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Early Vikings training camp talkers, 2024 Schedule Pick ‘Em, George Washington takes a drink | TSH Ep. 51 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey Vikings fans, welcome into another episode of
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  Speaker 1: the School Hot I'm Evan.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm Austin. There's just a couple of dudes from Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: We like drinking beer talking about the Viking.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we do, and we got a fun one today, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we do. For episode fifty one, we have a beer buy.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just by Big Grove. It's in honor
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  Speaker 3: of Ragbry. And if you don't know in Iowa and
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  Speaker 3: ragbrid is this big.
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  Speaker 2: Is it a race?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's necessarily a race. It's just a
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  Speaker 1: huge bike ride. Yeah, and that's what Ragbrice stands for,
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  Speaker 1: right across the whole state of Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: Great bike ride across Iowa. Yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 3: And apparently this year, which had just finished a few
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  Speaker 3: years ago, right Ragbray, Apparently this year was the fifty
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  Speaker 3: first Ragbrie ever, so Big Grove brewed a Ragbry beer
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  Speaker 3: called Tailwind. It's a Golden Ale. It's the official beer
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  Speaker 3: of Ragbrie. But it's also episode fifty one for the
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  Speaker 3: School Hop Ragbriy fifty one, which we just really noticed that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a few minutes ago.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, that's a fun little tie in. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna crack those open in just a second.
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  Speaker 1: But first we're going to give a shout out to
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  Speaker 1: them here. We're gonna have that down flashing at the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the screen right now, and then of course
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  Speaker 1: we'll link to that in the description as well. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if you're looking to take a trip to Mexico or Jamaica,
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  Speaker 1: hit them up.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, you need to do it, man, I'm gonna keep
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  Speaker 3: saying it till you do it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm working on it, working on it, all right. We
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  Speaker 1: need the skull Hop to really, you know, start bringing
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  Speaker 1: in the dough.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we would take more than one sponsor. Hint hint
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  Speaker 3: to anybody out there that wants to be a part
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  Speaker 3: of the team here. All right, let's let's try this
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  Speaker 3: Big Grove, Ragbry, Tailwind, Golden Ale. It's got a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of names. I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: It also has the names of all of the major
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  Speaker 1: towns across the top, which I think is cool.
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  Speaker 2: So every year, if.
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  Speaker 1: You're not from Iowa, you don't know what Ragbry is.
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  Speaker 1: You might think we're crazy. But every year they take
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  Speaker 1: a different route from the west side of Iowa. So
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  Speaker 1: every Wow, that was a really good Austin core there.
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  Speaker 3: I was scared there for a second. I thought I
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  Speaker 3: might have to try to save the foam here.
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  Speaker 1: All the all the bikers dip their back tires into
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  Speaker 1: the Missouri River on the west side of the state.
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  Speaker 2: Then they ride all the way across Iowa, and.
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  Speaker 1: Then they dip their front tires in the Mississippi River
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  Speaker 1: on our side of the east side of the state.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, you can see kind of along the top
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  Speaker 1: of the can here while we wait for your poham
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  Speaker 1: to settle.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's you need to let your let your
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  Speaker 3: beer breathe a little bit, alright, not too much, but
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  Speaker 3: a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Ragbry this year went through Glenwood, red a red Oak,
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  Speaker 1: Atlantic Winter Set, Knoxville, a Tumwa mount Pleasant and ended
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  Speaker 1: in Burlington. Yeah, so that was the route this year
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  Speaker 1: for Ragbright. I've never done it, have you.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: All the respect in the world to the people that
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  Speaker 3: love to do it. I'm not a I'm not a
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  Speaker 3: bike rider. Yeah, I mean that's not I'll go to
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  Speaker 3: the after party event or whatever they have.
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  Speaker 1: But if I do it some year, would you ride
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  Speaker 1: with me, not ride your bike, but like drive with me,
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  Speaker 1: hit up each camp with me, take a week off
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  Speaker 1: of work and we'll sit and drink beer every night.
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  Speaker 3: And if we turn it into like a skull hop,
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  Speaker 3: I wear shirt every day.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe that's that's a that's as far as I'll get
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  Speaker 3: for that.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe not next year, but maybe like two years from now.
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  Speaker 3: A sure, maybe we'll forget about it by then. So sure,
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  Speaker 3: all right, I like that.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm gonna read the can quick. It says
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  Speaker 1: Tailwind is a celebration of all things Ragbriy and Big Grove.
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  Speaker 1: We brewed this crisp refreshing Golden Ale for the oldest,
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  Speaker 1: largest and longest recreational bicycle touring event in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I mean, if you've ever had something called
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  Speaker 3: a golden Ale, you know exactly how this tastes. It's
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  Speaker 3: a delicious, light, refreshing. I feel like if I just
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  Speaker 3: got done riding across the State of Iowa and somebody
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  Speaker 3: handed me one of these, I'd be super pumped. Like
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  Speaker 3: it's yeah, it's a good, good beer, it's a beer's beer.
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  Speaker 2: Good stuff. Yeah, yep.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely light in character and actually a little hazy,
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  Speaker 1: which I think is kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, can't see all the way through it, but yeah, crisp, refreshing.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely feels nice after a nice bike ride or any
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  Speaker 1: sort of hard physical work.
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  Speaker 3: And would you say it was like four something okay? Yeah, solid, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: definitely crushable.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So there you go. All right, we've got to
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  Speaker 2: talk about some early training camp news.
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  Speaker 3: It's been we get to talk about some early training
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  Speaker 3: camp news.
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  Speaker 2: Do we get to? We have to?
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of a boll and, Yeah, that's true. But
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  Speaker 1: it's been eventful.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of headlines already. Yeah, and Vikings training camp
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  Speaker 1: even today.
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  Speaker 3: There were a couple updates today being the twenty ninth
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  Speaker 3: of July. So yeah, I mean, obviously, the cornerback position,
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  Speaker 3: really the whole defensive back position has gotten a lot
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  Speaker 3: of attention recently. Obviously with the tragic passing of Kyrie
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  Speaker 3: Jackson hand last month really well this month, I guess
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  Speaker 3: still but Yeah, that was a big, big thing that
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  Speaker 3: happened to the team, but way less importantly, it was
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  Speaker 3: a big thing that happened to the cornerback room, which
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  Speaker 3: also had a few injuries happen. We had a kid
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  Speaker 3: go down with an acre, which one who Makaile Blackman,
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  Speaker 3: the second round pick.
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  Speaker 2: From last year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a big loss because he was I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how good he was gonna be, but
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  Speaker 3: he was set up to have a big role in
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  Speaker 3: the defense.
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  Speaker 2: I think he was on the up and up for sure.
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  Speaker 3: And then one of the bigger free agent signings, kind
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  Speaker 3: of bigger free agent signings, sh Kill Griffith, Griffin. Man,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just fumbling all these names right now, Shaquill Griffin.
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  Speaker 3: He's kind of been day to day with an injury
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  Speaker 3: at this point.
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  Speaker 2: You never know. I'm always weary at.
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  Speaker 3: This time of year when coaches are like, yeah, well
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  Speaker 3: we'll see how it goes day to day, just because however,
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  Speaker 3: many years ago, Daniel Hunter had that quote unquote day
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  Speaker 3: to day injury and he never saw the field that year.
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  Speaker 3: So you just never know until you figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think the defensive back position is definitely wanted to
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  Speaker 1: keep an eye on throughout the rest of training camp
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  Speaker 1: and into the preseason because it is already thin and
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  Speaker 1: you've got some guys that need to prove themselves. You
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  Speaker 1: got a Caleb Evans and Andrew Booth junior who were
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  Speaker 1: both on the team last year and could have flashed
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  Speaker 1: and didn't really And so I think those two guys
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  Speaker 1: are guys that need to prove themselves through camp and
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  Speaker 1: through those preseason games. I would expect them to get
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  Speaker 1: some snaps in those preseason games. And I mean one
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  Speaker 1: or both of them could end up not making the
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  Speaker 1: final fifty tea.
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  Speaker 3: You could make an argument, Yeah, you could make a
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  Speaker 3: definite argument on either of them, like both of them
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  Speaker 3: not making the team based on ability. But they did
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  Speaker 3: sign a few guys in the last few days. Duke
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  Speaker 3: Shelley Dukes back.
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  Speaker 2: He's back.
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  Speaker 3: I remember being a Duke Shelley fan. We witnessed one
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  Speaker 3: of his interceptions at the end of the year two
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  Speaker 3: years ago in Chicago. He's fun, he's a fun player.
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  Speaker 3: He flashed, and he's a fan favorite. But I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if we're being realistic, I don't think we can count
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  Speaker 3: on him to be CB one be An All Pro
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  Speaker 3: this year. Obviously, they'd be amazing and I hope it happens,
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  Speaker 3: but there's a reason he was available, so we'll see
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  Speaker 3: how he does. They did also sign a couple other cornerbacks,
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  Speaker 3: Bobby McCain, who was a former Dolphin, and I think Giant.
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  Speaker 3: He's got a little bit of Flora's familiarity, but he's
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  Speaker 3: also got some position flexibility, which is interesting. He also
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  Speaker 3: hasn't really done a whole ton, so that's another wait
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  Speaker 3: and see how he does.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: And the other guy that they signed, Jacoby Francis. I
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  Speaker 3: think he had spent a little bit of time with
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  Speaker 3: the Texans. He hasn't really done anything in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: He's still young, but it's not like they went out
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  Speaker 3: and signed a big name guy or traded for somebody,
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  Speaker 3: which that's what I'm wanting them to do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, and hopefully they do go out and sign somebody.
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  Speaker 1: I was just telling you before we started recording. Our
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  Speaker 1: friend Dustin Baker wrote an article today and he recommended
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  Speaker 1: Stefan Gilmour. I think that would be a good acquisition.
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  Speaker 1: He's bounced around a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot, He's never really stuck with one team.
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  Speaker 3: But well ever since, because what was any where was
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  Speaker 3: he at forever?
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  Speaker 2: Was he a Patriot?
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  Speaker 3: I think, yeah, he had a good long run at
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  Speaker 3: the start of his career, but yeah, he's bounced around
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  Speaker 3: ever since.
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  Speaker 2: Really he's older, but.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Buffalo actually, oh yeah, the Patriots for a while,
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  Speaker 1: and then the last three years he's been in Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: Indianapolis and Dallas.
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  Speaker 3: And of course he was a big part of this
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  Speaker 3: greatest comeback in NFL history.
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  Speaker 2: Of course he was a cult at the time.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean he'd at least be a name
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  Speaker 3: that people recognize and are like, Okay, there's somebody. But
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  Speaker 3: I always you're looking at a what five time Pro bowler,
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  Speaker 3: the Defensive Player of the Year in twenty nineteen, an
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  Speaker 3: All Pro twice in his career. I mean, he comes
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  Speaker 3: with some accolade now that you know, several years in
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  Speaker 3: the rear view now, but I don't know, he's still
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  Speaker 3: got a reputation that he bring in and he could
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  Speaker 3: be a Patrick Peterson, you know, he could be a
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  Speaker 3: guy that comes in and just he's a great locker
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  Speaker 3: room guy, and he's also pretty good on the field
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  Speaker 3: and just rallies the troops and yeah, and I mean
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  Speaker 3: you use him as as an example, but Patrick Peterson
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  Speaker 3: is out there as well. Still, there's some names out there,
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  Speaker 3: and there's probably even some like names that are currently
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  Speaker 3: on teams that we wouldn't necessarily think about that might
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  Speaker 3: be available be a trade. I know the Vikings are
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  Speaker 3: kind of they don't have the most robust trade assets
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  Speaker 3: in the next few years, so they'd have to get creative.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean, they could make a move. You know,
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  Speaker 3: things are always possible, and Quacy seems like he's good
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  Speaker 3: at building a roster so far, so I wouldn't be
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  Speaker 3: shocked to see some kind of a like whoa trade
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  Speaker 3: or big signing or something like that, But so far
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  Speaker 3: we haven't really seen anything.
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  Speaker 1: Can we just talk really quick as a break from
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  Speaker 1: like just general training camp news, can we just mention
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  Speaker 1: how amazing it's been that Quacy has locked up so
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  Speaker 1: many of these guys on amazing contracts. Like that's another
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  Speaker 1: big talker that we don't even have on our outline,
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  Speaker 1: but holy cow, like all of the drafted rookies are
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  Speaker 1: now under contract and he got JJ on his long
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  Speaker 1: term deal. YEP, I'm sorry, justin Jefferson.
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  Speaker 3: We just need to force ourselves to say, Jets now, Jets, Jets, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's locked up for a long term deal Christian Darrisaw,
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  Speaker 1: which was kind of surprising that it happened as soon
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  Speaker 1: as it did.
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  Speaker 2: But he's locked into a long term deal now too.
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  Speaker 1: Like Cauacy's just been making moves and he's just been
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  Speaker 1: rifling those guys through his office and like, let's get
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  Speaker 1: this done. Let's put pen to paper and let's make
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  Speaker 1: it happen.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And now Quacy naysayers will be the first to say, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but I mean, Spielman drafted Darrisa, and Spielman drafted Justin Jefferson,
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  Speaker 3: and Coysey's just making the right moves and signing the
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  Speaker 3: guys that are already drafted. It's not easy to come
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  Speaker 3: up with these deals. I mean, there's a reason Jefferson
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  Speaker 3: didn't get done until recently. I think because of the
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  Speaker 3: Jefferson deal, we were all kind of expecting, like, Okay, Darrisaw,
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  Speaker 3: that'll be a next summer thing. He's under contract this
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  Speaker 3: season and the next season. So the Vikings are showing
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  Speaker 3: us what they normally do, so we won't see anything
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  Speaker 3: for Darrisaw until maybe next summer. But holy cal like,
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  Speaker 3: I think everybody's happy that he's there first, darrisaw mostly
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: And the other interesting thing that's happened.
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  Speaker 1: We talked, I don't know, a long time ago, several
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  Speaker 1: episodes ago now about how Justin Jefferson's contract will affect
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  Speaker 1: other receivers, and we thought, well, maybe he'll like sign
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  Speaker 1: his contract and then ceedee Lamb will eclipse him or
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  Speaker 1: someone else will eclipse him. And it hasn't really happened,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's put other gms and other receivers
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  Speaker 1: in a really tough spot. And you haven't had Brandon
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  Speaker 1: Ayuk in San Francisco who saying I want out because
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  Speaker 1: I think I deserve more than what you're paying.
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  Speaker 2: Even Deebo Samuel.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't locked in yet on a long term as far
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  Speaker 1: as I know, so like I don't know. I think
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  Speaker 1: where Spielman was playing checkers, Quaycy's playing chess.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit.
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  Speaker 1: He's aware of what's happening in the league and what
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  Speaker 1: the market is like.
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  Speaker 2: He's also aware of down the road several years in advance.
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  Speaker 2: And that's not to say that Rick Spielman was a
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  Speaker 2: bad GM.
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  Speaker 3: He did the job well for a lot of years.
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  Speaker 3: And a few times in his career, the Vikings had
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  Speaker 3: a chance to do the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to insult his no any necessarily,
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  Speaker 1: but I do think Quaysy's making some good moves and
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  Speaker 1: I think we're gonna see the benefits of that down
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  Speaker 1: the road, and some of those things they're just not
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  Speaker 1: an immediate like you reap the benefits of a Justin
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  Speaker 1: Jefferson contract right now. Yeah, you reap the benefits of
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  Speaker 1: that a few years down the road when hopefully you
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  Speaker 1: win a super Bowl or something, right, and you're.
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  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, man, I'm glad we locked that.
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  Speaker 1: Guy up before he walked away and got way more
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  Speaker 1: money somewhere else, right.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, it is. It is really nice because I
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  Speaker 3: think we can confidently say, like I have confidence in
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  Speaker 3: Quacy as a GM to make the moves and do
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  Speaker 3: the right things. And now we can actually point to
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  Speaker 3: things like Jefferson and like Darisaw and kind of really
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: the whole way this Kirk Cousins and Daniel Hunter's situations
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  Speaker 3: kind of all played out so far before really aiming
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  Speaker 3: games have been played. Since all those moves have been
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  Speaker 3: happening so far, it seems like they've been good moves.
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  Speaker 3: I was a Kirk Cousins guy. I'm still a fan
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  Speaker 3: of his little sour after the whole departure. But he's
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  Speaker 3: an athlete and he gets paid to do a job,
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  Speaker 3: and somebody else was willing to pay him more.
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  Speaker 2: And that's fine. I mean, he's a really good he's
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  Speaker 2: a really good person.
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  Speaker 3: But you could argue the Jefferson deal, the Deresaw deal,
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  Speaker 3: some of these draft picks, like they might not have
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  Speaker 3: happened the same way if they had sold the farm
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  Speaker 3: to keep Cousins in Minnesota. And there's pros and cons
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  Speaker 3: to that hypothetical situation too. You never know, But so far,
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy. I just need them to make a move
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  Speaker 3: to get a good cornerback and solidify the defensive backfield.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about another draft pick that the Vikings made,
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  Speaker 1: and it seems like he's kind of solidified his roster spot.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a rookie kicker will record, yeah, coming out
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  Speaker 1: of Alabama. So they released John Parker Romo, who they
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  Speaker 1: signed pretty quickly after Greg Joseph was released or cut
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  Speaker 1: or traded or yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he was one of the first free agents
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  Speaker 3: a Vikings sign was that that kicker of John Parker Romo.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember the big talker with him was, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he came out of the UFL, he knows these new rules.
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  Speaker 2: Quasi's again, he's playing chess.
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  Speaker 1: He's ahead of everybody else and now here we are
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  Speaker 1: at the end of July and he's gone.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I don't have any opinion on Romo, John
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  Speaker 3: Parker Romo at all. He seemed like a good dude. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he'll probably latch on somewhere. But anytime you see a
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  Speaker 3: team devote draft capital towards a kicker or punter, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a specialist like that, I mean that the boil record
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  Speaker 3: probably would have had to have been awful to not
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  Speaker 3: win that competition, because getting drafted at all is a
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  Speaker 3: kicker kind of wins you that competition. Sure, which that's
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  Speaker 3: no secret. I'm sure the second John Parker Romo saw
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: that draft pick come through, he's like, well, I'm going
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: to battle for my life and then probably lose and
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: hopefully put enough tape out there for somebody else. So,
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's just the way it goes when you
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: draft a kicker. Kind Of the same with the punning situation, right,
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: now too. For the Vikings, I forget who the guy
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: is that they got to bring in, but I know
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: last season was not Wright's best year as a punter,
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: and when that happens, especially when you're on a pedestal
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: like that in a singular position, you're going to get
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: some competition. So maybe you can look up really quick
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: who the yeah.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Seth Vernon is the other punter on the roster right now.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: So he's a rookie out of Portland State. Interestingly enough,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: he's actually older than Ryan right interesting, so he's twenty
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: five as a rookie, So that'll be interesting to see
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: how that plays out. It does seem like we have
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: our kicker, hopefully for the foreseeable future. I know Dallas
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Turner will records college.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Teammate was pretty happy when he heard that they were
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: going to be teammates in the Pro.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: So we'll see.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: I guess he's been looking pretty good in camp, just
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: like JJ has been apparently looking pretty darn good in camp.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: And by JJ, you mean JJ McCarthy the JJ at
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: this point, I mean we've got Jets or Jefferson. But
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: I guess we have to make the switch to JJ
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: being JBJ McCarthy.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I guess he's been looking good.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: I've heard wishy washy reports on how Sam Darnald's looking.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: I guess he'd started off looking good, but even today,
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: in the last couple of days, he's looking a little
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: less great.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: I'm excited to see how this position group plays out.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, you always will see the videos that are this,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: you know of people at training camp, you know, and
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: they're taking They're like, oh my gosh, uh he just
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: completed a pass and it was amazing, and like, yep, okay,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: it's one play. You know, all the buzz earlier this
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: last week was Donald dropping a dime to Justin Jefferson
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: for a touchdown.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's cool.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: And then I think, like in the last couple of
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: days there was another one of JJ McCarthy dropping one
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: to Jordan Addison for a nice little grab and just
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: kind of dropped him a dime out of nowhere. All
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: of those things are great and wonderful and they generate
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: a lot of excitement, but the proof will be in
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: the pudd It. Absolutely it will come down to who
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: can win games for the Vikings. So I'm still and
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I was actually texting with my brother in law who's
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: also a Vikings fan. I was texting with him a
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: little bit ago today, just saying, you know, what are
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: your thoughts on the season, and he said, well, I
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: think I think they go one in three or one
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: and four in those first handful of games, and then
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: they change qbs at the bye week.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: And I said, that's pretty much where I'm at.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I think they win two of those five games, interesting
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: and switch qbs at the bye week.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: You just tipped your hand there, of because we're going
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: to talk about the schedule the rest of the episode.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: That's not a secret though, because I've said that on
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: air before. But yes, I've.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Held true to my prediction, and you'll see that here
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: in a minute. Yeah, well, what do you say we
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: dive into that. Let's do it? You ready? Yeah?
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: All right, listeners, Evan's going to tell you how this
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: whole next rest of the episode is going to go down.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: So we have all the entire Viking schedule, eighteen weeks,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: seventeen games with a bye week.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: It's all laid out in front of us right here, and.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: We've both gone through and looked at the schedule and
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: we've picked games we have not discussed this at all previously,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: and we've also had our wives pick each game, and
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: we've had our kids pick each game. So you have
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: three kids. You said you kind of did like a
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: little pick by committee.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Sort of thing. Yeah, one of your kids picked the
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Vikings to win every game.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, my four year old wants ice cream every week,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: so he basically said the Vikings every week, So I
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: don't blame him.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: But anyways, I just I asked both of my girls
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: to pick the games, and I went with the one that.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I liked the best. Okay, awesome, I won't necessarily reveal
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: who that is. The other thing, wait, the child you
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: like the best, the schedule that I like the best.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: I love both of my kids. The other thing.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: So two things, sorry, really quick. We're gonna flip a coin. Yeah,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: so we have a quarter here. It's a nineteen ninety
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: nine Pennsylvania state quarter. We really need to get our
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: hands on a Minnesota or coin. It probably wouldn't be
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: too difficult to figure out. Anyways, We're gonna flip a coin.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Heads is a Vikings win, Tails is a Vikings loss.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: So we'll see what the coin predicts, and then we're
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: gonna have Austin share his pick, his wife's pick, and
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: his kids pick, and then I'll share my pick, my
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: wife's pick, and my kids pick. And the other thing
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: we're gonna do is we're going to reveal our lock
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: to win and our lock to lose. Yep, So we
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: did that last year as well. Each of us picked
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: one game that we think for sure the Vikings will
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: win this game, and one game for sure the Vikings
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: will lose.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: How did we do last year? Just really quick? I
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: think that'd be fun to look at not everything but
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: our locks. So I actually went through and I did
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: some calculating. You actually picked the best of everybody. Of course,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: you had an eighty two percent success and your picks,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: so you did the best. I picked a fifty nine percent.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: There you go, and I was tied with your kids
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: for that. We were tied for second.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Your wife was third at fifty three percent, My wife
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: was fourth at forty seven, and my kids were terrible
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: at twenty nine percent.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: They also hate the Vikings.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: So I compared the actual result of each game to
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: each of our picks.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: So you you did pretty well. Yeah, two have our
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: locks in there.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you picked the lock to win was the Falcons.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: And they won that game.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: They did against all odds with Josh Dobbs flying into
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the end zone.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Obviously I knew exactly how that game was going to.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Go the past or not. And then you also picked
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: the Bears.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: It was Week twelve, the Bears at home as the
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: lock to lose, and the Vikings did in fact lose
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: that game.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, twelve to ten.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: I'm sad to say I was right on that one, but.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: So I picked the chief as my lock to lose, okay,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: and they did in fact lose that game. It was close.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I was twenty seven to twenty Week five against the
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Chiefs at home against the Chiefs, and then you had
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: your lock to lose as the Bears at home. I
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: had the lock to win as the Bears at home.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: So I was one for two on the locks. You
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: were two for two on the locks. So well, nice shot.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: You know a broken clock is right twice a day,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: so it was full of wisdom. Yeah, all right, so
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: let's flip the coin first. You want to do the
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: honors on my first the first game here. So Week one,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the Vikings travel to the Meadowlands and play the Giants.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: And the coin says heads is a win. Coin says
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: the Vikings are going to beat the Giants.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Right, so we'll mark that down as a Vikings win.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: I guess I said that the Vikings would also beat
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: the Giants, Okay, my wife said that they would beat
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: the giants, and my kids said they would beat the
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Giants a clean sweep.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Yep. So I am sorry, viewers.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I am going through and updating our spreadsheet as we
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: talk about these, so I'll try to do this quickly,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: but I want to make sure I record all of
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: this accurately absolutely, so on my side of the deal here,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I have the Vikings winning this game.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, I think they they hit the road and they win.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: My wife has them losing, okay, and my kids have
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: them winning. So my wife is the only one that
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: has the Vikings losing right now. Everybody else, your kids,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: my kids, both of our wives, and both of us,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: we've got the Vikings getting that win, getting that dub.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: No offense to your wife. I really hope she's wrong.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: I hope so too, And you know, whatev. I have
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: this open, so as you make your picks, I will
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: write yours down so we can be a little bit
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: smoother on that probably all right?
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: All right, Week two, Week two, I'll flip the coin
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: for this one. Get the Vikings hosting the forty nine ers, correct,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: And that's just a regular Sunday game, right, Yeah, yep,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: just a regular Sunday game.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I remember they don't have too many on noon games.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: They've got like two or three I think one if
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: you count London.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Two and week a Thursday night game and a Monday
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: night game. Yeah, and then on Week sixteen is a
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: three zero five game. Everything else is noon, all.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Right, So forty nine ers at home, regular Sunday game.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: The coin says.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Heads. So there you go, all right, I said, and
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: this is a lock. Oh boy, I said the Vikings
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: would lose that game.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, So that is your lock to lose.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Huh.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: My wife said they would lose, and my kids said
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: they would lose.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so I also think they will lose
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: this game. I think the Niners are one of the
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: better teams in the league right now. I just I
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: don't see a scenario where an up and coming Vikings
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: team gets the dubbed.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: They did it last year.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: They did surprise the Niners last year. That was a
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: fun game. Yeah, my wife has them losing as well,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: and my kids have them losing as well.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: So it's a except for the coin, it is a wash. Well,
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: remember the coin was very nice to us last year.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: It was Yeah, what was the coin last year?
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Coin had us going twelve and five. Last year they
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: didn't give the first loss.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Into week six.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. The coin had a five game win streak and
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: then another four game win streak before dropping.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: A few games at the end of the season. There
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: all right.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: The coin for Week three, hosting the Texans coin says
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: we're winning again.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: There all right.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: I also need to address this. I have said the
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: word we a lot in the last minute or so.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: I'm not for that. I'm not on the team. The
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Quinn says the Vikings are gonna win this one.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: If I think you said the same thing last year
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: doing it saying that episode, I'm wee because I'm a
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: native Minnesota.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: And yeah, it's just part of it's part of my heritage.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Did you recharge your Minnesota batteries this past week?
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I did, Yes, I was.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I was able to go up to Minnesota, had a
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: nice little trip to the Southwestern Corner Buffalo Ridge as
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: it's known.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Well, there you go, all right, We'll keep going with
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: the Texans game. Texans at home Week three, yep, I
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: said they would lose to the Texans. Okay, my wife
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: said they would lose, and my kids said they would win.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, see I started typing loose. So so far,
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: me personally, I'm predicting the Vikings to start off one
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: and two in the first three weeks.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: There you go, all right.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: I also have this as a loss for the Vikings.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: The Texans were really really good team last year, so again,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: I don't think in the early part of the season,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the Vikings are going to be super strong.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah they are.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: I feel like they are one year ahead of the
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Vikings in their development at this stage with the rookie quarterback,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: the defense.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think. Yeah, I think they lose. But anyways,
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: your wife, my wife thinks they win.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, So my wife has a Vikings win against the Texans,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: and my kids say loss lose at home against the Texans.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: So Evan, you and I are both saying they're going
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: to start off one and two the same prediction so far.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Win, loss, loss. That's kind of where I'm at all right.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Week four, Vikings are going to Green Bay. What's the
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: coin saying. The coin says, please be a win, Please
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: be a win. It's a win. Wow, Okay, it is
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: a win.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: So the coin has the the Vikings going four and
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: oh to start the season.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be something that would be something? All right?
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: What do you got? All right?
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: I have that game at Green Bay.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: The Vikings are gonna win.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, my wife says another w Well, and my
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: kids might need to sleep outside because they said they're
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: gonna lose.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: You know, that's the rule in my house.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: If they say anything about liking the Packers over the Vikings,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: they have to sleep outside. I think the Vikings lose
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: against the Packers. So this is where you and I
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: diverge a little bit.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: At green Bay. You know, Jordan Love just signed that
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: big contract.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: I couldn't be happier about that. By the way, my wife.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Smartly said the Vikings will win.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: There you go. So I like that. But my kids
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: they like to give me a hard time about the Packers.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: They say lost. Interesting, Okay, there you go. All right.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Week five Vikings are going to London.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Yep, that'll be too.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Technically ghost the Jets, the Vikings are the home team
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: in that game, so the coin coins as another win
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: and I wish we had a camera like above us
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: to prove the coin.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: But we are not making this up, folks. This is real.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: For second year in a row, the coin has predicted
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: a five game win streak.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: To start the season. All right, what you got? All right?
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: I said the Jets game is going to be a win. Okay,
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: my wife said a win, and my kids also said
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: a win, clean sweep.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: In my household, I think this is also a win.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: My wife says it's a win, and my kids say
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: it's a win. My kids and I actually have the
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: same exact prediction so far. Nice win, three losses, and
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: then a win.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Well that's interesting. All right, bye a week They're gonna
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: lose for sure.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Well only the Vikings could do that.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: We have a clean sweep of wins though in that
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Jets game, and we have a really early bye week
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: this year, which is.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Kind of intriguing. It could be good, it could be bad.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: It could kind of hurt the playoff hopes towards the
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: backstretch of the season, when injuries start to pile up
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: and you don't have that extra week to recover potentially,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: but it could also And this is my prediction, and
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: I stand pat. I think they go two and three
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: in those first five games and Darnald struggles and JJ
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: McCarthy comes out in Week seven at home against the Lions.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Addiction, all right, and you can't argue with your prediction.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: I could see a world where that happens. I could
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: also see a world where I mean, realistically, I could
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: see JJ not touch in the field at all this season.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: That's definitely a reality too, for sure, And I think
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: that's the plan. But if he keeps throwing dimes in
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: training camp, which training camp is not the regular season,
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: I know that, and you could throw one hundred interceptions
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: every day in training camp and come out and be
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: an MVP in the regular season or vice versa.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: But I think the plan, and they're not shy about this,
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: is for JJ to sit as long as humanly possible.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: So that's kind of what I'm predicting. But yeah, I'm
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: excited for the season no matter what. All Right, Week seven,
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: all right, Week seven, I think you're up for the
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: coin coin right, all Right, So the Vikings are going.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: To host the Lions, and the coin says it's a win.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: No way, all right, it is.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: A win that you get wild.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: Okay, So I think this Lions game is going to
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: be a win.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: My wife, who did three seconds of research, said that
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: the Vikings are going to lose, and my kids this
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: is one that my oldest really thought they were going
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: to lose, but I think the ice cream prevailed. We're
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: also as a family going to be attending this game.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: So, oh, you're going to the Lions. This is the
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: one we're going to tell me that I told you
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: the tickets were.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: On sale and I was looking, but I just I
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: pulled the trigger.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: I went for it. So it's exciting. Yeah. So the
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: kids did say they were going to win. Okay.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: I have the Vikings winning this game, and this is
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: one of my locks. This is a lot okay, all right.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: I think they come out after the bye week and
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: again quarterback change.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I think that kind of rejuvenates lacklustered effort through five
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: games and.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: We see a win. There you go. So there you go.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: My wife has this as a loss and my kids
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: have the Vikings winning this game.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Nice, okay, so there you go. All right, the wives
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: do not like the team this week. Week seven, at least, no,
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: they don't. All right, the Vikings go to LA to
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: play the Rams in week eight. The coin says they're
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: gonna win this. You couldn't have rigged eight straight heads
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: in a row. What are what are the chances of that?
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: We gotta get the tails at some point? Yeah?
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: All right, I said they're going to go to LA
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: and win. Oh okay, my wife said they'd lose, and
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: my kids said they would win.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: I have this as a loss at LA. Again, LA
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: pretty decent team. This is a Thursday night game after
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: a divisional game at home, so and the Vikings just
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: don't travel.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Well to the West coast. That's just historically been the case.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Difficult to do. I think loss.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: My wife has this as a loss, and my kids
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: also have this as a lost.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: Well, I hope your family is all wrong that week
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: and your wife, yeah, she's never wrong.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: She also never listens, so.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Never listened, So it's perfect, all right. Week nine we
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: have the Colts at home. That's okay, we're back. We
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: had some slight technical difficulties there. We had a quarter
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: going to the beer. We can't figure out if it
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: was heads or tails. So we ended up getting a
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: different quarter, and you're gonna be in charge of flipping
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: the quarter on this one, all right, and I might
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: get my quarter flipping response abilities back.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: We might have to have some practice ones off camera
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: or something. We'll see, but now the pressure's on me.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: So Week nine, the Colts are at us Bank Stadium
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: playing a Vikings.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: This I'm going to dedicate this coin flip to Brian
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: because it's the Colts game. Our friend Brian is a
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: Colts fan. So do you think he'll come watch that
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: game with us? I don't know the last time he
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: came to watch a Colts Vikings game.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: If he comes and the Vikings are losing, he has
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: to leave one hundred percent. If he comes and the
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Vikings are winning, he's not allowed to leave.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: We could probably figure that out. Anyways, Let's see what
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: this quarter says. Hopefully I don't put it in my beer.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: So yeah, all right, this is a heads wow. The
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: coin the coin has spoken, The coin has spoken?
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: No, oh man, all right, I'm trying to reset after
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: that one. That was That's my new favorite school hot moment.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: Week nine, I said the Vikings would lose to the Colts.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: My wife said they would win, and the children said
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: that they would lose.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Boom, you said they would lose too. Yeah, I think
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: this is a win. I don't think the Colts are
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: that strong. Okay, I'm missing some of your commentary here.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: I want to know, like your thoughts.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: On the games. Yeah.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: I just took it as Richardson's got another year under
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: his belt. Yeah, he was injured last year. The culture
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: gonna be a tough game, a tough team to beat.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, So I don't disagree with you.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: This might be a really close game for the Vikings,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: but I think they come out with a win. My
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: wife thinks this is a loss, okay, and my kids
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: think this is a win.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Nice Okay, So the exact opposite. Yep, all all right,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: do you trust me enough to flip? Not yet? Week ten?
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: So this is the beginning of a three week road trip, yeah,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: which I think is kind of rare in today's NFL.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: I don't remember a team having a three game road
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: trip followed by, interestingly enough, a three game homestand so
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: the Vikings kind of I don't know if they locked
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: out or if they unlocked out yeah, but they have
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Week ten, eleven, twelve all on the road, and Week thirteen, fourteen,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: fifteen all at US Bank.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: The closest they came last year was remember, because they
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: kind of bounced back and forth.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Last year, it was just like way home away. They
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: did have.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: A two game road trip followed by a two game
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: home stand at the end of the season.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: So yeah, this.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: Year, Yeah, you don't normally see three games away. But
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: let's see what the coin says for a Week ten
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: against the Jaguars. You've been very conservative with your coin,
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: all right. That also says aheads, So we can't really tell.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: Will probably be able to tell what the beer coin
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: says once.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: I get down to the bottom of Yeah, we definitely will,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: and we might have to adjust because that was the
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Week seven against the Lions.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: That is true.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we almost shouldn't have. Oh well, anyways, I said
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: the Vikings would win against the Lions coming off of
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: what I predicted a loss against the Colts. About the
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Lions of the Jaguars, my wife said they would lose
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: and my kids said they would lose.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Yes, So this is Week ten at Jacksonville. Yep, I've
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: got this as a loss as well. I feel like
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Jacksonville is a pretty good team, and I think the
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Vikings when they enter into this three game road stretch,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: they're going to be in their heads a little bit,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: and I think they're going to drop at least two
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: of the three games on the road.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: That's my prediction.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well so far, I mean up until that game,
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: you have the Vikings only winning four games, Yeah, which
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Is very five.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: So that that'll be where the rubber meets the road
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: if that's the case, and they haven't made a quarterback switch,
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: and there's any doubts in Darnold at all. At four
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: and five or five and four, anytime you're kind of
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: not on top, you're gonna start hearing people clamor for
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: some changes. So yeah, that'll be a pivotal point in
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: the season.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah. My wife has this as a win, okay, and
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: my kids have this as a win. Nice Okay.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: So there you go, Week eleven at the Titans. All right,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: a week two of the road trip. Do you trust me?
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know, but I can't trust you
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: until I trust you. So I'm gonna go over here
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: and we'll go low. We won't go high. It's tails.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: Oh man, Well, at least now we know the coin
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: is human, except it's not.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: It's a coin.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: But maybe I don't trust you yet. So all right,
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: you said that, well, the coin said that they would lose.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: I put tea there. I don't know what tails. I
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: guess theans. I said they would lose. My wife said
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: they would win. I said they'd lose because I think
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: some of these games you're really going to start seeing
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: the young portion of this team really show how young
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: it is. So I mean second away game of that
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: home or they away stretch there, I think it's going
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: to start weighing on them. Yeah, I think that's a loss.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: And my kids said they would win, they'd beat the Titans.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: All right, yeh, So I have this as a loss
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: as well. Like I said a minute ago, I think
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: two of these three road games are losses for the Vikings.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: There's just a lot of question marks. And you said it,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: you alluded to it a little bit ago. Quarterback questions.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: This could be a chance where whoever is under center
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: gets to prove themselves. Even if the Vikings don't win
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: the game, you know, it's a chance to you know,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: did you throw an untimely pick or did you actually
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: protect the ball?
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: Did you make good reads and.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Make good passes or did you throw a bunch of
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: incompletions right?
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: Did you read the defense well? Did you call the
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: raight audible at the line? This is where yeah, and
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: you said it again, the rubber meets the road. This
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: will be a proving ground for them.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: I still think they lose at Tennessee in week eleven.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: My wife has this as a loss and my kids
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: had this as a win.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: Something I didn't note or even really think about until
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: now is the Titans are a younger team as far
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: as their progression with their coach and all of their
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: really all of their coaching staff than the Vikings are.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: It's a whole new coaching staff for them. Their quarterbacks
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: are young. I don't think Tannehill's there anymore. I think
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: it's Will Levis at this point. What this will be
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: his third year in the league, and he hasn't been
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: a pro bowler yet, you know, like it's not like
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: he should have been. But yeah, they're just a young team,
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: so it wouldn't be crazy to think this would be
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: a win. But I think at this point you can't
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: win them all, So this is a loss for the Vikings.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: All right, Week twelve, the last away game of this
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: stretch here in Chicago against the Bears. The coin says, oh,
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: the coin says they're going to lose against the Bears.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: So the coin is starting to really show it to
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: colors here. Yeah, this happened last year too. It did
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: take a turn win on a hot streak with the coin,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, boom, we got hit
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: with some losses.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: Yep, all right, what do you got? So?
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: I thought that they would go into Chicago and beat
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: the Bears. My wife said a win as well, and
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: my kids said a win as well. I think I'm
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: not ever really going to be a believer in Caleb
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: Williams until he makes us believe in him. I don't
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: definitely don't believe in the Bears coaching staff. I think
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: they've already shown who they are.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: I think this team this could be a fireable year
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: for coaches, although that rookie quarterback buys you a little
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: bit of time. Yeah, I think this will be a
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: changing point for the Bears to do just another turnover.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: So I don't think they're gonna be very good. So
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: that's why I said win against the Biking or win
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: in Chicago.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got this as a win as well. I
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: think of the three teams, the Bears are the weakest
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: in that road oh yeah, road stretch, So I think
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: the Vikings have the best chances of beating the Bears.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: And the Vikings have been pretty successful in.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: Chicago as of late. We've witnessed a game there that
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: was a win. It didn't really matter.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: But yeah, that was the season was already done. It
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: was just the last game of the year and the
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: Bears were competing for the first overall pick in that game.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: But still, but I agree with you too. I think
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: the Bears are.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Let me put it this way, the Bears have a
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: lot to prove as well, coaches and players. I also
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: don't believe in Caleb Williams a whole lot, so it'll
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: be interesting to see how that develops. We could be
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: sitting here in November eating our words. Yep.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think this is a win for the Vikings.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: I'm not super concerned about it at this point. So
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: all right, you're gonna let me flip again?
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: Yes, I think I think you can try it. Since
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: i've I've alwast a game with a coin flip too.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: I forgot to finish this out. My wife thinks they
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: win okay at Chicago, and.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: My kids think they lose.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: Okay, So your kids are the only ones that week.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: I think your kids in the coin.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, Week thirteen, I will flip here and hopefully not put.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: If you get another coin in your beer, we almost
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: have to scrap the whole episode.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: I won't be good. I won't make it.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: This is this is the beginning of a three game
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: roads not home Stand.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: Sorry I spoke.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Home Stand Cardinals Week thirteen at home.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: It almost fell out of.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: My own It's heads ah nice okay, said they would win.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: I think I think I disagree with the coin. I
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: think the Cardinals they might. They're gonna will themselves to
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: some wins. They won't be good. I also don't believe
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: in Kyler Murray. They won't be good, but they're gonna
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: will themselves to some wins. I mean, Marvin Harrison Junior
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: is just talented enough. He's good for a few wins
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: on his own. So yeah, I think they're gonna lose
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: against the Cardinals. My wife said that they would win,
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: and my kids said that they would win.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: All right, I've got this as a win. I think
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: this home stretch is where the Vikings really find themselves.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: And they're really not playing any crazy good teams here
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: in this three game home stretch. So you've got the Cardinals,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: the Falcons, and the Bears.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: So it's not like you've got the Niners or the
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Chiefs or you know, these perennial powerhouses coming in. You know,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: one or two of these teams might surprise people in
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: the league. It always happens every year. There's always kind
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: of a dark horse. But at this point, before anything
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: really happens, I just don't see the Vikings really struggling in.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: This home stand.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Ye.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: I've got my wife with a win.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Here against the Cardinals, and I've got my kids.
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: With a loss. So it's around a two game losing
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: streak so far. All Right're flipping for Week fourteen. This
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: is the Falcons.
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: This will be a like a circle on the calendar game.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: This is the Kirk Cousins reunion game.
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: Assuming he's on the field, which I mean he will be.
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: He's only had one injury to knock him out of
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: the season in his whole career. That's he's the juggernaut
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: about that. So he'll be there. Who'll be starting? And
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: the coin says, coin says, the Vikings are gonna beat
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: kirk Cousins.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: All right, so thanks coin, Yeah, what do you say?
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: I say that this is gonna be a lock of
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: a win. This is my lock to win. I don't
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: think the Vikings are going to let themselves let Kirk
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: Cousins leave that stadium with a win that day. I
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: think they're gonna just sell out and maybe even get penalized.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: They're gonna do everything they can to make sure within
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: the rules, Kirk Cousins does not win that game.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: So now let's not have another like bounty gait type
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: of situation here the Vikings on the ospit opposite end
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: of that.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: That would be not good.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: I will say this, if the Falcons win that game,
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: it will not be because Kirk Cousins had four hundred
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: yards passing and like five passing touchdowns. It will be
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: like somehow they ran the ball all over the field.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: So yep, that's my lock to win. My wife said
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: they would win, and my kids said that.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: They would lose. Your kids are party poopers. Yep. I
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: have this as a win as well.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Like I said a minute ago, I think the Vikings
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: find themselves here, and like you said, I don't think
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: they let Kirk Cousins come in and walk all over him.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: I think this is the Vikings game for sure, So
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: it's a win for me. My wife thinks.
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: They lose this game, man, come on, and my kids
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: think they win.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: The picks are in and I'm getting pretty close to
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: figuring out.
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: Which one was it. Was it the Rams game?
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: It's looking like tails? No, it is the Lions Week seven? Oh?
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, well until you figure that it went
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: out for sure? We got a flip for the week
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: fifteen game. Oh, you're gonna figure it out for sure.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: What's the coin saying we're gonna have to go back?
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: That's the tails.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to get this out. Which game was that on? Though?
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: That was the Lions game? Was it Lions Week seven? Okay?
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: Week seven? Lions? All right? Change that a loss? Yeah, alright,
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: I gotta go.
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: With the coin, stay true, we do. We will be
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: retiring the beer soaked coin. That thing's too drunk to
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: perform right now. But I think is it your turn.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: I've been doing the odds, so yes, it is my turn.
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: Can better wait to pour the second year until?
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: So Week fifteen against the Bears hosting the Bears, the
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: coin says, a man dropped it. All right, the coin
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: fell to the ground. Evan was a wide receiver in
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: middle school.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: No it wasn't. That was a safety. Oh well, you're
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: showing why.
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: So the coin said that the Vikings would lose against
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: the Bears at home, and I disagree with them. I
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: said that it would be a win for the Vikings
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: again for the same reasons I said earlier. I don't
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: believe in the Bears. If Caleb Williams is going to
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: be good, it won't be this year. And whenever you
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: play fantasy football and try to just add a bunch
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: of big names doesn't usually work out. So yeah, I
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: don't think the Bears are going to be it this year.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: My wife said that the Vikings would win, and my
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: kids said that the Vikings would win as well. So
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: that's how that's going for my household.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: It's a clean sweep, all right. I've got the Vikings
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: winning this as well. This is a Monday night.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: Game, by the way, the only Monday night game on
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: the j is going to shine under the lights. I
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: think he'll be under center. He could be.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: I do think that my wife has this as a
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: win for the Vikings, and my kids also have this
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: as a win for the.
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: Vikings, all right, I think so my kids are the
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: only ones that said that they would lose.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Right, you're flipping for week sixteen. Now flipping the coin.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: This is at Seattle Week sixteen.
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: The coin says the Vikings are going to go to
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: Seattle and win.
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: Right, what do you have? Let's see, hold on, I
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: just messed with some stuff.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: Do we want to do a quick check to make
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: sure I didn't ruin anything?
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: No, we're good, all right, it looks great.
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: Sweet, Okay, that would just be our luck this episode
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: for me to not record your audio for the second half,
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: the coin has been less lucky.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: And yeah, it's aside from the coin, I think we're doing.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: We're doing pretty well. We're good, all right.
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: So I said that the Vikings would beat the Seahawks.
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, you could argue either way. The Vikings and
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks are going to be in similar situations. They're
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: a little bit more experienced at the moment. With their
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: quarterback situation. But it's not like, is do you know
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: Smith still the quarterback out there? I think he is,
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: last I heard, because they traded for Drew Lock or
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: they traded for Julyck in the Russell Wilson trade, so
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: he's been there for a little while. Who did they
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: trade for?
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: Howell?
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: There you go, that's who they traded for. So yeah,
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: I mean yeah, I just they have a new coach
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: as well. They're it's hard to it's hard to argue
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: that a team with an inexperienced coach is going to
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: come in and beat the Vikings, although this is in Seattle,
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: So yeah, either way, I say it's a win. It's
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: not like the Vikings are going to blow them out.
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: My wife said that they would lose, and my kids
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: also said that they would lose.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: All right, so I have this as a loss as well.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: Okay again West Coast, Oh, that's true. And it's an
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: afternoon It's not like a Sunday noon game. It's a
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: Sunday three o'clock game. And I just I don't know,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: I don't have stats to back that up. I just
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: feel like the Vikings struggle in those situations, especially on
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: the West Coast.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go with the loss there.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, my wife has this as a loss and my
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: kids have this as a win.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: Nice, okay, So there you go.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: All right, two more games to go. We've got the
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: Packers at home in week seventeen.
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: Yep, and this one's you. Let's flip of the coin.
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, it is tails again.
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: Right, I'll pick it up, okay with my toes. All right.
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: So I said that the Vikings would host the Green
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: Bay Packers and lose. So I mean, yeah, I just
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be a hard fought NFC North game.
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: The Vikings are just they're gonna lose some gas there.
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: They're not gonna beat that team that day. So my
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: kids are my wife sorry, they also she said it's.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: Gonna be a win. Smart lady.
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: And my kids, who know better than to go against
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: the Vikings against the Packers, they said it would be
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: a win as well.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: I've got the says a win. I think, honestly, the
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: Vikings and the Packers could be really struggling for that
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: second play spot, both of them. I think the Lions
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: will win the division like they did last year. I
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: think there hasn't been too much turnover there, they haven't
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: lost a lot of guys, and the key pieces are
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: still there. They've got a great coach. Dan Campbell is
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: I think the best coach for that team. Honestly, he's
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: been kind of fun to watch.
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: They have a really expensive, slightly unproven quarterback.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but he held his own last year.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: Once the run game figured it out, his job was
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: a lot easier.
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: So but yeah, Anyways, I think the Vikings win against
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: the Packers here, and this is this is a bloodbath.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: I think this is a.
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: Tough game because both of these teams are trying to
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: make the playoffs at the end of the season. And
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: don't forget, the Packers didn't really enter the play off
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: conversation until late in the season, and the Vikings were
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: kind of in the conversation until they weren't.
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they didn't flat line until they ultimately did. But yeah,
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: so my wife has this as a win, and my
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: kids have this as a loss, and kids have the
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: Vikings getting swapped by the Packers. Your kids are just
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: trolling you at this point.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that happens, all right. I forget whose turn
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: it is here?
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, flipping, Yeah, you dropped it. Okay, So last
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: game Week eighteen, going to Detroit against the Lions. Isn't
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: that how the Vikings ended the year last year?
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: Was it a home? Yeah?
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: They ended Week sixteen and eighteen were against the Lions.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: One was at home, one was away. I can't remember
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: which was which.
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, the coin coin says the Vikings are
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: gonna win. They're gonna beat the Lions in Detroit. Okay,
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: I agree with the coin. I say it'll be a win.
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: My wife says it's a loss, and my kids say
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: it's a win. So if you're keeping track, I said
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: the Vikings would have an eleven and six record. I
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: truly believe that, And I almost don't think it matters
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: who the quarterback is. I think between the coach and
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: the rest of the team, they're good enough. The only
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: heel is gonna be that cornerback position. I think that
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: could be the one thing that really screws the team over.
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: We saw Kevin O'Connell, you know, translate plays into the
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: headset of Josh Dobbs and figure out a way to
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: win a game. So I don't think it really matters
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: who the quarterback is. My wife said a ten and
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: seven season, and my kids agreed with me on an
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: eleven and six season.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: There you go, all right. So I think this is
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: a loss, okay for the Vikings.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: I think they finished nine and eight, and I think
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: they missed the playoffs quite honestly, Okay, I don't think
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: they end up making the playoffs at nine and eight,
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: not even a wild guard.
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: I think with seven team games now, especially in a
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: division that has one to two other good teams. Yeah, here,
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: you you'd be hard pressed to make the playoffs with
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: a nine and eight record.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: So yeah, yep, I'm thinking nine and eight. Let's go
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: down the line here and just cover the rest of
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: our bases here.
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: My wife thinks they lose. She thinks the Vikings finish
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: eight and nine, but she thinks.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: They make the playoffs, oh okay, and win a game,
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: they win a stick card game.
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: Well, that goes in the face of everything I just said.
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: But we've seen losing teams make the make the playoffs before.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: So she thinks they win in the wild card and
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: then they lose kind of record that just for the
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: sake of recording that she could be right.
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: You never know, I did not and I did not
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: ask my family either to go through if they made
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: the playoffs how far they go, So I don't know
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: if you did that all the way through.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: But backtracking a little bit for my prediction for the
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: last game of the season at the Lions, that's my
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: lock to lose.
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: I think the Vikings.
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: Could enter that game as oh, we could make the playoffs,
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: and then they just kind of fall asleep.
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: That would be the most Vikings thing ever. Yep.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: So they beat the Packers week seventeen, everything's looking up.
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: They're what eight and eight, and they're like, ah, or no,
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: they're what not eight and eight, they're nine and seven.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: They're nine and seven. They could make the playoffs at
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: ten and seven, and they go to Detroit and.
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: It just doesn't happen.
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: So that's my lock to lose, all right, I mean,
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: and then my kids to finish this out. My kids
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: think the Vikings win at Detroit to finish out the season.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: My kids have the Vikings finishing ten and seven. Okay,
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: this is the interesting part. The kids think the Vikings
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: make the playoffs, they go to the super.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: Bowl, okay, and they win. Oh all right, well I like.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: Your kids now, so there you go, all right.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: Even though they got swept by the Packers in the
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: regular season.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: You know what, if the season ends on a super
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: Bowl win, I don't really care what happens in the
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: regular season, because that's all that matters is super Bowls,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: not even just wins and losses. Super Bowl wins and losses.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: And an eleven win team has won a super Bowl before.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: So all right, So if you remember last year, we
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: kind of continued it on. I think the coin at
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: the end of the regular season last year had the
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: Vikings at twelve and five, and we did decide theoretically
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: that's good enough to make the playoffs. Coincidentally, yep, coincidentally,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: the Vikings, according to the coin this year, will have
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: a twelve and five record. And that's even true with
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: the the beer coin. Ye, so do be thirteen and
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: four without the beer? That's true, that's true. So do
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: you think a twelve and five record one doesn't make
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: the playoffs?
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: Two?
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: Is it good enough for the one seed?
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: One? Yes, they make the playoffs? Two No, I don't.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: I think there are stronger teams in the NFC that
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: will have a better record. Thirteen to fourteen wins they
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: will get the one seed, probably San Francisco, maybe like
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: a maybe Green Bay.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing I was going to say. You
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: could argue, Detroit. You could argue with a twelve and
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: five record in the NFC North, which should be good
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: this coming year. You could argue that that's not even
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: a division.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: Winning a record. So no, I don't think so.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: I would tend to agree with you. I don't know
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: what seed they would get with a twelve and five record,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: but I don't think that'd be good enough.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: I think they're playing wild Card Weekend. Yeah, so flip it.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: Let's see what they get, all right.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: The coin so wild Card week playoffs, wild Card Weekend.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: The coin says they lose in wild Card Weekend, which,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: if you remember last year, the coin had the Vikings
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: getting all the way to the NFC Championship game and
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: then losing that game. So not as good, not great,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: but that's okay.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: What about you?
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: Do you think they make the playoffs with your eleven
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: and six record.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: I think you're you're definitely fighting for one of those
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: wild card games, wild card spots. I think the Packers
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: or the Lions are gonna win the Division, but yeah,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: you never know. So I think they're going to be,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: you know what, the that sixth or seventh seed. If
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: they do make the playoffs with an eleven and six record,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: I would say, just for the fun of it, yeah,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: I'd think they'd make it with that record.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: Do they win or lose in the wildcard round?
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, this team has beat
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: me down so much. I wouldn't even be comfortable enough
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: saying anything predictions for the playoffs because you never know.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: Like we when Sam Bradford went down, I think we
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: all would have said up, seasons lost, you know, maybe
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: maybe next year, But then case Keenum brought them to
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: the NFC Championship Game and they haven't been there since.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't know. I think it'll be a
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: fun year, just because it's the rookie year for JJ.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: We've got some bright spots in the future. This isn't
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: like they've just sold out the future and are trying
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: to win the Super Bowl this year or bus. So
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: I think they're set up to potentially be good in
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: the future if the players developed the way that Cracy
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: thinks they will. So I'm comfortable enough saying they could
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: compete and potentially could get a playoff spot this year.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: There you go, what do you think?
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: Well, I've already said, yeah, I guess yeah.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: I think they missed the playoffs, but but narrowly think
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: I think it's close.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: I think they enter Week seven or sorry, week eighteen,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: their seventeenth game, but Week eighteen with a chance, with
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: some hope, and then they just kind of surrender to
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: the Lions unfortunately. And I think the Lions at that
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: point in Week eighteen have already secured the division. I
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: don't potentially, I don't think they come into that game
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: trying to win the division.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: I think they come into that game just kind of
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: like the Vikings did against the Bears a few years
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: ago when we were in Chicago. They're just, you know, like,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: all right, let's try.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: To win this and see if we can end the
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: season on a high note, and we'll rest starters after
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: the first quarter or two and we'll right off into
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: the sunset and see what happens.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: So that's kind of what I'm thinking.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: But I definitely like my kids prediction winning the Super Bowl.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean I'll take that any h Yeah, Yeah,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: that'd be amazing. Yeah, I just I hope it's a good,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: fun season. I think I think I'd rather like a
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: four win season than something you predicted, because then you
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: get the draft pick and the draft pick and then
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: you can just focus, like a development, let's see how
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: good is JJ gonna be. I say I'd rather a
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: four win season. I'd rather an undefeated season and the
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: Super Bowl win. But like you, just for the future.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: I'm glad the Vikings are where they are. I said
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: it earlier. I really think they're like a year behind
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: what we've seen with the Texans so far, who have
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: a phenomenal young second year quarterback, a good cornerstone on
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: the defense, with the third overall pick from last year,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: young coach that seems to have figured some things out.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: I think the Vikings are following that line, and that
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: excites me.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree with that. And I don't know.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: I guess, of course, we're just a couple of dudes
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: from We like drinking beer and putting our hot takes
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: out there, and that's just kind of how things are
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: here on the school hot But the proof will be
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: in the pudding and we'll see what happens in the
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: regular season.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I've asked you the question before, probably a
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: few times on this show. Do you genuinely think what
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 3: would you say is more likely to happen? JJ sits
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: out the whole season, or he wins the job in
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: training camp, either or there is no like well, I
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: think he gets in week six either of those options,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: What do you think is more likely?
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: I think the way things are trending right now and
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: just what I've seen and heard from the media, I
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: think there's a fairly decent chance that he wins the job.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: It's not a zero percent chance by any means.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: And we just finished talking about the Texans who started CJ.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: Stroud.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: I think for all of their games last year. Correct
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong, But I mean, it's a proven
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: model that you can get a rookie quarterback in the mix,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: get him acclimated without sitting him and benching him.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: I think there's a.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: Flaw in the Packers' model of Sidham until they've had
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: a chance to develop, and honestly, like and you kind
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: of alluded it, alluded to it earlier with the Jordan
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: Love contract, like that could not be the smartest thing
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: for the Packers.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: I hope that. I hope they crash and burn. They're
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 3: more likely that he's probably gonna end up being good.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: He's the thirty fourth best player according to the NFL
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: Top one hundred for this year.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: But the NFL Top one hundred, that's a whole yeah
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: in my book.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: Anyways, I mean it's just a preseason like, oh yeah,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: these players really showed a lot of promise last year,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: you know. So, I don't know what Kirk Cousins was
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: like ninety eighth or something.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't even notice I was. That's way off.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: I'm not right on that at all.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: But Harrison Smith was on the list obviously, Justin Jefferson
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: was on the list. I think those might have been
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: the only Vikings to make the probably one.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: But you mean the past or Not didn't make it.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: He's not even a Viking anymore, is he. No, No,
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: he's a yeah. So anyways, all of that to say,
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  Speaker 2: I think I don't know. I like the Vikings. I
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: don't think they make the playoffs.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're good enough to make the playoffs
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: this year, unfortunately, And that might be a really tough
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: spot for the Vikings to be in, to be just
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: good enough to be kind of in the mix, but
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: not good enough to get the draft pick and not
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: good enough to like focus on development and all of that.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: But I don't know.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: I think the Vikings will find ways to be competitive.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: I don't think Kevin O'Connell is the type of coach
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: to just kind of throw in the towel on the season,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: yeah and just go, well, we're not gonna win seven
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: games this year, so let's just you know whatever. I
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: don't think he's that kind of coach. I think he's
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: gonna fight and claw and scratch his way to I
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: think nine wins and that's not gonna be good enough
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: to make the playoffs, unfortunately, and that's gonna push them
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: down in the draft order, unfortunately.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: But that's just kind of where I'm at.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I'll stand pat with my JJ McCarthy.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: I think we see him sooner rather than later. Yeah,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: that's my prediction. And you're on the other side of
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: that coin, I.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 3: Think, yeah, I think, well, I'm of the mindset of
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: pro development for him. So but I will say this,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: this team is set up with that They're not the
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: Lions of old where they're just a garbage team all around,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: and they're not gonna win and they need, you know,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: all of the pieces, not just a quarterback. I mean
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: the Vikings have some solid pieces. Yeah, there's problems on
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: the roster here and there, but like I mean, we
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: could sit here and name a few players that are
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: just perennial Pro bowlers and players that were really excited
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: about even down to like Iman Pace Junior who was
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: an undrafted guy and he's a starter and like a
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: really good one too now. So I think because of that,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: the rest of the roster, how it's not garbage. It's
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: actually pretty decent roster so far. I think if JJ
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: starts week one, that's very telling because there's not a
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: lot of pressure right now to make sure he starts.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: So like when Sam Bradford was you know, earn Matt
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: Stafford when he was drafted number one overall, Like you
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: knew the second they set his name that he was
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 3: going to start week one his rookie year for the
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: Lions because they needed it. Like the Vikings don't need
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: JJ to be the savior. They need him to be good.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: Every quarterback needs to be good. But if he wins
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 3: the job and starts week one, then I think we
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: can be pretty confident in knowing this isn't a desperation move.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: He won the job, and say what you want about
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: Sam Darnold, like if he's pretty good too. So if
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: JJ wins the job, we got to be happy about
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 3: it because we know he's the better quarterback. So I
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: think that's something to be excited about if he starts
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: week one.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: And I think too, most of the holes right now
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: as they exist kind of going into kind of early
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: part of training camp, before any preseason or anything, the
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: holes on the team exist on the defensive side of
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: the ball. I think the offense is pretty stout. I
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: think you've got a good offensive line. You're returning pretty
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: much all of your starters, yes Slash, even your some
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: of your backup guys from last year. So like you've
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: got depth on the offensive line. You have arguably the
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: league's best tandem met wide receiver. You know, it's a
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: really good tem Yeah, for sure. As long as Jordan
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: Adison can stay out of trouble from here on out
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: and Justin Jefferson can stay healthy, you've got a really
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: good duo there.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: When TJ.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: Howkinson comes back, you've got a league one of the
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: league's best tight ends in the mix.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: I guess TJ was running sprints today at camp, so
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 3: I guess he's looking good. I still expect him to
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 3: be on the pup list. You know, he's a guy,
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 3: you know, slow roll and let him, let him heal
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 3: up all the way.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: But for sure, Yeah, but yeah, I mean, you've got
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: the weapons and now Aaron Jones in the backfield.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: You've got Ty Chandler coming back for another year. I
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: I think there's a lot to like about the Vikings offense.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: It's just filling those gaps on in the defensive backfield. Really,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: in that defensive tackle position. The Vikings really haven't done
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: anything at that position. You got your edge guys, you
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: got your linebackers. Now you just gotta fill out the
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: rest of your defensive backfield and the you gotta plug
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: the middle yep with the tackle position.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: Then I think they're set.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I agree, they're They're gonna be good. Barring
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: injury and barring some crazy Vikings plays to happen, They're
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 3: gonna be good. I'm excited.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: Do you think they're like a like a Pittsburgh Steelers
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: kind of like, because under Tomlin, the Steelers have just
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: been consistently good. They've not been great all the time,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: but they've been good and they've never had a losing
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: record on Mike Tomlin.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty wild.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: So I could see that out of the Vikings this year,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: and again nine to eight, that's a very Steeler esque
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: type of rating on their quote unquote down years.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, yeah, maybe we'll see either way. I
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 3: think everybody has some reasons to be excited about the
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 3: team this year, even if you don't think they're gonna
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 3: win a lot of games. We're gonna have a lot
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 3: of fun. It'll be a lot of fun. And this
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 3: is just the first step in the journey of this team.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 3: I think we have fully gone out of the era
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 3: of the zimmer Era and the Cousins and Dalvin Cooks,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 3: and they were great and I'd love that they were Vikings,
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 3: but now the team has fully transitioned. This is now
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: fully Quasi's team, fully Kos's team, and we're on the
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 3: first step. So let's see where they can go.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I like it. I'm excited. I can't wait for
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: the games to start.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 3: And we're not too far off preseasons, like two weeks away.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's coming up, which stinks for me, because
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: I'm a teacher and that means I have to.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: Go back to work.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have to go back to work in like
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: less than twelve hours.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: So well, that's your own fault. You could have been
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: a teacher like me. That's what my wife tells me
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: all the time. So all right, what did you think
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: of the beer?
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 3: Beer's good. I mean, it was good enough. It attracts quarters,
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 3: I guess.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry about that. No, that was hilarious.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 3: Like I said, one of my favorite school hot moments
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 3: was when that quarter fell in.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: Still a little wet, yep, a little sticky. Yeah, we'll
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: memorialize this one.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the beer was good.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 3: I really think they knew what they were doing when
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 3: they were making a beer to be drunk around a
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 3: cycling event, you know, an athletic event. So yeah, I
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 3: like it a lot. I'm probably not going to be cycling,
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 3: but I will be drinking the beer, and I'm glad
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: that we have.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: A little bit more too.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: So mine definitely had a little bit of a metallic taste.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: Then at the end, Yeah, you changed the cosmetics, you know,
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: the makeup of your of your beer there a little bit, but.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: It was still good.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: I liked it, and I would definitely drink more for sure.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: All Right, well this was a good episode. This was fun.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know about best one yet because fifty
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: was really good.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: Fifty was great. Yeah, that's it. We didn't even really
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: talk about that.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: But man, if you're still listening, you know, an hour
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: plus endo this episode, and you didn't watch episode fifty,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: you do yourself a favor. Go back and watch episode fifty,
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: especially if you're a beer drinker. Because we went to
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: eleven breweries in two days.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we visited a brewery twelve times because we
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 3: went to one of them twice, that's true. Yeah, but yeah,
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: we still we had a lot of great beer, some
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 3: really good food, some good times, yeah.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: And amazing beer. It was a lot of fun. Yeah,
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: we're gonna do it again next year two point zero.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: It's happening. Next year. It happening.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: So maybe an episode one hundred or so, we'll see
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: something like that.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get it there.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 3: And if you did watch it, let us know if
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 3: we hit up your favorite brewery, or if there's any
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 3: breweries we didn't hit up that we absolutely should have
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 3: because we barely scratch the surface. So we hit the
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 3: big ones, but there's a ton more. I mean, House
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 3: Divided shows you that there's gonna be a ton of
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 3: cool little spots all around the state.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: So yeah, and if you're looking for good beer, come
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: to Iowa.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, We've got a lot of it. Yeah, and we
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: love celebrating Iowa beer. That's just kind of one of
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: the things we're about here on the School Hop for sure.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 3: Uh and not the least of them. This tail went
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 3: from Big Grove so till the next one.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: Let's go, let's go.
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