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The Sprite Challenge, Hanging out with Dustin Baker and Janik Eckardt | TSH Ep. 69 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome in to another episode
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  Speaker 1: of the School Hot I'm Evan, I'm Austin. We're just
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  Speaker 1: a couple of dudes from Ilo. We like drinking beer
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  Speaker 1: talking about the Vikings, Yeah, we do.
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  Speaker 2: And I was ye of little faith. I had to
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  Speaker 2: spin the wheel of purple punishments. And you can debate
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  Speaker 2: on whether or not I succeeded in the challenge that
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  Speaker 2: I had, but oh well, I think I think I
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  Speaker 2: did it.
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  Speaker 1: Better than I could have done. After that, we take
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  Speaker 1: a quick look at the Vikings, a very narrow win
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  Speaker 1: over the Cardinals, yep.
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  Speaker 2: And we got to have a really cool conversation with
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  Speaker 2: Dustin Baker and Yanick Eckhart, both of Vikes Now and
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  Speaker 2: Vikings Territory and Purple PTSD.
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  Speaker 1: And all those fun things. And that was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun. And of course we had to talk with them,
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  Speaker 1: and we talked a little bit later, just the two
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  Speaker 1: of us about Kirk Cousins return to US Bank Stadium
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  Speaker 1: as the Falcons come to Minnesota to take on the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings this coming week. So that's gonna be exciting. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a good game to watch. Yeah, it'll be fun.
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  Speaker 2: But until then sit back, relax, listen to episodes sixty
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  Speaker 2: nine of The Skull Hop School School. All right, we
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks Big Top for sponsoring the episode. All right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: we switched things up a little bit with this episode,
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  Speaker 1: and we decided to introduce our beer on our TikTok channel,
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  Speaker 1: So head over there if you want kind of the
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  Speaker 1: full like opening the can, pouring it, trying it for
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  Speaker 1: the first time, but we're trying Keg Creek Brewings Moss.
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  Speaker 1: It's their Mexican lagger. It's pretty good. Yeah, And I
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  Speaker 1: was in the I was in the mood for like
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  Speaker 1: a Corona type beer. I saw this on the shelf
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  Speaker 1: and I picked it up, and yeah, here we are.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying it, and so far, so good. I think
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  Speaker 1: we're both enjoying it quite a lot. Absolutely. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you're gonna enjoy this next segment though. You
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  Speaker 1: you picked against the Vikings again.
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  Speaker 2: Preseason, preseason, and you know at the end of the
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  Speaker 2: episode last week it kind of pulled out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this curveball. This is kind of a double wamy
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  Speaker 1: because he picked against the Vikings in both places.
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  Speaker 2: I did so Yeah, preseason, definitely picked against the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: Those picks are what matters. For the Purple Punishment segment,
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  Speaker 2: you had faith, and I think the next few games
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  Speaker 2: we flip flop. We got a couple of weeks at
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  Speaker 2: least where one of us will be spinning. It's just
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  Speaker 2: who's right, who's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I was wrong. The Vikings won.
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  Speaker 2: They tried really really hard to not win and really
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  Speaker 2: hard to not make me spin the wheel, but darn it,
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  Speaker 2: they figured it out and they still won, and it
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  Speaker 2: was an exciting game. I'm not excited about purple punishments.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think it's going to be one one
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  Speaker 3: punishment and I'm mentally prepared for it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, should we get it over with? I
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  Speaker 1: guess so just go ahead and spin it. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, you will be okay?
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  Speaker 3: I did?
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  Speaker 1: I completely forgot about this? All right? There's there's a
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  Speaker 1: warm bottle of sprite on top of the fridge. Otherwise
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  Speaker 1: there's cold sprite in the fridge. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: would be worse. Would warm or cold be worse. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna go warm. It's in my hand, go for it,
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  Speaker 1: all right. So let's uh, let's recap sprite challenge. What
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  Speaker 1: what do I have to do? I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: the rules of the sprite challenge are officially. I think
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  Speaker 1: you just have to like take a big chug of
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  Speaker 1: it and then try not to burp. What does Google say? Well,
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  Speaker 1: what it says you need to eat two bananas and
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  Speaker 1: then drink as quickly as possible. The challenge is based
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  Speaker 1: on the idea that the body can't digest both substances simultaneously,
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  Speaker 1: and usually results in vomiting due to the chemical rio.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, okay, well, I'm not gonna do that sprite challenge.
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  Speaker 1: That was never our like preconceived notion. That's just what
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  Speaker 1: Google told me. I think you should just chug as
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  Speaker 1: much as you can and try not to burp and
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  Speaker 1: see what happened. Okay, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Like one percent concerned about seeing the sprite again. Is
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  Speaker 3: there any kind of a oh crap, bucket or box
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  Speaker 3: or something in this room right now?
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  Speaker 1: Would you like? Should we pause quick and I can
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  Speaker 1: go get you on.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the only garbage cane I see is a
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  Speaker 2: mesh garbage can.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go get you a bucket. We'll pause here, we'll
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  Speaker 1: get you a vessel, just in case, just in case.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it'll happen. I'm not usually one that
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  Speaker 1: does that, but I mean, you never know. Chugging sprite.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna try to do this too, all right, we'll
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  Speaker 3: be all right, all right, all right, So got you
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  Speaker 3: a bucket, I got you a towel.
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  Speaker 1: It's back here, ready, go just in case.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I don't think I'll need it, but just
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  Speaker 2: in the off chance, you know, when that happens, you
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  Speaker 2: don't really have too much re warning.
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  Speaker 1: So and let's let's set the expectation right now. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not expecting you to chug the whole bottle.
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  Speaker 3: I I like that, Thank you, I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try. Okay, all right, I'm gonna fail. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just telling you, you don't like it's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: the Saltine challenge a few weeks ago, Like that was impossible.
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  Speaker 1: I don't expect you to, especially we've already been drinking beer. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's the only that's the only thing is my stomach
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  Speaker 1: is not empty right now, So I think I just
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  Speaker 1: need to do this.
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  Speaker 2: We've been belaboring this. So here we go. School.
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  Speaker 1: I'll make sure to put some good music under this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, build the suspense, you know, hype this up.
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  Speaker 1: Can Austin do it? Can he do this spright challenge?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's also like Sprite's good. This isn't like it's
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  Speaker 2: just the bubbles and the carbonation. I'm gonna try it.
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  Speaker 1: Your stomach is going to be a wreck after this.
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  Speaker 1: All right, school, School, all right? Here he goes. This
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  Speaker 1: is a full bottle of spray. Oh wow, he's like
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  Speaker 1: shotgun in it. He's going for it. He's squeezing it.
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  Speaker 1: He's trying to get it all in there. You might
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  Speaker 1: have trapped some in the bottom of the bottle. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Oh wow, you got a lot of that.
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  Speaker 1: You got eighty five percent of that, and that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be it. You did so much better on that than
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  Speaker 1: I could have ever done.
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  Speaker 2: That was out.
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  Speaker 1: How long do you have to go without burping? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, but yeah, well, I guess we found that out.
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  Speaker 1: That was I tried. That was a deep burp.
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  Speaker 3: I tried to hold it in so bad. All right, Well,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how entertaining that was. It's burning, It's
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  Speaker 3: It's not near as bad as the Cinnamon Challenge was.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm just kidding.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need the bucket. I'm gonna burp again though.
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  Speaker 2: That was a deep one.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we can put some trigger warnings or something, or
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  Speaker 3: maybe take those out because I'm sure there's some people
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  Speaker 3: that will stop listening just because of that.
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  Speaker 1: I'll edit some of those things so that they're not
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  Speaker 1: as obtrusive. All right, Yeah, it's bride challenge. It's possible.
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  Speaker 1: You can. You can pretty much chug a full sixteen
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  Speaker 1: ounce bottle is bright pretty quickly. Yeah, try hard enough.
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  Speaker 2: I think I made a mistake because I started squeezing,
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  Speaker 2: and I think if I would have not done that
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  Speaker 2: and just tried to chug and like left you know,
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  Speaker 2: the ability for air to get in the bottle, maybe
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  Speaker 2: I would have been better.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, Well, this is going to be the rest
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  Speaker 1: that might have been it.
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  Speaker 3: I might have one more in there, but I three burps, yah, threeps.
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  Speaker 1: You still have like all of a beer. Yeah, that's true,
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  Speaker 1: which is carbonated.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, again, I don't know how entertaining that was
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  Speaker 3: going to be, but maybe the music underneath that will
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  Speaker 3: make it better. At least I succeeded in that our
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  Speaker 3: version of it, because I was not going to eat
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  Speaker 3: two bananas. I'm actually did you know I'm kind of
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  Speaker 3: allergic to bananas?
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  Speaker 1: No, I didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: That's I mean, it's only interesting to me and people
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  Speaker 2: around me if I'm eating.
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  Speaker 1: But we've been friends for long enough that I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I should have known that, but I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not a dead you know, go to the
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  Speaker 2: hospital allergy. It will give me some ocular migraines, which
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  Speaker 2: like messes with my vision for a little bit and
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  Speaker 2: then it comes back.
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  Speaker 1: It's weird. Nobody cares. Wow, Well, I'm glad we didn't
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  Speaker 1: do that because you still have to drive home tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I would not have eaten tube in. I would have
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  Speaker 2: just taken the l I think.
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  Speaker 1: This would have been a good recap moment, really quick
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  Speaker 1: of what's left on the wheel. Oh yeah, let's do
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  Speaker 1: it when we got left after this bright challenge made
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  Speaker 1: its way off the wheel and we've been eliminating everything
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  Speaker 1: that's been on the wheel. After we've done it, we
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  Speaker 1: still have pie in the face, which I think would
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  Speaker 1: be fine. I'm just gonna just get in your beard
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  Speaker 1: and that's gonna be awful.
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  Speaker 3: It would be just ucky and uncomfortable, and you were
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  Speaker 3: don't have to go home and shower afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just wipe my face off with a towel and
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  Speaker 1: be good because I can't grow facial hair at all.
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  Speaker 1: You can. I it take me a while. Pie in
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  Speaker 1: the face, drinking out of Packers cups or just embarrassing
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  Speaker 1: drinking out of Bear's cups.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: As a Vikings podcast, that's that's tough. Wax a limb,
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: that's the one I'm most scared about. We have those.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what Cherry blossom nare strips and we're
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: just gonna put them on something and we're just gonna
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  Speaker 1: rip them off. So I'm scared of that one. Before
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  Speaker 1: I we.
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  Speaker 3: Found out that I was doing the spread challenge, I said,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be one of them.
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  Speaker 2: That's the one I thought I was gonna have to do.
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  Speaker 2: And I've already decided I'm gonna do my calf.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so yeah, keep your eyes peeling.
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  Speaker 1: I guess the weather has turned colder and I wear
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  Speaker 1: pants most of the time now, so I could I
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  Speaker 1: think about doing my chest.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not one of those guys that it looks like
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  Speaker 2: I'm wearing a sweater no matter what.
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  Speaker 1: We have a friend like.
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  Speaker 2: That, but there's there's a little bit that it would
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  Speaker 2: be painful and probably more entertaining than my leg.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know. Anyways, what else we got consume
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  Speaker 1: an entire jar of pickles. So we have two full
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  Speaker 1: jars of pickles here, and we have to we would
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  Speaker 1: have to eat the whole thing, pickles and juice. It'd
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  Speaker 1: have to be an empty jar.
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  Speaker 2: And honestly, with a light beer like this, moss that
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  Speaker 2: actually probably probably pickle, and I like pick well, have
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: you heard of the spear and a beer? No, Usually
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  Speaker 2: it's like a light beer like this, or like a
• 11:05
  Speaker 2: cors lighter, a bud light or a bush light or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: and you literally take a pickle spear and you just
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  Speaker 2: put in there. Maybe you throw a splash of pickle
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  Speaker 2: juice in there and people do it all right, I've
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  Speaker 2: heard a pickle beer before. Yeah, but anyways, that would
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: be interesting. We have a pretty interesting little knitted Vikings hat.
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: We actually have a few different like head garments that
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: we could wear, so we'd have to wear that for
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: the whole episode. That wouldn't be terrible, but you would
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: get itchy sitting in a child's chair.
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: Yep, that would be funny. Another one, so we'd probably
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  Speaker 1: put that like down in front here, and I've got
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: a little kid's chair and table set that we'd have
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: to sit at instead of this nice little set up here.
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  Speaker 1: And then the last one that's still on the wheel
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  Speaker 1: is win an eBay auction. That would be funny.
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  Speaker 3: We would try to find a quick, you know, minute
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  Speaker 3: long left eBay auction and try to win it right away. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: you and find eBay actions for like a dollar left
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: and right, and maybe even like a Vikings card or something,
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  Speaker 3: but that would still be funny to follow along with.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we've still got plenty of options on the wheel,
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  Speaker 1: and we've still got a handful of games left in
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  Speaker 1: this season, and it sounds like both of us are
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  Speaker 1: going to be subject to the wheel at one point
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: or another down the stretch here in the last little
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  Speaker 1: bit of the season. So that'll be fun to kind
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  Speaker 1: of see how that all plays out. I'm really hoping
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  Speaker 1: that I don't have to wax a limb. Everything else
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  Speaker 1: k kwak for me, I'll be happy with. If I
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: have to wax a LM, that's gonna be tough. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not looking forward to that, but.
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  Speaker 2: I think it'll be fine and entertaining.
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: Hopefully not well, we should probably spend some time talking
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: about this Vikings win over the Cardinals. The Vikings did win,
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: and it was a close one. Looked like maybe for
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: a second there, it wasn't going to happen. Actually for
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: a while, they were down by a lot, and I
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: think I saw it was Sam Darnold's biggest comeback of
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: his career. They were down nineteen to six and they
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: came all the way back to win twenty three to
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, So that's that's pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think I also saw it almost the
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  Speaker 3: same stat I think it was either anytime Sam Darnold
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  Speaker 3: has had it was either a thirteen point deficit or
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: a nineteen point deficit.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was thirteen. Anytime he's been down by
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  Speaker 2: that much, he has never never come back, so first,
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: for a lot of things, it was the biggest Vikings
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  Speaker 2: comeback since the largest comeback in NFL history in twenty
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: twenty two against the Colts. Not quite as dramatic as
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: that game, but yeah, still ultimately fun to have been
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: a part of watch. We weren't a part of the game,
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: but yeah, I'm glad for the outcome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I texted you. I made one of
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: my kids cry at the end because I just got
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: so excited when Shack Griffin caught that interception the seal
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: of the game that I just burst with excitement and
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: she was not expecting that, and she was a little
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: emotional after that. So I apologize to my children.
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: My dog was nervous around me for no reason.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like I was.
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: I don't even yell during games, but she could just
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: like tell and she was like sitting in the corner
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: of the room, like, what's going on here? She got
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: all the loves, but yeah, she could tell it was
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: a tense situation.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: Well, the Vikings won. It was great. But let's let's
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: talk some roses and thorns here. We're gonna abbreviate this
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  Speaker 1: a little bit from what we've been doing because we've
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: got some other stuff coming up that we'll talk about.
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  Speaker 3: You.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good episode, it's a great episode. But I'll
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: start with a rose. Okay, I'll let you share the thorn.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold, man, he's been stone cold. He's just been
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: like a sniper at the end of these games. He's
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: been super accurate, he's been poised, calm controlled, and it
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: seems like he and Kevin O'Connell are just exactly on
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: the same exact page. Maybe they're not. Maybe Kevin O'Connell's
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: pulling out his hair on the sideline. I don't know,
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: but whatever's happening is happening well. And he was perfect
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: in overtime two weeks ago against the Bears, and in
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: this game he was great down the stretch. He just
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: he played clutch in that second half, had a really
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: good game. You've got a tweet here from Will Raggits.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: It says he was dealing on the Vikings' final three
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  Speaker 1: possessions after going down by thirteen points. His pocket movement, accuracy,
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: deciphed decisiveness, total command of the plan, twelve completions, one
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six yards, two touchdowns. He delivered in
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: the clutch for the second straight week. That's just like
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: an all encompassing tweet right there from Will Raggitts. Just
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: that hits the nail on the head. Sammy d was
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: that shot in the arm that this team needed, and
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: he got the ball where it needed to go and
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: ultimately that was the end zone and that was the
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: deciding factor for this game. It was awesome.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: We were all complaining there for a couple of weeks,
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: seemed like he was a turn over machine, throwing picks
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: and you know, being responsible for fumbles. But really the
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: last three games outside of that one pitch that wasn't
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: caught by Aaron Jones against was that against the Titans.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: I think really Sam Darnold has seemed to have figured
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: it out almost like over corrected, because it seemed like
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: he was gunshy, wouldn't throw it to Justin Jefferson. It
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: seemed like for a little bit because I mean every
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: time he did for a game or so, he was
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: picked off. But yeah, he's at the end of the
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: last two games against the against the Cardinals and then
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: against the Bears, just stone cold. That the overtime series
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: against the Bears, he was I think six for six
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: ninety yards.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's what you want from your quarterback. That
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: is the definition of mid season form, and you want
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: them to start peaking right in front of the playoffs.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: You're still I am.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Hear me, stop and pause really quick. I think I'm
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: towards the end of it, but I'm still feeling that sprite.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: On that topic. Though it's not quite a thorn yet.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I'll save the thorn for a second here, but I
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: still feel like he's hesitant to throw towards Justin Jefferson.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: He's been able to find Jordan Addison, although Addison was
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: a little quieter in this game against the Cardinals. He's
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: been finding TJ. Hawkinson, which has been great. And even
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: though Aaron Jones has had some problems hanging onto the ball,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Aaron Jones has played well relatively speaking as well in
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: the last handful of games. But it's definitely frustrating when
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: you've got the best wide receiver in the league and
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: you can't find him. Yeah, and I'm still a little
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: frustrated personally that Justin Jefferson didn't get one hundred yards.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: He only had ninety nine, Like, come on, man. But
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: he did have a great second half, second half, a
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: really good second half, And so it's not a thorn necessarily,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: but it's something that Kevin O'Connell, Justin Jefferson, and Sam
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Donold have to figure out. And maybe they just all
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: need to get in the room and you know, watch
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: a bunch of film together, figure it out, go back
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: to some previous games and try to start figuring out like, Okay,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: I'm Justin Jefferson. This is what I was seeing on
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: this play. I was bracketed by two guys here. But
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: if you find me in the soft spot of the
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: zone here, throw the ball at this point and you'll
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: get it to me. Like, and Kevin O'Connell and Sam
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: can kind of start to figure that out. And I
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: know nothing about play calling. I've never been on the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: sideline of anything more than a seventh grade football game,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: but I don't know. To me, that seems like the
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: logical next step in the progression of this offense is
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: getting those three guys on the same page. When you
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: can do that, you can start to figure that out.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: One other small little thing that I'll add is it
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: seemed like the offensive line maybe regressed slightly. Yeah, there
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: was something there this last game. They weren't playing as
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: well as they have And that's gotta be fixed too.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: You gotta change that. You gotta give Sam Donald enough
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: time to make those reads, and he was making better
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: reads in the second half. But Sam Donald kind of
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: looked lost in the first half for sure. Yeah, it
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: was frustrating.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: The good thing is, and probably why it's not a
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: full fledged thorn is they did seem to figure it
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: out and turn it on and ultimately win the game. Yeah,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: And all to turn it back to the ultimate rose
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: is Sam Donald stone cold. He's been great, all right, thorn,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: And maybe it's not as crazy as we think it is.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: But there have been too many close games, too many lords,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: too many you know, tough fought games. But I guess
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: and while it's definitely a thorn, it doesn't make you
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: feel good. It gives you an increased heart rate at
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: the end of games here lately, But I guess that's
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: kind of the way if you really think about the
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: whole season, all these games have been going, not just
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: for the Vikings. Alec Lewis says on Twitter, of the
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: three hundred and eighty eight NFL games so far this year,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: probably three eighty nine now with Monday Night Football, three
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: hundred and seven of them have been decided by eight
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: points or less. So that's a one score game and
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: that's kind of crazy. So the Vikings, Yeah, it's frustrating
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: that a lot of them lately have been really close.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: This Cardinals game is the definition of close, a one
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: point game. But they keep winning. They're ten and two,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: so there can't be too many things to complain about. Still,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: that's my biggest storn. Too close, too frustrating, and they
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: just need to blow some people out.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you kind of wish for those blowout games.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: And I don't know, Maybe this is just an aspect
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: of Kevin O'Connell's coaching that we have to embrace. Maybe
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: he's just the king of those close games. Maybe he's
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the king of situational football and knowing how to manipulate
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: being down by a little bit, maybe knowing how to
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: manipulate being up by a little bit and maintaining that lead.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I think things change if you don't have Brian Flores
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: as your defensive coordinator, because the defense has really come
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: in and sealed these games, quite a few of them.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, it hasn't been okay, offense, you have the ball,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: two minute drill, go march down the field. It's offense.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: We need you to score, and then we need the
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: defense to come back out and stop. And that's exactly
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: what happened in this Cardinals game. The offense marches down
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: and scores to go up by one, and then the
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: defense goes out to prevent the Cardinals from scoring. And
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: we were all saying, oh, did they score too soon?
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Twitter was, you know, and leave it up to that
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Brian Flores defense to just nope, nail in the coffin shack.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Griffin caught that game sealing interception and the game's over.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Jonathan Garnard before that, gets that strip sack that the
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Cardinals still landed on.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: But yeah, and that was an interesting wrinkle too because
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: they took a time out, so Jonathan Crenard he could
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: catch his breath. He was gassed, and I think that's
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: good coaching in the moment too, Like we don't need
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: this necessarily for anything else. We're up by enough, and
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I think Kevin O'Connell just put all his chips on
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the table and was telling Brian Flores in that moment,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I have full confidence that you guys are gonna end
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: this game. I know you will do it, and that's
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: why I'm gonna burn this time out so that this
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: guy can get back out there. And that proved to
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: be the right move and then Shatgriffin just got in
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the right place and made that game ceiling pick. It
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: was awesome.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, all right, game balls, I think we're gonna share
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: our opinions on game balls this week, right, Yeah, yep.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: So I'll start with offense, you can go to defense,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: and then we'll finish with special teams and like we'll
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: kind of wrap up this early segment here. I'm gonna
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: go with Justin Jefferson for the offensive game ball. Justin Jefferson,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: like we said, ninety nine yards I think was it
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: seven catches or something like that in our something like
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: that on nine targets. Not his best game by any
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: stretch of the means, but not his worst and one
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: of his better games recently, so that was encouraging to see. Yeah,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: he was seven catches for ninety nine on nine targets,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: didn't get into the end zone, but made it count
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: when we needed it to count. And I know he's
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: been frustrated lately, quietly frustrated, not like I'm ready to
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: quit the team and I'm just going to walk up
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: and you know he's not going to do an Antonio
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Brown and take his shirt off and well that's not
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson. But no, but I mean, I'm high purplezing,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: hyperplyzing a little bit.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: But it was just good to see him. I see
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: what you did there. You're high purpleizing, purpleizing.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: No, that was unintentional, but well, I'll I'll take it anyways,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: at the moment has passed. Yeah, I just totally knocked
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: you off her. It was good to see Justin Jefferson
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: have a decent game, especially in the second half. We
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: were pounding the table in the first half, get him
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: the ball like the Vikings were struggling. Sam Donald looked
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: a little lost. The offensive line was kind of crumbling,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: even the defense was allowing Kyler Murray and the Cardinals
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: offense to do some stuff, and we were just kind
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: of pounding the table, like get the ball to Justin Jefferson.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I think there was a text between us that said
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: something nearly like that, like get him the ball. He's
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: the highest paid player, non quarterback player in the league.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: He deserves to get some touches. And I think maybe
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: there was something said at halftime. It was like, I
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: don't care if you threw three or four interceptions or
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: whatever it was, and you targeted him the whole time.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnald a few games ago, get the ball to
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: this guy. Quit being so timid and find him. Yep,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: good things happen when Justin Jefferson gets the ball. So again,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: despite not scoring ninety nine yards, really good game. I
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: think he deserves the game ball just for being a
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: warrior the last handful of weeks and continuing to be
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the consonant team player. Yeah, I agree.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: I think the only other player I would have said
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: would have been Sam Darnold, but we already kind of
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: hashed that out in the Roses all right.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: For defense, I think Shaq Griffin he called game really
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: the whole cornerback group. Once Stefan Gilmour went down, their
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: job got harder, specifically Fabian Moreau, who looked like he
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: had a pretty rough game. But I don't know, anytime
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: you don't think you're gonna play and then all of
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: a sudden you're playing the whole game and they're picking
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: on you, that's just a tough game for Fabian Morrow.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I think he'll be better than that if he has
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: to play continuingly. But yeah, Chad Griffin definitely deserves that
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: game ball. Maybe you share it with also Jonathan Gernard
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: and Byron Murphy who also got an interception, But yeah,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I not to belabor it. Griffin called game, got the
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: pick when the Vikings needed the most, and that was it.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: That was the last highlight they needed that game.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I think on special teams there's really
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: no one else to give it to other than John
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Parker Romo. I mean, the Vikings won by one and
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I know he missed a kick in this game, but
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: if he misses even one more, whether it's an extra
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: point or a field goal, this game maybe doesn't end
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the way that it did, and it maybe doesn't end
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: in a win for the Vikings. Yeah, so I'm really
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: pleased with him. He's arguably the best like fill in
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: kicker that there's ever been. Yep. And I think he'll
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: find the home somewhere else next year once will record
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: is healthy.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, he'll find a home the next week after Will
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: records healthy.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, easily.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I agree Parker Romo definitely deserves a special
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: teams game ball.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I know, if sands or butts about that. It's unfortunate
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: that after years and years and years of the Vikings
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: having seemingly some kicking woes and that position was cursed
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: for the team, and now the Vikings found two solid kickers,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: at least guys that have proven they can make fifty
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: plus yard field goals. So yeah, Parker Romo, I'm a
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: fan of his until he on a team that I hate.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: But yeah, if he goes to somewhere like the Ravens
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: or something like that, I'm still.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Ritten for Parker Romo. He's a good kicker, yeah for sure.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: All Right, Well, I think we'll wrap things up here.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: We're gonna move into an interview with Dustin Baker and
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Janick Ekhart, surprising kind of addition to our monthly routine
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: with Dustin Baker. So that's been a lot of fun
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: to hang out with Dustin. But it's gonna be pretty
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: cool to add Yannick in there as well. Yeah, I
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: can't wait. So we'll send you over to that and
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: we'll see you back when we're done.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: All right, skulhoppers, we'll welcome back. We have frequent friend
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: of the show, Dustin Baker joining us, but also for
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: the first time, and Yanic, I'm gonna say your name
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: really wrong, so I'm sorry, please correct me. We got
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: y Eckhart.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty much, perfect, okay.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Perfect, Well, everybody knows we should know at this point
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Dustin and Yanick are both frequently on Fikes Now and
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Vikings Territory, and.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: We're both huge fans of both Dustin and Yannick, and
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: we're really grateful to have both of them on the
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: show and for the first time, So welcome in, guys, thanks.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: For coming on.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: You know what else, it's wonderful to be here at
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: ten and two, that's for sure.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Who would have thought who'd have thought we'd be here
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: at ten and two, who'd thought we'd be here at five?
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: And oh, you know, it's just all been a great season.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: I'm having a lot of fun.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: I know we all are.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's been great. Well, we'll get things kicked
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: off here. We're gonna kind of bounce back and forth
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: between you guys. We're just gonna kind of rapid fire
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: some questions. So we're gonna start with you. And obviously
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: the vikings are ten and two right now. But something
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: that kind of developed, I think, or something that the
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: broadcast brought up in this most recent game, was how
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell's pretty good in these one score games. I
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: think Kevin Seafert tweeted out I think it was yesterday
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: or Sunday that he's twenty four and nine in these
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: one score games. So the question I have for you
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: is should we be concerned about these close games with
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell or is this just an aspect of his
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: coaching that we just need to embrace and be okay
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: with it.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: We should not be concerned at all because rough eighty
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: percent of games in the NFL or one score games,
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: So it's not we're not the outlier the only team
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: that's doing this. Every team is. So that's totally fine.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: And as long as we're finding Bays to win. That's
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: just Kevin o'callage just seems to be good at that
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: and just brings the perfect play calls late in games.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: And I can live with close games and close wins.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Can can't we just get some forty or fifty burgers
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: like Ben Johnson with the Lions, though, I mean, come.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: On, I mean he got some some not so close
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: games early in the season, and maybe we can't get
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: back to it. But it just doesn't seem to be
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: Vikings DNA right now.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fine.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess a win is a win, and
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: it sounds cliche to say that, but att ten to two,
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: you take any win any wing you can get.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: I guess d justin for you. Should the Vikings be
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: looking for another quarterback? I don't know how serious this
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: hamstring injury is. There is gonna be really first to
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: find Gilmore and I guess Fabian Row He was shoved
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: in the in the fire really quick with no preparation right.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Away, but he did not look great. So should they
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: be looking to sign anybody else? Well, let's see it
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: pretty much be Patrick Peterson, that caliber of player who
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: has experience, and he said about a month and a
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: half ago that he wanted to come back to the Vikings, like,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: you know, if somebody was gonna give him a call.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: He said he'd love Kevin O'Connell's.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Surprise, surprise. This is kind I was telling you guys,
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: you sons of guns, that we would do for a
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: cornerback injury, a CB injury, and I knew what happened,
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: and that happened this week. Thankfully, it's not devastating, like,
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: oh my god, he's going to IR Like everybody else,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: I would roll with what you have because I personally
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: am one of those Dwight mclothern truthers that wants to
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: see him in action. Fabian Moreau that one passing reference
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: was bullshit, but he got cooked on the play of
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Harrison and that's just how it kind of goes. The
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Vikings made this bed. This is their cornerback depth. I
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: guess we counted our lucky stars that we had Gilmour
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: because he didn't show up till late in the summer.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: If they brought somebody in like Patrick Peterson, it would
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: signal to me that perhaps Gilmour will be gone for
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: two or three games. And I don't think anybody would
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: be mad if they went and got a veteran corner,
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: but you do have Moreau, who, with a full week
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: of practice should get back to you know, mediocre, And
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: then the upside of mclothern and goes without saying this
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: would be a fabulous time when Kyrie Jackson probably would
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: have started to get snaps.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: So that's another thing that sucks.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: I would endorse a Patrick Peterson like signing, but I'm
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: just kind of grateful that my cornerback injury prediction was
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: only a hamstring and it looks like Gilmore will be
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: fine and probably be back within the next two or
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: three weeks if he doesn't play Sunday.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: I did think that the past interference, and it's not
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: the BS one you're.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Talking about, but the one that Fabian Moreau basically just
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: tackled the receiver because he wouldn't get him. I mean,
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: that's kind of savvy. He knew what he was doing,
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: he was tackling him. Said that it wasn't a touchdown,
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: But I thought that was kind of savvy and totally
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: I'd be very upset if I was a Cardinals fan
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: about that play.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Fabian Moreau has got a lot of experience, so
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: this isn't some like fringe backup moron. This is a
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: guy who's played a lot and started a lot of
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: NFL football. So I won't judge him on that game alone,
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: and I will just buy my time though, for Gilmore
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: to get back, because when we do get to the postseason,
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Gilmore is the type of player who's been there and
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: you can't count on him to shut down the league's
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: best receivers, even at thirty four years old.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been really reliable and he's been fun to
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: watch in Purple too. It's been awesome. All right, Janic,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: we'll come back around the horn to you here. A
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: similar thread here on the topic of injuries. Record and
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: De Paula, as far as I know, are up on
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: their four weeks on the ir Are you guys expecting
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: them to make a return, either one or the other
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: or both here in the next week or two, or
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: are they out for a few more weeks.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: Well, it just depends on how how far they are
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: in their recoveries. If they are healthy, I totally expect
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: them to play because there's a reason why they were
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: the top guys to start the season. Record has been
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: perfect before his injury, and de Paula is a two
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: time pro boler it is a two time All Pro
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: even so whilce they are healthy, they will be playing.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: But I don't think the Vikings need to rush them
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: as long as the kicking operation is somewhat functional.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, true, Yeah, it is true.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think we did see a little sign
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: of wavering from John Parker Romo with his miskick against
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals, but it didn't really seem to phase him
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: too much because he made everything after that.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm not too concerned about Parkaromo right now.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: And it's it's the cliche.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: The other cliche statement is, holy cow, the Vikings suddenly
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: have figured out how to find good kickers and maybe
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: a team like the Ravens are going to be licking
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: their chaps for real Parker Romo. But ultimately the Vikings
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: have to release him because he can't have two kickers.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: I don't care how good they are, but.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that'll be interesting to see where Parker Romo goes,
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: because he's going to get a shot somewhere.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think it's a good thing too that
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: we're not talking about McQuaid right now, Like it's good
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: when the long snapper is not in the headlines for anything.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: He's just quietly been good. I think he kind of
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: rushed his first snap and Ryan right had a little
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: bit of a hard time handling it way back when
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: four weeks ago. But since then he seemed to be
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: pretty solid and he hasn't seemed to be an issue,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: which is a good thing.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: So for sure. Yeah, all right, Dustin a few weeks ago,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: two or three weeks ago, now, right before the first
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Bears game, you had a video on vikes now with
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: I believe it was Josh Frye, and the two of
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: you kind of went back and forth and predicted the
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: rest of the Vikings season from that point on. I
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: think you, ultimately, I think both of you predicted a
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: loss to the Bears, or maybe you flip flopped on
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: the Bears and Cardinals game, but yeah, I think you
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: predicted a loss to the Bears and a winner to
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: the Cardinals and then ultimately a finish of twelve and
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: five for the Vikings. How are you feeling on that prediction?
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Couple weeks in now the Vikings have won both of
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: the Bears amic card in those games. Anything you want
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: to change anything, you still feel really good about that.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: You said, what are you thinking about that?
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: So if we're twelve and five at the end of
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: the season, we're gonna go into wildcard round kind of
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: sad because that will have meant that they finished on
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: a losing binge, if you will, two and three. So
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: I've been on an odyssey. I don't want to sound
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: like some badass here that knew everything. I thought the
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: bike has finished seven and ten, and then they started
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: five and zero and shattered that wrong prediction. And then
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: when you started to look after the bye, I was like, well,
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: eleven and six, let's let's meet in the middle. Then
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: they lost to that prediction. Started to feel pretty good,
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: but then they won five. It's so this is by
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: far the least exciting in terms of fans perception five
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: game win streak I have ever seen in Minnesota sports,
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: outside of maybe like a twin streak, where it's kind
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: of like, because they're not beating the shit out of
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: these opponents, were like, all right, I think this is
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: pretty good, fellas. I mean, that's kind of how we feel.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Twelve and five seems fair. I do think that they
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: will beat at Atlanta going and then I do think
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: they'll beat Chicago as well, because I don't think I
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: don't think they're gonna have quite the juice to take
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: down the Vikings at their house. But then that would
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: mean for twelve and five to be actor, they're gonna
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: lose the last three. So it's I thought they would
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: lose to the almost the way that they did. I
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: thought they would lose to the Bears, and so I
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: think twelve and five is fair. Although the way that
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: if I had to sit down and you know, etch
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: it in stone right now, I only think they're gonna
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: lose two more, and that would probably be at Seattle
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: because that's a house of horrors for us, and then
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: beating the Packers twice in a season like this feels
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: very grandiose. So I will vacillate between twelve and five
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: and thirteen and four, and it's gonna be really strange
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: if we're like thirteen and four fourteen and three, and hey,
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: it's a fifth seed, baby, look so out of place
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: in the standings.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy to think that this At this moment,
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: the Vikings could be playing their first game in the
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: playoffs Atlanta or at Tampa Bay or something like that.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: When and if that's the case, I mean, you're really thinking,
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: all right, this is.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: What they're doing is a preview tour of all these
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: possible playoff teams. The Cardinals Atlanta this week, not the Bearers,
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: but then Seattle, who looks like they're suddenly in cruise control.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: So we're getting like this little sampler platter of how
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: Wildcar weekend will look and feel.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, yeah, yeah, for sure. All right, So I
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: guess this one's for both of you and Yanic, we'll
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: have you go first, kind of going off the back
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: of that question I just had for Dustin, but really
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: focusing on that last game against the Lions. Dustin, you
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: kind of said something a minute ago that made me
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: think a certain way that you think about that the
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: way that Lions game is going to go.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: But for both of you, how do you think the
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: Vikings and Lions will head into that game?
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Are they going to be tied or have a tiede record?
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: And that game is going to be for all the marbles?
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Is one team or the other are not gonna not
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: gonna matter and maybe not even play their starters. Although
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: I think Dan Campbell would play the starters no matter
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: what in any game whatsoever. But yeah, yeah, how do
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: you think the Vikings and Lines will both enter that
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: that Week eighteen game?
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: So if I had to guess, I would say the
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: Lines have already clinched the division. I don't want to
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: sound too pessimistic, but they're just so good and look
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: really unbeatable. The good news is, or for Vikings fans
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: at least, the good news is that they are really injured.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: Half their defense is on ir I think fifteen players total.
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: Maybe something gives there and maybe that's the opens the
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: door for Minnesota to have a shot and n B eighteen, all.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Right, So I think both teams enter enter that game,
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: all right.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: So it has been so damn long since the Vikings
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: have had a final game of the regular season that's
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: meant anything. Where Like we have to go back to
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: the twenty fifteen season when the Vikings beat the Packers
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: at Lambeau to win the division. Win a end of
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: season Week seventeen or in this case, Week eighteen game
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: meant anything. It's usually Vikings playing the Bears and one
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: of the teams sucks and one of the teams decent,
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: and so it's really mathematically, Like you know, I was
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: saying when Will Riker was drafted, like we're overdue to
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: have a good kicker, We're overdue to have a meaningful
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: end of season game. That gives me hopes that the
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Lions lose a game or two and then the Vikings
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: finished within striking distance. But I ultimately would have to
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: agree with Yanik that the Lions roster building has been
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: so sound that they're probably going to wrap up the
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: division without a chance of us being able to nibble
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: at it. But Yanic and I discussed on the long
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: drive home from Minneapolis to Sioux Falls, four hour trip
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: that I swear Kevin O'Connell is also overdue to beat
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: the Lions at some point. He hasn't done that yet.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: And if these two teams somehow hook up in the postseason,
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: probably in round two or let's say round three, if
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: we're feeling really sexy, this is going to be a
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: division game, you know, so you can throw the records
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: out the window, the old cliche, and O'Connell is so
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: overdue to get the best of that team that I
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: don't think we'd all sit here and pound our chest
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: and be like, yeah, we're gonna win the NFC championship. Baby,
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: But I'm planting that seed that eventually O'Connell is a
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: bright enough coach that he's going to beat the Lions.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: And how sweet would it be to be on a
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: stage like that.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be awesome, And to go back for the
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: last few games of the season. I think it's kind
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: of crazy too, that you could look at any combination
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: of wins and losses for what these last five games
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: and really just be like I could see that happening. Yeah,
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: I could see them winning out or losing out or
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: win one, and you know, any combination of that. It's like, yeah,
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: I could see it happening. Just the teams that they
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: have left, it's going to be a really.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Exciting end of the season for the Vikings and hopefully
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: a happy one.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: I just I was thinking today, it's kind of setting
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: us all up for like the team's going to be terrible.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Maybe they're not terrible, Oh but ten to two team
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: wasn't leading their division, you know in December first, that's
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: kind of crazy, and then we're all just set up
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: for like, well, all right.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: That's the biggest Vikings playoff loss of history or something.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Like that, like that's gonna be pretty sad. Haven't you
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: got anything else for these guys?
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: No, it's been fun and I'm looking forward to these
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: last five games. And yeah, so what do.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: You guys think is gonna happen against Kirk in the Falcons?
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Oh? Man, I think I think there's a small chance
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Kirk doesn't finish that game. I think at this moment
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: he'll probably start the game.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: I haven't heard anything that the Falcons are going to
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: bench him after that for interception performance a couple of
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: days ago. But I don't think it's a zero percent
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: chance that Kirk starts, looks terrible and then gets benched.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: In that game.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: I'm kind of rooting for that because you know, it
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: means the Vikings would have won and looked great. I
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: think we both predicted a Vikings win over the Falcons.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Evan, do you have any certain thoughts about this game?
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Well, a question maybe we would fire back at you
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: guys really quick. Is has nothing to do with the
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: outcome of the game. But what happens before the game,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: is Kirk gonna get booed? Or is he going to
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: get a standing ovation at us Bank Stadium?
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: So I think it's probably something in between. It's not
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: like the entire stadium is going to boo him or
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: cheer for him. I think it's going to be split.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's probably the right answer.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I said, I said that I would stand and clap.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be like, you know, overly raucous
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: or anything. But you know, he played six really good
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: years for the Vikings and that that's something to celebrate.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: And he's just a good dude on top of it.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: So it's not like it's Deshaun Watson coming back to
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: the Vikings after six years.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: I will I will be astonished if he's booed, because
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: even though you didn't have to love the guy and
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: he did make us divide into like political factions. I mean,
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: the guy never did any wrong, like personality wise, what's
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: so ever to the franchise, So it would be really
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: anti Minnesota nice if we show up like some bitches
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: and start booing. So I think I would bet on
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: the other. You know that we're just happy, Hey, way
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: to go, and then all all's fair in love and
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: war when the game starts. One thing I want to
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: point out that Yanic and I also talked about and
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Yanik brought.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: This up first.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: Is Cousins hardly ever has a back to back horrible games,
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: let alone back to back to back. And if you
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: start to look over the course of the Vikings regular
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: season from start until right now, the two quarterbacks that
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: have carved them up were Matthew Stafford and Jared Goff.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: And if you had to put a label on Cousins,
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: he probably fits somewhere in that category of experienced, like
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: semi surgical. And so I'm a little paranoid that he
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: has a bounce back game. Maybe not to the tune
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: of a Vikings loss or anything emphatic like that, but
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: it will be really weird in the history of Kirk
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: Cousins as the player if he has three terrible games
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: in a row. I don't know that he's ever done that,
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: even as like a young whipper snapper in Washington. So
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: I don't want to be a Debbie downer, but I
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: just don't see Cousins coming into this game and then
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: throwing another three or four interceptions. It's not usually what
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: he does.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point. Real quick, How how was
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: attending the Vikings Cardinals game? Watching on TV? Was really frustrating?
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: Until it wasn't and then it got really exciting and
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know, a heart rate inducing, but in the
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: stadium it sounded like it was just quiet in there.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: It started kind of dead in there. What was it
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: like at this at the game, it.
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: Was pretty much the same. It was just a terrible
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: experience in the first stuff. The funny thing is my
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: first game at US Bank Stadium was the Colts game
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: and the comeback game, and that was just awful in
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: the first stuff. So it was not quite that, but
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: it was. It was prett pret bad. So I'm just
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: glad they turn it around in the second half.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: The so, first of all, Cardinals fans evidently don't care
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: about their team or don't travel well because usually a
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: team with a winning record is well represented in the
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: stadium by red jerseys. In this case, and it was
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: a whimper for their representation, kind of like the Houston
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: Texans earlier this season. I was surprised how how few
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: people showed up. There have been certain games like against
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: the forty nine ers, certainly the Chiefs, where are the
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: Packers where you're like, good lord, this is like forty
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: percent the other team, What are we doing here? Cardinals
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: did not do that the main beef in the first half.
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: So we've seen Vikings games and quarters one and two
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: go off the rails and you just, you know, throw
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: your hand up in the air and be like, all right,
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: it's one of those games high where everything goes wrong
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: and you get real cynical. But the defense was somewhat
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: holding its own, and therefore it didn't feel like the
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: whole world and game had swirled down a toilet. But
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: it was really a nemeck on offense and their blitz
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: packages were getting to darnold that felt like every thirty
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: seconds and you're like, oh my god, what's what's gonna happen?
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: So it was cool that they came out and had
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: kind of an adjusted attitude. I tweeted they did the
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: Madden meme or an NBA two K meme where they
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: sat up in their chair.
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: That's what it felt like.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: It it felt like they needed to be punched in
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: the mouth at nineteen to six or whatever it was,
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: and they're like, all right, now we could start playing.
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: That's what it seemed like. We hope that we would
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: have to get to that point where you need that
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: reality check, but I will continue to say it. Although
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: the Vikings don't have the Super Bowl kudos or the
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: dynastic dealings the Chiefs do. This is how the Chiefs
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: are winning each and every week, and we're like, hey,
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: look at those gritty bastards.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: They wont again.
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: And when the Vikings do it, we're like, oh, I'm
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: so mad that they're not dominant. Why can't they blow
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: out these opponents. It's just not happening. And the Chiefs
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: start doing it either, So you know, we'll take what
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: we could get.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Evan and I both attended the previous Vikings
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: Cardinals game at US Bank Stadium two years ago, at
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: least the last regular season one. I don't know if
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: they've played in the preseason, so I feel like they have,
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: but I don't remember. But yeah, it didn't feel like
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: there are a lot of Cardinals fans there in twenty
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: twenty two either. And I think that was one of
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: the last rushing touchdowns Kirk Cousins had. Yeah, that lot
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: of crazy rushing touchdowns and.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: That one came down to the wire too. I think
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: it's higher scoring, but yeah, still an exciting game, and yeah,
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: not a ton of Cardinals fans there. Yeah, like I
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: do want to say, I'm glad that even though you
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: blamed me for Parker Romo missing that kid that I
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: wanted to park a Romo jersey, I'm.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: Glad that it all worked out in the end.
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm glad it did.
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: We're gonna have We're gonna have such a unique like
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: a Parker Romo jersey that'd be kind of cool to have.
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: We're gonna have a unique story in odyssey with Parker Romo,
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: assuming he gets waived in a week or two. Because
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: usually we already follow former players, you know, with the
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: John Dee I where we like to see them do well.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: In Stefan Diggs's case, I hope he'd do well in Buffalo.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: But this guy is gonna be so fresh in our memory.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: He won't leave because of like, oh he's too expensive
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: or the Vikings went in another direction in free agency.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: He was just a rental that held down a spot
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: where the Vikings have a hisstoric historically been snake bitten,
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: so it's gonna be so weird to see I want
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: him to go to the AFC so he doesn't have to,
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: you know, we don't have to see him. And it
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: not that he's an absolute baller, but he has this
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: really unique case where he's probably gonna leave in the
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: middle of the season. He's built up a resume with
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: the Vikings that shows he has the clutch gene. By
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: the way, he hit a fifty blah blah blah yarder
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: on Sunday, So he's got all the tools and it's
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: gonna be cool to see where he lands, hopefully in
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: the AFC, because I don't know, I have a feeling
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: that guy is gonna go latch on to whoever needs
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: a kicker, probably in the offseason, and just stays there
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: for five, six, seven years.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he feels like he's he's solidified himself enough to get,
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: you know, not just a training camp contract. He's gonna
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: go somewhere because he's proven he can kick in the league.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: I think just add this next scenario to the most
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: Vikings things ever, is if the Vikings do somehow make
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: it to the big Game, which is already crazy enough
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: to think about, but then Parker Romo goes to an
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: AFC team I alluded to it earlier. I think the Ravens,
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: they're they're looking a little shaky with probably the goat
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: kicker outside of Vin Terry Justin Tucker. He's had a
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: couple of weird couple of weird games. I mean, if
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: he ultimately sucks it up enough, he gotta move on
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: from a guy that can't make a kick. I don't
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: care who he is. But if the Ravens signed Parker Romo,
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: and then the football gods hate Vikings fans, and now
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: the Ravens and Vikings in the Super Bowl, and Parker
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Romo kicking a sixty two yard kick to beat the Vikings,
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: that would just be the most Vikings thing ever.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: I think that would be the end of the schoolhop.
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: I think that that scenario would do it.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: Well, the Ravens are in such a weird spot though,
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: because they have, you know, the Hall of Fame kicker,
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: and he's had a real bad stretch the first of
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: his career, and so normally you would say, like, all right,
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: let's show some loyalty, let's suck it up. He's gonna
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: figure it out. But you can only say that so
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: many times when you're getting into December and January before
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: it fucks up your playoff like hopes and your Super
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: Bowl aspirations, and so it'll be a question of undying
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: loyalty or see ya. I just don't think they say
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: see you. But if this continues where you know, hey, mister,
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: he only missed two field goals today, Like, if it
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: keeps getting worse, it's really it's really young for him
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: to be completely washed. You know, kickers can usually good
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: ones go until thirty seven, thirty eight in Vinitari's case, forever.
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: So it's it's an odd paradox because normally, if Vikings fans,
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: Wo'd be like, screw that guy, get him the hell
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: out of here. But the Ravens don't necessarily have those problems,
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: and so they have to really think, like will this
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: guy figure it out or not?
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: And to add on to that, not too often does
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: a kicker who is capable of making fifty plus yard
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: field goals and has had a recent string of looking
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: really good like Parker Romo has last few weeks. They
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: don't typically just become available for pretty much free right
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: before the playoffs. So I mean, it's mostly joke, but
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's unrealistic to think the Reasons could
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: look to pick him up if they're having kicking loose. Yeah,
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: especially if record is back and healthy for sure.
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: All right, guys, before we get your final falcons Vikings
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: predictions really quick, anything both of you want to plug?
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: I know Destin we always we like to have you
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: give you a minute or two to plug anything and everything.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: But Yanick, we want you to plug anything and everything
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: you're working on too. So where can we find you?
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: So you can find me on Twitter j Nick Eckhart
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: to handle just my name, and I'm riding at a
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: purple and sometimes on Vikings Territory No, So yeah, that's
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: that's where you can find me.
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, dus Baker on Twitter, the same thing on
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: Blue Sky for those that have ventured over there, Vikings
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: Territory dot com for the daily onslaught of information fikes
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: now on YouTube. And then Yanick and I have a
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: site called draft Huddle dot com that focuses on rookies
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: and the draft that is not Vikings focused, that we
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: are getting off the ground.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: Over the last couple months.
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: So that's where you can find us.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: Awesome, and for our watchers and our viewers and listeners,
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: we'll we'll link everything for both these guys in the
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: descriptions below, so absolutely be sure to check them out
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: if you hadn't already.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: I can personally say both Janik and Dustin have significantly
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: enhanced my Vikings fandom. They're great follows, and if you're
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: not following them already, you're doing it wrong because they.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah anything else even no, thanks guys for coming on.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: We really appreciate you giving us time, especially during Monday
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: night football, and hopefully we'll get to talk to you
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: guys again soon.
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: All right, really quick, Vikings Falcons score prediction.
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: So let's see. I could really see it go each day.
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: I guess it depends on how Kirk and Donald are playing.
• 54:21
  Speaker 4: So I'm going to pick Vikings have win twenty four
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: to twenty.
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: Okay, I have the Vikings thirty one twenty four. I
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: think Kirk Cousins will bounce back. I don't think it'll
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: be good enough to beat the Vikings. And I want
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: to point out that the last two games we've asked
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: Sam Donald for game winning drives clutch situations, and he's
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: really showed up. We spent the first two months trying
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: to figure out if the Vikings is a team we're
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: going to collapse, because that's so ingrained in our DNA
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: from twenty sixteen and two thousand and three, we didn't
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: even really get to the part of wondering if Donald
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: could be clutch when they were trailing and lo and behold,
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: especially at Soldier Field when that game felt like it
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: was he methodically led them downfield found like every playmaker
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: with a big name in overtime, and then last week
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: when things were going bad in general, he got everybody
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: got their poop in a group, and especially him on
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: that final drive. Each time they've asked him for a
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: big moment, he's delivered. And each time they've asked him
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: to bounce back from something bad like the Jaguars game,
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: he has. And you're kind of starting to see why
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: this guy was a third overall pick. So I will say,
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: even though he probably won't be a Viking for that
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: long because we got dij McCarthy for that, I want
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: this guy to bounce around to every Shanahan coach that
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: there is, whether it is Lafleur, O'Connell, Zach Taylor. I
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: want him to be properly taken care of in the
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: right offensive system so that he can showcase this ability.
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: He does. However, needed to get the ball out a
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: little faster. That was Drivan Yaka and I nuts in
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: the first half. Yep, I couldn't agree more with that
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: that last statement I said Vikings twenty eight twenty Evan, what.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: Was your prediction thirty five twenty one?
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: Sweet little bit, little bit of a bigger margin for
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: the Vikings.
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: We will take it, yeah for sure. Well, we'd love
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: to have both of you on again. Really, anytime you want, Dustin.
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: I know we kind of skipped.
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: We were on like an every month schedule for you
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: to come on, and however it worked. We just accidentally
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: missed you on November.
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: So thanks for coming on this month, open door, any
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: time you want to come on, have things to say,
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: not that you don't.
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: Have every other route to biking.
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: But we yeah, put us on the schedule right the
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: first week of January because ya will still still be
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: in the States.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, nice, awesome, sounds good.
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: Thanks, all right, take it easy, all right?
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: What do you say we talk about this upcoming game?
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: Vikings hosting the Falcons December eighth, Newton game at home.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: Should be loud in that place.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it should be exciting. This might have been one
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: of the first ones that Vikings fans circled on the
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: calendar when the schedule came out because at least as
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: of right now, the Falcons starting quarterback is an old friend.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you think Kirk Cousins will get booed walking
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: out of the tunnel? And that's I think.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: I you know, I don't like that. I don't if
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: you're a Vikings saying you're gonna be at the game,
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: don't don't boot Kirk Cousins. I feel like when he
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: was with the Vikings, he gave the team everything he
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: had up or down, good or bad. You can't say
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: he was a villain, you know, especially after it was
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: his Everyone in the world's eyes were opened after the
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: Quarterback series on Netflix that he's he seems to be
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: a genuine good dude. And even when it came down
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: to the wire, I think everybody really knew, like the
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: end of the Kirk Cousins eras coming, and good for him.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: He got a heck of a lot of money from Atlanta.
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: It seems like he's kind of stealing a lot of
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: money from Atlanta right now. And at the end of
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: the day, even if he was playing like an MVP
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: for the Falcons right now, his contract was going to
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: be too much for the Vikings to commit to anyways,
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: and I think ultimately the team, the Vikings made the
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: best decision in letting that era end.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you said it a lot in the
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: episodes that we recorded last year, kind of leading up
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: to Kirk's departure. Kirk's a really good businessman, Oka and
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: he made a heck of a business deal. And it's
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: not necessarily paying off for the Falcons, but they bought
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: themselves some insurance with that rookie quarterback that they drafted.
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which everybody, myself included I think you too, was
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: like what are they doing? Like that's such a crazy
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: move after giving what one hundred and sixty one hundred
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: and eighty million dollars almost to one guy and then
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: immediately drafting his backup.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: But if you think about it, right, Kirk Cousins is
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: what thirty seven thirty eight years old? Is that how
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: old he is? He's thirty six, He's going to turn
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: thirty seven this next year. But he's still on the
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: older end of things for quarterbacks in the NFL. I mean,
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: he's not too far behind Aaron Rodgers.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: So it's a few years I mean honestly, Yeah, Yeah,
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: So I'm.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: With you on the booings. Backtrack to that for a second.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: I hope fans out there don't boo Kirk Cousins. He's
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: a great guy. He gave everything, like you said, to
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: this franchise while he was there for six years. It
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: was a good six years, and he played really well.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: It was frustrating at times, but there are a lot
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: of good moments as well, and like you said, the
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: person himself football aside, he's just a great guy and
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: doesn't deserve that sort of treatment. So I hope that
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: he gets a good standing ovation as he comes out
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: of the tunnel. It'll be a mixed I don't know
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: about an ovation.
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: I feel like it could just be, you know, just
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: another player on the other side.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, if he doesn't get booed, he'll get something else,
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: and I think it'll be positive. And I think Minnesota
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: fans should show him some love. Yeah, So I mean
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: that's all I'm saying. Yeah, okay, I can see that
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: that thought process. I wouldn't be, you know, standing and
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: clapping or standing and booing. Either way. It's just I
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: would stand and clap, okay, And that's fine. I'm not
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: gonna like lose my mind I were there, but I
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: would stand and clap. I would give him a nice
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: you know, hey, we appreciate you man.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: We're going to kick your butt now.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: Well, and that's the thing. I hope the Vikings win.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: I think they should. They're I think the better team
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: over the Falcons right now. I won't give my prediction
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: quite yet, but I think if you just look at
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: the quarterback position, if you just look at numbers, it's
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, Sam Donald's playing better than Kirk Cousins right
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: now in almost every statistical category here.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: And it's not night and day.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: It's not like, oh we have, you know, an elite
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: MVP compared to a guy that hasn't thrown a touchdown
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: in years and years and years. They're closer than it
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: would seem, but especially recently, I mean a month ago,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: we were talking about, darn it, Sam Donald can't stop
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: their own picks, and every time he throws to Justin Jefferson,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: he's forcing it and gets intercepted. I mean, outside of
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: a pitch that was fumbled that wasn't necessarily his fault.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: Few games ago, Donald has been darn near perfect. He
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: has been lights out at times. He has closed out
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: the last two games and been elite and almost single
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: handedly won the last two games himself. Just with how
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: stone cold he's been and definitely recently, there's no argument
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: I think Sam Donald is the better quarterback at the moment.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: And genuinely, if there was some you know, magic one
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: that we could, you know, regardless of contract, regardless of money,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: regardless of age or anything, if we could just swap
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: quarterbacks right now, Donald for.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: Cousins, I wouldn't do it.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: I'm a fan of Donald and I think he's the
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: better quarterback for the Vikings right now.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm trying to pull up. I'm trying to compare
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: because you can do this on stahead dot com. Oh yeah,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: so I'm just trying to pull up. At first, it
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: was just like all their career statistics. Oh, of course
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: Kirk is going to be better across his entire career,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: but this season, obviously, Sam Donald has the better record
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: at ten and two. He has a better completion percentage
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: by just two tenths of a percent sixty seven point six.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: Kirk actually has more yards okay, just over three thousand
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: to Sam Donald's just under three thousand.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: About one hundred yard different. Literally exactly one hundred years,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: one hundred yard difference.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: Yep. Now that I look at that more closely, yards
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: per attempt Donald's a little bit higher, but yards per
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: game Cousins is a little higher. And then in all
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: the other categories touchdowns, interceptions, passer rating, rush attempts, yards,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: fantasy points, even like Sam Donald is ahead. Yeah, so
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: it's marginal in some areas, but I think overall, the
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: product on the field and obviously the category that matters
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: most wins. Oh yeah, Sam Donald is the better quarterback.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: And it was a great move for the Vikings franchise
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: to get Sam Darnald on a dime and watch the
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: forty million dollar man head south. Yeah.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: And the other side of it, which everybody knows. I'm
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: not breaking news, but letting really letting Kirk Cousins walk
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: and Daniel Hunter walk allowed the Vikings a lot of
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: space to be able to sign guys like Andrew van
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: Ginkel and Jonathan Gernard and Blake Cashman and then lockdown
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: Christian Darisaw And it probably made the Justin Jefferson deal
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: easier to do. And yeah, I think if you just
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: look at twenty twenty four cap Cousins and Hunter are
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: still kind of on it. So the cap dollars this
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: year aren't too different than they would have been if
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: they would have kept Hunter and Cousins. But when you
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: look at the future, that's when you're able to say, like, Okay,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: we can justify a Jonathan Garnard contract because the future
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: dollars are more freed up. Otherwise they would have been
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: paying you know, more future dollars to Cousins and Hunter.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think this team is better off post
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: Cousins era, at least in the short term, which were
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: only what twelve games out of the Cousins era. I
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: think it would be tough to argue against the idea
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: that the team is better off. The Vikings are a
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: better team.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: So here's a question for you. Which quarterback is more
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: likely to stay with their current team next season.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: I think you have to give it to Cousins just
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: based off dollars the Vikings would be if you're saying
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: Donald to stay with the Vikings or Cousins to stay
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: with the Falcons. Yeah, I mean regardless, Cousins threw four
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: picks and looked pretty awful last week, but that's one week.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: They're not gonna let go of the one hundred and
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: eighty million dollar man for a couple of bad games,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: even if you do draft you know, Michael Pennix in
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: the top ten. I think Cousins is a Falcon at
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: least next season two. But yeah, I think Sam Donald
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: he has written his ticket.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: I said it.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: I think I told it to Forrest and you last
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: week on episode sixty eight. Donald at this moment is
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: probably looking at a contract anywhere. I mean easily between
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: twenty five and thirty million dollars a year year next year,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: for probably three four or five ish years, probably more
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: that three or four. And I think the Vikings are
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: already planning to not go that route, which is fine,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: That's been the plan the whole time, I think for
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: the Vikings and for Sam Darnold to kind of resurrect
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: his career and move on.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: No, I don't disagree with you. I think it's more
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: likely that Kirk Cousins ends up sticking around with Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's kind of a foregone conclusion at this point,
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  Speaker 1: barring like a super Bowl victory for the Vikings, that
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold is gone. I think fans would be pounding
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  Speaker 1: the table for that guy to be back if he won.
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  Speaker 3: Oh he wins a super Bowl or MVP, Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: how do you let a guy like that walk regardless
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  Speaker 3: of previous plans.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not predicting either of those things to happen.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how you are either, but not either.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying barring that. Yeah, I think he's gone,
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  Speaker 1: and I think, yeah, I think the Falcons paid a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money. They're not just gonna watch that money
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  Speaker 1: walk out the door like the Giants watched Daniel Jones
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  Speaker 1: what ever. They're paying him to not play for them anymore,
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  Speaker 1: and for him to sit on the Vikings practice squad
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  Speaker 1: is that's kind of crazy if you're an organization, and
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  Speaker 1: it's I think kind of irresponsible with the money that
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: you've been people doubt fired.
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  Speaker 2: So, speaking of making a lot of investments, the Falcons
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  Speaker 2: also made another big investment at the quarterback position. Michael Pennix.
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  Speaker 2: He was what the eighth or ninth overall pick, definitely
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  Speaker 2: top ten. Yeah, So that's another investment that the Falcons
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: are not going to just let go. Kirk Cousins had
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  Speaker 2: a rough game last week. He hasn't looked great. He
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: hasn't looked amazing all season, and the wind totals not there.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think the Falcons bench Cousins this week against
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: Minnesota or do you think they would let it go
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  Speaker 2: at least another couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so, because as far as I know,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna look this up quick because I just
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  Speaker 1: don't want to sound stupid, but the Falcons are still
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  Speaker 1: in the mix. Oh yeah, absolutely. The NFC South is
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: the NFC South, and the NFC are very much up
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  Speaker 1: for grabs, so I'm looking at it right now. The
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  Speaker 1: Falcons and the Buccaneers are tied for the division lead
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  Speaker 1: in the NFC South at six and six, so it's
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: very much up for grabs. In The Saints, to be honest,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: are still kind of in there. I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: that's going to happen, especially after firing their coach several
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago now, but I don't see I don't I
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: don't see Michael Pennox coming in until there's garbage time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, until there are games that don't matter anymore.
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  Speaker 1: The Falcons are eliminated, and Kirk Cousins has told the
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: coaching staff and the front office like, yeah, I'm done.
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  Speaker 1: I'm an old man. Let me, let me rest and
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  Speaker 1: put the young kid in. I'll be on the sideline
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  Speaker 1: and where a head said, and coach them up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. But all right, I don't know, that's my prediction.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't predict as of this moment, the Falcons
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: announcing a quarterback change prior to the game. But if
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  Speaker 2: Kirk comes out, and he very well could come to
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: Minnesota and throw five touchdowns and look like the second
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: coming of Tom Brady in his prime. I hope that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't happen. But the Vikings are notorious for letting, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the opposing team's quarterback look great, not all the time,
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: but enough that we we've noticed it. But I really
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: think if Kirk were to come out in Minnesota and
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: throw two or three picks, you know, in the first
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: half or something, a benching is not outside of the
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: realm of possibility. I just think he's at least going
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: to start the game. Yeah, I don't think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: week to week.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Kirk has benched until the Falcons are out,
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  Speaker 1: but I think, yes, if he has another bad game
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  Speaker 1: this weekend, which let's hope so for it and us
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: Bank would be rocking if that happened. But yeah, I
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: wouldn't throw out a mid game benching if the game
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  Speaker 1: is way out of hand. He's played terribly and it's
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  Speaker 1: time for Michael Pennix to get some some reps.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd be okay with it, as long as you know,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: the Vikings still win and the Michael Pennock's resurgence or
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: you know, doesn't you know, somehow surge the Falcons over
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: the Vikings in that game. Anyways, all that to say,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: we probably talked way too much about the Falcons and
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: the Vikings, but that's just the way it goes when
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: your franchise quarterback is now on a different team. Do
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: you have a too early prediction? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think this will be a fairly easy win for
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: the Vikings, especially considering the struggles that the Falcons had
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: last week and Kirk throwing four interceptions. I wish there
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: was a stat out there that we could dial in
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: on Kirk. You know, how does he play after those
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: really bad games? As a Vikings fans, we should know that.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: I don't off the top of my head, but I'm
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: gonna say the Vikings do pretty well. I still think
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: this offense struggles, and I don't think the Falcons defense
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: is anything to write home about. But I did not
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: expect the Vikings to struggle against the Cardinals.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: They struggled till they didn't, yeah, which would frustrating. They
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: struggled a lot, and.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: It was super frustrating. I think those things still continue
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: to frustrate us as fans. Maybe not so much the
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: coaching staff and the players, because they've got it figured
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: out and they're willing to put up with some stuff
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: in the first half if they can figure it out
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: in the second half, which seems to be the way
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: the Vikings have been playing lately, is not all season,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: because early on in the season they could do no
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: wrong in the first quarter and they just marched down
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: and scored two or three touchdowns boom boom, boom, and
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: then made teams play catch up. But lately, really since
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: the bye week or a few weeks after that, it's
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: been man, we can't do anything in the first quarter.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: I think that continues. I think it's a continuation of
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: this thread of Sam Darnold and Kevin O'Connell trying to
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: figure things out, trying to get on the same page,
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: and what do we do when our game plan, I'm
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: not gonna call it a script, but the game plan
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: starts to turn sideways when Aaron Jones fumbles three plays
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: into the game or whatever. We get back on track
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: from those things, and I think that's going to continue
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: to work itself out and it'll be frustrating for a while.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: But score prediction, I'm gonna say thirty five to twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: Vikings, Vikings, Okay, all right, it's a good prediction. I
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: think it'll be close, just for the emotional factor. I
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: think maybe the falcons last game and Kirk's terrible performance
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: might have been a little bit of a trap game
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: looking ahead to oh Man, maybe Kirk had this game
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: circled for a while too.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't surprise me.
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  Speaker 2: The knock on Kirk was, you know, primetime games or big,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: big time games. He was a little shaky, and I
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: think for him this could be a little bit of
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: a big time game. But I still think he plays
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: better than he did last week against who did they
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: lose to the Falcons?
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: I doesn't even pay an.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: I still think he plays better than he did last week.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: But Chargers, I think it's going to be more like
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 3: twenty eight to twenty game Vikings, which is really similar
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: to yours. It's just one touchdown fewer pretty much.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the Vikings will struggle early on, but
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: then they'll get into their rhythm and that's where I
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: think the five touchdowns come in. I think they get
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: maybe one or two in the first half, and then
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: they really pour an on in the second half and
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: put the game out of each Yeah, so all right,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: there you go. All right, man, let's close this thing
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: out before we do. What do you think of this
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: moss from Keg Creek Brewing?
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Keg Creek, just like all of the
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: other great Iowa breweries, does a great job. I haven't
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: had the moss before, but I really liked it. It's
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: a nice light flavor. We talked about the beer and
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: a spear earlier. Kind of makes me want to throw
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: a pickle in here right now. But yeah, we really
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: gave our full opinions on the TikTok, which that'll be
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: our beer review is going to be on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: really any of our socials. But yeah, I don't know
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: what else I can say other than it's really good.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: You should try it. Yeah, it makes me want to
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: have some tacos ready for some tacos, right, Yeah, that'd
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: be great. Well, looking ahead the next week, obviously, we
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: will recap this Kirk Cousin's revenge game against the Vikings.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: Hopefully he gets a pleasant welcome at us Bank Stadium.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens there. But we both picked the
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: Vikings to win that game in our preseason picks. So
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: if the Vikings win, we're off the hook for the
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: Wheel of Purple Punishments. Yeah, but if the Vikings lose,
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: we are both on the hook. So that'll be an
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: interesting development there. We'll see if Kirk can pull out
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: a win or not. Yeah, and I looked ahead. So
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: there's five games left, including this Falcons game. Of those
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: we picked differently, I believe in three of them. Okay,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: so this Falcons game we both picked the same way,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: and then there's another one that we both picked the
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: same way. I forget which one, but there's three other
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: ones that one of us picked a win and one
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: of us picked a loss. So we definitely have three
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: spins coming up. Absolutely, So I.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 3: Really hope you have to do the waxing of a limb.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 3: I'm not looking forward to that. That's going to be
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 3: so bad.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it'll be a fun segment here to finish
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: out the season, and we should figure something out for
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: the playoffs too.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, maybe whatever is left on the wheel, we
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: just kind of make our predictions go from there. We'll
• 1:14:26
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• 1:14:31
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• 1:14:34
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• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: We are pretty much on every social Earlier Dustin when
• 1:14:39
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• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: I'm wondering. I don't think we're on threads technically, even
• 1:15:04
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• 1:15:06
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it's going to be relevant the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the year. That's Sammy D logo that your wife
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  Speaker 1: She was working on another sam Darnold design yesterday during
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  Speaker 2: I actually got my wife a sweatshirt of one of
• 1:16:29
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• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: might have to get this beer the next time we
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I enjoyed talking to Dustin and Yonick, and I
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