February 27, 2025 • 10 mins
Minnesota Tim discusses the ongoing NFL Combine, highlighting the intense pressure faced by reporters. He delves into the Minnesota Vikings' quarterback situation, speculating on the future of Sam Darnold and the team's plans to improve their roster through aggressive free agency moves.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome into the show today.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hit that subscribe button if you're watching on YouTube or
listening on Apple or Spotify. Thank you for making this
podcast a part of your day or wherever you are
making this podcast a part of your day. This podcast
is one honest one of the time, all right. With
the NFL combine currently happening, everybody's in Indianapolis, GM's agents, head, coaches, prospects,
(00:30):
and there's even.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
A lot of drama going down.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Jordan Schultz, a reporter for Fox and ian a rap
report apparently are or got into a confrontation at Starbucks
in one of the hotels, and Schultz approached rapport and
(00:57):
and apparently had some not very nice things to say
with a couple of expletives thrown in there, and a
rap report called an NFL securities Is this guy doing
from the outside looking in.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Rap report? Shafter Palasorow.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Those are the top guys in the business, Those are
the guys that get the stories first. Those are the
guys that you can trust the most. And a Jordan Schultz,
I'm sure he's respected at Fox, and I'm sure he.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Does an amazing job.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
But you think about the top echelon of reporters, and
those tep echelon of reporters is the big three Palasorrow, rap, report,
and shifter.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
And this is a.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Weekend where egos reports, who can get at first, who's
gonna be right? The amount of pressure on NFL reporters
is insane and a pressure that I personally would want
no part of.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
You think about wanting to.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Leave your phone upstairs or downstairs, or just having a
break from it to spend time with their family or
go to a sporting event, are just to decompress. And
these guys, I would love to hear their schedule because
I don't think they can do that because they are
(02:29):
paid to deliver the big stories and they are the
guys that better deliver those big stories are they're not
doing their job and there's a constant pressure. So when
you get weakends like this, you get guys in the
same room reporting different things on the same thing, and
(02:50):
there's going to be heat.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
And that's what we saw.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
But as far as the Minnesota Vikings are concerned, Schefter
went on the Pat McAfee.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Show and share some interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Takeaways from the Vikings General manager press conference the other day.
Because in Indy, this is the first time they've spoken
since the end of your press conference following the Vikings
loss of the Rams, and the questions are always going
(03:25):
to surround the quarterback room. Unless you have a quarterback
situation like the Bills or the Chiefs, if you are
one of those quarterback needed teams, or you have a
revolving door quarterback, that is the question that you're going
to be asked the most because that position demands the
(03:48):
most amount of attention from the team organization, from the fans,
from the media and Schefter, a'man guest on the Pat
McAfee show, was interpreting Quessey Adolpho Mensaw's comments at the
(04:12):
NFL Combine, and here's what he had to say about
Sam Donald and JJ McCarthy king.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So they're just Sam Donald's going back. What's we'll see
about that?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Ooh?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
JJ?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Well, if you listen to the general manager Quezy Daffela
Mensa talk yesterday, he certainly talked like a guy whose
team was committed to JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
That's what that was my read.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Between the lines. They haven't said anything.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
So Schefter, listening to Questy's comments, thinks that the Vikings
are ready to depart from Sam Donald and take the
keys of the franchise and give them to J. J.
McCarthy and potentially Daniel Jones for a quarterback competition this summer.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And what I like to do as a podcaster, I.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Like to have an opinion, but that opinion is lots
of times based on the temperature in the room, And
even though I'm not in the room or at TCO.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You can feel the temperature in the room.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Based on O'Connell's comments, based on what Quessey has said,
these guys have been very consistent in the words that
they have said about Sam Donald and it sounds very
similar to what they said about Kirk Cousins last year.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
And when you put these pieces together on.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Whether or not the Vikings are going to retain Sam
Donald or let them walk in free agency or take
and trade it him, and all aligns with the Minnesota
Vikings not bringing Sam Donald back for the twenty twenty
five season because the Vikings feel they have maximized.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Their time with Sam Donald. They feel like they want.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
To be aggressive in free agency to bring guys in
offensive line, defensive line. Quessey just said it just yesterday,
Quessey said in his interview on Kfan with Pa who's
(06:45):
been a guest on this podcast multiple times. He says,
we know we need to improve. We are going to
aggressively attack it because we believe in turning potential weakness
into strength. You do not aggressively attack free agency if
you are giving a quarterback forty one to fifty one
(07:11):
million dollars a year, whether that's a tag in trade
or tag itself, whether.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
That's a tag or.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Whether that's a recigning for a multi year deal, you
cannot aggressively attack your weaknesses in free agency if you
are giving a quarterback that amount of money, which is
going to eat up sixty to seventy percent of the
(07:42):
cap space that you have available going into the offseason.
So the Minnesota Vikings are not going to bring back
Sam Darnold.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And at this point in time.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I don't see anybody putting out content, whether they're insiders
or not, saying that the Vikings will bring back Donald.
When you look at what Alec Lewis and Ben Gessling
and Adam Schefter and Tom Pelsaro and Ian Rapaport, the
guys that have contacts, the guys that have the inside info,
(08:20):
they're basically all reporting the exact same thing. So when
Donald either leaves or is traded, do not be surprised
by it, because it has been the consistently reported thing
and it's just the temperature in the room. So Adam Schefter,
(08:41):
it's a speculative segment and question that he answered, he's
not one confident on it, but this guy's been doing
it for years, and based on what he said, he
kind of spilled the beans on the Vikings plan, but
also not really because it's been the widely understood thought
(09:09):
for the last few weeks. And then there's some random
people that'll be like, well, you know, Donald, he could
he come back for two years. Don't rule it out.
You can't technically rule anything out until it's technically done,
but it's basically done. You can rule out Sam Donald
returning to the Vikings for the twenty twenty five season
(09:32):
because of the Vikings plan with McCarthy, and because of
the Vikings plan to aggressively attack free agency and bring
in guys for that offensive line and defensive line and secondary.
There's three large holes on the Minnesota Vikings roster. Those
(10:00):
positions need to be filled if the Vikings want to
seriously contend for a Super Bowl title. So that's the
take for the day. Thank you for watching, and thank
you for making this podcast for every day. Hey that
subscribe button wherever you're watching or listening, And thank you
for going on this podcasting journey with me.
Welcome into the show today.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hit that subscribe button if you're watching on YouTube or
listening on Apple or Spotify. Thank you for making this
podcast a part of your day or wherever you are
making this podcast a part of your day. This podcast
is one honest one of the time, all right. With
the NFL combine currently happening, everybody's in Indianapolis, GM's agents, head, coaches, prospects,
(00:30):
and there's even.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
A lot of drama going down.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Jordan Schultz, a reporter for Fox and ian a rap
report apparently are or got into a confrontation at Starbucks
in one of the hotels, and Schultz approached rapport and
(00:57):
and apparently had some not very nice things to say
with a couple of expletives thrown in there, and a
rap report called an NFL securities Is this guy doing
from the outside looking in.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Rap report? Shafter Palasorow.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Those are the top guys in the business, Those are
the guys that get the stories first. Those are the
guys that you can trust the most. And a Jordan Schultz,
I'm sure he's respected at Fox, and I'm sure he.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Does an amazing job.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
But you think about the top echelon of reporters, and
those tep echelon of reporters is the big three Palasorrow, rap, report,
and shifter.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
And this is a.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Weekend where egos reports, who can get at first, who's
gonna be right? The amount of pressure on NFL reporters
is insane and a pressure that I personally would want
no part of.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
You think about wanting to.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Leave your phone upstairs or downstairs, or just having a
break from it to spend time with their family or
go to a sporting event, are just to decompress. And
these guys, I would love to hear their schedule because
I don't think they can do that because they are
(02:29):
paid to deliver the big stories and they are the
guys that better deliver those big stories are they're not
doing their job and there's a constant pressure. So when
you get weakends like this, you get guys in the
same room reporting different things on the same thing, and
(02:50):
there's going to be heat.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
And that's what we saw.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
But as far as the Minnesota Vikings are concerned, Schefter
went on the Pat McAfee.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Show and share some interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Takeaways from the Vikings General manager press conference the other day.
Because in Indy, this is the first time they've spoken
since the end of your press conference following the Vikings
loss of the Rams, and the questions are always going
(03:25):
to surround the quarterback room. Unless you have a quarterback
situation like the Bills or the Chiefs, if you are
one of those quarterback needed teams, or you have a
revolving door quarterback, that is the question that you're going
to be asked the most because that position demands the
(03:48):
most amount of attention from the team organization, from the fans,
from the media and Schefter, a'man guest on the Pat
McAfee show, was interpreting Quessey Adolpho Mensaw's comments at the
(04:12):
NFL Combine, and here's what he had to say about
Sam Donald and JJ McCarthy king.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So they're just Sam Donald's going back. What's we'll see
about that?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Ooh?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
JJ?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Well, if you listen to the general manager Quezy Daffela
Mensa talk yesterday, he certainly talked like a guy whose
team was committed to JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
That's what that was my read.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Between the lines. They haven't said anything.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
So Schefter, listening to Questy's comments, thinks that the Vikings
are ready to depart from Sam Donald and take the
keys of the franchise and give them to J. J.
McCarthy and potentially Daniel Jones for a quarterback competition this summer.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And what I like to do as a podcaster, I.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Like to have an opinion, but that opinion is lots
of times based on the temperature in the room, And
even though I'm not in the room or at TCO.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You can feel the temperature in the room.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Based on O'Connell's comments, based on what Quessey has said,
these guys have been very consistent in the words that
they have said about Sam Donald and it sounds very
similar to what they said about Kirk Cousins last year.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
And when you put these pieces together on.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Whether or not the Vikings are going to retain Sam
Donald or let them walk in free agency or take
and trade it him, and all aligns with the Minnesota
Vikings not bringing Sam Donald back for the twenty twenty
five season because the Vikings feel they have maximized.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Their time with Sam Donald. They feel like they want.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
To be aggressive in free agency to bring guys in
offensive line, defensive line. Quessey just said it just yesterday,
Quessey said in his interview on Kfan with Pa who's
(06:45):
been a guest on this podcast multiple times. He says,
we know we need to improve. We are going to
aggressively attack it because we believe in turning potential weakness
into strength. You do not aggressively attack free agency if
you are giving a quarterback forty one to fifty one
(07:11):
million dollars a year, whether that's a tag in trade
or tag itself, whether.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
That's a tag or.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Whether that's a recigning for a multi year deal, you
cannot aggressively attack your weaknesses in free agency if you
are giving a quarterback that amount of money, which is
going to eat up sixty to seventy percent of the
(07:42):
cap space that you have available going into the offseason.
So the Minnesota Vikings are not going to bring back
Sam Darnold.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And at this point in time.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I don't see anybody putting out content, whether they're insiders
or not, saying that the Vikings will bring back Donald.
When you look at what Alec Lewis and Ben Gessling
and Adam Schefter and Tom Pelsaro and Ian Rapaport, the
guys that have contacts, the guys that have the inside info,
(08:20):
they're basically all reporting the exact same thing. So when
Donald either leaves or is traded, do not be surprised
by it, because it has been the consistently reported thing
and it's just the temperature in the room. So Adam Schefter,
(08:41):
it's a speculative segment and question that he answered, he's
not one confident on it, but this guy's been doing
it for years, and based on what he said, he
kind of spilled the beans on the Vikings plan, but
also not really because it's been the widely understood thought
(09:09):
for the last few weeks. And then there's some random
people that'll be like, well, you know, Donald, he could
he come back for two years. Don't rule it out.
You can't technically rule anything out until it's technically done,
but it's basically done. You can rule out Sam Donald
returning to the Vikings for the twenty twenty five season
(09:32):
because of the Vikings plan with McCarthy, and because of
the Vikings plan to aggressively attack free agency and bring
in guys for that offensive line and defensive line and secondary.
There's three large holes on the Minnesota Vikings roster. Those
(10:00):
positions need to be filled if the Vikings want to
seriously contend for a Super Bowl title. So that's the
take for the day. Thank you for watching, and thank
you for making this podcast for every day. Hey that
subscribe button wherever you're watching or listening, And thank you
for going on this podcasting journey with me.
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