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We're gonna take 16 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:08,319 Speaker 1: on a team that I was very nervous about a 17 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: few weeks ago, and then I got less nervous about. 18 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:14,320 Speaker 1: And even though I should have gotten more less nervous, 19 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: the nervousness has increased. I don't like playing teams with 20 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 1: back to back losses that are good, and that is 21 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,759 Speaker 1: what is happening this week as we take on the 22 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. Now, normally on the show, the great Chad 23 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: Daniels joins me, but there are gonna be a few 24 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,400 Speaker 1: exceptions this year, a few moments where he gets the 25 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 1: week off, and this is one of those moments because 26 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 1: we have a long time tailgate guest, longtime Philadelphia Eagles fan, 27 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 1: Blake Wexler, who's worked for the organization, fantastic comedian, joining 28 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 1: us to break down all things Eagles. Blake, I appreciate 29 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: your time first and foremost. 30 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 2: Of course, and I am a fantastic comedian And what 31 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 2: else do you have to say that's nice? 32 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: And secondly, I want to ask this as you and 33 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: I who care a lot about each other, but also 34 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: in this tight universe where our teams are about to play, 35 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,959 Speaker 1: it doesn't always go great from a private dialogue standpoint. 36 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:15,679 Speaker 3: Mm hmm. 37 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: I want to ask this in a way that's what 38 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,679 Speaker 1: did the kids say? They call it triggering. I want 39 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: to ask this in a way that doesn't trigger you 40 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 1: and your Philly brain good luck, because I think it's 41 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: an important question. The Eagles are one of the more 42 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: interesting roller coaster teams in the history of professional sports. 43 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: They draft a quarterback, they go on a crazy run 44 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: to start a season, he gets injured, They win a 45 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: Super Bowl with the backup and a new coach and 46 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: Doug Peterson. Quickly thereafter, that young rookie quarterback that everybody 47 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: thought was the future of the league is gone and 48 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:53,239 Speaker 1: the head coach is gone, and then they start over. 49 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: And then you've got this new team that seems to 50 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 1: build into a juggernaut, and then down the stretch they 51 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,639 Speaker 1: collapse a couple years ago, just like, oh no, everybody's 52 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:06,799 Speaker 1: not gonna be here anymore, like old school Major league 53 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 1: movie reference, like let's pave the parking, let's turn it 54 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: into a parking lot. That's what it felt like after 55 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:16,839 Speaker 1: that Buccaneers loss. Then somehow they keep everybody. The next year, 56 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: they're a juggernaut all the way to a Super Bowl title. 57 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: Then they start this season and you go, well, this 58 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: is clearly the best team in football. And then they 59 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,639 Speaker 1: lose these last two in a way that is almost 60 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: not even recognizable and is someone whose job it is 61 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 1: to discuss the upcoming matchup, even though that's in a 62 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: humorous way. I don't know what's happening, Blake, What is 63 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: your team? What's happening here? Should I? Should I go? Oh? No, 64 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: one of the best teams in the league has lost twice, 65 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: and they very rarely lose three times in a row. 66 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: We've got our work cut out? Or am I looking 67 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: at that moment in a grade school project where the 68 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 1: lava has just started to bubble over the homemade volcano? 69 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 2: Buddy, I don't know what you're talking about, but I 70 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 2: will say that you know exactly, So it's funny. We 71 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 2: had a similar conversation earlier in the season about like, 72 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 2: what is this team? And this is before we lost 73 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 2: the two games and when we were winning. So we 74 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 2: rattled off four wins in a row to start the season, 75 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 2: lost the last two too, probably the two worst teams 76 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 2: out of all those teams that we've played, for sure, 77 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:36,159 Speaker 2: And I was not nervous by the way that has changed. 78 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 2: But when you talk to me about that when we 79 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 2: were four and oh, I'm like, you know what, we 80 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 2: did barely squeak by a bunch of games last season 81 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl. The games were close. There were 82 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 2: certain games that could have gone either way. Even going 83 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 2: back to that snow game against the Rams and the 84 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 2: playoffs where people forget Matthew Stafford was marching down the 85 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 2: field in the fourth quarter and if it wasn't for 86 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,839 Speaker 2: that Jalen Carter sack, they they probably they could have 87 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 2: pulled that game out. 88 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:03,600 Speaker 1: Yeah. 89 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 2: So now I'm like, well, this is just how we 90 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:08,599 Speaker 2: win super Bowls. I'm calm, there's nothing to freak out here. 91 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 2: We're gonna just win the Super Bowl for now, one 92 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:14,280 Speaker 2: and now. And then I went to the Giants game 93 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 2: that we got and it wasn't oh a coin flip. 94 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 2: You know, we got destroyed in that game, wall to 95 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 2: wall destroyed. So to answer your question. 96 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:28,840 Speaker 1: Point yeah, where where a guy took his shirt off 97 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: on the postgame show confidently knowing the rest of the 98 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,160 Speaker 1: world wouldn't go why is he doing that? We all 99 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: went like, well, we watched the game, take your shirt off? 100 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 2: Yeh, why is your shirt ever on? I guess it's 101 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 2: if you're gonna play like that, no shirt, no problem. 102 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: And you know, even you might as well, if you're 103 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 1: gonna play like that against the Eagles in prime time, 104 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:49,479 Speaker 1: forget your pads at home. It's a quicker path to 105 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 1: being shirtless on National TV. 106 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:53,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're gonna play like that against the Eagles, 107 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 2: no need for cleats. Flip flops, flip flop your way 108 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 2: up and down the field. I like the sound of it, 109 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 2: and it is so anyway, Here's what I think is 110 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:04,479 Speaker 2: going on, because I've been thinking about this a lot. 111 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:06,360 Speaker 2: We have like a mini buy as they call it, 112 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 2: because we played Thursday night, so we'll have. 113 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 1: Which I hate that, by the way. I think that's 114 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: the right thing to do competitively. But when I realized 115 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:16,840 Speaker 1: you guys played on Thursday off of our bi No, 116 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:18,479 Speaker 1: I want you to play on I want you to 117 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: play on Monday, but I want you to play on Sunday. 118 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 1: I want you to have the short week. I don't. 119 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 1: I don't want your mini by. Is that a thing 120 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 1: the league is doing. It's fair, it seems more fair, 121 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 1: But I want unfairness against you, Blake. 122 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 3: I understand. 123 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 2: And when I came up with the term mini by, 124 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 2: I was I hadn't gotten a lot of sleep. But 125 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 2: I stand by it because I think, you know, if 126 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 2: it was up to me, the Eagles would play Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 127 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 2: and then I take off Saturday. Then we would play Sunday. 128 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,559 Speaker 2: So I think what's going on with the team after 129 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 2: thinking about it during our mini bye, is that we 130 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:58,239 Speaker 2: have our offensive line, for the first time in years, 131 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 2: is not playing like the greatest offensive line of all time, 132 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 2: and we're calling plays and expecting these plays to work 133 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 2: as if they are still the best offensive line of 134 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 2: all time. And I believe they're really banged up? Are 135 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 2: centered Jurgens? Cam Jurgens, who made the Pro Bowl last year, 136 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 2: is a great young center. He had back surgery a 137 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 2: few weeks before training camp started. 138 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 3: Backs. 139 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 2: I don't know, society if you've ever had back issues, 140 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 2: but back, from my understanding, how dare you? 141 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 3: How dare I? Also? I have such back issues. 142 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 2: If I drop coins on the ground, I'm like, well, 143 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 2: there go my coins, and you know how much I love. 144 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 1: My Somebody else will find them. 145 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, someone else will find them. It'll be lucky to them. 146 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: And can I tell you something really quick? 147 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 3: Help me? 148 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: Cause you and other friend of the program Zach Martine, 149 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 1: also fantastic comedian Detroit Lions fan. It has been so 150 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: exhausting for me the last few years to listen to 151 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: you both claim to have the greatest offensive line of 152 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 1: all time, Like, and you say it in the way 153 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: that when I know he thinks you're wrong, you think 154 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: he's wrong, I think both of you are wrong. You 155 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: do it. You do it in the way that like 156 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: twenty four hour slanted news media, like you know how 157 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 1: sometimes those entities will say an original fact as though 158 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 1: it's inarguable before they say the thing afterwards that is arguable. 159 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: So clearly it is the greatest offensive line in the 160 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:36,439 Speaker 1: history of professional football. And it's just not that this year. 161 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 1: You're like, so now I have to argue with you 162 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: about whether or not this current version is the greatest, 163 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 1: and I just have to accept the thing. And you 164 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: guys both do that. It's like it's like you went 165 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 1: to twenty four hour news college to come on this show. 166 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: It drives me crazy. 167 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:52,839 Speaker 2: Well, I was the valid victorian of twenty four hour 168 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 2: News College and I and I have that diploma displayed 169 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 2: prominently in my home. But it is You're so right. 170 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 2: It is also not a of all Even saying the 171 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 2: greatest wide receiver of all time is controversial, but there's 172 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 2: no like qualitative quantitative stats from an offensive line. It's 173 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 2: like saying I have the greenest lawn of all time. 174 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 2: It's like you can't quantify a color, you know, and 175 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,479 Speaker 2: so it is subjective. But anyway, let's say a fantastic 176 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 2: offensive line. 177 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: You guys had a very good offensive lineman. 178 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 3: Fantastic, fantastic offensive line. 179 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: Swift's future brother in law. 180 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 2: Sure sure, sure, sure sure, and that is that's that's 181 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 2: how we refer to him as well. But he was 182 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 2: replaced by Jurgens, who has been injured. Landon Dickerson has 183 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:38,319 Speaker 2: made a Pro Bowl every year he's been in the 184 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,200 Speaker 2: league as a guard. He's been banged up, and you know, 185 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 2: Lane Johnson's still amazing, but he's in his late thirties now, 186 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 2: and you look at the running numbers. Saquon Barkley isn't 187 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 2: putting up those numbers, And I don't think they have 188 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 2: an identity on offense where we have a first year 189 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 2: play caller as well and Kevin Patulo as our offensive coordinator, 190 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 2: and that's not going well. So that's what I think 191 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 2: is happening right now. And I don't know if there 192 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 2: was a fix to that, other than you hope, in 193 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 2: the hardest sport on a human body that exists, that 194 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,079 Speaker 2: these guys will just get healthy during the season. 195 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: Landon Dickerson and Lane Johnson. Those are two separate but 196 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 1: also together all time names like that. When they do that, 197 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: I'm from here, this college thing in the pregame going 198 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 1: from cause do they do? They go one right after 199 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: another Sequentially they're both on either side of the center right. 200 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 2: So it would be Landon then center than right guard 201 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 2: then Lane. So I'm just pitching that we move Lane 202 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 2: over so Landon and Lane can go right next to 203 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 2: one another. All time football names. There are very few 204 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 2: times in football that you can go, oh, that's a 205 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 2: big reason they won the thing, like Reggie White on 206 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 2: the Packers. You're like, it looks different with Reggie White. 207 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 2: And football is a sum of its parts, and just 208 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 2: because one part is an incredible part doesn't mean you 209 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 2: didn't need all of the parts. But the Saquon Barkley Edition, 210 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 2: I was trying to think back in my brain what 211 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 2: other ex like, where do we get close to that 212 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 2: in football that has such a large roster, Like the 213 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 2: only thing that's close to it is you know, maybe 214 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 2: going back to the Reggie White thing. Had Randy Moss 215 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 2: won it with the Patriots that year but they lost 216 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 2: the super right that was a sizeable difference. I think 217 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 2: if the Packers were to win the Super Bowl this year, 218 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 2: the Micah Parsons thing could pan out that way. But 219 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:35,079 Speaker 2: it's just so interesting to me. And this is the 220 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 2: last question I'll ask you before we go to break 221 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:41,559 Speaker 2: on it. The thing that's so interesting is you have 222 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 2: all these pieces that are still there. 223 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 1: And your line might be banged up. But even though 224 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 1: all this stuff is bubbling, I don't know how stuff 225 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: never bubbles over or bubbles out in this way. AJ 226 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 1: Brown is tweeting stuff. And the crazy thing is two 227 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:57,560 Speaker 1: weeks from now, and this is what's so fascinating about 228 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: your organization. Two weeks from now, you might just go 229 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 1: it's all sucked back in and it all looks normal 230 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 1: and everybody's happy, and you're the best team in the NFL. 231 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 1: And I don't know what sort of leadership structure from 232 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:12,960 Speaker 1: you know, the top, all the way down to people 233 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 1: I've never heard of, exists. But that ability to wrangle, 234 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 1: that's what makes me nervous about this game. Is all 235 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 1: of a sudden, they can just go, oh, were the 236 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 1: Eagles from the Super Bowl last year? 237 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 2: I agree with you, and I would never be that 238 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 2: optimistic as an Eagles fan period and even right now, 239 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 2: it's difficult to do it, but I've seen them do 240 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 2: this before. Where you know that year that we started 241 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 2: ten and one and then went one in six, one 242 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:40,440 Speaker 2: in seven through the playoffs, like like you mentioned, we 243 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:41,960 Speaker 2: lost to the Bucks at the end of the year. 244 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 2: But in no world did I think that we, the 245 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:49,679 Speaker 2: whole team would return after that, especially the coach. And 246 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 2: you have these combustible personalities and these combustible persons. You 247 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 2: have the coach of the team might be one of 248 00:12:56,679 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 2: the most combustible personalities in the entire league. So that's 249 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 2: the coach. Then you do have aj Brown who's reading 250 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 2: a book on the sideline during the game. 251 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: I love it. 252 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 2: I love it. It's my favorite thing. And also, by 253 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 2: the way. 254 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: Jealous, I'm jealous. I like as somebody who lived through 255 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:17,439 Speaker 1: the Tice Randy Moss, Dante Culpepper era, let's shake it up. 256 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 1: I love like you. Never you didn't watch the Michael 257 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 1: Jordan Bowles documentary and go man, there's no no big 258 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: personalities here. 259 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 2: No Dennis Rodman, a real housecat of a human being. 260 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 2: No personality to that guy whatsoever. And also, by the way, 261 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:38,839 Speaker 2: side note infamous reading City Philadelphia caused that book inter 262 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:41,680 Speaker 2: Excellence to go number one on Amazon right after that. 263 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 1: So that's the other thing that always happens your city. 264 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:48,839 Speaker 1: By like, there could be a guy on the sideline 265 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 1: who just for whatever reason has a salted nut roll. 266 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: He's like, there was a kicker, the snicker kicker for 267 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 1: the Vikings. His name was Mitch Berger. 268 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 2: And talking about what are you saying right now. 269 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm saying normal stuff. We used to have 270 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 1: an you. 271 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 2: Have a candy player, No, tell me about your candy player. 272 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:08,440 Speaker 3: By all mean we. 273 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 1: Used to have a punter who would punt and then 274 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:13,800 Speaker 1: he would go to the sideline and he'd take out 275 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 1: of one of his extra shoes that was just sitting 276 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:17,679 Speaker 1: over on the sideline, which I guess I never really 277 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 1: thought about that part. But he would take you had 278 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: have an extra shoe, you would take a Snickers out 279 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 1: and he would take a bite. He would eat a 280 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 1: Snickers during the during the game. People would call him 281 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: the snicker kicker. 282 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 3: I love it. 283 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 1: So I'm not here to say that. But here's the thing. 284 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 1: Snickers didn't break the charts like I don't. And so 285 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 1: what I'm saying is like a worse candy, although I 286 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: love it the salted nut roll. If AJ Brown or 287 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: Jalen hurts ate a saulted nut roll on the sideline, 288 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 1: just like they just pulled it off the bench and 289 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: ate it. Whatever company publicly trades the salted nut roll, 290 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: you want to be on that information early because it's 291 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 1: going through the roof. You won't be able to get 292 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 1: salted nut rolls in gas stations. And Philadelphia, you guys 293 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 1: support the activities in a way that is mind blowing. 294 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 2: It's fanatical, it's maniacal. There's some company in China that 295 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 2: made dog masks, really really weird dog masks. During the 296 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 2: twenty seventeen twenty eighteen Super Bowl run, we called ourselves 297 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 2: the underdogs. Chris Long and Lane Johnson put on these 298 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 2: dog masks. This company in China has no idea what's 299 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:31,800 Speaker 2: going on in Philadelphia. All of a sudden, they get 300 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of dogs. They sell out their whole company. 301 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 2: They have no more masks, they have no more company 302 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 2: because every stock of this weird thing was being bought 303 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 2: in a place called Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. So you have these 304 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 2: and it goes back to Big Dom to answer your 305 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 2: question where Big Dom is one of these like Mickey 306 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 2: Mouse cartoon characters coming out of Philadelphia and to the 307 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 2: point where he got suspended for shoving a player for 308 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 2: shoving a forty nine er. But a couple of years ago, 309 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 2: Big Free Big Dom t shirts were distributed throughout Philadelphia 310 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 2: like they were pamphlets during the French Revolution. It was unbelievable. 311 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 2: And now this guy Big Dom were before. Now there's 312 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 2: a spotlight on him, but he's part of this consistency 313 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 2: in the organization where he's a guy who helps quell 314 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 2: these you know, this turmoil, and you also have an 315 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 2: owner who's a very stable owner, and you have a 316 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 2: GM who is basically the GM for life. Now you know, 317 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 2: the guys won two Super Bowls, the only two Super 318 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 2: Bowls that that team has ever seen. So you have 319 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 2: this stability that I think is a very strong safety net. 320 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 2: Now NFL players can cause any safety net to dissipate, 321 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 2: But I do think Philadelphia is very lucky and that 322 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 2: they have that safety net. 323 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 1: Like I love our GM. I think we have a 324 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 1: fantastic front office, a fantastic GM. But you know, in 325 00:16:54,520 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 1: that same way where I find myself jealous or I 326 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:05,400 Speaker 1: found myself jealous of those who had theo Epstein Right. 327 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:08,919 Speaker 1: He brings a title to a long suffering group. I 328 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: just don't think he gets talked about enough. He broke 329 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 1: two curses, who did yeah, And so you guys, as 330 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: a long suffering organization to have this guy come in, 331 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:22,119 Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think he's waited through coaches 332 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:25,879 Speaker 1: and won multiple titles in multiple different ways. And I 333 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:30,879 Speaker 1: guess I didn't even understand the ascension of him where 334 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 1: it's like, this is a guy who was an unpaid 335 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 1: intern at twenty four and a decade later he becomes 336 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 1: the GM right and seems to not only consistently hit 337 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:49,680 Speaker 1: on moves. They never feel overly risky at the time, 338 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:52,639 Speaker 1: and they certainly don't feel risky in hindsight. So he 339 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: consistently hits on deals right and decisions that he makes well. Also, 340 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,919 Speaker 1: to your point, no matter what's going on, when the 341 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 1: seasons are volatile or anything like that, it never feels 342 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:06,920 Speaker 1: like an overflow, especially in a city. Again, this is 343 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:08,480 Speaker 1: what I was getting to earlier when I was talking 344 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: about it, like the emotions of the fans in your 345 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:14,919 Speaker 1: city are different than other places. So the fact that 346 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 1: everything is kept under a fever pitch in a place 347 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,959 Speaker 1: where people react the way they react. It's wild. I 348 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:25,160 Speaker 1: just think that dude is at this different level that's 349 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:27,480 Speaker 1: kind of hard to even conceptualize. 350 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:31,719 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, And his ascension is really interesting because 351 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 2: he was never he never played football really at any level, 352 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:39,440 Speaker 2: and he would send blind emails to Joe Banner, who 353 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 2: is long term NFL executive, and to a bunch of 354 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:44,840 Speaker 2: other people. And then he got in as an intern 355 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:47,399 Speaker 2: and obviously now rose up to become GM. And not 356 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:51,160 Speaker 2: only did he become GM in twenty sixteen, chip Kelly 357 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 2: took that title away from him. So chip Kelly was like, yo, 358 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:57,960 Speaker 2: either I'm your coach and your GM or you don't 359 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 2: get me at all. So they demoted Howie Roseman. Howie 360 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:05,000 Speaker 2: Roseman then comes back to take the team over after 361 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 2: chip Kelly was fired, and then you know the rest 362 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,639 Speaker 2: is history, won two Super Bowls. So he's a guy 363 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 2: who is And this is an interesting thing. So with 364 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 2: Philadelphia we get obviously do well well much do crap 365 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 2: for booing our own teams, that sort of thing, But 366 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 2: it is the same thing. 367 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:25,679 Speaker 3: Where as much. 368 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 1: As Santa Claus, any person that really stands for joy, 369 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:33,439 Speaker 1: like you shouldn't just leave it at your own team. 370 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: I mean you throw, Yeah, I understand what you're saying, 371 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 1: but I just think. 372 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,200 Speaker 2: The Santa Claus think he was not in a good outfit. 373 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 2: That was the whole thing. It wasn't booing the institution 374 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 2: of Santa Claus. There was some Santa Claus who put 375 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 2: no effort. He looked like garbage. He might as well 376 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,920 Speaker 2: have been wearing a bathrobe and a sleep hat out 377 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:52,919 Speaker 2: into So that's that was the problem. That's why he 378 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 2: was booed, was because he wasn't a good Santa Claus. 379 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:58,639 Speaker 2: We have standards for our Santas and he did not 380 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 2: reach that Santa Stama. So anyway, and sorry, you got 381 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 2: me all frazzled. 382 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:05,200 Speaker 1: Very normal, very normal reaction. 383 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 2: So as much anger as us as a fan base 384 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,200 Speaker 2: will show to teams, players, et cetera, it's how much 385 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:18,360 Speaker 2: love we show as well. And it's the same thing 386 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 2: where I mean, it's like we just talked about buying 387 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 2: the masks, the weird masks, the weird book, all that stuff. 388 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:29,399 Speaker 2: So Howie Roseman, a front office general manager, might be 389 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 2: the easiest person to direct anger at as a fan 390 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 2: because they're not playing, they're not in a jersey, they're 391 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 2: not even a coach. They're just a guy at a 392 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 2: desk in the view of fans. So Howie was a 393 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 2: guy who I think, you know, received a lot of 394 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,920 Speaker 2: negative attention. But now that he has won these Super 395 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 2: Bowls and done it in a way where he seems 396 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 2: like he's ahead of the curve on a lot of 397 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 2: different things in the NFL where he tries to find 398 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:02,639 Speaker 2: these inconsistencies or the these market inefficiencies. So that was 399 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 2: the Saquon Barkley signing where no one was paying running backs. 400 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:11,399 Speaker 2: Running backs were a devalued position, and they's like, listen, 401 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 2: if we use this running back, and in what world 402 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,400 Speaker 2: is Saquon Barkley the way we're about to use him 403 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 2: going to be less valuable than any wide receiver out 404 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:22,159 Speaker 2: of the top two three. So pay this guy. He 405 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 2: still won't cost as much as a traditional premier position. 406 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 2: And he does stuff like that. The way he's drafting now, 407 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:34,200 Speaker 2: his trades, the way he stockpiles picks, he almost reminds 408 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 2: me a little bit of a basketball GM where trades, 409 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:40,679 Speaker 2: obviously in the NFL aren't nearly as prevalent as they 410 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 2: are in other leagues. So now you have a guy 411 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 2: who is making trades and that's the weird thing right 412 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 2: now where our team does have a lot of holes, 413 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,919 Speaker 2: and I think we have confidence in Howie Roseman that 414 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 2: he will somehow create a trade to get a viable cornerback. 415 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 2: And Zadarius Smith, who became i'm a starter defensive end 416 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,119 Speaker 2: for us, just retired, so now we don't even have 417 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 2: that guy anymore. So in our minds we think that 418 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:09,400 Speaker 2: how we will be able to pull a rabbit out 419 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 2: of the hat and create an opportunity and start plugging 420 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,200 Speaker 2: these holes because he has done that over and over again, 421 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 2: so we do really appreciate him. And I don't take 422 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,160 Speaker 2: that dude for granted because it is a rare thing 423 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:22,159 Speaker 2: it's sports to have. 424 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: It's a weird place to you know. I like to 425 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 1: compare fan bases a lot on this show and their mentalities, 426 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 1: and they'll I think we can both agree that there 427 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:37,439 Speaker 1: should be or there are very few similarities between the 428 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: mentality of your fan base and the mentality of my 429 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:44,679 Speaker 1: fan base. I would say my fan base. You know, 430 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 1: I think that they both. My number one description would 431 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:53,200 Speaker 1: start with a P, like I think we're a bit pessimistic, 432 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: and I think you're a bit psychotic. So like, but yep, 433 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 1: the Lions, the Egos before they won their titles, the Vikings, 434 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,919 Speaker 1: the Browns, the Bengals, these long these organizations that have 435 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,879 Speaker 1: been around for a long period of time. And to 436 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 1: your point and tell them hadn't won a title or 437 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,879 Speaker 1: hadn't won a title in a long time. The way 438 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:18,439 Speaker 1: the fans react to that, it's just so fascinating to 439 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: me that a guy could have done such a good 440 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: job in such a volatile city. Like you're, I love 441 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 1: you. You're an insane person when it comes to. 442 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,360 Speaker 3: You, and I'm the best one, yes, And you're. 443 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,919 Speaker 1: That's what I was just gonna say. You are. You 444 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 1: are probably the most calm carrying, an empathetic person I've 445 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 1: met from Philadelphia. And when it comes to the Egles, 446 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:46,119 Speaker 1: you're psychotic, like you're off your rocker. So to see 447 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,160 Speaker 1: you be in this place where you're like, I'm actually 448 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,159 Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be all right. That's it just 449 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 1: speaks volumes to how the phenomenal amount of credibility a 450 00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 1: person is capable of creating with some success. 451 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 2: One of the things I love talking to you about 452 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:05,640 Speaker 2: with sports is that we can we can give each 453 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:09,439 Speaker 2: other that perspective of like in my mind, I'm like 454 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,199 Speaker 2: I am, I'm docile. I'm you know, like like a 455 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,400 Speaker 2: like a philosopher level thinker when it comes to this, 456 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:19,639 Speaker 2: you know, chill cool. But I'm not like I You know, 457 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 2: I have my wife thought. 458 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 1: In your mind, that's what's in your mind. That's really 459 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: in your mind. 460 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:26,480 Speaker 2: It is really in my mind. Thanks for asking, and no, 461 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 2: thanks for asking. It is really in my mind, and yeah, you. 462 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 3: Know it is. 463 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 2: But I do also have this thing that my wife 464 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 2: bought me called a damn It doll, where it's an 465 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:39,639 Speaker 2: Eagles voodoo doll that I can smash on the floor 466 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 2: or on the wall or on the couch when things 467 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 2: aren't going my way. 468 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 3: So I. 469 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 1: Like your wife and am rooting for your relationship on 470 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 1: a level that thank you. I don't want to dive 471 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 1: in to the psychology behind her having to buy you 472 00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:00,199 Speaker 1: a damn It doll because I think that might just 473 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:03,399 Speaker 1: lead to me poking holes that are unfillable. That's what 474 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,840 Speaker 1: I'm concerned about with that piece of information. So let's 475 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 1: just leave the dam and doll over there where you 476 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 1: have it. 477 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:10,879 Speaker 3: And I have it. I know it is. I know 478 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,360 Speaker 3: it is that I do. I keep it in its case. 479 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 1: And absolutely, why wouldn't have a case. 480 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 3: Has a case? 481 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,680 Speaker 2: Just you know it doesn't it doesn't get out and 482 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 2: but no, you're right, and there is something. 483 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 1: Now. 484 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:27,159 Speaker 2: I've made a big, all joking aside effort to Philadelphia 485 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 2: sports fans. If you turn on like the if you 486 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 2: turn on their sports talk radio, which I do not recommend, 487 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:38,639 Speaker 2: but if you find yourself wanting to try something insane, 488 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,440 Speaker 2: turn that on during the drive time hour and it's 489 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 2: as if we've never won a game for ever. The 490 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 2: fan base is in full panic. And for the perspective thing, 491 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,440 Speaker 2: this is the best I will ever have it as 492 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,160 Speaker 2: a sports fan period. It's the best I'll ever have it. 493 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts is so fun to cheer for. He's a 494 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:02,400 Speaker 2: fantastic guy. I took us to one Super Bowl one 495 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:06,560 Speaker 2: another Super Bowl. Siriani is the most entertaining, funny coach. 496 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 2: He's nuts, He's Philadelphia. We are the coach of the 497 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,880 Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles. Is the city of Philadelphia in a guy. 498 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 2: It's so much fun to cheer for this team. So 499 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 2: we're foreign too. Will they turn it around. There's reasons 500 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,480 Speaker 2: to expect that they will, there's reasons to expect that 501 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 2: they won't as in the last two games that we played. 502 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:29,920 Speaker 2: But I do feel like in these zones it's so 503 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 2: important because again, like look at the Patriots, you know, 504 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,200 Speaker 2: I mean, now, who knows, Drake may might be turning 505 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:38,399 Speaker 2: them around. But I'm making a big, big point to 506 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 2: appreciate how good. 507 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,720 Speaker 1: This Sune's crazy. You just compared yourself to the greatest 508 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,679 Speaker 1: dynasty in professional sports history outside of maybe who we 509 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:50,879 Speaker 1: beat the beat of the So I understand where he's going. Yeah, 510 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: So let me then ask you the important question. M M. 511 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,640 Speaker 1: Going back to my original talking point and my original 512 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 1: concern you who You're not in the same worry place 513 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 1: that you've always been in. You've got a bit of confidence, 514 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 1: which means I can actually ask you this question and 515 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 1: not just get a pessimistic, garbage answer, you know, some 516 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:17,200 Speaker 1: whony like we'll never make it. Uh what in my like, 517 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:21,200 Speaker 1: like I said, you don't like playing great teams after 518 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 1: well coached, talented teams, after big letdowns, and you're coming 519 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 1: off of you know, back to back letdowns and an 520 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:34,199 Speaker 1: embarrassing performance against like getting routed on national TV by 521 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,119 Speaker 1: a division opponent and a rookie quarterback. So do you 522 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,920 Speaker 1: think it is more likely this week right now that 523 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,920 Speaker 1: we get the pull it together here we go look 524 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,919 Speaker 1: like the championship team, or do we get the teeterie 525 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:50,440 Speaker 1: we gotta see. We don't know how to get out 526 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,040 Speaker 1: of this. It's gonna take like do we go further 527 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,360 Speaker 1: down the last two games or do we jump out 528 00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 1: of it quickly? If you had to pick what's more 529 00:27:58,359 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 1: likely this week? 530 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:04,119 Speaker 2: The issues that I outlined will not be solved in 531 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 2: this week. So the play calling could potentially be solved. 532 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,159 Speaker 2: And is that going to be incrementally better because of 533 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,359 Speaker 2: how good the talent is on offense. So even with 534 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 2: a banged up offensive line, still have aj Brown not 535 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 2: throwing him the ball too much this season, Still have 536 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,639 Speaker 2: DeVante Smith, who's as good a number two as you 537 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:25,880 Speaker 2: can have in the entire league. You know he would 538 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,080 Speaker 2: be the number one for almost any other team. You 539 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 2: have Saquon Barkley, you have Dallas Goddard who's healthy, and 540 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:35,159 Speaker 2: you have Jalen Hurts. So can we alter the play 541 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 2: calling enough? And I think that honestly can right the 542 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 2: entire or most of the ship if you alter the 543 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 2: play calling to what you have to the personnel, and 544 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 2: so maybe it's not There was no way Sequon Barkley 545 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 2: was going to run for two thousand yards again this year. 546 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 2: But he shouldn't be running for two hundred yards, you know, 547 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 2: So can we change that play calling? We're not going 548 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 2: to be healthier and not where the guys who are 549 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 2: banged up are still going to be banged up. The 550 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,240 Speaker 2: guys on the injured list are still going to be injured. 551 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 2: But I think if you if during this time they 552 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,880 Speaker 2: had the ability to be like, yo, our offense is predictable, 553 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:17,239 Speaker 2: let's change X y Z, that is a reason for 554 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 2: me to be like, Okay, now we can score. The 555 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 2: defense is going to be fine. It's now we can score, 556 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,280 Speaker 2: and we have one of the most talented offenses in 557 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,360 Speaker 2: the league. They haven't played that way this year, But 558 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 2: is this the week they're going to start playing that way? 559 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 2: If so, this is going to be a really big 560 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 2: bounce back game. If not, good, lord is the is 561 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 2: the conversations going to devolve into a layer of hell 562 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 2: that I can't even describe. 563 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:47,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, just in your personal friend groups and in my head, 564 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 1: the conversations. Yeah, I mean, I'll be very curious. You know, 565 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,239 Speaker 1: the Vikings are getting a lot of people back, but 566 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,080 Speaker 1: that takes a minute to get rhythm. You're coming out 567 00:29:56,120 --> 00:30:00,040 Speaker 1: like you know, the Vikings defense have been how it 568 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: has been over the last year and a half, so 569 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:06,600 Speaker 1: good under Flores that everything about me says this will 570 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: be a defensive battle, a lower scoring game. But this 571 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 1: is the closest we're gonna be to having most of 572 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:19,400 Speaker 1: the pieces together, you know, And I don't think it'll 573 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: be the moment where we have them all. But you 574 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 1: do have Jordan Addison back, right you you you are 575 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 1: supposed to get your other offensive linemen back who're coming back. 576 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 1: We still don't have Aaron Jones, but we're getting closer. 577 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:33,160 Speaker 1: So the offense with that rest and with that break, 578 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 1: I think still has the potential. They there's especially with 579 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: the way Kevin O'Connell likes to take chunk shots and 580 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 1: get down the field. There's and what you were saying about, 581 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 1: you know, in need of a cornerback. My hope is 582 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 1: that it stays kind of low scoring and then bang bang, 583 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,479 Speaker 1: we put some distance and it gets really hard for 584 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 1: you guys. But I'm gonna make you do a prediction, 585 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 1: and we do it differently here. Now the predict are different. 586 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 1: You got to do it. This is what we do 587 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: with Chad. You got to do a score prediction, a 588 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 1: player performance prediction, and then a prediction about you personally 589 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: during the game. Like I will show you how it works. 590 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 1: Are you ready? I think, like I said a little, 591 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 1: defenses are going to be very involved. I think the 592 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 1: Eagles will probably score twelve thirteen vikings about one hundred 593 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 1: and twenty seven. I anticipate this being Jalen Naylor's going 594 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 1: to get loose a couple times. I think Jalen Naylor's 595 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 1: going to get down the field, maybe on a deep touchdown. 596 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:36,640 Speaker 1: I think you're going to see a shot down the 597 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: field to him. And for a personal prediction, I think 598 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:47,120 Speaker 1: we have a very volatile text thread on Sundays, and 599 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 1: I predict you will read the tea leaves early and 600 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:56,120 Speaker 1: excuse yourself from the text thread and respond to how 601 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,320 Speaker 1: everything happened because you are in a thread with our 602 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: in our person group thread, it is three Viking fans, 603 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 1: the most spoiled Steeler fan to ever walk the earth. 604 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:07,640 Speaker 3: It feels we don't have enough time. 605 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:11,240 Speaker 1: I get this guy complaining his way up and down 606 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 1: a successful season so far, three Viking fans, A cry babies, 607 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 1: you know, heavy duty whiny, you know, spoiled Steelers fan, 608 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 1: almost to the point where you think he's a Packers fan. 609 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 1: But uh, and then you have you, and you often 610 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 1: when things really get going, you excuse yourself. So my 611 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,720 Speaker 1: personal prediction is I will be very active in the 612 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,920 Speaker 1: group message, and you will be. You will excuse yourself 613 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,440 Speaker 1: early and we won't get to communicate much during the game. 614 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going, so I'll start in reverse. My honestly, 615 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,240 Speaker 2: my position is that we won't talk for eight days. 616 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 2: And I have already muted that group chats, so that 617 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:58,840 Speaker 2: group chats muted, I don't see notifications on that, so yeah, 618 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 2: I will not see any of that. I might just 619 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,160 Speaker 2: get a new phone and or maybe just another, maybe 620 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 2: a third phone, and then I will say player prediction. 621 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:15,760 Speaker 2: I will go with Kieley Ringo will give up three touchdowns? 622 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 1: You got a guy and your team named Keeley Ringo? 623 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,760 Speaker 3: Big time sounds like sounds. 624 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,320 Speaker 1: Like a cartoon bear on a children's animated show Who's 625 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: in a Band? 626 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 2: You go to a rest stop in the middle of 627 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,920 Speaker 2: nowhere that you see a Kiley Ringo playing with his 628 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:38,400 Speaker 2: band of and then score. I'm gonna say twenty eight 629 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:44,280 Speaker 2: twenty one Eagles, and then we will have blocked I 630 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 2: would say seven or eight of your field goals actually 631 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:50,080 Speaker 2: during the course of that game. So that's my that's 632 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,720 Speaker 2: my that's my prediction. Who is starting it? Is it 633 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:53,880 Speaker 2: JJ or is it Wenz? 634 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:55,880 Speaker 3: Do you know yet? Who's starting? This is not a 635 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:56,720 Speaker 3: good question. 636 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,680 Speaker 1: Where we have no I can defer to our producer 637 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 1: Jay here, but I believe in this moment of recording, 638 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,520 Speaker 1: we do not have a defined decision. Great, so why 639 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,960 Speaker 1: don't you just sit back and wait for it? Not 640 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,840 Speaker 1: announced yet? Said Jay as of recording not announced yet. 641 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,799 Speaker 3: Well, I'll just we'll prepare for both then, Blake. 642 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,400 Speaker 1: I care about you. Thanks for joining the show. We 643 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 1: really appreciate it. And thank you to everyone for listening 644 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:27,319 Speaker 1: here on our podcast feed. We really appreciate it. While 645 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,400 Speaker 1: you're here, leave a review, you know, click the stars, 646 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 1: all five of them, and say something nice. It really 647 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,480 Speaker 1: helps us out. Finally, a huge shout out to Ticketmaster, 648 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:38,080 Speaker 1: the official ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings, for helping 649 00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 1: make this show happen. 650 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:40,160 Speaker 3: Enjoy the game. 651 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:41,919 Speaker 1: Everybody