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It may be tough to see, but the Vikings are a good football team! | TSH Ep. 66 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome in to another episode
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: of the School Hot I'm Evan and I'm Austin. There's
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: a couple of dudes from Iowa. We like drinking beer
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: talking about the Viking.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do. And this week was pretty awesome because
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: for the first time in three weeks I didn't have
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: to spin the wheel. You had to spind the wheel. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: pretty blindsider by the result did there? And then we
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  Speaker 2: throughout the episode enjoyed a nice seasonally appropriate beer.
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  Speaker 3: It was pretty good. Yeah, I enjoyed it a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And we also talked everything the good and the bad
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  Speaker 1: involving the Vikings win over the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and a win is a win, I guess. But
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  Speaker 2: then we previewed what should be a dominating win against
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: the Tennessee Titans. Boy, let's sure hope so that would
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: be great.
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  Speaker 1: Regardless of if you're a Vikings fan or not, we
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  Speaker 1: hope that you will grab your favorite beverage enjoin us
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  Speaker 1: school School. All right, we'd like to give a quick
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  Speaker 2: two can send an email to Big Top Ventures. You
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  Speaker 2: should definitely do it. But another thing you're absolutely going
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  Speaker 2: to be doing.
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  Speaker 3: I had to do.
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  Speaker 2: This alone for two weeks in a row. Now you
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  Speaker 2: finally get to spin the wheel purple punishments on your own.
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  Speaker 2: And why is that, ev why do you have to
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  Speaker 2: spin the wheel?
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  Speaker 1: I'm spinning the wheel because I picked against the vikings
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  Speaker 1: and that was a mistake. I should not have done
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  Speaker 1: that to be fair. These were preseason picks. We both
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  Speaker 1: made preseason picks way back in I don't know, early August,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, this game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, I had
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  Speaker 1: them losing. I had the Vikings losing, and you had
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  Speaker 1: them winning. So you're off the hook for today and
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  Speaker 1: I'm on the hook.
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  Speaker 2: To be fair. At the time we made those picks,
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  Speaker 2: the Jaguars were coming off. I think they made the
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  Speaker 2: playoffs last year. Ever, Lawrence seemed like he was figuring
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  Speaker 2: things out. Doug petersoner coach, is a Super Bowl winning coach,
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  Speaker 2: and the Vikings were in the midst of everybody saying, ah,
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  Speaker 2: they'll only win four or five six games. You know
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  Speaker 2: they're not going to be that great, So to transition here, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's not crazy that you would have thought that this
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  Speaker 2: would be a tough game. And it was a tough game,
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  Speaker 2: but the Vikings won. You have to spend I'll.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about the game later, but I'm really hoping that
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to wax a limb. That's I think
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  Speaker 1: the worst thing that's still on the wheel.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think for me, i'd rather see it's either wax
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  Speaker 2: a limb for this is what I want to happen
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  Speaker 2: to you right now. Either wax a limb or I
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: want you to wear the fake beard and helmet or
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  Speaker 2: whatever for the episode.
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  Speaker 3: Do this the whole time.
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  Speaker 2: I have to pull out one of those straws and
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  Speaker 2: drink your beer out.
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  Speaker 3: Of the well.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get this out of the way. Let's spin it
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  Speaker 1: all right, ready, here we go. Oh man, please go
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  Speaker 1: easy on me.
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  Speaker 3: Wear a line full for the entire ef.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna wear a blindfold for the entire episode, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, this is actually adding a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: work on my end too, because here's a little inside baseball.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be like many other, you know, shows like this.
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  Speaker 2: We have like an outline talking points right in front
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  Speaker 2: of us, not a script per se, but more of
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  Speaker 2: more of a run of show right in front of us.
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  Speaker 2: Both of us do and if you have, if you
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  Speaker 2: have a blindfold on, I'm gonna be directing this show
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  Speaker 2: because it's not like we memorize our outline before we
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  Speaker 2: start this. So you're in charge.
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  Speaker 1: Dang it really quick before I put this blindfold on,
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  Speaker 1: because if I do it while the blindfolds on, I'll
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  Speaker 1: just break something.
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  Speaker 2: We should open up the beer. Is that what you're saying,
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  Speaker 2: Let's do that too, but really quick. I got this
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  Speaker 2: awesome gift today while I was at work. It was
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  Speaker 2: totally random, it was totally unexpected. One of my coworkers
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  Speaker 2: last week. I saw him in the hallway and he's like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I got something for you.
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  Speaker 3: I'll bring it next week.
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  Speaker 1: He comes by this morning and he brings me this
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  Speaker 1: legit starter brand Warren Moon.
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  Speaker 2: That is aw jersey and that looks like an age
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  Speaker 2: appropriate Like that wasn't just printed yesterday. That looks awesome.
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  Speaker 2: This is this is authentic like nineties era.
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  Speaker 3: I'm putting this on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta do it. Cover up the skull Hop shirt.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, if you want any skull Hop merch,
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  Speaker 2: Evan is modeling our oldest shirt now. Check out our website,
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  Speaker 2: the school Hop dot com. There's a merch page we're
• 5:34
  Speaker 2: on Tea Public. You can search us on tepublic dot
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  Speaker 2: com as well for skull Hot merch. But you won't
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  Speaker 2: be able to find a super awesome Warren Moon jersey
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  Speaker 2: like that. That's so cool.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing that would make it better is if
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  Speaker 3: it were signed by Warren Moon himself.
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  Speaker 2: Official shout out to Warren Moon. Let us know if
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  Speaker 2: you will sign that for Evan, that'd be great, but
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  Speaker 2: he'll never hear this. So all right, let's open these beers.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pour mine, yeah, and then I will appropriately
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  Speaker 1: get myself ready for this. This is gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: fun episode and you're gonna have to pour my second
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  Speaker 1: one later. That's all right, But tell us about the
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  Speaker 1: beer that you brought.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So it's been a minute since we've had a
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  Speaker 2: Millstream Brewing Company beer on the podcast. Honestly, I think
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  Speaker 2: maybe the most recent time we've had a Millstream beer
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  Speaker 2: was during the brew Hop when we were physically at Millstream. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that sounds about right, And if I'm forgetting some a
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  Speaker 2: different occasion, I'm sorry Millstream. But this is also the
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  Speaker 2: first time in a while I have seen a Millstream
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  Speaker 2: beer at our local Devil's Glenn high Ve, And once
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  Speaker 2: I saw that Millstream logo, I definitely knew I had
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  Speaker 2: to pick it up. This one from Millstream is pumpkin
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  Speaker 2: with benefits. So this they say it's a pumpkin flavored
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  Speaker 2: ale seven percent alcohol, so it can definitely hold its own. Luckily,
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  Speaker 2: we only have a four pack for that, so We're
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  Speaker 2: not going to get too crazy. It's also still November
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  Speaker 2: eleventh right now, so we're still in the heart of
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  Speaker 2: pumpkin season. Evan's got his blindfold on. We'll have to
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  Speaker 2: occasionally make note of why you're wearing a blindfold. It's
• 7:15
  Speaker 2: for the Purple Punishments, because when we segment these videos
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  Speaker 2: out and put them on YouTube, you can't see anything.
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  Speaker 3: No, I can't.
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  Speaker 2: People just see like you just wearing a blindfold. So
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  Speaker 2: can we try this? I'm almost done pouring it. Can
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  Speaker 2: you see anything now? It's putting so much pressure on
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  Speaker 2: my eyes that I just have to You can adjust
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  Speaker 2: it to You've kind of got the like triangle above
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  Speaker 2: your nose. I feel like personally I wouldn't like that,
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  Speaker 2: so you can't see anything. Feel free to adjust here.
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  Speaker 2: Your beers safe anyways, Millstream Purple with Benefits, Pumpkin with Benefits,
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  Speaker 2: Purple Pumpkin. There we go, Pumpkin with Benefits. We're all
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  Speaker 2: out of sorts right now because of the Purple Punishments.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think the only other pumpkin beer I've really had
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  Speaker 2: has been like the Lining Google's like Harvest Patch I
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  Speaker 2: think is what it's called, which is another it's pretty decent,
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  Speaker 2: but it's been a few years since I've tried that.
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  Speaker 2: Earlier you mentioned I think Sam Adams has a pumpkin beer.
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  Speaker 2: There are a diamond dozen this time of year, but
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  Speaker 2: Millstream puts out good stuff. I fully expect this to
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  Speaker 2: be delicious.
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  Speaker 3: Are we ready?
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  Speaker 2: You just skull to you? Ready? Skull skull?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 2: M that's pretty good. Oh that is super good.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I'm like missing the microphone. You're touched
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  Speaker 3: on the mic stand. There you go? All right?
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  Speaker 2: So one thing with these pumpkin really pumpkin anything, because
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  Speaker 2: you could get obviously like a pumpkin spice latte, pumpkin cereal.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen everything, but with a lot of those pumpkin
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  Speaker 2: flavored things, it is too much pumpkin. It is like
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  Speaker 2: just a crazy amount of like pumpkin and nutmeg. This
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  Speaker 2: is like this is not that. This is a very
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  Speaker 2: nice light hint of pumpkin, and other than that, it
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  Speaker 2: seems like an amber ale to me. Is that kind
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  Speaker 2: of what you're getting as well?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an amber ish with a hint of pumpkin. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: or like some pumpkin but not a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So if you kind of like pumpkin stuff, but
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  Speaker 2: you don't you avoid it because it's way too much pumpkin.
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  Speaker 2: This is kind of perfect, Like I don't know, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to toot the horn too much to sound disingenuous,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, this is an amber ale with a nice
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  Speaker 2: hint of pumpkin.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could see the color again, because I
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  Speaker 1: feel like that would enhance my description of it. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna trust you that it's amber colored. It's like
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  Speaker 1: a caramel color. Definitely, you can see through it, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not like a crystal clear see through. I would
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  Speaker 1: say it's the color of like a light mead. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: caramel color. Yeah, it's really nice.
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  Speaker 3: This thing's gonna fall off like it just is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to. I mean, I think as long
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  Speaker 2: as you you know, if you're playing by the nature
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  Speaker 2: of the game here with the purple punishments, you can
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  Speaker 2: adjust it. You can make it comfortable. However, it's just
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't say be uncomfortable while wearing.
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  Speaker 1: I just have really sensitive eyes, so like I'm basically
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  Speaker 1: I'm just closing my eyes at this point.
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  Speaker 3: I think.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't I bring like a sleep mask or something you
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: could you could pull an audible and switch. If you
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  Speaker 2: can find it, I'll try. Do you want to try
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: the sleep mask? Because that would just elastic to your face.
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  Speaker 2: I just grabbed whatever was close by.
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  Speaker 1: But I also like, even if I have something else
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  Speaker 1: on my face, it's going to be uncomfortable awkward, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I'll be like grabbing for the mic
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  Speaker 1: and grabbing for my beer and it'll be what it is.
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  Speaker 1: This is a punishment, for sure. This is not ideal.
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  Speaker 1: Did you do you have something?
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  Speaker 2: There's the sleep mask?
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  Speaker 3: I forget. I'm gonna I'm gonna take this off just
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  Speaker 3: so I can see.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think I think you're fine. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's got some sequence on it. I made a
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  Speaker 2: mess of the purple pantry down below us, but.
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  Speaker 3: This is much more aesthetically pleasing. Yeah, it's probably.
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  Speaker 2: I would imagine that's more comfortable as well.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I can blink, yeah, yeah, so I can't
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  Speaker 1: see anything still. Yeah, I can see a little bit
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  Speaker 1: like down here, like under my nose.
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  Speaker 3: But this is awesome, This is nice. I love this
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  Speaker 3: is so much. You can't see anything, Okay, all right, well.
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: I promise not to mess with you that that touching
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  Speaker 2: of your eyes I just did. That'll be the last
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  Speaker 2: of it, and let me know if you need any help,
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  Speaker 2: I'll pour your next beer and I'll direct the episode,
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  Speaker 2: because I guess I have to know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're in charge.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, now that we're talking about it, the Vikings,
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  Speaker 2: they they won, yes they did. They beat the Jaguars,
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  Speaker 2: hence why you had to spin the wheel of purple punishments.
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  Speaker 2: And there's seven and too, and the defense looked incredible.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: And can I just point out really quick yesterday it
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  Speaker 1: was just it was the most confusing day of football
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  Speaker 1: that I've watched in a while. I've been thinking about
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  Speaker 1: this all day. I didn't mean to interrupt. No, I
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  Speaker 1: like it, but you got to listen to me because
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  Speaker 1: I'm currently impaired. That's all right, But think about this
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  Speaker 1: for a minute, all right, the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: You're just you're blindfolded. It's hilarious. You're still trying to
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  Speaker 2: be serious, and I commend you, but maybe I'm gonna
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: have more of a problem of this. This is serious, okay, Evan.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're gonna realize how much you do the
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: direction of the episode and how much I just talk,
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  Speaker 2: because now I'm gonna have to like make it a point.
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: You could probably already feel it that. I'm like, oh crap,
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  Speaker 2: now I have to guide the conversation. Please keep going.
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  Speaker 3: You were doing so good.
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  Speaker 1: The entertainment value is high. I know that's a good thing. No,
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  Speaker 1: but think about this for a minute. I think think
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  Speaker 1: the stat was out there from like twenty ten or
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  Speaker 1: something ridiculous like that, like that like way back teams
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  Speaker 1: are oh in one hundred and forty seven games or
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  Speaker 1: something like that when they don't score a touchdown, which
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings did not score a touchdown yesterday, and also
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  Speaker 1: turn the ball over three times or get intercepted three
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  Speaker 1: times or whatever it was. And Sam Darnold throws three picks,
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  Speaker 1: they don't score a touchdown, and the Vikings win. Now
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: that's only half of it, right, because Sunday Night football,
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: the Lions Jared Goff throws not three, not four, but
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: five interceptions and somehow they win the game, yeah, on
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  Speaker 1: a last minute.
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  Speaker 3: Like it just it baffles me. It does not make sense.
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  Speaker 1: I believe my text to you this morning when I
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: woke up and saw that the Lions had won, because
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: I fell asleep before it was over. But my text
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  Speaker 1: to you is, well, it looks like the script they
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: got their way for something.
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  Speaker 2: NFL script writers. They they're following what they needed to.
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  Speaker 2: I guess so I did move your beer a little
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: bit because you were you were talking with your hands
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  Speaker 2: and pointing, and I was afraid that you would you.
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: Would hit your beer. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm also really afraid I'm gonna do an accidental spit
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: take because I've already almost done it like three times,
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: looking at you with the blindfold as you're trying to
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  Speaker 2: talk intelligently. And this is this is gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: fun episode. This is it's gonna be a silly one.
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  Speaker 3: I guess that is what we can say. I said
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  Speaker 3: it already. This is a punishment, Yeah, and it's punishing.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine if we both we would have had
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  Speaker 2: to it would have been like a ten minute episode.
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  Speaker 2: We would have had to just cancel everything. We couldn't
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  Speaker 2: both be blindfolded.
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  Speaker 1: Or we would have had to double up and like,
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: all right, straws too, so that we can like not
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  Speaker 1: have to like grope for our glass, because that's I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna keep my hand on my beer glass
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, back to the Vikings. I guess let's
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: just make it easy on ourselves. Roses and thorns, let's
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  Speaker 2: just dive straight into that. I'll start with my first rows.
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  Speaker 2: The defense for two weeks straight now is back. They
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: looked amazing the first what four or five games of
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: the season, and then very beatable and it was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: they've been figured out the next two games, and now
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  Speaker 2: the last two games they're back. Even against the Colts
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  Speaker 2: without Blake Cashman, they looked pretty darn good. And then
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: especially in the Jaguars game with Blake Cashman back, this
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  Speaker 2: defense just was unstoppable except for one drive, which you know,
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: an NFL team like the Jaguars or anybody, they're probably
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: going to score a touchdown at one point, unless you're
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: the Vikings against the Jaguars. But yeah, the defense is back.
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  Speaker 2: That's my biggest rose. That's the best reason to be
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  Speaker 2: happy about the team right now.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think a lot of people around the
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: league are talking about the Vikings defense still and just
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: how stout they are. Obviously, they didn't allow the two
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago to even get into the red zone and
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: the Colts only touchdown was a defensive touchdown, and.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Then this week.
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  Speaker 1: It was what was it a first quarter touchdown that
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: the Jags scored against the Vikings offense.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was either the Jags. I think it
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  Speaker 2: was their second drive. They mounted something together and they
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: came all the way down the field and it took
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: like a couple of tush pushes down at the goal
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: line to finally get into the end zone.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, other than that, the defense looked really,
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  Speaker 1: really good.
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  Speaker 3: And it's the NFL.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, you're not going to shut out every single opponent,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: even an opponent like the Jaguars, who.
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  Speaker 3: Are not, you know, the cream of the crop.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: You're a computer screen and went to sleep a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's gonna mess things up for
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: the audio.
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  Speaker 3: That's the only reason I can kind of see underneath.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I think that's that's well within the bounds of
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: following purple punishments, is making sure our audio is still good.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: I can pull something out. I can kind of see,
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: oh there you go.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Try to make it keep from falling asleep or something
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, we're good. Now we're good. Yeah.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Well, and back to the Vikings defense. I've been saying
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: it for a few weeks now, I think Blake Cashman, well, yes,
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: he shows up on the stat line, and he's really good.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of what he does doesn't show
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: up on the stat line. I think I think he
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: puts people where they need to be. He's obviously wearing
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: the green dot when he's on the field. He's the director,
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: the quarterback of the defense when he's out there and
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: when he's not out there. I think KOs even said
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: in a press conference either today or yesterday right after
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: the game, somebody asked him about Blake Cashman, and Kos's
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: answer was something to the tune of, you know, it's
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: really nice when you know he's in there or the
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: right guys are on the field where they're supposed to be,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: and you don't have to have other guys stretch and
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: other guys try to fill roles that they don't usually fill.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: So when you get guys doing what they're normally supposed
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: to be doing and what they're already good at, Like
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: I've in Pace he's pretty good at and he's not
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: the greatest yet at being the green dot guy at
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: the director of the defense. So with Blake Cashman back,
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Ivan Pace doesn't have to worry about that he can
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: just play and Blake Cashman can be the director and
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: still play well. And I think that's invaluable for the defense.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: I think they're undefeated when Blake Cashman's playing.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: I definitely saw. I mean we watched the game together.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: It was fun to watch, but I saw Van Ginkel
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: and Ivan Pace Junior specifically, just they seemed free. They
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: seemed like, Okay, we've got him back. Now we've got
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Cashman back there kind of calling the shots, getting people
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: in the right spot.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: And I remember the one.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Play specifically, it may have been Ivan Pace's only sack?
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Was it? Did he sacked him? Didn't he?
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: I think I saw it before the play developed. I
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: just I could see him pre snap kind of just
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: jumped the gun coming out of that linebacker position and
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: he just sliced through the line like a.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Butter and gotten home. And it was awesome.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: And it's plays like that that's just like, Yeah, you
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: notice that Cashman is back. You notice that Cashman is
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: back for sure. So yeah, I agree with you. That's
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: definitely a huge plus. And hopefully he's healthy from here
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: on out and can continue to lead the troops on defense.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you got to commend anybody any of
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: these guys that are still playing right now, because the
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: old adage is everybody's playing hurt at this point. Everybody's
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: got some kind of bumper bruise. So to come back
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: from a turf toe. I've never personally experienced turf toe,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: but that does seem to be one that kind of
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: puts guys out for a few weeks. That's got to
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: be such a painful thing. And then yeah, sure these
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: guys have access to maybe some questionable painkillers before and
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: during games and stuff like that. But to still be
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: able to gut it out and play through pain like that,
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: that's commendable. And Cashman is definitely noticeable when he's not
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: on the field.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I think another rose for me, and I have no
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: idea if this is anything that you wrote down or not.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: No, this is better. I like it because this is real.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: But a rose for me is the fact that we
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: still have a kicking game despite our kicker and our
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: long snapper being.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: On IR for at least three more games. Yeah.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: The game was decided by four field goals, all four
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: of which John Parker Romo made. The first one was
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: a little ippy. That long snap was a little was
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: it McQuaid, who's now the new long snapper at least
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: for now. He fired one back and I think KOs
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: called it out in his postgame press conference.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: He just got a little excited, you know.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: And Ryan Wright had a little bit of an issue
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: kind of reigning that thing in, but he still got
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: it and put the laces out and Parker Romo put
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: it up. And I mean, that's that's a big benefit
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: for a team like this Vikings team. You've got to
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: be good in all three phases because sometimes one of
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: those three phases isn't going to play very well, like
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: the Vikings offense. And truth be told, the Vikings offense
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: did play well, Oh absolutely, They just couldn't find the
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: end zone and Sam Donald kept throwing it away to
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the other team.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, which is frustrating.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: But that's definitely a rose for me, just the fact
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: that there's still a solid special team's presence with these
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: new additions.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess you kind of hit the nail on
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: the head there on the last. One of the last
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: roses I had written down was that the offense looked
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: really good. Yes, we are not negating those three interceptions, honestly,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: really four interceptions that Sam Donald threw. It's just one
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: was he got bailed out by a penalty that didn't
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: cause the interception. It just it was lucky. But yeah,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Donald threw four plus inner receptible passes and for a
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: handful of plays look horrible. But other than that, the
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: offense looked awesome. Aaron Jones is just consistent. I think
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: he's only got one, maybe two one hundred yard rushing games,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: but outside of that, he's just he's He's got a
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: solid at least seventy ish yards every game, and then
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: another twenty thirty forty receiving yards every game. This offense
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: is something to be excited about, I think, and especially
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: if you're looking long term future, because really this offense
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: is going to look pretty similar next year and beyond.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: It's just the one big piece is that it's not
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: going to be Sam Donald back there. It's going to
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: be JJ McCarthy and that should excite every Vikings fan.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Can you pull up the team stats I've got him here.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Can you just like summarize because I would normally do
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: that for us, but I can't see anything right now. Yeah,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: so Sam Donald, he was twenty four to thirty eight
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: which was that's not a terrible completion percentage there. It
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: doesn't show me and I'm not good at math. Twenty
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: four to thirty eight, two hundred and forty one yards
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: passing and all of that with three interceptions, which I mean,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: you can't negate those three interceptions, just like you can't
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: take away the takeaways that the Vikings defense got.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: A side note, the all three of those picks were
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: justin Jefferson targets.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Correct me if I'm wrong.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: I think you might be right. I think the one
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: that was negated was a long target to Jordan Addison,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: but again that was negated through an unrelated penalty on there.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: But the three that counted, I think we're all Jefferson target.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're right. Sam Donald was only sacked once,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: but he he took on a lot of pressure, and
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of it was, you know, self imposed,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: because he and I'll talk about this a little later.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: I think Sam Donald is killing himself by thinking too much.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: I think he's trying to analyze every aspect of every
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: play in the moment, and I think maybe that's what
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: he's being coached to do, but I think that is
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: kind of hindering him because there's so many times how
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: you were sitting next to me, how many times in
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: the game did I say throw the ball? Like obviously
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: both did. I'm not seeing who's open or not open.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I'm not looking at exactly what Sam Donald's looking at
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: because we're watching the TV. But he just it felt
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: like he just consistently held onto the ball so much
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: and then sometimes he just threw it and three times
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: it was intercepted, and sometimes he just made a quick decision,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: and twice it was like, oh the receiver, Like one
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Josh Oliver like didn't know the ball was coming to him,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: but he caught it and luckily got a first down.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: But it just seems like Sam Donald is thinking too
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: much and it's not doing him any good.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: It definitely seemed like the Jaguars had a really good
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: game plan against Justin Jefferson. And I'm not trying to
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: beat a dead horse here. I'm just trying to like
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: RecA app what happened and recap what we saw like.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: It.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: And I agree with you, Yes, I think Sam's maybe overthinking,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: But I think those three passes to Justin Jefferson, I
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: think he thinks as soon as the ball leaves his hands,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: He's thinking this is automatic, like JJ's just gonna haul
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: this in. It's gonna be perfect. And then I read
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: somewhere today that the Jaguar safety's played a different scheme,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna I'm not going to summarize what
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: the scheme was because I don't know exactly what it is,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: and I'm not a defensive expert by any stretch of
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the imagination. But they did something more like I want
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: to say it was like forty percent of the time
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: or something like that against Justin Jefferson, which he's used
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: to seeing when defenses cover him. But they did it
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: more than any other team has done it this season,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: and it obviously was effective because Justin Jefferson still had
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: a respectable game.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: I think what it end up with eighty eight yards
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: or something like that.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Jefferson got forty eight yards off five catches.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, that wasn't what I thought I was.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Who got somebody got eighty eight yards? Was that? Aaron Jones? TJ.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Hockinson led the team with seventy two receiving yards. Aaron
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Jones had eighty eight rushing yard.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where I got eighty eight from anyways, whatever
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: the scheme was against Justin Jefferson was absolutely effective. And
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: that's that's got to be something that Kevin O'Connell has
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: to game plan for. You've got to be able to
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: find ways to get your playmaker open. And we were
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: saying it too when we were watching it together, like
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: it's just frustrating, like get the ball into the hands
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: of your playmaker. Well he's putting Sam Darnold's putting the
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: ball in the hands of the other guys guarding the playmaker,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: which is infuriating if you're trying to watch football. But
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: can you go to the team stats for a minute
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: and just like summarize those a little bit because I
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: feel like that just that tells a bigger story of
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: how good this Vikings offense was despite not scoring any touchdowns.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, and just compare him to the Jags for
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: a minute. Yeah, So, well, the Jaguars, their offense was horrendous.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: They only had what's the time of possession stat? The
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Vikings had like forty two minutes time of possession and
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the Jags are obviously the inverse at what seventeen or
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: whatever I was on the whole game, Yeah, on the
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: whole game. Mac Jones was fourteen to twenty two for
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: one hundred and eleven yards. He did have that rushing touchdown,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: but he threw two picks. Travis Etien was their leading
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: rusher with forty four yards rushing. Evan Ingram was their
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: leading receiver with forty yards receiving. They just didn't do
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: anything on offense, and the Vikings their numbers unless you're
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: looking at touchdowns. The Vikings offense did pretty good. I mean,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: we've already gone through Sam Darnold two hundred and forty
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: one yards passing.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: That's not bad. No, Aaron Jones eighty eight yard rushing.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Cam Akers had thirty eight yards rushing on thirteen carries,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: So your average isn't that high at two point nine,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: but I think he got a couple of first downs.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Ty Chandler had his longest rush of the year. I
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: think at eight yards. He finished with eighteen yards rushing
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: on four carries. Chandler played like eleven or twelve snaps.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: It was his most in the last few games.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: We didn't really see him until Aaron Jones was carted away.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: M oh yeah, that time he came back.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: He did and KFC mentioned about Aaron Jones, he I
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: guess he's just sore. There's no like broken in it thing.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: He should be okay.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Everything I saw today was he just wanted an X
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: ray and the X ray machine was on the other
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: side of the field, so he had to ride the
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: cart to get over there, and then everything came back negative.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: So they're like, all right, you want to go back
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: out there, and he was like, yep, yep, And that's.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Why we saw him in the fourth quarter.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: This next step kind of leads into my final rows.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: And I already mentioned TJ. Hockinson seventy two yards receiving
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: off eight catches, but he had nine targets, so pretty good,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: pretty pretty good game for TJ. Hockinson, and he was
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: the unsung hero. I think it's been said a few times,
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: specifically by a friend of the show, Dustin Baker, in
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: the last day or so. TJ. Hockinson kind of helped
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: win this game for the Vikings. He caught a few
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: first down, converted a few first downs. The game the
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: offense would have stalled if not for the production of TJ. Hockinson.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: And there were a few times hock he looked he
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: got hit hard and he would kind of come up
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: slow and like, I don't know if he looked mad
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: or frustrated or hurt or all everything, every all of
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: the above. But I think he was the unsung hero
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: of the Vikings offense yesterday.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Yes for sure, agreed well, and just to see him
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: back and contributing. I mean we even saw it at
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the beginning of this game. But even going back to
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: last week's game, TJ's first game back from it injury,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Josh Oliver has seemed to really find his niche in
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: this Vikings offense, and early on in this game against
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: the Jags, he was more productive. And we're sitting there
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: looking at each other like why can't those balls go
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: to DJ Hockinson, Like come on, Like good for Josh,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: that's awesome. And we're never going to complain about the
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Vikings gaining yards and getting first downs and whatnot. And
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I think Josh Oliver had a career game last week
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: against the Colts.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, Josh Oliver's this is his second best
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: season so far. Yeah, and he's only it's his second
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: best by receiving yards by only like less than twenty
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: or less than thirty receiving yards and we're more a
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: little more than halfway through the season. Yeah, it's his
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: most touchdown catches ever in a season, with three, But
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: I think he had two alone last week, right.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: No, I think he just had the one.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: But he's been more active when Hockinson was out, and
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: now that Hockinson is back, he's still very much involved
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: in the game plan, which is interesting and it's nice
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: to I mean, it's kind of like having two running backs.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: You know, you have two tight ends that you can
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: throw to. It just adds to your arsenal. And when
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: all the attention is on TJ. Hawkinson, well here comes
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Josh Oliver streaking across the formation and you can drop
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: a dime on him and get a first down or
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: get a touchdown or whatever. But I definitely agree with you, TJ.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: He he was on the front lines of this game,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: and he got a lot of hard yards when the
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Vikings needed it the most, and he got several key
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: first downs. He obviously didn't score a touchdown because nobody did,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: but you don't need to score a touchdown to have
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: an impact on the game.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I think he was a high impact player for sure.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Oh sure, We're glad to have him back.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well, I guess unless you have any
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: other roses, we could probably move on to thorns.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: My I mean I think the obvious biggest thorns is
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: those three and an unofficial other fourth interception by Sam
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Donald and really just his overall decision making. Yeah, Sam
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Donald did his he completed twenty four to thirty eight passes,
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: he got two hundred and forty one yards passing. But
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, he just it. I mentioned it earlier this
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: season about Kirk Cousins and how everything just yeah, maybe
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins will have a successful game, but it just
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: seemed harder for him. It seemed like he was fighting
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: for every inch he could get. That's how it felt
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: for Sam Donald yesterday. But Sam Donald almost felt worse.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: It was like he was making things harder for himself.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: So my biggest thorn was just the regression to the
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: mean for Sam Darnald because he was what the player
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: of the game or the player of the month for
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: offensive player of the month for like September or something
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: like that, and this guy we were thinking and level
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: earlier this season and now it's like, oh, I.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Can't wait to see JJ McCarthy next season. Yeah.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean we were even kind of I think
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: I asked you the question at halftime. He had thrown
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: all three of his interceptions, the ones that counted in
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: the first half, and you've said on this podcast multiple times,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: don't put a guy in a position to throw four interceptions.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and here.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: He was with three at the break, and I looked
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: at you and I said, are we going to see
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Nick Mullens coming out of the tunnel? Are we going
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: to see number twelve under center? And that wasn't the case.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: And I think Kevin O'Connell made the right call. I
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: don't think he pull Sam Darnald after that, and I mean,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: obviously it worked out in hindsight. But yeah, it's definitely concerning, right,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: it's concerning that these issues are still happening. We knew
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: that Sam Darnald was not going to be Patrick Mahomes quarterback.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: We knew that he wasn't going to be Tom Brady
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: a Peyton Manning. We knew that, and you know, we
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: got him on somewhat of a bargain.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Oh it's ten million dollars. That's a huge bargain for
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: a starting, mid level starting quarterback in the NFL. That's
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: basically free. I mean, yeah, but.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: I would say, you know, with all of that, I'm
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: struggling to articulate my thoughts because I'm also just still
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: really mad that I have this thing on my face.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a minute since we've mentioned this, so
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: since we do clip other videos out, Evan is blindfolded
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: right now. It's actually like a pretty girly sleep mask
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: he's wearing right now. But he's blindfolded because of our
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: purple punishment segment, So go check that out. He predicted
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: in the preseason, he predicted a Viking's loss to the Jaguars.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: He was wrong. He had to spin our wheel of
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: purple punishments and landed on be blindfolded for the entire episode.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: So you're doing really good. I thought that I would
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: have a spit take by now, because I keep laughing
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: this is hilarious. But I've been doing good about not
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: spit taking. I think we're almost ready for the next beer.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't know, I can't, well just by feel I can. Yeah, Yeah,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: we're getting down there. Yeah, we're getting down there. Anyways,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: to conclude my thought, like we knew we weren't getting this,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: like you know, a plus MVP level quarterback, but he's
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: shown flashes that he can play.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: Really, really well. Yeah, and I don't know.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's just this like Kevin O'Connell
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: magic that rubs off on these new kind of Bamby
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: like quarterbacks when they're you know, when they're fresh, they're
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: they're really good, and he can just whisper the plays
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: in their ears and they just go out and do
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: magical things for a few weeks and then they just
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: fade and you know, the the slipper doesn't fit anymore.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Kind of to use all of these different analogies, but
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know if the Vikings are going to make
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: a playoff push, and if they are going to make
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: a run in the playoffs, not just make it to
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, but win a game or two. They're gonna
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: have to figure out this and Kevin O'Connell and Sam Darnald,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: they're gonna have to get on the same page.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll admit I was fooled. I thought. And part
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: of the reason I had a preseason prediction of the
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Vikings winning eleven games this year is I thought, man
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Sam Donald, he was a third to overall pick when
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: he was a rookie. He's he's shown flashes of being good.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: This is the best scenario he's ever gonna be in.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: This is gonna unlock him. He We're gonna get a
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: good quarterback. It's gonna be great if only for one year.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: And then he played good and I was like, oh,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: the Vikings are gonna sign him and keep JJ McCarthy
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: on the on the bench for a few years.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right right there, it's full.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: It's full.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: It's really full.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're good, but like, there you go. Yeah,
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: I was I thought Sam Donald was really going to
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: turn himself into something. I thought some team was going
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: to sign him for fifty million dollars in the offseason
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: a year. And I'm okay saying I was wrong. I'm
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: being proven wrong. He's probably better than he has been
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: playing most of his career. But he is not the
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: next Baker Mayfield who's going to revive his career with
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: one year with a team. He's gonna maybe get a
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: starting role with like the Raiders next year or something,
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: but I don't think he's ever going to live up
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: to like even a Pro Bowl level.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, to be fair, though, Sam has a better
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: record than Baker at this point.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Well right now, but who's looking better? I know, I
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: will say, and I said this to you during the
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: game yesterday. I think I even tweeted it out on
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: the school hop that Sam Donald is extremely lucky right
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: now that JJ McCarthy isn't an option that at three interceptions.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: I think, whether you do it or not, I think KOC,
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: if he watches Sam Donald thro the re interceptions against
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: a Jaguars team that the Vikings should have annihilated. I
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: think there's some whispers in his own mind. Koc's saying,
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: all right, maybe this is when we we make the change.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Maybe JJ McCarthy's ready, but Sam Donald is super lucky
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: that that's not an option right now.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Can I want to back up really quick, back to
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: a Rose really quick. This is just kind of an
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: imprompt to Rose. A good thing about the game yesterday.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: I felt like Kevin O'Connell's clock management improved in key situations.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you mentioned that too. We talked about it
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: while we watched it.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: But like we made it to I don't know, two
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: minutes left in the first half and we had all
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: three timeouts.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they used them. And I think it worked.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then at the end of the game too,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: like there was just there was better coaching that way.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Well, unless you're talking about a trick play where it's
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: a double reverse.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: I'm not talking about trick play. I mean that's play
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: call coaching too. I know you're talking clock management.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: I'm talking clock management and time out management specifically. Play
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: calling is a totally different thing. Yeah, and I agree
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: with you, And that's maybe a thorn is getting cute
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: too early, or getting cute at all, really, especially.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: When you're not leading by much.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's frustrating, and I want to see them just
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: focus on moving the ball forward. That trick play that
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: they tried to run, it was kind of that what
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: that double reverse?
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they got tackled for a loss of a lot. Yeah.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Jalen Naylor lost seven yards rushing on that play.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So definitely not cool.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: But some improvements in some other coaching aspects like clock
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: and timeout management, and I'm happy with that.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I guess you just kind of said it.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: I one of my thorns was some Mukosi's decisions. There's
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: that trick play that didn't work. There's the it was
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: like third and one right at the end of the
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: game when the Vikings are trying to ice it and
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: they'd go for a pass and get sacked for a
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: bunch of yards. And I don't even remember that were
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: they out of field goal arrange they have to settle
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: for a long field goal attempt, I don't remember. But
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: I think koc still has some growing to do in
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: that aspect. I think he's still more good than bad
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: as a coach. Oh yeah, but those are some of
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: the things that are glaring. Is some of his decision making.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Do you think do you think Kevin O'Connell ever gives
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: up play calling?
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: I know they did move West Phillips Wes Phillips.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Down from the booth. I'm sure that was something they analyzed,
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: over analyzed a bunch before they finally made that decision.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Do I know it happened against the Colts last week,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: But did it happen this week too against the Jaguars.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: That he was on the side. I guess. I guess.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: I've been operating under the assumption that until we hear okay,
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Wes is going back to the booth. Yeah, I'm going
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: to assume that he's on the sideline. I don't know
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: for sure if he's on the sideline still or not,
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: or if it was a one time thing with the
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: Colts don't. I don't know, but it does seem like
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: chaos is very one on one with the quarterback, which
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: kind of seems like maybe that should be like a
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: QB coaches job or something. But if it's Koc and
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: he's the quote unquote quarterback, whisper like, I guess, you
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: do whatever you have to do to win football games,
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: whether it's traditional or not. Yeah, I don't know. To
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: answer your question, does he ever give up play calling?
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: I don't think so, unless it's one of those like
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: he thinks he's going to get fired if he doesn't
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: try something drastic. Sure, and at seven and two in
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: his third season, Koc is at this moment in no
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: danger of being fired. I know he's he's more closely
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: about to get a contract extension. But yeah, I think
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: he would only something like that if he thought it
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: was desperate and needed to change for the team to
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: finally win a game or to not get fired or
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: something like that.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I mean it is something to consider though, because when
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: you're a head coach, you're the only one that can
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: call timeouts, although the Chiefs have proven that's not entirely
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: true this year. But you should be the only one
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: that can call timeouts for your team, and you are
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: managing every aspect of the game. You are the backstop
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: for everything that happens offensively, defensively, special teams challenges, timeouts,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: clock management, all that stuff.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: Who's in, who's out?
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, you are.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: You have to keep your thumb on the pulse of
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: all of that.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: That's a lot to keep track of.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know that I could do it,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: and oh I definitely couldn't do it. I coach, and
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: I have a tough time keeping track of seven athletes
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: on my team as opposed to you know, eleven guys
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: at one time, plus you know, fifty some other guys
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: on the sideline, plus all these coaches that would be
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: it would be crazy. I wouldn't be able to do it.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: But I wonder if at some point that's explored to
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: free him up to make better decisions and have a
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: little bit more margin to think through. Okay, this is
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: where we're at in the game. This is what's on
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: the line, this is what's at stake.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: You know, we're.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: A playoff contender or we're not, or you know whatever,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Like look long term, to be able to have that
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: vision in the moment, I think is invaluable. I'm not
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: saying that I want him to give it up completely,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: but it's just something I wonder at this point, like
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: could he do that and would it be beneficial. I
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: also don't know much about Wes Phillips and if he's
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: the guy or not, I don't know. And I don't
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: know what kind of relationship he has with Sam Darnold
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: because I know the offensive coordinator has to have or
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: whoever's called, and the offensive plays has to have a
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: strong connection with the quarterback because that's the bridge to
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: what's happening on the field offensively.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: So I thought I even thought this week, like like
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: what what does Wes Phillips do? Like is he vital?
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Like if the Vikings offense is consistently bad like this,
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: which it's tough because they weren't bad against the Jaguars,
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: it's just I mean, you can only be so good
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: without scoring a touchdown and if not for three interceptions,
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: maybe they would have scored a touchdown. But anyways, if
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: the Vikings offense were to keep being bad, yet the
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: team was still winning games. Koc wouldn't lose his job,
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: but would he like have to make a change at
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: the offensive coordinator position, which I don't know. I don't
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: think anybody really knows exactly how their dynamic works. I assume.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: I assume Koc is like the de facto offensive coordinator
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: slash CEO of the team, and kind of like Mike
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: Zimmer was the de facto defensive coordinator slash CEO of
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: the team, and like you never knew what the defensive
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: coordinator was doing. I'm very oblivious, and I'm probably being
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: way too critical of Wes Phillips, who's probably amazing, But
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know. It's just something needs to change, and
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: maybe it's as simple as the quarterback needs to change,
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: and we won't get that until next year.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: I probably lost all credibility with this your sequin sleep mask.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: So if we clip this out.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: And people are like, oh man, that guy had a
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: good point, but I can't take him seriously, what.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Does he do we I'm kind of hoping for the
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: little bit of comments to see if we can get
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: people to talk again. Purple punishments.
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: Evan has to wear a blindfold the whole episode.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, what do we think about game balls?
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Do you remember who you assigned game balls to? Because
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: I could help you out with that. I think you
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: start all start first start my offensive game ball. I
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: kind of already said TJ.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: Hockinson.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: I think he was the unsung hero of the game.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: He made plays that maybe only looked like a seven
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: yard completion on the stat sheet, but really like allowed
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: the offense to continue and to ultimately win. I think
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: if not for TJ. Hockinson, I don't know that the
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Vikings win this game.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: I definitely agree with that. Great game ball and good
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: to have TJ back, Yeah, for sure. I'm pretty sure
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: I put Aaron Jones. Okay, and I put Aaron Jones
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: for my offensive game ball, not only because of what
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: we've already mentioned, his consistency and just this running game
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: that we haven't seen on a Vikings team in the
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: last couple of years.
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: It's good to have that back, absolutely.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: But the dude got hurt and left the game for
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: a time and then came back. I mean that's just
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: that's resiliency right there. That's that's toughness, that's grit, and
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: I think he for only be on the team for
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: what six months or something like that. I think he's
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: a role model. I think guys look.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: Up to him.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely, And I think he sent a pretty
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: strong message coming back into the game yesterday and just said, listen,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: this is what we need to do if we're going
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: to win these games. You gotta fight through adversity. We
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: have to fight through even personal things that are weighing
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: us down a little bit. And he did that, he
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: proved that, and he gets a game ball from me
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: for sure.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Absolutely all right, And I agree with that a whole wholeheartedly.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: I think Aaron Jones has only been good on the field,
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: and maybe even better off the field. He's such a
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: great addition and almost to the point that I hope
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: the Vikings haack him on for another year after this.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: I'd love to have a beer with that guy if
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: he drinks it all. Even if he doesn't, we'll have
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: asota or something. Defensive game balls I have one written down,
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: but I think I've gotta do co defensive game balls
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: for this week. The one I had written down Byron Murphy.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: He I think he ended up with the highest PFF
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: score on the Vikings defense with like an eighty nine
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: or something like that. Obviously, he had one of the
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: three game ceiling defensive turnovers.
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: For the Vikings.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: It's just the offense wasn't good enough to turn really
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: any of those into a game winning defensive turnover. But
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: when he had his interception, which I think was it
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: was either the first turnover for the Vikings or the
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: second one. I don't remember if his was before horrible
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: Harry's fumble recovery. But when he got his interception Byron Murphy,
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: it felt like, all right, game over done. They're gonna
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: get a first down or two and win this game,
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: and the frustrating game will be over and it'll be awesome.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: I said, co defensive game balls, I think Harrison Smith. Yeah,
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: he didn't have a major flashy play. He didn't. I
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: don't even know what his stats really look like on defense.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: He didn't get an interception or a fumble recovery. I'm
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: trying quickly to look up his stats.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: That dude, I feel like he earns a game ball
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: every single game he plays, like he could have. However
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: many games he's played in his career, that's how many
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: game balls he probably deaded.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: Probably, so I looked it up. Harrison Smith had one
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: tackle and I don't even know if it was a
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: solo tackle, but so stat wise, it's not like he
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: crazy did anything on a stat sheet to change the game.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: But I did look. He played every defensive snap. And
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: this is a guy that we talked about in the offseason.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: When he did re sign for what's probably going to
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: be his last year, it seemed like the Vikings were
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: going to be really nice, almost have him on a
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: pitch count, almost rotate him in and out, only use
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: him when necessary. He played every snap and I think
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: that's been the mantra of his season. I think he's
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: played a lot more than he hasn't this year, and
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: I think he would This team will notice when he's
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: no longer on the team, whether he retires or whatever.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: It will definitely hurt this team for years to come.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: And I hope they immediately put him in the Ring
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: of Honor or du will retire his number with Paul Krause.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: He just deserves a game ball for this game off that.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: That would be so cool and I think we would
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: have to like try to be there if they ever
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: Dueal retired twenty two.
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: That would be so cool.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: I would want to be there because Paul Kraus, obviously
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: Historic Viking is still very involved in the organization as well.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: But man, he was a heck of a player. And
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: Harrison Smith has not done that number shame at all.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Like he has only elevated twenty two on the Vikings.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: And man, yeah, like I said a minute ago, every
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: single game, he probably deserves a game ball in all
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: of those. My defensive game ball goes to someone else
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: named Harrison though, if I remember right, is that what
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: I said? Harrison Phillips man got that fumble recovery again.
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: You kind of referenced it a minute ago.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: It was one of those game ceiling things where as
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: soon as he got it, it was like, all right.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: The momentum has changed and it felt like game over.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: For all of those turnovers, it felt like, all right,
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: this is the one. The Vikings are finally gonna close
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: this out. And I think that's what's so special about
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: this team. As frustrating as it was to watch, all
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: it takes is one of those plays. It just takes
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: one of those things. It takes one Harrison Phillips fumble recovery.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: It takes one Byron Murphy interception. It takes one Stefan Gilmour,
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: one cam buying them whatever, speaking English cam buying them
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: that that touchdown or not touchdown that interception celebration, that
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: was funny. You can go check that out. Referencing the
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: Olympic break.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: Dancer from where it was Australia News.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know for sure, I'm.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: I don't remember a terrible but anyways, that was fun
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: to watch. Harrison Phillips, the dude is just a stalwart
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: in the middle of that defensive line for the Vikings.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: He gets a lot of just he gets overlooked a
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: lot like he he deserves a lot more credit than
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: he gets. And he's just one of those quiet put
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: your head down, keep grinding. I don't know how many
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: snaps he was on the field for, but I'm sure
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: it was most of the defensive snaps for the Vikings.
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: And yeah, just just.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: A great guy, all around, great player and definitely made
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: an impact on this game.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, all right, special teams. Mine is maybe
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: not the perfect one, but Ryan Wright he's my special
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: team's game ball. No disrespect or undercutting of the other
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: really the other two guys, because you're talking Parker Romo
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: and McQuaid. Jack Jake McQuaid the long snapper. For me,
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: it's Ryan Wright. For one play, there was kind of
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: a high and to the left snap from McQuaid and
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: at a pivotal point when the Vikings, I think it
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: was to take the leader even to come not you know,
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: to come closer, to cut the lead down. The Vikings
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: needed a field goal. Ryan Wright took a slightly errant snap,
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: quickly adjusted, put it down right where Parker Romo needed it,
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: and saved the play. He saved the Vikings three points there.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: And honestly, on that play Parker Romo probably had to
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: do some magic too, because I'm sure it wasn't a
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: perfect placement. But yeah, Ryan Right, he gets my special
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: team's game ball just for that because I think I
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: told you he probably he probably puckered pretty good on
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: that play when that ball went a little too high.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't disagree with that. And what's funny is
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: I've been given Ryan Right my Special Teams game balls
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: for like four weeks or something like that, But I'm
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: going to take the low hanging fruit on this one
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: and just go with John Parker Romo. I've already kind
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: of sung his praise a little bit ago, and it's again,
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: it's just so encouraging to know that the Vikings have
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: some ground to stand upon when it comes to special teams.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: And in a league like this, special teams can win
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: or lose games for you. You could be a field
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: goal away or a field goal ahead of a winner
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: a loss.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: I mean we saw yesterday the Chiefs are undefeated right now, Yeah,
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: off of a blocked field goal. So the Lions, the
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: Lions only have one loss because of a made field goal.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's good to know that there's depth there.
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: I don't they won't keep two kickers, they won't keep
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: two long snappers on the active roster. When it comes
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: down to crunch time, and when will Reichert and Andrew
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: Depaula get healthy again, you know we'll see them back in.
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: John Parker Romo and McQuaid. Jake McQuaid, Yeah, I forgot.
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: I should know.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to respect his name.
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna look it up.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: You should also a side note, McQuaid reminds me of
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: that Jonah Hill and Tatum Channing movie movie series twenty one,
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: Jump Street twenty two.
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, wasn't that their last name?
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: Was it? I don't know, McQuaid, I have no idea.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure it was, and it's Jake McQuaid.
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: I just looked it up. Just McQuaid, all right.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: No, I'm pretty sure Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill their
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: character's last name was mccuaid in twenty one, twenty two,
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: and I think there's even a twenty three Jump Street. Anyways,
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: I think those movies are hilarious and I watch them
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: from time.
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: It's I just think of the scene where the one
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: is it?
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: Is it a Channing Tate. It was like he reacts
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: to his boss boss's daughter dating his friender brother. He's
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: like what he just just runs all the way through
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: the building.
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: Because down the stairs it's twenty that's twenty two Jump
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: Street and Jonah Hill's character is dating Ice Cube's daughter
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: and ice Cubes their like their boss and then ice
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: Cubes their boss. Yeah, such good movies. We should clip
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: that and put it in here something.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Well, there's also a very memorable scene and I just
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: saw it in a meme like this week, isn't the
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: my name's Jeff?
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: Oh No, that's my name's Jeff.
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: We're derailing quickly here, but this is worth it.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: In twenty two Jump Street, they're trying to do a
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: drug bust on some drug that's infiltrated this college dorm
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: or whatever, and Channing Tatum and Jonahill both try the
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: drug and it can like have vastly different effects on people.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: They do like a split screen, and Channing Tatum's like
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: having the time of his life as he's tripping on
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: this drug.
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: This is kind of Pg. Thirteen.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: And then on the other side there's Jonah Hill and
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: he's just like super depressed.
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: Channing Tan's like, man, this is great. I love this.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: Stuff, and Jonah Hill's like, this is the worst thing ever.
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know. That's a super funny scene.
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, fine, I'll watch both those movies again.
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: You should. They're funny.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: I will not watch Moneyball again. I won't give you
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: that a movie.
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: It's it's better than you give it credit for.
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: We should let us know in the comments which ones
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: you like better, the Jump Street movies or Moneyball, and
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: tell us why Moneyball is an awful movie.
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: It's not an awful movie. It's a great movie. It's
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: kind of boring, it's kind of boring.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: It's not awful, it's not it's not Anyways.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: We digress. We have a game to talk about coming up. Yeah,
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: Viking's second.
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: Game of this three game roads here, road streak, road stint,
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: road road trip. Trip there it is, that's the road trip.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: My goodness. Yeah, they go to Tennessee, and to me,
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: Tennessee kind of feels like a similar team that the
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: Jaguars are. Honestly, if you ask me which one's better,
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: I'd say the Jaguars preseason. I feel like the Vikings
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: should be talked about in this upcoming Tennessee game the
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: same way they were talked about leading up to the
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: Jaguars game. I haven't checked the betting lines. I could
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: probably look that up.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: I looked like earlier today, I think there were four
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: and a half point favorites. The Vikings were okay, the Titans,
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: but that could have changed by now, but I.
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: Think four point five was the.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think if Google quick Google is to be believed,
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: it looks like Vikings are favored by six and a
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: half points. Oh wow, but I don't know. It doesn't
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: even give me a source for that. So yeah, I've
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: seen it twice now, six and a half points. That's a lot,
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: especially for a team that didn't score a touchdown in
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: their most recent game. Maybe they're just also discounting the
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: interceptions in the same way as a lot of Homer
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: Vikings fans like us are discounting them.
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: What did the Titans do this last week? I forget
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: did they win? Did they lose? I don't even remember.
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: Let's see, Oh this is great.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: I would have been looking this up while we were
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: talking about it, but yeah, I can't find.
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: They lost to the Chargers seventeen to twenty seven, and
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: I feel like I remember, I didn't watch that game,
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: but I think through Twitter I saw there was some
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: kind of controversial play or missed call or reversed call
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: that was supposed to go for Tennessee but then got
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: picked up and ended up going for the Chargers. I
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: don't remember. That's totally wasting everybody's time because I didn't
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: watch it. But that's a whole other topic that the
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: refs are awful this year, and I'm a fan of
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: the refs overall. But anyways, you are or you're not.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: I am. I think I've said many times I think
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: the refs more often than not get calls, right, But
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: this year has been rough. It's not even just because
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: we're Vikings fans and it feels like there's been a
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: few rough calls against the Vikings. It's just it feels
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: like it's been league wide. But anyways, back to Vikings
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: Titans noon this Sunday. Yeah, I think the Vikings should
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: should win this. They're definitely favored, according to Vegas by
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: almost a touchdown. I guess i'll spoil it here. I
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: think they'll win. I think it's going to be thirty
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: one to seventeen Vikings.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: That gave you a hard time about that because I
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: saw that before. I had a blindfold on and I
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: was texting you about it, and I was like, hasn't
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: that been your prediction for like the last three games? Actually,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: I think that was my prediction for one of the
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: last three games.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: Remember which one?
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: I don't disagree with you. I think just given the
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: struggles on offense and given the stoutness of the defense,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: if that's a word, I think both totals are a
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: little lower.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go twenty one to seven.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: I think the Vikings still allow a touchdown on defense,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: But other than that, it's like lockdown.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: No, don't pass, go, don't collect.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: Two hundred dollars you know, yeah, straight up, Brian Flores,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: We're going to throw everything at you defense offensively. I
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: think they start to get some things figured out. I
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: think they have to if they're going to, like I said,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: if they're going to make a deep playoff run, they
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: have to start to get these things figured out. I
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: think they get Justin Jefferson involved in.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: I don't know. We'll see where are we at time
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: wise in this episode? We like, it's hard to tell.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: I don't remember how how long the prem was. Are
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: you going to be egregiously long? Though?
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: No, we're looking I mean just shy of one fifteen
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: right now. But that's with the preamble. And again I
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: don't remember how long that was.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: Can I can I just give one final thought here? Yeah,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: and then we can wrap it up. I've been thinking
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: about this a lot this last week, and it has
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: to do with the next six games. Okay, and there's
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: already one I guess the next five games because one
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: game has already been completed. But the Vikings going into
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: this road game at Jacksonville that they won, and now
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: going into Tennessee they'll finish this three game road trip
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: at Chicago, and then they come out of that at
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: home against Arizona Atlanta and then Chicago again at home.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: These next six games I think are pivotal. I need
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: to correct myself.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: These next five games, now, yeah, pivotal for the Viking.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: They're critical in terms of a playoff stretch. And they
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: won the first one, which is it's a step in
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: the right direction for sure. But we're gonna be looking
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: back on these six games. I think of another movie.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: I'll just quote another movie for you, one that I
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: think you like a little more than Moneyball. But I
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: think of remember the Titans and they call that players
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: only team meetings in the high school gym the middle
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: of the night, and Big Blue steps up and he
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: tells the team. He goes, yeah, we won a few games.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: Y'all think that's something, man, That ain't a bit of nothing, man.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: And I kind of feel that way about the Vikings
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: right now, Like, Okay, we're seven and two, but that
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything right now, right like these next five games.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: And it started with this sixth game against the Jaguars,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: which they won. But these next five games, I'm making
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: the prediction right now, it will make or break the
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: Viking season. If they win, if they have a winning
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: record coming out of these next five games, chances are
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: and I'm not saying anything worth shattering, like mathematically speaking, yes,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: they will make the playoffs probably, But if they come
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: out and they've lost more than they've won in these
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: next five games, I don't know.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: I think the NFC is a tough, tough conference this year.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: The NFC North is obviously a really tough division, and
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: so they have to play their best football moving forward,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: and they have to figure out how to score points
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: on offense, and they have to figure out how to
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: keep teams out.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: Of the end zone on defense. Yeah.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with you more. You're absolutely right. Something
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: Front of the Show Dustin Baker has said last day
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: or so is that he's pretty confident in the Vikings
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: playoff chances, which I think everybody should be. Can you
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: be anybody? Any team that's seven and two after Week
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: ten should be pretty confident in their chances to make
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: the playoffs. I know this this year, like you just said,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: is a little different because there's a lot of teams
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: with a lot of wins, and specifically the Lions and
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: honestly the Packers, not so much the Bears anymore. But
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: the NFC North is going to be a tough division,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: so it's not a you know, straight knife through butter
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: for the Vikings the rest of the season. But they
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: should make the playoffs. And Dustin Baker said, I mean,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: as long as they win at least two, two or
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: three more games the rest of the season, they should
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: definitely be playoff bound.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: But I don't know that I agree with that.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: At seven wins, I don't know that a nine win
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: team or even a ten win team makes the playoffs.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, you've got these division winners. I'm going to
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: disagree a little bit like the division winners. Yes, might
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: might get in at an nine winner at ten win mark,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: but the Vikings probably won't be division winners.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: They had a shot there.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: When you know, the Lions were losing on Sunday Night
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: Football and then all of a sudden, even despite his
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: five interceptions, Jery Goff put him in a position and
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: Jake Bates kicked the field goal and they won to
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: maintain their division lead. If they would have lost, it
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: would have been tied, and I think that would have
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: been really interesting moving forward to have the Vikings and
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: the Lions tied for first in the NFC North with
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: you know, six games to go, seven games to go.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know that the division lead is in reach anymore.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: The Vikings may have a slightly there's a lot of
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: season left there, I know, I know. But the Vikings
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: may have a slightly easier schedule than the Lions maybe,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: And I can't look at it right now because I'm
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: freaking blindfolded, But I don't know. The Lions have proven
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: to be a very very good football toh. Absolutely, I
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: don't discredit them for one second. So I think the
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: Vikings chances of getting into the playoffs are limited to
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: a wild card spot. And I don't know that nine
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: or ten wins gets you a wildcard spot in this
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: NFC right now. If we were in the AFC, perhaps yeah,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: But I don't know. The NFC is a tough, tough
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: conference right now.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: The Vikings are one of four teams with seven or
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: more wins right now in the NFC, and that's, of
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: course with not all the bye weeks done. Obviously, they
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: are not leading the division, so they're the highest they
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: can possibly be right now, and seeding is fifth, which
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: I think they are because the Commanders also have seven wins,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: but they have three losses, which I think mathematically would
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: put them below the Vikings right now. But the season's
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: not over right now. Yeah, everything you're saying I agree with.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: I think you definitely are making valid points. I think
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: it's not as dire and not that your Doom's day
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: saying they won't make the playoffs. This is terrible. I
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: think the Vikings are good enough that they'll figure it out.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of season left, and I
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: think the Lions have enough opportunities to drop at least
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: one more game before that Vikings game. I think the
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: Vikings and Lions will enter that Week eighteen game with
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: the same record. Oh and I think there's a good
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: chance that the Vikings and Lions will be playing that
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: game for the division and potentially for either the first
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: seed or the fifth or sixth seed. And I'm okay
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: with being wrong, but I the way both teams. I
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: obviously the Lions are gonna They're either gonna win out
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: or they're gonna lose one, maybe two games if there's
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: like another horrific injury for them. The Vikings. I think
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: they're good enough to figure things out to they could
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: win out predicting that, but I think they could.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: Well, it's it's bold to say that in Week eighteen,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: these two teams are going to be playing for the division,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: considering how well the Lions have played and how crappy
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: the Vikings have played, and yet they've still figured out
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: ways to win. Yeah, like that's that's a bold take.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: And I don't know.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know that the Vikings are that strong unfortunately.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, I can respect that opinion.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: Sitting here wearing you know, Viking stuff, and I have
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: been wearing a blindfold this whole episode because I'm so
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: committed to this team that I, you know, made these
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: preseason picks and I have this podcast and here we are.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're definitely on different sides of the table, and
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  Speaker 1: that's good on that conversation, for sure. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that the Vikings are entering into that Week eighteen matchup
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  Speaker 1: against the Lions with you know, losses or three losses
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  Speaker 1: even I don't know. I think the Vikings are going
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  Speaker 1: to lose a few more interesting before then.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. That's just my prediction. Those are my thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and we're gonna go along this week anyways, But
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  Speaker 2: that's okay. I just want to kind of list out
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the schedule for the Vikings really quick
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  Speaker 2: and take thirty seconds to have you be like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: I think there's, however, many wins and losses in the
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  Speaker 2: next few games. So Tennessee at Tennessee, at Chicago, home
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  Speaker 2: against Arizona, home against Atlanta, home against Chicago, at Seattle
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  Speaker 2: home against green Bay, who they've already beaten, and then
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  Speaker 2: at Detroit. So there's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
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  Speaker 2: eight games. You think they'll lose three more in those
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  Speaker 2: eight Well, okay, So.
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  Speaker 3: Games that I think are not givens, oh, none of
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  Speaker 3: them are given in two weeks, but games that I
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  Speaker 3: think are going to be like absolute dog fights Atlanta,
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  Speaker 3: I think, just for the cousins of it all.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and it's not even just that, Like it would
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  Speaker 1: be one thing if Kirk and the Falcons were, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a three win team or a four win team.
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  Speaker 3: They're in the same.
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  Speaker 1: Position as the Cowboys, for Pete's sake, and there's like
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing to play for other than this revenge against
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings, your former team, But no, the Falcons have
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  Speaker 1: a lot to play for still, they're a good football
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  Speaker 1: team and they've proven they can beat good teams. That's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a really, really good game. That's one
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  Speaker 1: that I'm concerned about for the Vikings. I think going
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  Speaker 1: to Seattle, the Vikings struggle going west. Sure, historically they
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  Speaker 1: have and it doesn't matter if they're going to San
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  Speaker 1: Francisco or La or whatever, going the time change, I
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: don't know what it is, but they just they struggle
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  Speaker 1: to go west. And Seattle again is not a bad
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  Speaker 1: football team this year. Yeah, they're not great. But right now,
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  Speaker 1: that AFC West Division.
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  Speaker 3: Sales four and five right now, And just to let
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that AFC West Division is super competitive, don't.
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  Speaker 1: They all have at least four wins? Let me see,
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  Speaker 1: because it's San Francisco has four, Yeah, the Arizona has five.
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  Speaker 2: They all have four, five.
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  Speaker 3: Or six wins.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very tight division, is I guess my point, Like
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  Speaker 1: it's anybody's race at this point in the or NFC West.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that game is really really interesting as well.
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  Speaker 1: The Packers are always a tough matchup. That's a third
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  Speaker 1: game that I'm concerned about. And it's a home game
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  Speaker 1: for the Vikings, but the Packers are going to come
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  Speaker 1: into US Bank Stadium with a chip on their shoulders
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  Speaker 1: because they beat them at Lambeau and there could be
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  Speaker 1: playoff implications there too.
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  Speaker 3: What is that game Week seven.
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  Speaker 2: Week seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so again you're going to have two big
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  Speaker 1: time divisional playoff implication games Week seventeen, Week eighteen, Packers
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  Speaker 1: and Lions. So I think those three games right there, like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I hope not, but you never know.
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  Speaker 1: The Vikings could lose all three, They could win everything else,
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  Speaker 1: and they could lose to the Falcons, the Seahawks and
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  Speaker 1: the Packers and walk into Ford Field Week eighteen with yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the Lions could have the division wrapped up
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  Speaker 1: at that point and Jared Goff's not playing am and
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  Speaker 1: Ras Saint Brown's not playing and you've got not a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot to play for at that point. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: hope you're wrong, and I know you hope you're wrong too,
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  Speaker 1: But it's definitely interesting. This is more interesting of a
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: season than it was last year, and barring a Sam
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  Speaker 1: Darnold injury, things are still looking better than they.
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  Speaker 2: Were last year. To be fair, I'm mostly playing Devil's advocate.
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  Speaker 3: Now. Yeah, obviously I hope and I want.
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  Speaker 1: The Vikings to win every game, but I'm not a
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  Speaker 1: homer enough to like, oh, Vikings buy a million every game.
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  Speaker 1: I'm realistic. I know how things play out in this league.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, well again, I'll stand by at least as
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  Speaker 2: of this moment, I think the Vikings and Lions could
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  Speaker 2: enter Week eighteen with the same record, with potentially the
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  Speaker 2: number one seed on the line, and I'm pretty confident
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings are going to make the playoffs. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying deep run, I'm not saying super Bowl. I'm just saying,
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  Speaker 2: at this moment seven and two, with what they have
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  Speaker 2: ahead of them and the low level of issues they've
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  Speaker 2: caused for themselves, I think the Vikings should definitely make
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they're playoff team. Yeah, I just think
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  Speaker 1: it's wild card at this point. Okay, So that's those
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  Speaker 1: are my thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah for sure.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Hey what'd you think of this beer?
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  Speaker 2: I loved this beer.
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  Speaker 1: I think this beer is the best pumpkin beer I've
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  Speaker 1: ever had.
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  Speaker 2: I agree, and I think if for me, the reason
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  Speaker 2: I would agree with that is because it's not too pumpkiny.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't say, hey, we're making a pumpkin beer, so
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  Speaker 2: throw a thousand pumpkins into that. It's and I don't
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  Speaker 2: know again if you agree with me on this, but
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  Speaker 2: for me, it is a nice, you know, comfortable amber
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: beer with a pleasant pumpkin flavor. Nothing too crazy upfront
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  Speaker 2: or in the bag.
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  Speaker 3: It's just it's just nice.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. It's it's not in your face if
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  Speaker 2: you hate pumpkin stuff because it's too pumpkiny, but you
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  Speaker 2: can get on board with the type of flavor. This
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  Speaker 2: is your beer.
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  Speaker 1: I like it a lot, and I've had plenty of
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: I've had the Sam Adams, I've had the Line and Google's.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: I've had all the like the you know pumpkin beers
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  Speaker 1: that you get off the shelf at your grocery store,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: and they're fine, but they're all a little much in
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: terms of pumpkin. This one, this is like you get
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: the pumpkin for sure, it's there. It's it's just hanging out.
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  Speaker 1: But it's like it's the cool uncle in the background.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, I'm here for Thanksgiving. It's cool, but I'm
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: not going to be in your face, and if you
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: want to come over and talk to me, cool, If not,
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: I won't hold it against you. That's also cool. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I like this beer a lot. Best
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: pumpkin beer I've ever had.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a few years since I've had the
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: Lining Cool's Pumpkin one, and again I think that's the
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: only other, excuse me, the only other pumpkin beer I've had.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: But I do remember thinking that Lining cool Is Pumpkin
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: one is good. The flavor is good, but it's definitely
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: a dessert beer that I'm probably good for like one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just because it's heavy.
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  Speaker 3: It's like a meal and a beer.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: Oh for sure, This Millstream Pumpkin with benefits. It's it's
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: got really good flavor. It's a really good beer, but
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: it's not one that you have to limit yourself to one,
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  Speaker 2: just because the flavor is so heavy and so thick
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: with a slice of pumpkin pie. It's it's it's really
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  Speaker 2: nice and I would have this all fall long. Eye
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  Speaker 2: hope it doesn't just disappear after Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna have to buy another four pack
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: of these and bring him to Thanksgiving and like for
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: the beer drinkers in my family share them with everybody. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I think you would like this beer. It would be
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: good for a post Thanksgiving dinner.
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  Speaker 2: Or even during Thanksgiving, like you if you have a
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: beer with Thanksgiving dinner, like this is one that you
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: can have during it and it's not gonna totally overtake
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: your taste buds throughout the meal.
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  Speaker 3: It's wonderful. I've really enjoyed it. Yeah, I have no
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  Speaker 3: Yeah for sure. Well, I'm ready to get this stinking
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