#762: Can Minnesota Vikings Slay The Giant?

Tim discusses the Minnesota Vikings' current situation, focusing on the timing of their bye week and its impact on player health and performance. He highlights how injuries have affected the team's ability to compete in winnable games and how the schedule's difficulty aligns with the players' health status.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The unexpected is currently happening to the Minnesota Vikings organization,
and on this podcast, I'm going to tell you what
the unexpected is. But first I need to tell you
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were expected to hit this impossible gauntlet of games Philadelphia,

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Los Angeles Chargers, the Lions, the Ravens, and all of
a sudden, this impossible gauntlet has become this wondrous opportunity.
The Eagles have lost two straight and just got cloppert.
The Los Angeles Chargers are playing with crutches. The Lions
looked great, but you have a week and a half

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to prepare. And the Ravens have been without starting quarterback
Lamar Jackson for a few weeks and their team is reeling.
So what once looked impossible has become a real opportunity
for the Vikings to become a real threat in the NFC. Plus,

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this bye week could not have come at a perfect
time because the Vikings are getting healthier for the toughest
stretch of the season. It was very unfortunate that the
Vikings had many injuries to keep players in the first
few weeks of the year. Although they had many injuries,

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the games that they were playing in were very winnable.
If the Vikings had four or five offensive linemen out
against the Eagles, I'd probably chalk that up as a loss.
If Christian Darzou was unavailable against the Lions, well it's
probably a no. But Blake Cashman is practicing this week.
The Minnesota Vikings schedule, when it's the toughest and when

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it's the easiest, has really followed the timeline of the
Vikings injuries. When the Vikings had easier matchups, they were
more injured. But now when the Vikings schedule is getting tougher,
they're getting healthier, which makes the comeback victory against the
Cleveland Browns all that much more important. If the Vikings

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and Carson Wentz failed on their game winning drive, we
would be looking at these next few weeks of the
NFL season completely different than we're looking at it right
now with the Vikings three and two. Now it's like
Vikings are three and two. The Eagles lost two straight,
the Chargers aren't healthy, the Lions are legit, but the

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Ravens they have a plethora of issues. There's no reason
why the Viking shouldn't at least win two games out
of these four, even maybe three, and put themselves in
a great position for the NFC wildcard spot. The Vikings
were able to overcome their early season adversity and still

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hold a winning record as they get ready for this
upcoming Gauntlet. But the Gauntlet at the beginning of the
season looked like Goliath, a nine foot are from miles away.
But as we're approaching it, the Gauntlet is looking more
like Zachias the wee little man. A wee little man

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was he? The Vikings can win these upcoming games, so
the schedule at once was bleak, but now it's kind
of weak. The Vikings have no excuses not to beat
the Eagles or the Chargers. The biggest thing the Vikings
will need to overcome is slowing down, say Kon Barkley,

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the Vikings have been eaten up in the trenches despite
spending tons of dollars towards those free agency signings, but
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