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Stupid Beer, Luka and the Lakers, Kupp to the Vikings (Guest Dustin Baker) | TSH Ep. 78 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome in to another episode
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: of The School Hot. I'm Evan and I'm Austin. We're
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: just a couple of dudes from Iowa. We like drinking
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: beer talking about the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And on episode seventy eight of the School Hot Podcast,
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: which is still crazy to think, tonight, we tried a
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  Speaker 2: mega cake stupid beer or sour I guess from Reunion
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  Speaker 2: Brewery and it ended up being pretty interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I liked it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, we'll seek this out again. And for the
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  Speaker 1: first time in quite a while, we reconnected with an
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  Speaker 1: old friend of the show, Dustin Baker.
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it was too long. I think it was
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: almost a couple of months since we talked to him before.
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: But we got his takes on the Sam Darnold situation,
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: Cooper Cup situation, and really just some intriguing Vikings free
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: agent prospects this offseason.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So, wherever you are and whatever you enjoy drinking,
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  Speaker 1: grab a cold one and join us.
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  Speaker 3: School School.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we just want to say thanks to show
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  Speaker 2: up to So yeah again, thanks Bigtop Venture.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, appreciate you guys. All right, well, I brought the beer.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a beer that I referenced last week.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know that I referenced the name.
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  Speaker 2: I think you you either showed it to me or
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  Speaker 2: I think you said it on the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I did, but I just I've looked at this beer.
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  Speaker 1: This is like, this is like squints at the pool,
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  Speaker 1: staring at Wendy Peppercorn for however long, and finally.
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  Speaker 3: You just you do it.
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  Speaker 1: You just do it. You just go for it. You
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: dive in the deep end, you drown, and she pulls
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: you out of the water and saves your life, saves
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: your life in many ways. Yeah, So this beer has
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  Speaker 1: been just staring at me on the shelf for probably
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  Speaker 1: over a year. It's been like a while, like for
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: as long as we've been recording the podcast, I can
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  Speaker 1: remember this beer sitting on the shelf at high ve'y
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  Speaker 1: hopefully not this exact beer. Oh yeah, it'll be too long.
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  Speaker 1: But it's Reunion's Mega Cake stupid dessert sour.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it says it's a blueberry rab very mega purple
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  Speaker 2: lactose oats, cinnamon, and vanilla sour. So that's not crazy.
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  Speaker 2: That's not mega cake stupid dessert sour. Then I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what is. And maybe that says something about me,
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  Speaker 2: because you said you've been staring at this beer forever.
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  Speaker 2: We shop mostly, we shop pretty most of our beer
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  Speaker 2: at the same place. I couldn't tell you I've ever
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  Speaker 2: seen this can before. Maybe I just have looked at
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  Speaker 2: this amazing, crazy artwork and it's so crazy that I've
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  Speaker 2: just tuned it out of my brain and totally looked
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  Speaker 2: over it. So if not for you, I probably would
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  Speaker 2: never have tried this. I'm kind of excited.
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  Speaker 1: Let's pour this up. Let's see what it looks like.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, it actually kind of looks like upon
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  Speaker 1: first poor, like one of our more recent beers. It
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  Speaker 1: kind of looks like the Big Grove. What was the
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  Speaker 1: sour beer that we had from Big Grove a few.
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  Speaker 2: Weeks at the into the woods that it woods. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was just last week with the last week. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: oh it's uh.
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  Speaker 1: You probably can't see it on camera, but there's a
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  Speaker 1: ton of sediment in this, like it's it's hazy. It's
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  Speaker 1: not transparent at all. It's kind of purply, which makes
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  Speaker 1: sense with like the blueberry and stuff. But there is
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  Speaker 1: like sediment for days, which is not a bad thing. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's just an unfiltered unfiltered this is this is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: The more I think about this, it's crazy. I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: We just need to dive in.
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  Speaker 2: The smell test is pretty good to Yeah, alright, so
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  Speaker 2: it's cool. Hmm, that's pretty good. Yeah, that's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I like that a lot. It's not that sour, No,
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  Speaker 1: it's got hart to it. It's tart. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like a sweet tart, like a candy sweet tart almost.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: When I go for candy, I go for the chocolate
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  Speaker 2: stuff pretty much, or.
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  Speaker 3: The caramel stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I go for the sugary.
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  Speaker 2: This is definitely in that sugary sweet stuff category, which
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  Speaker 2: is fine. This is like a skittle on steroids in
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  Speaker 2: a sour There's nothing bad about it. I mean it's
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  Speaker 2: not my typical beer of choice to go running after.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean nothing about this is gross. It's very sweet,
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  Speaker 2: very candy.
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  Speaker 3: Like I think the name.
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  Speaker 2: Is very apt, Mega cake, stupid dessert sour. That's a mouthful,
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  Speaker 2: and this beer I like a party in a can.
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  Speaker 1: I can taste everything in it. I can taste the
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  Speaker 1: blueberry raspberry, I can taste the oats and cinnamon, and
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  Speaker 1: I can taste the vanilla. You got a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of that cake like type of vibe to it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest. The reasons it kept intimidating me
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  Speaker 1: at the store was because I was scared of it,
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  Speaker 1: Like I was just like, I don't want to try that,
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  Speaker 1: and eventually we were gonna have to try it because
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  Speaker 1: we're we're running thin on Iowa beers at our local spot.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're out there and you know of some
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  Speaker 1: good Iowa beer, or if you want to send us
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  Speaker 1: some Iowa beer, let us know, because we'll definitely take
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  Speaker 1: you up on that offer. Oh yeah, that'd be great.
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  Speaker 1: But Reunion, this is a really good beer, yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: one that I would try again.
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  Speaker 2: To be truthful, I don't know if I'm gonna actively
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  Speaker 2: seek this one out again. We've got a few that
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna have tonight. Like I said, there's nothing bad
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  Speaker 2: about this. It's really sweet. It's a sour. This is
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  Speaker 2: like definitely what I would think of as like the
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  Speaker 2: category of sours. I mean again, it's not actually sour.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a sweet beer. But it's fine. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I could see this being somebody's favorite beer. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure somebody out there loves it. So thank you
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  Speaker 2: for bringing it ov. I'm glad I've tried it. I
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  Speaker 2: probably won't actively seek it out again, but that's just me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you really enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna enjoy the others.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna enjoy the others as well. Do we say
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  Speaker 2: what the percentage is?
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  Speaker 1: I looked on the can and I couldn't find it,
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  Speaker 1: so just a Google search might eyield that. But it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't taste super boozy to me, so yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's good. I like it in I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: in the sweet category, I gravitate away from chocolate and
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  Speaker 1: more towards this kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Before we move on, I do want to read
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  Speaker 2: the description because I just found it. Found it trying
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  Speaker 2: to find the the ABV. Couldn't find the ABV. But
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  Speaker 2: the description is description pending, too stupid to describe cake
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  Speaker 2: maybe sour, yes, mega purple probably, And that's it. That's
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  Speaker 2: all Reunion says about this one.
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  Speaker 3: So there you go.
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  Speaker 2: It's a it's an experience. It's a fun experience.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad I'm doing it. Thank you, Reunion.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you can get your hands on some mega
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  Speaker 1: cake stupid dessert sour, you have to look at it
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  Speaker 1: every time because there's no way to memorize that title.
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  Speaker 1: You can get your hands on some. I would recommend it. It
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  Speaker 1: sounds like you would maybe recommend it once, but not twice.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely try it, Definitely make sure it's it's something you
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  Speaker 2: want to try, because again, there's nothing bad about it,
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing gross. It's it's somebody's favorite beer. I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well we're gonna end this segment here and
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  Speaker 1: the next time you see us, we're gonna be chatting
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  Speaker 1: with good friend of the show, Dustin Baker.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it's been a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so excited to have him back on. Who knows
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  Speaker 1: what we'll talk about I'm sure a myriad of things
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  Speaker 1: will pop up in our discussion. It's always fun, though
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  Speaker 1: always enjoyable to have him on. So we're gonna cut
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  Speaker 1: this short here and get to that content here in
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  Speaker 1: just a second school school, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, welcome back to skull Hoppers. If you were watching
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: rather than listening to us, you'll see a familiar face
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  Speaker 2: we got front of the show, Dustin Baker here again.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for coming back on, Dustin. It's been a minute.
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: So I think early December was the last time you
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: were on, and we had you and Yanick on, which
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: was a really good time. And we kind of missed
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: our early January time, but that's okay. Nothing good in
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: Vikings world happened in early January. So here we are
• 9:51
  Speaker 2: right before the super Bowl. So yeah, thanks again for
• 9:54
  Speaker 2: coming on. We're really excited. Yeah, it's an honor to
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: be back. And I think we were all deflated really
• 9:59
  Speaker 2: a lot by the Rams game because I really didn't
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: think the Vikings would use the final two games when
• 10:05
  Speaker 2: it mattered the most to just disappoint to have their
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: worst two games. I did not foresee that coming. We're
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: not immune into the Vikings doing shit like that, but
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: I didn't think this team had it in them, So
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: I'm glad to be back after the warts of that
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: loss We've got. We've got about a month between us now,
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: between that and so we can preview the offseason. I'm
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: also really enthused about sports because Lebron James is my
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: guy and the Lakers just had the sweet trade Saturday
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: night to give him, to give him some life, to
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: maybe win him one more championship or two. So I'm
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: super super excited about sports in general because the Lakers
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: got Luca Dodges. Yeah, it talk about, like, I don't know,
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: in sports, a bigger trade before that. I mean, obviously
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: Vikings fans know about the Herschel Walker trade, but like
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: it feels like that level of trade, like franchise, multiple
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: franchise altering pieces. Evan, I don't know if you followed
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: that at all.
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, well I would ask, because you've probably followed
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: it more than we have, Dustin, Is it a big
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, are the Lakers now championship contenders with Luca
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: on their roster as opposed to not?
• 11:12
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: To me, so, I've been a Lebron fan since the jump,
• 11:15
  Speaker 2: Since two thousand and three, when Michael Jordan retired from
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: the Wizards. He was my guy, like most of the
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: world was, and I needed a new guy. So I
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: looked around the landscape with the NBA and I was like, well,
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: Lebron James is coming out. Let's check him out. And
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: from the very first game, I was hooked. So I
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: would tell you that until Saturday Night, this Lakers experiment
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: had grown stale. I did not expect them to win
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: the CHIP this year, but I will tell you that
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: Luke on the scene gives me new hope and new life.
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: The like the Celtics were probably the front runner win
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: and all the thunder are really good, but all of
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: a sudden, there's some an injection of change on the
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: Lakers roster. And the way that we'll kind of look
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: at it is if they don't get to the championship
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: or win it, we'll say, well, yeah, they didn't have
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: enough defense. They traded Anthony Davis, I didn't have a
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: big man. However, if they if they win it, somehow,
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: we'll look at each other and be like, they had
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: Lebron James and Luca Dodgers, of course they were going
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: to win. So yeah, that's where I'm at right now.
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: I probably wouldn't put money on the Lakers to win it,
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: but I am personally a lot more reinvigorated than I
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: was last weekend. The Lakers, even without Luca, are playing
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: quite well. They're like the fifth seed in the West.
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: So that is my basketball spiel for the group to night. Yeah,
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: I was gonna say it still counts because the Lakers
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: wear purple and gold and they used to be in Minnesota,
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: so we're still on track. Schoolhoppers, don't worry. I did
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: want to mention too, not to sit in the terrible
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: depression of the end of the twenty four Viking season.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: But isn't it just another thing on the list as
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: most Vikings things ever for this very promising team that
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: wasn't supposed to do anything at all, to only lose
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: to two teams all season and it just happened to
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: be back to back each time, and when it mattered
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: the most. That's that's again another most Vikings thing ever
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: to happen. Yeah, it's great. It was perfectly symmetrical. They
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: lost to the Lions, Rams, and then the Lions and
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: the Rams, and I don't think there's an underlying good
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: reason for it. Those each loss was really different. In fact,
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: the very first loss to the Lions, I walked out
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: of the Vikings game excited. I was like, Hey, we
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: only lost like two points.
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: I was like, I've never walked out of this building
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: enthused about a loss, and that feels like a million
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: years ago. Now within the last two games, I cannot
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: believe that Sam Donald absolutely folded, crumbled, collapse, capitulated. And
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: I know it's not on his fault. He probably could
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: have got a little bit more help from the interior
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: offensive line, but that guy had seen blitzes throughout the
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: season and he had manhandled him personally. So I went
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: back to the way that I was thinking about Donald
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: last March. So when they signed him, I was like, yay,
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: I do think that he can be decent around the NFL.
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: Hopefully he goes to the Seahawks or the Raiders something
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: like that. But you could put me on record, I
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: do not want that guy back again, mainly because I
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: know he's gonna look great training camp. I know he's
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: gonna be a preseason god. He'll probably play great for
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: the regular season, but I don't want to wait a
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: whole year to figure out, all right, is the guy
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: gonna implode in the playoffs, and then if he does,
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: you've set the franchise back two years. So although I
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: respect Darnold, I cannot believe what he did. Generally, speaking
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: for the Vikings, I am so ready for him to
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: be gone and just give me a McCarthy and give
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: me a normal backup Daniel Jones since he's already kind
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: of on the practice squad, or Nick Mullins. Again, there
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: are so many backup quarterbacks that the Vikings can can
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: get because we have a quarterback whisperer. Yeah, if we
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: could pause and take the last fifteen seconds of what
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: you just said starting with give me a normal backup
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: and then play and like send that clip back in
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: time a year or even two years and be like,
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: give me a normal backup like Daniel Jones, Like, can
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: you imagine Vikings Twitter would implode? Yeah? Well, well, hey,
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: me being a Daniel Jones guy would be really weird
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: than be Daniel Jones being just some moron who's a
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: QB two. So it's yeah, all have a mighty have
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: fallen type of thing. But yeah, like I said, I
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: don't have a huge like grievance with Sam Donald. If
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: they find a way to bring him back. Of course,
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: I'll find a way to support it. But you've got
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: four years to get this right, gentleman. Before JJ McCarthy
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: would demand a giant contract if he's good in the
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: first place, and I don't want to waste it on
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: another year of Hey, we're letting our guy im mature.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: Because Donald won fourteen game, I really hope they'll go
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: down that avenue and I don't think they will. Yeah, well,
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: I guess. So we didn't have kind of an order
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: of questions we were going to ask you, but it
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: seems like we're naturally transitioning into like the fourth question
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: we were going to ask you. So as an on
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: air production meeting, I feel like we should just flop
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: things around here really quick.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely agree. And I don't know that there's
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: really a bigger question, And I don't know that there
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: has been a bigger question in Vikings off season since
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: last year, like well, no, for like a few years now,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: like it's just been this kind of ongoing saga of
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: who's going to be the quarterback and what's going to happen.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: Last year, it was okay, what's gonna happen with Kirk
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: and this year it's okay, Sam Donald played really well,
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: but he collapsed.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: At the end.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: What's going to happen?
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: So yeah, So I guess the question we want to
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: bring to you, Dustin is you've told us what you
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: want and a little bit about what you think will happen.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: But we've got four different scenarios and I kind of
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: want you to to rank one to four, one being
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: most likely to happen for being absolutely one happen what
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: you think will happen, not what I want or what
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: you want, but like what probably will happen if you
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: had to be right. So let me read off the
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: scenarios and then you can kind of answer from there.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: So yeah, scenario one and these are all Sam Donald.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: What happens with him Sam Donald? So a scenario one
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: is Sam Donald is signed to more than one year contract,
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: two three, four year contract for market value whatever that is,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: to be the star with the Minnesota Vikings. That scenario one.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: Scenario two Donald is franchise tagged to be the starter
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: specifically in twenty twenty five, and then who knows from there.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Scenario three is Donald is franchise tagged to be traded
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: as a trade bait, and then scenario four is just
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Donald leaves in free agency outright. So if you can
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: remember what I said, maybe it's not super entertaining, but
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: what you think actually will happen, not what we want
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: to happen, but what do you think is most likely? Yeah,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: this is my job, so I can this is very
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: entertaining for me. The least likely scenario of the four
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: we've listed off is a nude bare naked franchise tag
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: on Sam Donald, which would be like one year, forty million.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: The reason I say that is because that's really expensive
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: and you can kiss your your sixty million cap space
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: to basically goodbye. And then we're back to where we
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: were every off seas with Kirk trying to find bargain
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: bin guys like Marcus Davenpoint not import to make yourself
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: super Bowl contender. So the least likely option is them
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: investing forty million for one single season in Darnald when
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: you have an affordable McCarthy who's hungry, who's saying all
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: the right things, which brings me to the second least
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: likely scenario moving up the ladder here is a short
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: term extension for let's say two years and sixty two
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: million and a lot of that guaranteed. If they really
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: want to have it both ways, hedge their bets. I
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: think this would lower It would lower the cost so
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: it's not forty million, and it gives them that Green
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Bay Packers model where we roll with Donald. You can
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: hear in my voice how I'm excited I am about that,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: and like God, if we were cruising, or we would
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: have played respectable against the Rams, or Donald took us
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: NFC championship, this one I might even be agreeing with
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: at this point, but nope, his his collapse was too
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: egregious for me. I think that would be number two.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: The second most likely option to me would be the
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: franchise tag and trade. The reason that I don't have
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: this at number one is kind of twofold. I don't
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: know what his trade price would be a because he
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: collapsed and then b at Trade prices in sports are
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: absolutely unpredictable. We just talked about the Luca Dota trade.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know if Donald could fetch a second or
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: if a general manager would laugh in your face about that.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: I am done trying to predict trade prices and sound
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: like I know what I'm talking about, So I don't.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's as easy as Hey, we're gonna
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: tag Donald and we're gonna talk to the Raiders. We'll
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: get a second round your baby. Maybe it is that simple,
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: but I doubt it. And then the Vikings have to
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: weigh the risk of applying that bastard the forty million
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: dollars franchise tag, and then they're like, ah, we're we're
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: not trading for him. You're stuck with him, and you
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: don't have any money for a free agency. That feels
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: like a little risky for my liking and probably for
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: the general manager's liking. So and then there's the compensatory angle.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: If Donald leaves, he will factor into that really complicated
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: formula along with Daniel Jones and whatever free agents may leave.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: So the Vikings have to decide what are we gonna
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: get back for a compensentatory if he walks, versus how
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: much can we squeeze out of the Seahawks or the
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Raiders or the Steelers via trade, which leads me to
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: the most likely option. The Vikings don't feel like a
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: team that enjoys using the franchise tag because it's not
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: really a beacon of the player culture. That they've built
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: and empowered through the last three seasons. So as a
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: token of courtesy to Darnold, I'm gonna guess they say,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: thank you. This was our original plan. You come in here,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: you ball out. We've already got our guy. You knew that.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Go play for the Seahawks or the Raiders. Go get
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: your bag. We've got McCarthy right here. Thanks for everything.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: That's the most likely scenario if the Vikings were hard
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: nosed businessmen, that we're gonna We're gonna get the draft
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: picking franchise tag you. We don't care where what you think.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Maybe I could see it, but let's face it, the
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Vikings don't really do things that way. I think I
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: think the franchise tag trade thing dissipated to the final
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: two games because he's no longer this oh my god commodity.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: He's Sam Donald. Who did That's the thing that pays
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: me the most gentlemen about those last two games is
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: in front of back to back national audiences, the Vikings sucked,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: and on top of it, everybody who doubted Sam Donald,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Stephen A. Smith call him a virus. Back in September,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: everybody that thought Donald was a piece of shit was
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: vindicated watching those last two games, and it felt like
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: the whole season we watched meant nothing. That's what really
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: bugged me the most is that people that aren't in
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: tune with the team were right. They watched the Vikings
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: do Vikings things. They watched Sam Donald turn into Sam Donald.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: So the most likely outcome to me is he just
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: walks away in free agency and the McCarthy era, thank
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: God begins. Yeah. Yeah, I tend to agree with everything
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: as late as you know. The day before the Lions game,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: the last line game of the regular season, I was
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: advocating for the whole tag and trade scenario because that
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: point Darnold was a first rounder, you know, like he
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: was a guy that would get, you know, something crazy.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: But at this moment, I think he is a pumpkin.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: He turned back. He's better than he was a year ago,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: but not what we thought he was five weeks ago.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: The reason, the reason that I a complete agreement with
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: you about the franchise tag and trade thing before the
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Lions and Rams game is we entered a territory for
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Viking's business management that said, would you be stupid if
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: you don't use this? Will you see the laughing stock
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: of the NFL. If you let the guy walk and
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: don't trade him, I think that is how you had
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: to start to perceive this because you'll look incompetent or
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: you know, mal practice if you let him walk, and
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: I'm with you, I don't think that applies anymore because
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: the guy looked like an utter turd. Yeah, just absolutely awful.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Who was the last guy the Vikings franchise tagged whether
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: they signed? Was Anthony Harris before that?
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Did they tag him?
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: He did?
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: What was he good for? Two seasons? Like really good?
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Like one and a half seasons and then they tag
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Balma hit him with that in twenty nineteen.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Was it something like that?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, which adds to your point. They they
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: don't do that. I feel like they they're smart, but
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: they take this team as a whole, takes care of
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: people when it makes sense to take care of people.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: So I got a follow up question, yeah, really quick.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: So if if Donald is as good as gone and
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: JJ's the proverbial starter moving forward, the Vikings still have
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: three other quarterbacks currently on the roster. What's your prediction
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: who's gonna fill that QB two role and that emergency
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: QB three. It's probably really to make that prediction.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: But no, no, not at all. I don't think so.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: It's cool that the Vikings have quarterbacks coming out their
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: ears because they have a good head coach who knows
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: how to foster them. Daniel Jones makes way too much sense.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: There had to be knowledge, a forethought when they signed.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: They were the team that signed him after the Giants
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: kicked him out or he asked for his release. I
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: think that forged the relationship. I'm gonna guess Daniel Jones
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: comes back on that one year, ten million dollar deal
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: that Darnald got. I would like to not have a
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: quarterback competition in the summer, but if they man, if
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: it's mandatory, then so be it. My money would be
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: on Donald because he just witnessed what happened to Sam
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Darnald minus the last two games, and like, there's a
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: reason that he chose the Vikings in the first place.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Why not see it through? And in his mind? You know,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: right now, there's dudes like me on podcasts. They are
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: like McCarthy is the real deal. I know he's going
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: to be the real deal. But Daniel Jones isn't thinking
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: that way. Like, you know, he could be the quarterback
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: in September. For all we know, McCarthy could injure his
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: leg again. So I think he has to look around
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: and see what happened to Darnald and therefore not made
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: himself as the Vikings QB.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Two.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: The other thing I want to say, in case I
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: forget over these next thirty five forty minutes, whatever it is,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: I expect the Vikings to say all of this juicy
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: shit about Donald, like, oh no, we want him back.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna guess at press conferences they say that, or
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: they leak the intel so that they can examine the
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: trade market. But it's up to us to believe that
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: or not. I don't know. Sometimes when I when then
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: I see the hey is Donald coming back? Tom Perlicero said, Hey,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: this thing is fluid. I think we're over complicating this.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Are the Vikings really going to turn back on McCarthy
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: after they just went through the Cousins era of good
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: but not elite quarterback in favor of Donald, Who's going
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: to give you a good but not elite quarterback and
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: then make it really difficult to build out a roster
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Like I think we get too bogged down into thinking
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: like what if they're gonna hedge their bets. What if Donald,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: you know, turns out that he can play go to
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: the playoffs next year? Like, I think that we over complicated.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: When you hear guys like thor An Eistrom talk, it
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: sounds like he really gets it, you know, almost laughing
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: at the notion of not starting McCarthy this year. They
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: drafted him for a reason. Donald did not ball out
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: to the enough to negate McCarthy on the roster. He
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: was getting there. But I think that we over complicated
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: at times to think, hey, they can have their cake
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: and eat it too by having Donald back. I'm sure
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Quazy Dopamentsa is elated to have this cap space and
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: you can kiss that bitch goodbye if you signed Donald
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: back for two years and eighty million or whatever it
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: might be. So Daniel Jones is my long answer as
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: the QB two. Yeah, and I think we both kind
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: of agree with that unless there was some like unknown
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: like holy cow, this rookie that was supposed to be
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: a first rounder is suddenly available in the sixth round,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Like who cares about Daniel Jones? Just a quarterback two spot?
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: You know, like stuff like that doesn't happen.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: So one more follow up question, then, does that mean
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Mullins is gone? Is he? Is he done? I mean
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: he's been on because years now.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Brett Rippin was resigned as one of their first
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: miniature orders of business. I think he is a damn
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: good QB three, and I actually think Nick Mullens deserves
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: to be a bona fide QB two on some other team.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: I just assume that Daniel Jones thing meant a little
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: bit more than just having an extra insurance policy to
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Nick Mullens. So I am a Nick Mullens guy too.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: I love it when he gets in there and just
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: throws four hundred passing yards. We are too, Yeah, but
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: I think that he'll be best served to be one
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: snap away from a quarterback if you're if you operate
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: under the pretense that Daniel Jones will probably get the
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: NOD this year. Otherwise, if we look up and we're
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: doing your show May Second or some something like that,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: and they have chosen McCarthy, Mullens and Ripping, I won't complain.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I'll be happy about it. Not everybody will, but I'll
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: be just fine with that. Yeah, I don't think it's
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: a unique take. But I've been on record anytime I
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: talk about Nick Mullens is he is one of the
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: best QB two's, yeah, in the NFL, and QB two
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: is a legitimate position. I mean, you can't just be
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: a really good Q two and then automatically become a
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: QB one. But I mean we joke about it.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: All he does is come in and throw twenty five
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: yard passes to Aaron Jones for first downs, you know.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: But I mean there is something to be said about
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: a guy that, you know, oh crap, we need two plays,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: and you know, Nick Mullins, if he's a starter, he's
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: probably gonna throw four interceptions. But if he comes in
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: for that oh crap, third down play because Sam Darnold
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: twisted his ankle, you're you're okay because and you can
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: even call a pass play because Nick Mullens, at least
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. He seems unshakeable when
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: he's unexpectedly called upon, Totally fearless. Yeah, I agree with
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: that completely.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's switch gears away from quarterbacks, which
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, that could probably dominate the entire offseason
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: if we wanted it to.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: It will.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: But you had mentioned in your message to us a
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: little bit ago Cooper Cup. He's on the market right now,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: and you made the comment that he almost makes too
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: much sense for the Vikings. Explain your thoughts that way.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Sure, So from a fantasy football angle, I started daydreaming
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: about him leaving the Rams in December or so because
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: his target load kind of diminished. And if you're a
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: fantasy football manager, you know all about that. And I
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: got to thinking, like, there isn't a more Ramsey and
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Rams connection from the O'Connell era in Los Angeles than
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Cooper Cup. He's going to be thirty two. We fully
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: understand that the best part of his career is over.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: But these Vikings have been WR three starved for like
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: a decade minimum, and we've got accustomed to getting excited
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: about kJ Osborne getting six hundred yards or Jalen Naylor
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: having a good block on a long touchdown. We should, well,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: we should have a better standard for WR three where
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: the guy gets seven hundred, eight hundred yards in a
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: passing offense, seven eight nine touchdowns, and hey, when Addison's
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: hurt or Jefferson's down with a hamstring, that hey, you've
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: got Cooper Cup, wh you certifiably know can move the
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: sticks or like a Mark Cooper. Also, he's going to
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: be a free agent right now, Like we went from b. C.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Johnston to Chad Beebe to like guys who wouldn't even
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: be on an NFL roster, and then now we're excited
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: because we had kJ Osborne and Jalen Naylor, but we
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: can get better. And with Cooper Cup there is the
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: glowingly obvious connection to Kevin O'Connell. The guy won the
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl MVP with Kevin O'Connell as the offensive coordinator,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: the offensive Player of the Year, and it just so
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: happens that he is on the trade market. He's going
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: to be traded. So you couple that connection to the
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Vikings head coach, plus the notion that Jordan Addison is
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: probably going to be suspended for two or three games
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: in September, I think it makes too much sense for
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Cooper Cup to be on the Vikings roster. He can
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: be the fringe WR two when you need him. Like
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: I said, this is not you know me pounding home
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: nostalgia or hey I want three deep. I just know
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: that this is the perfect spot for him to wind
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: down a pretty fantastic career and Vikings fans would love
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: them in a heartbeat. So, mainly because of the built
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: in connection to Kevin O'Connell, I expect the Vikings to
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: poke around the trade sweep stakes. And even though I
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: just got done saying I don't know shit about trades
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: anymore because every single one is different, I think Cup
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: can be got for a fourth rounder or so, and
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: historically the Rams are pretty good about eating a player
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: some of the extra salary when they want to get
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: rid of a guy. So I do think more than
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: just a hot take or just something that you know,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: you tweet for the hell of it. I think Cooper
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Cup to the Vikings makes a lot of sense for realism. Yeah,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: I agree with that, And I think your points are
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: that I was going to say the obvious points that,
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: but that makes it sound like, oh, you don't have
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: any original takes. Obviously, you only think the obvious things.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: That's not what I'm saying. It's the right thought process.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: I think Cup to the Vikings, Cup to Koc is
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: the right thought process. But I'm sitting here trying to think,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: has there have there been too many players come from
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: the Rams to the Vikings just because of that. Like
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: I know, Johnny munt was he he was the one
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: that was a Ram he came. I think he was
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: the first free agent signed once Koc was hired, and
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: then cam Akers was traded for, and then cam Akers
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: was traded for again. But other than those two guys,
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: am I missing out on any other Rams or even
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: other teams.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: A little bit?
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Brandon Powell, okay, he was. He took that touchdown against
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: us to the House in twenty twenty.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: And then there's always a couple of dudes who nibble
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: around the Sumber roster that O'Connor brings over, like Jonah Williams.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Brett Repen even has ties to the Rams. I'm not sure.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: If I don't think Koc was there, maybe he was.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: It's it's kind of those ancillary guys. There was another one. God,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: there was a linebacker who made like last year's roster.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: I'll have to look up who it was. Usually it's
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: like you're chilling on a June or July day and
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: they signed some guy you've maybe heard of once or twice.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: The CA's from yeah, yeah, yeah, Like he's from the
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: rams background. Yeah, I can't, man, it's gonna bug me. Now,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: there is a linebacker that they signed in twenty twenty
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: two or twenty twenty three that actually like started somewhere
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: this year, but he was from those Ramps. So yeah,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: he does like to kick the tires on those dudes,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: and this might be the last best time to do
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: it because a lot of those guys are probably getting
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: old because that was four years ago. So yeah, there
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: are there are signs of o Knla doing that, And
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: for the record, I do expect this free agent period
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: to have Brian Flores do that as well. Whether it's
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Jerome Baker, who is an off ball linebacker that could
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: be a good depth feast, or Javon Holland. I would
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: rather the Vikings pay Javon Holland the Cameron by them,
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: but that's just me. So yeah, those tentacles from your
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: team's leaders, that's a real thing in sports, and I
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: think you'll see that from the Vikings during this free agency.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, with all that in mind, you also
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: brought up a few position groups that probably need some
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: love in free agency, probably the draft too, but more
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: likely free agency, just because I think most Vikings fans
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: at this point are okay with the fact that Quaycy
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: seems to be better in free agency than the draft,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: and you pair that with a lot of free agent
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: cap space and not a lot of draft capital right now,
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: it kind of meshes up to, Okay, let Caraycy do
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: what he's gonna do best. So with that in mind,
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: you mentioned the cornerback group, probably just the whole defensive
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: backfield in general, inside offensive line, inside defensive line, and
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: running back. Do you have you mentioned a couple of
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: names a minute ago. Do you have like a golden
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: gift like whoever it would be via trade or free
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: agency at all, that could be available out there that
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: would instantly help the Vikings and bring them to be
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: a better team than a fourteen and three team last year. Yeah,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: there are a bunch, and then I mean, I just
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: rattle off the big name free agents, but they're of
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: course not going to get all of them. I think
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Bleacher Report had a really sweet idea. They talked about
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: a third trade of a third rounder to the Colts
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: for DeForest Buckner, who was one of the most consistent
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: defensive tackles on the planet. I don't know why the
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Colts would want to get rid of him, but evidently
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Bleacher Report had that out there. I would love that
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: even though he's setting thirty thirty one d tackles can
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: usually go till thirty four to thirty five. Kalais Campbell
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: can tell you all about that. So yeah, lin Vall
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: still flaying. Let's see. I would love for them to
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: get a new center. Drew Domond from the Falcons is
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: like the hottest commodity at that spot. Falcons fans say
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: he ain't going anywhere. My good friend Onic Eckhart, who's
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: been on the show, he said he said he'd be
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: really surprised with the Vikings. Let Bradbury walk because you're
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: gonna probably have a rookie quarterback and that's important to
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: have the communication down. I of course am intrigued by
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Trey Smith a guard, but I'm hesitant to believe that
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: quasi dafa mensa will spend twenty one million dollars on
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: a guard when he could get two guards for that price.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: But I know Vikings fans have Circle Tray Smith as
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: their number one with a bullet target. We can see
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: him in the Super Bowl on Sunday, So Drew Dolmen
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: would be the most fascinating to me because I want
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: to get rid of Garrett Bradbury. For one reason, I
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: don't want to go up against the Giants for the
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Packers and know that we're playing Dexter Lawrence or Kenny
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Clark and just know you're cooked. We shouldn't have to
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: feel that way about an offense first football team because
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell's.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: The head coach.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: I like Bradbury as a dude. I won't bitch that
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: much if he comes back, but I would love for
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: us to finally have a center that's not going to
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: get devoured by Dexter Lawrence. So I think Drew Dollman
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: is my top target at cornerback, DJ Reid Hassante, Samuel
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Tarvarius Ward. I would kind of prefer that they sign
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: a cornerback because we can never get that right in
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: the draft. We have drafted a good one since Trey
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Wayne's ten years ago. And then my final soapbox is,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: although I like Aaron Jones and I thought he did
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: a wonderful job by his standards, he's not gonna get
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: any better and based on like his name, he's gonna
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: get one of those Lifetime Achievement contracts of like one
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: year and seven million bucks, and I would rather the
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Vikings give like Javonte Williams, who's twenty five, one year
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: and four million bucks, and then also draft a rookie
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: running back because this class is so deep. But we've
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: we've learned the prerequisite for Kevin O'Connell's offense at running
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: back is a guy who can pass block. Otherwise you're
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: ty Chandler and you get devoted to RB three. So
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Javonte Williams is a fabulous pass blocker. So is Najie Harris,
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: so is Jalen Warrens. Those Steelers boys know what they're doing.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: I want the Vikings to get a decent veteran running
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: back that is not thirty one years old that Aaron
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Jones will be next season. And then, oh my gosh,
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: if we can with that third round capets to pick
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: that we got because Kirk left number ninety seven or so,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: they're still going to be able to get a damn
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: fine halfback, whether that's one of the Ohio State guys,
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Devin Neil from Kansas, There's going to be options. So
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: one of my biggest asks is once and for all,
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: get the personnel right at running back. Maybe along the way,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: improve the offensive line in the interior trenches trenches, and
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: maybe we could flirt with a top ten run offense.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: And I guarantee you that the offense would look fantastic.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: If you saw that Aaron Jones from the first few
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: weeks of September when he was cooking. If the Vikings
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: offense can do that all the time, it might be
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: damn near unstoppable. Yeah. I noticed you didn't mention cam
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Akers name at all in Lainey.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: No, he better be back as RB three because I
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: don't want to trade for him again in October, and
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: I think he will, But if I say cam Akers
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: in a forum like this, it kind of assumes that
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: he'll be back as one of the solutions. I like
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: him to be an ancillary guy. If they really wanted
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: him as the RB two behind the rookie running back
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: that they draft, great. I do like cam Akers. He
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: earned all of my respect when he caught that pass
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: against the Packers, So yeah, I do want Acres back,
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: but to me, that was more in an RB three capacity,
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: and we know a running back will get hurt and
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: then he'd be instantly promoted to RB two for however
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: many weeks. Yeah, absolutely, that's all good points.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: So next question here on kind of the opposite side
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: of the table. We've been talking about all of these
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: external guys possibly making their way in. The Vikings had
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: a laundry list of guys have currently president a laundry
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: list of guys that are potentially on their way out.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Who's most likely to leave and who's most likely to
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: come back. We kind of did this on an episode
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, kind of talked about, you know,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: on that list of unrestricted free agents that the Vikings
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: have currently, who we thought was most likely to return
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: and then most likely to leave. What do you think?
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there are twenty five free agents, so almost half
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: the football team. That's why there's so much cap space,
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: boys and girls, is because twenty five dudes are about
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: to hit free agency. I think that Byron Murphy is
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: the most precious commodity and probably the most likely to
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: be back of the big names. He said last June.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: I think he was talking to Darren Wolfson of KSTP.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: He said he loved it here, he wants to be back,
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: and he sounded genuine when he said it, and thankfully
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: for his sake, he got to the Pro Bowl, he
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: had six interceptions. He's gonna get a sweet contract. I
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: think out of sheer roster need that Byron Murphy is
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: the most likely to come back A for continuity and
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: then B he wants to be here and then see
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: if you don't get him back, it's Makai Blackman, Dwight maclother.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: That's what you got heading into the off season. So
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: I feel like with this bonanza of cap space, that
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Murphy is the most likely to be back of the
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: big names. I'm torn on Aaron Jones. That one can
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: go either way. He also said he wants to be back.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: All of these players love the Vikings like culture. If
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: I had to gamble on it, I'd say Darnold is gone,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: and then Cameron Bynum is like the big circle at
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: one where I just don't know how that one's going
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: to go. Because of his large persona, with the celebrations
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: and the movie connections that he always likes to do.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: I think he has a bigger name and lovability than
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: his actual performance. I think he's good, but I don't
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: know that he's worth fifteen million good. And I can't
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: decide if the Vikings will bank on him for continuity.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: This regime did not draft him. That's the one that
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: I can't necessarily predict, but I will reiterate if the
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Vikings have a puncher's chance of getting Javon Holland, I
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: would rather have Javon Holland. I think he's a more
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: complete safety. And all of this will be complicated as
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: well if Harrison Smith retires, because then you're looking at
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Josh but tell Us and Jay Ward as your two safeties.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: So safety is a sneaky roster need. If buying them depart,
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: it's and Harrison Smith retires, And I don't know if
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: that can be solved in the draft since you only
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: have what four picks altogether. I don't know if I
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: left anybody out. Dalton Reisner, I'm sure, and May will.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: We'll decide that we want him back because nobody, nobody
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: ever wants them in March or April for some reason.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: I was like, I mean, like Ryan, but then it's
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: like Ryan Wright. I'm like, yeah, sure, why not. I'm
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: forgetting any ginormous Shaq Griffin will probably be back, and
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: he's the type of guy that you signed back and
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: then when you enter the draft, you know you have
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: him there in case the board goes funky, you know,
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: because he can. He's a spot starter so to speak.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: You know, he started most of this season. I think
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: I got a most cover. I don't know if I'm
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: forgetting anybody big.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: I think there's also precedent too for a guy like
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: Byron Murphy, because Quaycy seems to like to double down
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: on guys that have rewarded quacy. I'm thinking of of TJ. Hogginson.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: You know, it took he costs quite a bit in
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: draft capital, and then he he played well, and Guaycy,
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: I think, liked to say that, yeah, we brought this
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: guy in, he played well for us, and because of that,
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: we're rewarding him with a big contract. I think Byron
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: Murphy he came to Minnesota kind of as a what
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: we would call a quacy guy, like a by low
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: type guy, you know, good upside but doesn't cost a ton,
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: not super cheap, but doesn't cost a ton. And so
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: this past year he played well. So I think Cracy
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: not not to you know, say anything bad about it,
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: but kind of stroking his own ego and trying to
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: say like, hey, I am a good GM I signed
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: a guy, and you know what, because of that, I'm
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: re signing him because I obviously knew what I was
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: talking about, So it'll be interesting. I think T J.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: Hogginson might be the only use case forever that thought
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: process so far, because all the other big contracts were
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: brought in pre quacy, like Jefferson and Darris Saw trying
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: to think who else has gotten a big contract when
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: after Quasi has come in. Well, normally we'd be talking
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: about that right now, but the twenty twenty two draft
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: class was so bad that nobody wouldn't want anybody back
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: from that. But I kid you not. The here and
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: now is when we'd be talking about extensions for Lewis Scene,
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Andrew Booth and those guys. But unfortunately contender Lewis Seen,
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: don't forget about that. There just weren't any guys from
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: that draft class that even remotely warrant an extension. Yeah,
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: well I mentioned it in a minute ago, but I mean
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: Cam Robinson, he seems like he's probably a foregone conclusion
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: that he's going to get however many seven, eight, nine,
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: ten million dollars from some other team. But if he
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: has ability to jump inside and potentially solve an inside
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: offensive line issue with a guy that's already been in
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: the building for half a season. I'm not against that.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: I think that could be a good idea if it works.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: You know, some guys can't jump inside. Also, that gives
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: you some flexibility for a guy that we don't know
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: when Deriso is gonna come back. And if you have
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: to overpay a little bit in a year where you
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: have a ton of cap space. This is assuming Sam
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: Darnold gets his big payday from somebody else. Maybe it
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: behooves you to pay a little bit more for the
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: insurance policy of Cam Robinson and then let him go
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: after a year or two. Yeah, it kind of comes
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: down to whether or not Robinson gets offers from the
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: Chiefs or the Browns for which he will somebody's gonna
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: or seven million if it's If it's in that below
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: ten million, then he would be an option to bring back.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: And then I never know. Like Brian mckinniy I did
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: a show with him for four years and he would
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: scoff that show was really good. Until recently he would
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: scoff at the idea of a tackle playing guard. But
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: then I talked to Walter rous On my show last
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: summer and he's like, hell, yeah, man, I'll do whatever
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: you need me to do. So I never know if
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: you can just flip Cam Robinson over to guard and
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: everybody's happy, or if he's like McKinny, it's like, are
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: you nuts?
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: Why would I do that?
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: Well? Do you remember Babatunde Aagbusi when he came in
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know five However, many years ago, I think
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: he was famous for saying, like, Hey, if the Vikings
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: need a kicker, I'll be the best kicker they've ever had. So,
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure Walter Rouse was being genuine when
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: he said he would totally jump inside.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Ask, But like that's also kind of a company line too.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, if the Vikings called me, I'd try to
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: be the best out of shape, too small guy on
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: the field and probably die out there, but I try.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: You know, Well, one more question here, yep, and then
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: we'll wrap things up here. Any any other like uncovered
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: little gems in this offseason that we're overlooking anything that, Like,
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: we've covered a lot. We've covered quarterbacks, Cooper Cup, some
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: of the interior offensive and defensive line position. The defensive
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: backfield is a big need. The running back position is
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: a big need. Is there anything else that we're missing
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: that the Vikings should probably take care of this offseason,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: whether that's in the draft or free agency.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: I think we hit on almost everything. If they don't
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: subscribe to my Cooper Cup theory, there are a litany
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: of WR threes that can get got this offseason. And
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: we talked about this all year last year, like Hunter
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: Renfro over and over, and they just said no, no thanks.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: So I'm not sure if they'll do that. But Stefan Diggs,
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: he's a free agent. If you go pull up you know,
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: if you google the best free agent wide receivers out there,
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: there are like fifteen guys that could be a Vikings
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: WR three. And I'm going to continue to bring that
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: up because I do think the Vikings can get better
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: than Jalen Naylor at WR three. And then in terms
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: of the draft, I haven't decided. I think I have
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: to see free agency first to figure out what my
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: official endorsement is the twenty fourth pick. I do think
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: they'll trade back once or twice to get some picks back.
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: But if you want Minnesota to finally upgrade at defensive tackle,
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: you're gonna have options at twenty four. It kind of
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: comes down to if you're like me and you want
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: a three technique, like a guy who's going to get
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: into the backfield, Walter Nolan would be your guy from Ole,
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: miss If you want a thick run stopper, Tyleek Williams
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: from Ohio State is your type of guy. I've done
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: some homework talk with Yanic Eckhart about this, and Nolan
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: is a disruptor and TYLERK. Williams is a type of
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: you know, Lions solidifier that you know you're not letting
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: your tailbag get through here. So I want a Kevin
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: Williams type because we haven't had one since twenty thirteen,
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: the last season Kevin Williams played, So right now I've
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: warmed up to the idea of them spending their twenty
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: fourth pick on Walter Nolan. So that would be, I guess,
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: a gem that I would say to keep an eye on.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: But I will reiterate that it's going to be a
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: really fun draft because I firmly believe the Vikings will
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: come out of it with a running back and we
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: haven't had a shiny new running back since Dalvin Cook.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: And we're talking eight years ago now. Whoever the Vikings
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: draft at running back, so long as it isn't some
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: moron in round seven or something, we're gonna get fun. Okay,
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: it looked like a full back in that preseason game.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: I'll never forget that. I couldn't figure out what was
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: wrong with him. I don't think there anything was.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: He was just so.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: But whether it's Devin neil O, Mario Hampton, Treveon Henderson,
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Quinchin Judkins, whatever running back the Vikings get, we're gonna
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: be really excited about him because we haven't had one
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: rookie in eight years. And I'm gonna guess with JJ
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: McCarthy under center, they're gonna want to run the ball,
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: you know, more so than resting on their laurels with
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: Kirk or Darnald and flinging it forty times a game.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: So keep an eye on that running back strategy and
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: pick because that guy is going to touch the ball
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: more than anybody not named McCarthy for the next three
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: or four years. Yeah, do you think Ashton Genty and
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: Caleb Johnson will both be gone before the Vikings have
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: a chance to.
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: Look at him?
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: Genty, I believe will be gone for sure. I can't
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: see him getting past the Cowboys. What I don't want
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: to happen is that guy to go to the Bears
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: and then we have to worry about him for five years.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: Now that Ben Johnson's the coach there, that's in play.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: It really gets on my nerves. But no Genty if
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: the Viking. If Genty got to twenty four and the
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: Vikings didn't pick him or trade it out, that would
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: be more egregious than the Kyle Hamilton gate from twenty
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: twenty two. So I would love Ashton genty, but I
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: also am of the camp that you shouldn't trade up
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: to get running backs. And then Caleb Johnson is probably
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: more realistic or more of a wild card. At twenty four.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: There could be a team like the Lions and Jamior
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: Gibbs who just shock you and grabbed Caleb with the
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: twelve thirteen, fourteenth pick. But more realistically, Caleb will be there.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: I just don't know if the Vikings will have a
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: first round great on him. But no matter what we're
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: gonna do, we're gonna do shows gentlemen being excited about
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: the running back. That's how great this class is. I
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: mean we're talking deep as hell, like thirty running backs
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: could be chosen. Yeah, yeah, that'll be exciting. I mean,
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm always the If I had one one thing
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: to live by on, if I was a GM, I
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: would I would say hashtag don't pay running backs, but
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: I draft one in the first round if he's worthy
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: of it all day, because they're cheap, I mean, and
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: then you use them up for five years and then
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: maybe give him one more year and then let them
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: go unless you're the Giants, and then you let go
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: of two thousand.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: Yard rush if you're right dustin the market for running
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: backs kind of flips where maybe you had a supply
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: problem before and how you that's not a problem anymore.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: The supply is there, and now you maybe don't have
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: to pay a running back a ton of money.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And it's funny because they just spent the last
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: year kind of getting their respect back. All these teams
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: took the plunge with Josh Jacobs and Saquon Barkley and
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: it really really worked out. JK. Dobbins was a nice gamble.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: Derrick Henry, Yeah, yeah, Derrick Henry for sure. And now
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: we're about to dump, you know, twenty thirty new ones
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: into the system who are pretty darn good. So I
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: was just starting to feel good about running backs getting
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: their their respect, mainly because Saquon Barkley's in the super Bowl.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: But we shall see if the market gets flooded by
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: all of these dudes. Yeah, all right, Well, I think
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: we should probably talk Super Bowl before we wrap everything up.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: I know you talked about it earlier, but I don't
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: know if you gave an official prediction. I think you
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: said you wanted this the Chiefs to win. Correct me
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: if I'm wrong it was. I mean we're old at
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: this point. That was forty minutes ago. But what is
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: your official prediction for the Super Bowl?
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: My light just went out here. My official prediction for
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl is the Chiefs thirty one twenty seven.
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: Last year, I thought the Ravens would be able to
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: beat the Chiefs in the postseason, and they didn't, and
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: that proved to me that the Chiefs are somewhat inevitable.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: I am not one of those people that thinks this
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl sucks because the Chiefs and Eagles in it,
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: and I hate the Eagles and Chiefs are so stale.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: I understand those arguments, but I believe these teams deserve
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: to be here. And ultimately, I'm not gonna wake I've
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: said this to you guys before. I'm not gonna wake
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: up Monday morning and be the guy who picked against
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes. So I think the Chiefs win in one
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: of their customary thrillers. Yeah, I think you've been famous
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: for saying for as long as you've been talking to
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: us now, which is over a year. Can you believe
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: it's like a year and a half that you've been
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: coming on our show. Thank you by the way, every
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: time it comes up, you say, Man, I just I
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: can't bet against the Chiefs. Every time I bet against
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: the Chiefs, they proved me wrong and like hilariously proved
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: me wrong. So until they proved me right, I can't
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: bet against them. So I tend to agree with you.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: I think the Chiefs are gonna pull it out. Also,
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: the Eagles have entered Saints' territory for me where I'll be,
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: The Vikings could beat the Eagles every year for the
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: next fifty years, and I would still hate the Eagles,
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: just like I can never I'll never get over two
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: thousand and nine and the Saints. I still every time
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: the Saints lose, I'm happy, and it's more so for
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: the Eagles fans and the famous one that got canceled
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: over being mean to Packer fans and the stuff like that.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: You see the videos of them walking the streets and
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: like just berating fans of other teams that have the
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: audacity to go to their stadium. I just just because
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: of Eagles fans, because I'm sure that the players in
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: the front office as much as Nick Sirian, it kind
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: of looks like a jerk. I'm sure the players, everybody's
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: good people in Philadelphia, but the fans, I just them
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: and Lions fans. I hope they never see their team
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: win again just because they're awful. So Chiefs for me,
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: go Chiefs.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: I'm definitely neutral on the game. I really don't care,
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: and it's the two teams that I didn't want.
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: To see in the game.
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we were all rooting for a Buffalo
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: Washington Super Bowl and that didn't happen.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: So I'm definitely with the rest of America on that one.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: I'll watch it, but uninterestedly.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: All right, Dustin, before we wrap up, is there anything
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: you want to plug anything you want to point out,
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: any new stuff you've got going on or old stuff. Anyways,
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: Vikingsterritory dot com is where we write all day about
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: the off season. Mikes now get stuff published about four
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: or five times per week. And then dus Baker on Twitter,
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: you guys should have me back on like three or
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: four weeks from tonight because we will be on free
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: agency Eve will be like a week away, and by
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: that time, I'm sure we'll have indications of whether or
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: not Darnold's coming back, who they're going to let test
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: the free agent waters. So if you pencil me in
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: like four weeks from tonight, we'll have a pretty exciting
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: show because free agency. To me, I'm a very severe minority.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: To me, free agency is more exciting than the draft.
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: But I know that that that isn't sued by everybody. Yeah,
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: I agree with you, especially with I think I'm in
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: the majority of thinking Quacy. We trust him way more
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: in free agency than in the draft. If he traded
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: a first round pick for a young, elite player, I'd
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: be perfectly fine with that, just because he hasn't proven
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: that he can do anything consistently amazing in the draft.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: Let's hope JJ McCarthy proves that point wrong, and then
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: Dallas Turner once he gets his opportunity, let's hope he
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: proves that point wrong. But yeah, free agency. I'm in
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: the same boat as you, Dustin. I'm super excited for that.
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: It's just right.
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: Recording right then, right before it starts is so dangerous.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: We were recording an episode of The Skull Hop the
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: night before Sam Darnald was signed, and I think we even,
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: like I was listening back to it today, we laughed
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: about it, like, Okay, it could be Sam Donald. Oh really,
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: and like three hours later he signed with the team,
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: and it's like, oh, we hadn't even released our episode.
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: So it's a dangerous time to put out recorded content.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: But you do it about a week in advance, so
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: that would March fourth or March fifth or something like that.
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: Sounds great. All right, gentlemen, all right, well, thanks again
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: Dustin for having us on, Evan.
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: Having us on.
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: We have you on.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: Thanks again for coming on, Evan, anything else you want
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: to say before we wrap it up.
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: We appreciate you coming one.
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: We'll talk to you. Yeah, we'll reach out to you.
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: We get that scheduled, So thanks again. Yep. Later.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: All right, guys, welcome back. Thanks for hanging out with
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: us as we were able to chat with Dustin Baker
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: for the first time in a long time.
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: First time this year twenty twenty five.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: It is great.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: Thank you Dustin for coming back on. It's always great.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: I am kind of surprised. We spent a lot of
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: time talking about Cooper Cup and it was a good conversation.
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: I'm surprised we never mentioned good old Adam Thielings.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: You know, his name was rattling around in the back
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: of my head and I had this impulse to throw
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: that out there, but we weren't really kind of making
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: our way that way in the conversation, so I let
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: it go. But I'm with you there, and boy, he's
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: out there, and I know he's in his last year
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: of his contract with the Panthers, but.
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: It's an expensive contract. I wouldn't be shocked to see
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: how I'm feeling again on the market. Not that he
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: doesn't deserve, you know, all the money that he's set
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: to make in the next season, but they might go
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: elsewhere and.
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: Maybe he takes the hometown discount and says, yeah, you
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: know what, I want to end my career where I
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: started it.
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: And maybe I'd be okay with that as long as
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: it wasn't too too price a year it didn't cost him.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he fits in that wide receiver three category,
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: kind of like what Dustin was talking about, Like the
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: Vikings haven't had that true wide receiver three. And I
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: mean he was the wide receiver two for so long
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: when wide receiver one, really he was, and then when
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: JJ got on the scene, he kind of he happily
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: I think, fit into that two role and played it
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: really well too, because he was still really dynamic. I
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: still think he has a little bit of juice left
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: in him. Oh yeah, it would be fun and it
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: would be redeeming for the jersey that you got me
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: last year to see him in purple once.
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: He'd have to take that nineteen back from Brett Rippian,
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: but I think that'd be pretty easy. Well, that would
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: be a fun thing to talk about. I would spend
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: a whole episode talking about that, because I don't think
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: he has been a Viking at all for a single
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: minute of the skull Hoops existence.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: I think you're right.
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: I think he was let go right before we started
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: recording in early twenty twenty three, so that would be
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: fun to talk about.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: Agreed for sure. Well, maybe that happens, maybe it doesn't.
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: We'll see.
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: But one thing's for sure. We had some pretty good beards.
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we did.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: I was.
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: I was really surprised by this one. I think initially
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: it kind of hit me as like really sweet and
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: kind of tart, but definitely a sour.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: The name alone, what's the name? I can't remember. I
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: got to read it off the can still because it's
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: five words and I just don't have the attention span
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: to memorize it. It's a Reunion Brewery, out of eye
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: a City, Mega Cake, stupid dessert sour. Yeah, and again,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: like I said at the beginning of the episode, this
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: beer has been kind of staring me down at the
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: store for the better part of a year, Like it's
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: just it's just been sitting there and it's just been
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: tempting me, like pick me up, just got me, try
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: bring me home, let's let's try this. And so finally
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: I did it, and I said I said that I
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: would do it last week. I'm in episode seventy seven,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: so here we are. I'm a man of my word. Yep,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: we did it. We came, we saw we conquered, and
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: I'd buy this again.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: It's pretty good.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: So that's the thing I think, because earlier before we
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: talked to Dustin, we tried this and I said, I
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: don't know, I'm probably not, you know, like purposely pick
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: this one up again. But I'm surprised that I like it.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: I think I'm what's more accurate is if we were
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: at Reunion Brewery or somewhere else that had a lot
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: of Reunion beers, and I'd had a couple, but I
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: wanted something different, maybe not another hazy IPA. If I
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: saw this on the list, I could see myself getting
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: one or one or two. I don't know if i'd
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: ever get like a six pack just for myself, because
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: it's not my category of beers, but I wouldn't be
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: mad if somebody gave me one, or if, like you know,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: I just ordered one or two, that'd be fine. This
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: is a fine beer. The flavors are great. It's it
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: doesn't say it's a smoothie sour, but it kind of
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: gives that feel that way, like there's a ton of sediment.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: It's almost like they just like juice the blueberries right
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: into the which is fine. I mean, an unfiltered beer
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: isn't always bad like this. This works. This weirdly works.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: And for someone like me that loves a dark beer
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: or definitely a hazy I pa this one again. Well
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: it's not my category of beers.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: It works.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: And if somebody said this was their favorite, like I
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: said earlier, I'd believe them and I could see why.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not bad.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: It's it's really easy drinking. It's not the like super
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: tart sour. It's got a little bit of that tartness
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: to it, but it's not gonna make you, you know,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: fuck or your lips and yeah, you know that sort
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: of thing. So really good. I enjoyed it. I'll definitely
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: get this again, probably because my wife will want to try.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: I think she's a little jealous that we didn't get
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: enough for her to try, But.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: That's all right.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: Just you make it up to her. Vountaine's Day is
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: coming up, Yeah you can.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: You can get her some man.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: You know what else is coming up. I'm going to
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: join you in the the area of almost mid thirties
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: the next couple of days, So that's true. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: thirty four thirty four. It's a if you're thirty four
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: or above, let us know. Is that a good year?
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: I guess Evan, you can let me know if that's
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: a good year. But a lot of people I work
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: with are like, man, you're still so young, and I'm like, no,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: I'm in my mid thirties.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: Now, that's not hurts when I wake up.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my back hurt's just from sitting in this chair
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: for an hour. Yeah, it's better than those child's chairs
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: from a few weeks. That's definitely true. Well, let's wrap
• 1:02:50
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• 1:02:54
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• 1:03:12
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• 1:03:26
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• 1:03:42
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• 1:04:05
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• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: We're gonna, hopefully this off season, because NFL off season
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: can be a quiet time, we're gonna try to release
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: a few episodes that are a little bit different than
• 1:04:17
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• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: little little outside the box. We have potentially a beer
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: that we're gonna brew here in the next few weeks.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: That'll be that's not a potential thing, like you were
• 1:04:32
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• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: he's got the ingredients. We are brewing it. In fact,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: Episode seventy nine will be a little preview to the
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  Speaker 1: skull Hoop Brew two point zero. Yeah, just this coming week,
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  Speaker 1: so next week, be on the lookout for that. If
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  Speaker 1: you're into beer, home brewing, anything like that. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have Forest on. Hopefully he's able to bring some of
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  Speaker 1: the ingredients that we're gonna brew with. We'll talk through
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  Speaker 1: some of the that we'll kind of maybe compare and
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  Speaker 1: contrast last year's beer that we brewed to this year's
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  Speaker 1: beer that we're gonna brew. And then of course episode
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  Speaker 1: eighty is going to be all about the brew and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be brew Hop. Yeah, not the brew Tour,
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  Speaker 1: the brew Hop, the brew Hop.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be on location, probably in your garage. It's got
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  Speaker 1: to be in Iowa unless it's too cold.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see what the weather's like. If we need to relocate,
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  Speaker 1: we might have to do that, but yeah, we'll be
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in Iowa, probably your garage, yep, brewing, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: try to capture that and kind of go through the process.
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  Speaker 1: I think at one point last year we just kind
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  Speaker 1: of circled up some lawn chairs and sat down and
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  Speaker 1: talked anything and everything football. That was before JJ McCarthy
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  Speaker 1: was even a forethought of the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: It was just beginning. Maybe he could be a second
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  Speaker 2: round pick. That's what we were talking about last year.
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  Speaker 1: Sure enough, here we are and you know, the perennial
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  Speaker 1: first round pick and the future of the franchise. So
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  Speaker 1: who knows what we'll talk about this year and how
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  Speaker 1: that could affect the Vikings future. But I'm excited about
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  Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks because we're going to do
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  Speaker 1: We're going to do a follow up episode two. So
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  Speaker 1: post brew, we'll have forrest On one more time back
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  Speaker 1: here at the desk, and we'll talk about our experience
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  Speaker 1: with the brew, talk about like all the different things
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  Speaker 1: we smelled and tasted while we were brewing, because that's
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  Speaker 1: an important part too the brewing process, is just being
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  Speaker 1: able to kind of smell and taste things along the
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  Speaker 1: way as you craft something to drink.
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  Speaker 2: And while we're brewing, we'll be drinking a beer two
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  Speaker 2: because the beer you brew doesn't count unless you drink
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  Speaker 2: a beer while you're brewing.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely right, So Iowa Beer of course, Coroy's Iowa Beer
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  Speaker 1: for us. But yeah, be on the lookout for like
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  Speaker 1: probably the next three episodes, those are going to be
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  Speaker 1: focused on brewing this next batch of the skull Hot beer. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm excited for it, all right?
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  Speaker 2: It well, Episode seventy eight it was great. We got
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  Speaker 2: to talk to talk to Dustin for the first time
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  Speaker 2: in a while. I had a lot of fun, great beer.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the best episode yet.
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