Speaker 1: They're down a goal. They came to count. There he
Speaker 1: got there, touchdown. Cousins utter center, he's a yard. Cousin
Speaker 1: sneaks and he is in the backfield. I don't think
Speaker 1: he got it. I don't think he got at the
Speaker 1: risk backfires on Minnesota. The Redskins take over with the
Speaker 1: ball in field goal range, second out of six, Askins
Speaker 1: too high. McLaren was wide open, but Anthony Harris gets
Speaker 1: the interception, and that's the pot for the rookie as
Speaker 1: he missed a wide open target. And there you have it.
Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins throws the interception and the Vikings just kind
Speaker 1: of coast from there. In nineteen to nine win on
Speaker 1: Thursday night football in Minneapolis, a game where you didn't
Speaker 1: get a lot of fireworks, but you did get a
Speaker 1: very good, steady Kirk Cousins performance. Only three incomplete passes,
Speaker 1: and Dalvin Cook continued to do Dalvin Cook things. Nine
Speaker 1: yards on the ground and a touchdown seventy three yards
Speaker 1: on five catches through the air. So he continues to
Speaker 1: build an m v P resume. Um Vikings get it done.
Speaker 1: Not pretty, but they get it done. Dan Hands is
Speaker 1: here joined by the great Quiet Storm Mark Sessler here
Speaker 1: in the Throwback Pod Studios garage. What's up, Buddy, Well,
Speaker 1: once again I occupied the seat that Bob Castrone normally
Speaker 1: sits in. And I feel because now now in this situation,
Speaker 1: he's only mere feet away from me in the flesh. Uh,
Speaker 1: somewhat intimidated by the fact that the two of you
Speaker 1: are waiting for me just to leave. I think, well, no, because,
Speaker 1: as we talked about on the Thursday preview show, you
Speaker 1: will be sitting in on all New Throwback Podcast talking
Speaker 1: about love songs of your your yester years. That's true,
Speaker 1: I mean, and you know, and I guess so that
Speaker 1: I'm more excited about that than this game, which was
Speaker 1: boring a f as you should be. And you're showing
Speaker 1: more trust in me. Then Bill Callahan showed in Dwayne Haskins,
Speaker 1: who was allowed to throw the ball five times in
Speaker 1: this game, and there's a clear like divide between the
Speaker 1: coaching staff wanting Haskins to play and maybe anyone else
Speaker 1: in the organization wanting to see more from him. The Redskins, basically,
Speaker 1: if you get up on them by a touchdown, they
Speaker 1: will do nothing to challenge you. The Vikings, what do
Speaker 1: they do They just stood their own basically, and they
Speaker 1: and Kirk Cousins twenty three, twenty six a clean game,
Speaker 1: a game that we normally would not be doing a
Speaker 1: breakout broadcast on. I would say, if it if it
Speaker 1: took place at ten am West Coast California time, well,
Speaker 1: you presented yourself on Sunday as the what trap game
Speaker 1: consultant or it was something along those lines. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: this was a classic trap game for the Viking. Yes
Speaker 1: it was, because, yeah, I have a home cookie against
Speaker 1: the Red Redskins and then trap game monitor, I believe,
Speaker 1: which I like quite a bit. It's not then you
Speaker 1: go to Arrowhead next week, then you go to Jaral
Speaker 1: World after that, so and you're on a short week,
Speaker 1: obviously on Thursday night football. So maybe in retrospect we
Speaker 1: should have saw this coming. I wouldn't said that the
Speaker 1: Vikings played poorly, but they were a little flat and
Speaker 1: they didn't put a bad team away, which is what
Speaker 1: Washington is. And you know, I don't want to pile
Speaker 1: on Haskins because again, everything we hear, and we talked
Speaker 1: about this earlier this week, why isn't this guy playing
Speaker 1: that in today's football? First round pick should be playing
Speaker 1: by now if the team's going nowhere, but he's not
Speaker 1: because they don't think he's ready. Well, now, hey, kid,
Speaker 1: uh come out of the tunnel at halftime and go
Speaker 1: beat the Vikings defense in Minneapolis where they really don't lose.
Speaker 1: So it's not like we're expecting a lot from Haskins.
Speaker 1: And like you said, he plays two quarters and throws
Speaker 1: five passes in a game they're trailing um. So obviously
Speaker 1: they didn't have a lot of faith in him at
Speaker 1: this point. And I think in a game that didn't
Speaker 1: have a lot of highlights, the play of the game
Speaker 1: was the Vikings go for it on fourth and short
Speaker 1: in their own territory in the third quarter. They don't
Speaker 1: get it done, they don't convert. I didn't love that call.
Speaker 1: It was gutsy, but you know, they did what they did.
Speaker 1: And then the first play, Haskins has a wide open
Speaker 1: receiver over the middle. McLaurin scary Terry. Is that is
Speaker 1: that the nickname that works for me? I'm not sure
Speaker 1: that if you are actually him, are you signing off
Speaker 1: on that nickname? Not? Probably somewhere that he did sign
Speaker 1: off on it, almost reluctantly, right, because when you're well,
Speaker 1: if I'm him, I would I would hold out a bit.
Speaker 1: But if he if he's okay with that, good for him.
Speaker 1: But he throws high to Scary Terry goes off his
Speaker 1: fingertips intercepted and that was kind of that was kind
Speaker 1: of the end. Uh in terms of the game. That
Speaker 1: it was a seven point game at that point and
Speaker 1: it ends up a ten point when the Vikings went
Speaker 1: deep into Red Skins sterritory late in the game. It
Speaker 1: could have been more. I'm sure people that are connected
Speaker 1: to the desert would have liked to see that, but
Speaker 1: they did not in terms of getting more points. So
Speaker 1: big takeaways from me, and this is not a game
Speaker 1: to dwell on. But Dalvin Cook, he is the NFL
Speaker 1: leader now, uh in yards from scrimmage, and he showed
Speaker 1: it again. I think he's a guy to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on. Here is I loved. I don't care what
Speaker 1: time of year it is. I love talking M v P.
Speaker 1: And I think Russell Wilson is the leader in the clubhouse.
Speaker 1: I think Christian McCaffrey's right there obviously. Um. I think
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson has gotten himself in the race. But Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook is a guy. If you're gonna be talking about CMC,
Speaker 1: gotta be talking about d say. I have no problem
Speaker 1: with that. I I'm glad that you added Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: because if you look at that Ravens team, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure where they are if you put a aging plug
Speaker 1: in play veteran quarterback in there, a Joe Flacco as
Speaker 1: even a younger Joe flaccoesque character, because Lamar Jackson still unstoppable.
Speaker 1: If you're the Vikings right now, you're six and two.
Speaker 1: Let's say that you go eleven and five or twelve
Speaker 1: and four and you're not the most impressive twelve and
Speaker 1: four team of all time. I'm fine with that. If
Speaker 1: you're Minnesota, you're gonna have a few games like this.
Speaker 1: And if you're the Redskins, and if you're a fan
Speaker 1: of the Redskins, you must pray for change, because I
Speaker 1: will harp on these teams that leave their fan bases
Speaker 1: completely stuck in a quagmire where there you feel powerless
Speaker 1: at quagmire is a quagmire, I go quagmire, But I
Speaker 1: will ask Bob cost how do you are a quagmire?
Speaker 1: Quag it is I think he's gone right down the
Speaker 1: middle with that, He's gone right down the middle Redskins
Speaker 1: fans who I think have been a little bit left
Speaker 1: left in our official Quagmire. He's just gonna agree with you, though,
Speaker 1: isn't he, Because that's how this is. He's from the
Speaker 1: same town, so has the same inflection. That's true, I'm
Speaker 1: not that. Actually, what what would shock viewers or listeners
Speaker 1: is that I grew up about eighteen miles away from you.
Speaker 1: I'm Mark Cessler. My favorite words, I said quagmire, I
Speaker 1: believe he said. I mean, there is no there is
Speaker 1: absolutely no chance that we're trying to fill minutes here
Speaker 1: with with this type of content to get out of
Speaker 1: this game review. If I'm a Redskins fan, you have
Speaker 1: the right to revolt. I'm not sure where that's going
Speaker 1: to accomplish in America at this point. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: even where you go to revolt, But you have a
Speaker 1: right to be anoint to the streets. Get into the
Speaker 1: streets because this has been an absolutely disastrous campaign piled
Speaker 1: on top of additional disaster. Right so you're one in
Speaker 1: seven after the game, what else do we need to say?
Speaker 1: Bill Callahan, the interim coach, and it's also was reported
Speaker 1: earlier today that he is a very real candidate to
Speaker 1: keep the job. So is right, please, because he's surging. Now,
Speaker 1: listen to the wording here this. I got this from
Speaker 1: John kim Over at ESPN. It's a kim bomb. He
Speaker 1: said he's not sure yet. Callahan said he's not sure yet.
Speaker 1: Who will start at quarterback against the Bills. He said,
Speaker 1: if case Keenum is healthy, he will start. If Keenam
Speaker 1: can't play because of the concussion, concussion, so it is
Speaker 1: a concussion. Uh, then rookie Dwayne Haskins would start and
Speaker 1: Colt McCoy would back him up. So Haskins is officially,
Speaker 1: you know, ahead of McCoy. I guess we knew that already,
Speaker 1: but he's not ready to turn it over yet. Um.
Speaker 1: And I guess one other Redskins note, And that was
Speaker 1: a nice moment and an otherwise dull game, Adrian Peterson
Speaker 1: at the two minute warning, you know, in his homecoming
Speaker 1: in Minneapolis. Um, they showed on the scoreboard and got
Speaker 1: a loud over ovation. Nice job by the Vikings fans.
Speaker 1: That's a good fan base. They get it. Uh, they
Speaker 1: give him a big ovation. He said he was holding
Speaker 1: back tears. And you know, I'm tracking this very closely.
Speaker 1: I mean, Adrian Peterson, what does he want on a day,
Speaker 1: on a day that he moved I believed to sixth
Speaker 1: all time um in terms of rushing, but he wants
Speaker 1: that Walter Payton record and I want it for I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what, sixth place on the career rushing list.
Speaker 1: Is it possible that you are tracking this more closely
Speaker 1: than Adrian Peterson in terms of a game by game.
Speaker 1: The reason I'm trying so closely because I am absolutely
Speaker 1: convinced he has no interest in the Washington Redskins or
Speaker 1: their success or plight. It's all about getting those numbers
Speaker 1: and he's getting fitted for that jacket and that's fine.
Speaker 1: He's done a lot in this league. Um My last point, Mark,
Speaker 1: they showed a graphic on Fox and we are in
Speaker 1: that time of season where we must praise Joe Buck
Speaker 1: for the incredibly work work he's doing for Major League
Speaker 1: Baseball and the NFL. Incredible what a talent, I mean,
Speaker 1: am I? But it should he not be? What's our
Speaker 1: angle here? Because no, it should be, But it's it's
Speaker 1: it's becoming. It's becoming an NFL trope of late October.
Speaker 1: It certainly has, and he you know, it's nice if
Speaker 1: you have the power to create a trope the way
Speaker 1: he has. I think it's just it's a couda ta
Speaker 1: of sorts for him to go from someone that is
Speaker 1: you know, uniformly uh shot down and destroyed by most
Speaker 1: people for being a little too hotty totty with his
Speaker 1: Randy Moss showed the butt scenario to this where now
Speaker 1: he's as he should be. I think praised for being
Speaker 1: the last have been very good for Buck in his image.
Speaker 1: And that's and that's including he put out the memoir
Speaker 1: right where he admitted that his hairline was going so
Speaker 1: he in a procedure to put in some type of
Speaker 1: hair plug. It led to his vocal cords getting frozen,
Speaker 1: which is led to major, you know, career threatening side effects.
Speaker 1: You would think that would stick with him like a
Speaker 1: scarlet letter, and I'm glad it didn't. He was very
Speaker 1: open about it, and he also tried to move units
Speaker 1: of his book with it. That's true. I mean you
Speaker 1: would think the Joey Bucks, Yeah, you think that might
Speaker 1: not make it into a memoir also, but then, but
Speaker 1: you know what, just a lack of content, right, You've
Speaker 1: got to move the books. Um. But what I was
Speaker 1: gonna say is in the Fox telecast, which is simulcast
Speaker 1: across NFL, speaking of working with our you know r
Speaker 1: D content performs. Um, there was a graphic that that
Speaker 1: Washington coaching staff during the run of Jake Ruden had
Speaker 1: the flower out on it, Matt Lafleur, it had Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan on it, It had Sean McVeigh on it, and
Speaker 1: it did make me. It got me thinking that because
Speaker 1: we talked about how Andy Dalton won, you know, um,
Speaker 1: he is obviously the dualt line. And what's what's worse
Speaker 1: to have a quarterback who instantly flames out, a Manzelle
Speaker 1: type or a guy that you can't decide and half
Speaker 1: a decade, most of a decade passes and then you
Speaker 1: decide to move on, which is Andy Dalton, is Jay
Speaker 1: Gruden the Andy Dalton of head coaches. While they while
Speaker 1: the Washington Redskins kind of kept their foot halfway in
Speaker 1: and halfway out for years and years, they had all
Speaker 1: these young superstars potentially waiting in the wings to be
Speaker 1: the next guy and they and they just let it go.
Speaker 1: Does that make like La Fleur, Deshaun Watson and Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan Baker Mayfield and Sean McVeigh um, Patrick Mahomes. That's
Speaker 1: an excellent well, I would I would say that's analysis
Speaker 1: baby on a Thursday night. That is. That is and
Speaker 1: I would I would suggest that if anything, the Redskins,
Speaker 1: maybe the Andy Dalt, the franchise is to not notice
Speaker 1: some of those issues as well. But I would say
Speaker 1: the j Gruten coaching tree is strong, the Jake that
Speaker 1: his tree is a strong tree. That I mean the brand,
Speaker 1: the trunk of the tree. It could be questioned whether
Speaker 1: or not with the rot situation. That's fair. It's one
Speaker 1: of those trees that just you know, it's a little bit,
Speaker 1: it's in your backyard. It's a hard tree to figure out.
Speaker 1: All right. Any other thoughts before we uh say goodbye?
Speaker 1: I really I am quite impressed with us to stretch this.
Speaker 1: Where where are we with the minutes at this point
Speaker 1: where twelve minutes in? I would like you now if
Speaker 1: you if you have a minute to dish into your
Speaker 1: final thoughts on Joe Flacco just to top west from
Speaker 1: last week. I know that he went out, you know,
Speaker 1: he went out with a fiery limb on that. Where
Speaker 1: can you go with the Joe Flacco scenario. I mean,
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco. I don't profess to be always right, but uh,
Speaker 1: and I was hardly alone on this, but I nailed it.
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco was never going to be a plus performer
Speaker 1: for the Denver Echoes, and we've seen that bear out
Speaker 1: in the first half of the twenty nineteen season. So
Speaker 1: no apologies needed, no miya kulpa necessary. I just think
Speaker 1: now that we tweet this out as Dan's final thoughts
Speaker 1: on Joe Flacco, because if anything, let's just you know,
Speaker 1: uniformly completely copy but also use surrup last week's message
Speaker 1: and West you know, right on many things, but not
Speaker 1: on that. Okay, that's it. By the way, Stefon Diggs
Speaker 1: seven catches on seven targets for buck forty three. He's
Speaker 1: happy now lost a fumble. Uh and he leads the
Speaker 1: NFL amongst wide receivers with fumbles. But yeah, who cares,
Speaker 1: uh somehow that's not part of his messaging in the
Speaker 1: locker room. All right, that's it. So we'll be back
Speaker 1: as a foursome on Sunday to recap the rest of
Speaker 1: the Week eight games, So make sure you come on
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