1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: As the official ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings and 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: the NFL. Ticketmasters the safest and most convenient marketplace to 3 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 1: score fully verified Viking tickets. So get those touchdown celebrations 4 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 1: ready and score your tickets today at ticketmaster dot com 5 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:20,079 Speaker 1: slash Vikings. Hey guys, it's side. The regular season has 6 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 1: finally arrived. That means the Tailgate is back now a 7 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 1: little bit of a change, folks. You've gotten used to 8 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: me bringing on my comedic friends, celebrities, et cetera, talking 9 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 1: back and forth with an enemy. Essentially, somebody who's a 10 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 1: fan of the opposing team. Changed it up this year. 11 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 1: Decided to con Chad Daniels into joining me nearly every 12 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:48,160 Speaker 1: week so we can talk about who we're playing, the 13 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: city that that team exists in, and whatever else comes 14 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: across our brain. So, if you love Chad, you love comedy, 15 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: and you like me, I think you're gonna love another 16 00:00:57,360 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: season of the show. Well you're here, leave us a review. 17 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 1: It'll really help us out enjoy the show. Everybody, Recket Reckett. 18 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: Come on, I'm here, Hey, Viking fans, Welcome to another 19 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: season of The Tailgate, brought to you by Ticketmaster. I'm 20 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 1: your host Y Aminson, and we are starting out the 21 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 1: season against the hated Chicago Bears and their new look offense. 22 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: And hey, speaking of new looks. For those of you 23 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 1: who've been fans of the show for the last couple 24 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:38,480 Speaker 1: of years, you know what we do is each and 25 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: every week we bring on a famous comedian or entertainer 26 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: who is a fan of the opposing team. Well, this year, 27 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 1: I have conned one of my best friends into being 28 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: the guest. I'm gonna say most of the weeks. Is 29 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: that fair? A lot of the weeks? I think it 30 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: is a lot of the weeks. Ladies and gentlemen, We're 31 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: not We're not our team against their team. Welcome for 32 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 1: the season to the program, the great Chad Daniels burn. 33 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 2: I am so excited for football I can't even hardly 34 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 2: stand it. 35 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: I am both immensely pumped and concerned. The fact that 36 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 1: because you and I die hard Viking fans, friends for 37 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 1: a long day, right, but when put together, when allowed 38 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 1: to enjoy sports together. The fact that the team is 39 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 1: allowing us to have this show, which means we are 40 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 1: going to be at games together, to give us that 41 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: sort of access as a pair, high level risk. 42 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 2: I think this is a bad idea. But what are 43 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 2: you gonna do? You want Swarts and you want Dumel, 44 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 2: you want the number three and four Vikings fans. That 45 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 2: sounds stupid. 46 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, what are we doing? Let's let two 47 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: maniacs that I would say. Here's the thing. I think 48 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: a lot of people know who you are, and barely 49 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:00,279 Speaker 1: anybody knows who I am. Give them a show, let them, 50 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: let them walk around the stadium, and let's let's see 51 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 1: what happens. 52 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 2: I can't wait, I. 53 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:08,799 Speaker 1: Will say for all, because I don't know that we 54 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,359 Speaker 1: enjoy games well together because of our mix of personality. 55 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's basically your bad attitude, I don't, and then 56 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 2: your good attitude, and then your bad attitude. You are 57 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 2: so sibylish at games. 58 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: It's unbelievable, the fact that you have to force words 59 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 1: like sibylish in as you introduce yourself to the audience. 60 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 2: Exactly, it's exactly the word you need to use. 61 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: You call me out for my bad attitude, and everybody 62 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: gives you a pass for your bad attitude. 63 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 2: Because myattitude, my bad attitude, is right. I call it 64 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 2: a battitude, and it's correct. That's why because every time 65 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 2: I say something negative, it turns out six years in 66 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 2: the future it's correct. 67 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fine, let's silver line in it. Okay, despite 68 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: what will happen between the two of us emotionally, as 69 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: we are more connected during football than we've ever been, 70 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: I will say when we are at events together, let's 71 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: talk that big final Twins game of that magical one 72 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 1: to sixty three year. 73 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 2: That was fun. 74 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 1: Guess who was sitting next to one another in the stadium. 75 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 2: That's right, you and I. 76 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: That big Niners win where Addison took that ball away 77 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 1: from the other guy ran it in big win, one 78 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 1: of the signature wins of that scene. 79 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:17,160 Speaker 2: Incredible. 80 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: Guess who is on the field together before the game? 81 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 2: Uh? Huh? You and I. 82 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,919 Speaker 1: And the last time that we watched a game together 83 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: was the first Josh Dobbs game. That absurd. 84 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. 85 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: So I do think there's a chance that once this 86 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 1: season has ended and we're playing for the most important trophy, 87 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: that a lot of people will owe us a debt 88 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: of gratitude that we persevered our old man bickering in 89 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: order to provide the fan base with the victories they 90 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 1: so desperately need. 91 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:50,840 Speaker 2: Sure, well, you need to know that I'm using this 92 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 2: show as a stepping stool to become the pregame DJ 93 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 2: yeah at us Bank Stadium. So as soon as soon 94 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 2: as I get that, that's over, bye bye. Yeah. 95 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,039 Speaker 1: It sucks that you think that the point is I'm pumped. 96 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 2: I'm so bumped. 97 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: I need you to respect me. More can't happen despite 98 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: what you just said, it can't happen. I need a 99 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: little bit of space to be who I am on 100 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:14,479 Speaker 1: text messages this year. That's all I'm asking for. But 101 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 1: here's here's what I've decided for the show, because I 102 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: don't think anybody wants to hear you and I break 103 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 1: down how our backup tight. 104 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:26,239 Speaker 2: Ends x'es and o's. Nobody wants x's and o's unless 105 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 2: the're hugs and kiss. 106 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: Here's how I think they're gonna utilize THEO Jackson this week. 107 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:34,160 Speaker 1: Everybody click, let's let's turn anything else on. So I've 108 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 1: got a segment here that I'm calling love it, hate it? Okay, 109 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 1: cause you know me, I get pretty aggressive and you 110 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: get pretty aggressive going into games. So I thought I 111 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: would list out and we'll go. I'm gonna go back 112 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: and forth, give you one then the other kind of 113 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: even it out. Okay, give you some things that I 114 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 1: love about the city of Chicago or the Bears, and 115 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 1: then I'm gonna I'm gonna blammel right next to it. 116 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: I'm gonna put some stuff that I very much don't love. Okay, 117 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:01,360 Speaker 1: and I'll see where you land on it sounds good. 118 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 1: I love that the Chicago Bears had a streak of 119 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 1: thirty years where they did not have a Pro Bowl 120 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: quarterback like that, like and I note, yes, you're saying, 121 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: like love it. I didn't know that these were going 122 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 1: to be like really, Caddy, you. 123 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 2: Know, Jabs, Yeah, I did think you were gonna say 124 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 2: something you actually loved. You're saying you love it because 125 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 2: they are the Bears and have had not great question. 126 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:27,279 Speaker 1: Now, let me tell you I have some things that 127 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: I do really love that I do think is amazing 128 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 1: about their franchise. But I did want to start with 129 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 1: this one. And it's not even about them. I'm not 130 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: taking a jab at them, but it's like an all 131 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: time thing for us that we had Fran Tarkenton. And 132 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 1: I'm not saying we haven't had some good quarterbacks along 133 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,479 Speaker 1: the way, but we haven't had the guy one of 134 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:48,840 Speaker 1: the handful of like long career guys that is at 135 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:49,920 Speaker 1: the top of the league. 136 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 2: We get the guys after they've had a long career. 137 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 1: Yeah. I to me, it's not about criticizing the Bears. 138 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: What it's about is feeling good about myself at the 139 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: fault of others, which is also not a good thing. 140 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:04,839 Speaker 2: It's not a great quality. 141 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: It's like being thirty nine years old and single and 142 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: everybody wants to know when you're getting married, and you're 143 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: just you really don't feel good about yourself. And then 144 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 1: you go to that family wedding and an uncle sits 145 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: down next to you that you haven't seen in a while, 146 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: and he's been divorced four or five times and he's 147 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 1: got like all he talks about is gout. And you're like, 148 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: you know what, I got my whole life ahead of me. 149 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 1: I've been I've been doing great until the uric acid 150 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: in my bones isn't even remotely at a concerning level. Right. 151 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: I love that streak makes me feel good about myself. 152 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, here's what I love. I love and 153 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 2: this is like a this is a positive thing. There's 154 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 2: a story where the Bears were playing Oh man, was 155 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 2: it the Falcons. When Jerry Glanville was there, people started 156 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 2: throwing batteries at Soldier field, at the opposing players. And 157 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 2: at least this is how I remember the story, haven't 158 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 2: I haven't fact checked it. But then Walter Payton comes 159 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 2: back out of the tunnel with all his pads off, 160 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 2: He's just in a T shirt. He puts his arm 161 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 2: around Jerry Glanville. I think that's who it was, and 162 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 2: walks him out. I think Walter Peyton, as much as 163 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 2: you know, growing up a Vikings fan and disliking the Bears, 164 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 2: Walter Peyton was that guy that you kind of like. 165 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 2: You go, ah, the that we're playing the Bears, stupid bear. 166 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 2: But what But secretly you always had a crush on 167 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 2: Walter Pateon. 168 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: Let's just go down the likes because now we've launched, 169 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: I can go down all the likes because I think 170 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:38,319 Speaker 1: you're an all time villain. And I'll bring this back 171 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 1: to Walter Payton, but you're an all time villain. If 172 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: you don't love the concept of William the Refrigerator Perry, right, 173 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: I mean, he would have to be the sole reason 174 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:55,320 Speaker 1: that might like and the only reason one hundred percent 175 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 1: of the reason that my favorite team didn't win a 176 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Like, and I was trying to think when 177 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 1: I was trying to find things that I could stomach. 178 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 1: Chicago on I was like, is that the greatest nickname 179 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: in sports history? The refrigerator? 180 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, because even because you look at the Detroit Pistons 181 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 2: they stole, they were like, oh how about the ice box? 182 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 2: I mean, the refrigerator really started something. 183 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: I went on the internet and I was like, what 184 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 1: nick what are considered the greatest names? And the list 185 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:25,959 Speaker 1: that I found, he was number ten, which did not 186 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 1: seem correct at all. 187 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:29,559 Speaker 2: Gotta'd be some real good ones there. 188 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: Well, you just forget you forget that air Jordan at 189 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: one point that wasn't a name, and that Irvin was 190 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: never called magic, Like that is an actual nickname. And 191 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: I believe it's Walter Payton. Isn't Walter Payton sweetness? 192 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 2: Sweetness? 193 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that is a top five. I forget 194 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 1: who the dude in the NBA is, But they called 195 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 1: him Microwave because he'd come in and he'd heat up 196 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 1: really quick. Oh funny, that's a great name. I think 197 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: kitchen appliance names are just real, real, real good. 198 00:09:58,040 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 2: I also love White Chocolate. 199 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 1: White Chocolate, that was a good one. Absolutely. Have you 200 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 1: ever watched old highlights of Randy Moss and White Chocolate 201 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: were on the same high school basketball team. Dude, if 202 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: you think you love Randy Moss, already watch White Chocolate 203 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: throwing a behind the back alley loop to Randy Moss. 204 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, really, really incredible. Now let's go back to Refrigerator 205 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 2: for just a second. I mean, not only was he great, 206 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 2: not only did he knock linebackers on their back, but 207 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 2: he also gave every little kid with a space in 208 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 2: between their two front teeth purpose. 209 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: Yeah some hope. Yeah, the fridge out here given hope. 210 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 2: This is way before Michael Strahan. You think Michael Strahan 211 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:46,439 Speaker 2: smiles into a camera on Good Morning America or whatever 212 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 2: show he's on with that space in between his teeth. 213 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 2: If there wasn't for Refrigerator Perry, that would have gotten fixed. 214 00:10:51,440 --> 00:11:00,119 Speaker 1: Easy. Refrigerator Perry slowly walked so Michael Strahan could slowly run. 215 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: This is an easy one. The Super Bowl Shuffle. Now, 216 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 1: I don't need to spend a lot of time on 217 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl Shuffle, but what I was thinking was, 218 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 1: if you had to pick and I think everybody does 219 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: ninety eight because everybody anytime you ask about a Viking team, 220 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: everybody goes to ninety eight. But if you had to 221 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 1: pick any Vikings team from history that made their own 222 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:24,680 Speaker 1: like eighties hip hop music video or rap video, do 223 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:25,559 Speaker 1: you have a pick? 224 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 2: I mean, I want to ninety eight, of course is 225 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:32,079 Speaker 2: probably the favorite pick. I'd like to go ninety seven 226 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 2: just to make sure Brad Johnson has a partner, just 227 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 2: to watch him do it. 228 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: I also think any of the years Tys was the coach, 229 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:43,319 Speaker 1: Yeah you could see, I mean Tys feels like you're 230 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 1: like it's a hip hop video and here comes Mike 231 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 1: Tys with sunglasses and a you know, and a saxophone 232 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: around the corner, Like I didn't know they were gonna 233 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,679 Speaker 1: have sacks in this one. I think two thousand and 234 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:55,080 Speaker 1: nine would have been a good one. There was so 235 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: much personality on the team with Jared Allen, the Williams 236 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: yep ap far of the whole thing. But I also 237 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:05,320 Speaker 1: was trying to think just there was that run of years, 238 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:10,560 Speaker 1: like because before before two thousand and nine, I think 239 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 1: we hadn't won a division in like nine years, and 240 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 1: I know we made the playoffs in four that was 241 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: the famous mooning game. There's there's a music video right 242 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 1: there that comes off of that moment. But there are 243 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 1: some forgotten Vikings that I really love and the Vikings hold. 244 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: One of the all time names in NFL history Wasawas Sirwanga. Yeah, 245 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: and I think he was on a pretty bad team, 246 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 1: so I could sure go for a Vikings music video 247 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:42,079 Speaker 1: called the waswas Sir Wanga shuffle? 248 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 2: Mm hmm. That's going to confuse some people. 249 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 1: I think that does it for me. But yeah, I'm 250 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: with you. I think the winner is probably anything that 251 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: involves Brad Johnson. 252 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 2: I think so too. Also. I mean, shut your eyes, 253 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 2: shut your eyes right now. I'm gonna say a name 254 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 2: and tell me what comes to your head. Darren Nelson 255 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 2: that you're way older than me. 256 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:07,880 Speaker 1: Okay, let me give you one more thing I love 257 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 1: about last Love. There is a famous I'm a big, 258 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 1: big man touchdown guy. I love him, Okay, big rumbling, 259 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: stumbling you know, Garrett Bradberry. He didn't score, touch him, 260 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 1: but seventy yards down the field with the ball. Love it. 261 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 1: The Bears have, in my opinion, one that's on Mount Rushmore. 262 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:32,599 Speaker 1: If you're not familiar all you got to do is 263 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: put this name into the Google search and then come 264 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 1: back to the show. Keith Traylor like Tractor Trailer, a 265 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: big old man who got an interception off of Mark 266 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: Brunel and ran it a pick six, ran it so 267 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 1: far and so funny that the announcers started riffing like 268 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 1: it was Mystery Science Theater three thousand. It's it's maybe 269 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: if you were like, give me the one hundred greatest 270 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 1: clips in NFL history. Yeah, you gotta have the miracle 271 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 1: and the catch and all these things. I think it 272 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:07,959 Speaker 1: makes it. It's have you seen that video? 273 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 2: I'm sure I've seen the actual thing. 274 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:12,559 Speaker 1: Yeah, dude. And to just to be a he's three 275 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:15,560 Speaker 1: hundred and forty or whatever pound man whose last name 276 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: is trailer, it's gonna be good unless you have a 277 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 1: guy named Jimmy semi truck Scoop six for like ninety yards, 278 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 1: that's gonna be a pretty hard one to be. 279 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 2: Well, it take it took him so long to run 280 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 2: it back that they actually played an episode of Mystery 281 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 2: Science Thee to three thousand. I think that's what you're 282 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 2: thinking of. 283 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 1: Okay, can I give you my list of hates? 284 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 2: Ready? 285 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: I don't like going to Chicago. Why No, I don't 286 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: mean as a human. I mean as a team. I 287 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 1: don't know what it is about. I don't know if 288 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 1: other teams have it. But we could be fourteen and 289 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: zher and they could be zero and fourteen, and it's 290 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 1: gonna be a meat grinder. That's how it's been for 291 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 1: all my life and specifically my adult life. My dad, 292 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 1: who I've talked about on this show, wh you know, well, 293 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: he gets worked up. Yeah, and so he he always 294 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: calls the in Chicago game. He calls it Bears bye 295 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 1: week because he can't watch it. He gets so stressed 296 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 1: out by what he thinks is gonna happen, and he 297 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: just he takes a walk or he goes pheasant hunting. 298 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 1: He just now it's it's season opener. So I think 299 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: that's gonna be difficult for him. But I just never 300 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 1: like how my expectations are met with the reality of 301 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: a meat grinder in Chicago. 302 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean I've been there for the Vikes game. 303 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 2: I've been to Soldier Field and it was it was tough. 304 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 2: You're walking through the parking lot, You're getting stuff thrown 305 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 2: at you in your vikings Jersey and everybody's you know, 306 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 2: and it's hard. It's hard to take a threat seriously 307 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 2: when they sound like the detective from that Harrison Ford 308 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 2: movie where he goes, are you telling so one thing here? 309 00:15:56,680 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 2: You say your wife was killed within a one armed man? 310 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 2: I mean, and they're like throwing that accent at you, 311 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 2: and you get what with beers and you go, what's 312 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 2: even happening? It doesn't make sense. So I'm so confused. 313 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 2: I go into the game. There's a group of people 314 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 2: that everyone loves in the stadium and they are in 315 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 2: front of us by the goalpost, and that I am 316 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 2: standing up because Dante Culpeper is getting murdered and they're 317 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 2: not calling anything, and so I stand up and I 318 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 2: start screaming, and this guy from this group turns around 319 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 2: yells at me, and then I yell something and I'm 320 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 2: gonna tell you something home game so funny, so incredibly 321 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 2: funny that I cannot say on this show. But everyone 322 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 2: starts booing me. I mean, and I'm telling you it 323 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 2: is death threats. I have changed their accents. Now they 324 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 2: are very they're talking very seriously to me about what 325 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 2: I've just said, to the point where I'm getting threats, 326 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 2: and so I go up and I have I sign 327 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:05,120 Speaker 2: up for a Chicago Bears visa card so I can 328 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 2: get the free gift, which is a Chicago Bear's fleece 329 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:13,640 Speaker 2: throw blanket so I can wrap myself up in that 330 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 2: so I don't get murdered. And the Bears end up winning. 331 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:21,439 Speaker 2: And then here's what happens in the Midwest at games. 332 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 2: When your team wins, then all of the all of 333 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:30,879 Speaker 2: the violence can stop. And so now we're walking back 334 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 2: to our car through the parking lot after the game, 335 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,200 Speaker 2: and people are walking up handing us a beer, going, 336 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 2: hey man, you probably need this. It's like what has happened. 337 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:42,119 Speaker 2: It's like going to a game with you listening to 338 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:43,119 Speaker 2: your back and forth. 339 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 1: I don't need that. But I agree with you. Every 340 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 1: Chicago sporting and that's my number two on that don't 341 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:51,680 Speaker 1: love it list, is every Chicago sporting event I've ever 342 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:55,479 Speaker 1: gone to has ended really poorly for me. It's and 343 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:58,119 Speaker 1: I don't and I agree with you. It's hard to 344 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:02,119 Speaker 1: It's hard to have a guy who looks like he 345 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: quit his like his independent minor league baseball managerial job, 346 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:10,399 Speaker 1: to sell beef jerky for a startup. It's hard to 347 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,919 Speaker 1: have a guy who, yeah, you like this, That is 348 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:16,239 Speaker 1: a hard thing for you to just take and then 349 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 1: not go back at. But Chicago's one of those cities 350 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 1: Mike Tys to Mike Tys references in this podcast or 351 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 1: any theme, Mike Tys calls it tough guy town, and 352 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:32,439 Speaker 1: those people believe it. So when they say something funny 353 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 1: and then you say something funny back, yours was not funny, partner, 354 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 1: and I have a problem with you. And uh, I'm 355 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:43,920 Speaker 1: I'm oh. For every Chicago game I've ever gone, leaving 356 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: and going that was that rocked, it's always we gotta 357 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: get to the car. We gotta get to the car. 358 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 1: I will also say I can't go to Chicago without 359 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:58,439 Speaker 1: somebody accurately and meanly street hackling me. 360 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. 361 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: Last time I did Zanies, I was walking from the 362 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 1: hotel to Zany's and somebody called me a ghost cowboy. 363 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 1: I'm pretty skinny right now. I wasn't wearing a cowboy hat. 364 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 1: I was like, ghost cowboy, what's that? And then I 365 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,199 Speaker 1: went I got into the club and I went to 366 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 1: the bathroom and I looked at myself in the mirror 367 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:28,440 Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, no, ghost cowboy. So that city. 368 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 1: It is a tough guy town, and I think I'm 369 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 1: a soft boy. I think that's my last thing about 370 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:35,479 Speaker 1: Chicago is when I have to go there, I'm a 371 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: soft boy and a tough guy town, and it doesn't 372 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 1: it's not good for me. 373 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you one more thing I like 374 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 2: about it. I went there once and I was walking 375 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:44,640 Speaker 2: into uh, I can't remember the name of the place, 376 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 2: Deep Dish Pizza, famous for it, Gino zi'st that's what's 377 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,920 Speaker 2: And this guy has a little milk crate and some 378 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:52,919 Speaker 2: shoe shining stuff and he goes, hey, I'd like to 379 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 2: shine your shoes, and I go, oh, thinks anyways, man, 380 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,440 Speaker 2: He goes, well, how about this. He goes, if it's 381 00:19:57,480 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 2: twenty bucks. If I'm going to tell you a rid. 382 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 2: If you get it right, then I'll shine him for free. 383 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 2: If you get it wrong, you pay me forty for 384 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:08,920 Speaker 2: the shine. And I go, I like riddles, Okay, well 385 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 2: completely burned me right, So I pay him forty bucks, 386 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:14,119 Speaker 2: and I won't let him shine my shoes because I 387 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 2: hate that so much. Yeah, I hate having another person 388 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 2: doing that kind of work for me absolutely, And so 389 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 2: I just lost forty bucks. But I did love it, 390 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 2: because what a hard burn. 391 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 1: I love a good Yeah. If more of Chicago, if 392 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:29,800 Speaker 1: you just treated all of Chicago like, oh, you got 393 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 1: to go into Walgreens, here's a here's just a little, 394 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,200 Speaker 1: a little tiny little hey, hey, you want to get 395 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:37,399 Speaker 1: in the door, here's your riddle. I don't know what 396 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 1: accent that was. I think I think I. 397 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 2: Shifted Gangs of New York save it for the Giants episode. 398 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 1: I think I should. I think I shifted if Chicago 399 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:52,920 Speaker 1: was accessed all over the place by riddle riddle laden 400 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 1: men who looked like they were on the Mike Ditka sketch. 401 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 1: Yes on SNL. I'm way back in on that sit. 402 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,160 Speaker 2: Here's what I would love for a rule in Chicago 403 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 2: at Bears games, no Bears hats. You can wear Bears jerseys. 404 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 2: You can wear Bears zubas and god do you I 405 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 2: know they do it. Yeah, but here is what I 406 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 2: think you should have to do. You should have to 407 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:19,880 Speaker 2: wear either your White Sox hat or your Cubs hat. 408 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:23,879 Speaker 2: Oh that way, I know who I can beat up 409 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,360 Speaker 2: in a film, and that is what I would love 410 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 2: to do. Hey, White Sox fan, you want to throw 411 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 2: that beer at me? That's fine. But if I get 412 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:34,439 Speaker 2: hit with a hot dog by a guy in a 413 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 2: Cubs hat, Oh it's on, baby. 414 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 1: We're about to wrestle on a stairwell. 415 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 2: Here we go. 416 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,640 Speaker 1: All right, Let's let's talk about the game a little 417 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:44,680 Speaker 1: bit because we do again. We're not going to break 418 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:46,680 Speaker 1: it down. That's not what you We'll just talk about 419 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: it as fans. This is the first time the Vikings 420 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:51,879 Speaker 1: have gone on the road to face the Bears in 421 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,479 Speaker 1: the regular season opener since two thousand and two. That 422 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: game actually not played in the stadium. It was at 423 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 1: the University of Illinois in champ Compangna because of the 424 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:07,159 Speaker 1: renovations being done to Soldier Field. Everybody's talking about a 425 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:11,679 Speaker 1: lot of stuff. I am the number one talker is 426 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:16,960 Speaker 1: JJ JJ McCarthy. I'm in, but I'm not in in 427 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,400 Speaker 1: the way other people are in. You have people exalting 428 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 1: this dude. You have people like he's the friend, Like 429 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:27,119 Speaker 1: I'm just in because of the possibility. I have this 430 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 1: sports rule that I stole from our friend Kevin Boseman. 431 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:30,679 Speaker 2: OK. 432 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 1: And it's that I am not smart enough or talented 433 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 1: enough to make decisions like I'm not an owner who 434 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: is smart enough to hire a coach or a GM just. 435 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 2: A second, Hey, Jay, can we clip that last thing? 436 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:44,160 Speaker 2: Not smart enough and talented enough? 437 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 1: Jay, Let's go ahead and unclip that last. 438 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,120 Speaker 2: Thing that's gonna be my text tune. 439 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:53,360 Speaker 1: Let's unclip it. Uh. I Just so, I think our 440 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:56,359 Speaker 1: coach who we talked about this, look what he did 441 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 1: with Josh Dobbs look at like, yeah, whatever he decides 442 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,479 Speaker 1: at quarterback. If he came out at a press conference, 443 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 1: he's like, Hey, I attached a magnetic wiggle arm to 444 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 1: the printer in my office, and you should see this 445 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,880 Speaker 1: thing throw a slant route. I'd be like, I bet 446 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 1: he knows what he's talking about. He he has earned this. 447 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 1: Let's see what happens with the guy that he believes in. 448 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: So the fact that he's in on JJ, I'm very innunt, 449 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,680 Speaker 1: but I'm in on the possibility, don't. I don't want 450 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:27,760 Speaker 1: to say he's gonna be great. I don't want all 451 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 1: these people who are predicting all these things. I just 452 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,640 Speaker 1: like that the first half of the season and potentially 453 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,680 Speaker 1: the whole season, we are gonna find out. We talked 454 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 1: about that Bears streak. We're gonna find out if we 455 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: possibly have a guy and that feeling because I don't 456 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 1: think you ever felt it with Ponder, I don't think 457 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:50,680 Speaker 1: you ever felt it with Tavares Jackson. I don't think 458 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 1: we have truly felt Teddy. I could say you probably 459 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 1: felt it a little bit about everybody loves Teddy, but 460 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 1: it wasn't when Dante started and he was part of 461 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: that powerful offense within a couple of years, and then 462 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he's an MVP candidate, second place 463 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 1: in the voting, Like that's the last time we've felt like, whoa, 464 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,160 Speaker 1: Maybe it's finally our turn for a top three, top 465 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:18,199 Speaker 1: five guy, And I just think the possibility of that 466 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,719 Speaker 1: is fun. So I'm going to enjoy that potential. 467 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean speaking on Koc's ability to be and 468 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 2: you know he has been coined the quarterback Whisperer. It's 469 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 2: a fresh start. We're not going after this quarterback that's 470 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,439 Speaker 2: been great on another team for so many years and 471 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 2: paying him this one year contract. We are saying, dude, 472 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 2: we're committing to you, commit to us. And I love 473 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 2: that kind of relationship and I'm excited to see what. 474 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: Happens if you had to pick a non JJ McCarthy 475 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 1: addition that you're most pumped about because there are a 476 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 1: lot of changes. You got the O line, the middle 477 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 1: of the D line, the new cornerback, the running back kid. 478 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:01,119 Speaker 1: Like if you had to pick one non j that 479 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:05,120 Speaker 1: because I think often with football teams, if you get 480 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:08,119 Speaker 1: a jump up somewhere, Andrew van Ginkle from last year 481 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 1: is a great example. I think people expected Andrew van 482 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:12,880 Speaker 1: Gingkle to be a player. No one expected what we got. 483 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 1: When you get that jump up there and then you 484 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: get a jump up from Darnold, all of a sudden, 485 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:18,120 Speaker 1: you're fourteen and three. 486 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, obviously defense is as a whole looks great. 487 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,080 Speaker 2: We've filled some spots on the offensive line, but the 488 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,880 Speaker 2: jump up I am most excited about. Mason. I had 489 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,640 Speaker 2: this kid. I picked him up on Fantasy last year 490 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 2: after McCaffrey got injured. And because of that, I watch 491 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,399 Speaker 2: this guy play who normally I wouldn't have and boy, 492 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,399 Speaker 2: oh boy, can this kid scoot? 493 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,199 Speaker 1: Yeah? And if he's and that it creates kind of 494 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: like it's almost like now with the two offensive linemen 495 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:55,240 Speaker 1: in the middle. I think this is the most autonomy 496 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:59,600 Speaker 1: of or like freedom of decision. The KOC will have 497 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:01,679 Speaker 1: as a coach where he's like, hey, I now have 498 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 1: two running backs. I now have a center of if 499 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,880 Speaker 1: if the new alignment workout, you just have pieces everywhere 500 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,639 Speaker 1: with theland coming back that you go, oh, I think 501 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 1: he's now in a position to do kind of whatever 502 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: he wants and that's fun. 503 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:18,159 Speaker 2: I think so too. I mean, you could put him 504 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 2: out both at the same time. You could. I mean, 505 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 2: these defenses are going to have a hard enough time 506 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,920 Speaker 2: in the secondary figuring out who they're gonna. 507 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 1: Double right, absolutely so. 508 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,919 Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm a man. I'm stoked about all of 509 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 2: it because it gives Jones a little time to relax, 510 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,200 Speaker 2: in time to catch his breath without feeling like you're 511 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 2: putting in u you know, a secondary back. 512 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,120 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna throw a pipe dream one at you, 513 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 1: like a by low Sell high one that no one's 514 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,480 Speaker 1: talking about because Jeff Akuda, who got drafted by the 515 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,639 Speaker 1: Lions and just hasn't had the career people thought he 516 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 1: was gonna have. I have that thing in the back 517 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:01,160 Speaker 1: of my head that's like, but what what is what if? 518 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,200 Speaker 1: Because at one point everybody's like, this is the dude, right, 519 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 1: what if? What if he gets in there? With Flores. 520 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:10,479 Speaker 1: What if let me ask you this. I was at 521 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 1: the facility last week. I can't remember his Tuesday or Thursday, 522 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,399 Speaker 1: and somebody set a sentence to me that I had 523 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,119 Speaker 1: to stop and laugh at. Okay, if you'd have given 524 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: me ten thousand guesses at weird sentences, I would have 525 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 1: heard in the Vikings facility this year. I don't think 526 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: before the season started I would have heard the sentence 527 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 1: we just got done with the Carson Wentz, Adam Thielen 528 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 1: and Max bros mur Presso. 529 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean talk about Homerville, right, Yeah, it's great. 530 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 2: I mean, so you know, I grew up Fergus Falls, 531 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 2: lived there forever raising kids, so I got to watch 532 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 2: I mean, we didn't have the Minneapolis channels, we had 533 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,040 Speaker 2: the Fargo channels. So I'm always watching this guy play. 534 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,439 Speaker 2: Was doing well before he got injured, and I'm so 535 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 2: stoked to have him back. I'm stoked to have feeling 536 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 2: back to field. I mean this, you know, everyone goes, 537 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 2: oh man, thelen uh coming back. He's Detroit Lake's guy, 538 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,880 Speaker 2: which gets me in my fields because I my grandparents Frasey, you. 539 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,920 Speaker 1: Know, my dad's my dad grew up in Detroit Lakes 540 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 1: but they do you get any here's a question living 541 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: up there, because we both live up there and near there. 542 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:24,119 Speaker 1: So this is a very different person because Adam Thelen 543 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 1: is so wonderful and so likable. But you know who's 544 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,959 Speaker 1: also from where we're from, brock Lesner. That's true, former 545 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 1: former preseason Viking brock Lesner. 546 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 2: But people also wonderful. 547 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 1: People up there are so jacked that he's from there. 548 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 1: Like during the prime of his career, I remember like 549 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 1: on fight nights, you wouldn't even go to a gas 550 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: station because guys would just be an inappropriate amount of 551 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: jacked up. 552 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, and they were. 553 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 1: They were. They were too proud, they were too proud 554 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,400 Speaker 1: of brock Lesner being from there. I think we've got 555 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 1: a nice level of Adam Thelen grew up in this 556 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 1: Ara pride. It doesn't there's not like a feeling storefront, right, 557 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a calm level. So I'm I'm 558 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 1: pump I'm pumped for it as well. 559 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, brock Lesner, his daughter used to skate against my 560 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 2: daughter in figure skating. Oh really, Yeah, now you know 561 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 2: his daughter's obviously Olympian because you know, oh I didn't know. 562 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 2: Besides on the Yeah she throws for Colorado State. She 563 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 2: throws a shot put. 564 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because she throws the I thought you meant 565 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:26,280 Speaker 1: as a figure. 566 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,239 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, No, beg your pardon. She shifted gears in 567 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 2: the most incredible way, except they're spinning involved in both. 568 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,920 Speaker 2: So you take what you learned as a child and 569 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 2: you bring it into your collegiate career. 570 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 1: Other than wins and losses, there's the last question I 571 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 1: have for you, because you know, I think it'll be interesting. 572 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:46,800 Speaker 1: Ben Johnson new look offense and as an offensive coordinator. 573 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 1: I think that dude was like five and one against us, 574 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,240 Speaker 1: including when we were good. These first two games the 575 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 1: Bears and the Falcons. As you look ahead in the 576 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 1: schedule gets really hard in October, I think these first 577 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 1: two games are going to be I think these are 578 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 1: two really desperate teams to prove themselves and show up 579 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:08,880 Speaker 1: big early. I think you're gonna have like a crazy 580 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:13,080 Speaker 1: fight on your hands. But let's talk broadly before we 581 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 1: do predictions other than wins and losses. What's the thing 582 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,960 Speaker 1: that and it can it also can't be JJ Okay, 583 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 1: so I know I already asked you for a prep 584 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 1: but is there anything and it doesn't even have to 585 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 1: necessarily be gameplay specific. But do you have something you're 586 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:32,200 Speaker 1: most looking forward to for the season other than how 587 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: well we do and how well JJ does well. 588 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 2: I don't know if this falls in that category, but 589 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,520 Speaker 2: beating the Chiefs in the Super Bowl clearly is what 590 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,960 Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to because I'm so tired of them. 591 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,920 Speaker 2: I'm tired. I'm like, enough is enough. 592 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 1: Let's do. Here's how I want to do predictions this year. Okay, 593 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: I want to do a game prediction. Okay, so we're 594 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 1: calling it game player. You so give me a game prediction, 595 00:30:58,040 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 1: a player that you think is going to play really well, 596 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 1: and give me a Chad Daniel's prediction, and what's gonna 597 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 1: happen for you during the game. 598 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:10,200 Speaker 2: Okay, So game prediction win by double digits. 599 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 1: Mm hmm. 600 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:15,640 Speaker 2: Player prediction. I'm gonna go with Theland having just a 601 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 2: humongous game. 602 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 1: Dad, you took mine. I had a touchdown for him. 603 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,240 Speaker 1: Mine was a touchdown from them. 604 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 2: But I'm gonna say, whoever has him in a PPR 605 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 2: league buckle up, because I think it's gonna be I 606 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,080 Speaker 2: don't think it's gonna be like a lot of long 607 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,160 Speaker 2: routes I think it's gonna be short under routes, and 608 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,600 Speaker 2: I think he's gonna just rack up the points. And 609 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 2: then a Chad prediction, what's gonna happen with me? I 610 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,960 Speaker 2: know it's gonna be quiet because the last time the 611 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,720 Speaker 2: Vikings played the Bears, the Vikings were up by eleven 612 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 2: with a minute and a half to go, and I 613 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:50,280 Speaker 2: my my girlfriend said hey, congratulations they won and then 614 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 2: it went to overtime and they won by a field goal. 615 00:31:54,760 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 1: I I will I'm gonna go Vitan one hundred and 616 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:02,760 Speaker 1: twenty seven Bears nineteen? 617 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,680 Speaker 2: Love it? Yeah? Is it? Rushing yards? 618 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:11,360 Speaker 1: Took? You took my feeling, So I am. I'm going 619 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 1: to I'm gonna say it's the return of the Hawk. Yeah, 620 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, you know, Hawk came back last year 621 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:19,800 Speaker 1: you played. But I think we're gonna this might be 622 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 1: the game right out the gate that we go, oh yeah, 623 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,320 Speaker 1: he's like way good at this. 624 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 2: Yeah. 625 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 1: So I'm going player prediction, I'm going to Return of 626 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 1: the Hawk. And then personal prediction. I'm gonna say that 627 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,720 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to spend because it's a Monday night game, right, 628 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 1: so it's gonna be the evening you're gonna have had 629 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 1: a long day, and I can't always guarantee stuff goes 630 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:41,240 Speaker 1: great for you in a long day. So I think 631 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:45,080 Speaker 1: part of my night is going to be dedicated to 632 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,680 Speaker 1: arguing with you to let me feel my feelings throughout 633 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:51,920 Speaker 1: the season. Opener, I think you're not gonna let me 634 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,760 Speaker 1: be negative when I want to be negative and then 635 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,760 Speaker 1: just all of a sudden, be positive again. So that's 636 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 1: my prediction. I think I think our text threat you 637 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 1: me and the baby boy, my nephew Ethan. I think 638 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,920 Speaker 1: our text threat is going to be intense on Monday night. 639 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:07,360 Speaker 2: I think so too. And I'm gonna like to make 640 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,480 Speaker 2: one more prediction, and it's of the pizza delivery driver 641 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:12,800 Speaker 2: when he comes to my door and he goes hi, 642 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:14,200 Speaker 2: third time this week? 643 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:18,920 Speaker 1: Huh, that's gonna do it? Folks, come back listen to 644 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,560 Speaker 1: Chad and I I'm gonna say most of the weeks, he's 645 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:23,600 Speaker 1: going to be here almost all the weeks. When he's 646 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: not here, we will have other great friends that you 647 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:27,920 Speaker 1: have come to love over the years on this show 648 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 1: joining us. We love that you listen on the podcast feed. 649 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 1: Thank you well you're here. 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