December 1, 2024 • 20 mins
Minnesota Tim reviews the Minnesota Vikings' thrilling comeback victory against the Arizona Cardinals, highlighting key moments, player performances, and coaching decisions. The discussion centers around Sam Darnold's impressive play, Aaron Jones' ups and downs, and the overall dynamics of the team as they aim for playoff success. Tim emphasizes the significance of this win in the context of the Vikings' season and their potential for a special year ahead.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
The escapegoat becomes the hero. The Minnesota Vikings defeat the
Arizona Cardinals, and a thrilling twenty three to twenty two
football game in which the man who fumbled twice coughed
it up.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Once scores the game winning touchdown.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Aaron Jones fumble, Vikings recover fumbles again, Cardinals recover miss
Stilgal gets benched, cam Akers ty Chandler get the reps.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Aaron Jones drops a touchdown pass that would put the
Minnesota Vikings in front.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Aaron Jones on the sidelines.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
During the game winning drive by the Vikings game catches
the game winning touchdown pass from Sam Donald, And you
really feel for Aaron Jones because all you see throughout
the media landscape and from players is how adored Aaron
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Jones is. In the locker room. You hear from Aaron
Rodgers how much he loves Aaron Jones. You hear Vikings
players talk about how much they love Aaron Jones. And
of course, if the Minnesota Vikings didn't win today, we
wouldn't be talking about how adored Aaron Jones is right now.
We'd be talking about how this was the worst game
of his career. Two fumbles, a drop touchdown pass, a benching,
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but he got the game winning easy touchdown pass from
Sam Donald and a thrilling come from behind victory over
the Arizona Cardinals. There's so much to react to and
so much to discuss after the Vikings won this game.
Won the first half. Huh, what an ugly first half?
(02:04):
That was halftime score all field goals? Was that nine
to six?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I think it was field goal here, field go there.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
The Minnesota Vikings were fortunate to even be in the
game at halftime because at halftime, the Minnesota Vikings only
ran twenty plays and the Minnesota Vikings defense was on
the field for most of the first half.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
And it says right here by Kevin.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Seffert, he says Cardinals doing the Vikings all kinds of favors.
Kevin Seffert says in the red zone, played for a
field goal once again. It's nine six at halftime, and
it feels like the Cardinals should be much further ahead.
They've run two times as many plays forty to twenty,
and have had the ball for eighteen minutes and thirty
(03:00):
four seconds out of a possible thirty minutes. So the
Arizona Cardinals, without a doubt controlled the first half. They
were suffocating the Minnesota Vikings offensive line. They were blowing
it up and creaming Sam Darnald and Donald wasn't getting
rid of the balls quick enough and the first half
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offense just was not a pretty site to behold, and
even in the third quarter, it was not a pretty
site to behold. The Minnesota Vikings were down nineteen to
six in the fourth quarter and they came back to
win twenty three twenty two.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
And this was.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
An impressive come from behind victory because the Minnesota Vikings
in the fourth quarter had to score on practically every
single possession because there's no more room for error, there's
no more room for air when.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
You're down nineteen six. The margin for.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Air is so slim at that point because at this
point you need two touchdowns to even take a lead.
So in order to do that, you need to be
on all cylinders, and the Minnesota Vikings were and that
was in large part because of Sam Donald. Donald was
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throwing absolute dimes in the fourth quarter. He was threading
the needle to Justin Jefferson and to Jordan Addison. He
had a throw to Jefferson where he both defenders were
diving out to the ball left and right. Even Jefferson
made a sensational play and coming back for the ball because.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
If he doesn't do that, that's an interception.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
And then he had another throw to Addison that went
over the outstretched arm of the linebacker towards the sideline,
and that might have been as a big play and
it might have been twenty six yard catch Addison's longest catch. No, no,
yet a big catch at the end of the game
that was longer than that, but anyway, it is a
big catch as spectacular throw, and Sam Darnold was clicking
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on every single cylinder and it was an impressive come
from behind victory. I mentioned that the Vikings were down
nineteen six in the fourth quarter. Is at the end
of the third quarter. They're down nineteen to six at
the end of the third quarter, and they came back
and won that football game because they scored ten points
in the fourth quarter seven points in the third quarter.
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And my opinion throughout this game was the Vikings are struggling,
They are shooting themselves in the foot. They are putting
together plays where they're not gonna be able to overcome this.
Because I was thinking about the place they gave up
a big third and twelve play against the Arizona Cardinals.
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On the drive that they kicked a field goal to
go by six, they had to pass. Interference by the
guy who replaced Stefan Gilmour put the Cardinals in great position.
They had the touchdown given up by the guy that
plays Stefan Gilmore. He was getting torched by Marvin Harrison
Junior and the Arizona Cardinals offense. They were attacking him
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and they were searching him out because he was the
weakest link on the Minnesota Vikings defense.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And what the Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Vikings offense overcame in the fourth quarter was nothing short
of a miracle because they were outstanding, and the odds
would show that the Arizona Cardinals had a great, great
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chance to win that game. I'm pulling up the odds
on ESPN right now, and it was nineteen sixteen. The
Arizona Cardinals had the ball second in three at the
Vikings fourteen yard line, and this is the driver. They're
just doing anything that they want to against the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
They were running.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
The ball, play action Kyler Murray, James Connor, pounding the
ball up the middle James Connor couldn't get tackled. The
Vikings defense was exhausted because they had been on the
field for most of the game, and they had a
ninety two point five percent chance of winning according to
ESPN's win probability chart. Second and three at the Vikings
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fourteen yard line, and then the Vikings are given a gift,
a gift by the officials when they called a false
start instead of an encroachment on Tillery.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
And then the very next.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Play, Kyler Murray gives the Vikings another gift and has
an intentional grounding penalty, which means the Arizona Cardinals need
to settle for a field goal. And this is a
big game for the Cardinals because the Jets just lost
to the Seattle Seahawks and the Seahawks are in first
place in that division, which means the Arizona Cardinals need
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to go.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
And stride with the Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
They they want and desperately need to win games down
the stretch, so they were.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
All in on this game.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
This wasn't some meaningless game against the Titans or the
Bears or the Cardinals are legit seeking a playoff spot
in their division. Percent chance to win. A few things
break the Minnesota Vikings direction by a call, by a
penalty by Kyler Murray, and somehow the Minnesota Vikings overcome
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the odds and win this football game. And I just
want to continue to touch on what Sam Darnold did
twenty one for thirty one thirty five yards, two touchdowns,
zero interceptions, a passer rating of one hundred and eleven
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point six. And let's just compare that to another quarterback
in the NFL on the same Sunday.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Okay, let's look at this.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Look at this Kirk Cousins twenty four for thirty nine,
two hundred and forty five yards, zero touchdowns, four interceptions,
a forty passer rating. Sam Donald has been the better
quarterback than Kirk Cousins this season. The Alna Falcons are
six and six, the Vikings are ten and two. How
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can you argue against Sam Donald being a better quarterback
than Kirk Cousins in the twenty twenty four season. It's
frankly not even close. And Kirk Cousins took the money.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Good for him. And I like Kirk Cousins. He's a
strong man of faith.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I like the guy, but a little bit of me
is excited to see him failing in Atlanta because he
could have stayed in Minnesota. I didn't predict him to stay,
but he could have stayed in Minnesota and signed a
two year contract, takes the money, goes to Atlanta and
seems like they're gonna want to move off of him
after this season. Based on the numbers and production that
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he is putting up for the Atlanta Felkins. Sam Darnold
is outperforming Kirk Cousins a one hundred and eleven passer rating,
a fourth quarter comeback, an impressive array of throws to
Addison and Hawkinson and Jefferson that were tight windows overcame
(10:49):
the odds of Aaron Jones dropping touchdowns, Aaron Jones fumbling,
scoring six points at halftime, and he leads the Minnesota
Vikings down by thirteen points at the end of the
third quarter near the end of the third quarter, and
the Vikings came back to win.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That football game.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Anyways, start when things like this start happening, you start
diving into another conversation of is this setting up for
a special season for the Minnesota Vikings Because.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Things like this don't happen often.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
They're ten and two, they have a home game versus
the Falcons next, they have a home game versus the
Bears next.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
And it's a special season. It's an awesome season. There's
a lot to build off of for next year.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
But what this season is ultimately gonna boil down to
is how the Vikings perform in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Can they win a playoff game?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So I'm not gonna say whether or not this is
a special season, yet the regular season has been special.
Two years ago, the regular season was special thirteen and four,
all these one score victories. So far this year ten
and two. Donald's performing better than he ever has in
his career.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
The Vikings defense has been amazing.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Besides two games this year versus two bright and brilliant
offensive coordinators and Sean McVay and Ben Johnson, and they're
ten and two.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Are they gonna win the Super Bowl? Probably not.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
But at this point you can't help but deny that
there is something special happening for the Minnesota Vikings. Shack
Griffin picks off Kyler Murray. Vikings were down nineteen to
six late in the third quarter and they win twenty
three twenty two. There's another thing that I wanted to
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touch on in this.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Game, and that is the.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Of the Minnesota Vikings defense. The Minnesota Vikings defense were
hanging on by the grits of their teeth because they
had been on the field for a majority of this game,
and on that last possession when they needed to hold
the Cardinals to a field goal, they were able to
(13:22):
do it. But I want to touch on a bigger point,
and I want to give a PSA. This is to
all defenders that are in the National Football League. Do
not celebrate an incomplete pass until you know the NFL
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official has not thrown the flag. I don't even know
how to pronounce his name. The guy who replaced Stefan
gilmour Moreau celebrates an incomplete pass Fabian Fabian, Moro.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Fabio, and then the official throws the flag. Don't celebrate
too early.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
That's the most annoying thing in the NFL when players
celebrate an incomplete pass.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
And then you see the yellow flag.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Can you just look around, wait and see or maybe
a little pump fish. Don't get overly excited because then
when that flag comes in, it just deflates the fan
base even more so. That's my PSA for Minnesota Vikings
defenders and NFL defenders everywhere, do not jump the gun
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and celebrate a defensive play too early, because then the
NFL is gonna throw the flag and then it's like
a Another point to be made about this game.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
In this game from Peter Schrager, and I agree with
it one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Davis and Olsen, the play by play and the color
commentator of this football game are so good, and their
games they're getting are even better.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Another nail bier.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Greg Olsen is the best color commentator there is in
the NFL, better than Chris Collingsworth, better than anything CBS
has with Tony Romo, better than Tom Brady, better than
anybody else on Fox. Greg Olsen is as smooth and
as concise and as clear as anybody right now doing
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color commentary in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
And I don't even think it's close. Tom Brady took
the number.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
One spot from Greg Olsen because he's Tom Brady. He's
gonna do that to anybody. But Greg Olsen is head
and shoulders. Shout out Troy pal Marlow ahead of any
other commentator the NFL has right now, and the Minnesota
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Vikings were fortunate to have him in this football game
as the color commentator. I think one more point to
make about this game. Cavin O'Connell first half, six points,
second half, the Vikings score seventeen points. Six plus seventeen
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is twenty three. The Vikings scored twenty three points. And
even though things were disastrous, and things are going to
be disastrous at times in the NFL now, not every
single possession or every single game is going to look
fluid and perfect like the Vikings did in the first
few weeks of the season.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
When they beat the Giants twenty eighty six.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Not everything's gonna look like that, and you've got to
make adjustments. And the Minnesota Vikings made their adjustments. They
figured out how to give Sam Darnold some more time
and he found the holes in the secondary and put
the ball into Jefferson and Addison's hands. I don't know
what Kevin O'Connell did, and it was just a pep
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speech or an adjustment, but to betch Aaron Jones and
then to put him back in at the end of
the game for the game winning touchdown pass, I think
it is amazing coaching because a player that is so
down on himself, a guy that is already has his
hands in his face, a Toiel over his head, catches
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the game winning touchdown pass, gets those cheers and high fives,
high five, high five, slap hands, slap hands from his teammates.
I think was huge for the confidence of Aaron Jones
moving forward after this game. So, Sam Darnold, Minnesota Vikings
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ten and two led by Kevin O'Connell, who is going
to have a massive contract extension soon.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
And for those.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Questioning Kevin O'Connell's coaching, Sam Donald, ten and two, what
else do you need to know? What other statistic needs
to be thrown at you for you to not doubt
the ability of Kevin O'Connell as a head coach in
the National Football League. Up until the end of the game,
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the highlight of the Vikings game was that in the
US Bank Stadium they showed Kirk Cousins throwing a pick
on the big board. The crowd was silent out of
the game. They had nothing to cheer for. And then
the fourth quarter happened. Donald delivered, O'Connell delivered, and the
Vikings got to stop when they needed one. I come
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from behind victory, Donald's first of the season, but not
his first ceiling drive. This season because you think about
Donald's ceiling drives. He had won against the Bears last week,
a game ceiling drive. He had a game ceiling drive
versus Jacksonville, a game ceiling drive versus Green Bay, New York,
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San Francisco. Donald has been mister clutch in the fourth
quarter of this season. And the Minnesota Vikings are right
on the heels of the Detroit Lions for first in
the NFC North. And the Lions and Packers play each
other next week, which is only good for the Vikings.
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One of those teams are going to lose allegedly unless
they end in a tie. The Green Bay Packers are
on the heels of the Vikings and the Detroit Lions
are an inch ahead of the Vikings. That's a win win,
So the Vikings keep rolling. They could be tied for
first in the NFC North next next week. Thank you
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The escapegoat becomes the hero. The Minnesota Vikings defeat the
Arizona Cardinals, and a thrilling twenty three to twenty two
football game in which the man who fumbled twice coughed
it up.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Once scores the game winning touchdown.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Aaron Jones fumble, Vikings recover fumbles again, Cardinals recover miss
Stilgal gets benched, cam Akers ty Chandler get the reps.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Aaron Jones drops a touchdown pass that would put the
Minnesota Vikings in front.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Aaron Jones on the sidelines.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
During the game winning drive by the Vikings game catches
the game winning touchdown pass from Sam Donald, And you
really feel for Aaron Jones because all you see throughout
the media landscape and from players is how adored Aaron
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Jones is. In the locker room. You hear from Aaron
Rodgers how much he loves Aaron Jones. You hear Vikings
players talk about how much they love Aaron Jones. And
of course, if the Minnesota Vikings didn't win today, we
wouldn't be talking about how adored Aaron Jones is right now.
We'd be talking about how this was the worst game
of his career. Two fumbles, a drop touchdown pass, a benching,
(01:41):
but he got the game winning easy touchdown pass from
Sam Donald and a thrilling come from behind victory over
the Arizona Cardinals. There's so much to react to and
so much to discuss after the Vikings won this game.
Won the first half. Huh, what an ugly first half?
(02:04):
That was halftime score all field goals? Was that nine
to six?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I think it was field goal here, field go there.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
The Minnesota Vikings were fortunate to even be in the
game at halftime because at halftime, the Minnesota Vikings only
ran twenty plays and the Minnesota Vikings defense was on
the field for most of the first half.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
And it says right here by Kevin.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Seffert, he says Cardinals doing the Vikings all kinds of favors.
Kevin Seffert says in the red zone, played for a
field goal once again. It's nine six at halftime, and
it feels like the Cardinals should be much further ahead.
They've run two times as many plays forty to twenty,
and have had the ball for eighteen minutes and thirty
(03:00):
four seconds out of a possible thirty minutes. So the
Arizona Cardinals, without a doubt controlled the first half. They
were suffocating the Minnesota Vikings offensive line. They were blowing
it up and creaming Sam Darnald and Donald wasn't getting
rid of the balls quick enough and the first half
(03:22):
offense just was not a pretty site to behold, and
even in the third quarter, it was not a pretty
site to behold. The Minnesota Vikings were down nineteen to
six in the fourth quarter and they came back to
win twenty three twenty two.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
And this was.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
An impressive come from behind victory because the Minnesota Vikings
in the fourth quarter had to score on practically every
single possession because there's no more room for error, there's
no more room for air when.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
You're down nineteen six. The margin for.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Air is so slim at that point because at this
point you need two touchdowns to even take a lead.
So in order to do that, you need to be
on all cylinders, and the Minnesota Vikings were and that
was in large part because of Sam Donald. Donald was
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throwing absolute dimes in the fourth quarter. He was threading
the needle to Justin Jefferson and to Jordan Addison. He
had a throw to Jefferson where he both defenders were
diving out to the ball left and right. Even Jefferson
made a sensational play and coming back for the ball because.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
If he doesn't do that, that's an interception.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
And then he had another throw to Addison that went
over the outstretched arm of the linebacker towards the sideline,
and that might have been as a big play and
it might have been twenty six yard catch Addison's longest catch. No, no,
yet a big catch at the end of the game
that was longer than that, but anyway, it is a
big catch as spectacular throw, and Sam Darnold was clicking
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on every single cylinder and it was an impressive come
from behind victory. I mentioned that the Vikings were down
nineteen six in the fourth quarter. Is at the end
of the third quarter. They're down nineteen to six at
the end of the third quarter, and they came back
and won that football game because they scored ten points
in the fourth quarter seven points in the third quarter.
(05:37):
And my opinion throughout this game was the Vikings are struggling,
They are shooting themselves in the foot. They are putting
together plays where they're not gonna be able to overcome this.
Because I was thinking about the place they gave up
a big third and twelve play against the Arizona Cardinals.
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On the drive that they kicked a field goal to
go by six, they had to pass. Interference by the
guy who replaced Stefan Gilmour put the Cardinals in great position.
They had the touchdown given up by the guy that
plays Stefan Gilmore. He was getting torched by Marvin Harrison
Junior and the Arizona Cardinals offense. They were attacking him
(06:21):
and they were searching him out because he was the
weakest link on the Minnesota Vikings defense.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And what the Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Vikings offense overcame in the fourth quarter was nothing short
of a miracle because they were outstanding, and the odds
would show that the Arizona Cardinals had a great, great
(06:52):
chance to win that game. I'm pulling up the odds
on ESPN right now, and it was nineteen sixteen. The
Arizona Cardinals had the ball second in three at the
Vikings fourteen yard line, and this is the driver. They're
just doing anything that they want to against the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
They were running.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
The ball, play action Kyler Murray, James Connor, pounding the
ball up the middle James Connor couldn't get tackled. The
Vikings defense was exhausted because they had been on the
field for most of the game, and they had a
ninety two point five percent chance of winning according to
ESPN's win probability chart. Second and three at the Vikings
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fourteen yard line, and then the Vikings are given a gift,
a gift by the officials when they called a false
start instead of an encroachment on Tillery.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
And then the very next.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Play, Kyler Murray gives the Vikings another gift and has
an intentional grounding penalty, which means the Arizona Cardinals need
to settle for a field goal. And this is a
big game for the Cardinals because the Jets just lost
to the Seattle Seahawks and the Seahawks are in first
place in that division, which means the Arizona Cardinals need
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to go.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
And stride with the Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
They they want and desperately need to win games down
the stretch, so they were.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
All in on this game.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
This wasn't some meaningless game against the Titans or the
Bears or the Cardinals are legit seeking a playoff spot
in their division. Percent chance to win. A few things
break the Minnesota Vikings direction by a call, by a
penalty by Kyler Murray, and somehow the Minnesota Vikings overcome
(08:46):
the odds and win this football game. And I just
want to continue to touch on what Sam Darnold did
twenty one for thirty one thirty five yards, two touchdowns,
zero interceptions, a passer rating of one hundred and eleven
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point six. And let's just compare that to another quarterback
in the NFL on the same Sunday.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Okay, let's look at this.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Look at this Kirk Cousins twenty four for thirty nine,
two hundred and forty five yards, zero touchdowns, four interceptions,
a forty passer rating. Sam Donald has been the better
quarterback than Kirk Cousins this season. The Alna Falcons are
six and six, the Vikings are ten and two. How
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can you argue against Sam Donald being a better quarterback
than Kirk Cousins in the twenty twenty four season. It's
frankly not even close. And Kirk Cousins took the money.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Good for him. And I like Kirk Cousins. He's a
strong man of faith.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I like the guy, but a little bit of me
is excited to see him failing in Atlanta because he
could have stayed in Minnesota. I didn't predict him to stay,
but he could have stayed in Minnesota and signed a
two year contract, takes the money, goes to Atlanta and
seems like they're gonna want to move off of him
after this season. Based on the numbers and production that
(10:28):
he is putting up for the Atlanta Felkins. Sam Darnold
is outperforming Kirk Cousins a one hundred and eleven passer rating,
a fourth quarter comeback, an impressive array of throws to
Addison and Hawkinson and Jefferson that were tight windows overcame
(10:49):
the odds of Aaron Jones dropping touchdowns, Aaron Jones fumbling,
scoring six points at halftime, and he leads the Minnesota
Vikings down by thirteen points at the end of the
third quarter near the end of the third quarter, and
the Vikings came back to win.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That football game.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Anyways, start when things like this start happening, you start
diving into another conversation of is this setting up for
a special season for the Minnesota Vikings Because.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Things like this don't happen often.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
They're ten and two, they have a home game versus
the Falcons next, they have a home game versus the
Bears next.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
And it's a special season. It's an awesome season. There's
a lot to build off of for next year.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
But what this season is ultimately gonna boil down to
is how the Vikings perform in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Can they win a playoff game?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So I'm not gonna say whether or not this is
a special season, yet the regular season has been special.
Two years ago, the regular season was special thirteen and four,
all these one score victories. So far this year ten
and two. Donald's performing better than he ever has in
his career.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
The Vikings defense has been amazing.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Besides two games this year versus two bright and brilliant
offensive coordinators and Sean McVay and Ben Johnson, and they're
ten and two.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Are they gonna win the Super Bowl? Probably not.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
But at this point you can't help but deny that
there is something special happening for the Minnesota Vikings. Shack
Griffin picks off Kyler Murray. Vikings were down nineteen to
six late in the third quarter and they win twenty
three twenty two. There's another thing that I wanted to
(12:53):
touch on in this.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Game, and that is the.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Of the Minnesota Vikings defense. The Minnesota Vikings defense were
hanging on by the grits of their teeth because they
had been on the field for a majority of this game,
and on that last possession when they needed to hold
the Cardinals to a field goal, they were able to
(13:22):
do it. But I want to touch on a bigger point,
and I want to give a PSA. This is to
all defenders that are in the National Football League. Do
not celebrate an incomplete pass until you know the NFL
(13:42):
official has not thrown the flag. I don't even know
how to pronounce his name. The guy who replaced Stefan
gilmour Moreau celebrates an incomplete pass Fabian Fabian, Moro.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Fabio, and then the official throws the flag. Don't celebrate
too early.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
That's the most annoying thing in the NFL when players
celebrate an incomplete pass.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
And then you see the yellow flag.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Can you just look around, wait and see or maybe
a little pump fish. Don't get overly excited because then
when that flag comes in, it just deflates the fan
base even more so. That's my PSA for Minnesota Vikings
defenders and NFL defenders everywhere, do not jump the gun
(14:44):
and celebrate a defensive play too early, because then the
NFL is gonna throw the flag and then it's like
a Another point to be made about this game.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
In this game from Peter Schrager, and I agree with
it one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Davis and Olsen, the play by play and the color
commentator of this football game are so good, and their
games they're getting are even better.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Another nail bier.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Greg Olsen is the best color commentator there is in
the NFL, better than Chris Collingsworth, better than anything CBS
has with Tony Romo, better than Tom Brady, better than
anybody else on Fox. Greg Olsen is as smooth and
as concise and as clear as anybody right now doing
(15:39):
color commentary in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
And I don't even think it's close. Tom Brady took
the number.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
One spot from Greg Olsen because he's Tom Brady. He's
gonna do that to anybody. But Greg Olsen is head
and shoulders. Shout out Troy pal Marlow ahead of any
other commentator the NFL has right now, and the Minnesota
(16:07):
Vikings were fortunate to have him in this football game
as the color commentator. I think one more point to
make about this game. Cavin O'Connell first half, six points,
second half, the Vikings score seventeen points. Six plus seventeen
(16:28):
is twenty three. The Vikings scored twenty three points. And
even though things were disastrous, and things are going to
be disastrous at times in the NFL now, not every
single possession or every single game is going to look
fluid and perfect like the Vikings did in the first
few weeks of the season.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
When they beat the Giants twenty eighty six.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Not everything's gonna look like that, and you've got to
make adjustments. And the Minnesota Vikings made their adjustments. They
figured out how to give Sam Darnold some more time
and he found the holes in the secondary and put
the ball into Jefferson and Addison's hands. I don't know
what Kevin O'Connell did, and it was just a pep
(17:09):
speech or an adjustment, but to betch Aaron Jones and
then to put him back in at the end of
the game for the game winning touchdown pass, I think
it is amazing coaching because a player that is so
down on himself, a guy that is already has his
hands in his face, a Toiel over his head, catches
(17:35):
the game winning touchdown pass, gets those cheers and high fives,
high five, high five, slap hands, slap hands from his teammates.
I think was huge for the confidence of Aaron Jones
moving forward after this game. So, Sam Darnold, Minnesota Vikings
(18:00):
ten and two led by Kevin O'Connell, who is going
to have a massive contract extension soon.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
And for those.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Questioning Kevin O'Connell's coaching, Sam Donald, ten and two, what
else do you need to know? What other statistic needs
to be thrown at you for you to not doubt
the ability of Kevin O'Connell as a head coach in
the National Football League. Up until the end of the game,
(18:31):
the highlight of the Vikings game was that in the
US Bank Stadium they showed Kirk Cousins throwing a pick
on the big board. The crowd was silent out of
the game. They had nothing to cheer for. And then
the fourth quarter happened. Donald delivered, O'Connell delivered, and the
Vikings got to stop when they needed one. I come
(18:54):
from behind victory, Donald's first of the season, but not
his first ceiling drive. This season because you think about
Donald's ceiling drives. He had won against the Bears last week,
a game ceiling drive. He had a game ceiling drive
versus Jacksonville, a game ceiling drive versus Green Bay, New York,
(19:19):
San Francisco. Donald has been mister clutch in the fourth
quarter of this season. And the Minnesota Vikings are right
on the heels of the Detroit Lions for first in
the NFC North. And the Lions and Packers play each
other next week, which is only good for the Vikings.
(19:41):
One of those teams are going to lose allegedly unless
they end in a tie. The Green Bay Packers are
on the heels of the Vikings and the Detroit Lions
are an inch ahead of the Vikings. That's a win win,
So the Vikings keep rolling. They could be tied for
first in the NFC North next next week. Thank you
(20:01):
for making this podcast a part of your day. Thank
you for going on this journey with me. Hit the
subscribe button right there. I appreciate you.
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