1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:02,160 Speaker 1: Hey guys, You're about to listen to an episode of 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: The Tailgate presented by Cambria Family owned an American maid, 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 1: Cambria is proud to be the official countertop of the 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. Learn more and get inspired at Cambria USA 5 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: dot com. Fun Episode, Everybody, Playoff Episode. I went with 6 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: a Minnesota based guest this week, incredible comedian Brian Miller. 7 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: You've seen him on the Late Late Show on CBS. 8 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:33,480 Speaker 1: He's fantastic, diehard Viking fans. I didn't want anything adversarial 9 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:38,239 Speaker 1: this week. Weird season, fun season, hard, fought season. I 10 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 1: just wanted to spend this week enjoying it with somebody 11 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: else who loved the team, and I think you guys 12 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: are gonna love it as well. Please, if you like 13 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 1: the show, make sure you subscribe to it and leave 14 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 1: us a rating and review. It really helps NA. What's alright? 15 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: What's up? Viking fans? Welcome to The Tailgate presented by Cambria. 16 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 1: Your Minnesota Vikings are in the playoffs. They are hosting 17 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:16,759 Speaker 1: they are we are? How should I separated? I am 18 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 1: too emotionally connected. I'm going with we. We are hosting 19 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: the New York Giants at US Bank Stadium on Sunday 20 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: and joining me. Normally, this is an opposition show. We 21 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 1: bring on a guest of the other team and we 22 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: have fun. It's playoff time. I don't want to do it. 23 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: We've I've already talked to a Giants fan. I don't 24 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:44,040 Speaker 1: want to do I want to be hopeful and insane 25 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: with somebody who understands a Viking fans psychology. So I 26 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: got a comedian that I came up with, incredibly funny. 27 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: He's been on the Late Late Show on CBS, one 28 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: of my favorites. Ladies and Gentlemen, bron Ian Miller and 29 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 1: Brian You and I have experienced this football season together, 30 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,079 Speaker 1: Yes we have. We have not like holy hands exactly, 31 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 1: but like but holding texts. I think we were emotion 32 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: We've been emotionally holding hands this season. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, 33 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: there's been some support. There's been some support. It's been Yeah, 34 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 1: it's been one of those things where both it's like 35 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 1: talking someone through a relationship where you're like, no, I 36 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: think you should stick it out, and then they're like 37 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,080 Speaker 1: they lost to the Cowboys by how much? Are you 38 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: sure you should stick it out? And then the Patriots 39 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: game happens, like, that's a good thing. You stuck it out. 40 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: I don't know how to I know we're gonna get 41 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: into all things Playoff related in this game. I'm a 42 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: warrior and a psycho. You are, I think it's fair 43 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 1: to say you're neurotic, Sure, a bit neurotic. How have 44 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 1: you experienced this absurd season? Well, you know, here's the thing. 45 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: I'm a very passionate sports fan, but I'm I'm not 46 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,679 Speaker 1: one of those people who's like weak or day is 47 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: ruined by a bad game or anything. I really carry 48 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: on the rest of my life like a pretty normal 49 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:10,799 Speaker 1: person with just a strong interest in the game. The 50 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: thing is, from the moment that the first kick is 51 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: kicked until the last second is kicked off, I basically 52 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: have to chain myself to a radiator like the Wolfman, 53 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: because I completely go insane, to the point that we 54 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 1: were going to watch the Packers game at my in 55 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 1: laws with my whole family, and my wife said before 56 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: we left, She's like, Hey, just the thought like we're 57 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: gonna be with my whole family, maybe tone it down 58 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: a little bit with the game. And I was like, oh, 59 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: come on, and then she just ran through some of 60 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: the elaborate profanities that I had yelled at the TV 61 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: the week before, which would definitely get us all canceled 62 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: from the radio and the planet Earth. And I was like, oh, yeah, 63 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: maybe I shouldn't yell that series of words every time, 64 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 1: justin Jefferson makes a good catch. When I was, I 65 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: taunt the other team, like I do a lot of 66 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: trash talking to the other team through the TV, so 67 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: and so, you know, especially when Jefferson's hot or whatever, 68 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: I'm it's as though I'm standing over the carcass of 69 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: some like exposed cornerback, screaming in his face, and like 70 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: my wife will leave the house, my cats will go upstairs. 71 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 1: It's I have to be careful about it, you know. 72 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 1: I have to sequester myself. I am very I liked 73 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: what you said about it not ruining your day. What 74 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: I've always said. For me, the vikings and sports can 75 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: make my day. Yeah, they can make my week. They 76 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: can improve my existence by a ton, but they can 77 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 1: only negatively affect it by a little bit. Like I'm 78 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: gonna be sad if they lose in the playoffs, you know, 79 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be sad. I'm gonna be disappointed, But I'm 80 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: I think that's the healthy thing. You move on. I 81 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: think you gotta put yourself in a position where sports 82 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 1: can can improve everything but only hurt it, you know, 83 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 1: a little bit for a little while. You know, if 84 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,720 Speaker 1: if you weren't disappointed and you weren't sad, you know, 85 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,359 Speaker 1: why are you watching? Like? I don't think you can't 86 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 1: not be sad? Yeah? I did, I use too many negatives. 87 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 1: There can't sure can't not un be sad? None land 88 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 1: with a circle through it. I'm from Kentucky originally, so 89 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:16,159 Speaker 1: that sentence had been perfect sense to me. But yeah, 90 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: I mean, I think as that is a thing that 91 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: being a Vikings fan has actually taught me, because I 92 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 1: do think there was a time that I would maybe 93 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: carry it over for a day or two. A couple 94 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: of particular playoff losses really really haunted me and to 95 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,480 Speaker 1: the point where I was like, I can't let this happen. 96 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 1: You know, you gotta shake it off. And I will 97 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: admit though, I do think there is a little element 98 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 1: where when you guard yourself a little bit, as in 99 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: life and romance and everything, you don't quite have the 100 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 1: raw high that you get when you are just like 101 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: a maniac who's totally invested. But I don't, you know, 102 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 1: as I get older, I don't know that being that 103 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: maniac is the best idea. We both came up at ACNE, 104 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 1: one of the great clubs in America, and Lewis Lee 105 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 1: the most important person to me in my can I 106 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 1: say comedy journey? Is that corny enough? He is? He 107 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: is the most important person to me in my career. 108 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: What he's done, I appreciate him a lot. But one 109 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: thing he does do is he knows how to pray 110 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 1: on the emotions of a sports fan. And he found 111 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: early young sigh the MC when I was an MC, 112 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 1: just a just a dumb young comic. He recognized my 113 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 1: emotional connection to this football team and he prayed on it. 114 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:43,359 Speaker 1: He would make so. He liked to make bets, but 115 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: not financially. To him, it was about, you know, I 116 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:51,840 Speaker 1: want something large, like something different than money on the line. 117 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,720 Speaker 1: And the first bat I entered with him was as 118 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: the Vikings were making their run in oh nine. I 119 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:00,679 Speaker 1: thought they were going to make it to the Super Bowl, 120 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 1: and he just goaded me and goaded me and goaded me, 121 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 1: and finally I agreed to a bet that at the 122 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: time I believe what I had to do if the 123 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: Vikings lost, I had to dress in an Aaron Rodgers 124 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: jersey and let them film me doing something outrageous, which 125 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: I ended up losing. And he did. He played it 126 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: at my shows in front of my family. But if 127 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: he lost, and Lewis is a private he doesn't like 128 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 1: to be the star of the show. He's in the background. 129 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 1: He has no interest in everybody looking at him. He 130 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: was going to have to introduce me with an intro 131 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: that I wrote. And so I was so heavily invested 132 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: in that oh nine championship game, and what I didn't 133 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: foresee is I was like, oh, yeah, Lewis has my 134 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 1: cell phone number, and so as Adrian Peterson would fumble 135 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: or as things would go wrong, as I was riding 136 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,679 Speaker 1: the emotions of this game, I would be getting text 137 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 1: from him. And so when my heart broke, there was 138 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: Lewis were just this jab at the end, and that 139 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 1: was like, that was different. Not only was it, oh 140 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: my gosh, I thought we were going to go to 141 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: the super Bowl, and then Brett Farve through it an interception, 142 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: look at my phone like it was just it was 143 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: this weird double Wyami Well I can't even imagine, because 144 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: that oh nine Brett Farve interception was one of the 145 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 1: two moments that did kind of ruin like forty eight 146 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: to seventy two hours for me. You know, I was 147 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 1: really heartbroken over that one. But also I have participated 148 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: in a couple of your lost bets. In fact, I 149 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 1: believe I was a member of the gambling intervention that 150 00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: we did. Yes, I've I've lost consecutive uh you know, 151 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 1: non money bets to Lewis Lee, and one of them 152 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 1: was that I had to This one was the worst, 153 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: he because he basically he was developing a mini documentary 154 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: about me as what I believe was happening. Every time 155 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:16,959 Speaker 1: I would lose, there was always a cameraman around. And 156 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 1: so the third one was if I lost, I had 157 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:24,840 Speaker 1: to let someone throw an intervention for me, a gambling 158 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:30,679 Speaker 1: intervention for me on Acme's stage during the most popular 159 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: show of the week, the open Mic. And then he 160 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: got to videotape me going and meeting with a counselor. 161 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: It was he got to he got to hire a 162 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 1: counselor and videotape the whole thing. And yeah, you were 163 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,080 Speaker 1: part of the on stage intervention. I think you were 164 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 1: one of the people who read the letter. I was. 165 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: And this year he has Tommy Ryman lucked into a bet. 166 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 1: And if the Vikings don't win the Super Bowl, I know, right, 167 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm hopeful, I'm rude for Tommy, but if 168 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 1: they do not win the Super Bowl, our good friend 169 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: Canadian Tommy Ryman has to read a three minute apology 170 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: letter that I personally write with my friend Dad Abrasher. 171 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 1: Oh no, oh, yeah, that is that is outrageous. I 172 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: I I am at the point where I know well enough, 173 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: I've learned my lesson and I'm not saying I'm done 174 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: getting sucked into his nonsense, but I I'm gonna pick 175 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: and choose my risks against him in the future because 176 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 1: it's it's it's really it's really tough when it goes 177 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:39,439 Speaker 1: the wrong way, and I never have the bets when 178 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: when you would want it, like the Minnesota miracle year, 179 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 1: which was not a year that we thought we would 180 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:47,200 Speaker 1: get to that record. It's not a year you know, 181 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 1: we we were We overachieved that season and it wasn't 182 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 1: involved with him in any way, shape or form that year, 183 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:55,719 Speaker 1: So I missed out on what would have been one 184 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: of the great moments in and defeating him. Because that's 185 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 1: the other thing about Lewis famously famously never lost one 186 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 1: of these bets with with his staff. His staff is 187 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: filled with sports fans and his comedian sports. He's famously 188 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: never lost one of these. Yeah. No, and he knows 189 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 1: that I've told it. I shall not bet because I 190 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 1: know what happens. I've seen it too many times. But 191 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:25,440 Speaker 1: I will participate in the humiliation of others who lose 192 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 1: the bet so I get some fun out of it. 193 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,959 Speaker 1: Mineappo's miracle. By the way, oh man, I learned a 194 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: very important lesson that because I didn't see it. Okay, 195 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:35,959 Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this. I never saw Well, 196 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: I've seen it now a million times on my phone. 197 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 1: Are you one of the guys who shut it off? 198 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:42,680 Speaker 1: Threw my remote control across the room and it broke. 199 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: And when the broken remote when the remote control hit 200 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: the wall, the TV turned off, and I was like, yeah, 201 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 1: we're done. And I just walked away from my broken 202 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 1: remote control. But then I went on then because I 203 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: was so mad, I wouldn't go online, and I was like, 204 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: just gets in and I went back into my calm place, 205 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 1: and I like made dinner and then I went to 206 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 1: bed and I woke up the next day and I 207 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: checked my phone and I kept seeing on Twitter all 208 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 1: these things. It was like, why are people being so mean? 209 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: We lost? Why did they have to pretend that we won? 210 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:12,079 Speaker 1: And it took me a few minutes to realize, Oh 211 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:14,440 Speaker 1: my god, we won. So I didn't know the Vikings 212 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: won for full twelve hours after that, Oh that, I 213 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: lived in the loss for like twelve hours and then 214 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 1: had this weird happiness but like delayed echo, like I know, 215 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:28,680 Speaker 1: and I didn't see the play in the moment. But 216 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 1: it did teach me the valuable lesson because when in 217 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 1: the Buffalo game, when they were down thirty three to zero, 218 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: I was supposed to go Christmas shopping, and I said 219 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: to my wife, now we gotta keep watching. I'm not leaving. 220 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 1: I'm not leaving until I see what happens. And then 221 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 1: lo and behold. You know, an hour and a half later, 222 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 1: Josh Allen fumbles in the end zone and I was 223 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 1: dancing around where the former grave site of my remote control. Yeah, 224 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: I didn't. That's the reason you don't. You can't have 225 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,199 Speaker 1: the Minnesota miracle happen and then turn off. For example, 226 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 1: the Colts game, you just to stick it out just 227 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: in case. And maybe in this the Buffalo game, the 228 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: Colts game. Yeah, the Colts game. I didn't turned up 229 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:08,679 Speaker 1: the Buffalo game. I never now because the Buffalo game 230 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 1: was similar though, if you had never had the Colts 231 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 1: game happened because Josh Allen did fumble in the end zone. 232 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: That was why there was a moment in that game 233 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: where they are such a good team and we were 234 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: in a situation where I think there are people who 235 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: are like, no, thank you. There was a vibe there 236 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: was a real reason some people might have turned away 237 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:26,719 Speaker 1: from that game. Oh sure, I mean, I mean I 238 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 1: was actually more surprised that they beat Buffalo than I 239 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 1: was that they came back at halftime from thirty three 240 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 1: to nothing to the Colts. Basically like I I's still 241 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 1: the Buffalo game was almost more miraculous. But but now 242 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 1: because of the miracle that did now, I never I 243 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: never really do give up. That was like a lesson 244 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:47,560 Speaker 1: of like and I didn't even entirely mean to give up, 245 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 1: but it seemed like when the TV turned off as 246 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 1: the remote hit the wall, I was like Okay, that 247 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: says enough. I'm sure I've told this story on the 248 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 1: podcast before. But my nephew, my oldest nephew, left the 249 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:07,559 Speaker 1: Brett Farve to Greg Lewis San Francisco touchdown. Really he 250 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: left it. He heard it in the parking ramp, which 251 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:17,360 Speaker 1: is such a bummer butt in a fun full circle story, 252 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 1: he took his oldest son. It was his oldest son's 253 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: first ever Viking game was the Colts come back, So 254 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: he missed one of the greatest regular season moments and 255 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: then you know later on got to be a part 256 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: of it. Here, let's talk about this, uh, this game, Brian, 257 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: I have I like to think I'm not a football analyst. 258 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: I'm not. I can't break down xs and os, but 259 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 1: I like to think that I often have a good 260 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 1: read on this team. Going into this year, I was like, 261 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: I generally feel like my skepticisms are warranted and my 262 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: enthusiasm is warranted. Like I feel like I'm pretty close 263 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 1: to some good narratives when it comes to my favorite team. 264 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 1: This year, I have no idea. It has been so 265 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: bananas and I and I have no idea going into 266 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: this game. I think I've spent all week going. Oh man, 267 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 1: I'm kind of really worried about this Giant's team, who's 268 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: already seen us on tape, given the way we've struggled 269 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 1: in the middle of games coming in here. And if 270 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 1: I was not a Viking fan, the Vikings are the 271 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 1: obvious team you would pick to be upset in this round. 272 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 1: And I mentioned that to someone who really knows football 273 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: that I respect, and his first response was, they're gonna 274 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 1: crush him. Dude, he goes, I just think they're gonna 275 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: and so, and then I bought into that. So I 276 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: don't know. I have no idea what to expect this weekend. 277 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: I think it's amazing that we're playing meaningful playoff football 278 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:53,080 Speaker 1: at home, and we should enjoy that given the last 279 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 1: couple of years. I do think they're gonna win, and 280 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 1: I actually think they're gonna win a not one score game, 281 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 1: you know. I think they're gonna in a convincing, thorough game. 282 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: I just I don't. I think the Giants are much 283 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 1: more troubled even than the Vikings, but this is the 284 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 1: hardest to predict team. Yeah, I don't think there's any 285 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: outcome that would shock me. I think there are worst 286 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 1: teams that have won the Super Bowl than this Vikings team. 287 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 1: It just depends on what streak they're on. That is 288 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: that is very like is literally I'm gonna take your 289 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: sentence literally. Is there any outcome that could surprise you 290 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 1: if they're like, hey, I don't know if you guys 291 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 1: saw the end of the Vikings game, but a cat 292 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 1: got on the field, they had to delay the game. 293 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: The cat gets taken off the field. On the next play, 294 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 1: the Kirk Cousins throws an eighty yard touchdown with two 295 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 1: seconds left, cat celebrating in the end zone. It'll forever 296 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 1: be called the kit and come back like there is 297 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 1: no there is no amount of weirdness, like if our 298 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 1: mascot suits up this weekend and runs for two hundred 299 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 1: and twenty eight yards, Like you have to go far 300 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 1: off the beaten path to do something that would feel 301 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 1: weird to people you know in in this Yeah, right, 302 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,440 Speaker 1: Like who's who've lived this season? It's I mean, the 303 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:14,399 Speaker 1: NFL season has been particularly bonkers this year, but I mean, like, 304 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 1: I mean, arrest through a block against one of our defenders. Yeah, 305 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 1: and it was people forgot about that. That's not even 306 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 1: a memorable moment. It's like ninth on and he was 307 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: like it was a really good block, Like if you 308 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 1: go back and watch that, it was like a better 309 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:31,480 Speaker 1: block than some other Like I've seen kickers not do 310 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:34,239 Speaker 1: quite as well on runbacks, you know, trying to do 311 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:37,360 Speaker 1: play a little defense. You know, there's been so many 312 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:41,119 Speaker 1: bizarre things. I would argue that in any other season, 313 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: Greg joseph sixty one yard field goal would still be 314 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: like a top three Minnesota Vikings news story, like our 315 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 1: famous the famously troubled Vikings had a kicker who won 316 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:52,960 Speaker 1: a game on a sixty one yarder and it was 317 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 1: like barely an eyebrow raiser for people. Yeah, and you 318 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 1: think about I've said, you know, a lot has been 319 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: made of the statistical place where this defense exists, but 320 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:06,320 Speaker 1: have you ever seen anything in your life where, despite 321 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 1: statistical categories, a defense has made more clutch stops, like 322 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 1: any number of the clutch stops at the end of 323 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 1: the game, like literally ripping the ball. I can't remember 324 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 1: who the who it was for the Bears, but lit 325 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 1: was it? It was It was our old guy, wasn't it. Yeah, 326 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: that play alone would be a play like we had. 327 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 1: We had a really crazy defensive ending this year, but 328 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 1: like the Washington game where they come across the center 329 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 1: on the field goal and we get the ball again 330 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 1: after the Harrison Smith interception, the interceptions against the Cardinals 331 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 1: like the end of the Buffalo that everybody talks about, 332 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,679 Speaker 1: like the Buffalo Jefferson catch, but you pointed out like 333 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:50,720 Speaker 1: the thing in the end zone. Even beyond that, intercepting 334 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 1: Josh Allen in the other end zone, the amount of 335 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:56,239 Speaker 1: crazy defense stops. And I think that's what you like 336 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,679 Speaker 1: if you are someone who's trying to buy into a 337 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:04,120 Speaker 1: Vikings run here, like a miracle run. Let's not say 338 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: miracle that. I think that's a little underhanded with how 339 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 1: well this team has done this year, but it would 340 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 1: be impressive to win this game and if everything holds, 341 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 1: Chalk go to San Francisco and win, Go to Green 342 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 1: Bet or excuse me, Philadelphia and win. If you're somebody 343 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 1: who's buying into that, you have to buy pretty big 344 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:31,440 Speaker 1: time on this defense having some more of these clutch 345 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 1: moments in each of these next few games. You're gonna 346 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: need turnovers and you need you're gonna need to go. 347 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: I can't believe the defense did that at the end 348 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 1: of the game. Yeah, I don't, and I don't think 349 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 1: it's at all impossible. But I think if if I 350 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:47,359 Speaker 1: think the Vikings can just win a pretty straightforward game 351 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,400 Speaker 1: this week, do I think the game will be straightforward? 352 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 1: That is a different question, but I think they could 353 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: win a regular straightforward Oh look, we won by eleven 354 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 1: and it was kind of comfortable after halfway through the 355 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 1: third quarter. I could totally see that happening. But after that, 356 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: every round after that, I think they're gonna be weird. 357 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:08,480 Speaker 1: Wins doesn't mean they're gonna be deserved it wins, right, 358 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 1: but it's gonna be weird turnover situations, big plays, clutch 359 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 1: clutch defensive plays, some long bombs. It's gonna be It's 360 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 1: gonna get weird. But I think there's something to be 361 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 1: said about a team that's very successfully playing weird football. 362 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 1: I think that I think kind of like you don't 363 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: you'll bounces only go your way so often, all this stuff, 364 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 1: and like I think they're they're really motivated United team 365 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: and they invite good strange luck. I've said this, you know, 366 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,879 Speaker 1: I'm repeating myself a lot on this show now, But 367 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:41,679 Speaker 1: locker rooms are weird places. I you know, I coach basketball. 368 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 1: I've been in locker rooms, and locker rooms start to 369 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:50,240 Speaker 1: believe their own history. And so if you I've seen 370 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 1: teams that they go out and they really come through 371 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:55,879 Speaker 1: and win a couple of games. Right at the end, 372 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:57,879 Speaker 1: they play really well in the last couple of minutes, 373 00:20:57,880 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, they just have this mental 374 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,160 Speaker 1: like it doesn't it's okay, guys, relax, six minutes to play, 375 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 1: we're down eight. We've done this, we know how to 376 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 1: do this, and they start believing it. The opposite is true, 377 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,199 Speaker 1: you know. I think we kind of saw that the 378 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:13,680 Speaker 1: last couple of years, where it's like, oh no, here 379 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 1: we go again. So I don't think you can I 380 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:20,720 Speaker 1: don't know how much you need to value it, but 381 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:26,680 Speaker 1: you certainly can't minimalize a team that has won that 382 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: many one score games in that way. Now, if you 383 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:32,879 Speaker 1: go out and you wind up down twenty, like in 384 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:34,879 Speaker 1: some of the blowout losses, you wind up down a 385 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 1: bunch of points early, yeah, they're much you can do 386 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 1: in that situation. I'm not I don't have huge expectations there. 387 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,640 Speaker 1: But if if you play good football and you're in games, 388 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:50,959 Speaker 1: this team, I truly believe they have the utmost belief 389 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 1: in themselves. I don't know that they're going to get 390 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 1: into the fourth quarter and it will be their nerves 391 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:00,080 Speaker 1: or their inexperience that will cost them. I agree, And 392 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: you know, this is not one of my more popular theories. 393 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,360 Speaker 1: But you know, Kirk has gotten a lot of He's 394 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 1: gotten dinged by people at times by saying, oh, he 395 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,120 Speaker 1: plays well during garbage time, but whatever. But I've come 396 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 1: to think that I don't think Kirk sees garbage time. 397 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: I think he's a true never give up. He's just 398 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:20,120 Speaker 1: so steady and never give up. He that like, he's 399 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 1: like there is no garbage time, and the only difference 400 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 1: between garbage time and a miracle comeback is a slight 401 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: twist of the score, you know, a couple of you know, 402 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:31,320 Speaker 1: an onside kick goes this way or that way. So I, yeah, 403 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,440 Speaker 1: I do I do think that that. I think he's 404 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 1: a really really impressively steady dude in a strange way. 405 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 1: Who I just I'm kind of I'm more fascinated by 406 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: him every year. I kind of I kind of get 407 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,239 Speaker 1: a little more into Kirk every year, and I can 408 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,639 Speaker 1: see him making strange magic. Our producer Jay we were 409 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: talking about the weird ways this game can end. I 410 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,959 Speaker 1: just saw one of the comments he put into the 411 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:56,879 Speaker 1: thread that was like, I said, you know the kitten 412 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 1: comeback he goes. He said, the next game will have 413 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 1: kitten come out on the field and he'll have chains on. 414 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 1: That will be amazing. Yeah. The the interesting thing, you know, 415 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:13,160 Speaker 1: there's a lot, a lot is made of Kirk's He's 416 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: a big talking point. The one thing that is undeniable, 417 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 1: And I don't know that that all that it means 418 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:23,440 Speaker 1: that that what I'm about to say will hold in 419 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 1: the playoffs because nobody ext Michael Jordan misses shots right, 420 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: And I'm certainly not saying Kirk Cousins is Michael Jordan. 421 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 1: Leave me alone, stay out of my DMS. I was 422 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 1: just using a pop culture reference. But what I was 423 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:41,320 Speaker 1: gonna say, it's pretty undeniable that the man can handle 424 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:43,679 Speaker 1: a team in the fourth quarter the last two years. 425 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:46,919 Speaker 1: Say whatever you want about all the years previous, but 426 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 1: you have to get rich. You can't carry that forward. 427 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: The last two years game on the line, fourth quarter, 428 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:58,879 Speaker 1: he has succeeded and as a whole, honestly, on both 429 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 1: sides of the ball, clutch moments in the fourth quarter. 430 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:06,639 Speaker 1: This team has succeeded. Interestingly, the defense has kind of 431 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:11,119 Speaker 1: succeeded in quarters one through three. Yeah, you know, the 432 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 1: offense has really succeeded on opening drives and then in 433 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,679 Speaker 1: the end of game. So like, we're still floating in 434 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 1: this area where we haven't really been consistent very often 435 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 1: all the way through a game. I would love for 436 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:26,880 Speaker 1: what you're saying to happen what you said earlier, where 437 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:32,120 Speaker 1: it's like, oh man, they like it happened the Giants game, 438 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: it all comes together. I'll take a win. I don't 439 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:36,959 Speaker 1: care how we get it, but wouldn't it be sweet 440 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 1: to get the sort of win where it's like, man, 441 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,359 Speaker 1: that would we are the better team and they're no 442 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,640 Speaker 1: one can question that. That would be That would be sweet. 443 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 1: I'll take a win either way, but that would be sweet. 444 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 1: I'll take the Cat game win, by the way, and 445 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 1: I'll put the chains on the cat, so I'm fine 446 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 1: with weird. I'll put that cat in the Pro Football 447 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. I'll adopt the cat and raise it. 448 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 1: I'll I'll put it through college. I don't care, give 449 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,439 Speaker 1: me the Super Bowl. I don't care how we get 450 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 1: People have said before they're like, people, go, if you 451 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 1: want to. I was rooting for the Packers or the 452 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 1: Lions to get in because I thought, and maybe I'll 453 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 1: be proven wrong, that they had a better chance of 454 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 1: upsetting the Niners. And then then we get a second 455 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,160 Speaker 1: home playoff in the second round, and you know, and 456 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: I had people say like, you want to be the best, 457 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 1: you got beat the best past I'll beat the best 458 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 1: if that's who I have to beat. But I don't 459 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:35,359 Speaker 1: care who I have to beat. I don't I don't care. 460 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 1: I want the super Bowl. I want, I desperately need 461 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 1: a super Bowl. And I don't think Eli Manning is like, well, 462 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,160 Speaker 1: I just really wish in the divisional round we would 463 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: have played this team. Then my first super Bowl would 464 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,879 Speaker 1: have been more meaningful. That's like Aaron Rodgers against the 465 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 1: Bears and Jay Cutler. When Jay Cutler went out in 466 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: that championship game, He's not like, it just doesn't mean 467 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 1: as much. Jay wasn't out there though whole time. I 468 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,120 Speaker 1: totally agree. And also it's like it's the playoffs. It's 469 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 1: not you know, this isn't one of those things where 470 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 1: you have like a really weak schedule and you look 471 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,119 Speaker 1: back on it and you like played all cupcake teams, 472 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 1: Like there's not really cupcake teams left, and I mean, 473 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: I would argue Seattles. The Seattle is the closest thing 474 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 1: to that left in the NFC right now, and they're 475 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:26,920 Speaker 1: still not bad by any stretch. I'm just holding out 476 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 1: hope that that the weirdness that can exist in divisional 477 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:37,399 Speaker 1: matchups like the Vikings. Remember that was the Randy Moss 478 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,719 Speaker 1: Moon game. The Vikings needed somebody I believe to lose 479 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,920 Speaker 1: to back their way into that game. And then they 480 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:47,920 Speaker 1: went to Lambo, a superior team and didn't beat them, 481 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 1: thumped them. So there is some offensive firepower on the 482 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:58,120 Speaker 1: Seahawks team. You know, they are a rallied team. So yeah, 483 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 1: I'm I'm hoping for that. I'm hope being that they 484 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: go in there and something weird happens and we can 485 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,240 Speaker 1: beat the Giants and we get the Seahawks round two. 486 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,600 Speaker 1: That's very pipe dreamy of me, But I think we 487 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,679 Speaker 1: just need to We're very ahead of ourselves. We just 488 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,120 Speaker 1: need to focus on this weekend. Brian Dayball's a hell 489 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 1: of a coach. Uh Sequon Barkley is very good. I 490 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 1: think with our all line out you know their d line, Cavon, Thibadeau, 491 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 1: all these guys. It's gonna be a it's gonna be 492 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 1: a really, really hard game. I hate to put you 493 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: on the spot, but we do it every week. I'm 494 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,680 Speaker 1: gonna make you do a prediction for the game. Normally 495 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,400 Speaker 1: this is more fun because we're doing opposing predictions. Sure, 496 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: but we'll both make a prediction for the game. What 497 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 1: do you what do you think the score is gonna be? 498 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 1: Vikings seventeen twenty eight. Ooh, that was very firm. That 499 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 1: was very direct, so Viking seen. Yeah, Okay, I like that. 500 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:55,080 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. I think I'm gonna go Giants ten uh, 501 00:27:55,200 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: Vikings one hundred and eighty five. Brian, I sure care 502 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: about you a lot. I love you, buddy. Thank you 503 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 1: for doing the show and hopefully I will be texting 504 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 1: you throughout the playoffs and not just in this one game. 505 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:12,920 Speaker 1: I hope it keeps going. Thank you, buddy, and I 506 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:14,639 Speaker 1: will watch to the end of this game. Guy. Started 507 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 1: appreciate you man, Yes, lady, dude. Thank you guys for 508 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 1: joining us on this week's episode of The Tailgate. 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