November 18, 2024 • 11 mins
Minnesota Tim discusses the recent Minnesota Vikings victory over the Tennessee Titans, focusing on the role of officiating in the game. He highlights how fans often perceive officiating as biased against their teams, while also pointing out the hypocrisy in these claims. Tim argues that the Vikings benefited from several controversial calls that significantly impacted the game's outcome, and he emphasizes the need for fans to take a more balanced view of officiating in sports.
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
I just figured with the Donald Trump celebration tagging the
nation in college football and NFL and soccer, I thought
the Minnesota Tan podcast would join it. So for those
YouTube watchers, that's what that was.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I don't know if anyone has.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Noticed that, but wow, I just watched a video this
morning showing athletes celebrating after touchdowns, after catches, after goals
doing the Donald Trump celebration. It's hilarious because a guy
that no one really wanted to say publicly that they
(00:56):
were supporting them and everyone basically is right now.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
So it's the nation.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
But the Minnesota Vikings defeated the Tennessee Titians twenty three thirteen,
and something that needs to be addressed following this victory
is just how much help the Minnesota Vikings received from
NFL officiating. That's a story that no one really wants
(01:23):
to talk about because Minnesota Vikings fans love to see
themselves as the victim of officiating. Let me clear the deck.
It's not just Minnesota Vikings fans. Fans in every single
sport love to see themselves as the victim of officiating,
(01:45):
whether that be the NBA, in the Minnesota Timberwolves, all
the NBA is rigged, whether that be the NFL and
the Minnesota Vikings or any other NFL franchise, Everything always rigged.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It's never a.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Self responsibility to play better. It's never a look at yourselves,
we need to execute better.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's never oh, we need to block better, we need
to throw better, we need to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It always boils down to the officiating for every team
in every sport, and Minnesota Vikings fans are none better because.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Oh did you see that hold?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
All the NFL's rigged. Oh did you see that face
mask on Sam Darnold.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The NFL's rigged. Roger Goodell hates our team.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And then you look at the team's stats and the
Vikings Titans matchup penalties Minnesota Vikings three penalties for thirty
five yards, the Tennessee Titans thirteen penalties for ninety one yards,
and all of a sudden following the Vikings game.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You know, during the Vikings game, even do you know
what I heard? I heard a whole a lot of nothing.
That's what I heard. I heard crickets.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
No one went to social media, to their x account
and talked about just how much of a break the
Minnesota Vikings were receiving during this game, when every single
fifty to fifty call went the Minnesota Vikings direction, The
biggest one was the Jordan Addison hit that number forty
(03:45):
four of the Tennessee Titans laid on him on fourth
and goal in the Minnesota Vikings red zone. The scores
three to zero at that point and it was fourth down.
Darnold found a tight window, found Addison got clobbered, and
my first reaction was to throw the flag because of
(04:08):
the impact of the hit. But when you slow it down,
and of course that's replay right when you slow it down,
But the NFL official standing right there. You know, on
a TV when the camera is moving to boom boom,
you know it's a little different. But when an official
looking at the play and can see it happening right
(04:32):
in front of him, he has a little better advantage
point than we do on TV, and at least live
that is replay, we have the better advantage point, like
instant replay. You slow that thing down, and that was
not an illegal unnecessary hit by number forty four from
the Tennessee Titans gave the Minnesota Vikings an automatic first down,
(04:55):
and the Vikings won the football game. And it wasn't
just me that thought that that was a clean hint.
Social media was going wild because Jordan Addison received the
(05:16):
benefit of the doubt in a controversial call that went
the Vikings direction. So is the NFL rigged towards the
Minnesota Vikings. No one's going to admit that, But that's
how it looked in this game, if we are being
fair and transparent and looking at things.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
The entire direction and.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
The other call, Justin Jefferson being held down the field
third and eleven, the Minnesota Vikings get sacked, have to punt,
only up sixteen to ten at this point after Levis's
ninety eight yard bomb, and Justin Jefferson didn't ollo. Justin
Jefferson didn't, you know, flail his arms look to the
(06:06):
official for a flag, which wide receivers do on every
single play if they feel like they're being held unfairly
or if they feel like they're being grabbed, or whatever
the case may be. And the official through the flag
gave the Minnesota Vikings a free first down. Later in
(06:29):
that drive, the Minnesota Vikings, led by Sam Darnold, threw
a touchdown pass to Cam Akers. So you think about
the breaks the Minnesota Vikings got in this game, and
there were several The ones I just talked about were
(06:51):
fourteen point swings.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
But what do I hear, I hear crickets.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I don't hear anything about, oh, the NFL being rigged
against the Minnesota Vikings or for the Minnesota Vikings. But
there was no doubt that the Vikings were the receivers
of many breaks in this football game that came from
(07:19):
the officiating side of the ball. What I talked about
was fourteen points. The Vikings won by ten, twenty three
to thirteen. There is no doubt that this is a
different ballgame if the official doesn't throw the flag on
the hit on Anison, or if the official doesn't throw
the flag on the Justin Jefferson illegal contact down the field.
(07:45):
And when you look at those two plays, in particular,
the second one, the Vikings were up sixteen to ten,
they would have had to punt the ball to the
Titans and they would have had an opportunity to take
the lead at that point in the game. They didn't
get one because the officials took control of the game.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And that's another thing we always talk about.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh, we just got to let the players play when
the officials go against you. But what about when the
officials are for you? What about when you get the
breaks of all the flags? Are you still wanting to
let them play?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It's a hipocritical statement when you say something like that,
Did you really just want the officials to let them
play when they laid the hit on Aison?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Did you really want the officials to let them play
when they illegally held Justin Jefferson down the field when
they really didn't. No, So it's a hypocritical statement. You
want the officials to let your team play when they're
calling flags on your team, but when they're calling flags
on the opposing team, you have no problem with it.
(08:57):
Free first downs. Wow, this game's whole lot easier, isn't it.
So that's just one of my big talking points that
I wanted to address because people see officiating down a
one way rabbit hole, and.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I don't know, I just get sick of it. I
see officiating as a rare cause for a loss for
a team.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Even the Sam Donald face mask against the Rams that
should have been called. I didn't see that as the
officiating causing the Vikings to lose. I saw that as
Sam Donald holding it onto the ball too long and
then allowing the officials to miss a call.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Did they miss a call yes? Was it a terrible miscall?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Or are there two officials looking at the call call yes?
Is there a problem with that non? Yes, But.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
The Vikings put the officials in that position to me call,
So I put it more on the Minnesota Vikings than
I did the officials. So you know, there's situations where
I'm sure in the future are.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Like, wow, that was a terrible call.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
But you can always point back to players to play calls,
to coaching to execution typically when a team loses. So
you're looking at this game against the Titans. The Vikings
were the better football team. They would have won regardless
of those two calls, but those two calls sure helped
(10:31):
give a little more cushion to the Vikings in this
game they won by ten. You're probably looking at a
one score game, easily maybe a field goal game if
the coach. If the Minnesota Vikings were not the benefactors
of those two massive calls, the Titans were not as
(10:54):
good executing as the Minnesota Vikings were. Ever, the officials
sure helped and gave the Minnesota vikings a lot of help.
Thank you for watching, and if you're feeling down in dignity,
you know what you can do.
I just figured with the Donald Trump celebration tagging the
nation in college football and NFL and soccer, I thought
the Minnesota Tan podcast would join it. So for those
YouTube watchers, that's what that was.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I don't know if anyone has.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Noticed that, but wow, I just watched a video this
morning showing athletes celebrating after touchdowns, after catches, after goals
doing the Donald Trump celebration. It's hilarious because a guy
that no one really wanted to say publicly that they
(00:56):
were supporting them and everyone basically is right now.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
So it's the nation.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
But the Minnesota Vikings defeated the Tennessee Titians twenty three thirteen,
and something that needs to be addressed following this victory
is just how much help the Minnesota Vikings received from
NFL officiating. That's a story that no one really wants
(01:23):
to talk about because Minnesota Vikings fans love to see
themselves as the victim of officiating. Let me clear the deck.
It's not just Minnesota Vikings fans. Fans in every single
sport love to see themselves as the victim of officiating,
(01:45):
whether that be the NBA, in the Minnesota Timberwolves, all
the NBA is rigged, whether that be the NFL and
the Minnesota Vikings or any other NFL franchise, Everything always rigged.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It's never a.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Self responsibility to play better. It's never a look at yourselves,
we need to execute better.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's never oh, we need to block better, we need
to throw better, we need to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It always boils down to the officiating for every team
in every sport, and Minnesota Vikings fans are none better because.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Oh did you see that hold?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
All the NFL's rigged. Oh did you see that face
mask on Sam Darnold.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The NFL's rigged. Roger Goodell hates our team.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And then you look at the team's stats and the
Vikings Titans matchup penalties Minnesota Vikings three penalties for thirty
five yards, the Tennessee Titans thirteen penalties for ninety one yards,
and all of a sudden following the Vikings game.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You know, during the Vikings game, even do you know
what I heard? I heard a whole a lot of nothing.
That's what I heard. I heard crickets.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
No one went to social media, to their x account
and talked about just how much of a break the
Minnesota Vikings were receiving during this game, when every single
fifty to fifty call went the Minnesota Vikings direction, The
biggest one was the Jordan Addison hit that number forty
(03:45):
four of the Tennessee Titans laid on him on fourth
and goal in the Minnesota Vikings red zone. The scores
three to zero at that point and it was fourth down.
Darnold found a tight window, found Addison got clobbered, and
my first reaction was to throw the flag because of
(04:08):
the impact of the hit. But when you slow it down,
and of course that's replay right when you slow it down,
But the NFL official standing right there. You know, on
a TV when the camera is moving to boom boom,
you know it's a little different. But when an official
looking at the play and can see it happening right
(04:32):
in front of him, he has a little better advantage
point than we do on TV, and at least live
that is replay, we have the better advantage point, like
instant replay. You slow that thing down, and that was
not an illegal unnecessary hit by number forty four from
the Tennessee Titans gave the Minnesota Vikings an automatic first down,
(04:55):
and the Vikings won the football game. And it wasn't
just me that thought that that was a clean hint.
Social media was going wild because Jordan Addison received the
(05:16):
benefit of the doubt in a controversial call that went
the Vikings direction. So is the NFL rigged towards the
Minnesota Vikings. No one's going to admit that, But that's
how it looked in this game, if we are being
fair and transparent and looking at things.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
The entire direction and.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
The other call, Justin Jefferson being held down the field
third and eleven, the Minnesota Vikings get sacked, have to punt,
only up sixteen to ten at this point after Levis's
ninety eight yard bomb, and Justin Jefferson didn't ollo. Justin
Jefferson didn't, you know, flail his arms look to the
(06:06):
official for a flag, which wide receivers do on every
single play if they feel like they're being held unfairly
or if they feel like they're being grabbed, or whatever
the case may be. And the official through the flag
gave the Minnesota Vikings a free first down. Later in
(06:29):
that drive, the Minnesota Vikings, led by Sam Darnold, threw
a touchdown pass to Cam Akers. So you think about
the breaks the Minnesota Vikings got in this game, and
there were several The ones I just talked about were
(06:51):
fourteen point swings.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
But what do I hear, I hear crickets.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I don't hear anything about, oh, the NFL being rigged
against the Minnesota Vikings or for the Minnesota Vikings. But
there was no doubt that the Vikings were the receivers
of many breaks in this football game that came from
(07:19):
the officiating side of the ball. What I talked about
was fourteen points. The Vikings won by ten, twenty three
to thirteen. There is no doubt that this is a
different ballgame if the official doesn't throw the flag on
the hit on Anison, or if the official doesn't throw
the flag on the Justin Jefferson illegal contact down the field.
(07:45):
And when you look at those two plays, in particular,
the second one, the Vikings were up sixteen to ten,
they would have had to punt the ball to the
Titans and they would have had an opportunity to take
the lead at that point in the game. They didn't
get one because the officials took control of the game.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And that's another thing we always talk about.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh, we just got to let the players play when
the officials go against you. But what about when the
officials are for you? What about when you get the
breaks of all the flags? Are you still wanting to
let them play?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It's a hipocritical statement when you say something like that,
Did you really just want the officials to let them
play when they laid the hit on Aison?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Did you really want the officials to let them play
when they illegally held Justin Jefferson down the field when
they really didn't. No, So it's a hypocritical statement. You
want the officials to let your team play when they're
calling flags on your team, but when they're calling flags
on the opposing team, you have no problem with it.
(08:57):
Free first downs. Wow, this game's whole lot easier, isn't it.
So that's just one of my big talking points that
I wanted to address because people see officiating down a
one way rabbit hole, and.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I don't know, I just get sick of it. I
see officiating as a rare cause for a loss for
a team.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Even the Sam Donald face mask against the Rams that
should have been called. I didn't see that as the
officiating causing the Vikings to lose. I saw that as
Sam Donald holding it onto the ball too long and
then allowing the officials to miss a call.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Did they miss a call yes? Was it a terrible miscall?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Or are there two officials looking at the call call yes?
Is there a problem with that non? Yes, But.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
The Vikings put the officials in that position to me call,
So I put it more on the Minnesota Vikings than
I did the officials. So you know, there's situations where
I'm sure in the future are.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Like, wow, that was a terrible call.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
But you can always point back to players to play calls,
to coaching to execution typically when a team loses. So
you're looking at this game against the Titans. The Vikings
were the better football team. They would have won regardless
of those two calls, but those two calls sure helped
(10:31):
give a little more cushion to the Vikings in this
game they won by ten. You're probably looking at a
one score game, easily maybe a field goal game if
the coach. If the Minnesota Vikings were not the benefactors
of those two massive calls, the Titans were not as
(10:54):
good executing as the Minnesota Vikings were. Ever, the officials
sure helped and gave the Minnesota vikings a lot of help.
Thank you for watching, and if you're feeling down in dignity,
you know what you can do.
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