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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Rise and shine. It's butt kicking time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
The Minnesota Vikings did not play on Sunday. They played
a night on Monday Night Football, but boy, oh boyd
did they win on Sunday. Multiple times, the Minnesota Vikings
caught very nice breaks, not necessarily lucky breaks, but very
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nice breaks. They could have gone either way. And the
Minnesota Vikings are in a great spot after a day
in which they didn't even play, So let's talk about it. Well. One,
the Chicago Bears have been officially eliminated from the playoffs
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with the Washington Commander's win over the Saints, so they
are officially gone.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
And what that.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Means is that they have nothing to play for in
their matchup versus the Minnesota Vikings on Monday Night Football.
They practically already had nothing to play for, but just
to put the little salt in the wound in the
Chicago Bears situation, now they really, really, really have nothing
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to play for. Tonight should be a blowout in the
Vikings Bears matchup. The only thing that is preventing it is,
you know the fact that the Chicago Bears probably don't
want to get embarrassed on national television.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
But the prior week, the Bears got.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Annihilated by the San Francisco forty nine ers that have
been struggling throughout the entire season, and tonight a rolling
Minnesota Vikings offense should be able to take care of
business pretty easily at home versus the Chicago Bears. So
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let's just let's just crush these guys. That's just that.
Just dominate them. They are eliminated. They're four to nine,
the Vikings are eleven and two, and at this point
in time, the Chicago Bears have nothing to play for
and the Minnesota Vikings have everything to play for because
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the Detroit Lions lost yesterday. The unstoppable, undefeatable. Oh who
can defeat them?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Oh? Oh, can anyone stop the Lions?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
There's nothing that I dislike more than national narratives that
get created by the talking heads ESPN, Fox Sports One,
whatever it is that aren't true. For weeks, it's been
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can anybody stop the Lions?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Are?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
They're gonna have an easy path to the Super Bowl?
And you look at what the Lions have done this year.
Sure it's been impressive. They're twelve and two right now,
but they were down to Houston by a lot in
the first half, and then they came back.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
They beat Green Bay by three.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
They were a Chicago Bears meldown away from losing to
Chicago in the second half. One of the worst clock
mismanagement situations I think I have ever seen in the
National Football League by Bears coach Matty Eberflus. Caleb Williams
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was sacked with thirty two seconds left, and they refused
to call a timeout.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Because they were afraid that if they.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Called timeout they would not be able to get the
kicker onto the field after a play. So let's say
the play last six seconds. They were afraid that they
could not get the kicker on the field with twenty
six seconds left and attempt a field goal. So you
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look at the way the Lions have been winning. Just
recently snuck past the Bears, snuck past the Packers, and
now just got beat by the Buffalo Bills at home.
And the Bills just put up forty eight points on
the Lions. So this Lions.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Team is very beatable.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Oh and the Minnesota Vikings had them on the ropes
Week seven at us Bank Stadium. The Vikings had the
lead in the game. And because I this is not
a shot of the Lions up. The Lions are a
fun team to cheer for, their fun team to watch.
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I love the way Dan Campbell coaches. It probably will
come back to bite him in the but man aggressiveness
is entertaining and from that angle, it's fun. But my
gripe is against the national media that creates these narratives
that just aren't true. If the Minnesota Vikings convert a
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third and four at the end of the game versus
the Lions, the Minnesota Vikings win that game. If Justin
Jefferson and Jordan Addison don't practically run the same route
at the end of that game, there's a good chance
the Vikings win that game because I remember Donald rolling
out to his right on a play action play and
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Addison and Jefferson were basically in the same spot, and
I think Donald was targeting Jefferson, and I think Addison's
defender actually hit the ball up in the air if
I'm remembering that correctly.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So the fact that the Lions have been.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I thought of to have this unstoppable, unbeatable team is
just not accurate. And now we're finally seeing that come
to fruition. So as scary as Week eighteen could have
been in the Vikings Lions matchup. I actually think the
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more challenging matchup for the Minnesota Vikings is going to
be the Green Bay Packers in Week seventeen, because the
Packers have been playing some good football recently, and if
you remember last year.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
The Packers got hot at the right time.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
The Packers just annihilated the Sattle Seahawks on the road
thirty to thirteen. They beat the Miami Dolphins thirty to seventeen.
They beat the forty nine Ers thirty eight to ten.
They lost to the Lions by three, But there are
other three matchups they've been pubbling teams, just stamp.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Heating them to the ground.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
So I think the matchup that the Vikings need to
be weary of is their matchup versus the Packers in
Week seventeen. I think they can beat the Lions, especially
because things have not gone the Lions direction recently. Because
you think about what the Lions have had happened to
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them this year, and let's just take a look at this.
Look at this if you're on youtube' and if you're listening,
I'll read it to you. The Lions cornerback Carlton Davis
defensive linemen Aliam McNeil are feared to have suffered season
ending injuries against the Bills.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Head coach Dan Campbell has said, so.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
The Lions defense that just gave up forty eight points
against the Buffalo Bills is getting beaten down down the
stretch by injuries. So that open the door for the
Minnesota Vikings to win the NFC North and capture the
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number one seed in the NFL. It's awesome. And what's
so cool about it is that you know, the debate's
discussion has happened.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Oh, who would be the number one seed? Would it
be the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Because they have the same record as the Vikings, or
would it be the Vikings? Like who's gonna be the benefactor.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Of the strength of schedule down the stretch? Who really knows?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Well, someone found out and it says for those asking
about the Eagles, if both Minnesota and Philadelphia went out,
Minnesota wins the tiebreaker due to.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Strength of victory.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So what is so exciting about the Vikings down the
stretch is that they controlled their own destiny. They went
from a team that was favored to win six and
a half games on DraftKings to a team that now
controls their own destiny and could have the number one
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overall seed entering the playoffs with the bye week, and
the Minnesota Vikings have remained relatively healthy throughout the year,
which is a lucky thing. I mean, the fact that
the Lions have so many defensive injuries is very unlucky,
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and you know, sometimes you would get the break of
injuries and sometimes you don't. So it's just been a
remarkable season. And the false narratives created about the Lions,
the lack of attention focused on the eleven and two
Minnesota Vikings has just been flat out disrespectful because the
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narratives that was created by the Lions was created despite
the Vikings having the Lions the Ropes in their last matchup.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
So it just bothers me. It's just annoying.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And one more thing to note here before I touch
on the Bears Vikings matchup tonight. Josh Allen, after his
performance versus the Lions on Sunday in which his team
put up forty eight points, is now going to be
the UNANIMSMVP. Sam Donald now has no chance because Josh
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Allen went twenty three for thirty four three hundred and
sixty two yards two touchdowns, zero picks a pass the
rating of a one hundred and twenty two point four,
and he also ran for two touchdowns, so four total touchdowns,
forty eight points.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
They're eleven to three.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Josh Allen is going to be the MVP on the
in during the NFL season this year, So Sam Donald,
he should finish top three, and there's nothing wrong with
top three, is nothing wrong with top five, Just tell
it a get nice. There's nothing wrong with second, as
Ricky Bobby wants. But there's nothing wrong with second. It's
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not you're getting fifth. There's nothing wrong with second. Now
if you win, how am I supposed to win? There's
nothing wrong with second. So I don't know why Sam
Donald wouldn't be second, based on how he's playing, and
especially since the Cincinnati Bengal stink this year, and Joe
Burrow really isn't in the running, even though he's throwing
for more touchdowns than anybody else in the league.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
But it's going to Josh Allen.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And I said it a few weeks ago that it
was going to Josh Allen because the MVP award is
a reputation.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Award and it's the most annoying award.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
There is because it just goes to the player that
they think should get it because they haven't got it yet,
and it's just a revolving door of who they think
should get it. But now Josh Allen deserves it, So
now the award will go to the guy that they
think should get it, and the award should go to
a guy that also deserves it too, So congrats Josh Allen.
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All Right, one more thing in the Bears their interim
head coach Thomas something. I don't know, the Bears interim
head coach.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
That's his name. More reason for Thomas Brown. Yeah, Thomas Brown.
Another reason why.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
The Chicago Bears have nothing to play for is that
Thomas Brown is not going to be coming back as
the Bears head coach. Even if they finish off with
a perfect record and finishes off the season and they
finish what eight to nine, He's still not going to
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be retained. Maybe it'll retain as an assistant but probably not.
Maybe it'll be retained as a scout probably if who knows.
But it's not like this guy is fighting for an
head coaching opportunity with the Chicago Bears. It's not like
he's trying to put games together, where he impresses the
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front office from the Chicago Bears and says, you know what,
look at this, Look what I did with Caleb Williams
these last few weeks of the season. I should hire
me as head coach, which means the players don't really care,
the coaches don't really care. Minnesota Vikings should blow out
the Chicago Bears. My one fear is that things went
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so good on Sunday. The Vikings clinched a playoff spot
because the Seahawks lost, so they're in.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
The Lions loss.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
So the Minnesota Vikers have a chance at the number
one seed in the NFC and have a chance to
clinch the NFC North if they went out as a win.
The Chicago Bears have nothing to play for because the
Commanders won and now their season's over.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
It's another win.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
So because things went so good on Sunday, my fear
is that something could go wrong tonight. Will hopefully not.
I'm not gonna predict that it will, but I'm just
weary of it. You know, sometimes things go so good,
you gotta be aware of the middle, right, you gotta.
If things are so good, well, eventually it's gonna find
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its center.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
It always does.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You know, if someone's statistically outperforming their typical stature, well
then they typically drop down and they find their average.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
So just be weary. Just watch out. I'm not calling
it a jinx.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I'm just saying watch out because things went so good
for the Vikings on Sunday that hopefully things don't go
bad for the Vikings on Monday Night. But it should
be a good game. I'll predict the Vikings to win
thirty one to fourteen and a blowout over the Bears
on Monday Night Football, in which the Monday Night Football
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panel will wear their Randy Moss jerseys. After Randy Moss
had to stepped down from Monday Night Football and beat cancer.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Adam Stealing gave his respect to random Monsters. It was cool.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
But expect the Monday Night Football Countdown crew to have
Random Moss Jersey's first Vikings game on Monday Night Football
since the news that broke out just recently, so look
forward to that. Should be a good matchup, should be
a Minnesota Vikings win, and the doors are now open
to the number one seed and an NFC North title.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
How about that