Speaker 1: Here's Cook bouncing it and john want to start. Touchdown Vikings.
Speaker 1: First out from the thirty Roethlisberger with protection down three cots,
Speaker 1: touchdown Steelers, Washington, President's keeps hares it out, Osborne downtailed,
Speaker 1: He's got it, touchdown Vikings and coming away looking for
Speaker 1: a bush up. It's Cameron Sutton up flag, touchdown Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Two more shots maybe to the end zone. Underneath it's
Speaker 1: Johnson and he is able to break and walk calling,
Speaker 1: get out of bounds and give Pittsburgh home hands on
Speaker 1: frimout incomplete, Viking's winning. It was the greatest comedy released
Speaker 1: in one and makes sense because it is awards season now.
Speaker 1: December is when they start rolling out the prestige pictures
Speaker 1: and comedies don't usually get that pop that the dramas do.
Speaker 1: But this was high comedy because if you thought that
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings up twenty nine does zilch in the
Speaker 1: third quarter, we're just gonna coast a victory. And if
Speaker 1: you thought this version of the Steelers, the Steelers who
Speaker 1: are basically a zombie that doesn't know it's dead, Like
Speaker 1: no one's done the head shot yet, so it's still
Speaker 1: wanders around it stumbles through the darkness. It eats some people,
Speaker 1: but ultimately it's still dead. It just needs to be
Speaker 1: told that, and it hasn't learned yet. They're going to
Speaker 1: keep coming and keep coming late in games, and that's
Speaker 1: what they did, but they could not finish off what
Speaker 1: would have been one of the craziest comebacks in primetime
Speaker 1: NFL history. I will go that for final score thirty
Speaker 1: six to Vikings hold off the Steelers. Mike Zimmer maybe alive,
Speaker 1: maybe not alive at the time of this taping. I
Speaker 1: don't think he had blinked in about an hour and
Speaker 1: a half. Um, so we'll check in on his status
Speaker 1: later on this weekend. I am Dan Hansas. Joining me
Speaker 1: now is Mark Sessler. We're gonna to hand this one buddy,
Speaker 1: Mike and the mad Dog's style. And I know you
Speaker 1: were really enjoying yourself for about two and a half quarters, Mark,
Speaker 1: because no one dislikes the Steelers more than Mark Sessler.
Speaker 1: And then things changed. Were you surprised even by the
Speaker 1: standards that these teams have set the season? Well, no,
Speaker 1: I shouldn't be. I mean, if you've been, you know,
Speaker 1: observing what we've you know, witnessed throughout the season. No,
Speaker 1: I think it's funny just that like star performances get
Speaker 1: buried by a game like this, like Dalvin Cook basically
Speaker 1: you know, totally injured carrying the team on his back
Speaker 1: for two hundred and five yards at seven point six
Speaker 1: yards per carry. It gets lost in the folly of
Speaker 1: this and I found myself, as to your point, um,
Speaker 1: enjoying this game. At one point I tweeted that Big
Speaker 1: Ben's final move is Terry Bradshaw's money, that there's nothing
Speaker 1: left for him him to achieve at this point in
Speaker 1: his career. Um, it was absolutely what we'd expect. I
Speaker 1: think that I, well know, the biggest you know, you
Speaker 1: talk about like someone that has been been eaten by
Speaker 1: a zombie. At this point, it was my own, my
Speaker 1: own self because how did I fall for this again,
Speaker 1: thinking that the Vikings would storm out as they are
Speaker 1: wont to do to a very clear and uh you
Speaker 1: know define herble huge start and then totally crumble. I mean,
Speaker 1: we got the worst Kirk Cousins game of the season
Speaker 1: at one point in late in the fourth quarter. In
Speaker 1: three completions in the second half, two interceptions. None of
Speaker 1: it should be a surprise to us. At all right.
Speaker 1: I mean, it just seems exactly almost what we thought
Speaker 1: would happen. Yet in the moment, I fell for it
Speaker 1: like a giant rube. Well take me through it, because
Speaker 1: I'm curious at sessler manner um. As the game gets tight,
Speaker 1: if it go as it goes, and then the big
Speaker 1: touchdown from Kirk Cousins to kJ Osborne sixty two yards, Okay,
Speaker 1: it seems under control at that point, it's thirty six.
Speaker 1: And then they get off the field the Vikings defense,
Speaker 1: and then the Steelers force an interception. Kirk Cousins throws
Speaker 1: an interception in that spot, and that's when I thought
Speaker 1: Zimmer's head was going to explode. Because we know Zimmer
Speaker 1: does not like his quarterback. It doesn't matter that Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins is on pace for four thousand yards and thirty
Speaker 1: six touchdowns and seven interceptions this year. He guy drives
Speaker 1: them crazy because that interception changes the game there again,
Speaker 1: and the Steelers, of course, then go right back down
Speaker 1: the field. This time they get the two point aversion.
Speaker 1: They make it a one score game, and the Vikings
Speaker 1: have one last chance to ice the game. I thought
Speaker 1: Cousins did it. I thought Cousins stepped up when they
Speaker 1: had third and twenty one, I believe it was, and
Speaker 1: he dug him out with two big completions. But then
Speaker 1: they go three and out. Steelers get the ball back
Speaker 1: and they take it all the way down the field.
Speaker 1: So where are you mark? As that all is the
Speaker 1: last let's say two minutes of game time? What's going
Speaker 1: on at Sessler? Man? Are you throwing things? Are you
Speaker 1: is anyone around you? You in the garage? Is a
Speaker 1: door lock? Take me through it? Largely dead inside? Um.
Speaker 1: I started the game in the garage, and you know,
Speaker 1: when things are going well, um, very systematic, had a
Speaker 1: nice my laptop set up on a folding table, very organized. Um.
Speaker 1: When things got really comfortable and I was tweeting out, um,
Speaker 1: you know anti Steelers, uh Bizarro tweets that you know,
Speaker 1: I thought I could never be failed on. I moved
Speaker 1: into our bedroom alone and just curled up. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a cold, dark, rainy, slash windy night in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: The other one just curled up under blankets, and I thought,
Speaker 1: I've got this. I finally felt confident that maybe the
Speaker 1: Vikings were gonna hand us what we thought. Um. But
Speaker 1: but to your point, is the game just got uglier
Speaker 1: and uglier. UM, I started to peel the blankets off me.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting up. I'm starting to get flustered and annoyed.
Speaker 1: Uh my wife was nice enough to bring me, uh,
Speaker 1: I get avocado toast, which I just threw to the
Speaker 1: side at one point. I mean, it's just that I
Speaker 1: should have known this was what this is exactly what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. I honestly did think that the Steelers were
Speaker 1: gonna pull this out when that interception happened. Though, the
Speaker 1: Witherspoon interception, it seemed like the ideal set up for this. UM.
Speaker 1: I think that, like we've watched enough football where like
Speaker 1: when you get up the way that the Vikings did,
Speaker 1: that k j Osborne connection, that touchdown seemed like it
Speaker 1: just they just needed to make one big play. And
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, yes, it might have been like his least
Speaker 1: successful game of the year, that was the one play
Speaker 1: that needed to be made and it put him over
Speaker 1: the top. But these Steelers, man, I mean, you gotta
Speaker 1: give him some credit. They they fought to the very end.
Speaker 1: I mean, at this point they are six six and one. UM,
Speaker 1: the eight eight and one dream is totally alive. In
Speaker 1: my book, That's the one of the last few things
Speaker 1: I have to cling onto in this season. And the Vikings.
Speaker 1: You're on the fringes of the NFC wild card race
Speaker 1: and you're the weirdest team I've ever watched, I know,
Speaker 1: aren't they? And that I mean, that's why I've kind
Speaker 1: of loved them all season, because, you know, Troy Aikman
Speaker 1: said it. Now, naturally everyone is kind of on the
Speaker 1: same page, like they are box office. You know, you
Speaker 1: sit down for four hours to watch one NFL game
Speaker 1: and if you want one, that's gonna be close, that's
Speaker 1: gonna have highs and lows and a lot of action.
Speaker 1: It is the Vikings. Every game has come down to
Speaker 1: the final score from Minnesota, even the game when they
Speaker 1: were winning twenty nine nothing in the third quarter against
Speaker 1: a old quarterback who looks like he is ready to
Speaker 1: join Terry Bradshaw, and I yes, Ben Roethlisberger said, old
Speaker 1: quarterback deserves a lot of credit. There's something about Roethlisberger
Speaker 1: and and a lot of this. It's hard to believe
Speaker 1: this comeback happened after t J. Watt went out, But
Speaker 1: when you looked at the first half when the Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: off offensive line was so bad and non competitive that
Speaker 1: the game had turned into a farce, and it all
Speaker 1: changed it all, just like it flipped the switch. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if you if that's Tomlin and the
Speaker 1: coaching staff making big time adjustments or if it's the
Speaker 1: Vikings uh, just failing to keep the momentum and keep
Speaker 1: the pedal to the metal. But I think there's some
Speaker 1: d NA and play and I think that's why we
Speaker 1: got to where we got tonight with this game between
Speaker 1: these two teams. The Vikings inability to close games and
Speaker 1: they're seeming inability to avoid these calamitous collapses. That's part
Speaker 1: of who they are, Like it's in their heads. You
Speaker 1: saw it. As soon as that second touchdown scored. Everybody
Speaker 1: tightened up on that sideline, on that field, the coach, everybody, uh.
Speaker 1: And on the flip side, the Steelers are this like flawed,
Speaker 1: imperfect team, but like the zombie that doesn't know it's dead,
Speaker 1: it still has this muscle memory to be able to
Speaker 1: fight back in games. They don't quit. They never quit
Speaker 1: on their coach, and they fought back and took advantage
Speaker 1: of the Vikings tightening up and that's like championship DNA,
Speaker 1: even if the Steelers haven't won a title in a while,
Speaker 1: so it's almost inevitable it got where it ended up.
Speaker 1: But still like twenty nine nothing, Mark, it's unbelievable. Came
Speaker 1: down to the last play of the game and yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's two NFL. Well, I think you nailed it
Speaker 1: right there. I think that both teams are emblematic of
Speaker 1: this particular season, not that we haven't seen game games
Speaker 1: like this before, but it doesn't even feel especially rare. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, at one point I thought the Steelers had
Speaker 1: been impregnated with the baby of Satan at one point,
Speaker 1: that it was over for them, but but it wasn't,
Speaker 1: because that's the Steelers and that's the Vikings, and it
Speaker 1: it's um, it's disturbing what we watched tonight on some level,
Speaker 1: because like, when you're up twenty nine nothing, you should
Speaker 1: just lay into it. And especially when they were running
Speaker 1: the ball the way they were, and the Steelers had
Speaker 1: been terrible against the run the past couple of games,
Speaker 1: the formula was there for the Vikings to go on
Speaker 1: and win this to twelve and you and I are
Speaker 1: doing this recording twenty five minutes ago. Instead it turns
Speaker 1: into a an anti drama of the highest nature. Um.
Speaker 1: But but you know what I I at this point
Speaker 1: one thing I've learned because I have essentially failed at
Speaker 1: my job this season. I am not counting out either
Speaker 1: one of these teams on any level. I'm done tweeting
Speaker 1: about anyone. I'm done tweeting like anything can happen. At
Speaker 1: this point. The Steelers probably will become a wild card
Speaker 1: team and take that wild card game down to the
Speaker 1: final minutes too. So here that's your preview of the
Speaker 1: wild card weekend. Obligatory had break here because shocker alert,
Speaker 1: we talked too long. I mean the Steelers. See, I'm
Speaker 1: more confident in the Vikings finding way to the playoffs
Speaker 1: just looking at the Steelers. Maybe home Titans at Chiefs
Speaker 1: home Mark? What oh Mark, it's prime time too. We
Speaker 1: got Steelers hosting Browns in week seventeen. Well, that way,
Speaker 1: you know that will turn into something very ugly. You
Speaker 1: you have to go full of any TESTI Verdi's dad
Speaker 1: on that one. You've got a VCR tape. That sucker.
Speaker 1: Is that Monday night or Thursday. I'm not on assignment.
Speaker 1: I hope on that evening January three. I believe it
Speaker 1: is ESPN, so it must be Monday Night Football, the
Speaker 1: last Monday Night game, and Margie, I don't know. I will,
Speaker 1: I literally, I'll take a one way flight to Mexico
Speaker 1: for that game. And for those that don't know the reference,
Speaker 1: because we do bring it up from time to time.
Speaker 1: When the Jets had a great run in when they
Speaker 1: went twelve and four and went to the a f
Speaker 1: C title game, lost to Elway and the Broncos, Vinny
Speaker 1: Testa Already had a career season and it was like
Speaker 1: this big like story in the Tri State area because
Speaker 1: Vinny test Already's father was a huge fan obviously of
Speaker 1: his son and and followed his whole career. But he
Speaker 1: had a bump ticker. You see. Mr Testa Already had
Speaker 1: a bump ticker, and it was such a bump ticker
Speaker 1: that it wouldn't be able to hold up watching a game,
Speaker 1: an NFL game with his son at the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: So what Mr test Already would do was he would
Speaker 1: tape the game. This is back in the days of
Speaker 1: the VCR. Tape the game. Some wou would then alert
Speaker 1: him after the game whether the Jets had won or lost,
Speaker 1: whether Vinnie had been successful or the team had been unsuccessful,
Speaker 1: and then knowing the the outcome was already decided in
Speaker 1: his mind, he then could watch the game and his
Speaker 1: ticker would be safe. That's what we need to do
Speaker 1: for Mark in Week seventeen, Brown Steelers, because that feels
Speaker 1: like a heart attack platter, just a minor footnote. I
Speaker 1: think that is the the dichotomy of our fan interest
Speaker 1: because all that it literally same exact series of anecdotes
Speaker 1: were pounded into my head over and over during Vinnie
Speaker 1: TESTAVERTI season with Bill Belichick's Browns. When they went to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. It's like, I don't know if this was
Speaker 1: maybe a highly um, a well run pr campaign because
Speaker 1: it made it was like every pregame show ever. But
Speaker 1: you're right, um when that by the way they're playing
Speaker 1: on are you saying it's like a mandito his girlfriend's situation?
Speaker 1: Like there never was. That's what I'm saying, Let's get
Speaker 1: back on track. The Steelers lost t J. Watt to
Speaker 1: a groin injury. Uh, he was in street clothes in
Speaker 1: the second half. I don't know if that was for
Speaker 1: precautionary reasons because the game seemed over and if that's
Speaker 1: the case that was done by the Steelers or if
Speaker 1: he's seriously injured and can mis extended time. But either way,
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year once again wide open the Steelers.
Speaker 1: If they have any chance of making that run to
Speaker 1: eight eight and one or you know, nine eight what what?
Speaker 1: What's a winning record for them? Then they gotta go.
Speaker 1: There's a Karen three. Would they be nine seven in
Speaker 1: one nine set nine one? Yet my head? That hurts me.
Speaker 1: I don't like that. They need they need what on
Speaker 1: the field. As for the Vikings, it doesn't change how
Speaker 1: I feel about them at all. It's the same stuff
Speaker 1: with Minnesota. They could beat anybody, they could lose anybody,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how far they're ahead, because they'll always let
Speaker 1: the team back in. And I think that d NA,
Speaker 1: ultimately Mark is gonna get them killed and it's gonna
Speaker 1: break the hearts of the entire Vikings fan base. But
Speaker 1: I think the only salace to take out of that,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a Mr. Testa already um parallel.
Speaker 1: They already know, like everyone knows, that this season is
Speaker 1: going to end horrifically for Minnesota. So maybe that helps
Speaker 1: when and they do host the Bears in week eighteen,
Speaker 1: and it's winning in and they lose on a field
Speaker 1: goal as time expires after a hideous Kirk Cousins fumble
Speaker 1: like they know that's coming. They are, yeah that they
Speaker 1: I think Vikings fans all along have sort of been
Speaker 1: the John the Baptist. Um. You know, persona here telling
Speaker 1: us you can get into this experience. You can, you
Speaker 1: can flee it. But either way we know we're telling
Speaker 1: you now what's going to occur. And I frankly the
Speaker 1: Steelers feel very similar to me too, where it's like
Speaker 1: they are as you said, they are zombiest, they're unkillable. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you're right that the Vikings pattern
Speaker 1: is not a super Bowl pattern. It's a January heartbreak,
Speaker 1: um low ed where it's like you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: lot of Vikings fans in Minnesota hitting the dive bar
Speaker 1: after that game very hard. It's going to be very ugly.
Speaker 1: Um uh, we will be far from it. Thank you
Speaker 1: and all your tweets. I know it was bad because
Speaker 1: when I tweeted about it, people were like tweeting, Uh,
Speaker 1: your boy Mark's not feeling so cool anymore, and stuff
Speaker 1: like that like people, you must have really gotten some
Speaker 1: critical tweets from the insers. Do you want me to
Speaker 1: read you? Let me see if I can find you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would love to some some negative tweets. While you
Speaker 1: look for that, I'll just let everyone know that the
Speaker 1: Vikings now six and seven, right in the thick of
Speaker 1: the NFC wildcard race, and they get the Bears in
Speaker 1: Chicago next week. So oh, by the way, we get
Speaker 1: the Bears on Sunday Night Football this week. We get
Speaker 1: them about Monday Night Football next week against the Vikings,
Speaker 1: but we know will be a close fund game because
Speaker 1: the Vikings are playing, so I guess there's the positive
Speaker 1: catch twenty two. And then they get the Rams at
Speaker 1: home the day after Christmas. So this is gonna get
Speaker 1: very interesting because the Rams potentially could lose to the
Speaker 1: Cardinals this week and being a potential desperation situation. So
Speaker 1: the NFC is gonna be a lot of fun. All right,
Speaker 1: did you find any tweets? I'll read you to? Um?
Speaker 1: The first was I'm not sure Steelers fans can read this,
Speaker 1: but your team is incomplete, I mean suggesting that was
Speaker 1: your tweet and I liked it. Well, that's um. There.
Speaker 1: It is largely a known fact that many Steelers fans
Speaker 1: have never read a book, So I'm I just put
Speaker 1: that out there is a that's that was the baseline
Speaker 1: comment there. Then I said, t n f aside Steelers
Speaker 1: fans equal golden encrusted newbies to what comes next Colon
Speaker 1: QB reboot. Then in all caps total mystical evil chaos.
Speaker 1: I mean totally feeling myself as if you know this
Speaker 1: was real. Then the final one, the Steelers are a
Speaker 1: filmic projection this evening, not with us in real life.
Speaker 1: Oh you know what I mean, stopped doing this. I
Speaker 1: think they replies during the comeback that really stood out
Speaker 1: or oh of course, well because well here's what I
Speaker 1: do find annoying. It was the very sixth grade argument. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the Browns really suck. It's like, but that's I'm
Speaker 1: not taught. I already with you that they are problematic.
Speaker 1: So the a f C North is big and sloppy,
Speaker 1: and I enjoy it. You know, yes, we're not getting
Speaker 1: probably not getting a super Bowl team out of there,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna they're just gonna just fight to death.
Speaker 1: It's like games in that division, it's just like one
Speaker 1: team is gonna come out of it alive. The others
Speaker 1: will be dead, and the one that survives will never
Speaker 1: be the same. It will probably be the Bengals, which
Speaker 1: like nobody on Earth predicted. So that would be Okay,
Speaker 1: there you go. That is Thursday Night Football, and I'll
Speaker 1: give it to Greg Rosenthal. He predicted all that. I
Speaker 1: guess it wasn't a tough thing to predict. Us Again,
Speaker 1: the Vikings have done this thirteen straight times this season.
Speaker 1: Close game, going down to the very end, he said,
Speaker 1: I think you guys are gonna have a lot to
Speaker 1: talk about. We did, and on the subject of Greg
Speaker 1: Rosenthal mark Um, he also said he listens to the
Speaker 1: t n F recaps, which both struck us as a
Speaker 1: little bit maybe a stretch of the truth, a little suspicious.
Speaker 1: I mean, just because I never would he's he said
Speaker 1: on on Friday morning as he's driving into work, he
Speaker 1: religiously listens to what others did with the TNF recap,
Speaker 1: but also claims to have never listened to any of
Speaker 1: our other podcasts. You you know, he's a former debate
Speaker 1: club guy in high school. Don't He's going to take
Speaker 1: that and use it against you by saying you're using
Speaker 1: overly flowery language. I don't think he said he listens
Speaker 1: religiously well you know, but he said. I think he
Speaker 1: says he does. He's known when he can, he checks
Speaker 1: it out. So how about a test. What if, hey, Greg,
Speaker 1: if you're listening right now, if you would do indeed,
Speaker 1: listen to these podcasts on Thursday night that you're not
Speaker 1: on when I introduce you on Sunday Show the Flagship program,
Speaker 1: what the first thing you say, Strawberry truck. It's the
Speaker 1: perfect way to do it. I also, um, Greg, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you know this, damn, but he'll often
Speaker 1: I think he finds that I am a I'll listen
Speaker 1: to him and his inner thoughts. I don't always respond.
Speaker 1: But he told me that he went ice skating alone tonight, Um,
Speaker 1: just to enjoy the sensation of that. So if you
Speaker 1: wanted to tweet at him about that, if you're listening
Speaker 1: about you know, I think it's fine for a man
Speaker 1: to go by skating alone in Los Angeles on such
Speaker 1: a could call positive reinforcement, uh to Greg, because he
Speaker 1: was he let himself be vulnerable to his friend Mark
Speaker 1: sharing that he goes solo ice skating just to kind
Speaker 1: of clear his mind, and he said, you know, he
Speaker 1: said to me, he shot me a text a couple
Speaker 1: weeks ago. He said, Dan, it makes me feel graceful.
Speaker 1: So that send him some positive tweets supporting his solo
Speaker 1: ice skating ventures. Let's lift him up, Ricky, do you
Speaker 1: have anything? Dad? Thank you guys. Really, now, I think
Speaker 1: he's just pissed because she had like a hot yoga
Speaker 1: class she was gonna try to go to early tomorrow.
Speaker 1: She thought that that game was gonna end quickly. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then the fact that it turned into like this
Speaker 1: epic barn burner is going to cost you a workout
Speaker 1: in the morning. Yeah, now I gotta Now, I gotta
Speaker 1: go hard in the morning. I wanted to get it
Speaker 1: over with. So so now, now imagine being a Vikings fan. Uh,
Speaker 1: take that frustration and multiply it by roughly one trillion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but at least they got the wins they got. I mean,
Speaker 1: it sucks that how they came back, And I get it,
Speaker 1: and I'd be furious too, because the Vikings do this
Speaker 1: every single game. And what did I think it was?
Speaker 1: You know, Troy and Joe were saying that, like in
Speaker 1: the two minute drill. The Vikings are like legitimately the
Speaker 1: worst ever. And so it's like here we are in
Speaker 1: the two minute drill and like the Steelers marched down
Speaker 1: the field and I'm not doing you know, down in
Speaker 1: the last two minutes of half. Yeah. And unless you're
Speaker 1: a Vikers Vikings fan who is also a toddler, you
Speaker 1: know you know that a dark day is coming. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that they're they're wise to uh final chapter.
Speaker 1: And just because I don't, I don't want this to
Speaker 1: get lost to the sands of time. Chase Claypool, how
Speaker 1: about we like chill out on the knucklehead act that
Speaker 1: guys fantastically talented, but he does something stupid almost every week, uh,
Speaker 1: and posing and for the first down on a running
Speaker 1: clock with no time outs and the games on the line,
Speaker 1: and that led to an offensive line and scrambling over
Speaker 1: and like bro and then the ball falling on the
Speaker 1: ground that might have cost them one extra play down
Speaker 1: with the goal line like that. That is not an exaggeration,
Speaker 1: like an extra ten nine ten seconds off the clock.
Speaker 1: That is something that Ricky would Ricky would absolutely pull
Speaker 1: the same exact stunt were she in the same position.
Speaker 1: And I think we're projecting. I think that I think
Speaker 1: I would team player. And when you got to know
Speaker 1: where you are at situational football, Mark, you gotta know
Speaker 1: I would be got water in the nerves. You gotta
Speaker 1: clock it. You're not anything. Mark strikes me either if
Speaker 1: if well, first of all, I wouldn't make the catch.
Speaker 1: So let's I mean, that would be the first problem
Speaker 1: we know if we're if we're being generous, Mark would
Speaker 1: either be like a hard nosed white safety um or
Speaker 1: a super quirky kicker. Yeah, blanket ship type. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: you're talking to someone who played running back and um
Speaker 1: when they didn't know what's like like they didn't even
Speaker 1: have real helmets back then, right, like the real roots
Speaker 1: of leather. Way, you know, at least a hundred years
Speaker 1: after that. But and and you're absolutely right, Mark Erica
Speaker 1: is a diva wide receiver and there's no other position
Speaker 1: that you could be playing. Yeah, well, that's piling up
Speaker 1: personal fouls and you know, off the field team penalties
Speaker 1: of finds and so you know what, the team can't
Speaker 1: get rid of me because the numbers prove it. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: or your dad probably owns the team. It's okay, that's
Speaker 1: all right. The show is now longer than the preview show. Um, alright,
Speaker 1: So again, Vikings fans, I hope you're okay. Deep breath,
Speaker 1: deep breath, you're still alive. I don't know if you're coaching.
Speaker 1: I hope you're okay. You know, the the zombie. There
Speaker 1: was always one memorable zom especially memorable zombie from the
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson Thriller video where he's walking down the street
Speaker 1: and his arm just straight falls off and he just
Speaker 1: keeps walking. That's the Steelers. Now they only have one arm,
Speaker 1: but they still got two legs and and probably they're
Speaker 1: still searching for brains. So that's that. You're alive. You're
Speaker 1: under about the last. All right, let's go until Sunday.
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