Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Daily, where we broke our new year's
Speaker 1: resolution on New Year's Eve. I'm Greg Rosenthal. I'm here
Speaker 1: in the Chris Wesleyan podcast studio with my friends Jordan Rodrigue,
Speaker 1: The Athletic and Colleen Wolf. Hello, and yeah, I didn't
Speaker 1: have a plan for how I was opening that show
Speaker 1: until I was talking. And it's true. I got a
Speaker 1: parking ticket this morning. And one of my New Year's
Speaker 1: resolutions was to make it through an entire year without
Speaker 1: getting a parking ticket for the first time in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles possible. And I literally made it till this morning
Speaker 1: and parked and didn't feed the meter while I was
Speaker 1: getting a smooth because it was going to take like
Speaker 1: six minutes, and somehow got that ticket in the six minutes.
Speaker 2: They were waiting for you.
Speaker 3: You didn't feed the meter when this was your New
Speaker 3: Year's resolution.
Speaker 1: Well it's December by then you've forgotten about it, and
Speaker 1: it's like, it's just one of those things. I was like,
Speaker 1: I want to make it through one year. It wasn't
Speaker 1: the only one year without getting a copious amounts of
Speaker 1: like tickets and stuff like that, and it's gotten better
Speaker 1: and then it happened, and I was like, this is
Speaker 1: too fu.
Speaker 4: I love that you're giving up already.
Speaker 1: No, it was last year, and I'm saying I made
Speaker 1: it till now. I was so close.
Speaker 2: It was my first thought too though. It was like,
Speaker 2: as screwing, that's what I mean.
Speaker 1: I was so close.
Speaker 4: Oh that's impressive.
Speaker 5: You would think that being that close, she would remember
Speaker 5: to feed the meter for six minutes.
Speaker 2: But that's just my one one person right, No.
Speaker 1: Because then you what happens in life is you you
Speaker 1: try to improve at certain things, and then you do,
Speaker 1: and then you just get a little too comfortable in
Speaker 1: yourself and you start going back to the bad habits
Speaker 1: of like, eh, it's only a couple of minutes, you know,
Speaker 1: what does it really matter. I'm going to be in
Speaker 1: and out and way to go.
Speaker 2: It mattered, turns out.
Speaker 1: Welcome to our last see you next Tuesday, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, although we will see you next Tuesday,
Speaker 1: uh huh. I believe Colleen will be here. She's she's
Speaker 1: back after being home, and she's wearing a sparkly New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve type of hoodie. I love it.
Speaker 3: It's a sweatshirt that has seen Quinn's on it, so
Speaker 3: I have to be casual and fancy at the same time.
Speaker 2: She contains multitudes exactly.
Speaker 1: And how is how is your Christmas? Your twin Maddie.
Speaker 2: Was in town.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have a twin.
Speaker 2: I have a twin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, around the whole thing. Yeah.
Speaker 5: She is now headed to another scientific expedition for the
Speaker 5: next six months, so I won't see her.
Speaker 2: Very proud of her.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Maddie's going.
Speaker 2: I can't tell you.
Speaker 4: Oh more interesting.
Speaker 1: It's very like nineteen ninety sitcom, like the Twin Twin
Speaker 1: sister and one of them's like this crazy secret marine
Speaker 1: biologist whatever I don't even know, making secret missions. And
Speaker 1: Colleen is back from from home. How are the Wolves?
Speaker 4: They are great? Everyone is good.
Speaker 1: How is Tim doing?
Speaker 4: Tim is very good.
Speaker 3: I spent two days with life family and developed a
Speaker 3: case of rose.
Speaker 4: Show.
Speaker 1: Okay, so okay, So this is it's going to be
Speaker 1: a big show. It's a very festive show. We are
Speaker 1: going to be doing New Year's Resolutions. Last week, Jordan
Speaker 1: and I had reasons for Joy for the AFC, but
Speaker 1: it felt like Resolutions was more thematic, So we will
Speaker 1: do NFC. So that if you know, all the AFC
Speaker 1: fans heard their teams talked about last week. We will
Speaker 1: do NFC this week with New Year's resolutions, and then
Speaker 1: we're gonna read some of the Christmas cards that are listeners,
Speaker 1: you guys, and then we're gonna get out of here
Speaker 1: and go celebrate or do whatever you want to do.
Speaker 1: Just just chill. Okay.
Speaker 5: I actually teared up when you posted the pile of
Speaker 5: Christmas cards. I know, I am, I'm a sappy fool,
Speaker 5: I know, but it just was so nice, like and
Speaker 5: you seared up.
Speaker 3: I was like crying in the locker room, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I hope nobody walks in right now because we're going
Speaker 3: to be like, what's going on with you?
Speaker 4: Colleyen? Are you okay? I was just sitting there. The
Speaker 4: show had ended.
Speaker 3: I sat at my locker and cried reading these cards.
Speaker 4: They were really, really nice.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna need you to like save that emotion.
Speaker 1: That was really good, but save it for the segment.
Speaker 4: Well it's not fake, Greg, so no problem.
Speaker 1: Bring it back and really lean in to it. We're
Speaker 1: trying to get the family crowd here for the holiday season.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we'll do resolutions first and we're going to
Speaker 1: go through just quickly. Each team just kind of threw
Speaker 1: out a quick resolution. We can comment on it. But
Speaker 1: last last week it worked well. We did not have
Speaker 1: a clock, but we just decided we're going to move
Speaker 1: at a quick pace and if if Eric believes we're
Speaker 1: honking too much, he can play a little sound to
Speaker 1: just sort.
Speaker 5: Of serve us a lot every week.
Speaker 1: And so we've assigned all the all the teams out
Speaker 1: and Colleen, you got an extra one though, yeah, I
Speaker 1: know that was your extra present. I had to decide, well,
Speaker 1: she be offended if she has one less, or offended
Speaker 1: if she has one more. I went with one more
Speaker 1: because you missed last week, so you have catching up.
Speaker 4: Figured I figured that was the reasonings.
Speaker 1: And you're gonna you're gonna start with the Eagles. I
Speaker 1: give you an easy one.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, all right, so here we go.
Speaker 3: My resolution is I'd like to show more patience and
Speaker 3: kindness towards Nick Sirianni. Oh, you know, there are plenty
Speaker 3: of things that I'm just like, why what are we
Speaker 3: doing here?
Speaker 4: What is happening? The whole thing with zach Ertz, Like
Speaker 4: I guess like there was a.
Speaker 3: High five that was too much, and then comments were
Speaker 3: exchanged after the Eagles and Commanders game, so they need
Speaker 3: to be pulled apart. And then taunting your own fans
Speaker 3: after winning against one of the worst teams in the
Speaker 3: NFL by four points, wearing the beat Dallas shirt that
Speaker 3: wasn't great, being criticized for bringing his kids to the
Speaker 3: postgame press conference to be used as shields. So you know,
Speaker 3: there's plenty of things that we could talk about that
Speaker 3: are kind of annoying here and there. It feels like
Speaker 3: a little immature and petty some of the things that
Speaker 3: he does. But I had this realization and I was like,
Speaker 3: you know, the things you hate in others are the
Speaker 3: things you hate in yourself. And I'm petty, and I'm immature,
Speaker 3: and i have no filter, thank god I do in
Speaker 3: front of a mic, but I'm always ready to throw
Speaker 3: down as well, especially if someone is going after my
Speaker 3: friends and family.
Speaker 4: Only I'm allowed to do that, Okay.
Speaker 3: So what I'm saying is like, you know, Nick Sirianni,
Speaker 3: deep down, maybe I am him, and I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 3: gonna stop with this mirror right now and look past
Speaker 3: the mirror and look at his achievements and what he's
Speaker 3: done with this.
Speaker 4: Team and the success that he's had.
Speaker 3: Listen, he has the highest winning percentage of any head
Speaker 3: coach in Eagles history, the sixth highest win percentage of
Speaker 3: any head coach period with at least fifty games coach
Speaker 3: in the NFL forty seven wins through his first sixty
Speaker 3: seven games as a head coach. Only three coaches in
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl era I did some research on this
Speaker 3: have more wins, and that's George Seaffert, Chuck Knox and
Speaker 3: Matt Lafleur.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, she got the hard right off the bat.
Speaker 4: All right, that's it. That's it.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 4: I also resigned Zac Bond.
Speaker 2: Yes, I love what you said at the beginning.
Speaker 5: The comments were exchanged, and I just thought, can we
Speaker 5: now refer to him as Nick? Comments were exchange.
Speaker 1: You know what, there is something about him I think
Speaker 1: that just rubs people the wrong way. I don't think
Speaker 1: that you have that in common with him. But a
Speaker 1: good point about the accomplishments. He is forty seven and
Speaker 1: twenty as a head coach and has made the playoffs
Speaker 1: every time? Is that right? And went to the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: Like just saying Kevin O'Connell and Matt Lafleur and all these.
Speaker 4: It wasn't me.
Speaker 1: It's good fight, good point, all right. Next to the
Speaker 1: commander Jordan.
Speaker 5: I love this, okay, Washington Commanders, I'm speaking from the
Speaker 5: perspective of somebody else. Well, it's a new year and
Speaker 5: I'm feeling the love. My team has completely flipped the
Speaker 5: narrative from its toxic, haunted house vibe of the last era.
Speaker 5: We even saged the place and fumigated the old owner's office.
Speaker 5: I nailed the coaching and general manager hires. See Ben,
Speaker 5: we don't need you after all. My franchise found its
Speaker 5: quarterback of the future, and I even got Cliff to
Speaker 5: start wearing socks.
Speaker 2: My home crowd was chanting my name, Josh Hairris.
Speaker 5: On my team's way to its eleventh win, our first
Speaker 5: double win season since that wonder boy and his WonderBoy
Speaker 5: staff and RG three grace the halls in twenty twenty twelve.
Speaker 5: This is owning an NFL team. This is so much fun.
Speaker 5: I resolve not to ruin it. Adam Peters Cook, dan
Speaker 5: Quinn Cook, I'll just stand in the back, enjoy it
Speaker 5: all and throw money at you when you need it.
Speaker 1: Oh, I thought you were gonna say, I'm gonna stand
Speaker 1: back and not ruin it like I am with the
Speaker 1: seventy six ers.
Speaker 3: Li said, I have some feelings about Josh.
Speaker 4: Harris right in general, he's a turncoat.
Speaker 1: That it's all great point, Like you think about where
Speaker 1: they were, and not just as a franchise with Dan Snyder,
Speaker 1: but even just getting turned down by Ben Johnson and
Speaker 1: everyone's making fun of Cliff and wait, is the socks
Speaker 1: like a real thing? What is that?
Speaker 5: It just bothers me every time I see a photo
Speaker 5: of him on the sideline or like in his house,
Speaker 5: his really fancy Cardinals meme house. He just doesn't look
Speaker 5: like he's wearing socks, and I'm like, aren't you cold?
Speaker 2: He does the no shows, aren't you cold?
Speaker 5: It's like a young offensive coach thing. None of them
Speaker 5: are very good at their socks.
Speaker 1: But he is very good at bringing out the best
Speaker 1: in Gene Daniel. Like this second half of that game,
Speaker 1: you think they were so creative, he's beating all of
Speaker 1: the allegations. All right, I'm gonna go with the cowboys here.
Speaker 1: And I wasn't nearly as creative as you guys with
Speaker 1: these resolutions. I kept it simple, and my resolution for
Speaker 1: them is, let's just trade Michaeh Parsons for at least
Speaker 1: two first round picks. Now, I'm talking selfishly from my perspective,
Speaker 1: it'd be great content. I think it would be an
Speaker 1: exciting part of the off season that it's not just them,
Speaker 1: kind of like showing a little leg here. Ooh, Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons might be available and they end up keeping them. No,
Speaker 1: let's actually trade them. You shouldn't be trading the best
Speaker 1: pure pass thresher that I've seen come into the league
Speaker 1: in the last twenty years. But if a team was
Speaker 1: going to they are maybe that team. They're really good
Speaker 1: at draft picks. They do have a lot of huge
Speaker 1: salaries that are already on the books, and like if
Speaker 1: Khalil matt can get to first and a third with
Speaker 1: a second coming back, I actually think Michael Parsons could
Speaker 1: get a couple first and it would be great content.
Speaker 1: February March, Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 5: Cowboys are all about that content. They are, right, Greg,
Speaker 5: They got hooks into you early. They want you to
Speaker 5: talk about them.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's a realistic because he's kind of
Speaker 1: known as a little bit of a high maintenance guy
Speaker 1: behind the scenes.
Speaker 3: After that Bengals game, like watching him walk off the field.
Speaker 3: I think it was that game. Yes, I mean I
Speaker 3: kind of felt like really awful for him. It's like
Speaker 3: I kind of want to get him out of.
Speaker 1: There right, and he's not really the type of person
Speaker 1: you should be trying to trade. But that's I'm fine.
Speaker 1: If the Cowboys make a big mistake.
Speaker 2: What do you want to see, go get him.
Speaker 1: That's for another show, Colleen. You have the Giants.
Speaker 3: I have the Giants, and personally I think the Giants
Speaker 3: are doing everything right.
Speaker 4: No notes at this point.
Speaker 1: That is why I gave the Giants the Colleen.
Speaker 4: Or run it back with Ben McAdoo.
Speaker 1: Okay, bring him back, that's.
Speaker 3: An option, but I think, you know, getting a quarterback,
Speaker 3: they should do that, you know, leave whatever offering to
Speaker 3: any deities that they need to make things right with
Speaker 3: the universe.
Speaker 4: That could be another resolution for them.
Speaker 3: But obviously Saquon Barkley and Daniel Jones these were massive
Speaker 3: mistakes and then having hard knocks there for like all
Speaker 3: to document and hear the fallout from that that can
Speaker 3: now just be replayed.
Speaker 4: Over and over.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, but they did get Malik Neighbors, so that's
Speaker 3: a positive. So things could be trending in the right direction,
Speaker 3: but considering their week seventeen win moved them down from
Speaker 3: number one in the draft to number four in the draft.
Speaker 3: That's right outside Shadora Sanders cam Ward and Travis Hunter territory.
Speaker 4: Not really sure what they're gonna do. Maybe they go.
Speaker 3: After one of the quarterbacks that doesn't stay in Minnesota.
Speaker 3: Whether it's a JJ McCarthy or Sam Darnold, I don't know,
Speaker 3: But honestly, I think they're doing just fine.
Speaker 1: And you're kind of in a win win situation as
Speaker 1: an Egos fan this week, like, maybe have the backups
Speaker 1: loose to them and make their draft pick even worse.
Speaker 1: You should have just left it as you're doing great.
Speaker 1: Don't tell you, just end it right there. All right,
Speaker 1: Lions and Jordan.
Speaker 2: I've got the Lions.
Speaker 5: In twenty twenty five, we the Detroit Lions resolved to
Speaker 5: stay fun. Big changes our heead we might lose our
Speaker 5: mad scientist offensive coordinator Ben Johnson to a head coaching opportunity.
Speaker 5: We're in the process of sneaking out one page of
Speaker 5: his ideas notebook at a time, photo copying it, and
Speaker 5: then reattaching it before he notices that anything is wrong
Speaker 5: or missing, and brilliant defensive coordinator Ang Glenn is also
Speaker 5: going to be a top candidate this job cycle too.
Speaker 5: Those guys would be so hard to replace. Refilling coordinator
Speaker 5: jobs after a deep postseason run is tough as it is,
Speaker 5: but we know what we're about. We're fully alive, an
Speaker 5: electric guitar power chord of a team with few energy,
Speaker 5: but like in an enthusiastic way. On offense, we play
Speaker 5: with our food. We're smarter and stronger than you. On defense,
Speaker 5: we hit hard and we take no pity for our injuries.
Speaker 5: We're the goddamn Detroit Lions. We're gonna stay fun no
Speaker 5: matter what.
Speaker 1: I love that a lot.
Speaker 2: I would you please stay.
Speaker 1: It could happen. Although hold that thought. I can't remember
Speaker 1: a team and you tell me if you can think
Speaker 1: of one that had more support nationally from fans that
Speaker 1: were not their own fans than this Lions team that
Speaker 1: we've sort of seen grow up and like everyone is
Speaker 1: rooting for it, Like I'm genuinely worried about their situation,
Speaker 1: and I'm like not a Lions fan. They America, I
Speaker 1: really think they are right now, Yeah, I'm going to
Speaker 1: go with the Bears, So sorry, Jordan. Our resolution was
Speaker 1: to go, yeah, get Ben Johnson. I think I think
Speaker 1: it makes sense. No, I just think I had my doubts.
Speaker 1: Just make it happen. I had my doubts that he
Speaker 1: even wants to be a head coach, which I would
Speaker 1: totally respect if he didn't want to, or if you
Speaker 1: just wanted to wait for a long time. But Tom
Speaker 1: Pallisero was doing the coaching rumor slash reporting buzz type
Speaker 1: of story on Good Morning Football, and the way he
Speaker 1: put it, Ben Johnson sounds interested in the Chicago Bears job,
Speaker 1: specifically because of Caleb Williams, which makes a lot of sense,
Speaker 1: and because of the resources and the picks and all
Speaker 1: sorts of things going on there, and so that really
Speaker 1: really made me think that this could happen as long
Speaker 1: as the Bears want it to happen. It sounds to
Speaker 1: me like this is the team he's been waiting for
Speaker 1: a team and this is going to be that team.
Speaker 1: And what a crazy division that would be to compete in.
Speaker 1: But make it happen. If the best offensive mine one
Speaker 1: of them certainly in the game, wants to coach your team,
Speaker 1: just make it happen.
Speaker 5: The Bears are so far behind these other coaches in
Speaker 5: terms of securing like that dude for the future. Right,
Speaker 5: They're already so multiple years behind on this process. So
Speaker 5: bringing someone in, taking a huge swing at someone high caliber,
Speaker 5: whether it is signing Ben Johnson or trying to trade
Speaker 5: for somebody like that, is absolutely what they need to
Speaker 5: be thinking about.
Speaker 2: Is the biggest swing possible here.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine Ben Johnson coming in and turning around
Speaker 3: the Bears because they have the talent there, the division
Speaker 3: would just be such a powerhouse.
Speaker 1: I love that storyline wise, that there's just this division
Speaker 1: where there's all these like great offensive coaches. But I
Speaker 1: kind of worry about it for Ben Johnson, fair just
Speaker 1: because the Bears seem to ruin everything and I don't
Speaker 1: want them to ruin Ben Johnson. All right, Packers, your up.
Speaker 3: Come learn how to beat the best NFC teams in
Speaker 3: general in January. But in the postseason overall, Packers are
Speaker 3: zero and five this year against the Lions, Vikings, and Eagles,
Speaker 3: eleven and zero against everybody else, and three of those
Speaker 3: five losses they've been by three or fewer points, so
Speaker 3: they've come really close in these games, but they're just
Speaker 3: like they're on the precipice right now and they just
Speaker 3: need to get over the hump.
Speaker 4: They're going to have to go through these teams too.
Speaker 3: As a wild card, and currently as the seventh seed,
Speaker 3: they would go on the road and face the Eagles,
Speaker 3: so they need to kind of figure out what to
Speaker 3: do here. They faced the Eagles in the first game
Speaker 3: of the season for them and saw what happened with
Speaker 3: Jordan Love. So now that they have Jordan Love and
Speaker 3: he's healthy and he's dealing.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Hazel's probably hate that matchup for the Eagles and the Packers.
Speaker 4: I do too. I don't love it.
Speaker 1: I just worry.
Speaker 4: I would love for them to not be the seventh seed.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break. We're going to
Speaker 1: come back and we'll do more of our New Year's
Speaker 1: resolutions for the NFC South and the NFC List back
Speaker 1: on NFL Daily. It's all been leading to this, every
Speaker 1: show is it's been leading to December thirty first and
Speaker 1: Colleen reading those cards. It's gonna be the capstone. I
Speaker 1: can't wait of our NFL Daily season. All right, Jordan,
Speaker 1: you have the Saints.
Speaker 2: It's a short one.
Speaker 5: Both a personal resolution and a PSA for me to
Speaker 5: me and for me to you, wait at least four
Speaker 5: games before getting excited about the Saints in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Ohchr.
Speaker 5: Remember September when the Saints averaged forty four and a
Speaker 5: half points over their first two games. Yeah, then sixteen
Speaker 5: points per game over the next fourteen games.
Speaker 4: Klint Kubiak, everybody, the co league average.
Speaker 5: In twenty twenty four is just over twenty two points
Speaker 5: per game. Let's just sit back on the Saints this time.
Speaker 1: That's fair. They're going to become that team now. Every
Speaker 1: year when someone looks really crazy good surprisingly after being
Speaker 1: two and o, everyone's gonna be like, remember remember the
Speaker 1: Saints with Derek carr.
Speaker 2: Is Like, oh yeah, that was that.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be one of those teams. You
Speaker 1: know who's one of those teams for me is the five?
Speaker 1: And oh Sam Bradford Minnesota Vikings, who or the Around
Speaker 1: the NFL podcast fell in love with and made the
Speaker 1: team of Around the NFL And then they didn't win
Speaker 1: another game, and then.
Speaker 5: Everyone was so gun shy about actually crowning a team
Speaker 5: of the ATMs after that.
Speaker 1: It's true, the Saints were kind of that team. I
Speaker 1: feel bad because, yeah, I had our friends from the
Speaker 1: Saints Black Party podcasts on after they were two and
Speaker 1: oh after that it just fell apart. Okay, I one
Speaker 1: thing I do want to be better at is just
Speaker 1: staying organized and paying attention to details, going uh, it's
Speaker 1: not perfect because I actually have the Vikings next. Oh,
Speaker 1: I thought we were done with the NFC North for
Speaker 1: some reason, that the teams are out of order here,
Speaker 1: and so I.
Speaker 3: Forgot the Vikings one year at the draft when we
Speaker 3: were doing like shout outs, we had like a role
Speaker 3: call for each division, and I just completely forgot about
Speaker 3: the Vikings too, the whole nine.
Speaker 2: That's the thing.
Speaker 5: Like they were talking about it on the broadcast this
Speaker 5: weekend and Kevin O'Connell. I'm knowing Kevin a little bit
Speaker 5: like he for sure has that chip on his shoulder,
Speaker 5: like what a like, why are what about us?
Speaker 1: They are? This is this is the one about us
Speaker 1: week for the Vikings, although it's going to quickly turn
Speaker 1: into everyone's picking the Vikings to beat the Lions this week,
Speaker 1: so they're gonna have to handle that. And so now
Speaker 1: that they're becoming one of the favorites, maybe the favorites
Speaker 1: since they they're the number one seed. If they win
Speaker 1: this game, I'm just gonna say, just enjoy this journey. Here,
Speaker 1: Vikings fans and the team, this is a special team.
Speaker 1: A Refasan wrote a good piece about it this week
Speaker 1: on his substack, and he's a Vikings guy and kind
Speaker 1: of telling all the fans to embrace, enjoy it, don't
Speaker 1: be worried about the other shoe coming to drop. The
Speaker 1: problem is, I want everyone to appreciate the journey and realize,
Speaker 1: like it's okay if it doesn't end in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: You know, if there are three really great teams in
Speaker 1: the NFC, I think if you listen to one of
Speaker 1: the other ones, you can be pretty disappointed. But if
Speaker 1: like the Eagles go to the super Bowl, where the
Speaker 1: Lions go to thee like it happens in sports, and
Speaker 1: this has been a magical journey that hopefully you have
Speaker 1: been appreciating, like the whole time watching them just play
Speaker 1: this well, play so smart, with so many great players,
Speaker 1: and they're not going anywhere, Like, just appreciate it, even
Speaker 1: if it doesn't end in New Orleans.
Speaker 4: Sam Darnold, you know, he's been my guy all season long.
Speaker 1: You. You didn't.
Speaker 5: I feel like, so, if I'm recalling correctly, you touched
Speaker 5: down back from Summer of Connie, uh huh and the
Speaker 5: very next show I remember, can we talked about it?
Speaker 5: The very next show you did? You were like the
Speaker 5: Vikings guys. Yeah, and you were all in and you
Speaker 5: were right and you stayed right.
Speaker 2: That's a thing I was like.
Speaker 3: But going into the season, I couldn't understand why no
Speaker 3: one else was looking at the Vikings as a team
Speaker 3: that's going to be good, because, come on, like they
Speaker 3: had Greg's voice in their ear.
Speaker 1: You're you're a seer. All right, let's go out to
Speaker 1: the Panthers.
Speaker 3: The Panthers, Okay, here we go. Hold on, goud turp
Speaker 3: my computer back on? All right, Panthers provide Bryce Young
Speaker 3: with some patience and stability for twenty twenty five. Look,
Speaker 3: things are looking up for Bryce Young. He's been playing better.
Speaker 3: He's had a one hundred plus passer rating in each
Speaker 3: of his last two games. He only had two in
Speaker 3: his first twenty five starts. We can see it just watching.
Speaker 3: He looks better, he looks more comfortable. Keep Dave Canalis,
Speaker 3: why don't we curb the coach firing? Just for a year,
Speaker 3: see how that turns out.
Speaker 4: Maybe.
Speaker 3: Listen, I feel like a lot of the great franchises
Speaker 3: they have patients, and we know that the Panthers do not.
Speaker 4: But the benching of Bryce.
Speaker 3: Young earlier in this year, maybe it did actually work
Speaker 3: for him because he came back and slowly we've seen
Speaker 3: those improvements and they have this young offensive cores with
Speaker 3: Chewba Hubbard, with Adam Well. Adam Thelands is not like Young,
Speaker 3: but they have a good exavier look at. I mean,
Speaker 3: they have some pieces that are all coming back in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five and they're gonna have a top pick too.
Speaker 3: Right now, they're slotted to be six overall, so they
Speaker 3: can add and I mean the rush. Their run defense
Speaker 3: is terrible, so they could probably use something on defense.
Speaker 3: But also it's like just keep building around Bryce Young.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they need a pass rusher.
Speaker 5: Derek Brown should be back next year, which will would help,
Speaker 5: but he was once he left their defense, they just
Speaker 5: became a sieve crumbled. I think that one thing that
Speaker 5: I think Dave Canalis has an advantage in coming into
Speaker 5: this year is he hired a lot of like relatively
Speaker 5: unknown assistants as well, so he'll be able to keep continuity.
Speaker 5: Lack of continuity compounds failure and failing franchises in this league,
Speaker 5: especially rush to rush to judgment firings, and continued continuity
Speaker 5: actually helps, which was kind of redundant to me saying it,
Speaker 5: but it actually really does help set this foundation that
Speaker 5: they badly need.
Speaker 1: Well, then they should keep a Zuero too, something to watch.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if he'll stay there or not as
Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator. All right, Jordan, you have the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: Once again, me not really being on my details. We're
Speaker 1: just going all over division wise. Okay, Oh my god.
Speaker 5: In twenty twenty five, we the Arizona Cardinals resolved to
Speaker 5: develop a clutch gene. Sure, we need better players on defense,
Speaker 5: and we have to have a really big conversation about
Speaker 5: the quarterback, at least according to the media chatter on
Speaker 5: the ground in Phoenix.
Speaker 2: But mediocrity can't be our ceiling anymore.
Speaker 5: I mean, we fizzled out in a wide open NFC
Speaker 5: West in a forty nine ers down year. For God's sake,
Speaker 5: we have big ideas offensively and big players except for
Speaker 5: the quarterback.
Speaker 2: We're ascending defensively.
Speaker 5: The epitome of our unclutchness was our shot at playing
Speaker 5: spoiler and antagonizing our NFC West big Brothers literally bounced
Speaker 5: away off the helmet of our best player, who's one
Speaker 5: of the best players.
Speaker 2: In the league.
Speaker 5: That's how not clutch we are in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: We need to become clutch.
Speaker 1: It's a good call, and they've had some nice continuity.
Speaker 1: Now they're going to be building. It's that ever important
Speaker 1: kind of third year with the same regime. But they
Speaker 1: have done it in the way that you want to
Speaker 1: do it. They took over maybe the worst team talent
Speaker 1: wise in the NFL. You played above your talent the
Speaker 1: first year whatever, four or five wins, but actually kind
Speaker 1: of look fun doing it. Now you went up to seven.
Speaker 1: It's another three win jump. The hard part's doing the
Speaker 1: next part. Yeah, it's got to be a little more clutch.
Speaker 4: I like that second half.
Speaker 3: I just feel like they collapse a lot in the
Speaker 3: second clutch too, like just in general.
Speaker 4: Yeah, not clutch, all right, got to figure that out.
Speaker 1: I am going to go to the Atlanta Falcons, whose
Speaker 1: season I've never felt like a team season feels more
Speaker 1: over when it's totally not over. But when the Bucks
Speaker 1: playing the Saints this week. It just feels like the
Speaker 1: Falcon season is over. So I'm looking to the offseason
Speaker 1: and it's just get younger on defense. This is a
Speaker 1: more block and tackle type of resolution. But the worst
Speaker 1: thing to be is old and bad and kind of expensive,
Speaker 1: and that's what the Falcons are. This was supposed to
Speaker 1: be a win now type of roster.
Speaker 2: People put it on dating profiles too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and not old, bad and expensive.
Speaker 1: On offense, They're not that old. Some of the offensive
Speaker 1: line is, but overall it's not old on offense. But
Speaker 1: their starting defensive line was Grady Jared Eddie, Golden, David
Speaker 1: An Yamada, and Matthew jud And who were all over thirty,
Speaker 1: some of whom are pretty expensive. In the secondary, like
Speaker 1: Jesse Bates is still their best player, but he's getting
Speaker 1: up there. Justin Simmons that was like a one year
Speaker 1: older guy. And so they just need to get a
Speaker 1: lot younger and a lot more talented on defense. And
Speaker 1: yes for him, Morris, the know how to use touchdown.
Speaker 5: That's the two word phrase of the season for a
Speaker 5: lot of teams.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's funny though.
Speaker 1: Playing Michael Pennix these last three weeks is gonna save
Speaker 1: the vibes. It is funny how good a move that is,
Speaker 1: because now just the fact that he played and you
Speaker 1: saw that he's good is like, Okay, this season wasn't
Speaker 1: a waste. We're going to be good in the future.
Speaker 4: You made some incredible throws in that game. That was
Speaker 4: such a fun one.
Speaker 1: That was one of the best. All Right, you got rams,
Speaker 1: Rams wrapping it up here.
Speaker 3: All Right, I'm gon show up before the bye week
Speaker 3: next season.
Speaker 4: How about we try that on now? Back to back years.
Speaker 4: They've done this.
Speaker 3: This year before the bye they lost to the Bears
Speaker 3: and the Cardinals.
Speaker 4: What are we doing here? I understand a division game,
Speaker 4: but really like the Bears, this is a theme.
Speaker 1: It's also by like thirty points to the Gardinals or something.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean ultimately it didn't end up mattering
Speaker 3: because they're in the playoffs and they won the division.
Speaker 3: But with a better faster start at this point, they
Speaker 3: could be competing for a two seed. They could maybe
Speaker 3: have another game or two at home. So they just
Speaker 3: need to figure out a way to not stumble out
Speaker 3: of the gate.
Speaker 5: I think to that point as well, the the monumental
Speaker 5: effort of climbing out of a one and four hole
Speaker 5: with an eleven percent chance of making the postseason at
Speaker 5: that time. That's that takes a strain, That puts a
Speaker 5: strain on a group. And yes, the vibes are good.
Speaker 5: It's a great locker room. It's a bunch of great
Speaker 5: young players and then some very very savvy old dudes
Speaker 5: who can still roll when they're feeling good. But it's
Speaker 5: just so much, it takes so much out of you
Speaker 5: that you really wonder what juice do they really have
Speaker 5: the postseason because of how significant that strain of just
Speaker 5: like climbing rung over rung, like out of the pit.
Speaker 3: It kind of you know, it reminds me of like
Speaker 3: how I prepare for shows, like I know good is
Speaker 3: coming and then like I just procrastinate until the very
Speaker 3: last minute, and then I will cram eighteen hours of
Speaker 3: work into like two hours.
Speaker 4: See, I don't need to do that.
Speaker 1: I was thinking if they were like a living embodiment
Speaker 1: of a person or a story. It's it's like Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford or some of these older quarterbacks who say, like,
Speaker 1: as you're getting older, you know in the league, the
Speaker 1: day after the game, it takes you a little while
Speaker 1: to get to the bathroom in the morning, you're walking
Speaker 1: slow to you know, getting out of bed and getting
Speaker 1: to the bath Like that is them as a team
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season, at the beginning of
Speaker 1: every game they stink in the like it takes them
Speaker 1: like twenty minutes of every game to cause it's kind
Speaker 1: of like knock the old bones out or whatever has
Speaker 1: happening or.
Speaker 5: Watching on YouTube. I really hope we got a shimmy
Speaker 5: from Grey.
Speaker 1: Let's go Rams, Colleen, I have it.
Speaker 2: We grow off, we throw off, we did it.
Speaker 4: Do another shit.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year to me and you colleagues.
Speaker 1: Forty nine ers, Jordan, Okay.
Speaker 5: My resolution more so. Advice for twenty twenty five for
Speaker 5: the San Francisco forty nine ers rest, sleep, in, practice,
Speaker 5: a little self care for God's sake. Kyle Shanahan eats something,
Speaker 5: then phone up Jerry Jones and ask to borrow's copy
Speaker 5: of How to Stay Unbothered while your quarterbacks and pending
Speaker 5: contract is in the news every single day.
Speaker 2: Deep postseason runs.
Speaker 5: And their two Super Bowl appearances in recent history, both losses.
Speaker 2: It takes a toll.
Speaker 5: Deep postseason runs and recovering from those runs. Burnout maintaining
Speaker 5: a coaching staff that's getting hired out of losing coordinators,
Speaker 5: making decisions for veteran players, making roster decisions for a
Speaker 5: team that is getting older. All of this takes a toll,
Speaker 5: especially in the Mahomes era of football. So my resolution
Speaker 5: for the forty nine ers is just get as much
Speaker 5: rest as you can now that your runways nice and long.
Speaker 1: I think that's super helpful for them. I think they've
Speaker 1: faced all the problems of a dynasty in terms of
Speaker 1: like winning super Bowls without any of the fun of it,
Speaker 1: like the money, the selfishness, the just the wear and
Speaker 1: tear on your body. Except instead of having the you know,
Speaker 1: the super Bowl ring, you have these crushing disappointments. So
Speaker 1: it's like it's a tough combo. I'm with you. I
Speaker 1: think the rest could really help them. It's good they
Speaker 1: didn't make them.
Speaker 4: Treat yourself, go on a vacation, just do what you
Speaker 4: need to do to get right.
Speaker 5: It's what makes Andy Reid all the more impressive to
Speaker 5: me as a slight aside, because I saw up close,
Speaker 5: like what happened.
Speaker 2: Even when you win the.
Speaker 5: Super Bowl and you just completely crash out mentally the
Speaker 5: next year. Like, imagine doing that over and over and
Speaker 5: over and over again, win or lose. That's what these
Speaker 5: two teams and niners in the Chiefs have been doing.
Speaker 5: That's what I really think subtenly happened to the Eagles
Speaker 5: a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: It is a full on body crash.
Speaker 5: You don't know why it's happening to you, but it's happening.
Speaker 1: And yeah, keep growing that out, Kyle, you know, be
Speaker 1: the be the over forty guy like like me, who's like, oh,
Speaker 1: let's it's let's grow it out before it's too late.
Speaker 3: They showed like a tight shot of him the other
Speaker 3: day on the sideline and I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've been watching these games, but like I
Speaker 3: guess I haven't been like really keyed in on like
Speaker 3: Kyle Shanahan and and what he what's going on with him?
Speaker 1: Is?
Speaker 4: Is he okay? Do we know he.
Speaker 1: Has like a haunt off season? It's like a haunted
Speaker 1: vibe to him. I know, I'm worried and just put
Speaker 1: his freaking dad in the Hall of Fame. By the way,
Speaker 1: it's like Mike Homegrin, we get it. But we were
Speaker 1: all there, Mike.
Speaker 2: So much fun back there.
Speaker 1: Buck's easy. This one's awkward. Don't let Liam Cohen leave.
Speaker 1: You could do two things. You're an ownership group that's
Speaker 1: rich enough to you know, I've invested in Premier League
Speaker 1: teams and and you're billionaires. So just pay an outrageous
Speaker 1: amount to just keep Liam Cohen as an offensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: If if that's not an op, you have to think
Speaker 1: about a really difficult one, which would be pushing him
Speaker 1: to be the head coach. But I think it's really
Speaker 1: important to not let him leave because he might be
Speaker 1: the one offensive mine in the entire league, including Ben Johnson,
Speaker 1: that I think could create the most with the least
Speaker 1: because we've seen it. Like, so, I just don't let
Speaker 1: that guy get out of the building. I'm encroaching on
Speaker 1: our friend Dave Damashek's territory where he thinks like an
Speaker 1: offensive play caller is worth more, maybe than a quarterback.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true, but it's close enough
Speaker 1: that you I don't think you can let Liam Cohen leave.
Speaker 5: You got to throw what we and the biz call
Speaker 5: the Ben Johnson bag at him, like you got to
Speaker 5: throw the pile of money that they paid Ben Johnson
Speaker 5: to not leave.
Speaker 2: Phrasing was regrettable.
Speaker 4: I heard it.
Speaker 2: We all heard it.
Speaker 5: We just want to make sure Liam Cohen gets that
Speaker 5: amount of money and gets stays intact in Tampa Bay.
Speaker 5: Now I can't focus at all, but take care.
Speaker 1: When when was the phrasing uncomfortable?
Speaker 2: Well, skim right past it.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I must find out now.
Speaker 5: I overthought it to my detriment, right and let us
Speaker 5: know if you last one, last one before the need.
Speaker 1: Let's wrap it up with the Seahawks.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, I'm trying to google the other thing
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 3: Okay Seahawks Google, Let's leave the land of mediocrity. Okay,
Speaker 3: because four straight years they have ended between seven and
Speaker 3: nine wins, so they're not good.
Speaker 4: Enough for a high draft pick.
Speaker 3: But they're like not in the playoffs either, so they
Speaker 3: just are like stuck in this limbo and it's like
Speaker 3: football purgatory a little bit, like what what are we
Speaker 3: doing here? They need to I mean when you look
Speaker 3: at them, actually we're just talking about the Falcons, and
Speaker 3: they are a lot like the Falcons, because the Falcons
Speaker 3: have done that too. I think the two of them
Speaker 3: are tied for the longest streak of finishing with between
Speaker 3: seven and nine wins, So it just feels like they
Speaker 3: need to either are they going to do a full rebuild.
Speaker 3: I know they brought in a new coaching staff, but like,
Speaker 3: what are we doing here? Are we going to build
Speaker 3: around Gino? Are we gonna not have Gino? Are we
Speaker 3: gonna essentially get off the pot? Like they need to
Speaker 3: make a decision one way or the other. What they're doing.
Speaker 1: I hear you, But I think it's perspective. Don't let
Speaker 1: the Pete Carroll years infect What is a new coaching staff?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like, first of all, they
Speaker 1: they could land over nine wins, they could get to ten.
Speaker 1: Everyone's acting like how did you let the Rams like
Speaker 1: win this division? It's on some ka kamimi fifth tiebreaker.
Speaker 1: If they win on Sunday, they're gonna go ten and seven.
Speaker 1: They had an over underwin total of seven and a half.
Speaker 1: They're gonna tie the Rams in you know, record conference record,
Speaker 1: division record, common opponents, and it goes to this crazy thing.
Speaker 2: So it's not like very Seahawks way to miss the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Right, I totally get that. And then absolutely my thing
Speaker 1: is I think they did start to build something on
Speaker 1: the defensive side this year. Everything you're saying is absolutely
Speaker 1: true about the offense, that it's in this bad stasis
Speaker 1: right now. But for a first year head coach, I
Speaker 1: feel like the disappointment locally because I listen to uh
Speaker 1: your I listened to that podcast, and there they really
Speaker 1: think it's such a disappointment, like how this season has gone.
Speaker 1: Because if you're gonna fire Pete Carroll, it's got to
Speaker 1: get better. And I think that's a tough way to
Speaker 1: evaluate a new head coach.
Speaker 5: I think the reason they say that is because they
Speaker 5: have to endure watching this offensive line.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know it's the Seahawks. It's one of the
Speaker 1: very unofficial teams of the podcast, but yeah, for you,
Speaker 1: they could get yes, yes, well.
Speaker 5: Week Quarterback Island, Oh my god, yay, Yes, we got
Speaker 5: to do a regular season recap of Quarterback Island.
Speaker 1: And it's not looking great. For my guy, Gina, he's
Speaker 1: made it. He's made it this far. That's an achievement
Speaker 1: in itself, but I'll just be real, it's not looking great.
Speaker 1: But your decision not to put Matthew Stafford on the end,
Speaker 1: which you took a lot of grief for after that
Speaker 1: Bills game. It's looking just fine now. I mean the
Speaker 1: last time they, you know, scored like two touchdowns in again,
Speaker 1: was a month ago, all right, I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's true. They did score twice against.
Speaker 2: The Jay, it will have been last year by the
Speaker 2: next time they play.
Speaker 1: Let's break out those Christmas cards. Let's play some festive music.
Speaker 1: We've talked enough football on NFL Daily twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: and so do you want to set this up to,
Speaker 1: you know, for listeners that maybe weren't with us a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: I don't even remember how this came up, but I
Speaker 3: was saying that I hadn't gotten any Christmas cards yet.
Speaker 3: And Christmas cards are like my favorite thing of the
Speaker 3: holiday season.
Speaker 4: I love to get them. I hang them on my
Speaker 4: door or if I have a fireplace, over the fireplace.
Speaker 4: It's a whole thing.
Speaker 3: And I was just like waiting and going to the
Speaker 3: mailbox every day.
Speaker 4: So tragic. So but don't worry. I did get a
Speaker 4: bunch of Christmas cards. That's the thing, my actual friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people are last minute with them. It's a day
Speaker 1: lo suddenly right around Christmas, because.
Speaker 3: It's so I end up doing a show right before
Speaker 3: Christmas Eve game day morning, I think it was on
Speaker 3: the twenty second, and in the corner of my locker
Speaker 3: there was just like a pile of cards.
Speaker 4: What is this?
Speaker 3: And then I started opening them up and I was like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, these are the Christmas cards from our listeners.
Speaker 2: So I show addresses if you don't mind.
Speaker 4: No, there's no addresses. Okay, So I.
Speaker 3: Got I mean, I got the fun ones where I
Speaker 3: have pictures of people's family and their cats.
Speaker 1: Too, falcons and giants, household. Yes, it's been a tough
Speaker 1: decade for that.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry, Seneca, Julie, Meetball and Marmalade. People and
Speaker 3: Marmalade are wearing jerseys too, which is so fantastic. And
Speaker 3: Julie wrote me like a really sweet note. It's she's
Speaker 3: a big fan. She was an ATM listener from upstate
Speaker 3: New York. She apologized that I.
Speaker 4: Haven't gotten any Christmas cards yet.
Speaker 3: And she wanted to say, as a female NFL fan,
Speaker 3: thank you for all you do, and I'm so happy
Speaker 3: to hear you on NFL Daily.
Speaker 4: Really sweet, very nice. Oh my god, So I love
Speaker 4: that that. Really I started to cry when I read that.
Speaker 3: I got actual like cards from even like a one
Speaker 3: that's sent out a mass one.
Speaker 4: This is like an individual card.
Speaker 3: That has little notes all over it and really really sweet.
Speaker 4: Just I don't even know.
Speaker 3: I I feel like, what does this one say? Here?
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 5: I submit, Okay, he wants an episode with an all
Speaker 5: Vibes Island?
Speaker 4: Was your idea the all Island?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So I love that one. And that one was from
Speaker 3: mind Submissions.
Speaker 2: He said it's from Jim Jim will excuse me.
Speaker 5: Jamal Williams and Jamie Alexander wrote this, and his Vibes
Speaker 5: Island is George Kittle, Jamal Williams and Jamie.
Speaker 2: I thought it was Jamie like I thought it was
Speaker 2: like the Jamie the Irish.
Speaker 4: Okay, and then we'll do.
Speaker 3: I know. I feel like I'm getting wrapped. Caroline and Tyler.
Speaker 4: Phillips they also like a nice card.
Speaker 1: Nice, which I know.
Speaker 2: I know that's where it gets me. Here I go.
Speaker 3: This one was really sweet and she called me Connie,
Speaker 3: so I know that she's a real one. Caroline, and
Speaker 3: she said, you've made me realize it's okay to belly
Speaker 3: up to a bro field bar and talk ball with confidence.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: Here I go.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, So I was like a pile
Speaker 3: of mush and then.
Speaker 1: I got this one, okay, which.
Speaker 3: This year my Christmas card is a celebration of the
Speaker 3: semi feral cats and other creatures living in the neighborhood.
Speaker 3: All the cats, all the cats are fixed and we
Speaker 3: put out food for them every day.
Speaker 4: Although they don't let anyone get close.
Speaker 3: I can use a laser pointer from my window to
Speaker 3: play with them, wishing the entire wolf back of Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3: And it's the twelve Days of Christmas with all of
Speaker 3: these lives.
Speaker 4: Got a picture of the feral cats.
Speaker 3: So this was the last one I opened, and it
Speaker 3: was perfect because I let me see, this was so sentimental,
Speaker 3: mushy and crying. And then I opened that and it
Speaker 3: made me laugh so hard. So I actually had these
Speaker 3: hung in my house.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, keeper, that's a keeper.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Also, you know, we might look for the address
Speaker 1: and register it with NFL security, just to be safe. O,
Speaker 1: Like Michael Wu was fine, it's cool, it's cool, but that's.
Speaker 2: So cute, see it, just to be serious.
Speaker 1: Oh that's really sweet. So thank you, thank you to
Speaker 1: all the listeners.
Speaker 2: There's a possum under the Day NFL Daily.
Speaker 1: You've made uh, look our our first year twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four since since we got going here really special. And
Speaker 1: we couldn't do it without everyone listening. And we couldn't
Speaker 1: do it without Colleen. And yeah, before we let her go,
Speaker 1: she does have a birthday coming up in just a
Speaker 1: couple of days, so let's bring out we got her
Speaker 1: what I think she likes. Two things that I think
Speaker 1: she likes the best. Thank you, Chris. He's done a
Speaker 1: great job for us, stepping in for Randy. Uh some donuts?
Speaker 1: What could be donuts from sidecar?
Speaker 3: Are?
Speaker 4: Is there really donuts in here?
Speaker 1: There are so many donuts in there you have to
Speaker 1: actually eat them all. You can't share them with everyone?
Speaker 4: God, are you kidding me? You guys? This is so sweet?
Speaker 4: Look at these donuts.
Speaker 1: And yeah this is not sponsored, but if you're out there.
Speaker 4: Sidecars, si car is so good.
Speaker 1: And then on top of that, so I'm giving you, know,
Speaker 1: hopefully your two favorite things like a good sweet and
Speaker 1: then I'm also going to give to you, Colleen, no
Speaker 1: evidence that you were right. You you were right?
Speaker 3: Sam, Yes we do, because I would love to remind
Speaker 3: you Greg that I've been talking about Sam Darnold in
Speaker 3: the Viking since before the season started. I've been getting
Speaker 3: a little too high on the Vikings, and I feel
Speaker 3: like I shouldn't be. It's sort of the the forbidden
Speaker 3: strain that I've been going with here. But the Vikings,
Speaker 3: like Sam Donald was always the plan for the Vikings.
Speaker 3: They were never going to go the other route. He
Speaker 3: was always going to start, and he's gotten almost all
Speaker 3: of the first team reps from the off season program
Speaker 3: up until now. Justin Jefferson's out here telling Diana Rossini
Speaker 3: that he's surprised how good Donald's arm.
Speaker 4: Is, that his passes are right in hands and.
Speaker 2: Feel like a soft TAILO.
Speaker 4: That is true. That is a direct quote. So maybe
Speaker 4: I'm crazy.
Speaker 3: But everyone who is just already writing off the Vikings
Speaker 3: and saying that they are going to be worst in
Speaker 3: the division, I don't know. Man, you gotta think hard
Speaker 3: about that one. So just for some context too, that
Speaker 3: last clip was we were supposed to be things that
Speaker 3: we were getting a little too high on. So I did.
Speaker 3: I really leaned into the part you nailed it to
Speaker 3: the bit.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know that was the bit until we
Speaker 1: were actually taping it. And then I went along with
Speaker 1: you and that was absolutely beautiful. But yes, that was
Speaker 1: that was Those were the very clips that you just
Speaker 1: organically happened to bring up earlier in August and in September.
Speaker 1: You were right.
Speaker 4: Thank you. That is the greatest gift of all.
Speaker 3: This is the most thoughtful gift that anyone has ever
Speaker 3: given me.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Let's go love it. Thank you for another fun NFL Daily.
Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, the year is ending, but the week
Speaker 1: is not. We still have our previews show coming up
Speaker 1: on Thursday. Hit hit the music. Wait, you're going to Miami.
Speaker 4: You're going to Miami. Oh my gosh, less than twenty
Speaker 4: four hours Miami.
Speaker 1: It's a first NFL Daily. We broke up the music
Speaker 1: because we forgot Yes, so celebrate, celebrate your birthday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, happy birthday, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Birthday.
Speaker 4: Back next week with stories, I'm sure of it.
Speaker 1: Enjoy. Yeah, we'll be back with Nick Chuck in the
Speaker 1: studio along with me and Patrick and Steve. That will
Speaker 1: be Thursday, when we're wrapping up twenty twenty four. You know,
Speaker 1: football is back, you guys.
Speaker 4: That's so nice.