December 26, 2024 • 14 mins
Minnesota Tim discusses the Minnesota Vikings' recent performance, focusing on Justin Jefferson's confidence in the team's Super Bowl chances. He reflects on the team's chemistry, compares the current squad to past successful teams, and anticipates the challenges ahead, particularly the upcoming game against the Green Bay Packers. The discussion highlights the significance of team dynamics and health in achieving success in the NFL.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Minnesota Vikings Superstar wide receiver Justin Jefferson had some intriguing
comments after the Vikings victory over the Seattle Seahawks on
Sunday afternoon. Thank everybody for tuning in that subscribe button
right there, and Merry Christmas to you a day late.
(00:28):
Sorry that I have not been recording a podcast for
the last few days. Tuesday, I was miserably sick with
either the stomach flew or the food poisoning because I
was leaned and hunched over the toilet roughly ten times
in that day. And then yesterday was Christmas, and now
(00:50):
today is Thursday morning, and I'm closer to one than
I was on Tuesday and Wednesday, but I'm still only
like eight out of ten. Head feels great, neck feels better,
Throat still feels a little off. So that's the update
on me. But Justin Jefferson was very confident. He raves
(01:13):
about the Minnesota Vikings Super Bowl chances following the Vikings
win over the Seahawks, and Kevin Seffert of ESPN wrote
an article about it. It says right here we're coming together,
said wide receiver Justin Jefferson, whose second touchdown reception Sunday
accounted for the final margin and a twenty seven to
(01:34):
twenty four victory over the cl Seahawks. Every single game,
we were finding different ways to overcome adversity. These close
games are what make championship teams. Jefferson continues, Oh for sure,
he said, not just what we're doing out there on
the field, but the way we're carrying ourselves, the way
(01:56):
we treat each other. In twenty nineteen, when I was
a champion at LSU, it was the same type of vibe.
The team is just together, fighting for one another every
single game. It definitely feels the same. So that's what
Justin Jefferson had to say about the Minnesota Vikings super
Bowl window this season, which is way ahead of schedule.
(02:18):
Before anybody else thought that the Minnesota Vikings could even
contend for a Super Bowl. And what's so awesome about
the Minnesota Vikings run this season is that they have
made it past the tiers that I was talking about earlier.
(02:38):
You know, you started the season two to three and
ohe oh big deal. You got to make it past
the fluky tier. Like the Saints, they started out super high.
They crushed the Cowboys, they crushed them out of the
team to put on like forty something points per game,
and then they fell off the face of the clip.
That's the fluky stage, and then they kind of go
on to the next stage. You know, you're winning some games,
you're winning a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Of games, and I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
What I called that stage, but the Pittsburgh Steelers were
in that stage right they were winning all these games.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
They were super good.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And now they're ten and six, So they did not
make it past that middle end of.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
The season stage.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
And the Minnesota Vikings have now made it past all
of the regular season stages. They made it past the
two and old fluky stage, they made it past the
mid season near nine and two stage, and now they're
thirteen and two, and now they have two games left
versus the Lions and the Green Bay Packers. So there's
(03:37):
no doubt in my mind that the Minnesota Vikings are
Super Bowl contenders right now. And they are a better
football team than they were if we're comparing this team
to the twenty seventeen Case Keenom team, and maybe in twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Seventeens teams had a better.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Defense, but offensively, twenty twenty four is way better. Donalds
heads and shoulders above case Keenum. Justin Jefferson's better than
Stefan Diggs, Jordan Addison's probably better than Adam Thielen.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
TJ.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Hockinson's better than whoever was the tight end in twenty seventeen,
and Aaron Jones is a very competent running back. I
can't even remember who was a running back in twenty seventeen.
So anyways, the fact that the Minnesota Vikings are coming together,
Justin Jefferson sees it. He felt it when they won
(04:29):
a championship at LSU back in twenty nineteen. It feels
like a special season, and it's felt like a special
season for.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
A long time. I'm on a record earlier in.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
The season saying that now this season feels more like
two thousand and nine than it did twenty seventeen because
of the way Sam Donald was throwing the football. Sam
Donald had Brett Farb vibes, and two thousand and nine
there was really nothing like it. Every game it felt
(05:01):
like Brett Favr was gonna pull off a miracle pass
where the Vikers are gonna blow out some team. You
think about Farb to Greg Lewis, well, that's kind of
Donald to Jefferson this season, and it's just it's been
an amazing run of everything coming together, and I mean
everything health wise. Besides Hawkinson missed in the first few
games because of last year's injury. Jordan Asden missed a
(05:23):
game or two earlier in the season, Christian Darisa you know,
ruptured his acl or whatever, but traded for Cam Robinson.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Besides that, Donald's been healthy.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
He's had some you know, nix and bruises here, but
he's been able to make it through any long term,
sustainable injuries that have been avoided. Aaron Jones, a guy
who's typically been injured in the pass, has been healthy
basically the entire season. Jefferson's been healthy as it's been healthy.
Besides the first few games, Howkinson's been healthy since he's comeback.
(05:57):
The Minnesota Vikings defense has been healthy for the most part.
Besides a Smith missing a game, besides the Stefan Gilbert
missing a game or two, besides the Blake Cash, there
have been no long term injuries on the Minnesota Vikings
this season besides the Christian dearrisaw he's a valuable piece,
He's the best offensive.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Lineman on our team.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But they were able to replace him pretty quickly with
a trade for Cam Robinson. Now, Robinson's no Christian Darrisaw,
but wow, he has been good. He's been better than
what could have been if you shifted Dalton Ryers to
the left side, took Blake Brandell, shifted him over there,
and you put Edit Ingram, you kept him in at
that spot. Trading for Cam Robinson, let Dalton Reisner fill
(06:43):
the spot for Ed Ingram who's been much better, and
kept Blake Brandle at his spot who's been very solid
this season. And the Minnesota Vikings offense has not missed
a beat even with superstar left tackle Christian Dearsaw not
on the roster. So the fact that the Vikings are
(07:03):
Super Bowl contenders is awesome, and it's amazing because really
nobody expected it before the season started, and Jefferson has
said what it is. He said, it feels special. It
feels like one of those teams where everybody's coming together,
(07:25):
and it's one of those things also where winning tears everything.
And the Minnesota Vikings are thirteen to two, so of
course nobody's gonna say anything negative right now. You're thirteen
to two, you're an eight game winning streak. The Minnesota
Vikings are rolling. If they went out there to the
number one seed in the NFC, two tough divisional games
left versus the Packers and Lions. But right now, things
(07:47):
are so good that no one's gonna say anything bad
and they shouldn't. Kevin O'Connell's speeches are being glorified all
over the NFL and in Minnesota because after every single
game for the last eight games, those speeches have been
posted to social media accounts and everyone's talking about it,
Sam Darnold's and everyone's talking about the contract that is
going to receive either from the Minnesota Vikings or another
(08:10):
football team this offseason. These are all exciting things that
people are talking about because the Minnesota Vikings are winning
football games. And I can't disagree with anything Jefferson is
saying because the Minnesota Vikings have made it past all
three stages of flukiness, you know, beginning, mid season and
end stage. Minnesota Vikings are thirteen to two. The worst
(08:32):
record they can have is thirteen and four. They're a
Super Bowl contender, you know, even if even if they
have to go on the road in the playoffs and
face of falcons or face of Buccaneers or face of Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I think they can get past that game.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I think they can win that football game, especially with
the way the Minnesota Vikings offense and defense is playing
this season, and especially because of the health that they've
had so far this year. So coming up this Sunday,
the little Vikings have a matchup with the Packers at
US Bank Stadium.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
The Vikings had a.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Big lead against them earlier in the year, up twenty
to zero something like that, and now the Packers are rolling,
they're hot.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
They're feeling good about themselves.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
They just clamber the Saints on Monday Night Football, which
is a good thing for the Vikings because it means
that the Saints or the Packers are coming off of
a short week. You know, the blowout isn't good. You'd
rather have that beg competitive game so that they're not
as rested for this game. But Monday night football, short week,
(09:38):
and the Packers they've been playing well. They beat the
Saints thirty four zero. They beat Seattle thirty to thirteen,
but Gino Smith was out. They lost to the Lives
by a field goal. They clambered Miami thirty to seventeen.
They clobbered in San fran thirty eight to ten, and
they beat Chicago twenty to nineteen in these last two games.
This matchup versus the Green Bit Packers is going to
(09:59):
be the toughest because.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
For some reason, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I don't follow the Packers that closely, but this season
and last season, the Packers have a tendency to peak
at the right time of year. Last year, the Packers
were like what two and six, Jordan Love was looking
like a bust, and then at the end of the
year he went off for like twenty four touchdowns and
a few picks and were a few bad throws from
(10:26):
being in the NFC Championship Game. In this season, they
started off slow again and started off two and two,
and then here they are. Four wins in a row,
lost three wins in a row, lost two wins in
a row. So this is one of the Packers' strengths
is to peak at the right time at the end
of the year, and that's exactly what they're doing. So
(10:48):
that's why this is gonna be a tough game for
the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday. And you know the worst
part about this game On Sunday is that it got
flex to a three twenty five, and I'll be intrigued
to hear what Tom has to.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Say about the game.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
We haven't had him yet, but the reviews on him
have not been great so far. You know, everyone has
been mentioning that Greg Olsen is way better than Tom Brady,
and so far, based on what I've heard from Greg
Olsen this season then last season, greg Olsen's been, you know,
top cream of the crop, top notch kind of announcer.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I really enjoyed listening to his takes and his he.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Brings interesting and expert analysis to the table when he
does football games on Fox. But it'll be interesting to
see what Tom Brady brings to the table because I
think expectations were so high for Tom and it becomes
Fox's number one guy his first season doing it takes
Greg Olsen and puts him as number two. But where's
(11:47):
probably about this game is that's a three twenty five start.
And there's nothing better than coming home after church and
eating lunch, praying before lunch, and then watching a little
football at twelve with their kids napping, and you know,
recording a podcast at three thirty or four o'clock whatever
(12:08):
it is instead of seven thirty. And you know what,
three twenty five games just aren't the best. You have
to wait for that whole entire window in the morning,
your kids are awake. And last week I got to
watch basically the entire game versus the Seahawks on my
phone because I want to be a present dad.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I'm gonna be playing with my kids. And you know,
a three.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Twenty five game, you watch that game, and also it's
a bedtime and it's like, always spend no time with
my kids today, And you know what, three to five
games suck.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
So that's the worst part about this game.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
But it will be a huge matchup, you know, because
it got flexed to a national football game Game of
the Week. Everyone's telling us it's gonna be a big matchup.
And you know what, the Packers are going to be
hungry because they went out. Vikings lose out, Packers become
the five seed, get a better matchup, and this is
a big game for both teams and Packers are Peakings
(13:00):
are playing well. It's reasonable and understandable why this game
became the game of the Week on Sunday. But Jefferson
calls the Minnesota Vikings Super Bowl contenders.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
He raised about their chances.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
And right now, who can disagree with him? And it
looks special, it feels special, and you can see it
on the faces of the players. It's not that hard
to read body language of professional athletes. Look at the Timberwolves,
for example, the timber roles. They don't want, they don't
like playing with each other. You can tell that Anthony
(13:36):
Edwards doesn't play like playing with Julius Randall.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
He struggles to play.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
With Rudy Gobert, and Rudy Gobert hates playing with Julius
Randall as well. You can see it all over their faces.
They have no effort offensively. Their defensive effort is up
and down at times.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
And you know what.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
The Minnesota Timberwols, they're fifteen and fourteen right now, snuck
by the Mavericks last night after having a thirty point lead,
won by like a few points, but a Kyrie Irving
three point away from taking the lead with like a
minute or two left, and you're gonna see it all
over the Timberls faces. The effort isn't there, the movement's
not there. You can tell that the chemistry isn't there,
But from the Minnesota Vikings standpoint, you can tell it's
(14:12):
all there. They like playing with each other, they're winning
football games, and they're finding ways to win, which is
awesome and it's been incredible.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
The Minnesota Vikings thirteen and two.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
To think about it, it could be fifteen into it
the point the season's over and cause they'll be thirteen
to four, but they also could be fifteen to two.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
And if they are thirteen to four, well they're over under.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
With six and a half, the Minnesota Vikings have doubled
over doubled expectations from everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
At the beginning of the season.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
So it's been a historical run and a special season
for the Minnesota Vikings
Minnesota Vikings Superstar wide receiver Justin Jefferson had some intriguing
comments after the Vikings victory over the Seattle Seahawks on
Sunday afternoon. Thank everybody for tuning in that subscribe button
right there, and Merry Christmas to you a day late.
(00:28):
Sorry that I have not been recording a podcast for
the last few days. Tuesday, I was miserably sick with
either the stomach flew or the food poisoning because I
was leaned and hunched over the toilet roughly ten times
in that day. And then yesterday was Christmas, and now
(00:50):
today is Thursday morning, and I'm closer to one than
I was on Tuesday and Wednesday, but I'm still only
like eight out of ten. Head feels great, neck feels better,
Throat still feels a little off. So that's the update
on me. But Justin Jefferson was very confident. He raves
(01:13):
about the Minnesota Vikings Super Bowl chances following the Vikings
win over the Seahawks, and Kevin Seffert of ESPN wrote
an article about it. It says right here we're coming together,
said wide receiver Justin Jefferson, whose second touchdown reception Sunday
accounted for the final margin and a twenty seven to
(01:34):
twenty four victory over the cl Seahawks. Every single game,
we were finding different ways to overcome adversity. These close
games are what make championship teams. Jefferson continues, Oh for sure,
he said, not just what we're doing out there on
the field, but the way we're carrying ourselves, the way
(01:56):
we treat each other. In twenty nineteen, when I was
a champion at LSU, it was the same type of vibe.
The team is just together, fighting for one another every
single game. It definitely feels the same. So that's what
Justin Jefferson had to say about the Minnesota Vikings super
Bowl window this season, which is way ahead of schedule.
(02:18):
Before anybody else thought that the Minnesota Vikings could even
contend for a Super Bowl. And what's so awesome about
the Minnesota Vikings run this season is that they have
made it past the tiers that I was talking about earlier.
(02:38):
You know, you started the season two to three and
ohe oh big deal. You got to make it past
the fluky tier. Like the Saints, they started out super high.
They crushed the Cowboys, they crushed them out of the
team to put on like forty something points per game,
and then they fell off the face of the clip.
That's the fluky stage, and then they kind of go
on to the next stage. You know, you're winning some games,
you're winning a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Of games, and I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
What I called that stage, but the Pittsburgh Steelers were
in that stage right they were winning all these games.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
They were super good.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And now they're ten and six, So they did not
make it past that middle end of.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
The season stage.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
And the Minnesota Vikings have now made it past all
of the regular season stages. They made it past the
two and old fluky stage, they made it past the
mid season near nine and two stage, and now they're
thirteen and two, and now they have two games left
versus the Lions and the Green Bay Packers. So there's
(03:37):
no doubt in my mind that the Minnesota Vikings are
Super Bowl contenders right now. And they are a better
football team than they were if we're comparing this team
to the twenty seventeen Case Keenom team, and maybe in twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Seventeens teams had a better.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Defense, but offensively, twenty twenty four is way better. Donalds
heads and shoulders above case Keenum. Justin Jefferson's better than
Stefan Diggs, Jordan Addison's probably better than Adam Thielen.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
TJ.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Hockinson's better than whoever was the tight end in twenty seventeen,
and Aaron Jones is a very competent running back. I
can't even remember who was a running back in twenty seventeen.
So anyways, the fact that the Minnesota Vikings are coming together,
Justin Jefferson sees it. He felt it when they won
(04:29):
a championship at LSU back in twenty nineteen. It feels
like a special season, and it's felt like a special
season for.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
A long time. I'm on a record earlier in.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
The season saying that now this season feels more like
two thousand and nine than it did twenty seventeen because
of the way Sam Donald was throwing the football. Sam
Donald had Brett Farb vibes, and two thousand and nine
there was really nothing like it. Every game it felt
(05:01):
like Brett Favr was gonna pull off a miracle pass
where the Vikers are gonna blow out some team. You
think about Farb to Greg Lewis, well, that's kind of
Donald to Jefferson this season, and it's just it's been
an amazing run of everything coming together, and I mean
everything health wise. Besides Hawkinson missed in the first few
games because of last year's injury. Jordan Asden missed a
(05:23):
game or two earlier in the season, Christian Darisa you know,
ruptured his acl or whatever, but traded for Cam Robinson.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Besides that, Donald's been healthy.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
He's had some you know, nix and bruises here, but
he's been able to make it through any long term,
sustainable injuries that have been avoided. Aaron Jones, a guy
who's typically been injured in the pass, has been healthy
basically the entire season. Jefferson's been healthy as it's been healthy.
Besides the first few games, Howkinson's been healthy since he's comeback.
(05:57):
The Minnesota Vikings defense has been healthy for the most part.
Besides a Smith missing a game, besides the Stefan Gilbert
missing a game or two, besides the Blake Cash, there
have been no long term injuries on the Minnesota Vikings
this season besides the Christian dearrisaw he's a valuable piece,
He's the best offensive.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Lineman on our team.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But they were able to replace him pretty quickly with
a trade for Cam Robinson. Now, Robinson's no Christian Darrisaw,
but wow, he has been good. He's been better than
what could have been if you shifted Dalton Ryers to
the left side, took Blake Brandell, shifted him over there,
and you put Edit Ingram, you kept him in at
that spot. Trading for Cam Robinson, let Dalton Reisner fill
(06:43):
the spot for Ed Ingram who's been much better, and
kept Blake Brandle at his spot who's been very solid
this season. And the Minnesota Vikings offense has not missed
a beat even with superstar left tackle Christian Dearsaw not
on the roster. So the fact that the Vikings are
(07:03):
Super Bowl contenders is awesome, and it's amazing because really
nobody expected it before the season started, and Jefferson has
said what it is. He said, it feels special. It
feels like one of those teams where everybody's coming together,
(07:25):
and it's one of those things also where winning tears everything.
And the Minnesota Vikings are thirteen to two, so of
course nobody's gonna say anything negative right now. You're thirteen
to two, you're an eight game winning streak. The Minnesota
Vikings are rolling. If they went out there to the
number one seed in the NFC, two tough divisional games
left versus the Packers and Lions. But right now, things
(07:47):
are so good that no one's gonna say anything bad
and they shouldn't. Kevin O'Connell's speeches are being glorified all
over the NFL and in Minnesota because after every single
game for the last eight games, those speeches have been
posted to social media accounts and everyone's talking about it,
Sam Darnold's and everyone's talking about the contract that is
going to receive either from the Minnesota Vikings or another
(08:10):
football team this offseason. These are all exciting things that
people are talking about because the Minnesota Vikings are winning
football games. And I can't disagree with anything Jefferson is
saying because the Minnesota Vikings have made it past all
three stages of flukiness, you know, beginning, mid season and
end stage. Minnesota Vikings are thirteen to two. The worst
(08:32):
record they can have is thirteen and four. They're a
Super Bowl contender, you know, even if even if they
have to go on the road in the playoffs and
face of falcons or face of Buccaneers or face of Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I think they can get past that game.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I think they can win that football game, especially with
the way the Minnesota Vikings offense and defense is playing
this season, and especially because of the health that they've
had so far this year. So coming up this Sunday,
the little Vikings have a matchup with the Packers at
US Bank Stadium.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
The Vikings had a.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Big lead against them earlier in the year, up twenty
to zero something like that, and now the Packers are rolling,
they're hot.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
They're feeling good about themselves.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
They just clamber the Saints on Monday Night Football, which
is a good thing for the Vikings because it means
that the Saints or the Packers are coming off of
a short week. You know, the blowout isn't good. You'd
rather have that beg competitive game so that they're not
as rested for this game. But Monday night football, short week,
(09:38):
and the Packers they've been playing well. They beat the
Saints thirty four zero. They beat Seattle thirty to thirteen,
but Gino Smith was out. They lost to the Lives
by a field goal. They clambered Miami thirty to seventeen.
They clobbered in San fran thirty eight to ten, and
they beat Chicago twenty to nineteen in these last two games.
This matchup versus the Green Bit Packers is going to
(09:59):
be the toughest because.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
For some reason, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I don't follow the Packers that closely, but this season
and last season, the Packers have a tendency to peak
at the right time of year. Last year, the Packers
were like what two and six, Jordan Love was looking
like a bust, and then at the end of the
year he went off for like twenty four touchdowns and
a few picks and were a few bad throws from
(10:26):
being in the NFC Championship Game. In this season, they
started off slow again and started off two and two,
and then here they are. Four wins in a row,
lost three wins in a row, lost two wins in
a row. So this is one of the Packers' strengths
is to peak at the right time at the end
of the year, and that's exactly what they're doing. So
(10:48):
that's why this is gonna be a tough game for
the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday. And you know the worst
part about this game On Sunday is that it got
flex to a three twenty five, and I'll be intrigued
to hear what Tom has to.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Say about the game.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
We haven't had him yet, but the reviews on him
have not been great so far. You know, everyone has
been mentioning that Greg Olsen is way better than Tom Brady,
and so far, based on what I've heard from Greg
Olsen this season then last season, greg Olsen's been, you know,
top cream of the crop, top notch kind of announcer.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I really enjoyed listening to his takes and his he.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Brings interesting and expert analysis to the table when he
does football games on Fox. But it'll be interesting to
see what Tom Brady brings to the table because I
think expectations were so high for Tom and it becomes
Fox's number one guy his first season doing it takes
Greg Olsen and puts him as number two. But where's
(11:47):
probably about this game is that's a three twenty five start.
And there's nothing better than coming home after church and
eating lunch, praying before lunch, and then watching a little
football at twelve with their kids napping, and you know,
recording a podcast at three thirty or four o'clock whatever
(12:08):
it is instead of seven thirty. And you know what,
three twenty five games just aren't the best. You have
to wait for that whole entire window in the morning,
your kids are awake. And last week I got to
watch basically the entire game versus the Seahawks on my
phone because I want to be a present dad.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I'm gonna be playing with my kids. And you know,
a three.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Twenty five game, you watch that game, and also it's
a bedtime and it's like, always spend no time with
my kids today, And you know what, three to five
games suck.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
So that's the worst part about this game.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
But it will be a huge matchup, you know, because
it got flexed to a national football game Game of
the Week. Everyone's telling us it's gonna be a big matchup.
And you know what, the Packers are going to be
hungry because they went out. Vikings lose out, Packers become
the five seed, get a better matchup, and this is
a big game for both teams and Packers are Peakings
(13:00):
are playing well. It's reasonable and understandable why this game
became the game of the Week on Sunday. But Jefferson
calls the Minnesota Vikings Super Bowl contenders.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
He raised about their chances.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
And right now, who can disagree with him? And it
looks special, it feels special, and you can see it
on the faces of the players. It's not that hard
to read body language of professional athletes. Look at the Timberwolves,
for example, the timber roles. They don't want, they don't
like playing with each other. You can tell that Anthony
(13:36):
Edwards doesn't play like playing with Julius Randall.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
He struggles to play.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
With Rudy Gobert, and Rudy Gobert hates playing with Julius
Randall as well. You can see it all over their faces.
They have no effort offensively. Their defensive effort is up
and down at times.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
And you know what.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
The Minnesota Timberwols, they're fifteen and fourteen right now, snuck
by the Mavericks last night after having a thirty point lead,
won by like a few points, but a Kyrie Irving
three point away from taking the lead with like a
minute or two left, and you're gonna see it all
over the Timberls faces. The effort isn't there, the movement's
not there. You can tell that the chemistry isn't there,
But from the Minnesota Vikings standpoint, you can tell it's
(14:12):
all there. They like playing with each other, they're winning
football games, and they're finding ways to win, which is
awesome and it's been incredible.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
The Minnesota Vikings thirteen and two.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
To think about it, it could be fifteen into it
the point the season's over and cause they'll be thirteen
to four, but they also could be fifteen to two.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
And if they are thirteen to four, well they're over under.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
With six and a half, the Minnesota Vikings have doubled
over doubled expectations from everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
At the beginning of the season.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
So it's been a historical run and a special season
for the Minnesota Vikings
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