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Austin’s in Jamaica, Evan has some good Iowa Beer and the Vikings are 11-2 | TSH Ep. 70 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome into another episode of
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  Speaker 1: the school app.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Evan and I'm Austin.
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  Speaker 1: Where's a couple of the dudes from Iowa. We like
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  Speaker 1: drinking beer talking about the.
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  Speaker 2: Vikings, Yeah, we do, and this week I am currently
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  Speaker 2: in Jamaica thanks to Big Top Ventures.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously you're not drinking Iowa beer, but I am.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yep. And we'll talk about that great beer that
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  Speaker 2: you're drinking because we've both had it before. But after
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  Speaker 2: that we'll talk about the games, roses and thorns and
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  Speaker 2: game balls from this beatdown that the Vikings put on
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  Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins and the Falcons this week.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, it was so much fun to watch. And
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  Speaker 1: then of course we have to look ahead to not
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  Speaker 1: only the Vikings taking on the Bears on Monday Night
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  Speaker 1: football coming up, but also the final four games for
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  Speaker 1: this Vikings team that has looked really, really good and
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  Speaker 1: we're hoping they can finish this off down the stretch.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, so grab a cold one and join us for
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  Speaker 2: episode seventy of the scholap School. I just want to
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  Speaker 2: give a quick shout out to show sponsor Big Top Ventures.
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  Speaker 2: I'm actually in Jamaica right now, thanks to Big Top Ventures.
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  Speaker 2: and not only will they give you all the details
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  Speaker 2: and all the information on that, but they'll give you
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  Speaker 2: is beautiful here. So yeah, go ahead and check them
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  Speaker 2: out Big Top Ventures LLC at gmail dot com. Thanks,
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  Speaker 2: Big Top Ventures.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, step right up to your next big adventure. And
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  Speaker 1: you're doing just that right now. That's pretty exciting, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm pretty jealous. I wish I could be there
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  Speaker 1: with you right now, but alas I am not, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm here in our lovely schoolmanned studio.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, a lot colder where you are right now, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it actually wasn't too bad for you know, the
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  Speaker 1: first couple of weeks of December, and Iowa's about fifty
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  Speaker 1: degrees this weekend, which was nice to go. So can't
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  Speaker 1: complain about the weather here, but definitely warmer where you are,
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  Speaker 1: for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, since you're not in the States, you probably
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  Speaker 1: weren't able to smuggle some Iowa beer into your location.
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  Speaker 1: I'm guessing no, So I could.
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  Speaker 2: Have probably figured it out. I might have been able
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  Speaker 2: to do the research and figure out how to bring
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  Speaker 2: a can or tow of some beautiful, wonderful Iowa brew beer,
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  Speaker 2: but it seemed like too much of a hassle. So
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  Speaker 2: currently I'm kind of stuck with what I've got here
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  Speaker 2: in Jamaica. But it's not too bad here. But I
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  Speaker 2: think you don't. You have some good Iowa brew beer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I picked them up this afternoon, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty excited about this. It's really good, and from what
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  Speaker 1: I understand, you've tried this before. I poured this up
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  Speaker 1: while we were talking a little bit ago. But this
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  Speaker 1: is really local. It's from Twin Span Brewing here in Bettendorf, Iowa,
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  Speaker 1: and it's their cherry pylon and it's their pastry red ale,
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  Speaker 1: and I saw it on the shelf. I haven't seen
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  Speaker 1: Twin Span on the shelf, and I don't think we've
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  Speaker 1: had Twin Spin on the show at all. So this
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  Speaker 1: may be a first, a school hot first having some
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  Speaker 1: Twin Span beer. But you said that you had this
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  Speaker 1: beer not too long ago. Your wife put this in
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  Speaker 1: your Beer Advent calendar for this year. Is that correct?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so if a long time Scholl Hop listeners will
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  Speaker 2: remember that twenty twenty three last year, my wife, she's
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  Speaker 2: done this for years now. But my wife last year
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  Speaker 2: made me an advent calendar for beers, so every day
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  Speaker 2: I had a new beer, and like she did last year,
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  Speaker 2: she did this again this year. And Maranda put what
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  Speaker 2: is it, twenty four beers to my Advent calendar and
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  Speaker 2: that the cherry Pylon from Twin Span was like my
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  Speaker 2: second or third day of my beer Advent calendar. So
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  Speaker 2: I had that pretty recently. And she has said before,
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  Speaker 2: and I think I said this in all my videos
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  Speaker 2: that I did on TikTok last year going over the
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  Speaker 2: admin calendar, that she has said she likes to skip beers,
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  Speaker 2: that obviously beer she knows I'll like, but sometimes she'll
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  Speaker 2: throwing a beer in there that she's not sure if
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  Speaker 2: I've had before. Maybe it's a little out of my
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  Speaker 2: comfort zone. And this cherry Pylon is definitely one of
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  Speaker 2: those that she thought might have been one that I
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  Speaker 2: hadn't had before. And she's right before that I hadn't
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  Speaker 2: had it before, and I really enjoyed it. It was
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  Speaker 2: like a nice cherry with a little bit of gramp
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  Speaker 2: cracker taste on the end there. I enjoyed it a lot,
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  Speaker 2: and at what six point five percent, definitely held its
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  Speaker 2: own what do you think?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really enjoying it so far, about halfway in
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  Speaker 1: right now, maybe a third of the way in, And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can definitely see the red color, and so that's
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  Speaker 1: where it gets its red name. You can definitely taste
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  Speaker 1: the cherry, but it's not like overwhelmingly cheery like when
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  Speaker 1: I first picked it up off the shelf and started
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  Speaker 1: looking at him like, ah, man, this is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: like super cherry in your face. I'm not gonna like it,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not like opposed to cherry, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: want a beer that's just going to be like smack
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  Speaker 1: you in the face with cherries kind of thing. So
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  Speaker 1: I was a little leery, but I was like, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, we'll give it a try. I like Reds
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  Speaker 1: and we'll see and I like Twin Span. Twinspin's really good.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, twin Spin, you got a good one here.
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  Speaker 1: This is great, and uh yeah, I might have to
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  Speaker 1: save you one or two and we can have one
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  Speaker 1: together whenever you're back country.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, i'd be I'd definitely be okay with that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that cherry pylon. It's not like a fruity sour or
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  Speaker 2: anything like that. It's got a nice hint of cherry
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  Speaker 2: and like that really good grounding grim Cracker flavor bassed
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  Speaker 2: to it. It's a really nice, really nice beer. I
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed it a lot, and I would gladly have more
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  Speaker 2: of those. So I mean, if you, if you can,
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be mad if you saved one or two
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  Speaker 2: this for me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It does say on the camp and it says
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  Speaker 1: filled with Graham Crackers, vanilla and door Counter cherry Door
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  Speaker 1: County cherries. So the cherries are actually from Wisconsin. But
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  Speaker 1: the beer is brewed right here in Bettendorf. But man,
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  Speaker 1: you can taste the Vanilla and Graham Cracker too, And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's kind of what mellows it out for me,
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  Speaker 1: is the Graham Cracker in Vanilla. If that weren't in there,
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  Speaker 1: this would not be something that I enjoy. So it's
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  Speaker 1: a very easy drinking, very delightful Cherry red Ale from
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  Speaker 1: twin Span.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, good job twin Span, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: making such a great beer.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we need to scull virtually school school.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, we have a heck of a game
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  Speaker 1: to talk about. My friend, Holy Cow the Vikings with
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  Speaker 1: this statement victory over the Falcons forty two to twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: with Kirk Cousins coming back to US Bank Stadium for
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  Speaker 1: the first time since his departure in spring free agency.
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  Speaker 1: So that was a fun game to watch. Were you,
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  Speaker 1: I know you were traveling as the game was happening,
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  Speaker 1: but were you able to watch some or all of
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  Speaker 1: the game?
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  Speaker 2: So I was. I'm in Jamaica right now, obviously, and
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  Speaker 2: so I was on the airplane, which and the plane
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  Speaker 2: landed right as halftime began, so I got to watch
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  Speaker 2: the first half fully on the plane on my iPhone
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  Speaker 2: screen with my buddy right next to me. So I
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  Speaker 2: didn't get to watch at all the second half. I
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  Speaker 2: was only able to see highlights of that. But for
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  Speaker 2: the second half, the resort I'm at is like an
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  Speaker 2: hour or two away from the hotel, so just the
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  Speaker 2: way it worked out, I could only follow the second
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  Speaker 2: half on Twitter and through the ESPN, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: that game cast feature that they have on their app.
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  Speaker 2: But I was still super decided to follow every play
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  Speaker 2: the first half. I mean, if you remember, I'm pretty
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  Speaker 2: sure they were tied. Was it twenty one all at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the half. Yeah, and then just things
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  Speaker 2: took off from there. I think Brian Astmoa had that
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  Speaker 2: forced bumble which c J. Hamm recovered on the kickoff
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  Speaker 2: return in the second half, and that just blew things
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  Speaker 2: wide open, and from there it was. It was exciting,
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  Speaker 2: maybe the most exciting game of the season, definitely the first.
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  Speaker 2: I think Dustin Baker tweeted it was the first time
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings have scored forty points in a game, forty
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  Speaker 2: plus points in a game in five years, which is.
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  Speaker 1: I saw that. I mean, that's that's frizing, I figured,
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  Speaker 1: you know, especially with Justin Jefferson, Kirk Cousins, Dalvin Cook,
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  Speaker 1: there for a few years, you figured the Vikings would
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  Speaker 1: have put up a forty burger on somebody. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's been a while and we' been waiting for this.
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  Speaker 1: As Vikings fans. We've just been longing for a victory
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  Speaker 1: like this, even throughout this season against teams that we
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  Speaker 1: should have beat, probably by a score like this, like
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  Speaker 1: the Titans, like the Bears, and that brought us to overtime,
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  Speaker 1: you know, But I don't know, I think it was
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  Speaker 1: pretty sweet that it happened against Kirk Cousins upon his
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  Speaker 1: return to US Bank Stadium in an opposing team's uniform.
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  Speaker 2: That was that was good, absolutely, And to kind of
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  Speaker 2: skip forward to the end, one of the big things
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  Speaker 2: that was always said about Kirk Cousins is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's just a garbage time quarterback and alone behold, towards
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  Speaker 2: the end of the game, the Falcons were knocking on
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  Speaker 2: the end zones doorstep right right at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the game. And I think I saw it on Twitter
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  Speaker 2: a couple of times, like, for the love, if the
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  Speaker 2: Vikings allow a garbage time touchdown to Kirk Cousins, that
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  Speaker 2: would be the most Vikings thing ever. But they didn't.
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  Speaker 2: I guess Kyle Pitts just didn't want that to happen,
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  Speaker 2: so Kirk Cousins did not score a garbage time touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Cousins has had a pretty rough four or five games. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and on the exact opposite of that, Sam Donald. Ever
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  Speaker 2: since what was it the Jaguars game the jag Sam
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  Speaker 2: Donald has looked elite And at this moment, I think
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  Speaker 2: there's no question which quarterback's better. Right now. Sam Donald
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  Speaker 2: is leaps and bounds better than Kirk Cousins. And of
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  Speaker 2: the two, I'm so glad the Vikings have the quarterback
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  Speaker 2: that they have.
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  Speaker 1: Oh one, well, I think like we went from talking
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  Speaker 1: about like at you know, the beginning of the season,
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  Speaker 1: even the middle of the season, it was like, all right, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: sammyd is playing pretty well. Good for him. He's gonna,
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  Speaker 1: you know, get himself a big contract somewhere else next year,
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  Speaker 1: and JJ McCarthy's gonna slide in and we're just gonna
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  Speaker 1: pick up where we left off, and you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: we in a game or two less with a second
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  Speaker 1: year for all intents and purposes rookie quarterback, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and then we just we take off and you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings have this reign of like five years where
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  Speaker 1: we're dominant, you know. But now I think Sam Darnold's
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  Speaker 1: playing well enough that he's entered into that conversation of
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  Speaker 1: do the Vikings bring him back? And it's it's not
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  Speaker 1: a conversation that a lot of people have really brought
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  Speaker 1: up until now, and until he threw five touchdowns against
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons, you know. So I don't know, and we've
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  Speaker 1: said before, I've said before these words have come out
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  Speaker 1: of my mouth that well, unless he wins the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that we see him playing for the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings next year. But I don't know. You can't argue
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  Speaker 1: with a performance like you saw yesterday. It was it
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  Speaker 1: was pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and these are stats that Twitter has spouted out
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  Speaker 2: of a thousand times, so we're not giving information that
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  Speaker 2: nobody else has. But I'm pretty sure the Falcons game
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  Speaker 2: was Sam Donald's eleventh game of one hundred plus quarterback rating,
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  Speaker 2: which is a Vikings record that's never happened before. That's
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  Speaker 2: the record before that was ten. Sam Donald is arguably
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  Speaker 2: having one of the greatest Vikings quarterbacking seasons of all
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  Speaker 2: time in franchise history. And like you said, the idea
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  Speaker 2: that the Vikings could let him walk, which I think
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  Speaker 2: is still the plan, is starting to be a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more crazy, like how do you let this guy walk?
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  Speaker 2: We can probably dive into that a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: after we talk about finish talking about the Falcons Vikings game,
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  Speaker 2: but it's definitely something that's worth talking about. I think
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  Speaker 2: anytime you have an elite performance of a quarterback, it's hard.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to ignore, whether it's you know, for one
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  Speaker 2: season or ten seasons or one game whatever, Like, it's
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  Speaker 2: hard to ignore a performance like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and you mentioned the fact that he's got
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  Speaker 1: eleven games over one hundred quarterback rating. Now, he set
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  Speaker 1: a franchise record for single game rating passer rating yesterday
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  Speaker 1: with a one fifty seven. I don't remember what the
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  Speaker 1: decimal was after that, but like it was a near
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  Speaker 1: perfect passer rating yesterday and set a franchise record for
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  Speaker 1: single game that way too. Like he just couldn't really
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  Speaker 1: do anything wrong. I would like to point out, and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes actually a lot of the time when we talk
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  Speaker 1: on this show, I'm wrong about my predictions and my takes,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm I'm comfortable being wrong, And we say this
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  Speaker 1: all the time. We're just a couple of dudes and
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  Speaker 1: we just sit around and talk about the Vikings. And
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  Speaker 1: we don't claim to have any of these like inside
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  Speaker 1: scoops or anything like that. That we just we enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: drinking beer and talking about the Vikings and that's the
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  Speaker 1: nature of what we do. But I did say last
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  Speaker 1: week my updated prediction going into this Falcons game was
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  Speaker 1: a thirty five to twenty one Vikings victory. And I said,
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  Speaker 1: I said, I think in the first half it'll be close.
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  Speaker 1: I think Kirk Cousins will play well enough to keep
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons in it, and then in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings will figure it out. They'll put the they'll
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  Speaker 1: put their foot on the gas, and it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be all Vikings in the second half. And even in
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  Speaker 1: the third quarter it wasn't really all Vikings. They kind
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  Speaker 1: of went back and forth and it kind of seemed
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  Speaker 1: like the Falcons were in it. And then the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: Holy buckets, it was just three straight touchdowns for the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings to put this thing away. It was awesome. They
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  Speaker 1: scored twenty one points in the fourth quarter alone. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: it was. It was awesome. And so I don't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: like claim to be like right and claim to be
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  Speaker 1: right all the time. But I was kind of right
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  Speaker 1: on that one, and that felt pretty good because as
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  Speaker 1: I was watching it, I was you're in Jamaica. I
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  Speaker 1: was out hunting in northeast Iowa with somebodies and we
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  Speaker 1: were kind of watching the game on my phone between
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  Speaker 1: you know, different hunting opportunities, and I told them all,
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  Speaker 1: I said, I predicted on my podcast the other day.
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  Speaker 1: I said, I think the Vikings will win thirty five
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  Speaker 1: twenty one. And that was when the score was thirty
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  Speaker 1: five twenty one exactly, and then they scored that last touchdown?
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  Speaker 1: Was that the rushing touchdown? Was that Aaron Jones?
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  Speaker 2: I think that was the final touchdown of the game.
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  Speaker 1: End of the game. Yeah. So anyways, it was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: It was so much fun to watch. And that's not
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  Speaker 1: to mention the fact that you had two receivers with
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty plus yards each and two touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: plus each, Jordan Addison with three. Yeah, Holy cow, Like
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  Speaker 1: that was a breakout game for those two. And there's
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of compare persons being made, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: the Chris Carter Randy Moss days. I saw a picture
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  Speaker 1: on Twitter actually of Carter and Moss on the bench,
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  Speaker 1: and the caption was, you know Jefferson and Addison yesterday
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing, kind of hinting and nodding to the
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  Speaker 1: fact that they played as well as those two did
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  Speaker 1: back in the heyday. So it was fun to watch.
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  Speaker 1: It was a great game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe the most fun game of the season. I'm
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  Speaker 2: really disappointed that I missed out on the second half,
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  Speaker 2: but at least I got to watch the highlights. Another
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  Speaker 2: prediction by one of us that you know, my prediction.
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  Speaker 2: You were right on your prediction, although you were kind
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  Speaker 2: of wrong because you said, you know, thirty five twenty one,
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  Speaker 2: it was better than that. I had preseason predicted the
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  Speaker 2: Vikings to win, you know, eleven games, and hey, they
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  Speaker 2: already hit that. So I'm hoping I'm wrong in my
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  Speaker 2: prediction now. I think we've hope I'm wrong in my
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  Speaker 2: prediction now and they keep winning. I think I said
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  Speaker 2: this last week with Dustin Baker and Yannick.
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  Speaker 3: Hurt.
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  Speaker 2: I said, like you could kind of go through every
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  Speaker 2: combination of wins and losses for the Vikings through the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the season and kind of be like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I could see that yeah, they could win out. Yeah
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  Speaker 2: they could lose out. Yeah they could win this and
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  Speaker 2: lose the rest. Like you could go through every single
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  Speaker 2: combination of wins and losses throughout the final five games
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  Speaker 2: of the season and be like, yeah, I could see
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  Speaker 2: that happening. And I still think that's true. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: at this point, winning only eleven games in the season
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: kind of seems like it would be a letdown, Like
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: they're definitely gonna win a few more games, yeah, and
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I'm here for it.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I really don't know that losing out is a viable
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: possibility at this point. I just don't foresee the Vikings
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: dropping four games in a row. They haven't done that
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: yet this season. They've only drive two games total, and
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: those two games happened back to back. But I just
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: don't see it. I watched most of the Bears game
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: when we got back from hunting last night, and it
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: didn't seem like the Bears had given up. I mean,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: they had what four yards in the first half and
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: one first down? Like the stats were terrible, I mean rough,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: it just seemed like the Bears are done. They fired
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: their coach and they just all the players were like, well,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: there's nothing else to play for this year, so we
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: might as well just give up. And you wonder a
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: little bit if that could be a trap game for
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: the Vikings next week Monday Night Primetime against the division
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: rival who's kind of just given up, and you know,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: they're just playing for stats and a lot of them
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: are auditioning for jobs next year, you know, and hopefully
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: that doesn't happen. But I just don't or see the
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Vikings dropping for total. I'm not gonna say that they're
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: not going to lose again. I definitely think that's a possibility,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: but I think it's still very much within the realm
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: of possibility that the Vikings and the Lions are playing
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: for that number one seed in week eighteen.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and the most important thing right now is playoffs.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: And I think I saw on Twitter. I hope I'm
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: right about this. I might be wrong, but I think
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: this is right for the Vikings. To excuse me for
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: the Vikings to good grief, I'm keep urping.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: It's like you're doing the spread challenge all over here.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: I know, right for them to clinch a playoff spot,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: I believe all they have to do is win a game.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: I think it's something like any combination of one Vikings
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: win or Rams loss or something like that, and the
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Vikings clinch a playoff spot. And I mean, okay, what
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: do we got three four games left? Like yeah, I
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: think like they're they're gonna win a game before the
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: end of the season. Like I don't know what ESPN
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: has their statistical chance of making the playoffs at, but
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: it's got to be something like ninety nine percent, Like
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: we are definitely looking at a playoff team for the Vikings. Now.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Is this crazy that this might be one of the
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: first eleven win teams to not lead their division after
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: a week what twelve or whatever we are right now?
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Like yeah, but I mean at this point, the Vikings
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: are either going to luck into the number one seed,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: beat the Lions, have them lose, the Lions lose a
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: game or two here before the end of the season,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: and the Vikings will be the number one seed with
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: the buy and home field advansions, or what will probably
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: happen is that the Vikings will make the playoffs. They'll
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: be the five seed and they will travel to a
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: team like the Falcons or the Buccaneers or something, or
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks or something like that. And theoretically be favored
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: as an away team in the first round of the playoffs,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: and then who knows what happens from there. Either way,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: It's been a great season. I'm super pumped, super excited,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: and think the Lord the Vikings not only won but
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: put a beat down on Kirk Cousins and the Falcons
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: like that that if you're gonna win any game this year,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: and had to be that one, and they did it,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: and I'm so glad.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, real quick, on that note, I was a little
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: disappointed that Vikings fans booed at the beginning of the game,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: but they they died down pretty quickly, even though the
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Falcons scored first. You know, that kind of quieted things
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: down a little bit, and it was back and forth,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: you know, for a while Bjohn Robinson could not be stopped,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: and Tyler Algier for that matter. You know, they were
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: running all over the number one rushing defense in the league.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: And we can get into that here in a minute
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: when we get to Roses and Thorns. But that was
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: definitely a little concerning that the Falcons were able to
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: run that well on this defense. But I would also
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: just add, as we're just kind of staring down the
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: barrel of the final four games of the season. The
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Lions have a tough schedule ahead of them because they
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: still have to play the Vikings, they still have to
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: play the Packers, I'm pretty sure in the final four games,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: and then the other two games they have are against
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: the Bills this coming week, and you know, the Bills
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: are going to want to try to win this next game,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: especially with that really tough last second loss against the
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Rams yesterday. So and despite the fact that they've already clinched,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs and the Bills are the only
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: two teams that have clinched anything on the AFC side
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: of things, and the Lions are the only thing only
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: team that have clinched on the NFC side of things.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: But you got to know that the Bills are going
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: to want to come out and play tough, and they're
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: gonna want to be the Lions, and we're going to
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: be the biggest Bills fans this side of the Mississippi River.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Any any team that's playing against the Lions right now.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Did you see the stat on Twitter today that the
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: the Vikings, Packers, and Lions have only each lost two
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: teams other than the Vikings, Packers, and Lions once yeah,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: so yeah, yeah, So of those three teams, there's only
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: three losses between all of them outside of their three teams. So,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's a tough division, like everybody kind
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: of expected, It's just nobody expected the Vikings to be
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: in that part of the tough division of the NSC North.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Everybody expected the Bears to somehow, even though they didn't
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: prove anything or have any reason to prove that they
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: would be good. But everybody expected the Bears, Packers, and
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Lions would be the teams to be in the North
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: and the NFC as a whole. But no, the Vikings
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: just proved everything wrong. And sam Donold, to his credit,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: has proven everybody wrong too.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, enough so that he could find himself back in
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Minnesota next year.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: That's that's definitely a talker, and that will be the
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: talk of the town. Between the Vikings final game this
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: year and free agency, we'll see what happens. But before then,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: as far as this Falcons Vikings game, roses and thorns, Evan,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: what's your biggest rose for this game?
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I think my rose for this game is the fact
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: that the Vikings did not take their foot off the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: gas pedal. They continue to go. Like I mentioned previously,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: even in the fourth quarter when it seemed like kind
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: of the game was in their control anyways, they just
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: kept going and I think it was twenty eight to
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: twenty one at one point, and they just kept putting
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: up points, and the defense kept balling out on their
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: side of the ball, forcing turnovers, and then they just
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: kept going on offense too. It was It was something
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: to watch. It was a lot of fun. That fourth
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: quarter was what we've been pining for as Vikings fans
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: for a very long time, like, just go out and
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: you know, beat the snot out of some teams, make
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: make a statement. And I think I think I said
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: it at the very beginning of this episode. This was
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: a statement win for this Vikings team. They are not frauds,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: They are not fake they are not incapable of winning
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: a playoff game. They are the real deal. And I
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: think we could see this Vikings team go pretty far.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I couldn't agree more. That's I mean, that is
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: the epitome of the roses for this game. I think
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: for me, I'll take just almost a gimme the low
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: bearing fruit. Sam Donald, He's my Rose for this game.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean the dude. Yeah, I'm not breaking
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: news here. He played phenomenally, had five passing touchdowns, three
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: hundred plus yards passing no interceptions. For the last handful
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: of weeks he has had basically the opposite of what
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins has had the last month or so. Sam
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Donald is playing into an uncomfortable conversation for Viking's decision
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: makers for next year, which you said just a minute ago,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: but for right now, this guy's playing like an MVP.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: He is playing the last handful of games, just as
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: well as Josh Allen, who both of them definitely deserved
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: to be talked about as MVPs. Josh Allen will probably
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: get it. I can't imagine Sam Donald will get it,
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: just because you know, it just doesn't seem like the
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: media will want to put him in that that conversation,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: although he deserves it. Sam Donald, Oh my gosh, who
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: else will we want for the Vikings at quarterback? Right now?
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: It's a short list who we would pick over Sam Donald.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I mean maybe three or four guys I don't know,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: like right now, and especially if you put Kirk Cousins
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: on that list, you're taking Donald over Cousins. No matter what,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: he's definitely my biggest rose. It'll be short lived, and
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: he will definitely get paid and play somewhere else deservedly
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: so next year. But as long as we have him,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: let's enjoy it and let's love what Kaos is doing
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: with Sam Donald Right now.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: For the Minnesota I think we have to pump the
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: brakes on that conversation right now, though, I really do.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I think I think Sammy d has played well enough
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: to deserve a second look. I think Quacy and Kaosi
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: we're probably thinking, you know, a couple of weeks ago, like, yeah,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: all right, we've we've won nine games, ten games, whatever,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: This is great, but we're still gonna roll with JJ
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: McCarthy next year. I don't after a performance like this,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know that you can continue to have that
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: mindset about a guy like Sam Darnold. I think you
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: have to at the very least think about it and
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: talk about it. And I think I think Quaysy Adolfa
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Mensa has this like a beautiful mind like thing, kind
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: of like Dustin Baker has behind him when on our
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: show he's got, you know, the strings going all over
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: the place and all that. You gotta imagine Quaycy's got
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: something like that, maybe in spreadsheet form, documenting all the
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: different possibilities, like Okay, this happens, then this happens. If
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: this happens, then that happens. I just I don't know.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I don't think you pull that string off the wall
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: quite yet. I don't think you you completely throw the
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: baby out with the bathwater and say now it's a
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: foregone conclusion. Sam Donald will not be a Viking next year.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I agree with you that Sam Donald was a huge
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: rose in this game yesterday, Like he was awesome, He
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: balled out, he had arguably the best game of his career,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: and put up a near perfect passer rating. And again,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I think all of that says that this guy deserves
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: a second look. I'm not saying that he will be
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: back in Purple next year. I'm just saying that you
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: got to at least consider signing him back, and maybe
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: to another single year deal. Maybe it's not a long
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: term contract, and maybe he's comfortable with that. Maybe he's like, no,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I want to stay here. I want to continue to
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: sit under Kosi, even if it's for just another year.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I want to continue to ride the wave of success
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: that we've had, and I'll take similar, maybe slightly more
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: than what I got this year next year to stay here.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: And if that means I'm giving up a bit your
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: contract somewhere else, so be it. But I'm gonna stay
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: here and you know, stay consistent and keep the same
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: people around me, like, let's let's keep this thing going.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know, that's my my hope, and that's uh, yeah,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: that's my hope at this point. Let's leave it in.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: That's my I think so far, And yeah, we're riding
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: on the high of a five touchdown, you know, career
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: game from the guy. But I think so far this
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: year has gone about as well as Sam Donald and
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: the Vikings have thought and hoped that it would go.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: I think everybody knew the situation even before Sam Donald
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: put pen to paper in March and signed with the Vikings.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Donald knew that the Vikings with you know, a top
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: you know, top eleven, top ten pick, we're going to
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: draft a quarterback. And it's one of the first questions
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: he got in, you know, as in a press conference
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: as a Viking, was like, what do he do? And
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: he just basically answered the same way he would answer
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: right now like I'm grateful for the opportunity, looking forward
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: to doing as well as I can for however long
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: I can. I think the Vikings could have couldn't have
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: asked for better so far from their one year quarterback,
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: and I think Sam Donald couldn't have asked for better
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: so far from this reviving career decision. And I think
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: everybody knew this would be probably one year for Sam
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Donald to hopefully launch his career and earn the opportunity
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: to sign a bigger deal somewhere else. I think you're
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: absolutely right. The Vikings would be crazy to don at
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: least explore the idea of re signing him, keeping him
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: for one, two, three, four, however many years, just because
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: he's having one of the best years of the franchise's
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: history at quarterback. I would be shocked if Koc and
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Quac didn't have some kind of a plan moving forward
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: to say, hey, Sam Darnold, we love and respect you,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: We were grateful for everything you did for the organization
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: this year. We know you probably have better opportunities elsewhere,
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: but here is what our deal for you would look
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: like for next year. I'm sure they have something like
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: that in mind. Maybe those conversations have already started happening,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: but they'd be crazy to not at least have something
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: for the future in their minds and don't forget it
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: would be a little far fetched. But the franchise tag
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: is always an option. I mean, you can always tag
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: a guy and it would probably be something like thirty
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: five to forty million dollars for next year for a quarterback.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: But I mean, if if that's if it's worth it
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: to Thes to tag him for one year and kind
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: of get some insurance above Daniel Jones and hoping that
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy is good for one more year. I don't know,
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: all things should be on the table, and Koc and
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Quacy are smarter than we are, so they've already thought
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: about all these things.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Well. I think a tag makes a lot of sense
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: for both parties. I think it's a win win because
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: obviously Sam Darnold gets a pay increase and the Vikings
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: have a little bit of insurance that he sticks around.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: But even if he doesn't, even if after they tag
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: him they move him on, isn't he guaranteed to make
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: something significant like something close to that thirty five to
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: forty million.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you're tagged, it's a one year guarantee. Yeah,
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: And it's like if for a quarterback, it would be
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: something in the area of like forty million dollars or
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: something like that.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: So, and that's even if he's traded to a different
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: team after he's been tagged by the Vikings.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Right in theory, if the Vikings tag him, they would
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: get you know that they could trade him at any
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: point and then if they traded him, the other team
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: wouldn't have to sign him to a longer term deal.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: But if you traded for a franchise tagged player, you
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: probably want to sign them longer terms. So I mean,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: he probably every player wants a little bit more stability
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: than the one year franchise tag because what if Sam
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Darnold just does pulls a Teddy Bridgewater and his knee disintegrate.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: It's like it's not a lot of you know, yeah, security,
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: but it's a lot of money, especially for a quarterback
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: for one year.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: So I don't know, And that's I guess the point
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to make Like it's a win win. It's
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: a win for the Vikings because if if he continues
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: to play like he has and is not, you know,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: crippled with some sort of injury. Then you know, the
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Vikings get to keep this guy and hopefully get to
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: keep a lot of this core group together and you know,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: keep rolling with the same success that they've found this year.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Won eleven games with four games to go, which is
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: pretty awesome. And if Sam Donald leaves finds a better
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: spot somewhere else, he's probably almost guaranteed a long term deal,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: and that's a wait for him too, So I don't know.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: I definitely think there's a lot of different possibilities on
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: the table with Sam Donald. Specifically, I'm not going to, like,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: you know, get married to any sort of specific idea
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: because I did that with Kirk Cousins and then I
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: was really disappointed on this show openly when Kirk Cousins left,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I really questioned that move by the organization,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: and I questioned signing Sam Donald, and I was proven
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: wrong in those things. And he's he's definitely come into
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: this organization and played really, really well, which has been
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: a breath of fresh air for a team that's longed
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: for quality quarterback play that's consistent, and he hasn't been
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: without his flaws. He's he's struggled, like we mentioned in
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: the Jaguars game, but before that he played really well,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: and then after that he's played really well. He hasn't
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: really slumped over long stretches of time. And like you
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: mentioned previously, we've watched Kirk Cousins slump for four games now.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's thrown a touchdown in the last
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: three or four games, and he's thrown a lot of
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: interceptions in those games, including two against the Vikings. So
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: you know, you look at what we gave up in this,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: you know, huge paycheck that Kirk got to go to
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Atlanta and the ten million dollar contract that the Vikings
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: signed Sam Darnold too for this single year. And man,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: the Vikings are looking real good right now for making
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: that move, and the Vikings are in such a better
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: position going into the final stretch of the season.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: So absolutely, and to kind of go, you know, two
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: steps ahead if Sam if and when Sam Donald does leave,
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: the Vikings have JJ McCarthy. He's a rookie. You know,
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: he's under a rookie contract, so he'll be with the
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: team for at least you know, three seasons after this year.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: With the team option of another year after that, so
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: three or four years after this year, assuming he's healthy.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: We've seen the physical talent that JJ McCarthy has. I mean,
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: he's a national champion for goodness sake, And we're putting
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: a lot of credit into Sam Donald's resurrection to Koc
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: for being like a quarterback whisperer. There's no telling, there's
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: nothing saying that Koc can't also do that for really anybody.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: That's why if Donald does move on, I think JJ
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: McCarthy is a fantastic option. He could be the franchise
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: quarterback of the future. And then you also have that
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: little bit of a wild card with Daniel Jones, who's
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: currently on the practice squad and not signed after this year.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: But he I mean, I don't know, unless a team
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: offers him a big amount of money in free agency,
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: the Vikings should have a good shot at signing him
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: to be QB two for next season twenty twenty five,
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: and then who knows, maybe he kind of has an
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: also Sam Darnold resurrection of his career as QB two
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: and moves on from there.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. Well, we spent a lot of time
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: talking about that. There's there's so much more to talk
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: about with this game, what's a thorn for you? If anything?
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Was there anything that you were just kind of shaking
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: your head about with this game?
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: I mean the first half it was the Sam old Samo.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: The Vikings were playing to the level of their opponent,
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: which was that's been a thorn for me all year.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, Kirk, while he had a decent amount of
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: yards and a decent completion percentage, didn't have a touchdown
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: all game. I think you alluded to it. He's got
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: something like zero touchdowns and like seven or eight interceptions
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: in the last four games. So that's kind of a
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: you know, an unended rose. For the Vikings, there is
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: that Kirk didn't blow him up. But for the Thorns, yeah,
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: they just kind of started slow. There has every single
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: game of the season. There has been a chunk of
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: slowness or slumpiness or whatever you want to call it
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: for the Vikings in all phases of the game. I
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: think if you had to pick out the worst thing
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: that happened in this Falcons Vikings game was that I
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: think the one field goal attempt will record had he
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: missed in his first game back. And you know, since
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: being on an ir for a month. That was a
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: forty plus yard field goal and it it hit the pilot,
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: so like it wasn't missed by much, but it was
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: a miss. And after letting you know, a heck of
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: a kicker go to a free agency for free, that's
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: never one thing you want to see. Luckily, it wasn't
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: even close to being, you know, a game decider or anything.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: But you hope will records good and back fully, I
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: think they said he's paying free, but honestly, that's just
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: kind of nitpickings. It's hard to have too many thorns
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: in a game where your team wins forty two to
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: twenty one or whatever it was. I mean, yeah, I
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: think we're all sitting happy right now.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's hard to call any of the things
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: that I'm about to say thorns, but they're definitely like
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: there are things that coaches and players i think have
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: to stay on top of. In this closing stretch of
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: the season. Offensive line struggled, I felt in the first half.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Sam Donald got sacked four times throughout the stretch of
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: the game, and despite the pressure that the Falcons defensive
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: line was putting on him, Sam Donald still balled out
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: and had a great game, which was awesome.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: But that Falcons pass rutch has not been great this year,
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: so four sacks is not that great. So yeah, that's
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: a pretty solid thorn to bring.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Up concerning that. This offensive line, and specifically Garrett Bradberry
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: like he seemed to be the culprit a lot of
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: the time when it came to allowing those defenders through,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: and I'm sure there were others. I think Blake Brandell
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: was maybe guilty of a few of those pressures as well.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: But the offensive line has to find that next level.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: They got to find that ability to just dig deep
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: and gut it out, and they've done a pretty good
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: job throughout the season. But man, if the Vikings are
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: going to make a push into the playoffs, it's gonna
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: start and end with them. If they break down and
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: just start letting guys through and Sam Darnold gets sacked
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: a bunch of times and the run game can't get
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: going at all, that'll be the demise of the Vikings.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: So that's concerning another thing. And this happened throughout the game.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: The only offense that the Falcons could generate was their
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: rushing offense. Really, Jean Robinson, I don't know what he
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: finished with in terms of yards or Tyler Algier, but
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: I know they finished with quite a bit. And that's
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: against coming into this game the number one rushing defense
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: in the league. The Vikings were the best rushing defense
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: in the league, and they just kind of carved them up.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: And that was also kind of concerning a little bit.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: As I was watching, I was just watching these big
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: gash plays Bjon Robinson getting these you know, big you know,
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: fifteen twenty yard rushes and Tyler Ljeer getting some big
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: first downs and some key moments that kept them in
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: the game even into the third quarter, and it's like,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: come on, like, we got to make these stops. We're
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: better than this. Unfortunately, the fourth quarter happened and it
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: was all Vikings from there. So it was really a
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: non issue. And again that's why this isn't necessarily like
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: a big thorn. But again, you know, if this team
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: is gonna go far in the playoffs, that's something that
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: they will have to figure out. Yeah, as well, So
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: those two things I think are fairly minor. They're not
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: like super pokey thorns that are gonna like leave a
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: big gash in your skin. As a Vikings fan, but
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: there are things to keep an eye on, there are
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: things to watch out for, and hopefully the coaching staff
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: and the players themselves get those things figured out and
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: and this team can make a big run. I would
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: say an honorable mention for me, I've been a little
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: long winded here, Oh you're good is the rushing game.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: It was tough for the Vikings to generate much of
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: a rushing game. They ran the ball really well at
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: the end of the game just to kind of seal
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: the deal, which was great, but I mean, you still
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: haven't had one hundred yard rusher in a lot of
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: games this year. I think Aaron Jones finished with what
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: seventy five yards or something.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Like seventy three this game, and that's with like a
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: big fifteen yard run towards the end of the game.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: Although cam Akers did put fifty ish up twenty thirty
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: forty fifty ish up towards the end of the you know,
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: the fourth quarter. So overall rushing.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: They were over one hundred yards. Yeah, by committee they
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: had over one hundred yards, which is good, but and
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: I think that's just indicative of the game today, Like
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: the NFL is not ground and pound anymore. Even if
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: you are the Baltimore Ravens and have Derrick Henry or
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: whatever like, that's just not the way the game goes anymore.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: All of the rule changes that have been made recently
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: have been in favor of quarterbacks and or receivers, and
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, the game is relying upon do you have
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: a good quarterback who can find your receivers, your tight ends,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: and your running backs that can come out of the
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: backfield and make plays downfield. That's what the game comes
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: down to, and we've seen it. I mean, justin Jefferson
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: has struggled to generate yards and touchdowns throughout kind of
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: the middle portion of this season. But when he's not
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: generating yards and touchdowns, he's drawing a lot of attention,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: and he's getting a lot of pass interference calls that
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: move the ball to the spot of the foul, which
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: is really helpful. And he even had I think at
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: least one of those in this game where I'm pretty
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: sure it was him, I can't remember specifically, but yeah,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: he drew a pass interference and it moved the ball
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: thirty something yards down the field and just kept the
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: drive going for the Vikings. So that's kind of the
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: way the game is being played right now, that's the
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: way the rules are set up, so it's hard to complain. That's,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: like I said, it's an honorary, honorable mention kind of
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: thing for a thorn. The run game isn't a bad
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: aspect of the Vikings game necessarily, but you hope to
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: see a little bit more, especially early on against a
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: team like the Falcons that struggled, you know. So yeah, again,
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: if the Vikings are going to be this complete, full
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: faceted team that makes a deep run in the playoffs,
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: that's something I think they'll have to figure out as
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: well as how to get Aaron Joe specifically, more yards,
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: more opportunities to make these big plays downfield.
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and maybe the silver lining of that is that
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: Aaron Jones hasn't been carrying the ball thirty times a game,
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: you know, the whole season as a thirty year old
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: running back now, so maybe he's a little bit fresher
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: than he would be. And if anybody is primed for,
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: you know, a late season and or a playoff explosion here,
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: Aaron Jones could be primed for that. That's wishful thinking,
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: and that's kind of just searching for a silver lining,
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: but I guess it's there. You had an honorable mentioned thorn.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna have also an honorable mentioned thorn. Just turnovers
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: in general. One, yes, the offense and special teams has
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: kind of negated the last handful of games. Really the
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: last month or so, we haven't seen too many Vikings
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: turnovers to the other team. But on the other side
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: of that double edged sword is I mean, while the
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: defense has been playing amazing and it's really awesome to
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: see multiple interceptions, fumble recoveries, force fumbles, whatever every game,
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: it's not so awesome when you think about the fact
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: that the Vikings have kind of relied on defensive turnovers
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: to win games, especially when you think those aren't guaranteed,
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: Like you can't make sure that you know, we're going
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: to have a turnover for the you know, with the
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: defense every week. And while it's fun and it's really
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: nice as it's happening, you just you can't rely on
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: it and you can't bank on it. And that's one
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: of those things that I think back to the twenty
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: sixteen Vikings where they started off five to oh. A
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: major reason for that five and oh start and the
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: demise afterwards. Was that in the beginning, the Vikings defense
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: of that five and oh start was turning the ball
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: over and scoring. And then after that five and oh start,
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: you know, they, like you always say, you can't rely
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: on defensive turnovers consistently in defensive scores consistently. That kind
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: of stopped, so the Vikings stopped winning. It's been a
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: great season so far. I don't really see it ending
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: very soon. I'd be shocked if the Vikings didn't win
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: one playoff game at least. But you don't love to
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: have to rely on defensive turnovers because you can't rely
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: on those, they're not too reliable.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I would definitely agree with you on that.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: I think there have been a few games, like I
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: think about the Jaguars game where the Vikings offense couldn't
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: even put up a touchdown. They relied on four field
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: goals and all of these defensive turnovers to win that game.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: And then you have a game like this against the
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: Falcons where the offense just grinds and the defense turned
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: the ball over a few times. You know, you have
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: that amazing one handed interception, Oh my gosh, Iron Murphy,
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: which we could.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: Have a whole episode on ball placement after turnovers like that,
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: because it seems like it's not common sense to have
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: to place the ball at the one.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: Anyways, keep going, yeah, anyways, Yeah, so there's that whole thing.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Josh Mantelis looked really good on his interception as well.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins looked bad by the way. I don't know
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: if we said that like directly yet, but he just
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: looked bad. But I think this team has definitely proven
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: that it can excel in all facets of the game.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: It can excel defensively, they can turn the ball over
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: and they can score defensive touchdowns. This team can run
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: up the score offensively like they did against the Falcons,
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: especially in the fourth quarter. And this special teams unit
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: is something too. I mean, they brought in this replacement
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: kicker and it was almost like they didn't skip a beat.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: It was just no, Yeah, Parker Romo is good, you know,
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: and will record came back and yet maybe it wasn't
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: the greatest game of his career, but he still didn't
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: miss an extra point yep. And it wasn't like the
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: game came down to you know, are they gonna need
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: to kick a field goal to win? It or will
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: it come down to did he make that previous field goal?
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: You know sort of thing. So all that to say,
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: I think the Vikings are solid in all three phases
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: of the game, and I think that's a really good
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: place to be going into the home stretch of the
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: regular season and headed into the playoffs. I don't think
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: we can really complain about how the Vikings are playing.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: With that being said, let's award some game balls here. Yeah, offense, defense,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: special teams. Let's kind of rapid fire these. Let's get
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: through these so we can look ahead to the next
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: game Monday night against the Bears.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: Sounds good.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: You want to start offensive game ball?
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Offensive game ball for me. I mean, it's hard
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: to beat Sam Darnold. He's whatever we were complaining about
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: a month ago, seems to have figured it out. I
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: think a big thing is that, you know, he started
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: off playing great. He was trusting Koc at the beginning
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: of the year and just you know, threw the ball
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: when KOs said to throw the ball and just was
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: kind of playing as a robot. And then he kind
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: of got some more leeway and some more you know, autonomy,
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: and it kind of slipped up a little bit and
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: he wasn't playing as great, and then he really started
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: to force it to justin Jefferson, and you know, it
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: wasn't making the greatest decisions and he started looking terrible.
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: But now he seems to have figured that out. You're
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: seeing obvious plays where you know, a month ago he
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: would have thrown a forced interception. Now he's tucking it
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: and either taking a one or two yard sack or
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: running it for one two ten yards. You know. So,
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: I think just his progression in the season, you can
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: clearly see a difference in his decision making and that
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: was very evident, if only for you know, if nothing
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: else for the first half in the Falcons game, but
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: for the Falcons game, offensive game ball, Sam Darnold. He's
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: earned it, he deserves it, and so far he needs
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: to get every award he can earn at this point.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I can't disagree with that at all. I'm
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: gonna go with the two receivers that both had one
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty plus yards two plus touchdowns each, Jefferson
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: and Addison. They both had a touchdown each where they
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: made defenders look like absolute fools, just Jefferson more so
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: than Edison, like the one touchdown that Jefferson had, the
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: long touchdow that Justin Jefferson had. The defender was like
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: ten yards away from him before he even caught the ball,
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: and I saw a whole bunch of stuff on Vikings
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: Twitter that was making fun of him, like this was
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: before the ball was even caught. And then once the
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: ball was caught, the dude like you know, made the
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: spin remove the wrong way and Justin Jefferson just like
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: walked into the end zone. It was hilarious. It kind
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: of reminded me of his first ever touchdown where he
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: literally made two defenders like run into each other and
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: then he just walked into the end zone. So it's
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: kind of reminiscent of that. Yep. But that was awesome.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: And then Jordan Addison had one where Sam Darnold was
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: scrambling quite a bit, he got out of the pressure
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: found Addison and Addison had to kind of come back.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: He was I think he was double teamed at that point.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: He came back towards the ball and as he was
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: doing so, he kind of moved the other way and
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: the defenders went the other way and he had an
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: easy route to the end zone. It was awesome. So
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: both of those guys just played phenomenal games. I can't
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: just pick one of them. I can't say one of
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: them had a better game than the other. I think
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: they both played great and it kind of proved Vikings
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: have the best one to two combo wide receivers in
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: the league I think right now.
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if if only for last week, if nothing else
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: you can you can't argue with that at all. I
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: do want to point out with four games left in
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: the season regular season, Jordan Addison has seven hundred and
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: eight receiving yards already, so it's not insane to think
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: that he could cross that thousand yard mark for the
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: first time in his career. Last year, he had something
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: like nine hundred and something yards receiving. Both Addison and
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: Jefferson currently have seven receiving touchdowns right now. I think
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: Addison has one or two rushing touchdowns too, so that's
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: pretty cool. Yeah, definitely, only obviously justin Jefferson has eleven
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: hundred and seventy yards receiving right now, so it probably
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: it probably won't happen because it would it's a three
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: hundred yards and four games is not the easiest thing
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: in the world. To get. But it's not insane to
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: think that the Vikings could have two thousand yard receiving
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: wide receivers by the end of the season. It's we're
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: only less than three hundred yards away from that.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: And you know what they say about having two thousand
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: yard receivers. You got to have a good quarterback throw
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: and there you go.
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we we're gonna have a lot of conversations about
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: what to do with Sam Darnold after the done, because
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: I don't think there is a right answer at this moment.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: All Right, we said we'd be rapid fire, but a
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: little long winded here. Defensive game ball, I think I
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: know what you're gonna say, but you might surprise me.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: What do you think for defensive game ball?
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: Oh man, there's there's actually a lot of options here
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: defensive game ball. I you know, I'm gonna go a
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: little outside the box. I think, Jalen.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: Redmond, that's what I thought you were gonna say.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: Really, Okay, So he's by no means the highest performing,
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: the best athlete on the team. That probably goes to
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: somebody like Harrison Smith or Cashman or Van Ginkel or
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: cam Bina. There's a lot of great guys on this defense,
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: but Jalen Redmond, he's technically a rookie. I think if
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: not a rookie, then very inexperienced as far as his
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: total career. Guy was playing in the XFL last year
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: and the last really all season, he's kind of flashed
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: every once in a while, but the last two games,
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: specifically in limited availability, he has flashed and he has
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: made a couple of big plays each game, to the
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: point that he officially from KOC against who was it
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: last week? Right, he got a game ball last week
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: from KOC officially this week, I don't know against the
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: Falcons if he officially got one, but he definitely deserved one.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: For me, he gets my defensive game ball. He could
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: be a valuable piece of the Vikings defense for years
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: to come.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he definitely had a coming out party this game specifically,
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: but he kind of gave us a little teaser last
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: week against the Cardinals. But I think this Falcons game
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: was kind of Jalen Redmond's on the map and other
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: teams have to be on the lookout for him. I
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: knew you were gonna pick him because of that. I'm
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: not surprised at all, and I was prepared, but I'm
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: gonna take another easy one here just because I'm gonna
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: go with Byron Murphy. Yeah, you can't go wrong with
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: that one handed interception. He hauls that in, and I
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: know the field position afterwards was a little goofy whatever,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: But man, that guy he's got what six or seven
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: picks on the year. At least seven seven picks on
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: the year. That's crazy, that's phenomenal. You talk about a
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: dude on the defensive side of the ball. I mean,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: we spend a ton of time talking about Sam Darnold
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: at the beginning of this episode, talking about how he's
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: earned himself a big paycheck next year. Byron Murphy Junior
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: has earned himself a really good contract with whatever team
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: he signs with next year. I know he's going to
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: be a free agent. Selfishly, I want him back in Purple,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: but I'm also not naive enough to know that that
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: may not happen and he could end up playing somewhere
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: else and he'll get his bag for sure. And I
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: think these seven picks this year have proven that he's
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: a phenomenal cornerback and can play at a very high level.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: And it's been fun to watch him I just hope
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: the Vikings can get him back next year. He gets
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: my defensive game ball this week.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. And if you think about guys that Quasy likes
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: to sign, it's usually like highly touted first round picks
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: that never really did anything, kind of like Jerry Tillery
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: a little bit. Or it's guys that are kind of
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: younger that have flashed a little bit but have never
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: really quite hit their full potential. And Byron Murphy when
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: he signed with the Vikings what two three years ago,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: he was one of those guys. And I still think
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: he's definitely improved, but he's still in that category of
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: Quacy guys to sign. I still think he the Quasi
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: would want to sign him, even for the higher price tag.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: I think he's worth the higher price tag. And I
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: think the only thing that would stop him from signing,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: either the Vikings signing him or Bier Murphy choosing to
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: sign with the Vikings would be if Brian Flores moved on,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: which I don't think that's a foregone conclusion to think
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: that Brian Flores won't be with the team anymore after
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: this year. So yeah, I'm one hundred percent with you.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: I definitely agree he deserves a game ball, He deserves
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: a new contract, and he's he definitely deserves to be
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: a Viking for a while.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: A real quick special teams what do you got?
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, you gotta think it's got to be Will record, right.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: I know, he missed that forty something yard field goal,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: barely missed it, but he still missed it. I mean,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: barely missing is the same as wide missing, and barely
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: making is the same as you know, hitting it straight
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: down the middle. But he missed that one field goal attempt.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: He made all the extra points. He was injured and
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: he came back, and I don't know, for me, he
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: still gets a special teams game ball.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I kind of figured you'd say that, So I
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: was prepared for something else. I'm gonna go with c
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: jam sure, and maybe who forced that fumble? Yeah yeah,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: so I think maybe kind of a package deal with
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: those two Osamoa forcing the fumble, c J ham recovering
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: the fumble. I mean, let's not forget Brian Osamoa was
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: kind of on the trading.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: Block, trading next year.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and maybe gone in free agency. We just
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: don't know. And and for that matter, c J Hamm too.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: I mean that fullback position is definitely not one that
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: is very useful on the offensive side of the ball anymore,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: and it's more of a utility position in certain situations offensively,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: and then more so in the punt protection game. But
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: for those two to do what they did on that
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: return was awesome, and I think that really swung momentum
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: towards the Vikings. Like I think that was just a
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: big momentum shift. They got the first two game balls
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: in the locker room, if you want Koc's little postgame
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: locker room speech. Osmoa and c J. Ham got those
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: first two game balls, so I think he even coach
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: himself recognized, like this was a big turning point in
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: this game when it was kind of back and forth
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: for a while, even though Kirk Cousins wasn't playing super well,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: they had it tied, you know, you know, coming out
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: of halftime, So I gotta go with those two guys.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: They've been grinding and Brian Osamoa could have easily just
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: kind of thrown in the towel on his season when
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: he was on the trading block, and he didn't.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: And c J.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: Ham is up for Walter Payton Man of the Year
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: which is pretty cool too. So no, I think both
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: of those two deserve a game ball. I cheat all
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: the time in this game. I'm supposed to only give one,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: but it's tough when your team plays super.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you could argue their play. That force fumble
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: and fumble recovery was the thing that broke the Camel's
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: back and after that the Vikings dominated there. There was
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: nothing the Vikings could do wrong after that. As I
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: was saying will records name, well, I'll still stand behind
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: it and say he's still might have special teams game ball,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: I was thinking, crap, I should have should have given
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: those two guys. I think for that one play. Absolutely,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: they both deserve that special teams game ball. So get
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: pick well.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: And you know for those special teamers too, like sometimes
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: that's all they get. And it's like famin fam and
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: fam and fam and famine feast for those guys. And
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: so kudos to them for just continuing to go out there,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: continue to grind, continuing to go after it and then
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: to finally hit gold on a play. Is it's fun
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: to watch? So absolutely, and and like you said, the
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: turning point in the game, so pretty cool. Well, the
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: Vikings have four games left. They host the Bears Monday Night,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: which we may have to have a little like on
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: air production meeting here and figure out how we're going
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: to do that next week.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because our podcast on Monday night's the Bronco or
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: the Bengals Cowboys game is happening right now. It's fourth
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: quarter and they're tied twenty twenty. So yeah, we'll be
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: watching the Vikings Bears game.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: So yeah, we will be watching that game without a
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: shadow of a doubt. We'll have to figure out maybe
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: we live stream that and then podcast it the week
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: after or the day after, or we kind of do
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: some combination of both. I don't know. We'll figure that out.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: But that game kicks off the final four games of
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: the season. That game is at home, and then the
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: Vikings travel to Seattle before coming home to host the
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: Packers and then finally traveling to Detroit for that final
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: game of the season, which I said and I still
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: very much believe could be the deciding factor in the
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: NFC that could decide the one seed. I think all
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: scenarios are on the table at this point, and that's
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: very much one of them. The Vikings could be playing
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: for that number one seed when they go to Ford Field,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: absolutely in week eighteen, but we're not going to get
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: that far ahead yet. Let's talk about this Bears game.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: I kind of mentioned it previously, but your thoughts on
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: this Bears game against the Niners. I felt like the
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: Bears just kind of gave up. I mean, you don't
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: gain one first down and four yards in a half, Yeah,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: if you haven't given up. And that's kind of what
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: it seemed like to me in the first half of
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: this Bears game, yep, yesterday.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: It definitely seems like and this probably isn't fair to
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: the Bears or their fans, but it seems like it's
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: a cluster there in Chicago right now. Their current you know,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: interim head coach was once they're passing game coordinator just
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: really a handful of weeks ago. Their quarterback is probably
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: being put there's probably way too much being put on
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: Caleb Williams shoulders right now, and maybe one of those like, hey,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: let's just get through the rest of the season. They've
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: already fired their coach, they've already fired other people they're
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: looking at, you know, their scouting department is probably doing
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: work over time just to see Okay, who should we
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: draft here? I think the Bears organization is they're over
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: the season. Obviously, they're eliminated from playoff contention. There's really
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: not much to gain from this season other than you know, experience.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: All that to say, I mean, there's still going to
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: be playing football, Like, they're still going to try to win.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: There's nothing that they gained from havan draft spots they
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: would gain from losing a game. But at this point,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: you know, it's one of those like why would they
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: try to lose. Anybody who's playing is trying to put
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: tape out there for other teams or save their job
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: with the Bears, or you know, the coach could even
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: be trying to save his job with the Bears. So
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of reasons for people in Chicago to
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: perform well, so you can't look over those things. That
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: being said, I think the Vikings are a little bit
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: more well put together top top to bottom, organization wise,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: coaching players, everything, So barring some like craziness like unpredictable
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: strip sacks or pick sixes or you know, injuries or
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: anything like that, I think the Vikings should really have
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: no problems winning this game.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: So snap reaction real quick. Is this a trap game
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: for the Vikings or no?
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean it's still an NFL football game. I
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: mean you're still playing against athletes that are good enough
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: to play in the NFL. Can't discredit that. It's not
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: like you can. You can never just automatically check a
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: win or a loss off, like you still have to
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: play the games. I think it absolutely could be a
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: trap game, you know, one of those like it's our
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: last home game for a while, we're looking at the
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: end of the season. We just came off this huge
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: high of five passing touchdown win, like it could just
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: be one of those, like we can breathe now. We
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: only have the Bears this week, and that kind of
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: is the definition of a trap game. So I don't
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: want to discredit it. I don't think it's impossible for
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: the Vikings to lose the skin. I'll give a score
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: here in a minute, but I'm predicting a Vikings win.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: But it's not a foregone conclusion. Especially Monday night, you
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: never know, there's any timeslot that's not Sunday at noon
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: could mess with you a little bit. It's out of
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: your routine.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's definitely seemed like less of an issue with
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: this Vikings roster than previous years. I mean, the first
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: five years of Kirk Cousins six years in Minnesota was ah,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: Kirk can't win in primetime games, like he just can't
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: do it, and every time he's in and he crumbles.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: And that was true for the first five years of
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins in Minnesota, and then you know, he kind
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: of figured it out. And last year he was playing
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: pretty well and the Vikings were in a handful of
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: primetimes games, primetime games, and he figured it out, played well.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know. My snap reaction is this is not
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: a a trap game at all. I don't know that
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: the Vikings run up the score like they did against
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: the Falcons this past week. But yes, you're right, the
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: Bears organization as a whole, in each individual player on
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: that team has a lot to play for still, even
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: if it's not a playoff spot. They're all playing for
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: future contracts with the Bears or other teams, and they're
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: playing for draft picks at this point too. I won't
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: forget going to Soldier Field with you a few years ago,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: when the Bears were more excited, the Bears fans were
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: more excited by the fact that they lost to the Vikings,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: which meant that they got the number one pick to
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: go ahead and draft Caleb Williams.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: Well, that was when they traded the pick away to Carolina,
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: and Carolina Pickedron or you.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: But then they got the number one pick this year,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: didn't they get the first two picks or something like that,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: and then they traded away the second pick.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, two years ago, they traded the number one pick
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: to Carolina so Carolina could draft Bryce Young and a
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: part of that, Carolina traded there twenty twenty four first
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: round pick to the Bears, and it turns out that
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: the Panthers earned the first overall pick, which was given
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: then to the Bears because they had traded for it.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: So the Bears had number one and I believe number nine,
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: and they took Caleb Williams and roma dudes in this
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: previous draft.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: Yea, you have a better memory of that than I do. Anyways,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: all that to say, the Bears are still playing for
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: something and could lose out for something as well to
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: maybe you know, get the draft pick if they so choose.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: But I don't think it's going to be that easy
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: for the Vikings, especially considering the fact that this team
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: brought the Vikings to overtime just a few weeks ago
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: and had them on the ropes, you know, like it
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: didn't look like the Vikings could easily win that game
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: for quite a while, and the Bears were just kind
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: of hanging in there annoyingly. So so I kind of
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: expect the Bears to do that as well. Are we
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: ready to do official score predictions?
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd go for it. I want you to go first.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: You were so close this week, he gives such falcons.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: I don't think I'm want to be as close this week,
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go ahead and say the Vikings win comfortably.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: And I think this defense, the Vikings defense really comes
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: out plays well. I think this offense for the Bears
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: slows down quite a bit. Honestly. I was surprised that
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams stayed in the game against the Niners yesterday.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: I thought they'd pull him out quicker. Did they pull
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: him out at the end. I can't remember how.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: I didn't watch it, so I don't know.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: We were watching it while we were eating dinner. I
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: wasn't really paying a whole lot of attention. But anyways,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: I remember looking over at one point and thinking, like, man,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: he's still in the game, and they're down by this
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: much in the late third quarter, early fourth quarter, whatever
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: it was. Anyways, I think the Vikings will be comfortably
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: in the lead by the late third quarter, early fourth quarter.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: I think it's probably like twenty eight seven or twenty
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: eight ten, and I think that might even be the
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: final score. I think the offense does enough to put
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: it away, maybe even so early on, and then the
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: Bears just struggle to catch up. The Bears offense looked
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: awful against the Niners, and I think the Vikings are
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: and have proven to be the better team, a more
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: complete team than the Niners. And they beat the Niners
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: earlier this season.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't think the Vikings have any troubles
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: with the Bears this week. I don't think they're really
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: struggle with that team this week. No, I genuinely think
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: it'll be something like thirty five to three, or like
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: thirty five to seven or twenty eight to nothing. It'll
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: be a beatdown. I think the only reason it wouldn't
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: is if there's some like crazy injury or like a
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: couple of like insane interceptions or weird fumbles or something.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: I don't think the Bears are going to out coach
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: the Vikings this week. I think their only chance for
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  Speaker 2: winning is to have some you know, craziness happen and
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  Speaker 2: some backyard football stuff happened that nobody can control. I
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  Speaker 2: genuinely think this will be a beatdown for the Vikings,
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  Speaker 2: and to the point that the Vikings will get big
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  Speaker 2: heads and maybe turn the next few games into track
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  Speaker 2: games because they're super into themselves. But yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: Monday Night against the Bears, it would take some craziness.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Vikings have this game pretty handily.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So real quick, like, let's make this thirty
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  Speaker 1: seconds or last final record predictions for the Vikings. What
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  Speaker 1: do you get?
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  Speaker 2: All right, let me pull up their schedule really quick.
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  Speaker 1: Bears, Seahawks, Packers, Lions.
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  Speaker 2: When when four and oh? I've got them at four
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  Speaker 2: and oh. I think okay, okay, realistically three and one.
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  Speaker 2: I think they'll drop one of those, probably the Lions game,
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  Speaker 2: but it could be you know, any of them. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I'm three and one and that's only fourteen
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  Speaker 2: and three, yeah, yeah, and it could easily be you
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  Speaker 2: know what, fifteen and two and four, and oh in
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  Speaker 2: the last three games or four games of the season.
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  Speaker 2: But all right, we'll just just to be saying fourteen
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  Speaker 2: and three for me.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna say they actually drop two of these.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that's not the case. But you don't ride
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  Speaker 1: six game, seven game, eight game win streaks like this
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  Speaker 1: in this league. Like that's pretty uncalled for. The Lions
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  Speaker 1: are an anomaly. The Chiefs are an anomaly right now
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  Speaker 1: winning as many games in a row as they have,
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  Speaker 1: and to be fair, the Vikings with a six game
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  Speaker 1: win streak after losing two are kind of an anomaly
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  Speaker 1: as well. You just you don't do that in this league.
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  Speaker 1: I think they finished with thirteen wins. Thirteen and four,
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  Speaker 1: I think is their final record at this point. I
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  Speaker 1: know I predicted a lot fewer wins at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the season, but there were a whole lot of
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  Speaker 1: unknowns and I was probably licking my wounds a little
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  Speaker 1: bit from Kirk Cousins leaving and Sam Darnold being signed.
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  Speaker 1: But man, it's been fun to see how this team
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  Speaker 1: has blossomed into its fullest potential. But I still think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is the NFL in every team that
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings play from now until the end. Maybe with
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  Speaker 1: the exception of the Bears has a lot to play for.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: The Seahawks have a lot to play for. The NFC
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  Speaker 1: West is still very much wide open. The Packers are
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  Speaker 1: still fighting for a wild card spot at this point,
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  Speaker 1: even though they're in third place in the NFC North,
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  Speaker 1: which is wild And you know Detroit is going to
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  Speaker 1: show up to that Week eighteen matchup ready to ball
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  Speaker 1: out and they're not going to lay down easily. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think unless that number one seed is like comfortably theirs,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Dan Campbell's going to let off the
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  Speaker 1: gas at all in that game. So I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what two games those are. I know the Vikings struggle
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  Speaker 1: historically going west, so I could see that being an issue,
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  Speaker 1: and I could see either the Packers or the Lions
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  Speaker 1: giving the Vikings some fits. But we watched those two
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  Speaker 1: teams play Thursday this week, and they struggled against each other.
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  Speaker 1: They both showed signs of weakness against each other, so
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  Speaker 1: we were career all kind of hoping that game could
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  Speaker 1: have ended in a tie or something. Unfortunately it didn't
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  Speaker 1: and the Lions got the dub there. But Anyways, I
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  Speaker 1: think the Vikings still drop two. It'll be frustrating to
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  Speaker 1: watch them drop two in these final four games, but
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  Speaker 1: that's still a heck of a lot better than anything
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  Speaker 1: we expected at the beginning of the.
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  Speaker 2: Season to hear them. They could lose out and still
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: make the playoffs too, So playoffs are still going to happen,
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: which is wild, that's awesome, and they could they could
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  Speaker 2: do some damage in the playoffs, so I'm here.
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  Speaker 1: For so Yeah, it's going to be exciting to see
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  Speaker 1: how this season closes out. It'll be very entertaining to
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  Speaker 1: see where they end up in the playoff mix. They
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  Speaker 1: could still very much so be that number one seed
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  Speaker 1: in the NFC. They're only a game behind the Lions,
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  Speaker 1: and all it's gonna take is the Vikings to continue
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  Speaker 1: inning in the Lions to lose a game for that
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  Speaker 1: to flip flop. I think it's really as simple as that.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, yeah, a couple of weeks from now,
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: we could be sitting here talking about that Vikings Lions
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  Speaker 1: game being everything or nothing exactly.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, So you've opened a few more What are
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  Speaker 2: your thoughts on the cherry Pylon.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: This is a really, really good beer. If you're looking
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: for something that's like got that cherry vibe to it,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: got that holiday vibe to it, kind of like that
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: muld Siderie vibe to it, but with that cherry kind
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: of accent. This is your beer right here. It's really good.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: It's a red ale. Obviously you can see in the color.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: It's not an amber necessarily, but it's that red, and
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: it's it's cherry, but it's not cherry like boom right
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: in your face, sour cherry whatever. It's just it's mellow.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: It's like, all right, we just had a really big,
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: you know, Thanksgiving Christmas meal, it's time to kick back
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  Speaker 1: with the beer, watch some football. I think this is
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: the one you're gonna want to pull off the shelf.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not being this point.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yeah. It's nice. It's fruity without being too fruity
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: and without being like a sour, which I mean I
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: can appreciate a good sour too, But if you just
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: want like a nice mellow, you know, sweet but not
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: too sweet cherry with graham cracker, it's kind of it's
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: kind of perfect. I mean, I really like it a lot.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, the cherry is good. The Graham, Cracker
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: and Vanilla make it palatable for me. What about you?
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: Red Stripe is it?
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know if I've ever had a
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: Red Stripe outside of the last couple of days in
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: Jamaica here. Yeah, it's a it's a nice light blogger.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, nothing to complain, nothing to I wouldn't travel
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  Speaker 2: specifically for it, but I'm not mad that it's the
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: beer that I have here.
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  Speaker 1: So well, you can get it here in the States.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but if you ever find yourself in Jamaica,
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  Speaker 2: maybe via Big Tap Ventures, you can at least have
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: yourself a nice red Stripe. There's also a red striped
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: Light two, which I haven't tried yet, but I'm sure
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: it's just as just as good. So yeah, solid.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: Beer, good stuff. Well, I'm looking forward to being back
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  Speaker 1: here together next week, so hopefully talk about a Vikings
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: win against the Bears and look ahead to the Vikings
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: traveling west to Seattle. But until then, where can people
• 1:23:51
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• 1:24:35
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• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: What's the brewery again that we're going to be at.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I actually just went there kind of on
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: my way to this hunting trip that I went on
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  Speaker 1: with some buddies. We stopped through Bellevue, Iowa. It's right
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  Speaker 1: right on the river there in Bellevue. Beautiful spot, really cool,
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• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: I said, I'm going to be driving through that area anyways,
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  Speaker 1: at all. Looking forward to being back up there in
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: January and hopefully the Vikings are still playing at that point.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: I think that's the weekend that we're supposed to be
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: up there, is divisional round week.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that could be an exciting day. So yeah,
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: we'll be a part of their on tap live event
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