say both Saints and Falcons are hard to predict that. Yeah, I've
37:30
seen some really good stuff out of them, and you never know. I
37:34
mean, honestly, we ragged, but like the Bears with a fully healthy
37:37
justin fields, running the ball and you know, just getting lucky like that,
37:43
could that could be a tough game. All of these games are losable,
37:45
but I think all of those games are definitely winnable. That's seven more
37:51
games that you could win to get to a winning season at nine to eight,
37:55
and I'm giving you the outside chance of having that happen. If you
38:00
go this rest of the way and win or lose no more than four games,
38:07
could be talking your way into the playoffs. The Vikings. As it
38:09
currently stands, four of those teams, four of the Vikings' future opponents,
38:15
are three and three. The Falcons, the Saints, the Raiders, and
38:22
the Bengals all currently sit at three and three. Well, and I think
38:27
one thing that tells me that it's possible to do that kind of a stretch
38:30
is the way that you play. The Vikings played against the Eagles and the
38:36
Chiefs despite losing. Yeah, they lost both of those, and outright,
38:39
there was no we can't really blame the refs, We can't really do anything.
38:45
The biggest thing we can blame in those games are turnovers and the defensive
38:52
run game. But even with those two huge issues, they still made them
38:58
games. It wasn't like they got blown out by both of those teams.
39:01
It was still a fight to the end against both of those teams, which
39:05
gives you a little bit of hope. And on a stretch like that,
39:08
against those teams, I think you could string it together. And especially if
39:15
you figure out the rush game on offense and on defense, you could string
39:20
together seven more wins this season. So I'm gonna make an observation here.
39:27
Listen to all your episodes so far, all nine, and you've been referred
39:31
to as the pessimist I am, and one win against the Chicago Bears and
39:37
now I'm feeling you're getting a little optimistic here. I'm not saying you're wrong,
39:43
but yes, I know you are right, and I'm not saying it
39:46
will happen. I'm just saying I could see a scenario where you lose to
39:52
the Niners Bengals and both of thinkast alliance at this moment. Those are games
39:58
this Vikings team should lose. They should lose against the Niners, even with
40:01
their injury concerns, which seem like they could not be fully thought out injury
40:07
concerns, like those three guys could play this week. True, against the
40:13
Bengals, who Joe Burrow is not the same Joe Burrow. I think his
40:16
leg is still bothering him. And then the Lions, who for whatever reason,
40:22
are different than they have been for the last thirty years. You could
40:24
lose all four of those games and still have an outside chance at being a
40:30
playoff team. Well, and let's say the Vikings only lose three of those
40:34
games. I mean, now we're not having an outside chance, but we're
40:39
like squarely in the conversation for especially if one of those one of those wild
40:45
card spots. Yeah, especially if one of those games is one of the
40:47
Lions games that you don't lose. I don't know. I'm not saying it
40:52
will happen. That's my that's my highest hopeful prayer. It's a positive thinking.
41:00
You're thinking nine and eight. I think that's that's our best case scenario
41:04
for the Vikings this year. See, I'm still slightly more optimistic, although
41:07
this season has been really really challenging to remain that level of optimism. But
41:15
I still think we've got eight wins left in US. I think across the
41:22
remaining games, I think we can. I think we can win eight of
41:24
them. That puts US at ten and seven, right, seventeen games,
41:34
eight more wins. Yeah, we're two and five, so ten and seven.
41:37
That math checks out. I'm an English teacher, so that's impressive for
41:39
me. You know what's funny, I'm looking at my preseason win loss prediction.
41:45
I predicted the Vikings to have a ten and seven record. Did you
41:47
really Yeah? I was much more optimistic. Oh yeah, Now did you
41:52
think that t instead of an record would get you to the playoffs? I
41:57
don't remember. I'm sure we talked about that on that episode. We'd have
42:00
to go back and reference that, but I think both probably did because I
42:06
probably thought we were a playoff team. Yeah, I probably still thought that
42:08
was a division winning ten and seven record. Wow, thinking what I thought
42:13
about the Lions before the season, I am being proven right about my preseason
42:20
thoughts on the Bears. And then I mean the Packers. I stn't are
42:23
the Packers that there kind of in a enigma. They're like nobody really knows
42:29
what's going on with them. I think the only thing that we know,
42:31
and I think Bears and Vikings fans and Lions fans can agree on, is
42:36
the fact that Jordan Love isn't really what he I think. I think we're
42:39
all worrying after the first couple of games where he was the highest rated QB
42:44
or like, oh here we go again. But he's kind of come back
42:47
to earth. Yes he's not. He's not what the Packers have had under
42:52
center for the last like thirty years. Hall of Famers. Yeah, he's
42:55
not a Hall of Famer, at least not right now. But I think,
43:00
if if I remember right, Aaron Rodgers first starting season, he wasn't
43:04
a Hall of Famer either. You know, he wasn't breaking records all right.
43:07
So Austin and I are thinking nine wins, ten wins above five hundred
43:13
for the Vikings. What do you think for us? For the Bears?
43:15
Oh man, it's it's it's it's bleak, bleak. I looked at the
43:21
schedule and uh, I don't know after No, First of all, you
43:25
look back, you know three weeks when we pretty much blew the game against
43:30
Denver of all teams, and so I mean, you really think we should
43:35
be have two wins already, but uh, now we have the one.
43:39
I was looking at the schedule and I for see us. I think we
43:44
can win against Carolina. I'm just just going off of They're They're the only
43:50
team that's really worse than the Bears. At this point. It looks like,
43:52
at least record wise, it'd be really tell if the Bears lost to
43:55
the Panthers. You know, and I have two maybes. I have one
44:00
against Arizona because I just don't know what their program, what they want to
44:05
do, if they're going to be one of those programs where they're looking to
44:09
get better draft status, so maybe not play as hard. I hate to
44:14
say that about any team, but you just have to think it. And
44:16
then and then I have you in Minnesota again. I mean, I look
44:22
at this this game, you know, I know we talked about it earlier,
44:25
but you know, the Bears without their top two running backs justin fields
44:30
for pretty much half a game, and what do you beat us by six?
44:32
Yeah? It was so and you and and you just don't know what
44:37
what teams want to do and the you know, when what week do we
44:42
play? You guys? Again, it's uh, I should know this,
44:45
but I should know this to week twelve, So so you know both.
44:52
I mean, for sure, you guys, your front offs may have a
44:55
depend on if you win a few of these games or lose them. They
44:59
might have a different direction of do you start trading away players like give up
45:05
the season or well? And the mindset behind that too is a little bit
45:08
muffled because the trade deadline, I believe is the twenty eighth of October.
45:14
So what are there two games between now and then? If you're going to
45:19
trade people, you already have a thought process right now? Ye? But
45:22
yeah, I mean, you're you're not wrong. The Viking is only won
45:24
by six points, right, so so I predict, you know, and
45:30
unfortunately, I'm hoping we get three wins like we did last year. I
45:34
hope we don't go backwards. It's quite possible we do. But yeah,
45:39
I'm going with three wins. I think we can get one of those maybe
45:43
wins plus the Carolina wins. So yeah, okay, slide out, a
45:49
slide in as a you know, a sleeper team, come in and surprise
45:53
somebody. Maybe. Oh yeah, I mean, any any team can win
45:58
any game. That's why they play them like. It's not just oh,
46:00
on paper, this team's better, so they get it. So like the
46:04
Bears, I mean, I'm trying to think, who the Browns just beat
46:08
the Niners, like anything can happen. Yeah, Browns are seevenly good though
46:14
you think they were just gonna be a meter they they're better than I think,
46:17
even with Nick Chubb going down and ye, well and they've done pretty
46:22
well. So they didn't have their first string quarterback right. Granted they won
46:27
off of a missed kick at the end of the game for the Niners,
46:30
but still anything could happen. Agreed, Well, what's what's coming up in
46:39
the week ahead for the Bears and the Vikings. The Vikings have the forty
46:45
nine ers on Monday Night. We've already established that hosting the Niners on Monday
46:49
night, and there's still the talker about Kirk Cousins in primetime that'll never go
46:53
away. No, And we talked about the Niners. They've got some high
47:00
profile players with some injury concerns. McCaffrey's down. Caffrey with an oblique injury,
47:07
I think is the last I heard, Deebo, Samuel Yep and Trent
47:10
Williams. Williams and I saw a tweet from Schefter yesterday or today that there's
47:16
a possibility all three of those players will be ready to go and fine or
47:22
at least good enough by the time the Vikings play them on Monday. But
47:27
that's another thing. It's a whole nother day, more than a whole day
47:30
extra of you know, figuring out how to play with these injuries. So
47:36
and I mean an eighty percent Christian McCaffrey, it's still better than most of
47:43
the running backs in the league. Same with you know, the other two
47:46
guys, Trent Williams and who's the other one, Debo Deebo. Yeah,
47:52
I mean if you figure even if they have to get some pain meds before
47:54
the game, like, there's still better options than not having those guys.
48:00
I mean, who McCaffrey is. I mean, if he can go,
48:04
he's gonna give it everything you can. I don't know about the other two,
48:07
but I think one thing I saw on Twitter was, as far as
48:09
McCaffrey's injury, it's more about pain management than it is about like structurally being
48:15
able to play. So I don't think he's gonna like injure himself more by
48:21
playing. And I don't think it's that they have to cast him up to
48:24
be able to play. It's more like, can you manage the pain of
48:30
running with that oblique injury? So, and like you said, McCaffrey,
48:34
if you can go, he's gonna go. This guy's been injured every day
48:37
of his life, but he's still one of the best players in the league.
48:44
If you had to, if I had to guess right now, I'd
48:45
say all three of them are gonna play. And you mentioned I don't know
48:52
last week or two weeks ago, that you know in the NFL there are
48:54
games you should win and there are games you shouldn't win. For the Vikings,
48:58
this is probably one, especially as the early season has developed, Vikings
49:04
just probably should not win this game. I don't think they. I don't
49:07
think they will. I don't think they do either. I think the Niners
49:10
are strong on every front. They've showed offensively and defensively, a lot of
49:17
strengths and even with some holes and with some of their better players banged up,
49:28
maybe play, maybe they don't. It's still a tough game for the
49:32
Vikings to come out with a win. Yeah, absolutely so, those Niners
49:37
are, They're a well balanced team, and especially coming off a loss.
49:42
I I mean, I just don't see see it. I mean, hopefully
49:46
for you guys, they win. I'm not going to necessarily root for the
49:51
Vikings, but yeah, yeah, I just don't see them pull out of
49:54
victory versus San fran Yeah. Well, especially if I mean, you still
49:58
have the turnover issue, you still have the issue where you can't stop the
50:01
run on defense, those two things right there. Even if the Vikings were
50:07
a better team than they are this year, you're not beating the Niners,
50:12
who on paper probably should win the Super Bowl. You're not beating the Niners
50:15
if you turn the ball over and if you can't stop the run. I'm
50:21
hopeful, I'm and I think it'll be a game. It's not going to
50:23
be a forty to nothing blowout. And now it will be because I said
50:27
those words, I think careful. We had one of those last year.
50:31
It wasn't forty nothing, but it was forty three. Yeah. Man,
50:37
it's Dallas too well. They were the victims of another such blowout. Oh
50:43
yeah, that's true. And they've had a forty to nothing game this year
50:45
Dallas has But yeah, yeah, I don't think the Vikings are going to
50:52
be victorious this week. No ice cream for my kids this week? Did
50:55
they get ice? They absolutely got? Yes, absolutely good for them and
51:00
for them take away when he can get it Forrest. The Bears have the
51:05
Raiders at home this week. Yeah, I thought, I just don't see
51:12
see enough how of the Bears, especially with Fields out, I think,
51:16
I mean, once again, like we thought, I he's doubtful, but
51:23
I just don't see where the Bears are. They're they're not making a push
51:27
anyway, so why risk further injury to to Justin Fields. I just don't
51:34
see it. So I think it's gonna be uh another I think we'll make
51:39
a good showing, at least in the first half. But Vegas, I
51:44
mean the Jacobson and you know, they'll they'll they'll, they'll take care of
51:51
business. I think I saw Garoppolo didn't practice today. Yeah, I think
51:55
that's the precautionary I think he'll play on Sunday. I don't know hosting.
52:01
It's not like the Raiders or World Beaters either, I don't know. It's
52:07
I'd say that could be a winnable game, depends one if Fields is out
52:12
and too how I'm I don't I'm not saying his name correctly. Beigent he
52:20
plays, Yeah, but yeah, it's you never you never write it off
52:24
like I just did. I mean, like I said, I'll be there
52:27
rooting for the Bears. That just I keep my expectations low. If nothing
52:31
else, Your Wolverines are still pretty dark. That's right. Maybe maybe we
52:37
should do a podcast on them. That could be an offseason. Who really
52:42
need to brush up on college football? Yeah, well, we'll have to
52:45
bring in our college football expert over here. And for all I know is
52:50
that Brian Farrens has not upheld his end of the deal to get the Hawkeyes
52:54
to score twenty five points this season and every year is not performing up to
53:00
expectations. It's been pretty bad despite a five in one record or whatever it's
53:06
been for that and not to get off top. But that's saying they're the
53:12
leaders in the Big Ten West. I mean, and they're ranked now.
53:16
I just, I just, I just can't believe it that they will be
53:21
most I mean, if if all things go accordingly, they will be the
53:25
representations in the Big Ten championship game for the West, they'll get to maybe
53:30
we should go to Gapolis steamroll by your Michigan. Let's hope Michigan pulls it
53:37
out. So alright, well, I will say, if that game does
53:39
happen Iowa versus Michigan for us, you're invited to my house for that game.
53:45
So so, but Austin's I've been to Austin's house for the last two
53:53
college football playoffs with Michigan, and and we all know how how Michigan has
53:59
performed the last too. So I told Austin that will not be coming to
54:06
his house this this coming year. I'll bring beer, you can, I'll
54:10
have all the beer. Care drink, I don't care. I don't even
54:14
know if I'm going to invite you to my house. You might be.
54:16
You might be the chinks in this whole thing. That's like watching a Vikings
54:20
game with Brian. Right, they are Colts fan friends, it's with us
54:25
for the first half of the Colts game and it's thirty eight nothing or whatever
54:30
it was, and that's true. Then he's like, well, but I
54:32
gotta go home, guys, and he leaves and greatest comeback in NFL history.
54:37
All right, You're never allowed to watch any Vikings game with us ever
54:42
again, or at least if you do, you have to leave if they
54:45
start losing, because that's when he leaves. The Vikings have the greatest comeback
54:50
in NFL history every single time, That's right. So I think he learned
54:53
his lesson though, because me, him and Austin went to the preseason yeah
55:00
S Bear's game and the Bears were winning at the beginning of the fourth quarter
55:05
by at least two possessions, and Brian had had enough, so goods.
55:08
We had left, and the Colts came back and one. So I think
55:14
it's a Brian issue. So, Brian, the only question I haven't I
55:17
haven't even asked this yet and it's already October. Did you wear your Viking
55:22
stuff to that game? I don't think I. Oh no, a preseason
55:29
game, yeah, I was wearing a Vikings hatch. A regular run of
55:31
the mill hat with the Vikings logo on it, and then I had my
55:35
purple shirt on with the Vikings the word Vikings in their font. That's it.
55:39
I didn't you know, I love. I mean, you were still
55:42
wrapping our team and elsewhere. Who did we see? I think I saw
55:46
an Alan Page jersey at that stadium that day. I was not the only
55:51
Viking representative in the stadium that day. I would assume that pretty much any
55:55
NFL game you go to, you're gonna have most of the league. Most
56:00
of the league represents him in way shape or for him. Yeah, but
56:05
anyways, well, uh bleak look forward. Maybe a little less bleak for
56:14
the Vikings than the Bears. I don't know, but guys are hosting the
56:17
best team in the league. Yeah, It's it's gonna be an uphill battle
56:22
for both teams to do anything the rest of this season. I actually,
56:29
you know, I think it's more interesting as a Vikings fan because what do
56:35
you do depending on how the restless season plays out for you for the offseason.
56:39
I mean, you got your quarterback decision. I hate to say it,
56:45
but I think you're gonna have to search for a running back because they
56:49
should be searching for a running back. This is this is mass and I
56:52
don't think is the solution. I think you alluded with. He's more of
56:57
a tandem type. You know, Cam Anchors was a bargain bin fined and
57:05
yeah, he won't probably amount too much. So I'm I'm I'm actually anxious
57:09
to see what your organization does based on how how the season progresses. And
57:15
we know what the Bears are going to be there soon. I think they're
57:19
going to be looking for that number one pick again, so you might have
57:22
the first two picks because they have Carolina's. Maybe the Vikings and Bears are
57:27
going to have to make Maybe maybe the Bears will lose to the Carolina now
57:30
my one guaranteed win. I thought maybe they'll lose just to make secure that
57:35
draft pick. I don't know. All right, Well, what do you
57:39
guys think do the do the Vikings win nine more games? And if you
57:45
want to let us know what you think, how can they reach out to
57:50
us so they can hit us up via email, which of course would come
57:53
with a sticker. Yeah, so we still have stickers, Matt, Matt,
58:00
I still owe you a sticker. I'm gonna right now. So the
58:04
next time I see you, I'm giving you a sticker and then I can
58:07
tell you why it's funny for us for being our guest. You got a
58:08
sticker, and you know I was. I was not gonna send an email,
58:14
but I appreciate the sticker even if it's it's Vikings related. It shows
58:20
the beer hops, so it's a good I'll take it for that. So
58:24
we still have nine stickers left, yep so, and our email again is
58:29
the skull Hop at gmail dot com. If you want to reach out to
58:35
us on Twitter, I'm trying to be a little bit more active there.
58:38
We're just at the school Hop. Same on Instagram at the school Hop and
58:44
Facebook is just the school Hop. I'm working on making a TikTok account,
58:50
but we might not be very active on that, and keep an eye out.
58:53
There might be a website soon so or or or stirring some I don't
59:00
know the phrase. We're spinning some plates here or trying to get a little
59:04
bit more active, So reach out to us, let us know how many
59:06
games do you think the Vikings are going to win the rest of the year.
59:09
And also we haven't done this yet. Wherever you're listening, if you
59:14
think we're worthwhile. Give us a give us a review, let us know
59:17
what we're doing right. If you don't like it, keep quiet, you
59:21
know. If you don't like it, let us know on Twitter, email
59:23
or anything. But if you do like it, give us a review.
59:25
Wherever you're listening, and if you're if you're listening on Spotify, there is
59:30
actually a very short survey. It's one question and all you have to do
59:35
is answer that question that Austin just posed. What do you think of the
59:39
podcast? Yeah, and you can do it right there on Spotify and you
59:45
can just give us your feedback. So Forrest, thanks for joining us.
59:50
Hey, yeah, and I was going to say I think I owed you
59:52
a brewer recommendation. Oh yeah, yeah, I thank Evan wanted one of
59:58
those from your last podcast, So I'll get I'll give you two. I'll
1:00:01
give you to from from Des Moines area, Barntown. I think Austin and
1:00:07
I have been there once. That's a great brewery. For some odd reason,
1:00:15
you can't find their beer here in the Quad Cities area, but uh
1:00:20
you can if you go to Iowa City you can get some of their beer.
1:00:22
So and then to cor Iowa. Everyone talks about toppling glath with great
1:00:28
brewery. But you check out Pulpit Rock Pulpit Rock yep Brewery. It's a
1:00:36
probably not a hidden gem anymore. It's been around for years now, but
1:00:38
it's the little brother to toppling Goliath and and and you can help both breweries
1:00:45
and decore at the same time. So there you go, Evan, there's
1:00:47
there's two breweries in Iowa. I would totally recommend here we go. Sweet.
1:00:52
I don't think there will ever be a shortage of breweries for us to
1:00:54
try exactly, and when there are, we just need to brew our own.
1:00:59
So it's right Forrest can help us out with that school Hop is coming.
1:01:04
It will at some point we will be drinking a school hop. You
1:01:07
know. I will do it for you guys. You just tell me when.
1:01:09
We'll bring my equipment over to either of your houses and springing across the
1:01:15
little we'll brew a beer. So all right, So now, Evan,
1:01:19
new goal is we need to try a beer from all did you? Did
1:01:22
you all? Or both of those? I'm thinking the next two weeks.
1:01:27
If we can find them, you're probably going to have to go there or
1:01:30
at least il City to get the Barntown Pulp a rock. You might have
1:01:36
to go up to the chorus, make an adventure, go up to toppling
1:01:39
Goliath, and and swing by. So we'll figure it out. I've got
1:01:44
connections. Maybe somebody can bring me some sweet We'll figure it out, all
1:01:50
right. So forrest official invitation. You don't have to answer right now,
1:01:53
but the Vikings play the Bears again this season. You're welcome to join us
1:01:58
again or even anytime you want to talk up the Vikings or just well.
1:02:02
I appreciate the invitation. You just probably want me to bring more beer.
1:02:07
Hey, you know, anytime, anytime you want to take beer, it's
1:02:09
it's act been really fun. I encourage everyone to listen to this podcast.
1:02:15
I'm a Bears fan and I listen to these guys. They're they're fun,
1:02:20
They're they're interactive. They they just enjoy football in general. So, uh,
1:02:25
to close it out, I do want to say this Lion Bridge yard
1:02:29
sale is incredible. I think I said it earlier already. This is right
1:02:32
smack dab in the middle of my favorite beer category and it is not disappointing.
1:02:38
I will be having more of these. I very much like it.
1:02:42
Thank you, Lion Bridge for brewing such a great beer. Do you guys
1:02:45
have any other thoughts on the beer? Thanks to for its absolutely one one
1:02:51
I've had before and I knew it was going to be. Wrap up you
1:02:52
guys, Alley though, it's glad you enjoyed. All right, Well,
1:02:58
that's going to bring us to the end of another episode, the tenth episode,
1:03:00
best one yet of the school hop and uh we're grateful to all the
1:03:07
listeners out there. We hope to get some more and uh yeah, we'll
1:03:12
be back next week to break down the forty nine Ers game. However that's
1:03:15
going to go. We'll be here and looking ahead to the Packers a week
1:03:22
first game against the Packers this year, alright, so that'd be interesting.
1:03:25
But as always, until next time, School School