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Speaker 2: Hey guys, it's another episode of the Vikings Tailgate, brought

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Speaker 2: Minnesota Vikings. Guys, we have comics entertainers on this show.

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Speaker 2: We like them generally to be a fan of the

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Speaker 3: But here's the thing.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty hard to find a comedian who's a fan

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Speaker 2: of the Houston Texans. Apparently, Luckily for all of you,

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Speaker 2: fan favorite recurring guest on the show, Blake Wexler, stepped in.

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Speaker 2: You know him as an Eagles fan, so it was

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Speaker 2: fun to talk about the loss on Monday night, the

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Speaker 2: differences in the fan bases, and what's going on with

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Speaker 2: our team and throughout the NFC. This was a really

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Speaker 2: fun one and we really appreciate Blake joining the show.

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Speaker 2: I hope you guys like it.

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Speaker 3: Recket, Reckett, I mere.

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Speaker 2: Joining me now to talk all things NFL and honestly

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Speaker 2: to just sit there and listen to me talk about

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Speaker 2: how over the moon I am about my favorite football

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Speaker 2: team right now, Ladies and gentlemen. Recurrent guest on the program,

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Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles fan NFL Savant, Blake Wexler. You like that,

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Speaker 2: you like Savant Savant?

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Speaker 3: I'm your first Savant. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Jason Savants, I believe was our wide receiver three for

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Speaker 4: a couple of years place for the University of Michigan. Yeah, No,

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Speaker 4: I love Savant.

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Speaker 2: Does your fan base have an obsession with the wide

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Speaker 4: Of course, I think every does every fan base have

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Speaker 2: Right There's something that I've noticed in Minnesota, and I've

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Speaker 2: been I think I've narrowed it down because Jalen Naylor

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Speaker 2: he's looked good, he's finally healthy. People are really excited

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Speaker 2: this like like, if you give a kid a snowmobile

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Speaker 2: So who's new Jake Reid. But this Jalen Naylor kid

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Speaker 4: That's incredible for like, yeah, you guys just need more

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Speaker 4: to It's funny. I think we've both gone through franchise.

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Speaker 2: I forget that when I talk to you, you passed

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Speaker 4: And even though we don't, we don't really talk about it.

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Speaker 2: The funny thing about a Philadelphia Eagles fans psychology is

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Speaker 2: When I said, when I started talking about your like

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Speaker 4: And it's a similar thing too where I still talk

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Speaker 4: a game you want. Why are you complaining about this? Well,

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Speaker 3: But you are right. There's a laundry list of vendettas.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of quarterbacks, everybody is going nuts about Sam Donald,

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Speaker 2: I believe, was Josh McCown as quarterback coach for the

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Speaker 2: If you really and Blake you had him in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 2: If you deep dive Josh McCown and you learn about

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Speaker 2: I think he is perfectly built for today's generation of athletes.

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Speaker 2: If Sam Darnold continues to perform the way he has,

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Speaker 4: I totally agree, and I think he relates so well

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Speaker 4: forget sports, just jobs in the history of occupation, was

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Speaker 4: for Josh McCown. This guy is such a gamer that

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Speaker 4: This dude was limping around the field and was still plague.

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Speaker 4: So if you think a guy you know, not collecting

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Speaker 2: We can talk a little bit about your game on Monday,

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Speaker 4: We could skip it and talk about Justin Jefferson. Sounds

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Speaker 2: But before we do that, or you know, maybe we

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Speaker 2: It was a lot like politics. People had their sides

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Speaker 2: But we've arrived at this place where Donald and Kevin

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Speaker 2: more aggressive. Yeah, you're welcome being more aggressive. And what

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Speaker 2: I didn't know about Sam Donald because I didn't know

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Speaker 2: Everybody says big arm. You hear the term big arm

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Speaker 2: the Niners, I don't it seems I'm not saying it

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Speaker 2: seems simple, but it seemed like a pitch and catch,

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Speaker 2: So to sit in there with that pressure somewhere rattling

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Speaker 2: And this is for the second time in two weeks,

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Speaker 2: Blake deliver a ball down the field to Justin Jefferson

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Speaker 2: it's been really, really, really fun. I'm sure there are

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Speaker 4: It's cool to watch too, because he was obviously an extreme,

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Speaker 4: USC Yeah, in twenty eighteen, right, and he was always

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Speaker 4: and I think often people either figure it out immediately

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Speaker 2: Do you think do you think there's this new thing coming?

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Speaker 2: Because the running back position obviously has changed right running back,

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Speaker 2: So it's kind of been one of two paths with quarterbacks.

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Speaker 2: And I wonder, with this happening to Baker Mayfield, I wonder,

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Speaker 2: a new NFL universe where there's this third tier. You know,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I'm really fascinated. I'm both fascinated to

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Speaker 2: it's all tied. Here's the crazy thing, it's all tied to.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I'm writing a verbal manifesto right now.

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Speaker 4: But this is how you speak. I don't know if

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Speaker 4: this is news to you. This is how you've always spoken.

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Speaker 2: It's it's disgusting what a I did not expect us

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Speaker 2: to be two and oh. It is disgusting what a

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Speaker 2: not good for my relationship, it's not good for my

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Speaker 2: free time, it's not good for anything. But I'm I'm

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Speaker 2: so deep down into this thing right now.

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Speaker 4: It's pathetic is that you should try a ten in

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Speaker 4: Like did you see that cigarette commercial starring Chuck Long?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's so so it's really really funny that

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Speaker 3: So in terms of Kirk, Kirk was not Kirk was Kirk.

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Speaker 2: It is the fact that the entire Philly fan base is,

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Speaker 4: What I'm trying to say is you're gonna like, you

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Speaker 2: Opinion, and better quarterback, maybe more speed. I don't know.

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00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:57,240
Speaker 2: The Stefan Diggs thing is crazy. What I'm honestly most

435
00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 2: curious about is how Stefan Diggs will be received like

436
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 2: this and as a as an absolute lunatic who disrespects

437
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 2: anyone who dares put on a different jersey, you know,

438
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:15,360
Speaker 2: you and your city. I imagine if he went back

439
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 2: to Philly, go poorly. I'm really hoping that the Viking

440
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:22,679
Speaker 2: fans greet him with a bunch of love, regardless of

441
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:27,720
Speaker 2: his exit, regardless of anything else. He is responsible for, arguably,

442
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:32,119
Speaker 2: if not inarguably is that a word. Yeah, he is

443
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:36,360
Speaker 2: responsible for the greatest moment in the franchise's history. From

444
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 2: an excitement standpoint, From an iconic standpoint. When they write

445
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 2: the book on the greatest plays that have ever happened

446
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 2: in NFL history, no matter how many years from now

447
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:47,679
Speaker 2: it will be, that is going to be right up

448
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:51,479
Speaker 2: at the tippy top of the list. It's so I

449
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:53,600
Speaker 2: hope he gets the love he deserves, and then I

450
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 2: hope he gets one catch for eleven yards and fumbles

451
00:24:58,280 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 2: a pass into a defender's hand.

452
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 4: This is how I would want from Philadelphia pans, where

453
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:04,200
Speaker 4: it's like, I don't let's.

454
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 3: Not have any bad pr here. Let's just have them

455
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 3: come out.

456
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 4: Don't give away anything that can be thrown, don't give

457
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 4: anything that can amplify a human's voice.

458
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:17,160
Speaker 3: Louder than it should be.

459
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 4: Let the player come out, get mute all the microphones,

460
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 4: give them an ovation or whatever.

461
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:25,200
Speaker 3: Play a little highlight reel.

462
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,640
Speaker 4: Because here's the thing with the that's a great point

463
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 4: with the iconic play, where if you put that play

464
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 4: up on the Megas screen, you know, up on the

465
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 4: Titan tron, the whole crowd's going to go nuts like that.

466
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 4: I'm getting goosebumps thinking about that play, and I'm not

467
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 4: even a Minnesota fan. So I feel like that's the

468
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:43,479
Speaker 4: change is there?

469
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 2: Anything that Nick Foles could do, like literally, like when

470
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,679
Speaker 2: he left, is there anything he could have done to

471
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 2: hurt I mean that's a different level because it's a

472
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:55,200
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, right. I feel like Nick Foles could marry

473
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 2: your wife and set your house on fire and you'd

474
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 2: still You'd be like, I gotta get in the burning

475
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:01,120
Speaker 2: house and.

476
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,680
Speaker 3: Save his jersey.

477
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, so this is not an interesting answer, but the

478
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,400
Speaker 4: answer is no, there's nothing wrong that he can do.

479
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,880
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think of another similar thing where McNabb

480
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 4: might be an interesting one. Wherefore before we got the

481
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:22,120
Speaker 4: Super Bowl, because McNabb is the best quarterback the Eagles

482
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 4: have ever had he left and even better than people

483
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 4: you know. It might it might sound surprising because obviously

484
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 4: he played for the Vikings too, But McNabb had a

485
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 4: much better career for the Eagles than Randall Cunningham did,

486
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 4: and he was better than Ron Jaworski. He was better

487
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 4: than you know everyone. But who has a statue outside

488
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 4: the stadium. It's Nick Foles. So nick Foles is his

489
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 4: own weird thing. But when McNabb came back, it was

490
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 4: mixed emotions and mixed reception because he didn't have that

491
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:55,399
Speaker 4: one iconic moment. He just had overall a great career.

492
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 4: It would be as if Iverson's another one were like

493
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 4: if Iverson had somehow join the Knicks or something and

494
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,640
Speaker 4: had a great career, but he was so iconic for us.

495
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:10,640
Speaker 4: If they had laid his step over of Tyron Lou

496
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 4: or something, the whole crowd would still go nuts. So yeah,

497
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 4: it's Philly's interesting where it's the personality and how they

498
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 4: conducted themselves. I'm sure that's the same thing with any

499
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:21,919
Speaker 4: sports city. It's not just specific Afhilly.

500
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:23,960
Speaker 2: Well, it's not the same. It's there are some things

501
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 2: specific to Philly. But I can't stop thinking about how

502
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,360
Speaker 2: that is funny that they built Nick Foles a statue.

503
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 2: It makes sense. But if the Vikings won a Super Bowl,

504
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:39,199
Speaker 2: I don't even know if they make enough medal. I

505
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 2: don't know if anybody's mind enough metal for the amount

506
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,400
Speaker 2: they'd be like, should we what about the security guard

507
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 2: who worked outside the stadium? Should we get him a statue?

508
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 2: Like that's a super interesting thing. With the Donald thing,

509
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 2: I think I don't want to get ahead of ourselves here.

510
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 4: You no no predict what's your prediction side, what's gonna

511
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 4: happen two games into the season. But what where's Sam

512
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 4: Donald's statue? You're gonna go outside of your stadium?

513
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 2: Listen to me, I don't. This is all gravy for me.

514
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,640
Speaker 2: I went into this season and my brain was, they

515
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,160
Speaker 2: got seventy five million bucks in cap room next year.

516
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 2: If Jordan Addison, Dallas Turner, and Ivan Pace are all

517
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 2: big time guys, we're about to have a really fun

518
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 2: three or four years at least. And so I was

519
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:34,919
Speaker 2: not connected to the record. Now you sucker me in.

520
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 2: I'm getting a little connected to the record. So I

521
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 2: like this team, could they could go thirteen and four

522
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 2: or they could go, you know, six and eleven. I'm

523
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 2: not necessarily connected to that. I'm saying in a hypothetical

524
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 2: world where something crazy happens and this season takes off

525
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 2: like no one imagined Nick Foles would lead the Philadelphia

526
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 2: Eagles to a Super Bowl Absolutely no one. I can

527
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 2: tell you if, whether Sam Donald or anyone else, But

528
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 2: let's talk about Donald because he's in the position. If

529
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 2: somehow some miracle run happened and the Vikings went from

530
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 2: cellar dweller predictions across the media to Super Bowl champions.

531
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 2: I don't think you could count the amount of statues.

532
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 2: I think there would be people that this fan base

533
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 2: is so desperate for a winner of any type in

534
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 2: any sport, but specifically the Vikings. I think there would

535
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 2: be people who had Sam Donald's statues in their front lawns.

536
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 2: I think there would be Sam Donald elementary schools. I

537
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 2: think I think that's a guy who you just you live.

538
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 2: You can't leave the state anymore. You're too famous. You're

539
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 2: more important in Minnesota than David Hasselhoff ever was in Germany.

540
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 4: No, and shout out to Germany, and I I also

541
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 4: know I do agree. Yeah, it's it's unquantifiable, you know,

542
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 4: like the Sam Donald thing is because he is that

543
00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 4: same underdog story too, like or or even maybe more accurately,

544
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 4: Nick Mullins or Brett Rippion somehow leads you guys to

545
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 4: a super Bowl. You know, it's such a crazy story,

546
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 4: Like just like you.

547
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 2: Guys, it took you so long to win a super Bowl.

548
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 2: It feels like when they finally win one, you won't

549
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 2: get to do it through like and then we drafted

550
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 2: our future Hall of Famer and he led us to

551
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 2: a super Bowl. It feels to me that it's gonna

552
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 2: be like and then we found this guy throwing footballs

553
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 2: to a janitor behind the stadium, and we gave him

554
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 2: like it to break the Vikings Super Bowl curse. It

555
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 2: almost seems like it's gonna take something weird and herculean

556
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 2: that you didn't expect that Nick Foles year, it was

557
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 2: Case Keenum. There's no one on the planet who's like

558
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 2: Case Keenum's almost gonna win a super Bowl and he

559
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 2: almost Dude, imagine if he didn't won a super Bowl

560
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 2: in your home stadium.

561
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 3: That's it would have imploded. Yeah, that is a.

562
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 2: Level of I think there are people who still have

563
00:30:58,680 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 2: are still taking pete.

564
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 4: I've taken a life pto from that super Bowl where

565
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 4: I don't really have goals anymore. I used to be

566
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 4: really goal oriented and ambitious. But I'm like, so I

567
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 4: did I did that. I won a super Bowl and

568
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 4: it's it's still daily the best thing in the entire world.

569
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 4: And I'm not being funny here, Like the amount that

570
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 4: that is elevated my general mood and happiness on a

571
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 4: day to day basis is by I'm trying to give

572
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 4: you a real number here. I'm not going to exaggerate

573
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 4: at all thirty five to forty five percent on a

574
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 4: daily basis. I'm happier from a thing that happened in

575
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 4: twenty eighteen. That's it's forty one to thirty three. It's truly,

576
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 4: and that weight, it's it's horrible the weight. Probably if

577
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 4: the amount of years that this is added to my life,

578
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 4: I don't know, like three years of happiness. The amount

579
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 4: of years that watching Philadelphia sports in general have taken

580
00:31:58,120 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 4: away from my life.

581
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 3: Probably thirty one years.

582
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 4: So it's not really you know, it's a net negative

583
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 4: watching Philly's sports, But you're right if you got when

584
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 4: you get it, whether it's a Sam Darnold, whether it's

585
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 4: McCarthy who, whether it's a trade, Uh, there's gonna be

586
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 4: a statue because the longer you wait for a title.

587
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 2: The bigger the statue gets.

588
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 4: Exactly, it's gonna be the half the stadium is going

589
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 4: to be made out of the statue, you know, like

590
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 4: his head, Yeah.

591
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:25,719
Speaker 2: His statue.

592
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 3: Yeah.

593
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 2: What I'm over the tush push. It's just become boring.

594
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 2: It's not even like I dislike it. It's so boring,

595
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 2: like defend it, please, it's so unruly boring. I care

596
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 2: about it. So little. Please make it illegal, just to

597
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 2: bring interest back to fourth and third downs.

598
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 3: I hear you.

599
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 4: It's not our faultet that it's boring. It's because so

600
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 4: much hype was built around it by people who have

601
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:58,959
Speaker 4: nothing interesting to say and who want to ruin our

602
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 4: our fourth down. Can versions that it became boring. So

603
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 4: what the tush push is is a quarterback sneak. That's

604
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 4: all it is. DeVante Smith weighs one hundred and fourteen pounds. Okay,

605
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 4: the fact that he is pushing Jalen Hurts isn't really

606
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:18,239
Speaker 4: making up three yards. Jalen Hurts. His ability to his

607
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 4: leg strength is what makes the playwork. It wasn't even

608
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 4: Jason Kelsey. It's timing and how strong our quarterback's legs are.

609
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 3: Remember like Tom.

610
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 4: Brady had the craziest QB sneak percentage for years and

611
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 4: he just fell forward. Like there's just something. It's a

612
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 4: quarterback thing and it's called you know, I think it

613
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 4: has so much hype because that is a funny name,

614
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 4: the tush push, and then they ruin that they call

615
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 4: it the brotherly shove.

616
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 2: God, you're uncreative. City full.

617
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 4: Joe, eat a cheese curd. Go dip it. Go dip

618
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 4: your cheese curd and ranch by the lake.

619
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 2: We I'll definitely do it by the like. And for

620
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 2: the people who are listening from Philadelphia, that's a large

621
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 2: body of water, and water is something that people use

622
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:08,320
Speaker 2: to clean themselves.

623
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 4: But we have those outside our homes. When the fire

624
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 4: extinguisher breaks, we have lakes.

625
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:18,439
Speaker 2: Let's close on this. So the Detroit loses, by the way,

626
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 2: the Bucks that I'm gonna answer my ound question before

627
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 2: I even ask it. But as you're looking around the NFC,

628
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 2: you know there's some teams that are like, oh, are

629
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 2: the Cardinals good? The Lions lose one? You know, the

630
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 2: Bucks are fascinating to me. I think they're scary good.

631
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 2: I think the Baker thing is really interesting. I don't

632
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 2: know how we haven't recognized that Chris Godwin and Mike

633
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,479
Speaker 2: Evans are as good as they are. I mean, maybe

634
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 2: that's just me, but it feels like they've been heavily overlooked.

635
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:49,240
Speaker 2: But as you a team who thinks you have Super

636
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 2: Bowl aspirations, that's a thing that you believe. Is there

637
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 2: anyone that genuinely worries you?

638
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 3: The Philadelphia Eagles terrify me. The most.

639
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 4: I would say they scare me more than any other team.

640
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 4: I would say, honestly, it's so early. Detroit is a

641
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 4: team that I think will get its legs underneath itself.

642
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 4: And I really do think the Niners just have so

643
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 4: much talent. Honestly, watching watching Dallas in that first game,

644
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 4: that win was so big over Cleveland, and then the

645
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 4: way they.

646
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 2: Just beautiful, you know, beautiful. Yeah, it was gorgeous, really

647
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 2: really beautiful.

648
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 4: If I was an impartial observer, which I couldn't, that's

649
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 4: going to be the name of my next album. I

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Speaker 4: would say it's been an interesting two weeks because a

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Speaker 4: lot of these teams that everybody thought was unassailable have

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Speaker 4: lost at least one game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the Bucks look good.

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Speaker 2: And the Bucks look good. Yeah, Okay, buddy, Well I

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you doing it.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you for being here.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for stepping in on a week where it

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Speaker 2: turns out there aren't comedians from Houston. Uh they're from there,

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Speaker 2: but they don't care about the team. So we'll talk

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Speaker 2: talk little Eagles, we'll talk little Vikings, and we will

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Speaker 2: see you all next week. Thank you again to Blake

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Speaker 2: for joining us this week. Please check us out on

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Speaker 2: thank you to Ticketmaster. The tailgate is brought to you

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Speaker 2: by Ticketmaster, the official ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 2: We will see you all again next week