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TSH Predicts - NFL Week 3 - Vikings host the Texans · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, school hoppers, welcome back to a quick preview
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  Speaker 1: of the upcoming Vikings versus Texan game. We have the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings taking on the Texans at home this Sunday in
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  Speaker 1: a Week three battle of unbeatens. So, Austin, I got
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  Speaker 1: a couple questions for you as we lead into this game.
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  Speaker 1: You ready bring them up, all right? So question number one,
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  Speaker 1: with a little bit of preamble here, the Texans had
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  Speaker 1: a close win both against the Colts and the Bears,
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  Speaker 1: but the Vikings seemed to really handle the Giants, and
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  Speaker 1: then they looked really good against the forty nine ers.
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  Speaker 1: Who's got more to gain or more to lose in
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  Speaker 1: this game?
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  Speaker 2: All right? If you just look at this upcoming Vikings
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  Speaker 2: Texans game through the lens that you just said it
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  Speaker 2: that the Texans kind of had close games against teams
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  Speaker 2: that haven't looked great so far, and the Vikings they
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  Speaker 2: beat up on a bad team and they had a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good win against a good team. If you just
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  Speaker 2: look at it that, then how can you say the
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  Speaker 2: Vikings are gonna lose? The Vikings have to be favorited
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  Speaker 2: right now. Obviously, we know the Texans are a very
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  Speaker 2: good team, and maybe that says more about the Colts
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  Speaker 2: and the Bears being better than their perceived value is
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  Speaker 2: right now. But just kind of looking at it at that,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, my confidence for a Vikings win just went
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  Speaker 2: up a little bit more. It'll be a good win,
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  Speaker 2: good game. I hope it's a win, but it'll be
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  Speaker 2: a good game for the Vikings. I really I don't
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  Speaker 2: expect it to be a blowout either way. I think
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  Speaker 2: it'll be a hard fought game and maybe one that
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  Speaker 2: comes down to the wire. But I think if the
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  Speaker 2: Vikings win, the narrative needs to change on the Vikings
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  Speaker 2: this year. The media fans you and I included, I
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  Speaker 2: haven't expected much from our favorite team, and if they
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  Speaker 2: beat the Texans, then we gotta rethink some of these predictions.
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  Speaker 1: Here, I saw a tweet somewhere out there that was
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  Speaker 1: basically saying, like, I hope the media continues to undervalue
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings because that'll just continue to ramp up the
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  Speaker 1: hype behind this team. And I don't know that they've
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  Speaker 1: looked really good through two games. The Texans haven't looked
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  Speaker 1: bad through two games, so it should be a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good game for sure. So my next question kind of
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  Speaker 1: dovetails off of that. Because both teams are two games
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  Speaker 1: in now, they're both of course expected to be dealing
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  Speaker 1: with some injury. So what effect do you think the
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  Speaker 1: injury report that just came out a few hours ago
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  Speaker 1: has on this game? And I'll recap some of the
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  Speaker 1: highlights really quickly. For the Vikings, We've got Addison Jordan
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  Speaker 1: at in ivan pace and Dallas Turner out. And then
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  Speaker 1: on the textan side of the ball, both of the
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  Speaker 1: main running backs look to be out Joe Mixon and
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  Speaker 1: his backup and it looks like cam Akers will be
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  Speaker 1: the featured back former Viking. That's kind of interesting. And
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  Speaker 1: then I also noticed both of their centers slash guards
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  Speaker 1: on the offensive line. Two guys that have a center
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  Speaker 1: guard kind of designation are also questionable to play. So
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  Speaker 1: it seems like maybe some weakness on the offensive line
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  Speaker 1: and a potential weakness from the running back position, although
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings are very familiar with cam Akers. All of
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  Speaker 1: that to consider, what effect does that injury report on
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  Speaker 1: both sides of the ball have on this game? I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it seems the injury bug has at least flirted with
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  Speaker 1: both of these teams so far early in the season.
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Turner is a little surprising to me.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't really pop up until you know, midweek this week,
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  Speaker 2: and then he told the media, yeah, I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 2: play this week, and then of course koc confirmed that today.
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Addison, I feel like we haven't gotten much of
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  Speaker 2: him at all. He had a quiet first game and
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  Speaker 2: then missed the second game, and then yeah, who else
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  Speaker 2: was out for the Vikings Addison, Turner and who else?
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's huge. I mean, you talk about a guy
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  Speaker 2: who's he's made a couple of mistakes early on, but
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  Speaker 2: he's still been really solid and the Flores defense really
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  Speaker 2: feels like we've finally seen the full edition of this
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  Speaker 2: Flores defense. And to miss a guy who's wearing that
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  Speaker 2: green dot and the defense that's that's a huge loss.
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  Speaker 2: That may be the biggest loss for the Vikings this week.
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  Speaker 2: But like he said, the Texans are a little bit
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  Speaker 2: banged up to their offensive line. I wasn't aware of
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  Speaker 2: those injuries. I don't know if they're starters, but I
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  Speaker 2: mean you never root for injuries, but strategy wise, that
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  Speaker 2: could be good for the Vikings. And then they're we
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  Speaker 2: know cam Akers is good even before he got injured
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  Speaker 2: last year. He was we were saying the whole season
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  Speaker 2: he was the best running back on the roster for
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings last year and he couldn't get on the
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  Speaker 2: field for whatever reason. So I expect him to have
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  Speaker 2: a motivated game. There was that whole weird story how
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  Speaker 2: he had been reported that he was going to resign
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  Speaker 2: with the Vikings and that never happened, and then all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden he just signed with the Texans. So
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  Speaker 2: I'll be interested to see how he plays. I expect
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  Speaker 2: him to have a decent game. But the Vikings, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they've had some injuries so far. One good thing is
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  Speaker 2: we didn't say Justin Jefferson is out. He's expected to play.
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  Speaker 2: Even if I'll take an eighty percent Justin Jefferson over
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  Speaker 2: one hundred percent anybody else any day, And I think
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  Speaker 2: he's better than eighty percent so far. But yeah, it'll
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  Speaker 2: be something to follow. And I think that I've and
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  Speaker 2: Pace one could be could be a huge loss for
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings this game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And another thing that I saw just kind of
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  Speaker 1: leading up to this game with this injury report was
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  Speaker 1: with those three big pieces out for the Vikings, Addison,
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  Speaker 1: Pace and Turner. I like our depth. I like Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Naylor taking the spot of Jordan Addison at that wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver two position. Brian Asamoa hasn't had a ton of opportunities,
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  Speaker 1: but we haven't heard anything negative about him, and he's
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  Speaker 1: been on the team for a while, been a part
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  Speaker 1: of this scheme, so he's got an opportunity to step
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  Speaker 1: in where Ivan Pace has filled a really good position
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  Speaker 1: so far. And then jahad Ward had a pretty decent
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  Speaker 1: game against the forty nine ers last week, and so
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  Speaker 1: he could be a guy to kind of step in
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  Speaker 1: and be on the lookout for in place of Dallas Turner.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I like the Vikings depth for sure. All right,
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  Speaker 1: final question before we get to official predictions here. I
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  Speaker 1: looked at the turnover margin for both teams. Houston is
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  Speaker 1: plus two and turnover differential and the Vikings are an
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  Speaker 1: even zero. Is it as simple as whoever wins the
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  Speaker 1: turnover battle wins this game?
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's been Koc's mantra. I mean, was he
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  Speaker 2: nineteen and oh now when he's even or better in
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  Speaker 2: the turnover margin, that's a large sample size when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to the NFL. And if that's probably the number
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  Speaker 2: one stat. I think if if we were to suddenly
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  Speaker 2: miss the game on Sunday and woke up Monday morning
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  Speaker 2: and we could only see one stat to try to
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  Speaker 2: figure out who won or lost, that it couldn't be
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  Speaker 2: the win column. I think you got to look at
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  Speaker 2: that turnover margin because if the Vikings are even or better,
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  Speaker 2: I expect to win, which KOC has proven so far,
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  Speaker 2: which that's not breaking news. I mean usually if you
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  Speaker 2: cough the ball up, that makes it really hard to
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  Speaker 2: win a football game, especially in the NFL. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a pretty important stat and one that
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings have proven in Koc's tenures. So yeah, that
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  Speaker 2: might be the most important after points.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely agree with you, And I think as
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  Speaker 1: a head coach, for KOC, it's on both sides of
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  Speaker 1: the ball. Even though he's an offensive minded coach, he's
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  Speaker 1: got to put the offense in position to not turn
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  Speaker 1: the ball over all the right plays, put Sam Darnold
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  Speaker 1: in position to make good plays, good reads downfield, good throws.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know that he's got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of trust in Brian Flores on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball to dial up the pressure when needed.
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  Speaker 1: In the defense for the Vikings has been outstanding. I
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  Speaker 1: think the offense has been great, but I think the
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  Speaker 1: defense has definitely shown that it's the strongest unit on
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  Speaker 1: the team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, another note on that, Kevin O'Connell. He's such
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  Speaker 2: a planner. It feels like he has such a good
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  Speaker 2: game plan going in and you can play in point ABC,
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  Speaker 2: DNF all the way to Z and then go into
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  Speaker 2: the triple A, triple B, you know, everything like that.
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  Speaker 2: But the one thing you can't control, you can't plan for,
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  Speaker 2: is well, let's fumble or let's throw an interception. You
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  Speaker 2: can't play around that. So I mean, I think if
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  Speaker 2: his game plan goes the way he wants it to,
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  Speaker 2: which he's proven, then they're they're gonna be solid. They're
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  Speaker 2: gonna win most of the time.
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  Speaker 1: We got about sixty seconds left here, final game prediction,
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  Speaker 1: who wins, what's the score?
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  Speaker 2: I'm calling it. I'm just gonna ride the hot hand
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  Speaker 2: right now. I think the Vikings have proven themselves a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more through two games, which is a small
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  Speaker 2: staple size. I'm calling the Vikings are going to win,
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  Speaker 2: and it's gonna be hard fought. Although a relatively low
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  Speaker 2: scoring NFL game. I think the Vikings is going to
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  Speaker 2: be twenty eight and the Saints Saints. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: about the Saints. The Texans are going to be about
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  Speaker 2: eighteen seventeen somewhere in there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll take the Vikings as well. I like the Vikings.
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  Speaker 1: We're homers, of course, yep, evidenced by everything around us.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's even lower scoring. Lower that came out wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Lower scoring the what you indicate. I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: either of these teams hit twenty points. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a defensive battle all the way through. I'm gonna say
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  Speaker 1: Vikings seventeen, Texans thirteen. Oh wow, Okay, I think Will
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  Speaker 1: the Thrill continues his streaking. He's not gonna get a
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  Speaker 1: haircut for a while.
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  Speaker 2: So Thrill is coming.
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  Speaker 1: All right, man, Well it should be a good game.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to dissecting everything that happens, whether we're
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  Speaker 1: right or wrong, in our upcoming episode fifty nine on
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  Speaker 1: the School How should be get?
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  Speaker 2: Wait, all right, it's going