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Things get a little Salty, Sam Darnold finally looks good, Vikings are 8-2! | TSH Ep. 67 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome into another episode of
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  Speaker 1: The Skull. I'm Evan and I'm Austin. We're just a
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  Speaker 1: couple of dudes from Iowa. We like drinking beer talking
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  Speaker 1: about the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and man, this week, episode sixty seven, we both
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  Speaker 2: had to spin the wheel purple punishments, and I hate
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  Speaker 2: to say it, I think we epically failed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we definitely did. I gave it a good college try,
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  Speaker 1: but it was tough. It was fun though it was.
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  Speaker 1: We also tried a really good beer from Adventurous Brewing
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  Speaker 1: right here in Betendorf, Iowa, so we want to check
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  Speaker 1: that out as well. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And then we just went on to the normal stuff.
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  Speaker 2: We recapped yet another Vikings win, this time over the Texans.
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  Speaker 1: That was a lot of fun to see eight to two,
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  Speaker 1: and then of course we had to look ahead to
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings traveling to Soldier Field in week twelve to
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  Speaker 1: take it on the Bears and everything involved with that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeap, hopefully another win, but until then, grab a cold one,
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  Speaker 2: Join us Skull.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: love them too. So thanks Big Top Ventures. Yes, indeed,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, and we gotta do it. We got to
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  Speaker 2: start this episode out by spinning the wheel. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I had to do it, what two weeks a row,
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  Speaker 2: two weeks in a row on my own, and then
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  Speaker 2: last week you had to do it.
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  Speaker 1: On your own.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice to be able to see everybody again. I
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  Speaker 2: noticed what you did with the episode title too, something
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  Speaker 2: about it may be difficult to see. It's a pretty
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  Speaker 2: nice wordplay there. You know, we can be clever every
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  Speaker 2: once in a while. Yeah, but now we both have
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  Speaker 2: to be punished because.
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  Speaker 1: Why because the Vikings won and we picked against them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: in our preseason picks so yeah, last week, I think
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  Speaker 1: we both predicted a Vikings win, but before the season started, our.
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  Speaker 2: Big picture, we predicted a Vikings loss.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going off of our preseason picks. We both
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  Speaker 1: predicted the Vikings would lose this week. What was it eleven? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: week eleven against the Titans. Of course the Vikings won,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll get into that here in a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but let's just get it out of the way. Let's
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  Speaker 1: spin it before we do. Which one are you most
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  Speaker 1: nervous for.
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  Speaker 2: I do not want to get pied in the face. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we'll have to stop the episode. I'll have to go
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  Speaker 2: like take like a sink shower to clean it out
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  Speaker 2: of my beard or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: So I really don't want to get pied in the face.
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  Speaker 2: There's probably one or two others on that list that
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  Speaker 2: would be awful, but pie in the face, I think,
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  Speaker 2: for me, is the one that I would actually be
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  Speaker 2: most disappointed about.
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  Speaker 1: I do not want to wax a limb. We have
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  Speaker 1: these wax strips here. They are scented orchard and cherry
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  Speaker 1: blossom extracts, so we'll smell great. Yeah, oh yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna hurt bad.
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  Speaker 2: I think we need to We need to decide together
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  Speaker 2: what we're gonna wax, because we have both said something
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  Speaker 2: different and maybe this is a talking point for a
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  Speaker 2: few minutes from now potentially or maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: But let's decide if we land on. Yeah, okay, let's
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  Speaker 1: spin it all right, let's let's spin it already. Let's
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  Speaker 1: make sure the volume's up here, all right, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Cracker challenge. Yeah, the Salteam Cracker challenge. Do you know the.
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  Speaker 2: Ins and outs of this challenge? I think we should
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  Speaker 2: google it. Yeah, we need to. We need to google it.
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  Speaker 1: You can make sure I'll get these out. This will
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  Speaker 1: work out pretty well because then we can have some
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  Speaker 1: beer afterwards wash it all down.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this may require a change of venue. Do you
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  Speaker 2: think or do you think we're going to be good?
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  Speaker 2: All right, so I've got the rules up here, and
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  Speaker 2: this is just paper towels will be the two second
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  Speaker 2: Google search. So step one person must completely finish chewing
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  Speaker 2: and swallowing six saltine crackers in one minute. No drinks
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  Speaker 2: are allowed until the fifty seconds are up. So I
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  Speaker 2: think maybe these these rules aren't quite right, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to say no drinks are allowed until the minute
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  Speaker 2: is up. The crackers must be saltines, which these are
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  Speaker 2: so as to record yourself and share online, which is what.
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  Speaker 3: We we do every week.
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  Speaker 2: There we go, and then it says consider donating to
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  Speaker 2: it just got letters. I assume it initially benefited a
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  Speaker 2: specific charity. But this doesn't make sense to me, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to read off with that letter what
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  Speaker 2: that says. But yeah, consider donating to something in reference
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  Speaker 2: to the saltine challenge. So it sounds like six crackers
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  Speaker 2: one minute, no drink, easy, easy, pasy three six, oh man?
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  Speaker 1: Three six?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so are we we're not changing menus.
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  Speaker 4: We're good. We're good here.
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  Speaker 1: Let's uh here, we'll pull up a timer. Okay, I
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  Speaker 1: think we're still screen recording here, so we'll pull up
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  Speaker 1: a one minute timer. And it started already. Let's restart that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Here we go, three, two, one, let's go.
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  Speaker 2: We probably should have done this one at a time.
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  Speaker 2: Not too bad, because this will be a really quiet
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  Speaker 2: time for listeners.
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  Speaker 4: I won't try. I'm a common fair.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go.
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  Speaker 4: I'm come on, man, I'm not gonna pass. We'll have
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  Speaker 4: to be followed.
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  Speaker 3: What mm hmmm, we've talked about what.
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  Speaker 4: H hm, I'm gonna fail. H h.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but you didn't swallow do you have to
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  Speaker 2: swallow it?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, man, okay, So thank you for listening to that.
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  Speaker 2: That was probably terrible. I probably still will because Evan
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  Speaker 2: still can't talk right now. I think I'm gonna say it.
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  Speaker 1: I think we both failed.
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  Speaker 2: You got them all in your mouth before the tiber ended,
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  Speaker 2: but you're still chewing. I still have two left. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna eat these, but man, no, dude, that's disgusting. All right,
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  Speaker 2: Evan's gonna spit it out. I'm gonna not look.
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  Speaker 4: M I need some beer, man.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, those were good crackers. I still have one more.
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  Speaker 1: Dollar story. I also made a huge a mess. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you made a little bit of a mess over there,
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  Speaker 1: Saltine challenge harder than you think. We need to think.
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  Speaker 2: Long and hard on what we add to the wheel
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  Speaker 2: next year, because I don't know if that'll make the
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  Speaker 2: wheel next year.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I had a suggestion to you earlier tonight. I
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  Speaker 1: texted you. You vetoed it pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 2: I vetoed it, and then I double checked The reason
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  Speaker 2: why I vetoed it, basically because my wife doesn't want
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  Speaker 2: me to shave my beard and she said, yes, that
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  Speaker 2: was a good veto.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so well she knows she only gets one of those, right,
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  Speaker 1: so she's out of vetos now, all right, I'll tell her.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't make the rules.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I can finally talk again, and I'm ready to
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  Speaker 1: pour up some beer. Yeah, so let's do that. We've
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  Speaker 1: got a very local beer here today. It's from Adventuress
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  Speaker 1: Brewing here right here in bendor If Iowa. I love Adventuress,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, one of my favorites around here. And
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  Speaker 1: I've seen this beer on the shelf at our local
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  Speaker 1: Devil's Glenn Hivey for quite a while now. And you
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  Speaker 1: even commented when you saw it in the fridge tonight,
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  Speaker 1: You're like, man, those are pricey beers, and You're right
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  Speaker 1: they are. I've had my eye on this for a
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  Speaker 1: while and I was like, you know what, let's do that.
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  Speaker 1: It's called pod Unsubscribed. It's a double India pl and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, it's a podcast themed beer and we
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  Speaker 1: should just do it. So here we are, We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: try it. This thing's gonna pack a punch though.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, eight percent definitely not holding back at all.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Usually, I like it when these beers have like a
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  Speaker 2: like a description or like a paragraph story. There's nothing
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  Speaker 2: like that on here, So I wonder why it's called
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  Speaker 2: pod Unsubscribed. I don't know if they just the can
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  Speaker 2: art's pretty cool. I don't know if they thought of
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  Speaker 2: the can art and they were like, eh, let's come
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  Speaker 2: up with a name of a beer for it.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know. I hope you subscribe to
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  Speaker 1: our podcast, and I hope you don't unsubscribe, but we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna try this pod unsubscribed and we'll let you know
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  Speaker 1: how it is. It's a double I pa. I think
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  Speaker 1: I said that already. Eight percent. This is right up
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  Speaker 1: your alley. Oh yeah, this is your This is your
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  Speaker 1: kind of beer.
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  Speaker 2: I may have even had this before at Adventures. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know for sure. It would be interesting, adventurous. If
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  Speaker 2: you're listening, why why did you come up with a
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  Speaker 2: name for this one?
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to hear about that. Wow, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of sediment in that. Do you see that? It's almost
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  Speaker 1: as if like I took a sip right after the
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  Speaker 1: Saltene challenge and all my backwash went in there, and
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  Speaker 1: that very very well. May happen still because I have
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  Speaker 1: saltines just like caked all around my lip.
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  Speaker 2: I will say, of the two of us, you definitely
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  Speaker 2: did a better job of the saltine child.
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  Speaker 1: I think you realized that it wasn't gonna happen pretty
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  Speaker 1: early on, and I was just too naive and I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 1: screw it, We're just gonna go for it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't have enough enough saliva to make that happen.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's the whole point is, Yes, it's
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  Speaker 2: not supposed to work. This pod unsubscribed, this is there's
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  Speaker 2: a a I don't want to have this come out
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  Speaker 2: sounding negative, but there is a lot of sediment in there,
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  Speaker 2: which just means it's unfiltered. I believe it's got a
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  Speaker 2: really nice light color, but man, you are not seeing
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  Speaker 2: through that beer. That is that is definitely a hazy beer.
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  Speaker 2: I still have a lot of head, but I pour
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  Speaker 2: heavy yours. You get some head retention there, and you
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  Speaker 2: have what would most people consider a normal poor, A
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: regular poor. I think this beer is gonna gonna be
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  Speaker 2: really good. It might be a heavy beer, though, I'm
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  Speaker 2: excited to try it. A school school. Mmm, that's good.
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  Speaker 2: Really juicy. Oh yeah, that's heavy, that's very I don't
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  Speaker 2: think fix the right word, but it's the only one
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  Speaker 2: that's coming to my mind right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's got a lot of body to it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what any of these words mean. I
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  Speaker 2: just know you it's not a light beer. We're developing
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  Speaker 2: our beer vocabulary as we go. This is super good,
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  Speaker 2: though I will say, you will have to like IPAs.
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  Speaker 2: You have to like IPAs even if you like can
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  Speaker 2: tolerate them. Maybe this isn't the one for you. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how much you like. I think you're broadening
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  Speaker 2: your IPA horizons.
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  Speaker 1: I've never not liked IPAs. I just don't reach for
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  Speaker 1: them when I go to the store. I reach for
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  Speaker 1: other things.
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  Speaker 2: This is super good, and I will say, like the
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  Speaker 2: sediment that has been floating has only been floating in
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  Speaker 2: one spot. It's it's not dropping down at it like
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  Speaker 2: the suspended. It's definitely a thick beer in a really
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  Speaker 2: good way. I like this one a lot. We haven't
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  Speaker 2: been giving like a you know, seven point two out
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  Speaker 2: of ten, nothing like that.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: If I was doing the untapped score, this would definitely
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  Speaker 2: be at least at least a four point twenty five
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  Speaker 2: for me.
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  Speaker 1: Five. Wow, that's up there. Oh yeah, yeah, And I
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: don't know how widely adventurous distributes. I know we can
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: get them here locally in grocery stores, but yeah, if
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  Speaker 1: you can pick them up wherever you are, we would
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  Speaker 1: highly recommend it, really absolutely. And we've got not a
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: really good game, but a decent game to talk about
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: Vikings over the Titans.
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  Speaker 2: It kind of felt boring for a little bit, did Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I had my wife's sister and her family were here
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  Speaker 1: watching with us, and yeah, I mentioned to my brother
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  Speaker 1: in law several times, it's just kind of a blah game,
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  Speaker 1: Like it's just the Vikings were moving the ball. They
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: were more effective at moving the ball, and they actually
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: scored points after moving the ball exactly, scored a few touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: which was nice.
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  Speaker 2: And outside of one awful miscommunication really early in the game,
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  Speaker 2: no turnovers, yeah, no interceptions for sure, and just the
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  Speaker 2: one mishandled pitch that was technically a fumble by Sam
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  Speaker 2: Donald credited to Sam Donald. But yeah, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: hard to complain, and I hope we're not coming off
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  Speaker 2: as complaining, but it's hard to complain about a boring win. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: with those ones, it's easy to come up with, Wow,
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: well they're terrible because of this, or they're not going
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: to win a playoff game because of that. And you
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: know what, sometimes you just you just win a game
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  Speaker 2: and you go to work the next day. It's just
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  Speaker 2: this wasn't a crazy highlight game. But there were some
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  Speaker 2: good things, some reasons to be happy, and there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, should we get into some roses and thorns, Yeah,
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: let's do it.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, did you have any roses off the bat?
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm just going to steal the one that you
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: have on here already because I was thinking it U
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: Sam Donald. Yeah, he looked great, played arguably the best
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: game of his career, aside from that miss Q with
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  Speaker 1: the pitch on whatever was the third play of the
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: game or whatever. But he was twenty of thirty two
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  Speaker 1: for two hundred and forty six yards to passing touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: and then he also had a rushing touchdown, carried the
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: ball eight times for eighteen yards, didn't throw a pick
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  Speaker 1: coming off a game where he threw three, So that
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: was good to see. And he seemed and we were
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: texting throughout the game like we normally do.
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  Speaker 3: It.
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  Speaker 1: Just seemed comfortable in the pocket, seemed comfortable not just
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: sitting there waiting for something to come open, but also
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: comfortable stepping up in the pocket into that pressure. We
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: saw him duck out and make some moves with his legs.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: There was one play, I think it was in the
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: third or fourth quarter where he almost got tripped up
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: like somebody was coming after him and had him by
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: the leg and he got out of it, and was
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: just like, Wow, We're not used to seeing that out
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: of Sam Darnold. We're used to seeing him either, you know,
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: do the Kirk Cousins thing and just take an awful
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: sack or throw a really awful interception kind of like
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: a lah Nick Mullins or Josh Dauts exactly. And this
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: was not that from him. It was nice to see.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: It was refreshing. Oh yeah, there was.
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  Speaker 2: I think there were two similar plays where but one
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: specifically where he was like getting sacked. He was like
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: the pocket had totally closed around him, and like spun
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  Speaker 2: out of it and ran on the one I'm talking about,
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: ran to his right side and just quick dumped it
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  Speaker 2: off and I don't remember who caught it. I'm not
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: gonna be able to remember, but it ended up being
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: like a first down after like fifteen or so yards,
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: and you text me, it's like, man, that that same
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: play was either a sack fumble last week or an
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: interception last week. Like it did seem like Sam Donald won. Yes,
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: I think he had his highest PFF grade either of
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: the season or of his career or both, just in
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: this past game against the Titans. But also it definitely
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: seemed like so in the Jaguars game, Sam Donald, he
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: looked flustered, he looked lost, He looked like the epitome
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: of that famous clip of him as a jet on
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  Speaker 2: the sideline saying I'm seeing ghosts out here. Against the Jaguars,
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  Speaker 2: Donald did not look good. And it was one of
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: those games where I think I even said it on
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: the podcast. Donald was super lucky that JJ McCarthy is
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: not healthy and not a good option to bench Donald for.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: And we saw Kevin O'Connell after the Jaguars game last
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: week kind of say things like, hey, we don't doubt
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: this guy for a second or behind him totally. He
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: double triple quadrupled down on Sam Donald, and it was
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: kind of weird. But this week, I think you even
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: texted it to me. It seemed like Sam Donald was
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: very intentional throughout the week about what other decisions could
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: I make in this scenario rather than throw a desperation
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: pass to Justin Jefferson and ultimately get an interception. Could
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: I just take the sack or could I run it
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: for two yards? Or could I maybe dump it down
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: to option two or three? Sam Donald against the Titans
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: this week looked like he had put a lot of
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: time and effort and mental headspace into getting rid of
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: those airs, and at least for this week, it worked.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So a friend of the show, Dustin Baker, who
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: we need to have back on. Yeah, we do, I
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: messaged him.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: I think sometime soon keep your eyes peeled for Dustin
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Baker on the school.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: We'll circle background with him. But anyways, he put out
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: a really interesting tweet today stacking up a lot of
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Vikings quarterbacks through the last I think fifteen years. When
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: it comes to a very specific stat EPA plus CPOE
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: and I know what EPA means.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I think it's estimated points added. I don't know what
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: either of them mean. I just know those are both
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: good stats.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know Cpoe. It's kind
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: of beyond my thing, but I trust Dustin Baker. He
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: has really good stuff. He's compiled a list of Vikings
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the last fifteen years through eleven weeks, and
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: currently Sam Darnold ranks fourth among all those quarterbacks in
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: the last fifteen years. It's impressive. They've got Brett Favre
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: and own at the top of that list. You have
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins in twenty twenty, Kirk Cousins in twenty nineteen,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: and then you've got Sam Donald, and then you've got
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins from last season before he got hurt. It's
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: just marginally below Sam Donald. So he's in really good company.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: And this is all eleven games, or all ten games
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: eleven weeks that the Vikings have played so far, So
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: we really can't complain about Sam Donald. And we can't
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: complain about the price tag either.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it's still a steal. Yeah, he could
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: have thrown two interceptions in the Titans game and it
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: still would have been a steal ten million dollars for
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: a top fifteen quarterback. And that's what he's playing like,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: is at least a top fifteen quarterback. He'll get way
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: more next year. But yeah, you're right, there's nothing to
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: complain about so far. Yeah, and I guess for me.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: One more thought on Sam Donald. I don't know if
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: it was today or yesterday that I texted you it was.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: It was another Dustin Baker tweet where he was basically saying, hey,
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: just a reminder that every single one of us would
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: be jumping for joy if JJ McCarthy had the exact
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: same stat sheet, everything was the same. It's just J McCarthy.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: If he was playing exactly the same as Sam Donald
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: is right now, we'd be saying, yes, the future is solved.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: He's gonna get even better. It's gonna be amazing. And
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: right now it kind of feels like Sam Donald's like, eh, okay,
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: I guess, I guess we'll wait saying for JJ McCarthy,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: like we should be very happy right now.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: And I was thinking about it after you sent that
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: to me too, that yes, we would probably be that
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: way with JJ McCarthy. And we would also be that
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: way if JJ McCarthy was putting up those numbers and
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: the Vikings had three wins, four wins, we'd be through
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: eleven games. We'd be through the moon. We'd be like,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: all right, this isn't our year, but we're just gonna
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: get a good draft pick and twenty twenty five baby,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: m hmm, let's do this.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So to go off on a little bit of
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: a tangent, and I hope we can just make this
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: like a minute. This idea kind of came to me today.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: This thought came to me today, and I think I've
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: been seeing it pump up a little bit more on
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: social media at this point, which team do you think
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: is better? The twenty twenty four Minnesota Vikings or the
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two Minnesota Vikings.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Ooh, that's a tough one. I think I still have
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: to go with the twenty four Vikings. Okay, okay? And
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: why I think the defense is better? I think the
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Brian Flores led a defense. It's now the second year
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: under Flores, right, and you've got those the monster of
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: the three linebackers just terrorizing defenses. And not to spoil
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: what we're about to talk about, but man, those three
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: played amazing. The linebacking crew in general played great, the
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: secondary not so much, but the linebackers played awesome. And yeah,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I think offensively, you don't have to worry about Kirk
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Cousins and the drama with will they resign him, will
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: he stick around for another year? Will we extend him
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and make him the highest paid quarterback in the league.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I like the twenty four Vikings better
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: than the twenty two Vikings.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: And before you answered it, I already knew my answer.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: I agree with you. I think twenty four so far
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: feels better than twenty twenty two. You could argue that
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: the twenty two Vikings offense was in a better spot,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: a little bit better spot, but outside of that, the
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: defense is much better. Remember it was a joke in
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, or maybe this was twenty twenty one.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm mixing up that. At the end of the
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: first and second half, so like two minutes of the
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: halfs the Vikings were gonna let the other team score.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: I think that might be twenty twenty one. But anyways,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: the defense for twenty four is way better than the
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: defense for twenty two. And special teams, I mean, we
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: don't have Ryan Wright played an amazing rookie year in
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: twenty two, but he seems to be back to that
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: form and when he's held will records. Seems like he's
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: playing like the best kicker in the league.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I agree with you.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: I think twenty four so far is better than twenty two.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: And one more thing, just on the twenty two Vikings.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: They were kind of the comeback kids that year. I mean,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I forget how many like either come from behind wins
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: or how many like one score wins they had. I'm
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: just looking over at the biggest comeback in NFL history
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: that we've got on the wall there, like that was
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: one of those games where it was one score, it
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: went into overtime, and I don't know, the Vikings haven't
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: had many games like that. Yeah, this year they've won
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: by a few and they've they've had a few close calls.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: The Packers game was close there at that.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Cold game the second half, that cold fight back a
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: little bit.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean it's not like the Vikings are
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: blowing out their opponents like we wish they would. Yeah,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: but they're offensively I think a little more astute. I
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: think Kevin O'Connell is a better play caller now than
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: he was two years ago, and.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: He's just going to keep getting better too. All right,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Continuing with Roses, I guess for me. You mentioned it earlier.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: The Vikings defense, specifically Cashman Van Ginkle and Jonathan Gridnard.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Those guys are monsters. Those guys are three of the
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: best players on the team and their first year Vikings
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: brought in by chaos or not well kind of chaos,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: but brought in by quasi. The defense is definitely the reason,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: more so than the offense, that the Vikings are eight
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: and two at this moment. They kind of disappeared for
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: a few games there, but they seem to be back
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: in you know, elite form, granted against some lower level
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: of competition, but I'm very excited about this defense. I
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: think there's a lot of reasons to be excited about
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: this defense. Here's a stat for you, Van Ginkle, he
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: had two sacks and three tackles for loss. Pretty sweet, huh.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Pat Jones also had two sacks and three tackles for loss.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Pat Jones just suddenly appear against the Titans.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: He was a few weeks defensive game ball winner, like
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: weeks one, two, and three maybe, and then he just
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: like disappeared, almost Dallas Turner esque.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: You know, I wonder, and this is pure speculation that
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: does no good for anybody. But I wonder if he
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: was kind of told like, yeah, you're on the trade block,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: like if we can find a good a good value,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: if we can get a good deal, you might be gone.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: So I wonder if that kind of got in his
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: head a little bit and maybe affected him a little bit,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: and then ultimately he didn't get traded. But you never
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: know what said or you know, planned for behind closed doors.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: For all we know, he was never on the trade
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: block and they're just content to let him be a
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Viking this year and then get a big payday next year.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: But I don't know.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: There seemed to be something that maybe he had an
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: injury that wasn't really talked about, maybe just a sore
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: ankle or something. I don't know, but he seems to
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: be back now.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: And honestly, it could just be coaching too, because I
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: think Brian Flores was quoted on Dallas Turner's relative quietness
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: right now on the Vikings defense. He was strong there
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: for a few games, and then quiet for a long time,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: and then I think he splashed again against Jacksonville.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Or then quiet again, Yeah you're right, and then quiet
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: again against the Titans, and.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Then didn't I don't think he was really on the
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: field much. And he was quoted after the game saying,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I'm going with the hot hand. I'm gonna ride the
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: hot hand whoever's hot at the moment. Yeah, they're gonna
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: get in. And maybe that's Pat Jones. Maybe Brian Flores
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: is seeing some stuff in practice throughout the week that
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, he's gonna get some snaps and we're
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: gonna see what he can do. And he must have
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: made the most of it because he got two sacks
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: and three TFLs, which is awesome. Yeah, exactly.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: So the defense for me is the most exciting part
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: of the team for me, and defense wins championships. So
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: let's hope they keep it going.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think a final rose before we get to
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the Thorns here is the Vikings just notched another win
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: and they keep doing it. I think as of right now,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: they're kind of a lock to make the playoffs. I
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: don't know that they are the number one seed all though.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: We might make another video like we did last year.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I might make another video like I did last year,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: just manipulating the playoff machine. See and if we can
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: get the Vikings into that number one seed, just for
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: fun and see how many haters we can get in
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the comments and how many people are like, oh, you're
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: so delusional. Well read the description. Man, It's just all
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: in jest. But anyways, the Vikings should still make the playoffs.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to go one in six
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: or two and five. I think they have three or
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: four more wins in them at least to get them
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: to eleven or twelve wins, and that would get pretty
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: close to your preseason prediction of right, I think I
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: said eleven. Either way, if I said twelve, I would
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: still stand by it. Right You said eleven?
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I think I'm still figuring that. I'm still
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: standing behind that while you have it up the rest
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: of the season. What did I say for wins and losses?
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: So you say, win against the Bears? Okay, lose to
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals, win against the Falcons, win against the Bears
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: at home on Monday night, win at Seattle, lose to
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Green Bay at home, and then win at Detroit in kighteen.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Hey, you know, I I don't think it's outright delusional
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: to think that all of those could happen the way
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: you just read it off, Is it one hundred percent lock. No,
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: not by any means. Is the Detroit game at the
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: last game of the season gonna be freaking difficult. Yes,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: that might be the hardest game the Vikings have left.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: But it's not delusional to think that they could beat
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: or they could do everything that I said they would
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: do in that list.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: There something that I spent a little time looking at,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: and I didn't dive super deep into this, but the
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Lions still have some tough games ahead of them too.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: The Lions have to play the Niners, and I think
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the Niners, although they're at the bottom of the NFC
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: West right now, that NFC West is wide open. Oh yeah,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I think they have three teams that are like five
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: and five or something like that, And yeah, it's anybody's
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: race at this point. I think anybody in that division
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: could win it. So they've got to play the Niners,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: and I think the Niners are hungry for a win.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: They also have to play the Bills, and the Bills
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: just beat the Chiefs, who are the last remaining undefeated
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: team in the league, and the Chiefs don't look like
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs right now. Yeah, yeah, that's obvious, and the
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Bills kind of handle them, But I don't know. I
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: think the Lions sustain a few more losses before the
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: end of the season. I don't think they finished the
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: season with one loss.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Well, just to look at it quick and we'll just
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: I'll let you react as I read them the Lions
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: rest of the season. This coming week, they play the Colts.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: They'll win that one, okay, And then they play the Bears.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: They should win that one. It's at home, yep. And
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: then they play the Packers. That'll be an interesting one.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: The Packers are kind of scrappy, but I still think
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Detroit's a way stronger team in all phases. And they
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: play the Bills. That's going to be one to and
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I think that that's a really close game. And I'm
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: gonna say the Bills win that one. To go back
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: a little bit and good point.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: But that Packers Lions game, that's on Thursday Night Football
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: December fifth, So that Thursday definitely adds a factor that
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: does doesn't seem like any other time slot adds to it.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: So definitely something to look at. So Packers Bills that
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: you say the Bills I beat the Lions.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I think the Bills beat the Lions.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: There Okay, So then the Lions take on the Bears
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: again after the Bills.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Is that one at Google? Says Soldier Field. Yeah, I
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: don't know that's an interesting one too. I don't know.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: The Bears aren't playing great right now, but there is
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: some home field advantage and the Lions are a dome
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: team playing outdoors in late December late December, So I
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: don't know that's an interesting one too. I still think
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the Lions eke it out okay. After the Bears game.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: The Lions go to the forty the next Monday night
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: football game, and that I think is also a loss.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Interesting. I don't think a lot of people will say
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: that the Lions will lose to San Francisco right now,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: but I'm saying yes for a few reasons. One, San
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Francisco is just going to be hungry for a win.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: It's a home game for them. Did I see it's
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: a primetime game too, or is it just a late
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Monday night football? Yep, Monday night football. So it's primetime
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: and Midwest slash East Coast teams don't typically do well
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: going west definitely factors. Yeah.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: So, and then, of course, after that Niners game, the
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Lions host the Vikings to end the regular season.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: And that's gonna be one to circle.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: So you said, I'll say that, you said definitely potentially
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: two lost, two more losses yea for the Lions. And
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: if the Vikings only have one more loss and their season,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: like I preseason predicted, that means the Vikings are heading
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: into that Lions game we eighteen tied for you know,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: the division lead with the Lions, and whoever wins that
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: not only wins the NFC North but potentially.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Earns the number one, number one seed.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Ye again, so many things can happen in what seven games.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: We could be.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Laughing about the Vikings having a chance to beat the
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Lions here in six weeks. I mean the thing one
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: injury Sam Donald going down totally changes the restless or.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Injuries could pile up and there could be several injuries
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: to some you know linemen or some other players that
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: you're not expecting, and yeah, it could definitely, it could
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: definitely be a much different story in late December in
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: early January.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: So yep, all that to say, I think you hit
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: the nail on the head with your final rose there
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: that it is nice the Vikings keep winning. Yeah, you
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: can have a boring win against the Titans where maybe
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: you can poke a few holes in the Vikings strength
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: here That ninety eight yard touchdown pass by Will Levis
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: is not fun to see. But they're professional athletes too.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: They win a play here and there. I think I
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: agree with you. I think the Vikings are definitely going
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: to make the playoffs, whether they're the one seed or
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: the five seed, which that looks like the only options
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: right now. And I think they're gonna kind of bowl
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: through the rest of their schedule one or two games
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: here and there that might be more difficult. Make no mistake,
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: we are not saying the Vikings are better than the Lions.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: The Lions are the team to beat I think in
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: the NFL. I think anyone with eyes right now should
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: be able to say that confidently that the Lions are
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: the best team right now.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: They're Super Bowl odds skyrocketed after the Chiefs lost.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Last thing too, and especially when you look the Vikings
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: last opponent. They only beat them by what was the score,
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three to thirteen. The Vikings beat them by ten,
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: whereas the Lions when they played the Titans just a
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: few weeks ago, they beat them by like forty plus,
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: so if you're comparing apples to apples, Yeah, I.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Would still like to point out that the Vikings held
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: the Lions to a relatively low point total thirty one
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: to twenty nine I think was the score when the
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Vikings hosted the Lions earlier this season. So that Week
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: eighteen game has so much in it, and I think
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: I think it will be and I don't know, maybe
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: there is a script writer out there. You know, they
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: have to have that one circled and they have to
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: maybe be building this crescendo towards that climactic moment of
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: that Week eighteen NFC North clash between the Vikings and
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: the Lions.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if that's one that could be flexed, I think
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: they'll look long and hard at flexing that out of
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: a noon slot.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: But oh, it's already an option to flex. Oh yeah,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: like it's on the calendar as TBD, and oh flex
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: it if they and I fully expect them to, if
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: the Vikings and Lions are in any sort of meaningful
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: situation where it could decide the number one seed, or
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: it could decide the division winner or both. You never know.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I will say too to kind of wrap up,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: at least for me, this thought. Yes, the Lions on paper,
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: not only are they better than the Vikings, they're on
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: paper better than any other team in the NFL. But
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: and this is kind of frustrating for me, and maybe
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: I'll just jump right into my first thorn do is
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: that My first thorn from the Titans game and really
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: just the Viking season overall, is that the Vikings seem
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: to be playing up or down to their level of opponent. Yes,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: the defense has been touted, other than those couple of
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: weeks where they seem to disappear, the defense is elite,
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: but overall, the team in general seems to be playing
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: tough games against their opponent, no matter who their opponent is.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: And it seems like for that reason, Yeah, you can
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: say they could beat anybody on any week and they
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: shouldn't be favored or you know, non favored by too
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: many points either way. But it is kind of frustrating
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: to think that, like, oh, yeah, the Vikings are good,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: they should win, but like it'll still be a close game,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: whether it's the Colts are the Lions. I mean, that's
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: that's my biggest thorn so far for the Vikings. This
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: weekend this season.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: And it seems like the Vikings haven't really had a
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: blowout game. I mean, the only blowout game that I
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: would consider that the Vikings have had this year is
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: against the Texans, okay, thirty four to seven, And before that,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: the Giants game was order line blowout to the Giants game,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, well, they just benched o'anniel Jones. I know, yeah,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: no one's gonna brag about beating the Giants like that's
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: just that's just hogwash. But when you beat the Texans
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: thirty four to seven. We're watching the Texans right now
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football and they're up by a touchdown
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: on the Cowboys, and the Texans looked pretty good after
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: the Vikings.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: They've sustained a few more loss, but they almost beat
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: the Lions.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've had some close ones and they've had some
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: tough losses too, but I think they're still in position
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: to probably win the AFC South potentially. I haven't paid
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: two close attention to the other teams, but yeah, probably.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: But anyways, all that to say, other than that Texans game,
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: the Vikings have just had a lot of close games
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: and you would expect, you know, these last three games.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: The Colts, the Jags, the Titans, not great teams, lower
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: tier of the league, teams that just are not known
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: for putting up a lot of points and are known for,
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: like the Lions beating the Titans. I think you said
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: it was just giving up a ton of points to
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: opposing offenses. So yeah, it's a little frustrating that the
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Vikings can't seem to get it figured out. I think
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: they've been figuring it out though. I think it's part
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: of the process. We were saying this last year. Remember
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: the Vikings. If the Vikings made the playof last year,
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: you said this a lot, they're.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Going to be a dangerous team. Oh yeah, because they
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: know how to face adversity. They know how to win
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: tough games. And I think the same is true for
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: this year's Vikings too. You know, they didn't really face
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: adversity the first three weeks of the season, and then
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: they kind of had a test in London against the Jets,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: and then they lost too to the Lions and the Rams,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: and they overcame that and they've overcome some injury. They
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: went out Quacy helped the team by going out and
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: getting Cam Robinson.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Such a pivotal trade to that and that one may
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: have saved the season.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: And cam Akers, yeah to kind of step in for
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: a flailing ty Chandler at their running back two position.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: So I mean, you got to give kudos to Quacy
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: for helping the team when they needed it, but also
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: you got to give props to the rest of the
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: team and Kevin O'Connell and the coaching staff for continuing
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: to motivate these guys to go out and play hard
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: each and every week. I think it's a really unselfish
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: locker room. I think they just want to win games,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: and I don't think anybody cares what the stat line
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: is publicly.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: I think, and this is me just kind of watching
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: his interviews, I think Justin Jefferson would love to be
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: getting more yards. Yeah, I think he understands the gravity
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: of the situation that a win is better than one
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: hundred yards receiving or even a touchdown. But I think,
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: you know, superstars want the ball in their hands, not
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: to And I realized that I just totally cut into
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: your thought undercut your thought process, because I do agree
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: with you overall, but I think to say that this
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: is totally unselfish and that nobody really cares about stats
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: is not quite true, because I do think if you
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: ask Justin Jefferson, in his heart of hearts, if he
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: wanted to have twenty targets and three hundred yards and
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: five touchdowns every game. What if a receiver said, no,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: I don't want that, then you don't want that guy
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: in her team.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Well you can see it. You can see it in
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: his body language. He got the last of the game
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: balls in Kevin O'Connell's postgame speech to the locker room,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: and you know, he broke a record, so to speak.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: He's got the most yards through five seasons in the
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: NFL as a receiver, both in the franchise and in
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: the league, and he didn't really seem to care like
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell kind of hyped it up, like, yeah, he
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: had eighty seven yards today and he's now on his
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: way to being one of the greatest of all times. Yea.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: And Justin gets the game ball, and you know, he
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: gives him a hug, but you can just tell he's like,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: I wanted more. He wanted more.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: And I know I'm kind of going against the point
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: that I was just trying to make, but I do
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: think truly justin Jefferson also knows. I mean, he is
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: the captain, he is the face of the franchise. He
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: knows winning does mean more than one hundred yards and
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: two touchdowns. Sure, but I mean there's also you're never
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: gonna say I don't want one hundred yards and two
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: touchdowns or whatever. So I think there is that he
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: might be in that weird spot too of like, yes,
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: I'm doing all these things. Statistically, I got the biggest
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: contract ever for a non quarterback. We're winning, so there's
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: nothing to be complaining about. I think in this same
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: scenario Stefan Diggs, he might be missing a practice. He
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: might be showing up with his hood over his head,
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: oh for sure. So he probably is a little frustrated
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: or maybe disappointed is not the right word, but it's
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: the only one that I can think of. He probably
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: is a little disappointed in his lack of you know,
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: just historical stats right now. But I think he, you know,
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: he is level headed enough to know like we're winning
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: eight and two is not you don't get that every year.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Well, and I think he's maturing and he's learning, and
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: he's been this way. I mean that's kind of the
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: anomaly of Justin Jefferson is he's kind of been this
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: way since he got into the league. He's just had
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: a very sure personality about him anyways, both in front
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: of the camera and on the field, and I'm sure
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: behind the scenes too. I think he's a pretty genuine guy.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: But he's he's learning some valuable lessons. When you're the
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: highest paid non quarterback player in the league, you're gonna
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: attract coverage, and he's been draped like crazy. And something
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: I was thinking about earlier today, he took a pretty
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: nice pass interference penalty I think in the first or
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: second quarter against the Titans. Those things don't show up
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: on the stat sheet. They're not credited to him as
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: yards if you add those things, because in the NFL
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: now it's a spot foul. And I think that was
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: like a thirty some yard penalty against the Titans. Like
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: that's thirty yards that Justin Jefferson gains. It's almost as
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: if he caught that ball and was tackled right where
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: he caught the ball. Unfortunately, it doesn't show up in
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: the stat sheet that way, and he doesn't get the
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: credit for it. But I think he's learning like, Okay,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: if this is my lot in life right now, that
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be double and triple teamed all over
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: the field and guys are going to be flailing themselves
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: over me to try and prevent me from catching the
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: ball because they know I'm so good. Then I'm just
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: gonna do what I can to get the ball down
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: the field and help my team get into position to score.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: It still helps the team, and I think Jefferson would say, hey,
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: I'm doing the Lord's work over here. If they got
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: to hold me to give me more yards, that's fine, yep.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: And he did that for sure and put the Vikings
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: in a good spot. So I don't know. Yes, we
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: would all love to see Justin Jefferson get more yards,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: score more touchdowns, and I know he would too, but
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: the Vikings are winning games. I don't think he's complaining.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: I think he's not public. It's all silent behind closed
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: doors and they're taking care of it anyway. I think
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: he's using it as motivation, like right, let's keep grinding,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: let's keep going, Let's keep you know, let's throw a
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: few extra balls after practice with Sam Darnold, keep working
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: on that chemistry. Let's keep fine tuning these routes so
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: that he can just throw it to me and I'm
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: there and I can catch it and we can win
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: some more games down a stretch.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: We've seen what happens against the Jaguars when Sam Donald
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: tries to force balls to really anybody, but specifically Justin Jefferson.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: All three of those picks were targets to Justin Jefferson
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: against the Jags. But all that that was.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: My thorn is that the Vikings continue to play to
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: the level of their opponent and they just haven't dominated
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: anybody for a while.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think a big thorn for me is this
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: defensive secondary. They really showed some signs of weakness. Joshua
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Tellus was the lowest graded PFF score on the team,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: and he was the one that gave up that huge
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: what it wasn't ninety seven yards? Ny eight yards?
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: Whatever?
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's not to say that he played terribly.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: And that guy's all over the field. And I mean,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Brian Flores is like a chemist, you know, in the
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: last and he's mixing up all sorts of stuff. And
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: he's got Harrison Smith, who's you know, older than we
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: are lining up with, you know, two fingers in the dirt,
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: ready to go blitz the guy one play and then he's,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: you know, lining up is the strong safety on another
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: play and he's all over the place. So you can't
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: fault a guy like Josh Mittelis for giving up a
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: big play like that. Unfortunately, it didn't wreck the game
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: for the Vikings. But Harrison Smith is starting to show
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: his age, and I think that's obvious. I don't think
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: it's so obvious and so detrimental that he needs to
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: be benched yet. And I think his presence on the
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: field is huge, and I think those other guys feed
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: off of his energy. And he's still had an interception
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: that kind of sealed the game against the Titans, So
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying bench Harrison Smith. I saw something today
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: on Twitter that said, can we just crown a Hall
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: of Famer while they're still playing? And I think he's,
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: you know, one of the very few that deserves an
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: honor like that. He's been doing it for so long,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: he's been so consistently good. I'm not at all trying
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: to downplay Harrison Smith. But they showed some cracks, they
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: showed some weaknesses in this is a unit that has
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: played really really well and has a lot of interceptions
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: on the season. Cam Bydam has a few, Byron Murphy
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: has a few, Mattelis I think has at least one.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: I think so oh yeah, he got the like the
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: tip one, the one against the forty nine ers, and
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: Harrison Smith now has a few I think on the season,
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: at least the one.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean they're a unit that's played
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: really well throughout the season, and they just they did
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: not have their best game against the Titans at the
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: ninety seven ninety eight yarders the one that stands out,
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: I think, but there are several other plays that were
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: just they just kept giving up those big chunk plays,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: and it's it comes down to I think it comes
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: down to play calling, and I think at times Brian
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: Flores was getting a little soft because the Vikings were
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: up by a lot, and he was like, we're not
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: going to press. We're gonna just kind of back off
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: and let the players come to us. And it's also
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: just the play of the guys too, and getting in
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: the right position and making sure that you're ready to
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: take on whatever comes at you. So yeah, I think
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: the defensive secondary needs to improve they've got to do
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: a little soul searching and figure out how they can
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: right the ship for the rest of the season.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: I totally agree with you, But can I talk you
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: off the ledge just a little bit on that point specifically.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: And I don't think I'm gonna say anything that you
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: wouldn't agree with either. I think and I think you
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: said this too. The Mattellis ninety eight yard touchdown pass.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's a really good player that I said
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: it earlier in the episode. Good players on the other
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: team they get paid two that's gonna happen at some point,
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: Like he may have made one mistake, and that ninety
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: eight yard touchdown maybe a culmination of like three or
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: four players making it just a little bit of a mistake,
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: or just one step when they should have taken two steps,
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: or just just a tenth of a second looking tenth
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: of a second looking this way when they should have
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: been looking that way. That could have just been a
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: culmination of a few things. And again I think you
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: agree with me.
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: It's just it.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: Looked really bad that Mettellis was the one that totally
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: whiffed on knocking the ball down and it went for
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: ninety eight yards. We both know Mittellis is one of
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: the better players on the team, let alone the defense,
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: and he's going to be just fine.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm not worried about him.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: Also about that, and this will come up later in
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: my game balls, but Harrison Smith, he is going off
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: of at least his second game now of playing every
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: defensive snap. And I mentioned this last week when I
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: noticed that he played every snap on defense, that I
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: thought there was something in the offseason when he like
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: re did his deal to solidify that he was going
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: to be on the team this year, that there was
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: going to be some kind of I think Koc even
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: said something something to the tune of, yeah, Harrison Smith,
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: he's going to be He didn't say pitch count, but
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: the idea was that Harrison Smith was going to be
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: on some kind of a pitch count this year, and
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: you know, not play every single play of every single game.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: And here we are, and I don't know about three
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: games ago, but at least this game against the Jaguars,
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: and I know for sure against the or this game
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: against the Titans, and also against the Jaguars last week,
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: Harrison Smith played every single defensive snap for both of
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: those games.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: So credit to him.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, credit to him for what is he thirty five,
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: which go figure, that's that's not too much older than
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: you and I, but thirty five as an NFL player,
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: he's older than we are. Credit to him for continuing
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: to be in there. And if he were playing poorly
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: at the safety position, we would see it. We would
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: say like, yeah, where's Harrison Smith on that? Like why
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: is he the one, you know, getting burned for a
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: ninety eight yard touchdown? And maybe he did have a
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: small part in that one. I don't know, but I
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: do know he got the game ceiling interception, and I
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: do know he is a Hall of Famer on the
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: field currently, So I do think. And the third point
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: of kind of talking you off the ledge about the
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: Vikings secondary is if you look at the Vikings defense
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: and they're rushing numbers, the numbers that teams have when
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: they're trying to rush against the Vikings, they're not able
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: to The Vikings don't allow rushing yards. I think one
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: of the only one hundred yard rushers this season was
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: Jordan Mason in like.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: Week two for the forty niners.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: The Vikings are a team that you do not you
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: don't successfully rush against them. Jonathan Taylor got like thirty
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: or forty yards. Nobody has succeeded as a rusher against
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: the Vikings. So when you're the cartoon and you're plugging
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: every hole of the dam, eventually the water is going
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: to come out somewhere. And I think that's just teams saying, Okay,
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: we can't rush against you, Maybe we can throw a
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: quick pass, maybe we can gain a few garbage time
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: passing yards, and so offenses are gonna win somehow. They're
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: gonna find some way to gain yards and move the ball.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: And if you're gonna try to do that, at least
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: one way you're able to do it against the twenty
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: twenty four Vikings is maybe throw throw the ball a
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: few times, but you're still not going to score very often.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: So just to kind of pull you away from the ledge,
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: not that you were saying this is a terrible team
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: and it's the secondary's fault, but I think it's one
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: of those definitions of ben don't break. Yeah, they're vending
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: with the passing yardage against, but they're not breaking.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: I would just to kind of counter the argument a
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: little bit. I don't know that the secondary and I
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: don't have the stats to back this up. You tried,
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: I saw you looking for some numbers. This is just anecdotal.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: Well I wasn't looking for those numbers, but anecdotal. I
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: watched the game. I think the linebacking corps and the
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: defensive line are really to credit for stop the run
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: game against the Titans. Absolutely not to say that the
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: safeties and the corners weren't involved. Of course they were.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: They have to be, and I'm sure they all had
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: some rushing tackles. Again, I don't have concrete numbers to
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: look at, but I think that the line and the
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: linebackers played better than the secondary. That's the point I'm
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: trying to make. And we've seen this defense play well
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: in all three levels. We've seen them play well in
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: the trenches. We've seen those backers play really well. We've
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: seen these safeties and corners play really well. I think
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: we're kind of getting out of this sleepy phase of
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: the Vikings defense and we're getting back to the Vikings
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: defense of the early part of the season. And I
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: think you get guys healthy, you get Harrison Smith who's
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: playing every single defensive snap in a game and feeling
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: great at thirty.
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: Five years old.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know about we'd have to hear from him
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: if he's feeling okay.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: But he must be still, he must be feeling okay
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: if he's not saying, coach, take me out for a few.
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: And you look at the injury report, he's usually on there,
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: not because he's injured, but just because veterans, I think,
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: can I don't know the rules on that, but they
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: can take rest days.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: I've seen the official injury reports say like, you know,
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: rest day.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they are not injury related, Yeah, exactly. And so
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: I think when they reach a certain number of years
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: of service, they get some time to just and I'm
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: sure I would venture to guess, because like as a teacher,
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: I get I accumulate sick days, and I get like,
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: you know, twenty summer year or something or not twenty
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: a year. No, it's not that many. It's like five
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: or ten a year. But they roll over, yeah, and
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: they never expire, And so I can accumulate a lot.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: So I've got like thirty banked up right now. And
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: when i'm you know, fifty years old, sixty years old,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: I'll probably have like a couple hundred. You'll take some
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: of those too, so yeah, But anyways, I don't know
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: if that's how it works for NFL players, but I mean, man,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: guys like deserve it if he can come out and
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: play like he does. And again, I'm not saying that
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: he's the problem, and I'm not saying that the secondaries
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: the problem. I'm just saying they showed some signs of weakness.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: I think they can tighten up and I think this
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: defense can be suffocating like they have been in the past. Yeah.
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I just had for me one more thorn, and
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: for me it's Jalen Naylor. Maybe I'm too critical, maybe not,
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: But Ryan Boser on Twitter had a really good tweet
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: kind of encapsulated, encapsulating my thoughts on Jalen Naylor, kind
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: of listing out that he had a muff pun against
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: Green Bay which was the catalyst to changing that game
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: from a blowout to a really close game. He had
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: a fumble scoop score versus Detroit that was overturned, game
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: changing drop against the Rams. Remember, Darnold was kind of
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: running for his life and he dumped it off for
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: a three or four yard pass that would have been
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: a first down, maybe a touchdown. But Naylor had it
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: in his arms and he's dropped it. Ryan Bozer said
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: that he went full Troy Williamson in Tennessee with that huge, beautiful,
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: maybe the best pass of Sam Donald's professional career that
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: just dropped at the goal line into Naylor's hands, and
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: it did. It's like Naylor was pretending to be a
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: basketball hoop. The ball went straight in. They should have
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: given Sam Donald two points for that. But I replied
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: to that with the skull hoop and yeah, three points here.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: I replied to that and said, never go full Troy Williamson.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: But Bozer finished it by saying, he makes some good plays,
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: but the negatives outweigh the positives, and he says, cut
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: of snaps, and I think a combination of Brandon Powell
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: and shoot oh, Trent Surfield.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: Sfield's played well.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but the combination of those two are better as
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: a wide receiver three than Jalen Naylor is, just because
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: he seems to crumble in the few opportunities He's getting well,
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: and I'm ready for Naylor to move on.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: And you've said this. I think Dustin Baker has said
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: this on his show and our show before TJ. Hoginson
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: effectively plays that wide receiver three role anyways, and he's
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: kind of been mysteriously well, he's still working in I mean,
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: he had a life changing injury Tjherson did, and we're
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: still getting some uptick and value really since TJ.
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: Hockinson came in from Josh Oliver, who's had a career
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: year so far.
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, and not not negating any of that
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: at all, But I guess when it comes to Okay,
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: we've got Jalen Naylor who's struggling and he can make
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: some plays. Well, if you're Kevin O'Connell, the plays that
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: would go to him. See if you can find something
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: to get to TJ. You know, work him into those
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: spots where you were going to Jalen Naylor before. Continue
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: to try to feed you Jefferson the ball because he's
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: your playmaker. Continue to find Jordan Addison like you did
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: for forty seven yards in the first quarter. That was awesome,
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: and that may be the best play of That may
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: be the actual best play of Sam Donald's career. It
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: could even maybe above that ninety eight yard touchdown or
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: ninety seven or whatever, because I'll give a lot of
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: the credit to that long bomb to Justin Jefferson because
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: he's the one that Yeah, he kind of weaved his
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: way and you know, got into the end zone down
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: there at the end.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: Donald and taking nothing away from Jordan Addison on that touchdown,
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: he made it happen. But Donald, that may be the
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: best play quarterbacking play of his career.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: Something I was talking about with my brother in law
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: when he was here watching the game with us. Jordan Addison,
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: he's kind of that deep ball threat and that's kind
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: of his game. He can run the route tree and
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: if you give him some routes, he'll find it. He
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: can do some of those crossing routes and get open
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: in the middle. But he excels those long downfield passes
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: and I think that's what he wants, and I think
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: that's kind of I think that was the motivation behind
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: this whole free three thing.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: Was well he and you said it too. He's he's
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: been saying that for years.
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah. I'm not trying to justify what he's saying,
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: but I think I think he knows that he's that
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: downfield threat. He's the deep ball guy. He's he's the shorter,
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: quieter Randy Moss.
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he is pretty fluid on those those longer, deeper routes.
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: The only times we've really complained about him is we've
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: perceived those quick scaty routes where he's supposed to run
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: five yards and cut in, we've perceived that he's running
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: them incorrectly. And maybe that's true. But when he seems
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: to be, like the highlight reel is when he's like
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: just cutting through and just going deep and like you're
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: just saying he's the deep ball guy.
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: And I think the difference between him and Justin Jefferson
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: is Justin Jefferson is the all, all in wide receiver.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: He can do it all. He can play out of
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: the slot, he can play out wide. He can run
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: those quick out routes, he can run those quick in routes,
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: he can run those post routes, he can run everything.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: He's Justin Jefferson has the entire route tree at his disposal,
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: and you put the ball within five yards of him
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: and he's probably gonna come down with it. Yet we
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: don't see very many things, very many plays where he doesn't,
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: and we've seen Sam Darnald try to force it to him,
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: and I think those are more on Sam Darnold than
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: they are on Justin Jefferson.
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: Honestly, you remember when Jefferson was drafted Before you and
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: I are, anybody who only follows professional football knew anything
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: about him. We were just hearing, Oh, Jefferson, he'll be
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: a good slot receiver, he'll be a decent inside guy. Nobody,
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: at least on our thought process, thought he would turn
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: into the next Rainy Moss, the next face of the league.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: But how great is it that.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: He has yeah, and so cool that he's just such
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: a great guy to back it up, Oh yeah, I
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: got a great personality, and he's staying out of trouble
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: at least for the most part right now. And you
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: can't complain about a guy like that.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: But yeah, all that to say, I'm going to advocate
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: for a combination of Brandon Powell, who made a freaking
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: amazing catch, maybe the best catch of his career, saving
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: it from the ground. A combination of Brandon Powell and
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: Trent Sherfield to really take all of the snaps that
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: Jalen Naylor would have taken. I'd be okay with Jalen
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: Naylor not playing again on offense.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: And I would advocate for more passes to TJ.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: Hocken and I agree with that too. Any other thorns
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: for you? Or are we going to game balls? So
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: let's hand out some game balls offense? Where are you
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: going with?
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: All? Right?
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: My offensive game ball? Just because it seems like we've
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: got what should be back to normal for Vikings version
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: of Sam Darnold, He's my offensive game ball. I keep
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: wanting to say no turnovers. Yes, that pitch fumble to
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: Aaron Jones on the first drive of the game was
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: technically credited to Sam Donald, maybe even his fault. Maybe
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: it wasn't one hundred percent great pitch, But outside of that,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: I'm comfortable enough saying no turnovers for him, especially after
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: throwing three picks to the Jaguars the week before four
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: that one didn't count.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: He looked great.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: Best game of his Vikings career, I think, and seems
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: like he has made an effort to correct the issues
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: that were popping up in this Lowell period. I think
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: he's earned it, Sam Donald my Vikings game ball on
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: offense this week.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: I'm going Jordan addison forty seven yard touchdown was awesome.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: You said it was maybe Sam Donald's best throw of
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: his career. It might be jan one of Jordan Addison's
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: best plays of his career. And again, we just got
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: done talking about him. He might be not as multifaceted
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: as Justin Jefferson, but I still think he's a really
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: good receiver, really good player, and he makes play. Yeah,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: and you can't, you can't. I think he was Was
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: he the only receiving touchdown? No, cam Akers had a
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: receiving touchdown, But yeah, Justin Jefferson's probably frustrated that he
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: doesn't have as many touchdowns as he could this year.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: But Jefferson's also not never been a touchdown machine. No,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: he gets five to sixty seven eight. You know, he's
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: not a twenty touchdown guy. He's just really good. He
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: will be at some point he'll get a twenty touchdown year.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I agree with that.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: Jordan Addison, he gets my offensive game ball YEP.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: For defense for me, I said it earlier. Harrison Smith
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: played every single defensive snap. The guy is a living,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: breathing Hall of Famer. I saw that tweet too. I
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: wish I remembered who it was that said, can we
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: just induct guys when they're still in? I wonder is
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: there another sport I feel like, like NASCAR, you could
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: be inducted maybe coming in. Who was the Redskins coach
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: that was an inducted and then years later came back
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: as a coach again, Joe Gibbs or something like that.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: Maybe, Yeah, anyways, like it he if if Harrison Smith
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: doesn't get first ballot Hall of Fame, I no longer
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: care about the Hall of Fame, Like that's ridiculous, kind
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: of like Jim Marshall not being in and Chuck Foreman
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: not being in. That's egregious. All three of those guys
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: should be in right now. And I know Harrison Smith
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: is still an active player. I know that's against the rules,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: but they should be in.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: Those other two, though, are are crimes? Actually, Like that's criminal?
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: How did those guys not get in? There's tons of
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: guys in the Hall of Fame that are not as
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: deserving as Jim Marshall and Chuck Foreman. Anyways, Harrison Smith
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: my defensive game ball.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good one. I'm gonna cheat a little
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: bit and I'm gonna give three defensive game balls. Oh no,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Van Ginkel and Pat Jones for reasons
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: we've already mentioned. They both had two sacks, they both
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: had he tackles for loss. It was nice to see
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: Pat Jones. He's kind of my guy. I like Pat Jones. Oh,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: he was kind of my early season defensive game ball guy.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: He started hot and then he kind of quieted down,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: like we said, but he's come back in this game.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: That was fun to watch. Blake Cashman, though, it's hard
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: to underestimate his presence on the field because when he
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: was gone, the Vikings defense seemed to struggle, and.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: He was gone for three games when the Vikings lost.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: Two of them.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, again, it's hard to underestimate his presence
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: on the field, and that's why he's got to get
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: a ball from me. Like he's just he's a quiet leader.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: He's got the green dots, so he's kind of quarterbacking
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: the defense. I think I think there's a lot of
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: trust there with Brian Flores. I think he's Yeah, I
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: don't know. Blake Cashman.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more on Blake Cashman. Well,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: the other two guys too, but I've said it before.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: I think Blake Cashman is the heartbeat of this Vikings defense.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: We've seen how different and worse this team looks when
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: he's not on the field, and how much better the defense.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: We're saying it, the defense is back. I wonder what change. Oh,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: Blake Cashman came.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: Back, that's why.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: And the other two guys, he said, mangingle and Pat Jones?
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: Do you remember, excuse me a burp. Right before the season,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: we had Dustin Baker on and I kind of brought
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: up the question of like, who would you be surprised
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: the most or the least about if these players were cut?
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: And some of the players I think I listed like
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: five players, and a few of them were cut, like
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: Lewis Scene and a couple other guys, but one of
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: them was Pat Jones, And I'm pretty sure I said
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised at all if Pat Jones was cut.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: I think he was my second least surprising player to
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: be cut, and I'm happy to be wrong. Hey, the
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: guy's been balling out on the games he's been balling
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: out for, which is more often than not. I'm a
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: Pat Jones fan. I'm realistic. I know he will probably
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: get signed for bigger and better money to a different
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: team next year, and good for him. But if the
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: Viking somehow could keep him without you know, totally hamstringing
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: their cap, I'd be okay with it.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: Although they do.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: Have Dallas Turner in waiting to kind of fill up
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: whatever role would be left by Pat Jones.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: I think his quietness, Dallas Turner's quietness is largely due
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: to just so much depth ahead of him. Who are
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: you going to take off the field? Yeah, exactly So No.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: I like this defense, and I think there's so much
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: more to tap into on this defense. I'm excited how
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: to see how they play down the stretch here.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: One really exciting thing is that Blake Cashman. He is
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: signed to be a Viking through twenty twenty six, so
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: this year, next year, and the year after, so he'll
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: be the heart of the defense hopefully for at least
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: this season and two more beyond that.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: So that's love it to be happy about school special
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: teams game ball.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: My special team's game ball, Ryan Wright. I think of
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: the three because he got your kick or your punter
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: and your ear long snapper are the traditional like three
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: you know, special teamers that would get this ball. Ryan
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: Wright in the heart of the other two guys going
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: down and having to work with two other guys out
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: of nowhere. Ryan Wright has not only in that time period,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: with the last two games played very well. I think
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: he had his best punt against of the season against
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: the Titans here, but also he had a rough season
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: last year and it seems like he's bounced back. I
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: think he dropped a few pounds, which as a punter,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know how much of that really matters, but
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: he definitely seems to have taken to heart the idea
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: that hey, they brought in a guy and not just
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: some like random dude, like a guy that almost made
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: his team the year before, and I had actual competition
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: and Ryan Wright. He played great against the Titans, and
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: I think he's been having great year so far.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna give mine to Jake McQuaid, mostly because
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: we really haven't heard his name, and that's a good thing. Yeah,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: you know, when you have a new long snapper, and
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: when you've had a long snapper like the Vikings have
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: had an interest to Paula for a long time. All
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: Pro has been very consistent, very good at what he does.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: When he goes down and you bring in someone else
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: like Jake McQuaid and you don't hear his name. That's
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: a good thing, and I think he deserves a game
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: ball for that. Just super consistent, getting the ball into
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: the hands of your specialists and letting them do what
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: they do. That's awesome. And we really haven't had to
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: worry about, Oh no, here we go, we're gonna punt.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: This could be bad, or oh no, we're going to
• 1:08:44
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• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: haven't had to say that. He's put the ball right
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: where it needs to be. He got a little excited,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: I think on his first one, that one last week
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: against the Jags. But other than that, he's been he's been.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: Solid, well in some sneaky. The talking point about that
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: one too is he's technically on the practice squad, Jake
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: McQuaid is, and he has one more elevation because you
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: can elevate guys on the practice squad I think three
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: times before you have to sign them to have them
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: elevated again. You can keep them on the practice squad
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: after those three times. It's just you can't elevate them
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: to play in a game unless you sign them to
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: the fifty three man roster.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: So not to yeah, sidetrack you, But Brandon Aubrey just
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: made a sixty four yard field goal. Oh there's a flag,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: But there's a flag on So sixty four would tie
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: for the second longest field goal in NFL history because
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: I think Tucker made a sixty six yarder within the
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: last year or two. Anyways, we're distracted.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but Jake mcquad, he's on the practice squad. He
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: can be called up, I think by rule one more
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: time here this week against the Bears, and after that,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: even if Depaula was healthy, he can't come back because
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: he's on IR in that same YEP minimum four games.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: And I don't know, I haven't heard anything about de
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: Paula if he's gonna be oh man that we're distracted
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: by this. This penalty on the kick, the personal foul
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: against the Cowboys. So it looks like, yeah, the Cowboys
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: kicked a sixty four yard kick and made it, but
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: there was a personal foul. I thought they were singing
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: on the Texans, which gave the Cowboys a first down
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: and took off the three points for that kick. Oh
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: is it roughing the kicker running into the kicker something?
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: This is outdated information by the time it's hit in
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: your years anyways. Oh, it's it's going over the long
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: snapper as we're talking about a long snapper too. But yeah,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: the Vikings will have to figure something out against who's
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: the game after the Bears for the Vikings, Yeah, we
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: already talked about this.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: The Cardinal So for the.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: Cardinals, the Vikings will either need to sign Jake McQuaid
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: to the fifty three man roster and cut somebody else,
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: or keep McQuaid on the practice squad and sign a
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: different practice or a different long snapper and cut somebody else,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: or just cut McQuaid from the practice squad, sign a
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: different long snapper to the practice squad and then they
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: could elevate that guy. So there's some interesting things to
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: long snapper wise, or to see.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: If there's a guy on the roster that can fill
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: the gap until DePaul is ready to come back. Against
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: the Falcons, it would be the following week. Yeah, so
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: all that would depend on a few things. If DePaul
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: is ready to go for after those four games, and
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: then I guess that would be against the Falcons because
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: if he's ready to go, then you just cut McQuaid,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: you sign a different guy that.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: You can elevate for one week and you just roll
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: with it. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how that works.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: But yeah, his game ball, he's your special team's game ball.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean especially I guess I didn't even
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: really know all of the practice squad INDs and outs
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: that you just very succinctly described it. It doesn't matter
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: for the game. Well, but I didn't know that, and
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: that's that's good information. So yeah, he gets my game
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: ball for more than one reason now, because I mean
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: he's literally going week to week. Yeah, my job is
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: week to week and I could be cut at any moment.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: Oh there was a near interception there, yep. Anyways, yeah,
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: game balls. I think we can map that up. Let's
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: move on to the Bears, all right. Playing the Bears
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: at Soldier Field in week twelve, the day after my birthday. Interesting, well,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: happy early birthday. So yeah, Chicago almost beat the Packers.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: They were they were a blocked field goal away from
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: beating the Packers, which I mean, on paper, the Packers
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: should be way better than the Chicago Bears. Right now,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: today's Monday, the eighteenth of November. It's late in the day,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: but I wouldn't have been surprised if I woke up
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: at some point today and saw that the Bears had
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: fired Matt and Matt Eberflus. I think Brian Eberfleu.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: Brian, Oh, we need to look this up because I'm
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: pretty confident I could be wrong too.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know it's Matt.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: Brian's is eel twin, but I wouldn't have been surprised
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: if he reflu got fired today. Friend of the show, Forrest,
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: who will be on maybe potentially next week or the
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: week after, we need to verify that with him. He's
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: a Bears fan. A friend of the show, Forrest told
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: me a few weeks ago that the Bears don't typically
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: fire coaches in the season, So even if they've already
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: decided like, yeah, this isn't gonna work Everfluce is out,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: maybe they just would keep rolling with him through the season.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but I wouldn't have been shocked if
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: he had been fired this morning. He wasn't, which means
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: he might still be fighting for his ever loving life
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: against the Vikings. And when you have nothing lose, you're
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: the most scary.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't know.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: The Vikings are currently favored. At least they were earlier
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: in the day by three and a half points, which
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: is not a ton but to be the away team
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: and still be favored, that's pretty nice. And the Vikings
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: have a bad habit of letting other teams kind of
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: stay in the game, so hopefully they don't let that
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: bury them. But yeah, all decent storylines to keep track of.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, I think some keys to victory. Sam
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: Darnold's got to stay away from those turnovers. Yeah, And
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: I think we were all kind of like, oh no,
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: here we go again with that kind of faux pa
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: pitch oh yeah to Aaron Jones at the beginning of
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: this Titans game. And fortunately, and I think Dustin Baker
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: tweeted about this, it didn't really mess the game up
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: too much. It really wasn't that detrimental. And I even
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: texted you and I'm like, well, there we go. The
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: game's over, and he said, I we'll forget about that
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: fumbled by the game, And I didn't forget about it,
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: but it didn't really matter at the end of the game,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: and that's a good thing. So hopefully we can say
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: the same thing about this Bears game. Hopefully there aren't
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: any turnovers, and if they are, they're kind of inconsequential, Like, well,
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: it was fine, it ended up not being a big
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: deal and Vikings win, hopefully.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: My key to victory. I guess this is specifically for
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: this game, but definitely for the rest of the season
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: here on out because we're looking at playoff push now.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: They can't waste opportunities. They can't have the huge forty
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: five fifty yard bomb to Jalen Naylor that just goes
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: straight through his arms because he doesn't go figure an
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: NFL wide receiver doesn't know how to catch a football.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: They can't have like they did against I think it
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: was the Jaguars. They had that third and one and
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: they tried to get cute and pass.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: It ended up.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: Taking like a seven eight nine yard sack and that
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: was hard to watch. Had to settle for a field goal. Like,
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: they just can't waste opportunities to lock down a game,
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: and against a Bears team that is on the verge
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: of firing everybody.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: Maybe they've already.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: Made that decision in house, they just haven't done it yet.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: You just you have to beat the Bears. If you
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: don't beat the Bears, you don't have any point of
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: trying to make the playoffs because you're not gonna do
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: anything anyways.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the defense needs to really keep the
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: pedal to the metal too. Oh yeah, I think this
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: game against the Titans was kind of a wake up
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: call for that secondary should be. I think the secondary
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: had been playing well enough up to the Titans game
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: that everybody was like, oh, no, they're fine, they're good.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: And then again, I think there were some flaws, some
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: holes exposed in that secondary against the Titans, and that
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: needs to be fixed. And you've got Caleb Williams, You've
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: got rom Adunzie. You've got some weapons on that Bears team,
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: and if you let them, they'll make some big plays
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: on you. They're not the worst team in football. They're
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: not the best team in football either, but they're certainly
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: not the worst team in football. And they've proven that
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: they can win games and they can move the ball.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: So it's it's going to take all three levels of defense,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: the line, the linebackers, and the secondary to put a
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: stop to that. And I think Brian Flores too needs
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: to really put the pedal to the medal and kind
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: of go unhinged, almost like you said, you know, if
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: you don't beat the Bears, then what are you doing?
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: He was quoted saying this last week, Well, if the
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: opportunities right, I'd be interested in being a head coach. Again. Well,
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: if that's what you want, then start auditioning now.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: And maybe he's auditioning for a Bears head coaching Jeb,
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: how that.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: Would stink, But I would understand, I would get it.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: You are right, though, The Bears have shown that they
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: can beat teams, and Caleb Williams was drafted first overall
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: for a reason. He was touted as the best prospect
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: since Trevor Lawrence for reason. The Bears are not an
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: automatic beat, but the Vikings should beat them on paper.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: They're better than the Bears in every aspect of the game.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: They absolutely should. It would be a gut wrenching game
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: if the Bears beat the Vikings. It would I would
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: almost say, burn it all down. It doesn't matter anyways.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: But you're kind of a hot and cold thing.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: I very much, am. But here's my official prediction. I
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: think the Vikings they're going to beat the Bears, but
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be a battle because the Vikings
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: apparently can't play games that aren't battles, whether it's against
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: the best team or the worst team. I think they're
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: gonna beat the Bears by four points, twenty eight to
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: twenty four. And I think the Vikings get up to
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: a decent lead and then coast and let the Bears
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: come back, and eventually they tighten it up to win
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: the game.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: So I did not enter my prediction. That's fine. You've
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: been formulating your opinion.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: Over the course of the last hour, and I have.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: I've come to a conclusion. Are you ready?
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: Are you gonna? I'm ready, I'm ready.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: I don't think the Vikings struggle with the Bears. I
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: really don't. In fact, I think, are you gonna do it?
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: Are you gonna say the score that you made fun
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: of me?
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 3: No? No, I'm not.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: It might be close, but I did want to get
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: a reaction. Yeah, No, that was which I did.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 4: That's great.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Vikings thirty five to seven. Okay, okay,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: that'd be a beatdown.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: I think the defense comes out and plays really well.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: They hold him the one touchdown. I think that one
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: touchdown happens right away, and I think that's enough for
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: Brian Flores to go back to the guy on the
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: bench and say that can't happen again. Yeah, we're not
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: doing this again. And I think Kevin O'Connell gets it
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: figured out. On offense. I think Justin Jefferson has a
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: big day. I think Sam Darnold has a pretty decent day.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: I don't think there are any turnovers. I'm just gonna
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: say it, thirty five to seven Vikings win over there.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna look up really quick the weather forecast.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: It's probably gonna be like cold and rainy, which isn't
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: going to be good for the Vikings at all as
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: of right now.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: Says that the forecast in Chicago, because it's at Chicago,
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: right at Chicago, it's a noon game at noon, should
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: be about forty ish degrees with a one percent chance
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: of rain.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: All right, so cold, but probably not what technically.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: I would say perfect football weather.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: So so it's not like we're saying, oh, a downpour
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: that's going to totally change the game, or you know,
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: anything like that.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: I think this game kind of in contrary to what
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: you've been saying. I don't think the Vikings stooped to
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: the Bears level. Honestly, I think this is this could
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: be the game that gets eber Flues fired. It'd be
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: awesome to be sitting here next week saying, well, that
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: happened fired.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: I tweeted two or three weeks ago that the Vikings
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: next three games they could get three coaches fired the Colts.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: They didn't get that Colts coach fired, to which I'm
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: not rooting for firings, it's just you know, that would
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: be a storyline, Shane Stichen is that the Colts coach.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: He's still there, and then Doug Peterson. Doug Peterson, he's
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: still there, although I'm kind of surprised, well after.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: The beatdown they took with the Lions. Yeah, but that
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: could still happen after this recording, so we'll see technically.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: And then yeah, Everflus, I mean, I still I think
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: Forrest has a good point there. I don't think the
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: Bears typically fire their coach in season, so yeah, maybe
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: the decision has already been made, But yeah, I don't.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know that it'll happen. I wouldn't be shocked
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: either way, though. Well, we'll have plenty to talk about.
• 1:22:06
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  Speaker 2: video as well. Yes, but yeah, obviously TikTok you can
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  Speaker 2: watch everything and yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you want to watch the Purple Punishments,
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  Speaker 1: even if you're not a podcast watcher, you're just a listener,
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  Speaker 1: check out our YouTube page because we post everything and
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  Speaker 1: we clip out all of the important stuff so you
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  Speaker 1: can go find just the one you're looking for, rather
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  Speaker 1: than having to scrub through the whole episode just to
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it takes a while to do that, so
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  Speaker 2: go watch those videos. Yeah, you work hard on that,
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  Speaker 2: all right. All right man, Well this has been a
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  Speaker 2: great episode. Great Vikings win. I can't wait to watch
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings beat down on the Bears according to you.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe I don't know how Purple Punishments works next week,
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  Speaker 2: but keep iye out for that.
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  Speaker 1: Here you go, we'll appreviate it really quick. You have
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  Speaker 1: them winning, I have them winning. So if the Vikings win,
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  Speaker 1: no wheel. If the Vikings lose, both of us in
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  Speaker 1: the wheel.
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  Speaker 2: All right man, great episode.
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