January 20, 2025 • 14 mins
Minnesota Tim discusses the disappointing end to the Minnesota Vikings' season, highlighting their embarrassing playoff performance and the overall struggles of the NFC North teams. He emphasizes the importance of playing well at the right time and reflects on the Vikings' and Lions' failures in the playoffs, ultimately concluding that the regular season success does not guarantee playoff success.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hey, everybody, welcome into the show today.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Thank you for making this podcast a part of your day.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Wherever you are watching or listening to this, hit that
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six times a week, whether it's on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Or on Apple or Spotify.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
This podcast is one one hundred percent honest, one one
hundred percent of the time. I've got some topics for
you today, so stick with me. The overarching topic that
is going to be discussed is how embarrassed the Minnesota
Vikings should be after their despicable finish to the season
(00:47):
in which they lost back to back games against the
Lions and Rams. I wish coincidentally they did earlier in
this season two. It's the classic situation that could only
happen to Minnesota Vikings sports fans, and the situation that
I'm gonna be talking about. I'm gonna get too shortly.
(01:08):
But there was a very intriguing statistic that I saw
online and all year long, there was a discussion about
how elite the NFC North was compared to other NFL divisions,
and it was hard to argue any of it because
(01:29):
of the records. At one point, every team in the
NFC North had a winning record. I think the Chicago
Bears were four and two but until they gave up
a last second hel Mary against the Washington Commanders. So
Vikings had a winning record, Lions had a winning record,
Packers had a winning record, Bears had a winning record.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And of course the.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Conclusion that everyone is going to receive or come to
following those winning records is that the Minnesota Vikings, the
Detroit Lions, the Green Bay Packers, and the Chicago Bears
play in the best division in football. And just take
a look at the stat This comes from Ben gesling
(02:15):
on X says, after going forty and eleven in the
regular season, the Lions, Vikings.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And Packers went all in three in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
The three NFC North teams had to combine minus eleven
turnover margin and their playoff losses.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And this goes to a point that.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I made earlier in the season, and it's really becoming
evident right now with that statistic. It doesn't really matter
how great of football you play in September or October,
as long as you're not playing bottom feeder football. It
(02:57):
doesn't matter if you're I have and Oho to start
six and oh to start you just can't be zero
to six or two and four. But if you're straddling
that five hundred mark or if you're four and two,
you're sitting in a pretty good spot.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And if you're hot at the beginning of.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
The season, there is no guarantee that that is going
to be the result at the end of the season
when games really matter. Because as exciting as it is
to go six and oh or five and oh like
the Minnesota Vikings did, those numbers are now meaningless because
(03:37):
the Minnesota Vikings lost their wild card game against the
Los Angeles Rams, and they're sitting at home as fun
as the Lions fifteen and one season once or whatever
it was. It wasn't fifteen and one, what was it?
Fifteen and two? Fifteen and one, fifteen and two. Vikings
were fourteen and three. So theit Lions, what.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Were the Lions? Gosh darn it, the Lions were fifteen
and two. I really don't know what he said at
the end of this. I don't think he knows what
he said either.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
So the Lions were fifteen and two and the Minnesota
Vikings were fourteen and three. The Green Bay Packers were
eleven and six. Those numbers are meaningless because those numbers
did not apply to playoff success.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And as exciting as the regular season was.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
If you're hot at the wrong time, it doesn't matter,
and the Minnesota Vikings are proof of that. Because they
were hot mid season, Donald was putting up his best
numbers of his career. He had an eighteen touchdown to
two interception ratio to finish up the year, and then
against the Detroit Lions in the final week of the year,
(04:54):
he completely disintegrated into Sam Donald of the New York
Jets and Sam Donald of the Carolina Panthers, and against
the Rams he literally did the exact same thing. It's
like he was born again and he woke up in
(05:15):
a Jets body. So the Minnesota Vikings memorable year, owing
one in the playoffs, Lions memorable year on and one
in the playoffs, Green Bay Packers not as a memorable year,
but still high hopes and expectations for the playoffs. On
one on one on in one season means nothing, so
(05:39):
going forward, the lesson that needs to be learned is that, yeah,
starting out five and oh is cool.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It's much better than starting out oh to five.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
But if you're four and two if you're three and three,
you're still just fine because as long as you're playing
your best football when it matters most in December and January,
that's what and that's what the Chiefs do. That's what
the best teams in the football do. Yeah, the Chiefs
were sensational all year long. Yeah, they had what a
(06:09):
fifteen and one record, fifteen and two record this regular season,
and one of those losses came in the final week
of the year when they played nobody against the Broncos.
But they're playing their best football in January. Travis Kelcey
had his best game of the year last week against
the Houston Texans. That's what matters, all right. My next
(06:32):
subject to get to. The Minnesota Vikings should be embarrassed
by their performance against the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
And Detroit Lions fans.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Should humble themselves because after they beat the Minnesota Vikings
in week seventeen Week eighteen, they were feeling themselves.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Oh, we're number one in the NFC North, we're the
best team. We got David Kembel, Ben.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Johnson and another head coach, coach defensive coordinator.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Mister Glenn.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Oh, we're going to the Super Bowl despite all of
our injuries because we're a team that overcomes obstacles and
we ballot to the end and we're gonna beat everybody
that comes our way because we have an unstoppable offense
and our defense as humping.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
In comes.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Jaden Daniels and the Washington Commanders put up thirty eight
points offensively, score a defensive touchdown in that football game,
and put up forty five points against the Detroit.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Lions that are unstoppable. Oh in Detroit too.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And the reason why the Minnesota Vikings should be embarrassed
is because it wasn't the Detroit Lions that slowed down
the Minnesota Vikings offense.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It was Sam Donald.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Receivers are running wide open the entire game Addison Jefferson
and Donald couldn't hit him. Maybe it's not a complete
criticism of the Minnesota Viking. Instead, it's just a complete
criticism of Sam Donald's performance in that football game because
(08:07):
receivers were open all day and.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
All night, and.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Sam Donald would not pull the trigger and releasing the football,
And it wasn't anything that Detroit Lions did. The guys
were wide open. He would have thrown the ball and
when he did, he overthrew him. But here's the last
few performances. The Detroit Lions put up thirty one, forty eight,
thirty four, nine, and forty five. Teams were eviscerating the
(08:44):
Detroit Lions defense, going up and down the field, scoring
whenever they wanted to. And the one outlier and their
last five matchups was their game against the Minnesota Vikings
in which they only scored nine points. If there is
a conclusion in the Sam Darnold, what do the Vikings
(09:09):
bring them back for another year?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Do they think about franchise.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Tagging him and writing it out one more time or
resigning him to a two or three year contract.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
The conclusion should be to look at.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
The Detroit Lions defensive performances in their final weeks of
the year and looking at the one outlier, and the
one outlier is that the Minnesota Vikings against an injured
Detroit Lions defense, put up nine points as other teams
(09:45):
put up forty five and forty eight and thirty four
and thirty one. The only way the Detroit Lions could
have win football games is if they outscored the other
team and put up thirty to forty points in game.
It wasn't a fact of Oh, we're gonna play a
low scoring ground and pound win twenty three to twenty
(10:08):
kind of football game.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
The only way they could.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Win is if the offense had no margin of error
and GoF was dialed in and Jamiir Gibbs ran for
three touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
And what happened against the Commanders.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
The Lions got tight, GoF, threw picks, they had a
ton of turnovers, and they could not slow down the
Washington Commander's offense led by Jaden Daniels. Jared Goff had
his worst game of his season, maybe his worst game
(10:44):
of his career, in a moment that mattered a lot
for the Detroit Lions organization and fan base. One touchdown,
three picks, forty one point five QBR fifty nine point
seven passer rating. Ben Johnson had questionable play calls, got tight,
put wide receiver Jamison Williams on a reverse pass when
(11:10):
the game was in the balance, and threw a pick
games over. So as much as Detroit Lions fans want
to credit their own team for their complete demolition of
the Minnesota Vikings in the final week of the year,
(11:30):
it was more of a result of the Minnesota Vikings
crapping their pants and not living up to what they
did in the first seventeen weeks of the year, so
or sixteen weeks of the year, and that's really all
what it's all about.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And both.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
NFC North teams, the Lions and Vikings and the Packers
are out of the playoffs and they stumbled to the
finish line because they did not get hot at the
right time. So as fun as the regular season was
and as exciting as the year was to see Sam
Donald resurrect his career with the Minnesota Vikings, the season's
(12:18):
over won and done, as was the Lions and Packers.
So the Vikings should be embarrassed because the Lions have
proved that they couldn't stop anybody during the final month
of their season. They even had a bye week to
prepare for their next opponent, and they had an extra
(12:42):
week arrest, they had the home field advantage. So one
of the excuses the Minnesota Vikings said, all the Lions
were so hyped and oh they're just so energized for
that moment against the Minnesota Vikings, and it was just
an impossible task ask for Darnld to step into Ford
(13:03):
Field and deliver a win. Jaden Daniels just did it,
and he's proven to be an exceptional football player and
a unique guy that can go into any situation and
win with a poised attitude. But the Minnesota Viking's got
to put up more points than nine nine.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I guess the Detroit Lions defense that stinks.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
So there's no excuses, just flat out embarrassment.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
So that's the spitting straight facts. All right.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Everyone, thank you for watching this episode and making this
podcast a part of your day. This podcast is on
YouTube and on Apple and Spotify six times a weekend
on iHeartRadio. So wherever you are watching or listening, had
top subscribe button and we'll be there six times a week.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
One day's reserved for Jesus.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
We take a day off a week so we can
stay fresh for those next six days a week. Bible's right,
open your Bible, open up scripture. All right, everyone, hit
that subscribe button. Appreciate you making this podcast for every
day and going on this podcast journey with me.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Have a good one.
Hey, everybody, welcome into the show today.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Thank you for making this podcast a part of your day.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Wherever you are watching or listening to this, hit that
subscribe button so this podcast will be in your feed
six times a week, whether it's on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Or on Apple or Spotify.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
This podcast is one one hundred percent honest, one one
hundred percent of the time. I've got some topics for
you today, so stick with me. The overarching topic that
is going to be discussed is how embarrassed the Minnesota
Vikings should be after their despicable finish to the season
(00:47):
in which they lost back to back games against the
Lions and Rams. I wish coincidentally they did earlier in
this season two. It's the classic situation that could only
happen to Minnesota Vikings sports fans, and the situation that
I'm gonna be talking about. I'm gonna get too shortly.
(01:08):
But there was a very intriguing statistic that I saw
online and all year long, there was a discussion about
how elite the NFC North was compared to other NFL divisions,
and it was hard to argue any of it because
(01:29):
of the records. At one point, every team in the
NFC North had a winning record. I think the Chicago
Bears were four and two but until they gave up
a last second hel Mary against the Washington Commanders. So
Vikings had a winning record, Lions had a winning record,
Packers had a winning record, Bears had a winning record.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And of course the.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Conclusion that everyone is going to receive or come to
following those winning records is that the Minnesota Vikings, the
Detroit Lions, the Green Bay Packers, and the Chicago Bears
play in the best division in football. And just take
a look at the stat This comes from Ben gesling
(02:15):
on X says, after going forty and eleven in the
regular season, the Lions, Vikings.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And Packers went all in three in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
The three NFC North teams had to combine minus eleven
turnover margin and their playoff losses.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And this goes to a point that.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I made earlier in the season, and it's really becoming
evident right now with that statistic. It doesn't really matter
how great of football you play in September or October,
as long as you're not playing bottom feeder football. It
(02:57):
doesn't matter if you're I have and Oho to start
six and oh to start you just can't be zero
to six or two and four. But if you're straddling
that five hundred mark or if you're four and two,
you're sitting in a pretty good spot.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And if you're hot at the beginning of.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
The season, there is no guarantee that that is going
to be the result at the end of the season
when games really matter. Because as exciting as it is
to go six and oh or five and oh like
the Minnesota Vikings did, those numbers are now meaningless because
(03:37):
the Minnesota Vikings lost their wild card game against the
Los Angeles Rams, and they're sitting at home as fun
as the Lions fifteen and one season once or whatever
it was. It wasn't fifteen and one, what was it?
Fifteen and two? Fifteen and one, fifteen and two. Vikings
were fourteen and three. So theit Lions, what.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Were the Lions? Gosh darn it, the Lions were fifteen
and two. I really don't know what he said at
the end of this. I don't think he knows what
he said either.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
So the Lions were fifteen and two and the Minnesota
Vikings were fourteen and three. The Green Bay Packers were
eleven and six. Those numbers are meaningless because those numbers
did not apply to playoff success.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And as exciting as the regular season was.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
If you're hot at the wrong time, it doesn't matter,
and the Minnesota Vikings are proof of that. Because they
were hot mid season, Donald was putting up his best
numbers of his career. He had an eighteen touchdown to
two interception ratio to finish up the year, and then
against the Detroit Lions in the final week of the year,
(04:54):
he completely disintegrated into Sam Donald of the New York
Jets and Sam Donald of the Carolina Panthers, and against
the Rams he literally did the exact same thing. It's
like he was born again and he woke up in
(05:15):
a Jets body. So the Minnesota Vikings memorable year, owing
one in the playoffs, Lions memorable year on and one
in the playoffs, Green Bay Packers not as a memorable year,
but still high hopes and expectations for the playoffs. On
one on one on in one season means nothing, so
(05:39):
going forward, the lesson that needs to be learned is that, yeah,
starting out five and oh is cool.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It's much better than starting out oh to five.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
But if you're four and two if you're three and three,
you're still just fine because as long as you're playing
your best football when it matters most in December and January,
that's what and that's what the Chiefs do. That's what
the best teams in the football do. Yeah, the Chiefs
were sensational all year long. Yeah, they had what a
(06:09):
fifteen and one record, fifteen and two record this regular season,
and one of those losses came in the final week
of the year when they played nobody against the Broncos.
But they're playing their best football in January. Travis Kelcey
had his best game of the year last week against
the Houston Texans. That's what matters, all right. My next
(06:32):
subject to get to. The Minnesota Vikings should be embarrassed
by their performance against the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
And Detroit Lions fans.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Should humble themselves because after they beat the Minnesota Vikings
in week seventeen Week eighteen, they were feeling themselves.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Oh, we're number one in the NFC North, we're the
best team. We got David Kembel, Ben.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Johnson and another head coach, coach defensive coordinator.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Mister Glenn.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Oh, we're going to the Super Bowl despite all of
our injuries because we're a team that overcomes obstacles and
we ballot to the end and we're gonna beat everybody
that comes our way because we have an unstoppable offense
and our defense as humping.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
In comes.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Jaden Daniels and the Washington Commanders put up thirty eight
points offensively, score a defensive touchdown in that football game,
and put up forty five points against the Detroit.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Lions that are unstoppable. Oh in Detroit too.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And the reason why the Minnesota Vikings should be embarrassed
is because it wasn't the Detroit Lions that slowed down
the Minnesota Vikings offense.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It was Sam Donald.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Receivers are running wide open the entire game Addison Jefferson
and Donald couldn't hit him. Maybe it's not a complete
criticism of the Minnesota Viking. Instead, it's just a complete
criticism of Sam Donald's performance in that football game because
(08:07):
receivers were open all day and.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
All night, and.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Sam Donald would not pull the trigger and releasing the football,
And it wasn't anything that Detroit Lions did. The guys
were wide open. He would have thrown the ball and
when he did, he overthrew him. But here's the last
few performances. The Detroit Lions put up thirty one, forty eight,
thirty four, nine, and forty five. Teams were eviscerating the
(08:44):
Detroit Lions defense, going up and down the field, scoring
whenever they wanted to. And the one outlier and their
last five matchups was their game against the Minnesota Vikings
in which they only scored nine points. If there is
a conclusion in the Sam Darnold, what do the Vikings
(09:09):
bring them back for another year?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Do they think about franchise.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Tagging him and writing it out one more time or
resigning him to a two or three year contract.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
The conclusion should be to look at.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
The Detroit Lions defensive performances in their final weeks of
the year and looking at the one outlier, and the
one outlier is that the Minnesota Vikings against an injured
Detroit Lions defense, put up nine points as other teams
(09:45):
put up forty five and forty eight and thirty four
and thirty one. The only way the Detroit Lions could
have win football games is if they outscored the other
team and put up thirty to forty points in game.
It wasn't a fact of Oh, we're gonna play a
low scoring ground and pound win twenty three to twenty
(10:08):
kind of football game.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
The only way they could.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Win is if the offense had no margin of error
and GoF was dialed in and Jamiir Gibbs ran for
three touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
And what happened against the Commanders.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
The Lions got tight, GoF, threw picks, they had a
ton of turnovers, and they could not slow down the
Washington Commander's offense led by Jaden Daniels. Jared Goff had
his worst game of his season, maybe his worst game
(10:44):
of his career, in a moment that mattered a lot
for the Detroit Lions organization and fan base. One touchdown,
three picks, forty one point five QBR fifty nine point
seven passer rating. Ben Johnson had questionable play calls, got tight,
put wide receiver Jamison Williams on a reverse pass when
(11:10):
the game was in the balance, and threw a pick
games over. So as much as Detroit Lions fans want
to credit their own team for their complete demolition of
the Minnesota Vikings in the final week of the year,
(11:30):
it was more of a result of the Minnesota Vikings
crapping their pants and not living up to what they
did in the first seventeen weeks of the year, so
or sixteen weeks of the year, and that's really all
what it's all about.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And both.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
NFC North teams, the Lions and Vikings and the Packers
are out of the playoffs and they stumbled to the
finish line because they did not get hot at the
right time. So as fun as the regular season was
and as exciting as the year was to see Sam
Donald resurrect his career with the Minnesota Vikings, the season's
(12:18):
over won and done, as was the Lions and Packers.
So the Vikings should be embarrassed because the Lions have
proved that they couldn't stop anybody during the final month
of their season. They even had a bye week to
prepare for their next opponent, and they had an extra
(12:42):
week arrest, they had the home field advantage. So one
of the excuses the Minnesota Vikings said, all the Lions
were so hyped and oh they're just so energized for
that moment against the Minnesota Vikings, and it was just
an impossible task ask for Darnld to step into Ford
(13:03):
Field and deliver a win. Jaden Daniels just did it,
and he's proven to be an exceptional football player and
a unique guy that can go into any situation and
win with a poised attitude. But the Minnesota Viking's got
to put up more points than nine nine.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I guess the Detroit Lions defense that stinks.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
So there's no excuses, just flat out embarrassment.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
So that's the spitting straight facts. All right.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Everyone, thank you for watching this episode and making this
podcast a part of your day. This podcast is on
YouTube and on Apple and Spotify six times a weekend
on iHeartRadio. So wherever you are watching or listening, had
top subscribe button and we'll be there six times a week.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
One day's reserved for Jesus.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
We take a day off a week so we can
stay fresh for those next six days a week. Bible's right,
open your Bible, open up scripture. All right, everyone, hit
that subscribe button. Appreciate you making this podcast for every
day and going on this podcast journey with me.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Have a good one.
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