#759: Minnesota Vikings got HOSED by NFL

The conversation delves into the controversy surrounding a missed kick by Will Reichard during a game between the Vikings and the Cleveland Browns. It explores the nature of the miss, which was characterized as a shank rather than a gradual fade, and discusses the subsequent investigation that utilized slow-motion instant replay to analyze the kick.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Did the Minnesota Vikings organization get hosed by the NFL
during their game in London, because there is substantial evidence
that they did, and that they were even lucky to
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There has been a controversy following the Vikings victory over
the Cleveland Browns because of what happened in the fourth quarter.

(01:06):
Will Record lined up for a fifty one yard field goal.
He missed it wide right. But there was something very
off about the kick. It wasn't a typical miss to
the right or to the left. The miss wasn't a
gradual fade to the right It was a shank, something

(01:27):
that we've never seen from Will rekerd in a Vikings
uniform before. And there is a camera wire going across
the field right where will Record kicked the ball. Take
a look at this video in slow motion.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
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Speaker 1 (01:47):
There's a wire right there and it shanks further.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
To the right because of the wire.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
This is a situation that completely changed the course of
the game, even the ending, because if the Vikings were
driving down the field, they wouldn't have even needed a touchdown.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
They could have.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Taken a knee at the twenty yard line, let the
clock wind down, and kick a game winning field goal
as time expires. But because the NFL screwed the Vikings,
it didn't allow for that.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Opportunity to happen.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
So it was either score a game winning touchdown or
kick a field goal and play your chances in overtime.
And I have a little illustration to show why it
did hit that wire. Let's pretend this car is the
football missing wide right. You're just gonna gradually fade to

(02:49):
the right. Oh, that was pad, We'll try that again, fine,
miss the kick.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Whatever. Let's pretend that this one is the wire.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
That sucked too. Let's try that one again. This is tough.
There was finally got it. What happened is when this
car hit this wire this other car, it changed direction
and that's the exact same thing that happened to will record.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Take a look again at the slow mom.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
It's clearly heading a direction and then it even goes
further right. If I was Kevin O'Connell in the Vikings organization,
I would be so pissed off. The Vikings have committed
to being a team that plays overseas consistently. They did
it last year, and they've done it in years past,
and now this year they did it twice back to
back weeks. And if you are making that kind of commitment,

(03:51):
the NFL better make a commitment back to you and
promise you that these situations to play are going to
be perfect. And if I'm an NFL team and I
see video like this, I am hesitant to want to
play overseas because the conditions.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Are not the same.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
A situation like this clearly impacted the game, even though
the Vikings won, it could have been far worse than
the NFL with the international agenda. If you are going
to do that, you need to make sure things like
this are not possible. The fact that it's even close

(04:32):
to hitting the ball shouldn't be a thing. I look
at this kick and I look at the situation that unfolded,
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