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Vikings vs. Lions Preview, Justin Jefferson's Record Chase, and Holiday Reflections · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  This is a very special holiday edition.
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  Ho ho ho to everyone out there.
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  A very merry Christmas to you.
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  Welcome in.
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  I am your host, Bubba Starts.
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  And with me, as always, my cohost, coach Cody.
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  Cody Holmdahl, welcome to the show, brother.
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  Merry Christmas to you, man.
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  Man, Bubba, merry Christmas.
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  It's a very special time of the year, obviously, and just a time for us to get
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  together with friends, family, close ones, and, you know, just get that holiday spirit.
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  So I'm starting to feel it already.
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  Just now feeling it.
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  A couple days later.
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  Just put
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  this hat on for the show.
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  I've been wearing it all day.
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  We we did some Christmas shopping today with the kids and, getting out with the family
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  today.
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  Even though we don't have a lot of snow down here in Southeast South Dakota right now, it
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  all kinda melted off.
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  The weather's been absolutely beautiful.
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  It was 60 degrees yesterday.
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  It doesn't bother me one bit, and I feel just as festive.
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  I have no problem with a subtropical Christmas whatsoever.
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  Maybe one year we can do a destination Christmas together when the Vikings are maybe
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  playing on Christmas day for an away game and say, I don't know, Florida, Southern
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  California.
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  I'm okay with that.
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  Right.
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  Yeah.
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  No.
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  Somewhere warm.
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  Definitely.
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  It hasn't been too bad over here.
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  I I would love for a 60 degree day, but I'll take thirties for right now.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, and up up in the Twin Cities, obviously, you're not just a Minnesota fan, but you live
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  up that way.
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  You guys have been getting pelted by snow already this season and kinda buried in.
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  With snow comes car trouble, which I know you've had plenty of this year.
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  We need to so we need start sharing coach Cody's Venmo so we
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  make sure he gets
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  to work and can keep doing the show.
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  Yeah.
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  No.
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  That was a unexpected surprise, unpleasant one to say the least.
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  Just yeah.
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  Coach, how do you feel like your life of football prepared you for the challenges that
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  life throws at you?
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  I know, obviously, we talk a lot of ball here.
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  Mhmm.
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  But, football is the greatest game for a reason, and it's it's what it makes out of
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  young men and young women who play the game, right, that it teaches you something about life
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  with each and every week.
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  And lord knows, we have had some lessons taught to us with this Vikings team this year.
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  What has it taught you just as a reflection as we come to the end of the year here?
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  Well, I mean, like, I had mentioned in our earlier conversation when it first happened,
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  you know, you're like, oh, man.
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  That sucks.
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  I'm like, there's three things that you do or that I'd like to do when things happen.
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  One, it is what it is.
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  I actually learned this from one of my mentorship classes, but one, it is what it is.
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  I mean, you can go back and change it.
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  You just gotta go forward.
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  Harvest the good.
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  Take whatever good you can from any situation.
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  Even in a bad situation, you can only always find a positive.
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  And then number three is, let go and let God.
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  So, I mean, I've been sticking to that, and that usually helps me because, old version of
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  Cody would have absolutely crashed out in that moment.
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  No red solo cup tonight.
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  No.
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  I, I actually landed a really nice job opportunity, getting into real estate.
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  So I got a lot of classes and courses to go through.
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  Oh, well, you're gonna do great at that.
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  And as soon as you've got that license, we'll be sharing it on the show and and getting the
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  word out there.
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  So, hey, if you're looking to sell a house in the next couple of months, you can get ahold of
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  coach Cody.
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  And Oh, yeah.
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  I'll treat you right.
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  Before we get too far into the rest of the show, we got a lot to get to, guys.
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  We're gonna do our since the Vikings are playing on Christmas Day, we're also gonna do
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  our pregame show tonight, and then we're gonna run this all as a replay on Christmas Day.
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  So if you're watching this on Christmas Day, a merry Christmas to you, and thanks for tuning
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  in.
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  We're gonna talk the good, the bad, and the ugly from the game on Sunday, and then we're
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  gonna jump into our pregame coverage here as well.
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  Alright, coach.
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  I don't know if, Eddie got play, but we're trying.
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  I, was in a little bit of a rush tonight getting everything ready.
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  So if something screws up, I'll take the l on that.
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  It's all good.
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  It doesn't doesn't bother me.
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  It's not the first time.
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  But, you know, it's, you know, part of life.
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  Right?
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  You know, the old me as well, coach, woulda just crashed out here, woulda got mad, throwing
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  some stuff, like cats in the background, going bananas.
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  She didn't get her allotment of attention today, so she's losing her crap back there.
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  It's, you know, it is what it is.
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  Oh, that's why that did that.
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  I see now.
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  I see what I did.
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  Here.
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  Let's try this again, coach.
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  Hey.
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  Alright.
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  We did it.
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  We made it through.
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  Yes, sir.
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  Yes, sir.
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  We got it.
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  Alright.
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  So let's get in the gooter, the eeler, and the yoder.
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  That's the good, the bad, and the ugly, and Vikings, Yiddish, or may I don't know.
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  I don't know what they spoke.
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  Some version of something Norwegian.
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  But this is our chance to kinda talk about what we liked from the game, what we didn't like,
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  and what was just atrocious.
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  A lot more of the latter than the former, with this game against the Giants.
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  Obviously, JJ McCarthy getting hurt there towards the end of that second quarter had a
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  lot to do with that coach.
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  But what did you like be before it before it turned ugly?
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  I mean I mean, the good, obviously, we're coming out with a win.
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  Kept kept that winning streak live three in a row.
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  Let's keep it going.
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  Two a quick turnaround here, but I like the fact that we were able to, work in Justin
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  Jefferson, try to get the ball to him early.
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  You know, just with a start like that and with the slow start that he has been having, it's
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  pivotal that you do get him the ball early in games like these, you know, where you're going
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  up against an opponent where it's, you know, the lower echelon, I guess.
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  It definitely seemed like KOC was watching the pregame show again because they were doing
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  everything that you had mentioned off the top.
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  Right?
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  The screens, you know, what however you could get him the ball, get the ball in his hands,
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  and just let him go make plays.
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  And and it's not like they were not doing that the rest of the year.
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  I'm sure there was points where they, you know, maybe forced it a little too hard, especially
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  in Dallas.
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  I I think you took some you know, you you threw some balls in there that you probably you
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  didn't need to.
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  You probably could've looked somewhere else.
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  But he's one of the best I mean, he's the best receiver in the league if you ask me.
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  Having watched him play in person a few times now, the amount of respect that he commands
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  from a defense, like, nobody's game planning for anything other than how do we stop Justin
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  Jefferson, and he can still make you pay during a game.
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  Mhmm.
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  Yeah.
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  No.
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  I and then KOC probably is watching this.
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  And, you know, with KOC, we've been giving you a lot of grief in early in the earlier
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  episodes, but you're coming around.
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  You know?
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  We're growing and learning with this.
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  You are doing the same, so kudos to you.
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  But, yeah, Jeff Jefferson.
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  You know, the different styles of play calls that, KOC was throwing out too with those,
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  like, kinda screen passes to, Josh Oliver coming out, and it just looked totally
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  different than what I've seen so far this year.
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  So that was actually really, really nice to see.
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  Other than that, I'd say the only other good is Byron Murphy got a pick.
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  He finally got a pick after going crazy last year, Couldn't find one.
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  Yeah.
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  You know, couldn't find water if he jumped out of a boat type of thing, and he finally got
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  one.
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  Granted, it was off a tip, but we'll take it.
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  Well and so last year, if I'm not mistaken, he was playing a lot more in the slot last year,
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  which with this defense, that puts you in a position to catch those batted balls to, you
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  know, get those tipped balls over the middle of the field and puts in a position for that.
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  It's a little bit harder on that outside to come up with a lot of those opportunistic
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  picks.
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  Right?
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  And like you said, this one coming off the hands of the big tight end as he was about to
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  get lit up by the linebacker there, got the alligator arms out a little bit.
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  And the ball pops up in the air, and he's Murphy's got good hands.
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  Right?
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  It's just he's not necessarily getting those opportunities this year playing, I don't wanna
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  say out of position, but in a much different position than he was last year playing in more
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  of that nickel cornerback position.
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  Yeah.
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  Well and then, you know, along with that, but, you know, when you have a year like that, it it
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  opens some eyes, and you're most likely not gonna get as much attention the next year or
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  even the next game, you know, because everyone's seeing that you're locking down that
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  side of the field.
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  So, I mean, you know, just playing out of position, less opportunities coming his way.
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  You know?
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  And sometimes when it's your year, it's your year.
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  Sometimes it's not.
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  So I you know, just it goes hand in hand.
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  But that would that would honestly, that's probably the only good that I would have with
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  that game.
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  Only good.
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  Yeah.
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  Well and you know what?
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  You got a quarter and a half of JJ McCarthy playing pretty well.
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  Right?
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  And then obviously throws the ball, slams his hand into the helmet.
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  That stuff happens to these quarterbacks all the time.
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  Now that's restarting the whole, you know, he's made a glass kind of thing.
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  I mean, this happens.
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  When you're playing at a high level and when you're a young player, you don't necessarily
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  know how to play.
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  I don't I don't wanna say safe, but playing a little bit differently to not put yourself in a
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  position to get hurt.
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  And I don't know, you know, and maybe that's a learned trait.
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  JJ does play with a little bit of reckless abandon out there, but maybe some of those
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  throws, you know, where you're coming and you know you're gonna hit your hand there, an older
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  player may throw it a little bit differently.
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  They may sling out their little sidearm action there instead of throwing in a way that your
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  follow through is going to take you right into that defensive lineman helmet like that.
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  It's unfortunate because I thought he was playing well, showing you some things with his
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  legs, you know, getting in there for the rushing touchdown.
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  And, you know, the pick six obviously got called back, but even that one, not really his
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  fault.
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  Neither one of the picks, I would say, were his fault.
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  I know the the pick six got called back, but your receiver's gotta catch the ball.
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  And I feel like we've been we can kinda transfer into the bad from here because Jordan
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  Nassau dropped a fucking dime off of his chest in the end zone again.
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  Like, what the hell, man?
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  Get your
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  back together.
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  Oh, and that's what I'm saying.
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  I bet I brought it up a couple weeks, maybe three weeks ago, but, you know, which I I asked
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  the question, which Addison are we gonna see?
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  Because we could see Addison the Addison that comes out and can damn near be that number two
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  wide receiver.
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  Or you see what we saw this past weekend where, you know, the quarterback our quarterbacks
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  finally can get you that ball down the field, and you're not even gonna it hits you right in
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  the chest when you're gonna drop it.
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  That's ridiculous.
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  That pick, like you mentioned, both those picks, I'm not putting that on McCarthy one
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  bit.
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  That screen, that screenplay that he ended up getting hurt on, screens are meant, They're
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  basically allowing the defense to get upfield quick.
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  So you can
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  Cody, that's not even the one that he got hurt on.
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  He hurt his hand earlier in the game.
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  So they showed a replay where he was following through on a throw earlier in the game and
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  actually smacks.
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  I think it was Roy Rob Roy Robertson Harris catches Roy Rob in the helmet.
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  And Okay.
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  Honestly, I'm gonna be real about that that strip sack that they called.
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  The ball was out before he got tackled.
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  If you see the rear end zone, the all 22 when you see it on the all 22 and you get that end
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  zone look at it, that ball's already out.
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  He was trying to dirt it, and I think he kinda lost control of the ball.
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  And and I think if it's Tom Brady doing that, that's an attempt to pass.
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  Yeah.
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  Right?
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  But because and then he gets lit up there, that ball's out, and they only showed that replay
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  one time.
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  They only showed it on one time coming back from the halftime, and I saw the one replay.
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  It was like, that ball's already out before he ever gets hit.
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  So it wasn't necessarily on that play, but then probably gets, you know what I mean, reinjured
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  out there, and they're going to or or they see it like, hey.
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  What happened on the play?
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  He's like, man, I can't grab the ball.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Or they're, you know, bitching at him.
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  Know?
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  Why didn't you hang out on the ball?
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  What are you doing?
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  And it's like, man, slipped out because I don't have that grip strength, and that's where they
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  start to do the testing.
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  You see him wince on the sideline there.
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  So yeah, man.
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  I and I think if that team's even between if those teams are contending, I think they take
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  another look at that play and because it was in the final two minutes of the half, then it gets
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  an extra look.
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  But I think because it's such an inconsequential game that nobody even cares to
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  watch the replay.
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  Right?
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  Like, nobody in New York gives a shit.
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  Look.
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  It doesn't it doesn't matter.
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  You're a low priority.
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  But to me, ball was out.
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  You can see it clear as day.
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  That ball is out, and I think it's related to the injury that he sustained earlier in the
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  game.
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  Yeah.
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  No.
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  That's, that's my bad.
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  Thank you for picking me up on that.
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  You had texted me about that when I was getting my tire up out of the ditch.
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  So I was still climbing up out of that valley, but, it was it was a trip, man.
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  Made me feel alive, though, you know, feeling all emotions.
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  But other than that, the bad I mean, just losing losing JJ going down like that, and now
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  out for this week, coming up against the Lions, it's you know, it leads you to question, do
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  you, you know, probably just shut him down?
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  You probably just shut him down.
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  Think he's coming back.
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  I I just especially if it's that hair a hairline fracture, there is no reason to go
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  back out there and risk it, especially because you've seen a little bit of growth.
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  I know a lot of people wanna see more, but there's a lot they're gonna be able to see in
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  this offseason because I don't think quarterback is your first move.
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  I know a lot of us fans are like, you gotta get somebody.
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  I think that's gonna be a pulling someone off the strike.
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  You don't know who's gonna get cut in training camp.
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  Right?
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  And I think it's gonna be more of that than you know, I don't think they're making a big splash
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  at quarterback with trading for a starter, a Matt Stafford or a Joe Burrow.
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  I don't think that's happening.
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  I think a percentage chance of that happen in the teens, maybe, in the high teens.
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  Right?
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  Like, a 18% chance maybe of something happened because the offer that you would make would be
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  too sweet.
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  Right?
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  If Burrow's available for two firsts and two seconds, now I'm talking.
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  But three first rounders, I I don't think you're bringing I don't think you're bringing
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  the Vikings to the table, mortgaging your entire future in that way.
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  But, yeah, losing JJ sucks, man.
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  Well and even even two first rounders and two seconds because he can package those two
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  seconds into a a third first.
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  So I with his he's a good quarterback.
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  I would love to have him on our team.
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  All this talking about him coming possibly coming to the Vikings or, you know, to all the
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  different scenarios that would bring him here.
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  I just He can hurt
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  just as much if not more than JJ McCarthy has, though.
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  Yep.
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  Yep.
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  So, I mean, if the draft capital is just that's too much for me.
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  You know?
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  And as much as I wanna go for an offensive lineman, I'd go for Jeremiah Love.
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  Just just saying, KOC, if you're listen, listening, Quasi, Jeremiah Love.
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  But, you know, I think you think you gotta shut down JJ McCarthy, and that you already shut
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  down, Dar es Sal.
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  Then it brings in the question, how long are you gonna keep Jefferson out there?
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  Now he's so close.
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  He's got, 27 yards to go to break Randy Moss's record for most yards, by a receiver in his
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  first six seasons.
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  I think if it was I think if these were wow.
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  Detroit plays inside, but I've I've and both of these games are at US Bank Stadium.
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  I think if you were playing away on week 17, right, if you were playing in Lambo and he
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  already had the record, so say, like, he gets the yards this week and they were playing
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  outdoors in Lambo, I'd say they might shut him down.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Or maybe on a pitch count or something, you just don't risk it.
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  But both of them being at home indoors Yep.
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  You feel like it minimizes some of the risk, I guess.
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  It's it's if he gets it this week, it'll be interesting to see what they do.
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  Obviously, he's playing on Christmas day, but it'll be really interesting to see if, like,
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  the thousand yard season, these records that he's chasing down, if those are done, it'll be
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  interesting to see what happens in that last game of the season.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Of course, he he you know, just because the Vikings are playing on Christmas Day, even if
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  we were, you know, winless, they would still and shut down most offense, say, bring them
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  back out just because Chris missed and Jefferson.
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  So that makes sense.
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  But the ugly just the whole the whole game in general, I thought was just ugly.
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  You know, reps didn't help us out, know, with a couple calls you had mentioned.
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  I had missed that one.
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  What do you wanna explain that call?
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  Which one was that?
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  Think it was it the roughing the pad?
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  No.
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  Roughing the
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  one There was a roughing the passer I didn't agree with at all.
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  Eric Wilson, I'm pretty sure, is who they called it on.
• 24:24
  He came in, and, I mean, it was a little bit delayed.
• 24:30
  Jackson Dart's moving around back there.
• 24:32
  I mean, what are you supposed to do?
• 24:34
  What are you supposed to do when you're playing this fast?
• 24:37
  And it it was it totally changed the game because they ended up getting three points on
• 24:41
  that drive to tie it.
• 24:42
  Now we came back down and we're able to kick another field goal to take the lead for good.
• 24:47
  But it was a 15 yard penalty when they were at about midfield.
• 24:51
  It was on third down, so it was a sack to force it to fourth down.
• 24:56
  I mean, it wasn't malicious.
• 24:58
  It wasn't like it just I I don't know.
• 25:02
  I don't know.
• 25:03
  We talked about it pregame about exact like, you're taught to wrap them up.
• 25:07
  It you've I just don't know.
• 25:10
  And I get it.
• 25:12
  Inconsequential game, if are they going by the letter of the rule?
• 25:16
  Yes.
• 25:17
  The rule sucks.
• 25:19
  Like and that's kinda where I'm at is that, like, the rule as it is written and as it's
• 25:24
  called out here, it is just awful.
• 25:27
  Absolutely awful.
• 25:28
  I can't stand it because it changes it changes games.
• 25:31
  And had this game been of some consequence, it it has ramifications.
• 25:38
  Right?
• 25:39
  And, I just I don't agree with that.
• 25:41
  I don't he didn't hit him.
• 25:42
  I think they called it helmet to helmet.
• 25:46
  It but what are you supposed to do?
• 25:49
  Like, that's my thing.
• 25:50
  Like, you can't help if this giant thing on your head grazes a piece of the other giant
• 25:56
  thing on someone else's head.
• 25:58
  Right?
• 25:58
  It wasn't him leaning in with the head and smashing into his face.
• 26:02
  The very tip of his helmet happens to catch the face mask.
• 26:06
  What are you gonna do?
• 26:08
  What like, I just don't understand.
• 26:11
  I mean and that and that's why these players are professional players playing at the highest
• 26:17
  level because, you know, even even with all these rule changes and everything, they can
• 26:24
  still come out and perform and adjust to these rule changes and perform at a high level.
• 26:30
  And, I mean, it's it's getting bad.
• 26:33
  It's they're probably you know, they already got flag football in as an Olympic sport.
• 26:38
  I could see them trying to take out football all in general just because of how vicious it
• 26:46
  is, but that's the game.
• 26:48
  People gotta get used to it.
• 26:52
  I just don't know what you're supposed to do in, in that situation as a defensive player
• 26:57
  because Wilson had like, it was a little bit of a delayed blitz to begin with, and he kinda
• 27:03
  comes free as as darts moving around in the pocket.
• 27:06
  And he had a good four, five step run.
• 27:09
  I mean, he is moving full speed at this point.
• 27:11
  What what is he supposed to do differently?
• 27:14
  I don't understand.
• 27:15
  I, like, I just don't understand.
• 27:17
  So you either do you just let him go?
• 27:19
  Do you not touch him at all?
• 27:21
  Do you can you jump?
• 27:23
  And that's like basically where the game is going coming down
• 27:25
  the what you're supposed to do.
• 27:27
  Like, I I it just it's crazy to me.
• 27:29
  It's so crazy to me.
• 27:31
  And, I mean, it is what it is.
• 27:33
  The rules are what they are.
• 27:34
  They're not changing.
• 27:35
  I do agree with a lot of them and saving these quarterbacks.
• 27:39
  I'm not saying that the rule needs to be changed, but there needs to be I I don't know.
• 27:44
  I don't know what you do about it.
• 27:45
  It it's atrocious what you're doing because of ultimately ultimately, what it comes down to is
• 27:50
  that you're stealing money from these players as well because Dallas Turner would have had,
• 27:56
  like, three extra sacks this year if not for roughing the pass at least.
• 28:00
  I think he's got called for three or four, and and we could probably check the stats.
• 28:04
  And if Big b were here and a shout out to our cohost, Big b wasn't feeling well, and he's
• 28:08
  gotta work at 6AM tomorrow on Christmas Eve.
• 28:11
  So I wasn't able to join us tonight.
• 28:13
  He said I'm popping some sleep meds and passing out.
• 28:16
  So I was like,
• 28:16
  buddy, you do what
• 28:18
  you gotta do.
• 28:19
  But it it's it's stealing money from these young players.
• 28:22
  Right?
• 28:22
  From these young men who only have a limited amount of time in the league to make that
• 28:26
  money.
• 28:27
  The difference between three sacks or and six sacks when it comes down to contract time is
• 28:34
  pretty freaking big.
• 28:35
  Right?
• 28:35
  So Mhmm.
• 28:37
  I I just I don't know.
• 28:40
  I I feel for them.
• 28:41
  As players, I feel for them.
• 28:42
  Like and I someone who didn't even really, like, play the game at any kind of level,
• 28:46
  right, to to I just don't know how you're gonna go full speed and all you're gonna make a split
• 28:51
  second decision that if he gets away from you and he goes and hits a big pass, everybody's
• 28:56
  looking at you and going, you fucking suck.
• 29:00
  You know?
• 29:00
  Like, the the double standard No.
• 29:02
  Frustrating.
• 29:04
  No.
• 29:04
  That and that's exactly it.
• 29:06
  And that, you know, and that goes you know, there's so many decisions that you have to make
• 29:11
  in a split second.
• 29:13
  And, you know, your reaction time.
• 29:15
  You know, if that quarterback dips his head a little bit or twitches, moves a little bit, and
• 29:20
  you don't match that, you're gonna get fined.
• 29:24
  And, you know, I mean, we're you know, it's no secret.
• 29:28
  Everybody's out to try to get you somehow.
• 29:31
  Some way, anytime they can get you, they're gonna get you.
• 29:34
  You know, it it's not a they're like, yeah.
• 29:37
  These NFL contracts are getting bigger and bigger, but the fines are getting bigger and
• 29:41
  bigger.
• 29:42
  They're finding every possible way to slap them things on.
• 29:46
  Oh, they got Puka Nakua for rubbing his hands together.
• 29:49
  Fined him $25.
• 29:53
  I I know.
• 29:54
  I just There's gonna be there's there's gonna be something for everything.
• 30:01
  Everybody's gonna try to find something.
• 30:04
  Now I'm not I can't speak on that because, like, I heard about it, but I don't know all
• 30:09
  too much about whatever.
• 30:11
  But, I mean, that's just ridiculous.
• 30:14
  He was not he's not trying to do anything.
• 30:17
  We're just ball players.
• 30:18
  You know?
• 30:19
  He is the moment, showing emotion.
• 30:21
  And Yeah. It is
• 30:21
  It is what
• 30:22
  it is.
• 30:22
  He was told to do it by by another podcaster who he was on with, and and I got the whole
• 30:29
  backstory, another podcast that I listened to.
• 30:31
  Shout out to Andy Frisella, the Real AF podcast.
• 30:34
  They went pretty in-depth on it.
• 30:35
  But I it just it goes to show you, man.
• 30:38
  This league is just unreal.
• 30:40
  Unreal with their rules and everything that you're trying to do and to play at this high of
• 30:44
  a level.
• 30:45
  And you know what?
• 30:46
  Honestly, it's only a matter of time before the talent starts to leave it.
• 30:51
  Right?
• 30:52
  Before somebody else with a whole big boatload of money goes, you know what?
• 30:56
  We're gonna make a rival league.
• 30:57
  And I know some people have tried, but there's only so long that people are going to continue
• 31:03
  to support this kind of crap.
• 31:06
  And and if it ever does happen to the NFL, then they had it coming.
• 31:11
  Yeah.
• 31:11
  No.
• 31:12
  I you know, you make your bed, you can lay in it type of thing.
• 31:16
  I I agree with that 100%.
• 31:17
  You know, a a $100,000,000,000 trillion dollar, you know, franchise that is the NFL.
• 31:24
  So it ain't happening anytime soon, but you you never know, man.
• 31:27
  It's only a matter of time before people just start tuning out.
• 31:31
  I mean, you've seen what it takes for an NFL fan base to tune out with this Vikings team.
• 31:35
  Right?
• 31:36
  And the wolfs kind of hemorrhaging money that they could have made just because the team's no
• 31:40
  longer gonna make the playoffs.
• 31:42
  Right?
• 31:42
  Like, you they're doing whatever they can to sell tickets at this point to fill up their
• 31:47
  stadium just because the team was no longer in a playoff hunt.
• 31:51
  So, you know, I I don't know how teams like a, you know, the Dolphins even, you know, stay in
• 31:58
  the league without the the money share.
• 32:00
  Right?
• 32:01
  Yeah.
• 32:02
  It's kind of keeping the bad teams afloat.
• 32:05
  Yeah.
• 32:06
  The wolves, I mean, you you you get used to, you know, playoff seasons, successful seasons,
• 32:13
  10 plus win seasons.
• 32:15
  And, you know, those home games, you're racking in money, you're able to charge top dollar,
• 32:22
  because you, you know, you have superstars like Jefferson.
• 32:25
  You're having a good team, good record, you know, it's exciting football.
• 32:30
  And then, you know, maybe a playoff game that's just added revenue, exposure to your brand
• 32:38
  throughout the year.
• 32:39
  And then when it all turns, for the worst, you know, to us, it might not seem like a lot of
• 32:47
  money, but they're losing a lot of money right now.
• 32:51
  That's and then, you know, it is what it is, but I think it's a good decent gesture by the
• 32:57
  wealths, you know, cutting prices to the tickets like they have been, you know, making
• 33:02
  it possible for people to, know, experience a Vikings game that they might not have had the
• 33:09
  chance to do.
• 33:11
  Yeah.
• 33:12
  Any anything else you wanna cover on this game, before we move on to our pregame section?
• 33:18
  We
• 33:19
  got out of there.
• 33:20
  We got lucky.
• 33:22
  That's it.
• 33:22
  Even an ugly win is a win, coach.
• 33:25
  And this team still has a chance to win double digit games.
• 33:28
  Like, if you would have said that four weeks ago.
• 33:31
  Right?
• 33:32
  Like, what?
• 33:33
  Yeah.
• 33:34
  It didn't look it didn't look good.
• 33:35
  It didn't look good.
• 33:37
  You know?
• 33:37
  And we were able to you know, the Giants and the Washington Redskins, they're there's, you
• 33:43
  know, all respect to them, but they're lower, you know, in the standings.
• 33:49
  But we had to win that game, and we had to find any way possible to win that game.
• 33:55
  So we did.
• 33:57
  That's that's huge.
• 33:59
  That is all that matters.
• 34:02
  Hey.
• 34:02
  Appreciate you, Paul.
• 34:04
  That's my buddy Paul Schlothauge.
• 34:05
  He's helped us out with, some editing.
• 34:07
  What up, Paul?
• 34:08
  I I know he's gonna be helping us out as as this show continues to grow and move on.
• 34:13
  So a merry Christmas to you as well, Paul.
• 34:15
  Thanks for tuning in.
• 34:17
  We're gonna roll a a little bit here.
• 34:19
  We're gonna get started on our pregame show.
• 34:22
  So, pull it back here, give myself a little bit of a break.
• 34:26
  I need to reset.
• 34:27
  I need to let this Giants game go and get in the mode to start talking about this game
• 34:32
  coming up on Christmas day.
• 34:34
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  Alright.
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  And welcome back now moving into our pregame coverage.
• 38:44
  Christmas day, Vikings, Lions at US Bank Stadium, fired up for this one.
• 38:51
  Like, you know, you still wanna win.
• 38:54
  I think a lot of people looking at the way winning this game can affect the schedule for
• 39:00
  next year or it can affect draft stock.
• 39:02
  I don't know the draft is as much of a thing as, beating the lions can definitely affect the
• 39:08
  way that the schedule looks, at least right now looking at, you know, the third and fourth
• 39:13
  place, the difference between the third and fourth place schedule.
• 39:16
  So a lot on the line here.
• 39:18
  I think, there's a definitely a contingent of the fan base that, is kind of hoping that the
• 39:25
  game isn't awful, but you don't come out victorious.
• 39:29
  I am not of the I don't have it in me to root for a team to lose.
• 39:34
  Right?
• 39:34
  Like, I don't wanna watch my team lose ever.
• 39:37
  Coach, can you talk about from a locker room and culture standpoint of, like, culture is
• 39:43
  everything, and that's what you're trying to build here.
• 39:46
  You don't ever want it in the locker room that these guys are thinking about, you know, what
• 39:52
  this has for next year.
• 39:54
  Right?
• 39:56
  No.
• 39:56
  Not at all.
• 39:58
  You know, it it's inevitable that people are going to anyway, so you just try to minimize
• 40:04
  it, and try to make it as less of a distraction.
• 40:09
  I am in the same boat kinda sorta.
• 40:13
  You know?
• 40:14
  As as a coach, I you know, I'm going for the dub.
• 40:17
  I'm going for the win a 100%, as a fan and a you know, if I'm thinking about it from a, you
• 40:27
  know, like, a higher top management spot, Wilkes and, Quasi, You know, you the the the
• 40:38
  Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers are still in the hunt for the playoffs.
• 40:45
  I just as a Viking fan, you know, do you lose the game?
• 40:50
  Do you rest your starters?
• 40:51
  Like, you're already planning on resting Justin Jefferson or JJ McCarthy.
• 40:56
  You know, you're resting some of the offensive line.
• 40:59
  Do you shut it down and see what you have depth wise to help you make decisions for the off
• 41:07
  season and making cuts?
• 41:10
  You know?
• 41:10
  And if you win, you're just helping out the packers, and that's just something as a fan I
• 41:15
  can't get behind one bit.
• 41:20
  I feel you there.
• 41:21
  Yeah, man.
• 41:22
  That was the easy part about transitioning from rooting for one NFC North team for most of my
• 41:29
  life to donning the purple and gold or the purple and white now.
• 41:34
  And it's gonna be the Whiteout game on Christmas Day, which I was at we were at the
• 41:38
  Whiteout game last year on Monday night football, and what a fucking experience, man.
• 41:44
  It was so incredible.
• 41:46
  Everybody dressed up.
• 41:48
  Obviously, we've had Sir Picasso on several times now.
• 41:50
  He's also Darth Viking.
• 41:53
  And so to see him in the all white Vader and everybody dressed up, it's just so cool, man.
• 41:59
  What a great look.
• 42:00
  So gonna be a ton of fun out there regardless.
• 42:04
  I think it makes it hurt, like, a little bit less.
• 42:06
  And now that JJ is not playing, and and no offense to Max Broesper, I mean, he's an
• 42:12
  undrafted rookie for a reason.
• 42:14
  The expectations aren't very high for him.
• 42:17
  Detroit just lost that crazy game at home against the Steelers.
• 42:22
  That final play was totally fucking open.
• 42:25
  I've never seen anything like that.
• 42:27
  It was, yeah.
• 42:29
  My wife said it was awesome.
• 42:30
  It was an incredible, experience.
• 42:33
  And, yeah, I can't talk enough good things.
• 42:36
  Kind of unfortunate this year that it was on, Christmas Day because that poses so many
• 42:40
  challenges for a lot of families, right, to get there.
• 42:44
  And that
• 42:44
  team just kind of out of it.
• 42:45
  I know a lot of our VWO friends, actually did some giveaways with their tickets, and got some
• 42:52
  single parents out there into the seats.
• 42:54
  So that's really cool.
• 42:55
  Shout out to sir Death and and a lot of our other VWO crew that that did that and got some
• 43:02
  really great seats in one forty out to some incredibly deserving parents out there.
• 43:09
  But, I mean, this Detroit team, this is a must win game for them to even stay in the hunt yet.
• 43:13
  They're not in a playoff spot right now.
• 43:15
  They have to win.
• 43:17
  And we have a chance to really kind of end their season for a team that, you know, we
• 43:26
  kinda owe one to a little bit.
• 43:30
  Yeah.
• 43:31
  I mean, it it's it's tough because it's you know, who whose season do you wanna end, you
• 43:37
  know, when it comes down to it?
• 43:38
  If we if we lose this one and we help out the the lions, you know, it's also helping out our
• 43:45
  draft position, which I know a bunch of fans have been eyeing up since probably week five,
• 43:51
  week six.
• 43:54
  But, you know, this this Lions team both the Lions and the Packers need to win out, and
• 44:01
  they, you know, both obviously need help, the other team losing.
• 44:07
  I I feel like even with Brozmer.
• 44:10
  Brozmer, he kinda opened up my eyes, last week coming in relief.
• 44:15
  You know, the game wasn't won.
• 44:17
  We'd still had to he still had to lead the team down there.
• 44:20
  It comes in for Justin or for JJ McCarthy, and for his drive has a third and 10 and is able to
• 44:30
  hit Jefferson for 11 yards.
• 44:33
  Was able to, you know, pass make throws down the field and get it to the you know, not only
• 44:39
  make throws down the field, but get it to Jefferson.
• 44:42
  And that's what you need to do in big moments like that.
• 44:45
  I know third down, you know, long down in distance, when you need to play, get it to the
• 44:51
  playmaker, and that's what he was able to do.
• 44:53
  He showed a little bit of, you know, promise.
• 44:56
  And so I just hope it's not anything like the Seattle game.
• 45:01
  That's all I want.
• 45:02
  I win would be nice.
• 45:05
  Let's get four in a row, but just look better than you did your first start.
• 45:12
  You know?
• 45:12
  Yeah.
• 45:13
  You're an undrafted rookie.
• 45:15
  You know, not a lot of expectation because of, you know, not being drafted, but, you know,
• 45:23
  just show us a night and day difference between your first start and your second start, not
• 45:30
  only for us and the team, but for, himself.
• 45:34
  If he wants to stay on this team, any and be relevant at all, even as a backup or a third
• 45:40
  strike.
• 45:45
  Yeah.
• 45:46
  Well and the team looks a lot different now.
• 45:48
  Right?
• 45:48
  Your play caller, is going to treat this game a lot differently than he did.
• 45:52
  I I think, KOC kinda had his come to Jesus moment.
• 45:57
  You know, no pun intended here at Christmas time.
• 46:01
  But he had it after that Seattle game, right, where it made it quite evident that, like, hey,
• 46:08
  buddy.
• 46:09
  Look.
• 46:09
  Regardless of who's been in a quarterback, you've kinda sucked.
• 46:12
  You know?
• 46:13
  And so I I think the team looks different.
• 46:17
  We have, you know, all your number one fans in the building.
• 46:21
  What up, girl?
• 46:22
  Thanks, man.
• 46:22
  What up?
• 46:23
  That's cool.
• 46:23
  Appreciate you.
• 46:25
  We have you know, it's gonna be a little bit different look.
• 46:30
  And this Detroit team, they're I mean, they're banged up too.
• 46:33
  We're gonna get into that in in our keys to the game, but they need this one.
• 46:37
  And I feel like they're gonna be, maybe a little bit more motivated, because they don't
• 46:43
  wanna go from first to worst.
• 46:46
  Right?
• 46:46
  A lot of teams kinda make that out of the bears this year in the NFC North have gone from, you
• 46:50
  know, the fourth place team to potentially clinching the division, I think, with a win
• 46:55
  this week.
• 46:56
  So you don't wanna go the opposite way.
• 47:00
  And I think a lot of people are stunned by what the Vikings have done here the last they looked
• 47:04
  like we were gonna be the basement dwellers regardless, especially after, you know, week
• 47:09
  eight, week nine, and how things were were trending.
• 47:13
  And now you find yourself in a position where, you know, the big difference right now isn't
• 47:19
  draft position necessarily.
• 47:21
  It is definitely in the scheduling for next year playing the fourth place teams out of in
• 47:27
  your out of conference games or playing the third place teams.
• 47:31
  And and the teams that you're looking because we already know, you know, what teams that will
• 47:36
  be in those positions and how things are shaking out is, you know, a a difference
• 47:40
  between playing some really bad, traditionally bad football teams or playing some, you know,
• 47:47
  teams that are traditionally good but just maybe had a bad year.
• 47:51
  Right?
• 47:52
  The NFC West, I think, is one of, you know, one of its conferences next year and, or, you know,
• 47:58
  out of division games in conference that you could be playing a third place San Francisco
• 48:05
  49ers team or playing the Arizona Cardinals.
• 48:09
  Right?
• 48:09
  And I think that was kinda that's one of the big ones to kinda circle right at this moment,
• 48:15
  but you don't know what those teams are going to be from year to year either injuries and
• 48:21
  when you play them in the season.
• 48:22
  So I don't like to put a lot of stock in that.
• 48:25
  I think you still have so much to show with the culture of your team.
• 48:30
  Now is it going to maybe sting a little less if this or, you know, this game goes kind of, you
• 48:35
  know, into the fourth quarter?
• 48:36
  It's been close, and then maybe Detroit pulls away, wins by a a touchdown or, you know,
• 48:42
  between, you know, five to 10 points, right, where it didn't feel like a blowout.
• 48:46
  They pulled it away at the end.
• 48:48
  Does it then, like, sting a little bit less?
• 48:50
  I think that's okay.
• 48:52
  Right?
• 48:52
  But I don't wanna watch this team just go out and lay down and get the brakes beat off them
• 48:56
  on Christmas day.
• 48:57
  That's not how I wanna spend my Christmas,
• 48:59
  to be perfectly honest.
• 49:01
  Yeah.
• 49:02
  No.
• 49:02
  Definitely definitely not lay down.
• 49:05
  I think, you know, you made up the good point.
• 49:07
  Just going out there even if, you know, we're losing by, like you said, a touchdown, a field
• 49:12
  goal, whatever it may be, just one score game, but just make it enjoyable.
• 49:17
  Make it entertaining.
• 49:19
  Just make it a game, especially for Christmas.
• 49:23
  We can't Seattle thing.
• 49:25
  Especially on Christmas, it's gonna we're gonna be, like, laughing stock.
• 49:29
  Oh, yeah.
• 49:30
  We've done that enough already this year.
• 49:31
  Like, we Yeah.
• 49:32
  We've had enough of that.
• 49:34
  Alright, coach.
• 49:35
  Let's get into the keys to the game.
• 49:37
  You sent them to me a few hours ago.
• 49:38
  I managed to get the graphics done.
• 49:42
  Every week, coach Cody gives me three keys that he thinks are gonna be keys to the Vikings
• 49:47
  winning even if we don't really want that to happen.
• 49:50
  We're still gonna pretend that we're trying to win every game.
• 49:53
  So exploited Detroit's injured and then secondary, just looking at their injury report
• 49:59
  for this week, it is long.
• 50:02
  Ours isn't great either, just to be perfectly honest.
• 50:04
  Slow down the lions run game, which with that two headed monster back there, is gonna be
• 50:09
  tough.
• 50:10
  And make golf one dimensional as we kinda saw if you were watching that Steelers Detroit
• 50:16
  game.
• 50:17
  This this offense looks a lot different than last year.
• 50:20
  So and then playing smart and disciplined football against the Dan Campbell chaos, which
• 50:26
  there's still no lack of that.
• 50:28
  That is very much the same this year as last, but let's talk about this Detroit secondary.
• 50:35
  I'm gonna let you go ahead and talk a little bit.
• 50:37
  I'm actually gonna bring up their the injury reports while you're doing that.
• 50:41
  Yeah.
• 50:41
  Yeah.
• 50:41
  I do think.
• 50:44
  I mean, Detroit, first of all, just that game I I just wanna comment real quick.
• 50:51
  That game against the Steelers, that would that ending was crazy, absolutely crazy.
• 50:58
  They are like I said, they're still in the hunt for the playoffs.
• 51:02
  After a game like that, they're gonna be hungry hungry for a win.
• 51:07
  So we gotta be on our toes.
• 51:09
  But regardless, this this Detroit team, they're hurt.
• 51:14
  They are hurt.
• 51:15
  No.
• 51:17
  No.
• 51:17
  This is no joke.
• 51:18
  These guys, you know, they lost LaPora, they're tight end.
• 51:26
  They've been losing people left and right on the offensive line.
• 51:29
  Two, they had to bring back, old veteran Dan Skipper.
• 51:34
  Shout out to him.
• 51:36
  Let's see.
• 51:37
  Their secondary has been taking a huge hit.
• 51:40
  Yeah.
• 51:41
  They have playmakers like Aidan Hutchinson, Ann Zaloney, but, their back end, their corners and
• 51:48
  safeties are just they're dropping like flies quicker than they can get them in the building,
• 51:53
  it seems like.
• 51:55
  And because and especially at the safety position.
• 51:58
  And because of that, they've been given up a ton of explosive plays, a ton of a ton of them.
• 52:06
  When the safeties I don't know why the Detroit lines have done this, but and not made an
• 52:13
  adjustment.
• 52:14
  But when I'm telling you right now, look forward in the game.
• 52:17
  When the safeties deep and just too too high deep safeties, if we don't run the ball, I'm
• 52:24
  gonna be extremely upset.
• 52:26
  Like, there's a weakness right there.
• 52:30
  But with with that, those injuries, you know, lining up, in the back or with the cornerbacks
• 52:37
  and DBs, I mean, there's no reason why our wide receivers can't do any any type of damage
• 52:44
  whatsoever as long as Brosmer can get them the ball.
• 52:49
  They actually lost another one.
• 52:51
  I don't know if he is still on the injured or or, like, the injury list, but, safety, Avante
• 52:58
  Maddox, he ended up actually getting pulled mid game, mid play.
• 53:03
  They had stopped the game and bring him into the blue tent, probably for a concussion.
• 53:07
  So that's just not
• 53:08
  He was listed as a cornerback, but he did not participate in Monday or Tuesday's practice.
• 53:13
  So Yeah.
• 53:14
  Okay.
• 53:14
  Yeah.
• 53:14
  He's trending in the wrong direction.
• 53:16
  Another surprise on there, and it's just due to illness, but, David Montgomery didn't
• 53:21
  participate in practice today either.
• 53:23
  So if he's still a little under the weather depending on what it is, you know, the flu can
• 53:29
  kind of keep a guy out.
• 53:31
  But even if it doesn't keep him out of the game, could be something that, you know, limits
• 53:36
  his usage at least.
• 53:38
  And he's a big part of that rushing attack.
• 53:41
  Mhmm.
• 53:41
  Yeah.
• 53:42
  No.
• 53:42
  Absolutely.
• 53:44
  And Spoken Jar here.
• 53:45
  He's, he's part of the, NFC North, trash talk cave, another tech
• 53:51
  Yeah.
• 53:52
  Yeah.
• 53:52
  You take care.
• 53:53
  Send me send me a message on Facebook.
• 53:56
  If you got me over there, send me a message.
• 53:59
  I'll send you the link, man.
• 54:00
  Shoot me shoot me a DM.
• 54:01
  And if you wanna come on for a few minutes and share, towards the end of the show, we'd love
• 54:05
  to have you, man.
• 54:07
  They that was cray the run game, the Steelers were getting messed up.
• 54:11
  And a lot of it was because they were able to get to that second and third level of the defa
• 54:15
  and there was just nobody back there to to stop them.
• 54:18
  Right?
• 54:18
  That that Steelers' rushing attack really took advantage.
• 54:22
  And it seemed like towards the end of the game, and that must have been after Maddox got pulled
• 54:25
  out, and you're putting people back there, you know, with a little bit less experience because
• 54:31
  and coach, you know this as a defensive back coach.
• 54:34
  It only takes one wrong step there at a safety position.
• 54:38
  If you get sucked a little too far inside and you're that last line of defense, like so these
• 54:43
  these NFL running backs, man, they're gone.
• 54:45
  So it's not just in the pass game that it can be an issue.
• 54:49
  It can be in that run game as well and maybe missing a bit in that run game because you have
• 54:54
  a little bit less experience back there.
• 54:57
  Yeah.
• 54:58
  Yeah.
• 54:58
  No.
• 54:59
  You know, if we can foresee safeties into making tough decisions, it's gonna be I feel
• 55:05
  like it's gonna be a tough one.
• 55:09
  I want I I they do have one corner that's up and coming.
• 55:15
  Number 23, I I think it's Rock Yassine.
• 55:19
  But he he's been a like, one of the only bright spots, playing you know, coming in to you know,
• 55:27
  and being that next man up.
• 55:29
  He's been making plays.
• 55:31
  So they have some people, you know, coming in for depth and actually providing depth.
• 55:39
  So, as long as we, I guess, take calculated shots, I I don't think we're gonna take many
• 55:48
  with Brosemer, but who knows?
• 55:50
  We we gotta keep on guessing a little bit.
• 55:53
  So maybe one or two.
• 55:54
  Brosemer doesn't have a good arm.
• 55:57
  Right?
• 55:57
  You saw him throw that deep out to Jefferson.
• 56:00
  You you don't make that throw without an NFL arm talent.
• 56:04
  Now I I think it's a lot of other things.
• 56:06
  I don't think he's as good of an athlete as a JJ McCarthy.
• 56:09
  He's he's not as big.
• 56:11
  He's not, you know, just, like, in stature.
• 56:14
  Right?
• 56:14
  But he's got an NFL caliber arm.
• 56:16
  So I wouldn't be surprised if they try to take advantage of that a little bit and to try to
• 56:21
  hit some of these deep shots early and, yeah, get out there.
• 56:26
  And I know you know what?
• 56:27
  I was just looking at the injury report for the Vikings too, and it's it's long.
• 56:32
  So Hawkinson with the shoulder did not participate in Monday or Tuesday's practice.
• 56:37
  Ryan Kelly, I'm a assume he's out concussion, did not participate Monday or Tuesday.
• 56:42
  Jordan Mason did not participate in Monday or Tuesday's practice, and, obviously, we talked
• 56:46
  about McCarthy already being ruled out.
• 56:49
  Ryan O'Neil limited Tuesday.
• 56:51
  Aaron Jones limited both Monday and Tuesday.
• 56:55
  And Ty Chandler, unfortunately, went on the injured list, but he was a full participant
• 57:00
  both Monday and Tuesday.
• 57:02
  So, I mean, you're probably gonna see quite a bit of Ty Chandler, I would assume, and maybe
• 57:07
  some tricky things back there to get maybe some of these speedy wide receivers, a nailer.
• 57:12
  And I I know we got Ty Fulton back there.
• 57:14
  Maybe you're seeing a little bit more of that.
• 57:16
  I'm taking some pages out of Dan Campbell's book and throwing some of the trick plays.
• 57:20
  Hey.
• 57:21
  Maybe we'll see the flea flicker this week.
• 57:25
  Beal made his Christmas wish.
• 57:28
  At least it's at least one thing come true.
• 57:30
  We can hope for that.
• 57:32
  That's for sure.
• 57:33
  Awesome, man.
• 57:35
  Well, I think we covered the secondary, pretty good here.
• 57:37
  Let's move on to key two.
• 57:41
  Slowing down the run game.
• 57:43
  Make off one dimensional.
• 57:46
  And now this is tricky.
• 57:49
  They they have an explosive offense.
• 57:53
  You know, Aman Ross, St.
• 57:54
  Brown, Jameson Williams, you know, as a wide receivers.
• 57:58
  They got this young guy, Isaac Tesla, and it seems like this dude, all he does is catch
• 58:03
  touchdowns.
• 58:04
  So, you know, even with La Porta out, they have, the weapons on the outside.
• 58:11
  Montgomery and Gibbs, like you mentioned, if Montgomery doesn't play, that helps us out a
• 58:17
  lot, but you still gotta stop Gibbs, and that is a very tough thing to do.
• 58:22
  You cannot you can't it's almost you can't stop and you just try to contain them.
• 58:27
  And so, you know, with Detroit having a loaded offense, if you they love their running game.
• 58:36
  With two running backs like that, you know, you're gonna lean off of it, and then that's
• 58:41
  when Ahmad Ross St.
• 58:43
  Brown makes his money.
• 58:46
  If we can get if we can stop their running game, limit the limit the damage that these two
• 58:51
  star running backs can do and make Goff throw yeah.
• 58:56
  Goff is a veteran quarterback, you know, above average.
• 59:01
  Anybody would like to have him.
• 59:03
  He isn't he isn't fast or mobile at all.
• 59:09
  He's just gonna stand there like Brady.
• 59:11
  That's why you always take the under on his rushing yards.
• 59:16
  But
• 59:17
  Yeah.
• 59:18
  Even if it's zero, take the hammer the under.
• 59:21
  Even if it's zero, take the under.
• 59:24
  But, yeah, if if the Viking the Vikings must take away the run early, force Gough to beat
• 59:29
  them consistently through the air with injuries along deep the Detroit offensive line, La Porta
• 59:35
  out, this is a moment to attack them.
• 59:38
  If you can get pressure in the middle, you know, big boys, Allen and Hargrave, you gotta
• 59:46
  show up today because if you get pressure in the middle, he's not gonna be able to beat you
• 59:50
  on the outside and escape.
• 59:52
  So this could be a big big, big, opportunity for the defense and for Flores.
• 59:58
  Right.
• 59:58
  And Hargrave limited participant in, in the last two practices as well.
• 1:00:04
  Jer, I see you backstage.
• 1:00:05
  We're gonna get through the rest of our keys, and then we'll bring you in, man.
• 1:00:08
  Appreciate you tapping in with us tonight.
• 1:00:10
  Looking forward to talking with you and getting to bring you onto the show.
• 1:00:14
  Yeah.
• 1:00:14
  I mean, you you said it.
• 1:00:16
  Montgomery, even if he plays, if he's been sick all week, that is going to be a that's gonna be
• 1:00:24
  something to watch.
• 1:00:25
  Right?
• 1:00:26
  Because he's going to be a little bit hobbled regardless.
• 1:00:29
  So we'll kinda wait and see what what becomes of that.
• 1:00:34
  But
• 1:00:36
  Basically there's
• 1:00:37
  no telling.
• 1:00:38
  If we, you know, win stop the run, win on early downs, and get Detroit behind schedule, for
• 1:00:46
  their play calls, make it harder for Dan Campbell to empty the playbook to dig in his
• 1:00:52
  bag and, you know, pull out some tricks and hit us with it.
• 1:00:57
  Well and it plays into this Vikings team and what they do well.
• 1:01:01
  When you're able to stop that run and you can get the, you know, Dallas Turner and Van Ginkle
• 1:01:08
  and, you know, this defense coming with the pressure and getting after a not mobile
• 1:01:13
  quarterback.
• 1:01:13
  Right?
• 1:01:14
  I mean, they got to Jackson Dart who's one I mean, he's doesn't have a lot of experience,
• 1:01:18
  but the kid can move around back there and make some things happen with his legs.
• 1:01:21
  You do not have that with Jared Goff at all.
• 1:01:24
  So if this defense can dial up the pressure because you have them in the third and long
• 1:01:29
  situations in which we excel, we can really do some damage against this and keep a young
• 1:01:34
  quarterback on the other side of the field with Max Brosmer in the game long enough to
• 1:01:40
  hopefully make a couple of plays.
• 1:01:42
  I mean, this this game's gonna come down.
• 1:01:44
  I don't know what the spreads are right now.
• 1:01:46
  I haven't checked, and maybe Jared pays a little bit more attention to, the gambling
• 1:01:50
  side.
• 1:01:50
  I don't have any money, so I'm not doing a whole lot of gambling.
• 1:01:53
  I'm not paying attention to those things.
• 1:01:55
  But, that, it's gonna come down.
• 1:01:58
  It's a division game.
• 1:01:59
  I don't see it, you know, being more than a five point game.
• 1:02:04
  Right?
• 1:02:04
  Less than a touchdown, I I think is what this comes down to, unless something crazy happens
• 1:02:09
  and they're able to force some mistakes out of Max Brozmer down the stretch.
• 1:02:14
  Oh, and, like, we brought up a few weeks ago, you know, for KOC, big keys for the the game
• 1:02:21
  was to sustain drives.
• 1:02:23
  You know, we we cannot be going three and out in general, but with Bretton with Max Brosmer,
• 1:02:30
  we cannot go three and out at all.
• 1:02:32
  We have to at least,
• 1:02:36
  we just stick two
• 1:02:37
  or three times.
• 1:02:38
  To 19 play drives.
• 1:02:40
  Yeah.
• 1:02:41
  If if
• 1:02:41
  running the ball We have to.
• 1:02:43
  Four stones.
• 1:02:44
  Gotta have.
• 1:02:44
  If we have to, you know, and Brosmer, like I said, you know, he he showed a little bit of
• 1:02:51
  something to me last week, you know, just coming in and not only holding on, but giving
• 1:02:57
  us a position to get that late field goal.
• 1:02:59
  So we'll see what happens.
• 1:03:02
  Yeah.
• 1:03:02
  Game winning drive, man.
• 1:03:04
  Hey.
• 1:03:05
  I I He got
• 1:03:05
  one on his record now.
• 1:03:07
  I've been telling people, I'm like, that wind didn't go to JJ.
• 1:03:10
  He might have started the game, but we last time I checked, we were tied when he left.
• 1:03:14
  Yep.
• 1:03:15
  Yeah.
• 1:03:17
  Alright.
• 1:03:19
  Key three, coach.
• 1:03:20
  Play smart.
• 1:03:21
  Disciplined football.
• 1:03:23
  We talked about the chaos that Dan Campbell likes to bring in really all points of the
• 1:03:29
  game, and and we're gonna get Jer on to talk about that kneecap biting Jer.
• 1:03:34
  He was bring Dan Campbell was bringing chaos to the team before he ever stepped onto the
• 1:03:39
  sideline.
• 1:03:40
  Yeah.
• 1:03:41
  He you cannot predict this guy.
• 1:03:46
  He does unorthodox things, but, it works out for him.
• 1:03:53
  And, you know, I mean, if it works, keep it going.
• 1:03:57
  He'll go for it on fourth down.
• 1:03:58
  It doesn't matter matter where he is on the field.
• 1:04:01
  Doesn't matter what time in the game it is, early or not.
• 1:04:04
  He'll dial up the trick plays like nothing.
• 1:04:06
  And that, you know, that'll test our defense and our discipline, and just staying in the
• 1:04:14
  right spots, not trying to, you know, beat and always make that huge play, but just playing
• 1:04:22
  within the system.
• 1:04:24
  Because if you don't, it it it can turn ugly and embarrassing really, really quick.
• 1:04:30
  The Vikings gotta stay assignment sound, play smart football, communicate on, you know, any
• 1:04:38
  motions, misdirections, trick plays.
• 1:04:41
  We gotta make tackles in space.
• 1:04:44
  It's been a kind of an issue, missed tackles, making me puke.
• 1:04:50
  And on the offense
• 1:04:51
  fierce, man, with the speed that he brings, you gotta take him down on first contact because if
• 1:04:57
  he gets loose, he's gone.
• 1:05:00
  Yeah.
• 1:05:00
  He's gone.
• 1:05:00
  Yeah.
• 1:05:01
  A quick twitch, and then he's got that, speed.
• 1:05:04
  You know, he can stop and start, and it almost looks like he doesn't lose any speed doing it.
• 1:05:10
  It's that quick.
• 1:05:11
  Yeah.
• 1:05:11
  That quick, he's a fairy tale of the player.
• 1:05:13
  This team is on a historic pace right now.
• 1:05:16
  This defense, especially, is performing at a high level.
• 1:05:19
  Now granted the opponents some of the opponents the last few weeks, but what is it they have
• 1:05:24
  not allowed a passing touchdown in, six games?
• 1:05:29
  I guess I'm not I don't know for sure.
• 1:05:33
  But
• 1:05:33
  No.
• 1:05:33
  I I would have to look it up, and I might do that when Jer when Jer jumps on with us here in
• 1:05:38
  a minute.
• 1:05:38
  But, yeah, I mean, you you have to play fundamental football with a team that's going
• 1:05:46
  to try to create chaos with the trick plays, with the misdirection, and you just have to not
• 1:05:52
  bite on that and not let it get you.
• 1:05:54
  Make some stops on third and fourth down for crying out loud with this team.
• 1:05:59
  Make a damn stop on third down on third and long, please.
• 1:06:04
  Please.
• 1:06:05
  Yeah.
• 1:06:06
  Well and if I feel like the defense is has to come, and they gotta show up at play.
• 1:06:15
  Getting off the field is gonna be crucial for them as well, just because if it doesn't go
• 1:06:21
  well on offense, they're gonna be out there a long time.
• 1:06:24
  So they gotta take their opportunities when they can and just make plays, get off the
• 1:06:29
  field, get it back to the offense.
• 1:06:31
  Give us more time to score.
• 1:06:32
  But even if they're just field goals all all day, whatever.
• 1:06:37
  You know, Will Rikert, he'll kick it from Yucatan, like I said, a few weeks ago.
• 1:06:41
  So we got no problems.
• 1:06:45
  Let's see.
• 1:06:45
  On offense, you know, Max Brosmer, he gets his second start.
• 1:06:50
  Let's see how he builds off of last week.
• 1:06:54
  You know?
• 1:06:55
  Well, and he's gotta look for this man.
• 1:06:56
  Let's just let's buy me we said we're gonna keep him there, and I we weren't joking.
• 1:07:02
  No.
• 1:07:03
  No joke at all.
• 1:07:04
  One man for the job this week.
• 1:07:06
  Well and who who else would we rather pick than Justin Jefferson?
• 1:07:12
  You know, he's basically the only exciting thing happening for this team, even with him
• 1:07:20
  having a below average, you know, under par season.
• 1:07:25
  But, I mean, this has gotta be the player to watch.
• 1:07:28
  We he's still got, you know, a couple milestones to go to break records.
• 1:07:34
  So not everything is lost this season.
• 1:07:38
  You know, like I mentioned, he's 83 yards away from 1,000 yard season.
• 1:07:44
  So let's get that.
• 1:07:45
  Let's just get it done this week.
• 1:07:48
  You know, I don't want I don't wanna have to sweat the thousand yards for the last game.
• 1:07:54
  And then he's 27 yards away from breaking Rainy Rainy Moss' record for most receiving yards in
• 1:08:01
  a player's first six seasons.
• 1:08:03
  So let's get it.
• 1:08:05
  I mean, this line's secondary, like I said
• 1:08:07
  in the first half and then you can shut them down the rest of the year.
• 1:08:10
  I don't even care.
• 1:08:12
  Yes.
• 1:08:12
  Yeah.
• 1:08:12
  Absolutely.
• 1:08:14
  Yeah.
• 1:08:14
  That would be perfectly fine with me.
• 1:08:17
  Get Ty Felton out there.
• 1:08:19
  But against like I said, against this line secondary, Jefferson should be featured early
• 1:08:24
  and often like he was last week.
• 1:08:26
  Get him touches any way possible.
• 1:08:28
  Like like also, motion, quick hitters, deep shots.
• 1:08:32
  It's just you any I don't even care how you do it.
• 1:08:37
  If there's slants or curls all day, 10 curls, seven slants.
• 1:08:42
  Just get them the 85 yards, 83 yards.
• 1:08:44
  Let's get them some.
• 1:08:45
  Let's get the record and finish it.
• 1:08:48
  Yeah.
• 1:08:48
  And you were able to do that last week.
• 1:08:50
  So just get it done, and then you
• 1:08:51
  can kind of
• 1:08:52
  address what you wanna do against Green Bay in the final game of the season after that.
• 1:08:57
  Awesome.
• 1:08:58
  Coach, I want you to talk about your tryouts and everything you got coming up on Sunday
• 1:09:02
  since we're gonna get a chance to do that, and then we're gonna ring Jared here and talk a
• 1:09:05
  little bit about it.
• 1:09:06
  But you got some tryouts happening this week up in the Minneapolis area.
• 1:09:11
  Chance for some young ball players to continue their careers.
• 1:09:14
  Tell us all about it.
• 1:09:16
  Yeah.
• 1:09:17
  For those who are just tuning in for the first time and don't know much about me, my name is
• 1:09:23
  Cody Hamadall, coach Hamadall.
• 1:09:25
  I am the assistant head coach and defensive coordinator for the Wyoming cavalry.
• 1:09:30
  We'll be playing out of Gillette, Wyoming in the AIF, the American Indoor Football League.
• 1:09:37
  And this is my first season with the team, second season as a professional coach on the
• 1:09:42
  arena level.
• 1:09:44
  And we got tryouts, our first tryouts for this upcoming season, this Sunday, December 28, 10PM
• 1:09:51
  to one or 10AM to 1PM at the Toka Soccer Center in Burnsville.
• 1:09:56
  You know, I'm looking for all players.
• 1:09:59
  You don't even just have to be from Minnesota.
• 1:10:02
  The defense is gonna live and be housed here in Minnesota, and then we'll travel out there.
• 1:10:06
  So, you know, just if you got game, if you're if you think you're a dog and you're not gonna
• 1:10:13
  shy away from competition, come on out.
• 1:10:15
  Show me what you got.
• 1:10:16
  You gotta show me.
• 1:10:17
  You gotta see me in person, and, you know, we'll evaluate and get the best players out
• 1:10:22
  there.
• 1:10:22
  And we're gonna go out to Wyoming and bring them a a ring.
• 1:10:26
  I'm going for the second one in one year, calendar year.
• 1:10:32
  Absolutely love it, coach.
• 1:10:33
  Well, yeah, glad that we can give you a little bit of platform to talk about the tryouts and
• 1:10:37
  talk about
• 1:10:37
  the way we're doing
• 1:10:38
  the cavalry.
• 1:10:39
  Looking forward to covering that team with you.
• 1:10:41
  But now I wanna bring in, our our guy, Smokin' Jer.
• 1:10:45
  Jer, welcome to the show, man.
• 1:10:48
  Hey.
• 1:10:48
  Glad to be here.
• 1:10:49
  Love talking football, period.
• 1:10:51
  How are doing, man?
• 1:10:52
  Happy holidays.
• 1:10:54
  Happy holidays.
• 1:10:55
  Merry Christmas.
• 1:10:55
  We get to watch each other on Christmas day.
• 1:10:57
  Neither of our team can make the playoff, but all we can do is beat the crap out of each
• 1:11:01
  other.
• 1:11:05
  Yeah.
• 1:11:05
  We
• 1:11:05
  hope it's, we hope that, no injuries here.
• 1:11:08
  I think at towards the end of these seasons, we hope that you don't see any big injuries from
• 1:11:13
  your best players.
• 1:11:14
  That's why we're even considering talking about shutting Jefferson down.
• 1:11:18
  Right?
• 1:11:18
  You want them to get these yards and kinda break those personal accolades because they do
• 1:11:23
  matter.
• 1:11:23
  Right?
• 1:11:24
  The this man is building a hall of fame resume.
• 1:11:27
  You don't want to tarnish that in any way.
• 1:11:30
  But, also, if he's kind of got that in the bag and you're going into a essentially meaningless
• 1:11:35
  game in week eighteen, there's no reason to risk your franchise on it.
• 1:11:42
  There's no reason to sit him when you're playing the packers?
• 1:11:46
  Well, wait.
• 1:11:46
  It depends on how Max plays this.
• 1:11:48
  No.
• 1:11:49
  No.
• 1:11:50
  No.
• 1:11:50
  If you're not gonna set him We are setting John
• 1:11:53
  Wolford against the packers in week eighteen.
• 1:11:57
  They can set Jefferson all they want to.
• 1:11:59
  But, you know, if Max goes out and plays well this week, it'll really speak to what they try
• 1:12:04
  to do.
• 1:12:05
  Do they wanna play spoiler?
• 1:12:06
  And me and coach talked about it earlier in the show that none of these guys, it's just not the
• 1:12:11
  culture around this Vikings team to lay down.
• 1:12:14
  I know, you know, around some really bad teams, the Browns or, you know, any pick pick a
• 1:12:19
  terrible franchise.
• 1:12:20
  Arizona right now is god awful.
• 1:12:22
  Right?
• 1:12:23
  You probably have a culture in that locker room that does that.
• 1:12:27
  I don't think you have that with this Vikings team because if you did, they would have laid
• 1:12:31
  down three weeks ago.
• 1:12:32
  Right?
• 1:12:32
  Or at least two weeks ago in Dallas, they didn't have to show up on Sunday night.
• 1:12:36
  They were already mathematically eliminated.
• 1:12:39
  So and and I know you're
• 1:12:40
  challenge there.
• 1:12:41
  You know, you
• 1:12:41
  guys are are you mathematically eliminated now, Jer?
• 1:12:44
  Is that what you're you're saying, or are they you still got
• 1:12:47
  Pretty much.
• 1:12:47
  I mean, it it's like a a a 7% chance.
• 1:12:50
  And what would have to happen is we have to win out.
• 1:12:53
  Hackers have to lose out.
• 1:12:55
  That's what it all boils down to.
• 1:12:57
  Because right now, they have one more game.
• 1:12:59
  So they can't win a tenth game because they have to tie, plus they beat.
• 1:13:04
  So
• 1:13:05
  Right.
• 1:13:05
  So the the betting line, because I heard you asked, so I looked it up on FanDuel.
• 1:13:10
  Thank you.
• 1:13:11
  The lions are seven and a half point favorites, and the over under is 43.5.
• 1:13:18
  Wow.
• 1:13:19
  Seven and a half.
• 1:13:20
  I mean, I think I'm still hammering Vikings the cover.
• 1:13:24
  I don't know if I'm picking Vikings to win this week.
• 1:13:27
  Moneyline, would the gross mark?
• 1:13:29
  Moneyline, it's minus three ninety for the lions and plus three ten for the vikings.
• 1:13:34
  So, basically, for every $10, you're you bet you'll make three.
• 1:13:39
  You know what I'm saying on the vikings?
• 1:13:41
  And you'll for every so it'd be 13 you'd get back.
• 1:13:45
  You know what I'm saying?
• 1:13:46
  Whereas if you bet on the or you're 13 on top of your bet, so it'd be 23 you'd get back.
• 1:13:52
  With the lions, you would actually only get 17 total.
• 1:14:00
  Right.
• 1:14:00
  If you win
• 1:14:01
  that, Jared.
• 1:14:02
  Thanks for explaining that because I don't know what the hell any of that means.
• 1:14:05
  We're gonna have to bring you on every week to be our betting expert.
• 1:14:08
  Yeah.
• 1:14:08
  Yeah.
• 1:14:09
  That that plus minus gets me.
• 1:14:12
  The the that's what the money line means.
• 1:14:13
  That's a straight up bet.
• 1:14:14
  And that's how yeah.
• 1:14:15
  On Wednesdays when I do my NFL show, we actually
• 1:14:19
  Cody only speaks in wins and losses, man.
• 1:14:22
  Yeah.
• 1:14:23
  I I do that.
• 1:14:24
  I do the wins and losses every week for the entire schedule on my Wednesday night show.
• 1:14:28
  I invite fans of other teams, and I don't care if they're in the division.
• 1:14:32
  I've got Ken the bear fan and Ken Catalone on there.
• 1:14:35
  I've had a couple Vikings fans before.
• 1:14:38
  I've had Patriot fans, Bills fans.
• 1:14:41
  I don't care.
• 1:14:42
  It's about having fun and talking about NFL news.
• 1:14:45
  And we go through the entire schedule and do the pick ups, and my record so far this year
• 1:14:50
  is, like, one thirty seven and ninety two.
• 1:14:56
  Hey.
• 1:14:56
  That's pretty damn good, man.
• 1:14:58
  Go crazy.
• 1:15:00
  Yeah.
• 1:15:00
  I'm better than 50%.
• 1:15:02
  That's all I care about.
• 1:15:03
  I don't wanna end the year at 50%.
• 1:15:05
  Almost batting you're batting, like, six fifty, man.
• 1:15:08
  Just
• 1:15:08
  waking up in my percent.
• 1:15:10
  Yeah.
• 1:15:10
  You're killing it, man.
• 1:15:12
  So Killing it.
• 1:15:13
  Bad.
• 1:15:13
  I got a guy that's killing me.
• 1:15:15
  That's what I'm I shared it to my channel since I was I said I'm being a guest in enemy
• 1:15:19
  territory.
• 1:15:20
  Yeah.
• 1:15:21
  Couple of my people have came up.
• 1:15:23
  Steve, the packer vans in there.
• 1:15:25
  Steve knows the policy, and Patty Grimes is he is actually from Grand Blanc right down the
• 1:15:31
  road from here in Mississippi.
• 1:15:32
  You might
• 1:15:32
  be in enemy territory, but one thing we can all agree on here is fuck the packers.
• 1:15:37
  Amen.
• 1:15:37
  FTP every day.
• 1:15:39
  Yeah.
• 1:15:40
  Yep.
• 1:15:40
  No.
• 1:15:41
  I You're cool.
• 1:15:42
  But Yes.
• 1:15:44
  Steve's Steve's actually a knowledgeable fan, and we talk a lot.
• 1:15:48
  You know, he's not the normal Packer fan.
• 1:15:52
  I Jare, a little bit about me too.
• 1:15:55
  I grew up a bears fan, and my wife's a Vikings fan.
• 1:15:57
  Sorry.
• 1:15:58
  And the bears were so caught off my entire life.
• 1:16:01
  I'm sorry.
• 1:16:02
  I got so tired of my wife talking to all this trash the last few years that, I said, to hell
• 1:16:10
  with this, man.
• 1:16:11
  I would much rather I would much rather oh, my wife that's my wife, Danielle.
• 1:16:20
  Jer, but, yeah, she talked so much smack, and we were going up to watch.
• 1:16:25
  Like, a little bit harder for me to get to Chicago and and get up there.
• 1:16:30
  Hey, Steve.
• 1:16:31
  What's up to you?
• 1:16:31
  And get my wife back in here.
• 1:16:33
  She said she got me to come to the you know what?
• 1:16:35
  It was really the fans.
• 1:16:36
  And it was really, like, even if the bears won, because I'm outside of the city and I don't
• 1:16:42
  live close to any of my family, I didn't know when to celebrate a win with.
• 1:16:45
  My wife's like, shut the f up.
• 1:16:47
  Like, I don't wanna hear about it.
• 1:16:48
  If you beat my team, I don't care.
• 1:16:50
  Where now we still kinda watch the bears games, and both of us, it's just like it I it's I'm
• 1:16:56
  not emotionally attached.
• 1:16:57
  Right?
• 1:16:58
  And that's great because the last time the bears beat them, it was 19 games before the
• 1:17:03
  last time.
• 1:17:04
  So
• 1:17:06
  And me, I've just become a bigger fan of football in general.
• 1:17:09
  Yeah.
• 1:17:10
  And a lot of that's had to do with becoming, friends with coach Cody, kinda following his
• 1:17:15
  journey first with the Saint Paul bears.
• 1:17:17
  And now with the Wyoming Cavalry, we're just like, I like to talk ball, and I like to kind
• 1:17:21
  of be in the conversation.
• 1:17:23
  I'm a podcaster.
• 1:17:24
  Right?
• 1:17:24
  I I came at this He's
• 1:17:27
  a lot happier.
• 1:17:28
  Hey.
• 1:17:29
  My buddy is.
• 1:17:30
  He's he's fighting in the neigh in the house.
• 1:17:32
  You know?
• 1:17:32
  Right.
• 1:17:32
  I'm happy everybody's happy.
• 1:17:34
  Season now is a lot better.
• 1:17:37
  Not and even though the bears are doing well right now, I've found that that franchise can
• 1:17:41
  be freaking toxic even when they're doing well.
• 1:17:44
  So, yeah, a shout out to, you know, my family.
• 1:17:48
  And the bears obviously having a great season this year.
• 1:17:51
  Beating back in that crazy game Sunday night that that was or a Saturday night rather.
• 1:17:58
  That was freaking crazy, man.
• 1:18:00
  Yeah.
• 1:18:01
  So But also a loveless, Parsons list, and then their their safety, know, was out too, and it
• 1:18:08
  took everything they had.
• 1:18:10
  So I you know what?
• 1:18:12
  These bears fans are out of their minds right now.
• 1:18:14
  Enjoy it.
• 1:18:15
  But when you go up and play some of these playoff caliber teams that are healthy, I mean,
• 1:18:20
  you gotta be who's in front of you.
• 1:18:22
  But at the end of the day, like, you got a lot left to prove and a lot to freaking figure out
• 1:18:28
  before you're talking about winning a Super Bowl.
• 1:18:31
  Hey.
• 1:18:31
  There you go.
• 1:18:32
  Steve's an alright guy.
• 1:18:33
  My roof for the packers, but he's a twins fan.
• 1:18:35
  Hey.
• 1:18:35
  That's great.
• 1:18:38
  You know, I root for anybody but Chicago team.
• 1:18:43
  That's awesome.
• 1:18:44
  I'm still all of my other Chicago team.
• 1:18:46
  All of them can go to hell.
• 1:18:47
  Yeah.
• 1:18:47
  I know.
• 1:18:49
  I still got love for the black hawks, and I've I just grew up diehard cubs fan.
• 1:18:55
  You know, really, you know, still got love for all my Chicago teams.
• 1:19:00
  And no.
• 1:19:01
  Not hickey's ass.
• 1:19:04
  I I don't call them
• 1:19:05
  the Yankees anyways.
• 1:19:06
  I felt for a long time I've been calling them the Yankees.
• 1:19:09
  But
• 1:19:12
  How fun, man.
• 1:19:14
  Well, yeah, I you know, talking about this game, I know you guys lost a brutal brutal
• 1:19:21
  game, the other night, the other afternoon.
• 1:19:24
  I say night.
• 1:19:25
  It was the
• 1:19:25
  late afternoon game, but it was freaking it was the when it happened.
• 1:19:29
  Yeah.
• 1:19:29
  Yeah.
• 1:19:30
  So well, I did wanna ask Cody about that because I know you probably watched the end of
• 1:19:35
  that game because you guys' game was done at 04:30 when ours started.
• 1:19:40
  That sequence and I'm not talking about the second one.
• 1:19:43
  The Amanra one, yes, he pushed off of Ramsey.
• 1:19:46
  That was pass interference.
• 1:19:47
  I understand that negated that anything that happened after that.
• 1:19:52
  The one before, when the defender redirected Tesla into the safety and they called offensive
• 1:19:58
  pass interference.
• 1:20:01
  Oh, I agree with Rex Ryan.
• 1:20:05
  They got it dead ass wrong.
• 1:20:08
  You you know, you're initiated by a corner, pushed into a safety, and they call OPI.
• 1:20:15
  Jared, do you feel like that might have been a little bit of and coach, you too, a makeup call
• 1:20:19
  from the OPI in the end zone going the other way just a little bit earlier in the game?
• 1:20:25
  The one with the DK Metcalf you're you're talking about.
• 1:20:28
  Right?
• 1:20:28
  No.
• 1:20:28
  He pushed off with the guy, came back to the ball just like I'm on Ross St.
• 1:20:32
  Brown.
• 1:20:33
  You know what I'm saying?
• 1:20:34
  That was the same type of play.
• 1:20:36
  So that is a actual OPI.
• 1:20:39
  You know what I mean?
• 1:20:40
  If you extend your arms, it doesn't matter who talking about but, man, there was a bunch
• 1:20:46
  of OPIs in this game.
• 1:20:47
  There was one that happened in
• 1:20:49
  the end where they were running maybe it wasn't in the end zone, but it was a crosser, and they
• 1:20:53
  kinda ran that pick play and the that giant well, what's his name?
• 1:20:56
  Washington, the tight end?
• 1:20:58
  The guy that's actually a tackle.
• 1:21:00
  He was drafted in massive.
• 1:21:02
  Yeah.
• 1:21:03
  He's massive.
• 1:21:04
  Yeah.
• 1:21:04
  And the dude runs into plays tight end.
• 1:21:06
  Get it right.
• 1:21:08
  Says get it right.
• 1:21:10
  Get him.
• 1:21:11
  You tell him.
• 1:21:13
  Dude, he's six eight, two sixty five, man.
• 1:21:16
  He's Yeah.
• 1:21:16
  I know.
• 1:21:17
  But he's eight.
• 1:21:18
  He's six eight.
• 1:21:20
  He was three fifteen.
• 1:21:21
  He cut weight because they asked him to play you know, Washington was not the tight end.
• 1:21:28
  He he weight from three fifteen to two sixty five to play tight end.
• 1:21:33
  Damn.
• 1:21:34
  That's that's some work right there.
• 1:21:36
  That's crazy work.
• 1:21:37
  Coach, there was one play where he ran over three dBs.
• 1:21:40
  They were bouncing off him like freaking bouncy balls.
• 1:21:44
  It was crazy.
• 1:21:45
  Twenty.
• 1:21:46
  I I weighed two twenty.
• 1:21:48
  I would bounce off of him.
• 1:21:51
  Oh, did you guys see Nate Burleson on the Dan Patrick show and what he said?
• 1:21:56
  I did.
• 1:21:56
  What did
• 1:21:56
  he say?
• 1:21:57
  Who was saying?
• 1:21:58
  I don't have time to watch it right now.
• 1:21:59
  He said, I played seven years in the NFL before I came to Detroit.
• 1:22:03
  I had two contracts with out there.
• 1:22:05
  I had Minnesota, then Seattle, and then I came to Detroit.
• 1:22:09
  And when I got there and we were playing against Chicago, and Calvin Johnson made that
• 1:22:15
  catch at the end of the game, and they called it not a catch because he stood up and sent the
• 1:22:21
  ball on the ground before he stood up all the way, they said, it's different here, man.
• 1:22:26
  The refs have it in for us.
• 1:22:28
  He goes, that's when he knew.
• 1:22:29
  And then the playoff game that same year was the base guarding play that got picked up in
• 1:22:35
  the playoff game.
• 1:22:38
  Yeah.
• 1:22:38
  And
• 1:22:39
  he said he said in my two years before I got injured, there was seven game changing calls
• 1:22:46
  where there was rules changed the next season because of our team.
• 1:22:52
  I I I believe it.
• 1:22:54
  I believe it.
• 1:22:56
  So he said it 100% is the thing.
• 1:22:58
  It's Detroit versus the refs.
• 1:23:02
  Yeah.
• 1:23:04
  I, I feel that way as a Vikings fan sometimes.
• 1:23:08
  You know?
• 1:23:08
  But I you know, that that played, the one you were talking about with, Calvin Johnson.
• 1:23:16
  That is a touchdown.
• 1:23:17
  That is a touchdown.
• 1:23:18
  That was a
• 1:23:19
  He doe caught it, got into the touchdown, got up on his knees, raised the hand, and set the
• 1:23:24
  ball on the ground, and got up.
• 1:23:26
  Mhmm.
• 1:23:27
  Mhmm.
• 1:23:27
  And
• 1:23:28
  they said it's not a catch.
• 1:23:29
  You know, it's this whole, you know
• 1:23:32
  But yet, the two weeks later, it was wintertime in Green Bay, and I remember this play because
• 1:23:39
  it was Randall Cobb made a diving catch into the end zone against your Minnesota Vikings,
• 1:23:44
  and there it was snowing.
• 1:23:46
  He sets the ball on the ground and makes a snow angel without ever getting up.
• 1:23:53
  They called him.
• 1:23:53
  Still ruled it a touchdown.
• 1:23:55
  Still ruled it a touchdown.
• 1:23:56
  Of course.
• 1:23:56
  Yeah.
• 1:23:58
  See?
• 1:23:58
  Yeah.
• 1:23:58
  Backers, the darlings of the NFL.
• 1:24:01
  Yeah.
• 1:24:01
  Yeah.
• 1:24:01
  I'm just saying they
• 1:24:02
  The only time the Vikings get a call is when they're playing the lions.
• 1:24:08
  Oh, please don't.
• 1:24:10
  But, here, I got one for you.
• 1:24:12
  I'm gonna put something in for a share screen here in a second.
• 1:24:15
  Let me get this going.
• 1:24:19
  It's what Skip Bayless said.
• 1:24:26
  Yeah.
• 1:24:26
  The, that was a wild finish, man.
• 1:24:28
  And and if Amanrad doesn't push off there, I mean, for one, he probably gets open anyway.
• 1:24:34
  And I wonder if that did they say was that Goff just kinda following the play, or was that
• 1:24:39
  designed?
• 1:24:40
  Yeah.
• 1:24:40
  That was with Dan Campbell.
• 1:24:41
  No.
• 1:24:42
  That was Goff following the play.
• 1:24:43
  That was
• 1:24:44
  good.
• 1:24:44
  And and Ahman Ra was trying to lateral it.
• 1:24:47
  It hit the ground, but that's a backward pass, which means it's a live ball.
• 1:24:51
  Yep.
• 1:24:51
  Right.
• 1:24:52
  Yeah.
• 1:24:52
  Presence on line Right.
• 1:24:53
  And that.
• 1:24:54
  Called it a touchdown, but because the OPI happened before it, it negated the play.
• 1:25:00
  Well and, hey, real quick.
• 1:25:02
  Shout out to Goff, and that should be a lesson to younger players.
• 1:25:07
  You know?
• 1:25:07
  Even even the quarterback, like, don't give up on the play.
• 1:25:11
  Keep on with the play until the whistle.
• 1:25:13
  Play until the whistle.
• 1:25:15
  Just because you're a quarterback doesn't mean you can just, throw the pass and sit there.
• 1:25:20
  Get upfield because stuff like that can happen.
• 1:25:24
  Just that's that's what being a vet and being a pro is all about.
• 1:25:29
  So he said the first one was not pass interference OPI.
• 1:25:32
  You know what I'm saying?
• 1:25:33
  He was talking about the first one at first.
• 1:25:35
  Okay.
• 1:25:36
  It didn't gain any advantage.
• 1:25:37
  Just let him play.
• 1:25:38
  The second OPI was the last ditch drive that cost Detroit a touchdown.
• 1:25:42
  Maybe the NFL just wants to earn Rogers in the postseason.
• 1:25:45
  Hey.
• 1:25:45
  I'm not gonna deny that either.
• 1:25:47
  I'm
• 1:25:49
  I was like, Skip went off about it.
• 1:25:52
  You know what I mean?
• 1:25:53
  And then look what Robert Kirkman said down there.
• 1:25:55
  Second one in the
• 1:25:56
  end zone for sure.
• 1:25:57
  The one earlier, in the game or in, you know, that drive.
• 1:26:01
  And that drive was just weird.
• 1:26:03
  That whole last drive was weird.
• 1:26:05
  Weird penalties on Pittsburgh too to extend things
• 1:26:09
  and just forth and everything.
• 1:26:11
  Yeah.
• 1:26:11
  Just
• 1:26:11
  wild.
• 1:26:12
  The whole sequence.
• 1:26:13
  I I honestly thought it was coming down in Detroit.
• 1:26:15
  You know, they were setting it up for Detroit to win, and then you have this crazy play at
• 1:26:20
  the end.
• 1:26:21
  Hey.
• 1:26:22
  We appreciate you, Steve.
• 1:26:23
  Thanks for
• 1:26:24
  Thanks for tuning
• 1:26:25
  in, Matt.
• 1:26:25
  We're a new show.
• 1:26:26
  We started halfway through this season, went through a rebrand.
• 1:26:30
  We were Vikings uncensored, but there's another uncensored.
• 1:26:33
  So we rebranded to Vikings United, which is actually better for us because we got coaches
• 1:26:37
  inside.
• 1:26:38
  Obviously, you know, coach has been a diehard Vikings fan his whole life.
• 1:26:42
  I'm a little bit new to the Vikings thing, but still watched a lot of NFC North football
• 1:26:46
  anyway.
• 1:26:47
  I know that you guys got the trash talk session.
• 1:26:50
  I had to leave the messenger group.
• 1:26:52
  I don't do the trash talk that much.
• 1:26:56
  I don't do it that much.
• 1:26:57
  I I I talk with Mac, and if I get beat, I say good game.
• 1:27:02
  You know?
• 1:27:03
  I don't I'm not that guy.
• 1:27:05
  But if somebody tries to trash my team when we just beat them, I'm gonna say, wait.
• 1:27:11
  You're saying what?
• 1:27:13
  You know?
• 1:27:14
  It's been it's been Thirty
• 1:27:16
  eight years as a bears fan.
• 1:27:18
  I've never had any shit to talk.
• 1:27:20
  They won the Super Bowl after I or before I was born, and then they've only made it back once,
• 1:27:26
  and it was a glitch for us.
• 1:27:27
  Yep.
• 1:27:32
  Are you saying has football changed since the eighties and nineties?
• 1:27:37
  Or Yeah.
• 1:27:37
  Are
• 1:27:38
  100%.
• 1:27:39
  The eighties and nineties was a way more hardcore type of football.
• 1:27:43
  There wasn't a lot of that ticky tacky kick.
• 1:27:46
  You have to put a pillow and a blankie on the quarterback when you sack them.
• 1:27:50
  You know, you can take somebody's leg out.
• 1:27:52
  So look at look at what LT did to Joe Diceman.
• 1:27:56
  That wasn't a penalty.
• 1:27:58
  It would be a penalty these days.
• 1:28:00
  Well and I was I was bitching earlier in the Vikings game.
• 1:28:04
  Eric Wilson had a sack on Jackson Dart where he's coming in.
• 1:28:09
  It's a little bit yeah.
• 1:28:11
  Steve, let me find me on Facebook.
• 1:28:14
  Bubba starts.
• 1:28:15
  Shoot me a DM, a friend request, and I'll send a link over to you, man.
• 1:28:20
  Yeah.
• 1:28:20
  And later, actually, you know what?
• 1:28:22
  I think Jared could send it to you because he's probably already got you in a chat.
• 1:28:26
  So go ahead and send that link
• 1:28:27
  to him.
• 1:28:28
  I I got how to do it.
• 1:28:30
  I can copy it and put it into the chat actually first on my side.
• 1:28:35
  Is that right messaging?
• 1:28:37
  To answer answer Steve's question, I mean, yeah, it's a 100% changed since the eighties
• 1:28:43
  and nineties.
• 1:28:44
  You know, you're talking about LT, Lawrence Taylor.
• 1:28:47
  I'm I'm, you know, I'm from a different generation, so I'm thinking, you know, Brian
• 1:28:52
  Urlacher, Zach Thomas.
• 1:28:55
  You know?
• 1:28:56
  He he you know, the the, like, people like those, they'd probably be broke from all the
• 1:29:03
  fines like we were talking earlier.
• 1:29:06
  Just Ray Lewis, people that were just, just beasts.
• 1:29:14
  That should be it, Steve.
• 1:29:16
  Yeah.
• 1:29:16
  You just the messenger of Meta always adds some long freaking code to it, so it looks like
• 1:29:21
  trash, but there he is.
• 1:29:23
  Awesome.
• 1:29:24
  Yep.
• 1:29:24
  I'll wait for him to load up on a I don't know if you got video on there yet, Steve, or just
• 1:29:29
  audio.
• 1:29:32
  I'm gonna remove that graphic I put up.
• 1:29:35
  No.
• 1:29:35
  You're all good, man.
• 1:29:36
  It's nice that everybody uses StreamYard, so we kinda know how to operate.
• 1:29:39
  Bring in our brother, Steve.
• 1:29:41
  Welcome to the show, man.
• 1:29:42
  What's up?
• 1:29:44
  What's up, Steve?
• 1:29:45
  How we doing, Steve?
• 1:29:46
  Like I said, I've known JV for a couple years.
• 1:29:49
  I always respected him.
• 1:29:51
  You know?
• 1:29:51
  Like, I'm not one of these guys that comes in and I I mean, I can't.
• 1:29:57
  I'll let you know that if if you if you're gonna bash on me, I can bring it.
• 1:30:02
  But I'm I'm respectful of people's podcast because I know people put a lot of work and
• 1:30:07
  time in this, but I just love talking football with people.
• 1:30:11
  And JB's been one of the decent guys I have met over the years that like, he said he likes me
• 1:30:16
  because I actually talk football.
• 1:30:18
  I don't really trash talk.
• 1:30:20
  I'm not really that type of person.
• 1:30:21
  Now if you wanna bring it, bring it.
• 1:30:23
  Because I'll tell you
• 1:30:24
  what right now, I'll bring it.
• 1:30:26
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:30:27
  But you have to admit, the that is the only way Detroit gets in at this point.
• 1:30:34
  We have to win out.
• 1:30:35
  You have to lose out.
• 1:30:37
  That is what they said.
• 1:30:39
  That's it.
• 1:30:39
  That's the only way.
• 1:30:40
  But, you know, like, I don't let anything faze me now in football because I've seen and heard
• 1:30:47
  many things.
• 1:30:47
  I don't know what to believe anymore.
• 1:30:49
  Like, I don't know if you guys heard this, but I've been trying to say it, like, there's been
• 1:30:53
  a lot of controversial calls about these reps.
• 1:30:56
  Okay?
• 1:30:57
  A lot.
• 1:30:57
  Not, you know, not just the lions or bears or packers, what everywhere.
• 1:31:01
  Now couple years ago, I was on a pod, and it was said, JB, you're pretty good with
• 1:31:09
  background.
• 1:31:09
  YouTube dudes, god bless you, don't know.
• 1:31:11
  You guys might know anything like this, but it was said that it was in a court order that the
• 1:31:18
  NFL is sports entertainment.
• 1:31:21
  Yep.
• 1:31:21
  It's sports entertainment that the refs can call the games however they want.
• 1:31:27
  Yep.
• 1:31:27
  And that's what I gather.
• 1:31:30
  I mean, so if if that's it's like I hate saying this because I think some people, you know, get
• 1:31:36
  mad when I say this, but it's like almost like the WWE.
• 1:31:40
  Oh.
• 1:31:41
  Yeah.
• 1:31:41
  There was a I remember a couple years ago, see saw where Roger Goodell made a statement.
• 1:31:47
  He says, the WWE that The Undertaker go 21 and o at WrestleMania, and because there's this big
• 1:31:54
  thing with the Patriots always winning and now the Chiefs.
• 1:31:57
  And I'm like, why is he bringing up a wrestling antic when he's a commissioner of the NFL?
• 1:32:04
  And, you know, it just hit me weird.
• 1:32:06
  But Well, he was
• 1:32:08
  basically saying VR sports entertainment.
• 1:32:12
  Yeah.
• 1:32:12
  Well, I think the
• 1:32:13
  only thing they can control really is the refs.
• 1:32:16
  Right?
• 1:32:16
  The schedule kinda has a system that it follows.
• 1:32:19
  You can't help injuries.
• 1:32:21
  You don't know how that's gonna go, but you want the best franchises in that position
• 1:32:26
  because that makes the overall product, right, more valuable.
• 1:32:31
  It's money.
• 1:32:31
  It's it's sucks to see it.
• 1:32:33
  Like, that's my wife, Steve.
• 1:32:35
  She she's not she's not talking smack, but she she's got a she could have a link to join the
• 1:32:41
  show too.
• 1:32:42
  She always tells me no.
• 1:32:43
  So until she jumps on the
• 1:32:44
  show to defend herself, then we're both honest.
• 1:32:47
  Timeline.
• 1:32:48
  Danielle, Danielle, god bless you.
• 1:32:50
  Be safe, whatever.
• 1:32:52
  No hard it it's all good.
• 1:32:54
  I take a
• 1:32:54
  lot of crap on I take a lot of crap on from people.
• 1:32:57
  I could take it.
• 1:32:59
  Yep.
• 1:33:00
  You know, I I have my four sponsors that Steve loves that I do.
• 1:33:04
  He laughs when I do it because
• 1:33:06
  it's for one.
• 1:33:08
  I said for one.
• 1:33:09
  I got FTP, and it shows the little stick figures screwing the Green Bay logo.
• 1:33:13
  And I got I got f to b for fuck the bears, and it's screwing a bears logo.
• 1:33:21
  Hey.
• 1:33:21
  I have
• 1:33:22
  to say this.
• 1:33:23
  On his one show before on his one show before, I was the first person to ever call his show.
• 1:33:30
  Yes.
• 1:33:31
  When I I had I had a good board that allowed me to hook a burner phone up, and I used the
• 1:33:38
  burner phone.
• 1:33:39
  And he actually called in, and we did a call in show.
• 1:33:42
  Awesome.
• 1:33:43
  Yeah.
• 1:33:44
  And StreamYard's great for this, man.
• 1:33:45
  I love it.
• 1:33:46
  I mean, I do.
• 1:33:46
  So what I actually do, Steve, is that I have a the scene projects is kind of my original
• 1:33:52
  network, which is all focused
• 1:33:54
  on independent music.
• 1:33:55
  I'm a songwriter and a musician, and I interview independent musicians and artists
• 1:34:00
  around the world.
• 1:34:00
  I've done over 500 interviews on my show.
• 1:34:03
  Oh, that's Sandal Opry House last last month in November doing interviews with some artists.
• 1:34:11
  And then I just happen to be a sports fan.
• 1:34:13
  So I've used my podcasting to get into you know, I'm trying to work it into credentials
• 1:34:19
  for some of these games.
• 1:34:20
  Right?
• 1:34:21
  Get big enough to where we can get in and actually get on the sidelines for some of this
• 1:34:25
  stuff because I've covered PGA Tour events with this, and I got, like, 70 followers.
• 1:34:29
  Right?
• 1:34:29
  We got 70 subscribers.
• 1:34:31
  But because of who I am and knowing the systems a little bit, I've gotten into PGA Tour.
• 1:34:37
  I interviewed Ronda Barber and Chris Carter at a charity golf event.
• 1:34:40
  Awesome.
• 1:34:42
  Well, I got a picture with Ronda.
• 1:34:43
  That was really cool.
• 1:34:44
  A forty five minute pressure with these guys.
• 1:34:47
  Right?
• 1:34:47
  It was awesome.
• 1:34:48
  Got a bunch of free golf out of the out of the podcast because I'm willing to go out there,
• 1:34:53
  bring my cameras, go hit some balls, and make a little promo video for the golf course.
• 1:34:58
  Right?
• 1:34:58
  So it was all about leveraging the media side of it.
• 1:35:01
  And I watched a lot of I don't
• 1:35:03
  know if you guys are familiar with the bears podcast, the tape never lies network.
• 1:35:07
  Draft doctor Phil and my guy, Shane Marshall, as growing up a bears fan, I was watching them
• 1:35:14
  a lot.
• 1:35:14
  I think what they had built was like, damn, man.
• 1:35:17
  That's cool, but I don't wanna do a
• 1:35:20
  I don't wanna do a Yes.
• 1:35:22
  We do.
• 1:35:22
  Yeah.
• 1:35:23
  It's all I can mute him while while I'm talking.
• 1:35:25
  But I wanted to do a show, but I didn't there was already a lot of bears coverage.
• 1:35:30
  Obviously, they're the biggest market in the NFC North.
• 1:35:33
  There's already a ton of coverage.
• 1:35:35
  You have CHGO.
• 1:35:36
  Sorry about that, guys.
• 1:35:37
  Networks.
• 1:35:38
  You're all good, man.
• 1:35:39
  But, you know, having that out there already was like, I wanna do something, but I I'm not
• 1:35:46
  gonna break in on the bear side.
• 1:35:47
  Right?
• 1:35:48
  There's already a million shows.
• 1:35:49
  And once I started following the Vikings a little bit, I like, there's nobody really out
• 1:35:53
  here doing other than Purple Daily, who's a pretty big network with Score North that's
• 1:35:59
  really doing Vikings kind of fan content.
• 1:36:01
  And then finding you guys, obviously, through Rob Haspels and the Viking World Order crew is
• 1:36:06
  just like, oh, no.
• 1:36:07
  We have a platform to talk about all of the all of the charity work that the VWO are doing and
• 1:36:13
  some of these other people.
• 1:36:14
  So, yeah, it was an easy transition then to, like, okay.
• 1:36:18
  I know all the broadcasting stuff now, this this podcasting world.
• 1:36:21
  Now we're just talking ball, and and who gives a shit?
• 1:36:24
  Don't have to be the the best in the world.
• 1:36:27
  Right?
• 1:36:27
  I don't have to have all the answers as far as the statistics go.
• 1:36:31
  We got Big B from the coast to coast network that that's been cohosting with us.
• 1:36:35
  He's a little under the weather tonight, so he's off the air.
• 1:36:37
  But, yeah, man, it's just fun to talk ball.
• 1:36:40
  It's fun to invite the other teams in.
• 1:36:41
  Good people.
• 1:36:42
  Right?
• 1:36:43
  Talking football, we all care.
• 1:36:46
  It's fun to eventually be able to meet up at the tailgates and to Yes.
• 1:36:50
  Yes.
• 1:36:50
  We all play each other twice a year, man.
• 1:36:52
  So it's about building a family and and and growing and and just having good time watching
• 1:36:58
  ball, man.
• 1:36:59
  And I I switched.
• 1:37:00
  I grew up a bears fan.
• 1:37:01
  I switched so I could root for a team with my wife.
• 1:37:03
  Right?
• 1:37:04
  Like, rooting against your wife in football is, like, the worst possible thing on the planet
• 1:37:09
  because if she wins, she talks mad shit and always in my face the whole time.
• 1:37:16
  And if I win, I don't get the same courtesy.
• 1:37:19
  Right?
• 1:37:19
  Oh, no.
• 1:37:20
  Not at all.
• 1:37:20
  Situation and
• 1:37:22
  The prop bets can be great.
• 1:37:26
  Yeah.
• 1:37:27
  But, anyways, you were talking about credentials.
• 1:37:30
  I've been lucky enough as a writer because I write about the lion for the South Florida
• 1:37:34
  Tribune.
• 1:37:35
  I have recently been picked up by Roundtable IO.
• 1:37:38
  I also write about the Jaguars and the Buccaneers, but I was credentialed for the
• 1:37:43
  twenty twenty four draft here in Detroit.
• 1:37:45
  That's cool, man.
• 1:37:47
  That's cool.
• 1:37:48
  So I had a good friend of mine that performed at it, and that's kinda how I met the Viking
• 1:37:53
  World Order.
• 1:37:54
  My friend my friend has a band called Trailer Park Country, and he did the song, he did the
• 1:38:02
  song Tailgate Crazy.
• 1:38:03
  And it became a little viral hit.
• 1:38:05
  The NFL picked it up, and they invited him out to the draft.
• 1:38:07
  He was actually at the hall of fame game this year as well.
• 1:38:11
  So, yeah, shout out to Trailer Park Country.
• 1:38:13
  Look them up.
• 1:38:14
  They're friends with all the super fan groups now.
• 1:38:17
  And, you know, I I've been blessed.
• 1:38:19
  I've been blessed to just know some people Yes.
• 1:38:21
  Who were able to plug me in and and then get in to meet the Viking World Order and going to the
• 1:38:26
  Whiteout game up in Minnesota last year.
• 1:38:28
  We're just like, okay.
• 1:38:29
  And they're the closest team to me.
• 1:38:31
  Right?
• 1:38:31
  Like, I'm eight, nine
• 1:38:32
  hours from Chicago.
• 1:38:33
  I'm five hours from Minneapolis.
• 1:38:35
  It's a
• 1:38:36
  lot easier to get to the cities and see a game.
• 1:38:39
  I have a lot of friends up there
• 1:38:40
  that play music as well.
• 1:38:41
  So anytime we go up, I book a couple of shows, and I'm able to kind of make a weekend out of
• 1:38:46
  it.
• 1:38:47
  Right?
• 1:38:47
  Or go see the twins.
• 1:38:48
  We were up there too.
• 1:38:49
  So, yeah, this is all about access at the end of the day.
• 1:38:52
  Like, can we grow our platform big enough to be able to do what you've done and to get into
• 1:38:58
  some of these Yep.
• 1:38:59
  Big events and get some sideline credentials eventually?
• 1:39:02
  I'm hoping Well, I've been a
• 1:39:04
  Oh, go ahead.
• 1:39:05
  Packers.
• 1:39:06
  You know, I'm 52 years old, and I noticed most packer fans became packer fans when Brett Favre
• 1:39:13
  came into the era and and and, you know, Aaron Rogers.
• 1:39:15
  Fucking hated Favre.
• 1:39:17
  I've been a packer fan since 1978 at
• 1:39:20
  my In
• 1:39:20
  Brown and when I was four or five years, actually, my first packer game I watched was
• 1:39:27
  with my dad, and it was the packers versus the Vikings.
• 1:39:31
  That was their very first game, and that was David Whitehurst and Lynn Dickey.
• 1:39:34
  I that's when I started.
• 1:39:36
  And most packer fans Brett Falk now my favorite quarterback of a Packer of all time was the
• 1:39:41
  Magic Man.
• 1:39:42
  He was the one I would hope yeah.
• 1:39:45
  He he was the one I would hope that would have played for seventy years.
• 1:39:48
  I loved Don Mikalski.
• 1:39:50
  In high school, because of that, everybody called me the magic man.
• 1:39:54
  Even my teachers wrote on my paper magic man.
• 1:39:56
  They drew a wand if I had to if I get an air or something.
• 1:39:59
  It was great.
• 1:40:00
  It was great.
• 1:40:01
  But my my first game was, and I think so many weeks ago on YouTube, they showed that game on
• 1:40:08
  here.
• 1:40:09
  And I think and I remember it brought back a lot of memories.
• 1:40:11
  It was the same game that I the first game that I watched versus the packers and Vikings.
• 1:40:17
  The beautiful the beautiful thing with me is my first game was 10/02/1982, and that was the
• 1:40:24
  game when Billy Sims karate kicked Stevie Brown, the cornerback for the Houston Oilers,
• 1:40:29
  to get a first down.
• 1:40:31
  And then next year, it became a rule that you couldn't karate kick people.
• 1:40:35
  So that was what made me a super lions fan at the age of 12.
• 1:40:41
  And forty years to the day, I got to take my father to his first game at Fort Field.
• 1:40:49
  I love that.
• 1:40:50
  Awesome.
• 1:40:50
  Even though it was a losing effort versus Seattle, it was really cool to have that, you
• 1:40:56
  know, circle of life moment.
• 1:40:59
  Cody, you grew up a a Vikings fan.
• 1:41:03
  I'm assuming you've been to a game at either at the Metrodome or or at US Bank?
• 1:41:08
  I went to one game at US Bank back when we had Tavares Jackson.
• 1:41:15
  Everybody no.
• 1:41:17
  The ponder Christian ponder.
• 1:41:19
  Oh.
• 1:41:20
  And yeah.
• 1:41:21
  We ended up we actually ended up winning that one, so that was sweet.
• 1:41:25
  Mhmm. Okay.
• 1:41:25
  Okay.
• 1:41:26
  But Or no one knows.
• 1:41:28
  I know.
• 1:41:29
  Especially with him.
• 1:41:30
  Of course, it was Peterson, Adrian Peterson carrying the load.
• 1:41:34
  So but, man, I now you guys got me thinking.
• 1:41:39
  The first game I ever remember watching as a Vikings fan, it's gotta be I wanna say Randy
• 1:41:46
  Moss's first or second year he was doing kick return, or punt return, and he took one back
• 1:41:53
  against the Kansas City Chiefs.
• 1:41:55
  And, yeah, that was too.
• 1:41:58
  That was your too?
• 1:42:00
  Too.
• 1:42:01
  Yep.
• 1:42:01
  Okay.
• 1:42:02
  Yeah.
• 1:42:02
  Yeah.
• 1:42:02
  No.
• 1:42:03
  That's that's always stuck out to me.
• 1:42:05
  I and even, you know, growing up, I didn't I was You
• 1:42:09
  just mentioned my greatest know, everybody says Aaron Donald was the worst Aaron Donald was the
• 1:42:15
  worst draft missed by the Lions picking Eric Nebron.
• 1:42:18
  No.
• 1:42:19
  No.
• 1:42:19
  No.
• 1:42:19
  It's worse.
• 1:42:20
  In night, in that draft that Randy Moss has picked 28, do you know who we picked 27?
• 1:42:26
  Terry fucking Bear.
• 1:42:30
  A punt returning corner that couldn't cover anybody with a blanket.
• 1:42:38
  Yeah.
• 1:42:39
  That's tough.
• 1:42:40
  That's tough.
• 1:42:41
  That's very tough.
• 1:42:42
  I cried that draft.
• 1:42:44
  I was like, he's right there.
• 1:42:46
  Man.
• 1:42:48
  Jared, Steve, are you do you do the podcast with Jared occasionally?
• 1:42:53
  You got your own show or anything that you do, or what do you do?
• 1:42:56
  I'm actually thinking somewhere down the line.
• 1:42:58
  I've started one, but right now, like, I I just love going on, like, his show and all the other
• 1:43:05
  shows.
• 1:43:05
  Like, I even found another one.
• 1:43:07
  It's a bear show.
• 1:43:07
  There's four guys, and they're really cool guys.
• 1:43:10
  They're really cool guys.
• 1:43:11
  It's a bear show that I found, and they respect me.
• 1:43:14
  You know?
• 1:43:15
  I mean, we had a little fun trash talk, but it's what I enjoy.
• 1:43:18
  Just to just to talk football.
• 1:43:21
  Because here where I'm at I live in West Virginia.
• 1:43:23
  Okay?
• 1:43:24
  And here where I'm at, I outside my one friend, John, who's a 49ers fan, I don't really have
• 1:43:30
  anybody to talk football with.
• 1:43:32
  Now my girlfriend here is a Colts fan, you know, and so forth, but still no one really has
• 1:43:39
  the knowledge to talk for me to talk football with.
• 1:43:42
  Then that's why, you know, like I said, I just wanna I don't really wanna trash talk.
• 1:43:47
  Like I said, I enjoy JB and, you know I mean, I could bring it if I wanted to, but I'm not
• 1:43:52
  really a disrespectful guy like that.
• 1:43:55
  You know?
• 1:43:55
  But it's
• 1:43:56
  your only t it's your only chance to talk about your team because you don't have it.
• 1:44:00
  You're not a local fan.
• 1:44:01
  Right?
• 1:44:02
  And that's, like, the beauty of the Internet now is that you can still, like, follow your
• 1:44:06
  team and find community and and have people to talk to about it.
• 1:44:11
  And even if you only get together once a week and to me, that's what was cool about the tape
• 1:44:15
  never lies network.
• 1:44:16
  Shout out to my guys, you know, draft doctor Phil.
• 1:44:19
  And now they built a whole network.
• 1:44:20
  They got shows every day.
• 1:44:21
  They got, you know, ex bears that are coming on with them and hanging out, and they've really
• 1:44:26
  grown this thing.
• 1:44:26
  But they were in chat rooms and shit way back.
• 1:44:30
  Like, in the late nineties, they've been doing different chat rooms, and then Bears Barroom
• 1:44:34
  was another one that did it, and I started following them there.
• 1:44:38
  And then they've just been growing and growing and growing where their YouTube channel's got,
• 1:44:42
  like, I don't know, 16,000 subscribers or something now, and they get a huge following,
• 1:44:47
  people tuning into their live stuff all the time.
• 1:44:49
  But it just grew from being in small communities of Bear because one of them is from
• 1:44:54
  Connecticut, the other one's in Upstate New York.
• 1:44:57
  So they've always been out of town Bear fans and really growing from there.
• 1:45:02
  So seeing what they built gave me a lot of confidence to come out and build this network.
• 1:45:06
  We do a pregame show before the Viking games.
• 1:45:09
  So this week's different.
• 1:45:11
  We're doing our we did our pregame coverage on Tuesday for Vikings United, but this is kind of
• 1:45:16
  exactly what we want the show to be.
• 1:45:18
  Yes.
• 1:45:18
  Being able to bring in the opposing team in on Tuesday nights, talk ball, talk about the game
• 1:45:24
  coming up, talk about the game that was, and just have some fun with each other and Right.
• 1:45:30
  To share it.
• 1:45:31
  Right?
• 1:45:32
  Well, it's
• 1:45:32
  it's it's like to me, I've been on some other pods, and what I don't like is is that there's
• 1:45:42
  like, JB, he's a lot him, Fred, you know, this Jimmy Jackson, he he he's cool.
• 1:45:49
  I don't like the ones that can dish it out
• 1:45:52
  But can't take
• 1:45:53
  can't it.
• 1:45:54
  They you know, because if you cut now see, they have the power.
• 1:45:57
  Like, if you say something back, they could, band you or whatever.
• 1:46:02
  I mean, they you.
• 1:46:03
  No.
• 1:46:04
  Of course. Just
• 1:46:04
  Just mute Steve if we don't like what he's saying.
• 1:46:07
  But I'm talking with you, Steve.
• 1:46:09
  If if you're gonna come on okay.
• 1:46:12
  It you know, there has to be a little to make the pots fun, there's gotta be a little
• 1:46:15
  hostility.
• 1:46:16
  A little, but keep it clean.
• 1:46:17
  You know, keep it clean.
• 1:46:19
  Respectful.
• 1:46:20
  Yeah.
• 1:46:20
  If you can't if you can't take it, then don't dish it.
• 1:46:25
  So I mean, you When Jim comes on, I do something for him on my channel from my
• 1:46:29
  soundboard.
• 1:46:30
  Do you mind if I play a quick sounder?
• 1:46:32
  No.
• 1:46:33
  Go ahead.
• 1:46:39
  I love it.
• 1:46:40
  I love it.
• 1:46:41
  Oh, man.
• 1:46:43
  But yeah.
• 1:46:44
  No.
• 1:46:44
  Steve, I'm with you.
• 1:46:46
  You know, I I got that same mentality.
• 1:46:49
  You know, you, you know, you want to have a place to come and talk football.
• 1:46:56
  You know, everybody have respect for everybody.
• 1:46:58
  But if someone crosses that line, you know, you're willing to dish it back, you know, I'm
• 1:47:02
  kind of the same way.
• 1:47:04
  Don't take my kindness for weakness because these hands work.
• 1:47:06
  You feel me?
• 1:47:07
  So Amen.
• 1:47:08
  It's the same thing.
• 1:47:10
  Be a deep warrior if you can't back it up.
• 1:47:13
  Exactly.
• 1:47:13
  Yeah.
• 1:47:14
  But I mean,
• 1:47:15
  You know, the this you know, just have you know, you wanted the space to talk football,
• 1:47:21
  you know, and, you know, not very many people might have that knowledge, or the same level of
• 1:47:27
  knowledge to talk that football, but there's also not that very many places for people to go
• 1:47:34
  and feel comfortable to speak, you know, about football.
• 1:47:38
  And so this is, you know, this is why we we're doing what we're doing.
• 1:47:42
  And, you know, right now, it's for fun.
• 1:47:45
  Who knows?
• 1:47:45
  It could build into something bigger and better, and we could probably all one day meet
• 1:47:50
  at a Vikings game, you know, doing it on the sideline.
• 1:47:54
  And, you know get
• 1:47:55
  into one game, right, or even if we just, like, get to the for us, like, the VWO, they're all
• 1:48:02
  see most of them are season ticket holders.
• 1:48:04
  Right?
• 1:48:04
  So if we could get to the point where we wanna start covering it and being at their, at their
• 1:48:09
  tailgates when possible and doing the show live from there.
• 1:48:12
  So, like, if this show gets us into one game that we didn't have to go and buy tickets for,
• 1:48:18
  like, it's a win.
• 1:48:20
  Right?
• 1:48:20
  Yeah.
• 1:48:21
  Just being able to hang out and talk ball.
• 1:48:23
  You know?
• 1:48:24
  Your show I'm sure you feel this way, Jer.
• 1:48:26
  Like, your show is wildly.
• 1:48:28
  It got you into a draft, dude.
• 1:48:30
  Like
• 1:48:30
  Yeah.
• 1:48:30
  That's crazy.
• 1:48:31
  My writing.
• 1:48:32
  That my writings.
• 1:48:33
  I started them the same season, the 2223 season.
• 1:48:37
  And for in two years' time, to be able to be at the draft was amazing.
• 1:48:42
  It was an honor.
• 1:48:43
  Thank you to my publisher for applying for my credentials to get me in there.
• 1:48:47
  Scott Morgenroff is originally from the Detroit area.
• 1:48:50
  He moved to Florida, started the South Florida Tribune, and he bought the name of the paper
• 1:48:55
  that he wrote for in Detroit called the Motor City Tribune.
• 1:49:00
  So that's where all my articles go in the subheading under the sub subheading subheading
• 1:49:03
  the the subheading.
• 1:49:05
  Well, because of him and his connections, I got hooked up with Roundtable IO, which is an app
• 1:49:10
  you can download on your dry on your phone.
• 1:49:13
  And they have different shows and different for all 32 NFL teams.
• 1:49:17
  So I'm trying to break into there for the lions too and to have my stuff go to two sites.
• 1:49:24
  Yeah.
• 1:49:24
  We're gonna look them up tomorrow.
• 1:49:25
  We'll do some writing.
• 1:49:27
  Say, Steve, we're we're getting some pretty bad feedback off of there, so I'm gonna let you go.
• 1:49:31
  But just a chance to say goodbye to everyone and wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
• 1:49:35
  Yep.
• 1:49:35
  You too.
• 1:49:36
  Thank you.
• 1:49:37
  Thanks, Steve.
• 1:49:38
  Pleasure seeing you.
• 1:49:39
  See you, guys.
• 1:49:40
  Don't be a stranger, man.
• 1:49:41
  Make sure you jump over.
• 1:49:42
  Scene Project Sports Network is our YouTube channel.
• 1:49:45
  Give us a subscribe over there, and you're welcome here anytime, man.
• 1:49:48
  Appreciate you, brother.
• 1:49:49
  What's the name
• 1:49:50
  of the site?
• 1:49:51
  Scene Projects Sports Network.
• 1:49:54
  Okay.
• 1:49:54
  I'll check it out, and I'll
• 1:49:55
  do that.
• 1:49:56
  SPSN.
• 1:49:57
  Okay.
• 1:49:59
  Well, and god bless.
• 1:50:00
  I mean, you
• 1:50:00
  a merry Christmas.
• 1:50:02
  You too, and you guys be safe.
• 1:50:03
  God bless.
• 1:50:04
  God bless, man.
• 1:50:05
  Happy holidays.
• 1:50:07
  It took me four years to get to where I started podcasting, to where I even wanted to be a part
• 1:50:13
  of a a network.
• 1:50:14
  And the reason why is a somber one.
• 1:50:17
  It was 02/08/2016.
• 1:50:19
  That was the infamous, fail can't Super Bowl where they couldn't hold off the Patriots.
• 1:50:25
  And my son, my oldest son, called me at halftime.
• 1:50:28
  He lived in North Carolina the time.
• 1:50:30
  And he goes, what do you think of this game?
• 1:50:32
  I said, you cannot count the Patriots out.
• 1:50:37
  And he said, if that happens because I don't care what you do the rest of your life, do
• 1:50:43
  something with the football knowledge you have.
• 1:50:45
  And I said, okay.
• 1:50:46
  He goes, I know you're a lions fan, so that's the great route you'll go.
• 1:50:51
  That was the last time I got to talk to my son on the phone because he parisked in a car crash
• 1:50:56
  that night.
• 1:50:57
  And so after dealing with all of that and four years later, I started a page about the lions
• 1:51:05
  on Facebook, and I started writing a couple game previews and game reviews.
• 1:51:11
  And lo and behold, I made a comment on a podcast called Inside the Pigskin that was ran
• 1:51:19
  by Scott Morgan Roth, and he was talking about the difference between Matt Patricia and Dan
• 1:51:24
  Campbell back in 2021.
• 1:51:27
  Yes.
• 1:51:28
  See?
• 1:51:28
  He agrees with me.
• 1:51:30
  Take out the packers in week 18.
• 1:51:32
  But, anyway, anyways, so I said, oh, I can give you my nicknames for him.
• 1:51:39
  He goes, throw them in there.
• 1:51:40
  I said, I called Matt Patricia and Bob Quinn, Matt Patricia and Boob Quinn.
• 1:51:47
  And he laughed, and he contacted me.
• 1:51:49
  He goes, you ever do any writing?
• 1:51:50
  And the only game that I had reviewed that year was the Ravens game when they beat us with that
• 1:51:57
  at the time, the NFL record 66 yard field goal from Justin Tucker.
• 1:52:02
  And I call it the greatest kick that never should have happened and explained about the
• 1:52:06
  false start, the a time running out, and they did they had no time out, and they didn't do a
• 1:52:12
  runoff and didn't call a penalty because that kick shouldn't have happened.
• 1:52:16
  When they spiked the ball, it was two seconds after the clock hit zero.
• 1:52:20
  And we all know even though the time play clock is off, it's not off by two or three seconds.
• 1:52:25
  It's like a half a second off between the TV and real life.
• 1:52:30
  So twins bandage, misspelled tigers.
• 1:52:35
  Jim, you're funny.
• 1:52:38
  No.
• 1:52:39
  He's from Minnesota.
• 1:52:40
  Give him his stuff.
• 1:52:41
  But so that's how I got started into the writing.
• 1:52:45
  Mhmm.
• 1:52:45
  I met up with through my page on Facebook, I met Jim Bordeaux who ran Detroit Lions on the
• 1:52:52
  Prowl.
• 1:52:53
  And he passed away Thanksgiving of twenty twenty one, but he started having me on his
• 1:52:58
  Friday show, which was free for all Fridays with fans and podcasters of the show.
• 1:53:03
  And he introduced me to some guys, and I took over that season and helped them out.
• 1:53:07
  And at the end of the season, I found out they had been on for three years and not a new
• 1:53:12
  podcast like I thought because they had 29 subs when I started, and they had 209 subs by the
• 1:53:18
  end of the season.
• 1:53:19
  I said, I think I need to do this on my own.
• 1:53:22
  I said, oh, okay.
• 1:53:24
  The next couple months later, I got my StreamYard going.
• 1:53:27
  I started it, and I had a 100 subs the first month.
• 1:53:30
  I'm sitting at almost 600 now.
• 1:53:33
  Let's go.
• 1:53:34
  Let's go.
• 1:53:35
  So I'm trying to get I'm trying to get where I'm paid.
• 1:53:40
  I'm trying to get where I'm paid like everybody else.
• 1:53:42
  You know?
• 1:53:43
  But, you know what?
• 1:53:44
  But I didn't do it because I'm paid.
• 1:53:46
  I didn't wanna do it because I wanna be paid.
• 1:53:48
  I did it because I love talking football.
• 1:53:50
  I love my team, and I love talking sport.
• 1:53:53
  And You know?
• 1:53:54
  Hey.
• 1:53:54
  We're gonna follow in your footsteps with the writing gigs, man, because I think what you
• 1:53:59
  just explained there is that when you look at the stats, and you listen to the winners, that
• 1:54:06
  you're not getting any context.
• 1:54:08
  Right?
• 1:54:08
  You're not getting any context about how the game was won or lost either way.
• 1:54:13
  And and that's a valuable asset, I think, to, you know, our our stack now as well as kinda
• 1:54:19
  getting more writing out there.
• 1:54:21
  And I'm releasing these as podcast fan, you know, on our podcast versions as well.
• 1:54:27
  At least the Vikings United, the pre games are kind of you know, pregame is pregame.
• 1:54:31
  We'll do those as a livestream.
• 1:54:33
  But, yeah, man, it's really cool to see what it's done for you.
• 1:54:36
  Really sorry to hear about your boy, man.
• 1:54:38
  That that's awful for any parent to have to go through, man.
• 1:54:41
  So our hearts go out to you.
• 1:54:43
  Thank you.
• 1:54:43
  I appreciate it.
• 1:54:46
  Well, fellas, it's almost 10:00 here in South Dakota.
• 1:54:51
  I think you're an hour ahead of us, Cher.
• 1:54:52
  Are you East Coast time?
• 1:54:54
  Yeah.
• 1:54:54
  I'm in Eastern time.
• 1:54:55
  I'm up about an hour north.
• 1:54:57
  Yep.
• 1:54:58
  I I'm up this time of light.
• 1:54:59
  I don't mean I I usually work afternoon for my day job.
• 1:55:03
  But thank you very much for having me on.
• 1:55:05
  I appreciate it.
• 1:55:08
  Christian Christian Mahogany, he was awful in his first game back after the injury.
• 1:55:12
  I didn't expect much out of him, but he did have the backup center playing next to him and
• 1:55:18
  not our starting center center in Graham Glasgow who was a pole participant today.
• 1:55:23
  So that's good that we we may have him back because that'll get some of that cohesiveness
• 1:55:28
  back that they just started to bill on build on the interior pole line.
• 1:55:33
  Yeah.
• 1:55:33
  She's getting tired.
• 1:55:34
  She's like, come to bed, daddy.
• 1:55:36
  Yeah.
• 1:55:37
  She doesn't care.
• 1:55:38
  She's she's got her cats, man.
• 1:55:40
  She's going to bed.
• 1:55:41
  Well, I might be sleeping in the garage, though, if I don't get in here soon.
• 1:55:45
  Yep.
• 1:55:45
  But
• 1:55:46
  Pleasure having you on, Jer.
• 1:55:48
  Have a great
• 1:55:48
  It's a pleasure talking.
• 1:55:49
  Have a holiday.
• 1:55:50
  Enjoy the game.
• 1:55:53
  I I say the same thing when I end every one of my shows, and I'd like to share it with you.
• 1:55:57
  It's try every day to be a better person than you were the day before.
• 1:56:00
  That's the only way we'll make the world a better place and start to see yourself.
• 1:56:05
  I like that.
• 1:56:06
  Appreciate
• 1:56:07
  that.
• 1:56:07
  Great night, everybody.
• 1:56:08
  Hey.
• 1:56:09
  You too.
• 1:56:09
  You know what?
• 1:56:10
  In in this game, if the lions win, I'm not gonna be that brokenhearted, honestly.
• 1:56:16
  And at least you still got some hopes.
• 1:56:18
  We're mathematically eliminated.
• 1:56:20
  So a win for us is just playing spoilers.
• 1:56:22
  So Yep.
• 1:56:23
  We when we beat the when we beat the cowboys, that that kind of that was the week.
• 1:56:29
  I think that was the week.
• 1:56:31
  Yeah.
• 1:56:32
  Have a great night.
• 1:56:33
  Have a great one, Jer.
• 1:56:34
  Nice nice to meet you, man.
• 1:56:38
  Alright.
• 1:56:39
  Well, coach, that was cool to see it all come together.
• 1:56:42
  Our our first show where we had in some other fans of the the opposing team and even some
• 1:56:48
  other NFC North, fans as well.
• 1:56:51
  I think that's where I'd like to see this go, because, ultimately, you bring something to the
• 1:56:56
  table that not a lot of us have, which is the experience on the field in the locker room as a
• 1:57:04
  coach yourself.
• 1:57:05
  You see the game in a different way.
• 1:57:07
  And I think over time, a lot of these fans and fellow podcasters are really going to
• 1:57:14
  appreciate what you bring to the table.
• 1:57:16
  So you're kind of our ace in the hole, coach.
• 1:57:18
  I
• 1:57:19
  appreciate you.
• 1:57:20
  I appreciate this opportunity.
• 1:57:22
  Like I said, you know, when you first came up to me with this, you know, I don't I'm not
• 1:57:29
  comfortable.
• 1:57:30
  I don't like being on camera.
• 1:57:32
  I don't like speaking on camera, but, I mean, this is an opportunity for growth.
• 1:57:37
  You know, big things can come from this, and, you know, you gotta you gotta live with, live
• 1:57:43
  outside your comfort zone.
• 1:57:45
  So we're just gonna get bigger and better.
• 1:57:47
  Speaking of a platform, tell everybody about the tryouts one more time this weekend, and,
• 1:57:53
  we'll let you get out of here and get some rest.
• 1:57:56
  Absolutely.
• 1:57:56
  I appreciate that.
• 1:57:57
  You too, though.
• 1:57:58
  So let's get it.
• 1:58:00
  This Sunday, December 28, at Toka Soccer Center in Burnsville, we're having tryouts for the
• 1:58:06
  Wyoming Cavalry, arena football team playing in the AIF Arena Indoor Football League, and, it's
• 1:58:14
  from 10AM to 1PM.
• 1:58:17
  I'm look I'm calling all ballers, dogs, you know, beasts, whatever you wanna call yourself.
• 1:58:23
  If you got game and you, wanna come show it off and, you know, hopefully land a spot on a
• 1:58:29
  professional team, getting paid to play the game that we all love.
• 1:58:33
  Come on out.
• 1:58:34
  Show me what you got.
• 1:58:35
  Let's get this ring.
• 1:58:38
  Awesome, coach.
• 1:58:39
  Well, I hope you have a very merry Christmas.
• 1:58:42
  Yes, sir.
• 1:58:42
  You too.
• 1:58:43
  We
• 1:58:44
  are, we're gonna have some fun watching some ball this week and, really happy to get to
• 1:58:49
  spend a lot more time with you.
• 1:58:51
  We got together on some events this year that I don't think either one of us had on our bingo
• 1:58:56
  card for the year.
• 1:58:58
  I got video of all of us together from, from the show up in Hinkley, which was super cool.
• 1:59:06
  And, yeah, couple of couple of comments here.
• 1:59:10
  Jimmy, thanks for tuning in, man.
• 1:59:12
  We appreciate Thank you, Tim.
• 1:59:13
  For
• 1:59:14
  for hanging out with us.
• 1:59:16
  And, yeah, you I agree, man.
• 1:59:18
  I grew up a bears fan.
• 1:59:20
  I've seen how toxic that fan base can be.
• 1:59:23
  I still love a lot of them.
• 1:59:24
  They're fam some of them are family to me, but I I really appreciate you know, I think what it
• 1:59:31
  is is that the Vikings and the lions farewell, and the bears fan base has been awful for so
• 1:59:35
  long.
• 1:59:35
  They've been living on 85 for fucking forty years now.
• 1:59:38
  But that the Vikings and lions, like, the teams were so historically kind of it was so many
• 1:59:45
  tough seasons.
• 1:59:46
  Right?
• 1:59:47
  Vikings never having, you know, won a Super Bowl, got some NFL championships.
• 1:59:51
  Right?
• 1:59:51
  But no Super Bowl that it it just brings a different breed of fan and just nicer people.
• 1:59:57
  Right?
• 1:59:57
  Upper Midwestern people are different.
• 1:59:59
  Nicole here giving us the strong.
• 2:00:02
  Thank you, Nicole.
• 2:00:03
  Appreciate you tuning in.
• 2:00:04
  Danielle says you look exhausted.
• 2:00:06
  I I'm sure I do as well.
• 2:00:08
  The hat's covering it up a little bit.
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  But, coach, I just I I love that we get to spend time together like this, man.
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  We get to talk ball, and, we're gonna do a lot of good with this show moving forward too.
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  So everybody make sure you subscribe to our channel.
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  Follow along with our coverage.
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  We're gonna be talking, more football as we go through when, we're gonna be doing a lot of
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• 2:00:34
  So we'll have a lot of draft coverage.
• 2:00:35
  And then after the draft and the Super Bowl, coach starts his season with the Wyoming
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  Cavalry.
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  So we're gonna be still covering football.
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  It's gonna be indoor football league.
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  Right?
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  Yep.
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  Yep.
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  Indoor football league.
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  So Yeah.
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  So last year, we're more intense.
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  We're gonna have some great golf, stuff that we'll be doing during the, summer as well.
• 2:01:01
  So, coach, I'm a be trying to get us on a a bunch of, golf courses in the summer here too.
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  So a Merry Christmas to you, Jimmy.
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  And, yeah.
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  Hey.
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  It's gonna be a fun one on Thursday no matter what.
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  And, either way, like I said, I'm not gonna be too disappointed if the lions win because that
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  keeps us in the the fourth place schedule.
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  But and it gives us an opportunity to go out and still spoil the packers season, to finish
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  the season too.
• 2:01:28
  They got a tough one against the ravens, this week.
• 2:01:31
  So that ravens team still kinda clawing at their playoff chances.
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  Everybody, this has been Vikings United here on the scene, Project Sports Network.
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  We appreciate you all, coach Cody.
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  Hommeldahl.
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  I've been saying your name wrong for a while.
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  We live in Bonhomme County, which is H 0 M F E.
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  So I've been saying Hommeldahl.
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  It's not right.
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  It's Hamadol.
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  I apologize, coach.
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  No worries.
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  No worries.
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