Latest / The Skol Hop / TSH Ep. 8 - SKOL! Finally a W.
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- 0:29All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome in to the school. Hop
- 0:34God Austin here, Hello, Hello, And we're just a couple of dudes
- 0:38from Iowa. We like drinking beer. We justecifically Iowa beer, only Iowa
- 0:42beer, and we like to talk about the Vikings. Yeah, so,
- 0:45I guess to be clear, we like we're not discriminatory on beer outside of
- 0:50recording time. True, but when we record this show is an I would
- 0:53be your only podcast. We enjoy all beers. But what'd you? What'd
- 0:59you us? Tonight? Tonight we have from I'd never heard of it,
- 1:06but I'm happy I saw it. It's from No Coast Beer Company out of
- 1:10Oscaroosa, Iowa. It is their Van Go India pale Ale and it is
- 1:18pretty darn delicious. It's good. The can is really cool too. It's
- 1:21like a different take on the Starry Night painting. And there's a van on
- 1:26it and I can't tell what it says on the looks like it says no.
- 1:33Yeah, it looks like it says no. But it's like Coast.
- 1:34It's like a Volkswagen inspired sixties era van, yeah van, and the van
- 1:42goes van Go, but it's painted in the Starry Night. Yeah, so
- 1:46very good beer. I enjoy it so far. We'll see what we think
- 1:49of it towards the end of the show, but so far, no Coast
- 1:53beer you got you got a good one here, yeah, yeah, not
- 1:57a sponsor. Not a sponsor yea yet. So yeah, Evan, it's
- 2:01actually the first time I think you just said it in three weeks that we
- 2:06are not enjoying an october Fest beer on the podcast. I know, which
- 2:09is weird because it's October. If you had this is our first show in
- 2:14October and we're not having an october Fest beer. That's okay because we'll probably
- 2:19have some more. Oh yeah, for sure, absolutely, that's a certainty.
- 2:23You were telling me about your Octoberfest experience, just like this last weekend.
- 2:29Yeah. Yeah, So this past weekend, I for the first time
- 2:31got to go to Octoberfest. Not the one in Germany maybe someday that would
- 2:37be cool. No, but me and some friends we went to the Octoberfest
- 2:42in the Amana Colonies, also in Iowa, and I did have a october
- 2:49Fest there because of the day I was there. That was their featured october
- 2:52Fest beer. We've had that on the podcast. Yeah, for Our most
- 2:54recent show was the october Fest. That's right. It was very good and
- 2:59I highly reck commend going to an Octoberfest because all of the drinking songs and
- 3:04the the schnitzel and uh oh, I had a pork I think it was
- 3:07called a pork trotter, essentially just a big piece of meat on the bone.
- 3:14Oh my gosh, it was. It was delicious and it provided a
- 3:16good base too, because you know, Octoberfest you're having a few bruce you
- 3:22need to have a good bass. But we are not here to only talk
- 3:28about beers. The Vikings won this week. The Vikings finally freaking did it.
- 3:32If they heard my rant, they felt bad enough for me and you
- 3:38and all of us other Vikings fans. You did kind of go off,
- 3:40I did the last kind of blacked out for a second. But you know
- 3:44what, apparently it worked, so we'll see what happens well show. I
- 3:46mean, I think your rant is just kind of reminiscent of all Vikings fans
- 3:53everywhere, Like that's just that's how we all feel now, and that's how
- 3:57we've all felt for a long time. Like, man, this team has
- 4:00a way of building you up and then bringing you down. Yes, it
- 4:04does really hard. But at least this team hasn't had an eighteen straight game
- 4:13playoff losing streak since two thousand and four, which as of you know,
- 4:17twenty four hours ago, neither does the Minnesota Twins. That's right, and
- 4:21we should celebrate that because that's a big deal, yeah in Minnesota sports.
- 4:26Yeah. I'm not even a baseball fan. Really. I've said if the
- 4:30baseball season was thirty games long, I'd watch every game. I just can't
- 4:34put that much of my emotion into one hundred and sixty plus game season.
- 4:40But man, I watched every minute of both games. So we were recording
- 4:45the day of the second win, and I watched all of both games and
- 4:49loved every second of it. Yeah, for the Twins to get a playoff
- 4:54series win into advance, that's big, yeah for that organization, and I
- 4:59truly I think it's big for Minnesota sports. Oh absolutely, it you know,
- 5:03brings some winning back into the world here. Yeah, for sure.
- 5:09It was exciting to see and cool to see that Kirk attended the game.
- 5:13At least yesterday. I saw something that he kind of decided last minute to
- 5:19take his family there, and he went on Ticketmaster and paid for his own
- 5:25tickets and didn't even try to pull some strings. And I don't know if
- 5:30his wife posted the picture or whatever, but he was in sunglasses and a
- 5:33hat and trying to be all, you know, incognitate in Kirknedo. But
- 5:40yeah, he did say something, and I'm gonna butcher the quote. It's
- 5:43not a direct quote, but he said something today about his experience at the
- 5:46game yesterday and just being in that stadium and if you watched the game,
- 5:50you or maybe you were even at the game, if we have listeners in
- 5:54Minnesota yet, and just hearing the excitement in the stadium and hearing the build
- 6:00up and the cheers after every time a Twins pitcher got a strike from the
- 6:04other team, and he said, you can just feel the hunger, feel
- 6:09the desire for winning in this state. We're so hungry. Well, you
- 6:14just want our Minnesota sports to win so bad, and it's good to see
- 6:18at least one team having some success. Yeah. I didn't get home until
- 6:24literally the ninth inning and they were about to wrap it up. But you
- 6:29could just even on TV, you could hear and feel the energy at Target
- 6:34Field just was almost second to none. It was great. Yeah, You're
- 6:42spot on. Minnesota sports are ready for that next step. They're ready for
- 6:47a championship to be brought home. They haven't. I mean, the Twins
- 6:51are the last professional sports franchise that I'm aware of to win a championship for
- 6:59me, Minnesota, for Minnesota, and that was when we were babies,
- 7:02I mean nineteen ninety one. Yeah. I may not have been walking yet.
- 7:08Evan, I do think that you are slightly disrespecting our Minnesota Lynx.
- 7:14Oh yeah, you're right out. Sorry you had to bring that up now,
- 7:19I just sound like a jerk. Hey, that's okay. I don't
- 7:21recognize women's basketball either. So anyways, let's not alienate the audience that we
- 7:29don't already have come on, maybe thirty percent of our listeners or fans of
- 7:33the Links that maybe one person. Let's talk about what we're here to talk
- 7:38about. We're here to talk about the Vikings School Go Twins, but Go
- 7:43Twins, Skull Twins, School Twins, and hopefully we'd get to keep talking
- 7:46about the Twins and their continued playoff success. That's right, Well, let's
- 7:53talk about this win against the Panthers twenty one to thirteen. We finally did
- 7:58it in Carolina. We finally got the dub. Harry the hit man,
- 8:03Harry, the freaking Hall of Fame hit man. Wow, he he balled
- 8:07out. That was a statement game. It's like he heard my rant last
- 8:13week and decided, you know what, if nobody else is gonna do it,
- 8:16I'm gonna do it. So he was all over the field playing,
- 8:20lining up at multiple positions. Would you say three sacks? He had three
- 8:26sacks and fourteen total tackles. That is crazy. Well, and of course
- 8:30the one strip sack that led to DJ Wantum going all the way to the
- 8:35end zone. Yeah, you know I who who was escorting him to the
- 8:39end zone. Jordan Hicks was just keeping speedy Panthers away from dj want That
- 8:43was just such an exciting and exciting play at a moment in the game that
- 8:48it felt like the worst that was. That was the turning point. I
- 8:54mean absolutely was, But right before they snapped the ball for that play,
- 8:56it just felt like, Okay, here are the Panthers gonna drive down,
- 9:00They're gonna score, and we're gonna be zero and four and it's just gonna
- 9:05be terrible. Season. Trade Kirk, trade, Harry, trade, everybody
- 9:09fire everybody. That's what it felt like. And then Harry made a statement
- 9:16and then the offense ended up scoring another touchdown. Was it the next drive?
- 9:20I don't remember if it was the next drive, but it was after
- 9:24the the Harry sack that forced the fumble that DJ picked up and took for
- 9:28the touchdown. But it was a JJ touchdown from Kirk. Yeah, which
- 9:33that was a nice play too, because if you remember, I think was
- 9:37it on fourth down? It was either third or fourth down. And I
- 9:41remember seeing something after the game, I don't know if it was Kirk or
- 9:46KOC saying something to the tune of, we lined up and we weren't gonna
- 9:50snap the ball unless we got somebody to jump, and lo and behold,
- 9:56they got a defensive lineman to jump on a hard count, so they snapped
- 10:00the ball, which at the moment I didn't know that they weren't going to
- 10:03snap the ball, So I kept thinking, like, man's that's good awareness
- 10:09for Kirk to know that it's essentially a free play. And then he just
- 10:13lobbed it up and JJ did what JJ does and he caught a touchdown,
- 10:20and then you know, made a physical comment about how short the defender was
- 10:26in front of him, but which I can't talk to. That defender is
- 10:30probably taller than me. But yeah, that was a beautiful play. It
- 10:35was a second and one. Oh okay, then was it leading up to
- 10:39the end of a quarter? Then yeah, there's something about like the clock
- 10:43running or yeah. I don't know. But what I think is interesting about
- 10:48that drive is we never even had a third down. It was first down
- 10:54cam Aker's up the gut for seven yards and then second three cam Akers to
- 11:01the left for ten yards, first down pass to cam Akers for nine yards,
- 11:09and then second and one touchdown to JJ in the end zone. So
- 11:11that was that drive. All seventy five percent of it was cam Akers.
- 11:18Yeah, who we haven't seen on Well, yeah, healed. He wasn't
- 11:20active his previous game with the Vikings because he had been in Minnesota for just
- 11:26days at that point. And then you know, he actually gets on the
- 11:31field, and I think I think having cam Akers kind of solved some of
- 11:37the issues that we were seeing with Alex Madison. I mean, Alex,
- 11:41at least in the NFL, has never been you know the guy. You
- 11:46know, he's had a couple of spots starts in case of injury, and
- 11:48stuff, but he's never been RB one, and I think we were kind
- 11:54of seeing no offense to him. I think his role is to that RB
- 12:01one, Like the best version of Alex Madison is as a tandem back and
- 12:07maybe you know, not as few carries as he's gotten in previous years,
- 12:09you know, give it more carries. He can beat that number one on
- 12:11the depth chart. But when you have another guy performing the way Cam Acres
- 12:16performed, succeeding that way, it's nice. It keeps both of them fresher
- 12:22and then you don't have to worry as much about fumbling the football because it's
- 12:28not on one guy every single time. Somebody has to run the ball.
- 12:31And no offense to ty Chandler, But I don't know that he's that guy
- 12:35that is the compliment to Yeah, And I mean we talked about it after
- 12:43the Acres trade. You wonder who it's saying more too, like who should
- 12:46be more offended about that trade or who should be more on edge about that
- 12:50trade? And I think you and I both were saying that it's got to
- 12:54be Madison. He's the one that's got to be more on his toes.
- 12:56You know, somebody just traded and maybe he's gonna lose his job. But
- 13:01I think you hit the nail on the head. I think they're not getting
- 13:03the production out of ty Chandler or the change of pace out of him that
- 13:09they wanted. And Koc was already comfortable and West Phillips already comfortable with cam
- 13:13Makers, and at least for that one game, it worked out pretty well.
- 13:18Like what did you have four carries for forty yards? It was something
- 13:24like that. I can look up that line, but I know for a
- 13:28fact that we rushed for one hundred and thirty five yards to total as a
- 13:31team, and that was our most on the season. Yeah, it was
- 13:35the most successful rushing game the Vikings have had all year, which, you
- 13:39know, four games, it's not a Alex. Alex ran seventeen times for
- 13:46ninety five yards with a couple of big chunks in there too. He averaged
- 13:50five point six, His long was seventeen and cam Akers had five carries for
- 13:56forty yards, which is an aver of eight and along of ten. So
- 14:01I mean he was just really consistent. Yeah, and big chunk plays.
- 14:05We're not talking two three, you know, piddly little games here and there.
- 14:09We're talking like big Chunk plays five six, seven yards at a time.
- 14:13Yeah. Yeah. The two of them combined were a pretty good running
- 14:18back. Yeah. And that's when you're a pass first team like the Vikings
- 14:24are that they have been really since Kirk joined the team. When you're designed
- 14:30that way, I think your running game needs to be a tandem backfield,
- 14:35and I think they were trying to do that with the likes of ty Chandler
- 14:39and Alex Madison, and for whatever reason, it just wasn't working. And
- 14:45then cam Akers comes in, and I don't know why. I don't know
- 14:48why it was better. If cam Akers is just that much better of an
- 14:52RB two, or if their skill sets kind of yin and yang well enough
- 14:56that it's just perfect, or if they just got lucky every time they ran
- 15:01the ball last week. But it worked and I'm here for it, so
- 15:05keep it up. I guess we'll find out if it's luck or if it's
- 15:09truly a good fit in the coming weeks. We've got a pretty big test
- 15:13coming up, yeah, which we'll get to. Well. Yeah, So
- 15:18something a sentiment I've heard a few times is that when you lose games,
- 15:24you should have won. Like the game to the Buccaneers, like the game
- 15:31to the Chargers. When you lose games you should have won, you have
- 15:35to win games you're supposed to lose the rest of the season. So you've
- 15:39got Kansas City coming Do the Vikings go to San Francisco? No? I
- 15:46think that's how hard are they both at home? I think that's right.
- 15:48You got San Francisco coming up in the next couple of weeks. Those are
- 15:52games. I mean, let's be real here. Those are games you're supposed
- 15:56to lose. The Vikings are supposed to lose both of those games. You
- 16:00gotta steal at least one of them. Can they beat the Chiefs? They
- 16:03can they beat the Niners if they have to get one. My money's on
- 16:07beating the Chiefs, But I don't know. Well, the Chiefs have definitely
- 16:11shown more signs of weakness than the forty nine Ers. I agree. I
- 16:15mean, they dropped their first game. They've looked better in the last three
- 16:18games. Oh yeah, they've won all three, but they've kept those games
- 16:22close. I mean, they had a close game against Jacksonville and they barely
- 16:26escaped the Jets twenty three to twenty this last week against the Jets. That's
- 16:32true with the Zach Wilson with Zach Wilson under center. But I mean,
- 16:37to his credit, he looked really darn good. Yeah, yeah, maybe
- 16:41the best he's looked. Talk about a player getting a kick in the paints
- 16:45for having your team sign another guy at your position. I mean, he's
- 16:48still not looking like you know, the next coming with Joe Namath, but
- 16:53he's definitely looking better than he has in previous years, which I mean give
- 16:59them credit for that for sure, for sure. But yeah, I think
- 17:03if they're gonna beat either the Vikings are gonna beat either the Chiefs or the
- 17:07Niners. I just that Niners team. I don't know who's gonna beat them.
- 17:11Like, they look so good and I say that didn't they almost lose
- 17:15last week? Are they undefeated? Though? We should? We should know
- 17:19this. I know we have the Internet right in front of us. Oh,
- 17:25I don't know. But either way, like, I think they really
- 17:27would have to mess up to lose against the Vikings. So the Niners,
- 17:33Yeah, they beat the Cardinals thirty five to sixteen. They beat the Giants
- 17:40thirty to twelve. Come on, Google, be faster than this. They
- 17:45beat the Rams thirty to twenty three, And yeah, I think they're undefeated.
- 17:51They beat the Steelers seven to thirty, so four and oh, I
- 17:56don't I don't think it's it's a night game seven fifteen. Man, that's
- 18:03a Monday night game, isn't it. It's it's going to be a rough,
- 18:07rough game. And I think this Chiefs game might be pretty rough too.
- 18:11Well, let's talk about the Chiefs game. Do you think do you
- 18:18think this is a trap game candidate for the Chiefs? I mean it could
- 18:22be. I mean you think about and we've already mentioned it a little bit,
- 18:26but let's dive a little deeper here. They've had some close games of
- 18:32late, even though they're three to one, and they dropped their first game
- 18:34of the season, which was kind of surprising. They they kind of got
- 18:40kicked in the mouth by the Lions. I mean, yeah, it wasn't
- 18:42a blowout by any means. But when it's the Lions right well, in
- 18:47the week one, the Lion's still thinking proven the Lions have proven that they're
- 18:53a good team, and right now they're the best team in the North,
- 18:56and I somewhat believe it, like they've played like it. Yeah, absolutely,
- 19:00you can't take anything from him right now. But when you're the Chiefs
- 19:03and you're heading into Week one against you know, the Week one Lions.
- 19:08That may have been a trap game to start off with for the Chiefs,
- 19:11you know, and then especially with the whole Travis Kelcey stuff right before the
- 19:15game, you never knew he was gonna play. It was an injury.
- 19:18What did it come up like the day beforehand? Yeah? It Yeah,
- 19:23you can almost wipe that game away for the Chiefs though, because like they
- 19:27weren't ready, they weren't as prepared as they should have been. They probably
- 19:30let the Kelsey injury get to them too much, and then the Lions came
- 19:33prepared, so they're ready to bite some knee caps. Do you think do
- 19:41you think Taylor Swift shows up at us Bank Stadium this week? I couldn't
- 19:45care less. I I I am trying to think of something I care less
- 19:52about. Well, I coached girls cross country, so oh my gosh.
- 19:56So also, like half of my team went to Taylor Swift either in Chicago
- 20:03or in Minneapolis this summer. And I've spent far too many bus rides in
- 20:07Van Ryde's listening to Taylor Swift. It's your fault, Well, it's not
- 20:11my own fault. It's it's a path I've chosen. But I have paid
- 20:18a little bit of attention to this whole Taylor Swift Travis Kelsey thing, and
- 20:22it's just funny to me. It's funny. I think I heard that Travis
- 20:30Kelce Jersey's skyrocketed by four hundred percent since she came to the first game two
- 20:41weeks ago. Whatever that whoever they played was at the Bears. I honestly
- 20:45don't know what their first game she went to. I think they played the
- 20:48Bears at home. It was at Kansas City and they blew out the Bears.
- 20:52It was like forty one to ten or something. That was her first
- 20:55game, and then they went to New York. The Chiefs played at the
- 21:00Medalians this weekend this past weekend, and she was there as well, with
- 21:03a star studded cast of like Blake Lively and yeah, I forget who else
- 21:10was there. But anyways, it's been kind of fun to follow this,
- 21:15and I think the question has to be asked, like, is she gonna
- 21:18be in Minneapolis? Will she be there? I don't know. We will
- 21:22definitely know, Oh, they will show her, yes or not show her
- 21:26if she's not there, But I think I've seen some tweets and I don't
- 21:30remember who is tweeting it. This previous Chiefs game, how many what will
- 21:37be a higher number the time the amount of times they show Taylor Swift on
- 21:41camera or the number of points that the Jets score, And I mean before
- 21:48the game, that's a legitimate question. I'm gonna take the over on shots
- 21:52of Taylor. I don't remember what it ended up being. I think the
- 21:56Chiefs or this Jets scored more than Taylor. But all right, it wasn't
- 22:02like they doubled the tailored appearances like. It was pretty close. It was
- 22:07closer than you would think. Although it As a Vikings fan, it is
- 22:12always nice to see Aaron Rodgers not playing football, and it was nice to
- 22:19see him, you know, in the press box or wherever he was.
- 22:23Did you see any of the like articles about how quickly he's progressing through his
- 22:30recovery? Though, yeah, I don't know. That's another thing. Maybe
- 22:34that's the thing. I care less about the tailored stuff because like, he's
- 22:41not a packer anymore, so he's not an immediate threat. I mean,
- 22:45I don't really care if he plays unless now watch, this is gonna be
- 22:51the year the Vikings make to the super Bowl and the Jets are somehow gonna
- 22:56miraculously make it to the super Bowl. In the script, it's in the
- 22:59script. Yeah, and that's gonna be the one game Rogers comes back for.
- 23:03He's finally healthy. He doesn't play a single plays back, and Zach
- 23:07Wilson gets him through the playoffs and then oh, we're just gonna turn the
- 23:11keys over to a rat and then he's gonna be at the postgame press conference
- 23:15drinking purple Gatorade. And I I lied, I do care more about Aaron
- 23:22Rodgers than Taylor Swift. Dang it, come on, why'd you do that?
- 23:26I hate that? All right, Vikings Chiefs, let's come back to
- 23:30the fact that this I think really could be a trap game. I think
- 23:33the Taylor Swift drama has definitely I wouldn't say it's a problem, but I
- 23:41would say it's it's definitely like present for the Chiefs, and it's something they
- 23:44have to be aware of and manage. Yeah, I mean, teams hate
- 23:48distractions, like they will actively avoid signing halfway decent players because Tim Tebow is
- 23:53gonna get too much, you know, attention to the locker room or nobody
- 23:57will could touch Kaepernick because you know, off the field stuff and like because
- 24:03all that, Yeah, yeah, exactly, So teams will heavily avoid distractions
- 24:08at all costs. And now you're talking about you know, are arguably one
- 24:12of the most famous, you know, musicians in the world at the moment.
- 24:18Is a slight distraction. So again, like you said, it's not
- 24:22like a bad thing. Nobody's mad about it. I don't think, and
- 24:26I honestly don't think Travis Kelcey is like, you know, gonna start not
- 24:30going to practice or you know, like he's gonna be fine. He's like
- 24:34one of the best tight ends in the league. So not worried about that.
- 24:37But there is a slight distraction factor too, for sure. Well,
- 24:42and it's not just that, but I think of like two close games they've
- 24:48won both of them, but two close games within the last three and losing
- 24:53that first game, there's probably still a little bit of a sour taste in
- 24:57their mouths. Oh yeah, they're not four No at this point. Yeah,
- 25:00they're not going to forget about that. That that's that shows how good
- 25:04they are, you know. Yeah, they've already looked at every mistake they
- 25:07made in that game, I'm sure, and they've already figured out how to
- 25:10correct most of them. I'm sure because they're professionals and probably the best quarterback
- 25:15in the league right now. So, but trap games exist, like we
- 25:18have seen it as Vikings fans. They will, we've fallen. They toast
- 25:22the Buffalo Bills in two thousand and six and lose, you know, like
- 25:26they'll they will host the Indianapolis Colts on a Saturday with a coach named Saturday,
- 25:33and they will get trounced in the first half, and then the Colts
- 25:37will Colts and make the most historical unback. And there's our reference for episode
- 25:42eight. Remember when I said we were going to touch on that game every
- 25:48single episode. It's cool. I don't remember that, but I think I
- 25:51think i'd said that last week. Also, Brian, if you're listening,
- 25:53that one's for you. Yeah. He's no longer allowed to watch any game
- 25:57with us ever. Right. That is fun because we have a friend who's
- 26:03a coltsman and we were all three watching the Vikings Colts game and out of
- 26:10I don't know, pity slash respect slash friendship, at halftime, he's like,
- 26:17well, guys, I'm gonna leave kiss. I mean, we're pretty
- 26:22intense game watchers together, and he could see that we were very upset,
- 26:27and then once he left, maybe that was it. He's the magic.
- 26:30You're right, Brian, you're not allowed to watch games with us, or
- 26:33at least Colts Vikings games with us. Told him that a few times now,
- 26:37all right, So, I mean every time he's been with me,
- 26:41it's been twice now at least the Vikings have lost or at least lost the
- 26:47half. Yeah, while asking with us. Yea, so maybe there's something
- 26:52there. Keep listening to the podcast, Brian, but yeah, we'll watch
- 26:56our games elsewhere. Maybe it's just you and him. I don't know.
- 27:02Anyways, trap games I do think exist. They have to travel. I
- 27:07am not saying I think the Vikings are gonna win, but there's something there,
- 27:11especially after you know, this past week, the Vikings got some life
- 27:15in them. You know, they're they're energized, they're excited. Can you
- 27:18imagine what that team's locker room would look like after a loss to the Panthers.
- 27:25I mean legitimately, like you're probably trading somebody away. Like, yeah,
- 27:29I'm not saying Kirk's getting traded. I'd still you could lose the next
- 27:32ten games. Kirk's not getting traded, but like somebody might get traded.
- 27:34And I don't know. I don't think four games is enough to fire a
- 27:40Coach of the Year candidate from last year in his second year. But his
- 27:44seat's getting a little warm, I'm sure, and Quasi, I mean,
- 27:48fans are already questioning him, and I still don't know where I want to
- 27:52stand with his philosophy right now. He There's an interesting tweet that I saw
- 27:57today, And you were struggling to find a tweet earlier, and I would
- 28:02struggle to find this tweet now and it's still Twitter, and it's still a
- 28:06tweet. I don't care what Elon Musk changes it too. But the tweet
- 28:11was basically talking about Dalvin Cook and Eric Kendricks and I forget who else that
- 28:21the Vikings lost in the off season, whether to trades or free agency or
- 28:26whatever. And the tweet was basically just recapping the seasons that those guys have
- 28:32had so far and basically said Quacy did what he needed to do. These
- 28:37guys haven't produced with their new teams, and I mean, the Vikings aren't
- 28:45worse because they're gone yeah. Yeah, in the sense that if you had
- 28:52put those guys' stat lines into the Vikings team right now, it's not I
- 28:56mean it's not like, you know, already has eight hundred yards rushing,
- 29:02like I think he's less than a hundred. Yeah, Well, and the
- 29:07Jets are struggling. I mean, the Jets got a huge blow and Aaron
- 29:11Rodgers went down and the first four minutes of the season, so you know,
- 29:18that whole thing has had a huge impact on that entire organization. And
- 29:22Dalvin Cook is included in that. And I mean he's got some competition too.
- 29:26Breise Hall's a good back fellow Iowa. Yeah, he's looking really good
- 29:32and seems to be all the way back from that ACL tear. So yeah,
- 29:37I don't know. I just I liked that tweet because it did shed
- 29:41some perspective on where we are. And I'm not ready to completely throw Quacy
- 29:48out the back door and just say he's gone, he's done. He hasn't
- 29:52done anything. I think it's gonna take some time and it's going to have
- 29:56to develop. Yeah, and we're gonna have to like, does this cam
- 30:00Akers trade turn out to be something good? Does the Dalton Reisner trade turn
- 30:04out to be something good. He's a guy that we haven't talked about.
- 30:07Yeah, I don't think we talked about him at all last week. No,
- 30:10And I think, well, in this Panthers game, Reisner specifically,
- 30:12he played three snaps and they were all on special teams. I just see
- 30:18him at all. I just that's just going off of you know, snap
- 30:22counts that I've seen on Twitter twitters where we get all of our knowledge,
- 30:26right, But yeah, he's I think Reisner specifically, that comes down to
- 30:30he's just not confident enough in the playbook yet, which he's been on the
- 30:36team for two weeks, two weeks, three weeks. Like that's fine,
- 30:41I'm not mad about that, but ultimately, at some point he's got to
- 30:45be better than what ed Ingram's doing out there, even if Reisner doesn't really
- 30:49know what he's doing. Like as far as playbook goes, Ingram had a
- 30:52quiet game this last week. I mean, why, but I don't think
- 30:56Kirk throws that second interception if ed Ingram has a better play. It did
- 31:00come on that side. That did come on that side, And you and
- 31:03I were texting in the moment when that happened. We weren't together when we
- 31:07watched the game. But you thought that Kirk just chucked it up. But
- 31:12I think I saw on the replay, and I told you that Kirk kind
- 31:17of admitted, or at least implied in his postgame press conference that there was
- 31:22some contact. Yeah. Well, and even if there wasn't contact, there
- 31:26was definitely a defender barreling down on him. So he was affected no matter
- 31:30what. But I guess the point I'm trying to make it was it was
- 31:33on that right side and that's where Ingram is, And I think, yes,
- 31:38you're right, that was largely a result of Ingram's either a missed block
- 31:45or inability to block the man that he was assigned to block. So one
- 31:51thing I was I did find interesting today. I guess in his press conference
- 31:56today, Koc mentioned Blake Brandell as a potential you know, mix in at
- 32:04guard, so he was KOs was talking about Reisner and Brandell, Blandell,
- 32:10brand Brandell both working in getting some time at the guard spot, which I
- 32:16don't know if you remember much last year. Blandell Brandell, Jeez, I
- 32:22think he stepped in a cup when he stepped in at the right tackle position
- 32:28when Ed O'Neill not Ed O'Neill, Brian O'Neill went down and played okay.
- 32:34And I didn't really picture Brandell as a as a guard. But if he
- 32:40if he plays well there, he's on the team. Put the best guys
- 32:44in there. If he's better than Riisner, put him in there, you
- 32:46know, like, And I've even heard his name tossed around as a backup
- 32:50to Schloatman, like if Garrett Bradbury can't play, like and we need depth
- 32:55at center. If something happens to Schloatman, got next guy in, We've
- 33:01got to have somebody doesn't have the ball. Oh yeah, And that's another
- 33:05thing. We're not sitting here talking about how bad Schloatman was. He's he's
- 33:08been quietly good now. I mean sure, if we analyzed his you know,
- 33:14performance on every single play against the Panthers, maybe we're talking about how
- 33:19terribly he was. I don't know. I didn't do that, but I
- 33:22mean he seems to be stepping into the role. Well. He did it
- 33:27for I think five games last year when Bradbury was out, and he's been
- 33:32doing it well so far this year. Bradbury again had some quotes today about
- 33:38how his back is feeling better now than it was when he was injured last
- 33:45year, and Koc was saying, hopefully we have him for this upcoming game
- 33:51against the Chiefs. That I mean, even if you know he's totally healthy,
- 33:57quote unquote healthy Sunday morning and he's not a scratch on you know,
- 34:02an injured scratch and he actually starts and plays that lower back, he could
- 34:10I mean, he could play the first series and sneeze wrong on the sideline
- 34:15and be done for five more games. So you never know, or maybe
- 34:19he's he is good to go and we never talk about his lower back ever.
- 34:22Again, I don't know, it really could be anywhere in that spectrum.
- 34:24Well, I don't know if it was Chaos's post game conference or if
- 34:29it was like his Monday or Tuesday press press conference, but he mentioned that
- 34:37Bradbury was like almost ready to Yeah. They said he was close this last
- 34:42week against the Panthers and he just he wasn't quite there. Yeah, And
- 34:47I can respect that, especially as a coach, like you don't want to
- 34:52you don't want to push your athletes into something that they're not quite ready for,
- 34:57and especially you know we're we're early on in the season here. I
- 35:01respect that from Koc and from Bradbury too, to have some foresight and have
- 35:07a little bit of wisdom to say, Okay, I could probably go,
- 35:12but it might not be the best and I could, you know, not
- 35:16make the whole game, and that would and then jeopardize more of the season.
- 35:21That would really suck for the rest of the season. So let's be
- 35:24wise, let's be prudent, and let's you know, let's not push things
- 35:28quicker than we need to, and let's take another week to recover. So,
- 35:31I don't know, hopefully we see Bradbury back in the lineup this week,
- 35:37and I think for for Kirk that brings a lot of comfort and familiarity.
- 35:44Not that Slotman has done a bad job. We've already said, probably
- 35:47the first one to sing Schlupman's praising. Yeah, I'll reiterates, he's done
- 35:52well, better than expected, I think. But I think it would be
- 35:57good for Kirk to have that familiarity back under center. Yeah, as long
- 36:01as Bradbury is truly good to go, I think all of this. You
- 36:06know, if Bradbury really was that close and he still didn't play again,
- 36:10to sing his praises again, I think that speaks wonders for Schloatman too,
- 36:15because if you really think you're desperate without Bradbury, I mean, I think
- 36:22you throw in a seventy five percent healthy Bradbury as long as it's not like
- 36:25a detrimental injury over you know, a terrible option. And I think that
- 36:31not putting Bradbury in last game is a vote of confidence for Schloatman as a
- 36:37spot starter and maybe even a potential solution at guard once Bradbury is fully healthy
- 36:46again. I mean, I think back to when Pat Elfline was the starting
- 36:53center and the backup was wasn't named Brett Jones. I don't even remember sure.
- 37:00Handful of years ago. Elf Line would miss a couple of games and
- 37:04Brett Jones would come in and do some spot starts, and then it became
- 37:07quickly clear that Jones was a better center. And so there was a full
- 37:12season or two at the end of Jones's career, and this was two,
- 37:15three, four, five years ago where they were like, oh, yeah,
- 37:20Jones is our best center. They actually gave him a raise, not
- 37:22an extension, like they reworked his contract to give him more money for a
- 37:27year or two. And I think that's the point when the team cut pat
- 37:30outline so and granted, yeah, that's a whole nother GM, whole nother
- 37:35coaching staff many years ago, but it kind of reminds me of that situation
- 37:38that Schlotman, if he's playing, well, you can play yourself into a
- 37:43spot, even if you know, you know, you're presumed to be just
- 37:46a depth guy. Which, yeah, that'd be a really nice thing if
- 37:50Schlopman accidentally played his way into a starting spot on that line. Well,
- 37:53and it's nice to have depth at any position on that offensive line where we've
- 38:00historically struggled, and even this season, well yeah he still struggled, but
- 38:06yes, it's better now than it has been at its worst, which there
- 38:10were some dark days of Vikings offensive, like immediately after Steve Hutchinson retired for
- 38:16the next handful of years. That was that was a rough line. But
- 38:22if you think about it, if we get Bradbury back and healthy, if
- 38:27we keep Schlotman healthy, and if we can find some ways to plug him
- 38:30in, either in a starting role or as a kind of a rotational guy,
- 38:37and then we get Riisener in in the same fashion, either on a
- 38:43starting position or on a rotational basis. Boy, we've added some key depth,
- 38:50and we've also diversified some of the experience of some of those guys like
- 38:54Schlotman. You know, he can kind of play multiple positions, center,
- 38:59guard, whatever, well, And I'm not and I say that if he
- 39:00could, you know, factor in as a potential guard solution. I don't
- 39:05know enough about him to know if he's had experience outside of the center position.
- 39:09He very well might have. I think he does, if I remember
- 39:13right, I think he's played guard before. I don't know. I'm not
- 39:16the biggest offensive line guru out there, but anyways, I just I think
- 39:22you you have to like your numbers that way. If you're if you're Kevin
- 39:29O'Connell and Quacy and you're looking at depth and you're looking at talent on the
- 39:35field, you've got to be feeling okay, maybe not like you've got the
- 39:42best offensive line in the league, but you've got to feel okay about where
- 39:45you're at, and probably even like a little better than okay, like,
- 39:49yeah, we've got we've got something here. We've got we've got the guys
- 39:53that can protect the quarterback and open up lanes for our running back. Yep,
- 40:00I agree, and I think the biggest idea around that statement there is
- 40:05the sounding of re Reisner and just knowing that he's there and once he's good
- 40:12in the playbook, he's gonna the cavalry is coming. So like we're not
- 40:16just stuck watching ed Ingram step on Kirk's ankle every five plays like or for
- 40:23fumble. There's at least an option. I thought we'd see him after that
- 40:28second Kirk interception in the Panthers game. We didn't. But I gotta chalk
- 40:34that up to just not being well enough in the playbook yet, which I
- 40:38can live with now. Now, if we're talking five weeks from now and
- 40:42he's still not well enough in the playbook, like what are you doing?
- 40:45Like come on, we need to figure something out. But or if we're
- 40:50talking five weeks from now and he's not in because at Ingram turned it around
- 40:53and became the lineman of the Viking sot he could be, that's still that's
- 40:57a win too, you know for sure. I mean we're fans of the
- 41:00Vikings. We want wins, and yep, I think that's that's all anybody
- 41:06wants. Three keys to success for the Vikings and the chiefs chiefs, I
- 41:14think continued defensive success. Yeah, we talked a lot about Harry the hitman,
- 41:19Harry the Hall of Fame hitman, and he deserves all of that praise,
- 41:23especially after that career game. But we haven't mentioned Marcus Davenport yet,
- 41:29and he played a good game too. Yeah, and that's the first time
- 41:31we've said that this season. I think he only played one other game so
- 41:35far. He's been injured. I think it was his lingering ankle injury.
- 41:39But he came back this week and oh my goodness. If we can get
- 41:44that or even at least seventy percent of that kind of performance from him the
- 41:50rest of the year, we're good. That solves a lot of a lot
- 41:53of pains on defense. He was a monster rushing the quarterback. He had
- 42:00a lot of plays where he either succeeded in getting to the quarterback or he
- 42:05made it possible for another teammate to succeed and either getting to or rushing the
- 42:09quarterback. That was nice to see that. That was a big part of
- 42:15the wind as well, even though he wasn't the biggest splash on the stat
- 42:19line, and he wasn't I'm looking at the stat line right now. He
- 42:22only had four total tackles, one solo, one sack, and one tackle
- 42:30for a loss and one hit on the quarterback, which all of which would
- 42:34be that one sack, Yeah, that he accumulated. And even Daniel Hunter,
- 42:40you know, was listed higher on the stat line than he did.
- 42:45But I mean, you're right, he definitely made a splash and he made
- 42:52his presence known. And gosh, man, if we can get Daniil and
- 42:59him and Harrison Phillip's going, you get some of those linebackers going, and
- 43:05I get Harrison coming off with the edge on a safety blitz. Boy,
- 43:09oh boy, We've got And I think Brian Flores has to be thinking like,
- 43:15we're not done yet, We're we're just getting started. Well, And
- 43:19I wonder if he changed something. Obviously they're they're tweaking their play calls,
- 43:25you know, every play, but I wonder if he made any you know,
- 43:30major changes to either the total defense or the way he calls the game,
- 43:37or if it's just simply having a healthy Marcus Davenport and a hair on
- 43:40fire Harry Hitman. I don't know, I don't know what the difference was,
- 43:45but it seemed to work, and it definitely can you know, solves
- 43:50a lot of problems if you have a DJ Wantam who Yeah, he he
- 43:55ran that fumble back for a touchdown. I think he was a tight end
- 43:59at one point point and maybe in high school or college, so he kind
- 44:02of used that previous you know, offensive ball carrying ability he's had before.
- 44:08But also before that, if you remember DJ want him, he almost picked
- 44:14off a ball he batted a pass and on a quick screen pass earlier in
- 44:17the game, and he batted it down. And if he would have picked
- 44:22that ball off, somebody probably would have caught up to him before he scored
- 44:25the ball, but or scored the touchdown, but he would have put the
- 44:30Vikings in the offense in a really good scoring Yeah. So it's nice to
- 44:35see him get home score touchdown after that play because you know he's probably kicking
- 44:39himself after dropping that ball earlier in the game. So DJ want him.
- 44:45He's another big reason why the Vikings won. And I think a healthy Marcus
- 44:50Davenport a productive Daniel Hunter, those two things help a DJ Wantam make plays.
- 44:58It just makes the offensive and focus on different guys so more guys are
- 45:01able to get home. We started talking about three keys to success to winning
- 45:08this Chiefs game before we got on that little rant. We'll just find a
- 45:12good little rant to go on. I'd like to point out that the Vikings
- 45:16allowed the fewest points all season as a team to the Carolina Panthers. Albeit
- 45:22it's the Panthers, we didn't expect a lot out of their offense, rookie
- 45:29quarterback and not a whole lot of playmakers other than former Viking Adam Thielen on
- 45:35the other side of the ball. Yeah, and he was a third down
- 45:38maniac for the Panthers. He had a good game. It has a really
- 45:42good game. I don't know his stat line off. At one point he
- 45:45had more yards receiving than JJ did. Yeah, and I still think JJ
- 45:49only finished with a handful more yards. Yeah. And he played a hard,
- 45:54heart fought game like he was. He was in it to win for
- 45:59sure. The final play where he was really advocating that Kirk should have been
- 46:04called for intentional grounding, which I don't think that's a I hate Kirk,
- 46:07I want him to get a flag. I think that's more of a Adam
- 46:10being competitive, which we've seen many times before. Yeah. Oh, he's
- 46:15very competitive and we've seen that a lot. But I think a key to
- 46:20success is holding the Chiefs to as few of points as possible. Oh yeah,
- 46:23I mean we haven't won a game until this last week when we held
- 46:29our opponent under fourteen points. Well, and the defense only allowed two field
- 46:35goals. That's right, they didn't. I think I forget who said it.
- 46:38I think Pa mentioned it that it's the first time the Vikings defense hasn't
- 46:46allowed a touchdown since I want to say twenty twenty. Oh wow, so
- 46:52ever since twenty twenty, they've had a game where the defense has allowed an
- 46:55offensive touchdown. So the defense succeeded in you know, a touchdown shutout.
- 47:01They allowed a couple of field goals, but the other touchdown or the only
- 47:05Panthers touching the only touchdowns of the picks was that pick six? Yeah,
- 47:08yeah, well that was just a it looked bad. Maybe it looked worse
- 47:13from our you know, helpful vantage point on TV, But yeah, I
- 47:19guess we don't. We don't have to go into that, but that that
- 47:21was a bad pick. I think it's another key to success. Those turnovers
- 47:24have to continue to go down. We improved. We didn't fumble the ball
- 47:30this time. Kirk threw two interceptions. One of which was a pick six,
- 47:36which really had a huge impact on the game. Oh yeah, but
- 47:40ready to turn the TV off after a little bit after that. That was
- 47:45the first quarter. Yeah, it just felt like, like, come on,
- 47:49guys, we've lost three in a row. We can't lose another one.
- 47:52But yeah, I think that's another key to success. The defense has
- 47:57to play well and the offense has to hang on to the dang if we
- 48:00can protect the ball not cough it up, either on a fumble or an
- 48:07interception. Mm hm man, I like our chances. Yeah, I mean
- 48:10every game, not even just this upcoming game against the Chiefs, every single
- 48:15game this season. If you just cut the turnovers in half, I think
- 48:22the Vikings win more of most of those games. I mean, if you
- 48:30know, JJ doesn't fumble it out of the back of the end zone,
- 48:31and if TJ doesn't catch the ball and turn around and get the ball just
- 48:37ripped out of his hands, and if Alex doesn't just have terrible bleatant fumbles
- 48:40all the time, and if Brandon Powell doesn't have a big return ended by
- 48:45a big fumble recovered by the other team, Like, we're gonna remember those
- 48:49and those are gonna be the if onlies and if they can correct those turnovers,
- 48:53like we've been saying every episode of this podcast, like this team could
- 48:59do something. After an zero to three start. We're at a plus four
- 49:05spread right now. That's that has gone the Vikings way because it opened up.
- 49:12The first line I saw was the Vikings were dogs by six and a
- 49:15half points at home. Okay, Now I checked an hour or two ago.
- 49:22Okay, so I imagine it's changed four point underd Dogs at this point.
- 49:27So what is today Wednesday? Yep? If it's moving that much for
- 49:30the Vikings, you gotta think it's probably gonna at least go to go in
- 49:36favor of the Vikings at least to plus two and a half, which I
- 49:42don't know. I don't know. I can't let myself get excited about this
- 49:47game because then I'll be so disappointed once the Chiefs are up by twenty three
- 49:52to nothing halfway through the first quarter and I'm sitting there throwing stuff at the
- 49:59TV. Let's be realistic, Vikings fans. I mean, we're here for
- 50:04the real, awful, terrible, unfortunate stuff as well as the great we
- 50:10have to be amazing stuff. I mean, trap game for the Vikings maybe
- 50:15too a little bit. Yeah, coming off the high of the first win
- 50:19of the season, feeling good, feeling great, thinking we finally figured some
- 50:22stuff out, and then you come home against a really good team in front
- 50:29of your own fans. Gotta play good for Taylor. Yeah, Taylor Swift
- 50:36could be in the press box somewhere. Yeah, and if she is,
- 50:39you bet we'll see her multiple times. Oh yeah, But I don't think
- 50:45you're I don't think you're totally wrong on that mindset, but I think you're
- 50:50more right on what you said earlier. It could be a trap game for
- 50:52the Chiefs. Yeah, I just feel looking at the Bikings record, you
- 50:55know they're going, Oh, we're going against a team that's all one and
- 51:00three. Oh, they're definitely gonna hand us the ball at least three or
- 51:02four times. Like you could have that that mindset of if you're a Chiefs
- 51:07player or fan, Oh, we're gonna come in there and roll into it.
- 51:10It's gonna be almost a week off. I could see that. But
- 51:15I'm okay. If you know the Vikings are the underdogs, you know what,
- 51:20We're just a couple of dudes from Iowa who love drinking beer and talking
- 51:23about the Vikings. So we don't know a whole lot. We can just
- 51:27stay here and speculate that. And really, even even Dane Orlowski, who
- 51:31we just saw on TV. He's a quote unquote expert, he doesn't know
- 51:37anything either, and he'd probably be the first one to tell you that.
- 51:38Like, it's just it's all guessing. He got a safety in the back
- 51:42of the end zone because Jared Allen chased him out. I'm sorry. I
- 51:45think that safety was credited to Jared Allen, so it should have been.
- 51:49It should have been because Jared Allen was the one who chased him down and
- 51:52didn't didn't somebody do that this previous week, wasn't it a I don't know.
- 51:59I feel like I think maybe Anthony Richardson he stepped out of the back
- 52:01of the end zone, and then Daniel Rolawski tweeted something like, I love
- 52:06it. I'm off the hook, Like you're okay, you can love it
- 52:08and we can all still, you know, make fun of that. That
- 52:12play never off the hook. Don't get me wrong, I like oh,
- 52:15I very much like him. It's a great guy and a great ESPN commentation.
- 52:19Yeah, yeah, but I only brought him up because he's literally on
- 52:22TV right now and he is a quote unquote expert and we're just dudes in
- 52:27your basement right now. But we can, you know, hit the target
- 52:31more times than an expert could. And it's all just guessing. Yep,
- 52:36it's just we're guessing with our hearts, and our hearts are with the vikings.
- 52:42Our hearts are with the vikings. Well, we're gonna do the same
- 52:46thing a week from now. We're gonna recap this game coming up against the
- 52:52Chiefs, and we're gonna look ahead to the following week. Don't even remember
- 52:57who that is? We should know that Bears? Oh? Is that is
- 53:01that one of our lock games? That's the one you said was a lock
- 53:05to lose. I think is that our the game that we both chose as
- 53:09a lock? I can't remember. I know I chose the Bears one of
- 53:15the Bears games as a lock to win. I can't think for which one
- 53:20we'll look into that for. We should know this right off the top of
- 53:22our heads. I think this is the coming game where I said it's a
- 53:25lock to lose and you said it's a lock to win. I might be
- 53:30wrong, though. The more I think about it, I feel like the
- 53:32Week twelve game or whatever it was, we play the Bears at home against
- 53:38not against after we play the Broncos at Denver, is what I'm trying to
- 53:44say. Okay, so I think it was that game. Yeah, I
- 53:47think you're right now the more I think about it that we we still think
- 53:51this Bears game might be one of our locks. It could be, and
- 53:55we'll have to bring that up in the next episode. Yeah, we'll do
- 53:58our homework definitely. If you remember tweet at us, let us know.
- 54:02Yeah, let us know if who's right, because I think or you know,
- 54:07when one of us was right about our locke choice to do that.
- 54:13Where can they tweet at us at the school Hop? Yeah, just one
- 54:17word at the school Hop and uh, that's the same handle everywhere else Twitter,
- 54:24Instagram, Facebook, I guess Facebook would just be the school Hop,
- 54:29not at the school Hop. But you can email us the school Hop at
- 54:32gmail dot com. Yep, we still have stickers which there if if we
- 54:37send you a sticker. If you email us and we send you a sticker,
- 54:42we will include a note about why these stickers are so funny. We're
- 54:45not going to say it on the podcast, because that should just be an
- 54:49exclusive joke. Maybe we'll we'll talk about it next week. But and if
- 54:53you want to be in on But if you want to be in on the
- 54:55joke, then you gotta let us know and we'll send you a sticker.
- 54:59Yeah, like my Scott once said, I inside jokes are great. I'd
- 55:04love to be a part of one. Someday. You can be a part
- 55:07of this one if you want. All you gotta do is send us an
- 55:10email, just interact with us. Yeah, and we'll talk about it on
- 55:15the podcast. It'll be great. Well, we'll break down the Chiefs game
- 55:17however that goes. Yeah, Sunday three twenty five. It's a kind of
- 55:22a it's not a primetime game, but it's a more of a prime time
- 55:27game. It more important, it's a schedule interrupter. Yeah. I've heard
- 55:30NFL players say many times they wish every game was Sunday at noon because you
- 55:36get to keep your same routine. And this is a routine disruptor. Yep.
- 55:40And I don't know, maybe it's not that bad because you're still at
- 55:44home, you don't have to travel. But again, I've never been to
- 55:46an NFL player, so I don't know, can't can't really speak to that
- 55:51either, but we'll break down that game however it goes hopefully well, hopefully
- 55:55well, and then we will look ahead to playing at on October fifteenth.
- 56:02October fifteenth, those might be cheap tickets. We're pretty close to Chicago,
- 56:07those might be some really cheap tickets. So we went to the most recent
- 56:12vikings at Chicago game. That's right, Well, maybe we'll have to make
- 56:15it twice in one year. I'm not against that. And this is how
- 56:17I will know if my wife is listening, because she will mention that I
- 56:22talked about going to a game. All right, Well, it's been a
- 56:25good episode. I think we've We've covered a lot of ground. We've had
- 56:30some good beers. It's been good conversation. All right, ev, what'd
- 56:32you think? We have both finished a full one of these No Coast Van
- 56:37goes, well, what are your thoughts on this beer? I like it,
- 56:43honestly, like I'm a creature of habit, and so I gravitate towards
- 56:46things that I know and things that I like. I probably would not have
- 56:52picked this up off the shelf if it were me. It means you bought
- 56:54them tonight, and you told me when you first got to my house,
- 56:59you were like, I bought it mostly because of the can. Yeah,
- 57:01yeah, it was the can. It was in the same section as all
- 57:05the other Iowa beers. And I'm sorry, I've never heard of No Coast
- 57:07Brewery or No Coast Beer Company. And that's on me. I'm sure I'm
- 57:13sure many people have. But from now on, if I ever see another
- 57:20No Coast beer, you better believe I'm gonna definitely give it a shot because
- 57:23this beer, for me, it's an I p A and that's my favorite
- 57:28kind of beer. You've said maybe Octoberfest is at least one of yours,
- 57:31if not like a Golden Ale or oh for sure. Yeah, but I
- 57:36pas are my bread and butter and this one, yeah, it's it's pretty
- 57:39up there. For me, it's good. Yeah, I like it a
- 57:43lot. And there's something to be said for the can art. Yeah,
- 57:46it really well, it's a fun it's you'll see it. It's gonna be
- 57:51our our art work. At least for the post on Twitter and Instagram and
- 57:57Facebook, We're definitely gonna take a pick. Sure I didn't add it up
- 58:00or posted up there, but yeah, good job. No Coast Brewing,
- 58:05No Coast Beer Company, I keep getting that wrong. I'm sorry, guys,
- 58:08And let us know if you know of another great No Coast beer,
- 58:13we'll try it out if we can find it. Yeah, and if you've
- 58:15got a beer that you want to recommend that we try. Our only requirement,
- 58:21our only prerequisite is that it has to be brewed in the state of
- 58:24Iowa. And if it's been brewed here within the friendly confines of Iowa between
- 58:30the Missouri River and the Mississippi River, we will gladly try it and we'll
- 58:35feature it on our podcast. So let us know we'd be happy to be
- 58:38happy to try anything out. Absolutely all right, it was a good episode.
- 58:45Hopefully we're talking about a two and three Vikings this time next week.
- 58:49Anything else, Oh, I think we covered it all well in that case.
- 58:54School School. I think I think, I think I think I think
- 59:16I think I think I think I think I think I think I