WEBVTT - Minnesota Tim Podcast: Super Bowl predictions! 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:27.680 Madness Show, Badays. 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:33.600 Minnesota Tim, Jake's Takes Madness. 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:40.720 It is Jake's Takes Time. On a Thursday morning or 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:45.080 whenever you are listening to this podcast, it is Minnesota 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:49.800 Tim and Jake's Takes Day. We know this is your 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:54.880 favorite day of the year because this is a segment 0:00:55.200 --> 0:01:03.200 that Jacob has created and we have been following for years. 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:11.959 It's time for Favorable, Formidable, and fifty to fifty, where 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:18.000 we run through each game of the Minnesota Vikings schedule 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:25.119 and predict if the outcome is favorable, formidable or fifty 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.920 to fifty. But first, because I like to be a gentleman, 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:33.440 even to my fellow men, Jacob, how are you doing today? 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:35.880 I've been good. Like you said, it's the biggest day 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.639 of the year. It's the opening of the NFL season 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:43.399 Chiefs Lions tonight. It's the opening of school in Lichfield. 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:47.000 So I gotta see one hundred and thirty students today. 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.360 And it's on the Thursday. 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.360 Yeah, well, we do. We have like conferences the first 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.480 two days, so technically the first day school was Tuesday, and. 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.480 Teacher parent conferences the first two days. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.760 Yeah, like premium, so like get yeah, get to know 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:06.160 your conferences in the school, especially for the fifth graders 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.280 right because they're going from an elementary school to the 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.280 middle school, so they get to like walk around the 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.799 building without anybody really there. So it's for them. It's 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:15.799 really nice. For the older grades, I you know, it's 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:17.520 not probably as big of a deal, but it's a 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:18.919 good way to get two school days out of the 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:23.640 way without actually having school, so because it counts. So yeah, 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.400 so that's that's today, or that was that's two days, 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.240 so now it's actual school today. And then it's the 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.440 opening of the middle school football schedule, the first game today, 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.280 so it's just that all everything is today. 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.560 When I was preparing for this podcast, my first thought was, 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:45.639 I cannot wait to hear Jacob's offensive playbook for the 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:51.400 Lichfield Dragon's middle school football team. And we can get 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:56.960 to that next week. Yeah, Game one recab after the game, 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.240 so we can hear how the game went, what they 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:05.000 play calls were, to hear the the details, because I mean, 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.600 you're a game tape guy, you know, you know you're 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:13.280 you're just deep diving into the all twenty two middle 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.560 school football man. 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.320 Yep, we'll just leave you. We'll just leave you with 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.440 this cliffhanger. If we beat and All tonight, I think 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:22.080 the score has got to be like six to zero. 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:26.480 Hey, win to win. 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.799 Yeah, this group they I think they only won one 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:31.639 game in Tiger game last year, but every other game 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.200 they only lost by one score. So we could definitely 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.200 flip that. You know, it's the kind of team that 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.040 we could win five games, we could win one game 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.000 and just it's gonna be the details. So we'll see 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.360 how we are on those little details. Those drive killers. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.520 I've been talking a lot about that this week. Can't 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.120 have the drive killers, right, the fumble that turned you know, 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.440 fumbled snaps, so now it's second and seventeen. We ain't 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:56.200 converted seven second and seventeen very often, right, you know, miscommunications, 0:03:56.280 --> 0:04:01.640 wrong routes, not knowing you man, that's to be detail oriented? 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:03.360 Is that was our focus this week? 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:04.560 So are you kidding me? 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:08.600 Like like that sounds like what an NFL coach would 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:09.520 say before their game. 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:14.240 Still, we've got to win the turnover battle. Yep. 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:16.280 Maybe if you have nothing to talk about one of 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:18.320 these weeks, you can just do a press conference, fake 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:19.120 press conference. 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:24.800 Seriously, we might have to not because it's amazing to 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:26.200 talk about but just for fun. 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:27.720 Well, we always have to talk about Yea, it might 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:28.200 be a good bit. 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.360 Yeah, that would be great. So let's do this. 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:37.440 Let's start the Minnesota Vikings predictions. Game one on Sunday, 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:42.880 September tenth, versus the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a twelve o'clock 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:48.120 kickoff on CBS M Baker Mayfield's the starting quarterback for 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:52.960 the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Favorable in my opinion. 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.920 I also have favorable. Yep, we'll talk a lot about it. 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.360 The schedules one of the hardest. I look the exact raining. 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:01.919 Most people have it in the top it's like the 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.600 top five I think for strength of schedule this year, 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:08.840 like the rankings, I don't know. There's we'll get to it. 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.240 There's there's a lot of games that I don't see 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.599 as uh, super formidable, but there's a lot of like 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:18.480 fifty to fifty games that could you know. Again, it's 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:20.320 kind of like our Lichfield dudleical team. 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:20.520 Right. 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.719 I can see this Vikings team having double digit wins, 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:25.400 but if the wheels fall off a little bit, things 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.279 don't go their way, it could go south. So yes, 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.760 if they're going to be a formidable team themselves. They 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:32.840 got to have the bucks at home. That's got to 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:33.279 be a win. 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:41.440 Yes, I will share more later on my expectations for 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.600 the Viking season, but I think you'll feel it out 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.159 as as it goes on. 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:47.360 So we're both at one to know, right. 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:49.640 Want to know here we go? Want to know? Here 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:50.000 we go? 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:57.760 Game two Thursday at Philadelphia, seven fifteen on Prime Video, 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:59.040 which is everybody's favorite. 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:04.200 I'm sure. I mean, you've got to go formidable on 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:04.679 this one. 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:09.080 Yeah, no ski out Thursday night at Philadelphia. I think 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.000 last year we had this exact same game. We got 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:14.799 our butts kicked. So yeah, it's formidable. Defending Super Bowl 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:18.920 attendees for the NFC, right, the NFC champs from last year, 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.600 I mean, not impossible to win, but yeah, you can 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:24.040 chuck that one up as a loss. 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:24.840 Last year. 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.520 Kirk Cousins threw like three picks in this game, three 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.719 terrible interceptions. One of them was on Justin Jefferson, and 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:32.880 I think we got crushed like twenty four to seven. 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.960 The score might have been a little closer. Well, it 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:37.920 would have been a little closer. There's no doubt in 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.919 my mind. If Kirk Cousins didn't throw three interceptions while 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:46.320 we were in scoring position in every single one of them. Okay, 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.200 so we're one and one for both of us. Game 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:54.200 three got a little bit of a break. Sunday, September 0:06:54.200 --> 0:07:00.400 twenty fourth, versus the Los Angeles Chajes, twelve pm off 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:09.880 on Fox. Oh, this is a tough one. I'll say 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.200 fifty to fifty. I'm gonna I'm gonna be a wost 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:13.680 since say fifty to fifty. 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.880 I don't think that's being a whist because the Chargers 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.800 weren't great last year. They have some guys right, but 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:20.600 they always have a lot of injuries. They have yet 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.320 to kind of put it all together, so I think 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:27.520 they're very They're kind of like a the Vikings of 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.560 the AFC a little bit where they have a high ceiling, 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:32.400 but they also have a low floor. So I think 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.600 they're a fifty to fifty game. Since it's at home, 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.000 I think Kirk Cousins outduels them a little bit, and 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:39.800 you know, it's probably gonna be a high spring game, 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:41.040 but the Vikings get it done. 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.000 Since it's okay, so you're gonna go two and one, 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.960 two and one, Okay, I'm gonna go. 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:47.520 One and two. 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:50.960 Okay, I have a bad feeling. 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:52.760 It's a fifty to fifty game. 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:57.000 I have a bad feeling about the Vikings Chargers game. 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:01.200 I mean, Justin Herbert's a beast and like, like you said, 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.160 they were a playoff team last year, but they had 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:07.240 one of the worst meltdowns ever against the Jacksonville Jaguars. 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:13.679 They're not the most best, but they're not the best 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:17.920 coach team in the NFL. The Chargers, you know, their 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:19.680 coach is kind of always on the hot seat, new 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.920 offense coordinator Kellen Moore. So yeah, there's a lot of 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.400 there's a lot to like about the Chargers, and there's 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.680 the roster when you look at it up and down, 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.160 is just stacked, Like there's no reason why they shouldn't 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.920 be one of the top AFC teams, but somehow every 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:40.280 single year they underachieved. So Week four at Carolina, new 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:44.280 rookie quarterback number one overall pick Bryce Young versus Adam 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:48.360 and Adam Thielen on the Carolina Panthers twelve o'clock came 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:52.000 on Fox. I will say favorable in this one. 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:55.120 Favorable as well. 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:55.400 Yep. 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.400 At the end of the day, even if it's a 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.680 road game, you gotta be a rookie quarterback like Bryce. 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:04.920 The defense is solid, but offense is not. So take 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:05.800 care of business. 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:07.760 I don't think it's gonna be an easy win though, 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:12.160 in my opinion, I just I don't think it's gonna 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.000 be a go to Carolina. You take your business, you 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:16.000 crush them by ten. 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:20.680 To twenty points. I see that as a field goal game, mhm. 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.920 And honestly we saw it last year, right. But a 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.839 lot of the Vikings games I think will be dicey, right. 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.120 I don't think the forum is going to change that 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.360 much from last year where we're gonna just blow people out. 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.440 I think the way we saw it last year with 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.319 a lot, I mean, eleven to one score games is 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:39.240 a lot, but probably won't have that many. But you know, 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.600 there's still gonna be probably five, six, seven, eight, and 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:43.839 we'll just see what kind of we were eleven and 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.120 o last year. We'll see if we stay with a 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.680 favorable record, probably not perfect again, but at least if 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.960 we can stay above five hundred with those, we should 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:52.800 be an okay shape. 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:57.720 So Week five at home versus Kansas City a three 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:01.800 to twenty five start on CBS, so that's probably a 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:04.080 Jim nance Tony Romo game. 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.000 I will say formidable. 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.800 Yep, that's an easy one. Obviously, best team in the league. 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:16.200 Pat Mahomes, Yeah, probably a loss. That's what I marked 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:16.400 it day. 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.760 Yeah, And you would think Travis Kelcey would be back 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:20.480 by that game. Who knows if he's going to be 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.679 one hundred percent healthy because of his hyper extended knee, 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.520 could be out on Thursday Night Football versus the Lions. 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:27.719 But I also. 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.320 Wouldn't put it past him at all if he played 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.720 against the Lions on Thursday Night Football because Kelsey just 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.560 seems like one of those rough and tough guys that's gonna. 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.720 Go on the football field with a broken leg. 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.839 That's just kind of like the the uh, the thought 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.400 that I have when I think of Travis kelce So 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:49.120 I got the vikings at two and three through Week five. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:51.199 You have the vikings at three and two. 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.400 Mm hmmm h correct Week six. 0:10:56.360 --> 0:11:01.240 At Chicago twelve o'clock game on Fox. This is a 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:06.200 tough one. What do we expect from the Chicago Bears 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.560 this year? Justin field is a big question mark. Can 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:12.920 he throw the football? Obviously, he can run the football 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:19.000 like none other. The vikings historically have struggled at Soldier Field. 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:22.160 The Chicago Bears have a new wide receiver, DJ Moore. 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.720 I say, the Vikings have to have this game because 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:32.840 of what's coming up. So I'm gonna say favorable Vikings 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:36.000 are three and three after Week six. 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:40.280 Yep, I agree. The only aspect I would maybe tweak 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:45.040 with that would be I have it as a fifty 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.320 to fifty though, just because at Soldier Field, regardless of 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:52.800 when or where or how right, I just and at 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.920 Chicago game is always, almost always, almost always gonna be 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.160 a fifty to fifty game. So I did put as 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.400 a fifty to fifty game. I'm just checking I win 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:04.960 totals here once. I got one, two, three, four, so 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:10.680 that'd be a dub yep, yep double when I mean. 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:16.400 Let's go, okay, Week seven, Monday Night Football versus San 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:20.400 Francisco again, another team that's kind of a question mark 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:24.240 on Monday Night football. Rock Party was amazing in seven 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:29.160 games last year. But I'm going to say formidable. 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:35.920 Okay, Okay, see I put I went fifty to fifty 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.439 just because there's obviously the defense there. I mean, their 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:43.920 Nantcy favorites, so this might be a little Homery there's 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.560 something about and market it as an l so it's 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:48.520 one of those fifty to fifty games and actually moves. 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:54.440 But I do think there's a little more risk to 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:56.720 the forty nine ers than people are giving them credit for. 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.199 You know, they just think rock Party, they just think 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.320 Brock Party is just gonna automatically be like a top 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.480 ten quarterback. It's like, I mean, as much as we 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:08.480 love the underdog story, right, thirty two teams, right, all 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.840 these professional scouts, these professional this is what they do 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.160 for a living. They said this guy wasn't worth drafting for, 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:20.920 you know, basically seven full rounds right of the NFL three. 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.280 I'm pretty impact right, and I get. 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.439 They could all be wrong, but think about how I mean. 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.920 My point is, I don't think perty's a sure thing. 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.240 Obviously he had some fire in a bottle last year. 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.760 Maybe he recaptures that. I think he's somewhere in the middle. Right, 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:36.480 He's probably not as good as he was last year, 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.680 but he's probably not unstartable. So my point is, I 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.400 just think there's a lot more variance to the forty 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.760 nine ers than people assume there will be. The difference 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.320 is they have a defense, so defense keeps you in 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.200 every game. He doesn't have to be special. So I 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.079 have it as a loss still, but I don't I'm 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.520 not a huge forty nine Ers guy, just as in general, 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.559 for like to actually win, get to the NFC Championship, 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.360 win the NFC Championship, that kind of level. I think 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.240 they're a good division team. Thing more, I. 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.640 Would agree there's lots of risk with the forty nine ers. 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:08.720 So defensively they're they're they're buttoned up. But offensively, besides 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.680 Christian McCaffrey, Deebo Samuel, those guys are legit rock purty. 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:15.120 He's got to prove himself. 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.880 Because he's he's only done it for seven games. 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.400 Yeah, and they're two best players. I mean they miss games. 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.480 McCaffrey and Samuel have not played a lot of games 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.720 the last couple of years either, so it's you know, 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:26.840 Kittle's already hurt and he's missed a lot of games 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:28.400 last few years as well, So it's just kind of 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.640 it's just risky. That's all just some risk. 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:32.560 Then Yeah, I like it. 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.240 I like it, but anyway formidable for both of us, 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:36.800 we or you said, fifty. 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:40.480 Fifty get a loss, leaning for sure, loss and leaning. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.360 If there was like a fourth category'd be right there 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.239 between fifty to fifty and formidable. 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:51.440 But yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay. Week eight at Green Bay, 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:56.800 a twelve o'clock game on Fox. I am going to 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.800 say formidable in this one. 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.400 Yeah, yeah, I am. I'm gonna say formidable in this one. 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.600 I think the Packers are going to be way better 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:11.600 than people expect. I think they are going to be 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:18.720 the underdog in the NFC North, specifically that people are 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:23.240 kind of overlooking because the big fancy quarterback is gone. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.840 But I believe the Packers will be way better. 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:30.240 Than people expect this year. Yeah, unfortunately for US. 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.320 Yep, I have it as a fifty to fifty, but 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.840 I chalk that one up as loss. Yeah, they are 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.560 the fin or like Vegas is saying they're going to 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:42.760 finish third, right, they easily. I mean, I don't think 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:44.520 any of the three teams that are at the top 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.720 are head and shoulders above the other two. So they 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.360 definitely could be or will be probably in the mix 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.120 for the division title. It's just a matter of those 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.040 kind of fifty to fifty games. Anytime you go to Lambeau, 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:57.760 it's kind of scary. So I'm just marking that one 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:59.640 as an l Jordan love. I don't think is terrible. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.600 Their defense is actually pretty good. We'll see they have 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.720 two second year receivers and a rookie as their main 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.880 three weapons and a rookie tight end. So that speaking 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:11.920 of risk again, right, you have a new quarterback who's 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.920 never been the starter, with two second year guys who 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:16.520 missed a lot of time last year, and then a 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.640 couple of rookies, So that part of it could unravel 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.600 pretty quickly where they don't have any reliable receiving options 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.880 but may not need them. 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:26.400 I don't know. Yeah, good point. 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:32.240 Week nine at Atlanta, a Sunday game at twelve pm 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:37.120 on Fox. I will say favorable the Vikings rally and 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:40.240 get a win at Atlanta, another close game. 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.400 I don't think this is a blowout by any means. 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:46.520 Yep, agreed, agreed, And yeah, we mean that four game 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.360 stretch we just talked about. I mean that's a tough 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:52.240 stretch verse Chiefs at Bears, verse forty nine Ers Packers. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.600 I mean that's those four games are all formidable or 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.240 fifty to fifty. So then now it opens up for 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.440 the Vikings at least in my schedule. I mean, this 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.240 is the stretch they got to take advantage of. So 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:03.040 they got to set it off with a win against 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.040 the Falcons totally. 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:10.320 Week ten versus New Orleans on Fox at twelve PM game, 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.760 I will say favorable again. So I got the Vikings 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.000 winning two games in a row, going five and five. 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:20.080 Yeah, I always mark one because I have favorable as well. 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:23.920 I always mark one favorable game as loss just because 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:25.440 you're not gonna win all the games you're supposed to. 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:27.920 So this is the one I peg because I think 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:29.639 Derek Carr and the Saints are going to be actually 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:31.879 not too shabby, and I think they're going to win 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.800 that division. I think they're going to need to win 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:38.320 that division. So I have them as the Saints. I 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.400 always seemed to in, you know, have we have interesting 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.119 games the Saints. I think the Saints are able to 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:43.719 get it done. 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.920 So I have the Vikings at five and five through 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:50.000 week ten. You have them, I think pretty. 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:51.920 Close before five five and five. 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.520 Yep, Okay, we're both five and five through week ten, 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.479 and people, I promise you we did not look at 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:58.720 each other's records before we started recording. 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:01.159 When we have everything like three different games that are 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:01.920 wins the losses. 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:03.080 So it's true. 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:09.960 Yeah, Week eleven at Denver, this is the same thing 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.760 for me as it was for you versus New Orleans. 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.360 This should be a favorable outcome. But because I think 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:20.280 the Vikings will lose on the road at Denver, I 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:24.320 think it's going to be a formidable game for the Vikings. 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.520 They are going to be five and six after the 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:27.640 Denver Broncos game. 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.440 Yeah, I just don't believe in the Broncos. I don't 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.280 think Russell Wilson has it. I think their defense is fine, 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:37.680 They're already missing some receivers. I think they have a 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.520 running back coming off in an ACL injury. I just 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.080 I think they're a year away from being interesting if 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.840 they replaced Russell Wilson. I don't think the Champagne's has 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.119 the magic touch. I don't think Russell Wilson's gonna suddenly 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.919 look good. It's not an easy game in terms of 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:57.560 it is at It's saying it's Sunday night football. Yep, 0:18:57.640 --> 0:18:59.879 So that's that's It's a little dicey, but I have it. 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:00.959 I have it as a win. 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.240 I think Sean Payton will rally the Denver Broncos. As 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:07.320 much as Minnesota fans do not like Sean Payton, he 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:09.160 is a really good head football coach. 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:10.920 So I think that he. 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:18.200 Will revolutionalize Russell Wilson and and make something whatever of them. Yeah, 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:22.760 so at home Monday Night football the following week, Week 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.080 twelve versus Chicago seven to fifteen. 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:27.720 They've got a lot of national games this year, Mike, 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:28.120 they do. 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:32.480 I will say favorable versus Chicago. 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.520 So the Vikings will be six and six. 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.639 Yep, favorable seven and six. Yeah, I think we have 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:41.679 what we have won two, three, four, We have five 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:46.119 to start with, five national TV games. That's a lot, 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:48.840 not counting like the Chiefs one that would probably be 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:53.000 mostly national TV on but yeah, that three o'clock game. Yeah, 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:56.359 but yeah, Thursday night, two Monday nights and two Sunday nights. Yeah. 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:59.240 So you have a favorable outcome for the Bears game too. 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:00.880 Yep, seven and five. 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:03.800 I got him at I have them at six and six. 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:04.399 Yep. 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:09.119 Week thirteen is they bye week. Lots of controversy in 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:13.119 this week. Never know what's gonna happen, so we'll just 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:15.160 skip it. I just don't even think we can predict 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:16.840 that it's just too tough. 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:22.880 Week fourteen, Sunday, December tenth, at Las Vegas, a three 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:25.360 h five start on Fox. 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:33.719 I will say fifty to fifty with a lean towards favorable. 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.800 So I will say the Vikings get it done and 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:40.600 are seven and six after Week fourteen. 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:43.520 Yep, I have a win as well. Another team that 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:45.480 I don't trust. I think another team that's gonna be 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:48.399 flirting with the bottom five draft pick. I don't think 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:51.440 Jimmy Garoppolo is the answer. They have Devanta Adams, who's 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:53.800 getting old. I could see him requesting a trade into 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:56.800 the year. Josh Jacobs on a one year contract, he's 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:58.600 gonna be gone next year. I think the Raiders are 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:03.560 teetering very closely to a little rebuild. So I think 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:06.240 by week you know, fourteen this season, they're going to 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:08.920 be out of it. So I think if you play 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:10.520 them week one, it's a fifty to fifty. If you 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:12.399 play them week fourteen, it's going to turn into a 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:13.120 favorable game. 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:14.440 So good point. 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:21.640 Week fifteen at Cincinnati, he's last year determined. I tell 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:27.240 you what time to be determined, Television to be determined. 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:31.760 I mean, it's nothing but formidable for this one correct. 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:35.080 Yeah, yep, yep. If the Vikings are decent, that'll be 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:39.760