December 3, 2024 • 17 mins
Minnesota Tim discusses the Minnesota Vikings' current playoff positioning, the implications of their upcoming games, and the performance of quarterback Sam Darnold. He emphasizes Darnold's clutch performances and contrasts them with Kirk Cousins' struggles. Additionally, Tim highlights the impact of Dalton Risner's recent addition to the offensive line, showcasing his impressive blocking skills and the overall improvement of the Vikings as they aim for a strong playoff run.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
There are a lot of exciting things to talk about
to discuss following the Minnesota Vikings advancement to ten and two,
one game behind the Detroit Lions with one matchup to play.
The Lions play the Testy Packers next week, which is
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becoming a fun discussion because at this point, would the
Minnesota Vikings rather have the Detroit Lions lose and you
can battle for the one seed, or would you rather
have the Green Bay Packers lose and that first wild
card spot is practically almost a cinch if the Green
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Bay Packers fall to the Detroit Lions, which would give
the Minnesota Vikings a two game lead over that. So
there's interest in both parties, and a discussion really is
fascinating because I could see both sides of the coin there,
and my first instinct is to say, I'd rather have
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the Green Bay Packers loose.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I would rather go on the road face a team.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
That's not quite as good as the Green Bay Packers
would face for that first playoff game, because what is
the likelihood that the Detroit Lions would fall to the
Minnesota Vikings at home in the final.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Week of the season.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I think that's ultimately what the answer has to boil
down to do you think the Detroit Lions would lose
versus the Minnesota Vikings on the final week of the season,
because that's ultimately gonna determine the tiebreaker if they do
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lose to the Green Bay.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Packers at home on Thursday Night Football. But at the
same time, the Buffalo Bills also.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Face the Detroit Lions the following week, and then the
Lions go at Chicago, which they almost lost on Thanksgiving
but because of the worst clock management era I think
I've ever witnessed during the course of an NFL game,
that game did not go to overtime. Then they go
at San France and they're falling apart, so that's likely
a win.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So you go back and forth.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
But I think I hold on to my original opinion
that it would be in the Minnesota Vikings' best interest
if the Green Bay Packers lose to the Detroit Lions
and the Vikings are almost guaranteed that top wild card spot,
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which means they would go on the road and face
a team not as strong as the Packers would face
in that opening playoff game. So let's dive into some
more topics today, because there's some more things that I
want to discuss, and the conversation I still cannot get
off of how amazing Sam Donald has been down the
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stretch this year, because if he was any other quarterback
in the league, he would be getting so much more
national attention, so much more credit. And a Mahomes wipes
his butt and everyone's talking about how amazing of a
clean wipe that was.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Oh did you see that play?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Did you see how cleanly he got that office's butt crack?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
And Sam Donald, who's.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Been clutch in so many games this year, has a
poor reputation of going to the Jets Panthers forty nine ers.
Now with the Vikings, he has twenty three touchdowns, ten picks,
far better than Kirk Cousins this season, like not even close.
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For the amount of money Sam Donald is being paid
a one year, ten million dollar contract to the amount
of money Kirk Cousins is being paid. Without even factoring
the contract situation, Donald is out playing Cousins. And then
when you factor in the contract situation, Sam Donald blows
Kirk Cousins out of the water.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And if the Atlanta Falcons were not.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Playing the Minnesota Vikings this week, I would bet that
they would be moving on to Michael Pennicks Junior because
could you imagine the PR nightmare that it would cause
for Kirk Cousins not to play against his former team.
That's the headlines. Those are the stories he wants to
go up against his former team. Of course this is
and this and this, But if they weren't playing the Vikings,
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there's probably a good chance Michael Pennis Junior would be
starting that game against any other team in the NFL,
but it'd be a bad PR nightmare.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So they're sticking with Kirk.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Cousins and someone that does an amazing job of touching
on stories all.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Over the NFL.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And I am a co producer on the iHeartRadio team
for this podcast that airs the Good Morning Football Show.
Peter Schrager gives so much love and credit to Sam
Donald and he mentioned his stats. He says, Sam Donald
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has been at his very best when it's mattered this season.
For the second straight week, he threw them to victory.
Those are the words of Peter Schreger on the Good
Morning Football podcast or Good Morning Football television show that
we convert into a podcast. Sam Donald's number is over
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the last three games eight and eleven passing yards, seven touchdowns,
one rushing touchdown, zero interceptions, and three wins.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I am more impressed.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Over Sam Donald's stretch of these last three games that
I was the first five weeks of the season.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And here's why.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
At some point, following the first five weeks of the
year or whatever, first four weeks, Sam Donald was going to,
you know, drop a little bit. It's gonna happen. He's
gonna come back to earth. His his true identity was
going to be revealed at some point. Okay, this is
still his fourth team in the NFL. Even though he
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was playing like a top five MVP candidate the first
five weeks of the year, then he started regressing.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
He held out to the football too long.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
He was tunnel vision justin Jefferson, which is all things
that I was mentioning.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Of course, I was getting a.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Lot of criticism for that, even though it was factual
three picks in the red zone versus Jacksonville. But the
fact that he bounced back from that and has returned
to an MVP level these last three weeks. You know,
a lot of unfortunate things happened in the Bears game,
but Donald put the Vikings in a position to score
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thirty four points in that game, Aaron Jones tumbled the
one and then on side kick he lia this little
that Sam Donald still won and provided a game winning
drive for the Minnesota Vikings in that situation. And what
Peter Scheger says in this is that for the second
Strea we KEI threw them to victory. He's done more
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than that this year. It's true, he threw them to
victory versus the Bears, versus the Cardinals down nineteen six,
one of the big questions was can Sam Donald lead
a Minnesota Vikings team from behind, from the back instead
of being in the front, instead of on top.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Can he do it from the back? Nineteen six?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
They were losing almost in the fourth quarter, and there
was no room for mistakes at that point, and Sam
Donald delivered for the Minnesota Vikings when the Minnesota Vikings
needed points. You know, a pick a turnover, game's over.
There's no room for air, no margin for air, and
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Sam Donald delivers, mister clutch. And why I say that
Peter Schrager's comments aren't entirely accurate, it's because.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Sam Donald's done more than that this year.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You know, when the Vikings were up twenty to fourteen
versus San fran and they needed a drive to put
them away. He put them away, won twenty three seventeen,
kicked the field goal, went up by double digits.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Games over.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
When when Green Bay made that second half run made
it a one score game, Vikings needed to score, put
the game away, field goal, game over. It's a two
point game, but game was over. Vikings went up by
double digits with just three or four minutes left against
the New York Jets. Vikings up three against one of
the best defenses in the league at that point in
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the season. Go up by more than a field goal,
put the game away. The put the game in the
defensive hands, goes down the field, leaves a field goal.
The Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold has been mister Clutch
all season long. Even against the Detroit Lions, they had
a lead at the end of the game that one
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slipped away because the Vikings did have an opportunity to
put the game away and they didn't. They had a
third down play that they didn't convert. It happens against
the Los Angeles Rams, they had a chance to go
down and win the game, didn't happen, but there's a
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very rare thing for that to happen. Anyways, Vikings were
down twenty eight to twenty. They needed to drive ninety
nine yards down the field. No time, ahows get a
two point version. The likelihood of that happening was so rare. Anyways,
versus the Tennessee Titans win, Chicago Bears win, Arizona Cardinals win.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Sam Donald has been.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Impressive this season and he has been mister clutch all
year for a guy that has really never been in
that position before in his NFL career, he never had
a really lead game winning drives versus the Jets, Panthers
or forty nine. The teams stuck and he's a backup
for the Niners.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
This is the first.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Time Donald has had all the pressure on him to
deliver like this. The Jets had way bigger problem than
Sam Donald. Their organization is defunctional. Just look at the season.
Panthers defunctional, Just.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Look at their owners.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
This is the first time in Sam Donald's career where
it's like, Okay, this is my big question before the
year started. Can the guy lead game winning drives when
the Minnesota Vikings need him to? Can you count on
him when the Vikings are down six, down thirteen? Can
you count on him when he needs to put a
game winning field goal together? Because you can't count on everybody.
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Look at Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens. They're not dependable.
They lost to the Eagles, they lose to the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
They're eight and five.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Anyone talked about Lamar Jackson MVP. Oh, it's clear it.
See they're in the eight and five football team. Everyone
just labeled them as a Tier one Super Bowl contender
because of Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henery. Oh, they're an
unstoppable force offensively, they're eight and five. Winning games is
not easy in the NFL. Being clutched is not easy
to do in the NFL. And here's Sam Darnold ten
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and two Minnesota Vikings, game winning drive after game winning drive,
game seiling drive after game sealing drive. And he has
been clutch, clutch for the Minnesota Vikings this year. And
I just want him to get the respect that he deserves.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And this offseason he will.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
And some people are taking the comments following the game
against the Arizona Cardinals out of context. He is interviewed
by Pam Oliver Peter Scheker mentioned it on the clip
on the Good Morning Football clip that he can see
on their show at Good Morning Football on X and
(12:35):
he said, Oh.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
You know, I love playing in Minnesota. There's no place
that rather play.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Taken out of context, the question was how do you
like playing at US Bank Stadium? And what does every
single player say in the NFL? They say, I love
playing here. There's no place out of rather play.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
That's the script.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
That's the playbook on every single one of those answers,
every single one of those questions that get asked to
a player like that, that's always the script. Oh there's
no place I'd rather play. The fans, the organization, what
are you gonna say?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah, you know, I really wish I was in the
San Francisco forty nine ers. You know, the organization and
the fan base was incredible. That might be like the
dumbest question ever. So what do you think about the fans?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah, they sucked buff They're buonos at halftime. Good golly,
Like these fans are terrible. What they would never ever,
ever ever say anything like that in their entire lives.
Even Anthony Edwards, mister Arnes, who can't shut his mouth
and give Vanilla answers, which is actually entertaining. Would never
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say something like that, so I don't know, it's just
a useless question. One more thing that I wanted to
touch on before this podcast wraps up is that the
Minnesota Vikings made a season change mid season change and
substituted Dalton Reisner for ed Ingram. Ingram was struggling for
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a majority of the season and and I needed to
be replaced. I had Dalton Reiser on my podcast this
past offseason and you can check it out on YouTube.
It's got like seventy two hundred listens watches or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And I asked him.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I was like, well, what's your mindset going into the
going into the season as the backup? And he's like, well,
you know, I'm just there to learn, just get each
other better.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I'll do whatever the team needs me to do.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
And I respond to Him'm like, you're gonna take over
the sporting it's a starting spot for Blake Brandle or
ed Ingram. There's no way you're riding the bench of
the entire year, especially after last year's performance where you
give up zero sacks.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It's gonna happen. Just give it time.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
And of course midseason, Reiser gets healthy following a back issue,
ed Ingram gets benched, and then Dalton Reisner puts together
there a sensational blocking performance versus the Arizona Cardinals. And
this comes from our friends at the Purple Persuasion. They
shared this their PFF grade. Dalton Reiser had an eighty
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eight block grade versus the Cardinals, according to PFF, the
third highest among guards in Week thirteen. So Dalton Reisner
put together a sensational blocking performance against the Cardinals. And
this goes back to the same thoughts I've had earlier.
And everyone talks about the continuity of the offensive line,
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the chemistry, the togetherness, can you block?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Can you block the person in front of you?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
And Dalton Reiser has the continuity of the offensive line.
He was a part of the offensive line last year.
So you're coming, you're coming with this garbage of like,
oh yeah, I was substituting at new Ingram is gonna
really mess things up on the offensive line. What this
guy is a part of the offensive line last a
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different position, but same offensive line. So I think about
what the Vikings did on Sunday twenty one for thirty
one was Sam Darnald. So they threw the ball thirty
one times, two thirty five, two touchdown, zero picks. He
got sacked five times, but that was not on Dalton Reister.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
He had one of the.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Best pass blocking grades with the entire season among his position.
And you look at the amount of times they rushed
the ball, they ran it fifteen times. The Minnesota Vikings
were a throwing team down double digits lay in that game,
and Sam Darnald was protected by Dalton Reisner and the
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Minnesota Vikings offensive line.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
So give credit where credit is due.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Dalton Reiser has stepped in and he has performed sensationally
on the Minnesota Vikings offensive line, and he deserves that role.
For some reason, there are so many ed Ingram Defen
out there saying, yeah, he deserves the spot, he should
be here. What come again, the guy that had one
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of the worst grades at the oppositive line of the
first five weeks of the year, A guy who was
ranked in the bottom five out of seventy six obumsive Lineman,
I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
And for reference, the Purple Persuasion tweeted this Vikings guard
at Ingram has never posted a past blocking PFF grade
of eighty eight or more in his entire NFL Vikings career.
His highest past a blocking grade was eighty four point
five and Week fifteen of twenty twenty three against the Bengals.
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So Dalton Reisner steps in, dominates his role and the
Minnesota Vikings are rolling.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
At ten and two.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Thank you for making this show part of your day,
and thank you for going on this journey with me.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Everyone, have a great day.
There are a lot of exciting things to talk about
to discuss following the Minnesota Vikings advancement to ten and two,
one game behind the Detroit Lions with one matchup to play.
The Lions play the Testy Packers next week, which is
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becoming a fun discussion because at this point, would the
Minnesota Vikings rather have the Detroit Lions lose and you
can battle for the one seed, or would you rather
have the Green Bay Packers lose and that first wild
card spot is practically almost a cinch if the Green
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Bay Packers fall to the Detroit Lions, which would give
the Minnesota Vikings a two game lead over that. So
there's interest in both parties, and a discussion really is
fascinating because I could see both sides of the coin there,
and my first instinct is to say, I'd rather have
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the Green Bay Packers loose.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I would rather go on the road face a team.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
That's not quite as good as the Green Bay Packers
would face for that first playoff game, because what is
the likelihood that the Detroit Lions would fall to the
Minnesota Vikings at home in the final.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Week of the season.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I think that's ultimately what the answer has to boil
down to do you think the Detroit Lions would lose
versus the Minnesota Vikings on the final week of the season,
because that's ultimately gonna determine the tiebreaker if they do
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lose to the Green Bay.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Packers at home on Thursday Night Football. But at the
same time, the Buffalo Bills also.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Face the Detroit Lions the following week, and then the
Lions go at Chicago, which they almost lost on Thanksgiving
but because of the worst clock management era I think
I've ever witnessed during the course of an NFL game,
that game did not go to overtime. Then they go
at San France and they're falling apart, so that's likely
a win.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So you go back and forth.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
But I think I hold on to my original opinion
that it would be in the Minnesota Vikings' best interest
if the Green Bay Packers lose to the Detroit Lions
and the Vikings are almost guaranteed that top wild card spot,
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which means they would go on the road and face
a team not as strong as the Packers would face
in that opening playoff game. So let's dive into some
more topics today, because there's some more things that I
want to discuss, and the conversation I still cannot get
off of how amazing Sam Donald has been down the
(03:22):
stretch this year, because if he was any other quarterback
in the league, he would be getting so much more
national attention, so much more credit. And a Mahomes wipes
his butt and everyone's talking about how amazing of a
clean wipe that was.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Oh did you see that play?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Did you see how cleanly he got that office's butt crack?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
And Sam Donald, who's.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Been clutch in so many games this year, has a
poor reputation of going to the Jets Panthers forty nine ers.
Now with the Vikings, he has twenty three touchdowns, ten picks,
far better than Kirk Cousins this season, like not even close.
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For the amount of money Sam Donald is being paid
a one year, ten million dollar contract to the amount
of money Kirk Cousins is being paid. Without even factoring
the contract situation, Donald is out playing Cousins. And then
when you factor in the contract situation, Sam Donald blows
Kirk Cousins out of the water.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And if the Atlanta Falcons were not.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Playing the Minnesota Vikings this week, I would bet that
they would be moving on to Michael Pennicks Junior because
could you imagine the PR nightmare that it would cause
for Kirk Cousins not to play against his former team.
That's the headlines. Those are the stories he wants to
go up against his former team. Of course this is
and this and this, But if they weren't playing the Vikings,
(04:55):
there's probably a good chance Michael Pennis Junior would be
starting that game against any other team in the NFL,
but it'd be a bad PR nightmare.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So they're sticking with Kirk.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Cousins and someone that does an amazing job of touching
on stories all.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Over the NFL.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And I am a co producer on the iHeartRadio team
for this podcast that airs the Good Morning Football Show.
Peter Schrager gives so much love and credit to Sam
Donald and he mentioned his stats. He says, Sam Donald
(05:37):
has been at his very best when it's mattered this season.
For the second straight week, he threw them to victory.
Those are the words of Peter Schreger on the Good
Morning Football podcast or Good Morning Football television show that
we convert into a podcast. Sam Donald's number is over
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the last three games eight and eleven passing yards, seven touchdowns,
one rushing touchdown, zero interceptions, and three wins.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I am more impressed.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Over Sam Donald's stretch of these last three games that
I was the first five weeks of the season.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And here's why.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
At some point, following the first five weeks of the
year or whatever, first four weeks, Sam Donald was going to,
you know, drop a little bit. It's gonna happen. He's
gonna come back to earth. His his true identity was
going to be revealed at some point. Okay, this is
still his fourth team in the NFL. Even though he
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was playing like a top five MVP candidate the first
five weeks of the year, then he started regressing.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
He held out to the football too long.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
He was tunnel vision justin Jefferson, which is all things
that I was mentioning.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Of course, I was getting a.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Lot of criticism for that, even though it was factual
three picks in the red zone versus Jacksonville. But the
fact that he bounced back from that and has returned
to an MVP level these last three weeks. You know,
a lot of unfortunate things happened in the Bears game,
but Donald put the Vikings in a position to score
(07:20):
thirty four points in that game, Aaron Jones tumbled the
one and then on side kick he lia this little
that Sam Donald still won and provided a game winning
drive for the Minnesota Vikings in that situation. And what
Peter Scheger says in this is that for the second
Strea we KEI threw them to victory. He's done more
(07:43):
than that this year. It's true, he threw them to
victory versus the Bears, versus the Cardinals down nineteen six,
one of the big questions was can Sam Donald lead
a Minnesota Vikings team from behind, from the back instead
of being in the front, instead of on top.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Can he do it from the back? Nineteen six?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
They were losing almost in the fourth quarter, and there
was no room for mistakes at that point, and Sam
Donald delivered for the Minnesota Vikings when the Minnesota Vikings
needed points. You know, a pick a turnover, game's over.
There's no room for air, no margin for air, and
(08:26):
Sam Donald delivers, mister clutch. And why I say that
Peter Schrager's comments aren't entirely accurate, it's because.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Sam Donald's done more than that this year.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You know, when the Vikings were up twenty to fourteen
versus San fran and they needed a drive to put
them away. He put them away, won twenty three seventeen,
kicked the field goal, went up by double digits.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Games over.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
When when Green Bay made that second half run made
it a one score game, Vikings needed to score, put
the game away, field goal, game over. It's a two
point game, but game was over. Vikings went up by
double digits with just three or four minutes left against
the New York Jets. Vikings up three against one of
the best defenses in the league at that point in
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the season. Go up by more than a field goal,
put the game away. The put the game in the
defensive hands, goes down the field, leaves a field goal.
The Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold has been mister Clutch
all season long. Even against the Detroit Lions, they had
a lead at the end of the game that one
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slipped away because the Vikings did have an opportunity to
put the game away and they didn't. They had a
third down play that they didn't convert. It happens against
the Los Angeles Rams, they had a chance to go
down and win the game, didn't happen, but there's a
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very rare thing for that to happen. Anyways, Vikings were
down twenty eight to twenty. They needed to drive ninety
nine yards down the field. No time, ahows get a
two point version. The likelihood of that happening was so rare. Anyways,
versus the Tennessee Titans win, Chicago Bears win, Arizona Cardinals win.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Sam Donald has been.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Impressive this season and he has been mister clutch all
year for a guy that has really never been in
that position before in his NFL career, he never had
a really lead game winning drives versus the Jets, Panthers
or forty nine. The teams stuck and he's a backup
for the Niners.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
This is the first.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Time Donald has had all the pressure on him to
deliver like this. The Jets had way bigger problem than
Sam Donald. Their organization is defunctional. Just look at the season.
Panthers defunctional, Just.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Look at their owners.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
This is the first time in Sam Donald's career where
it's like, Okay, this is my big question before the
year started. Can the guy lead game winning drives when
the Minnesota Vikings need him to? Can you count on
him when the Vikings are down six, down thirteen? Can
you count on him when he needs to put a
game winning field goal together? Because you can't count on everybody.
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Look at Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens. They're not dependable.
They lost to the Eagles, they lose to the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
They're eight and five.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Anyone talked about Lamar Jackson MVP. Oh, it's clear it.
See they're in the eight and five football team. Everyone
just labeled them as a Tier one Super Bowl contender
because of Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henery. Oh, they're an
unstoppable force offensively, they're eight and five. Winning games is
not easy in the NFL. Being clutched is not easy
to do in the NFL. And here's Sam Darnold ten
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and two Minnesota Vikings, game winning drive after game winning drive,
game seiling drive after game sealing drive. And he has
been clutch, clutch for the Minnesota Vikings this year. And
I just want him to get the respect that he deserves.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And this offseason he will.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
And some people are taking the comments following the game
against the Arizona Cardinals out of context. He is interviewed
by Pam Oliver Peter Scheker mentioned it on the clip
on the Good Morning Football clip that he can see
on their show at Good Morning Football on X and
(12:35):
he said, Oh.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
You know, I love playing in Minnesota. There's no place
that rather play.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Taken out of context, the question was how do you
like playing at US Bank Stadium? And what does every
single player say in the NFL? They say, I love
playing here. There's no place out of rather play.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
That's the script.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
That's the playbook on every single one of those answers,
every single one of those questions that get asked to
a player like that, that's always the script. Oh there's
no place I'd rather play. The fans, the organization, what
are you gonna say?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah, you know, I really wish I was in the
San Francisco forty nine ers. You know, the organization and
the fan base was incredible. That might be like the
dumbest question ever. So what do you think about the fans?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah, they sucked buff They're buonos at halftime. Good golly,
Like these fans are terrible. What they would never ever,
ever ever say anything like that in their entire lives.
Even Anthony Edwards, mister Arnes, who can't shut his mouth
and give Vanilla answers, which is actually entertaining. Would never
(13:43):
say something like that, so I don't know, it's just
a useless question. One more thing that I wanted to
touch on before this podcast wraps up is that the
Minnesota Vikings made a season change mid season change and
substituted Dalton Reisner for ed Ingram. Ingram was struggling for
(14:08):
a majority of the season and and I needed to
be replaced. I had Dalton Reiser on my podcast this
past offseason and you can check it out on YouTube.
It's got like seventy two hundred listens watches or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And I asked him.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I was like, well, what's your mindset going into the
going into the season as the backup? And he's like, well,
you know, I'm just there to learn, just get each
other better.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I'll do whatever the team needs me to do.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
And I respond to Him'm like, you're gonna take over
the sporting it's a starting spot for Blake Brandle or
ed Ingram. There's no way you're riding the bench of
the entire year, especially after last year's performance where you
give up zero sacks.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It's gonna happen. Just give it time.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
And of course midseason, Reiser gets healthy following a back issue,
ed Ingram gets benched, and then Dalton Reisner puts together
there a sensational blocking performance versus the Arizona Cardinals. And
this comes from our friends at the Purple Persuasion. They
shared this their PFF grade. Dalton Reiser had an eighty
(15:12):
eight block grade versus the Cardinals, according to PFF, the
third highest among guards in Week thirteen. So Dalton Reisner
put together a sensational blocking performance against the Cardinals. And
this goes back to the same thoughts I've had earlier.
And everyone talks about the continuity of the offensive line,
(15:33):
the chemistry, the togetherness, can you block?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Can you block the person in front of you?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
And Dalton Reiser has the continuity of the offensive line.
He was a part of the offensive line last year.
So you're coming, you're coming with this garbage of like,
oh yeah, I was substituting at new Ingram is gonna
really mess things up on the offensive line. What this
guy is a part of the offensive line last a
(16:02):
different position, but same offensive line. So I think about
what the Vikings did on Sunday twenty one for thirty
one was Sam Darnald. So they threw the ball thirty
one times, two thirty five, two touchdown, zero picks. He
got sacked five times, but that was not on Dalton Reister.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
He had one of the.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Best pass blocking grades with the entire season among his position.
And you look at the amount of times they rushed
the ball, they ran it fifteen times. The Minnesota Vikings
were a throwing team down double digits lay in that game,
and Sam Darnald was protected by Dalton Reisner and the
(16:40):
Minnesota Vikings offensive line.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
So give credit where credit is due.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Dalton Reiser has stepped in and he has performed sensationally
on the Minnesota Vikings offensive line, and he deserves that role.
For some reason, there are so many ed Ingram Defen
out there saying, yeah, he deserves the spot, he should
be here. What come again, the guy that had one
(17:06):
of the worst grades at the oppositive line of the
first five weeks of the year, A guy who was
ranked in the bottom five out of seventy six obumsive Lineman,
I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
And for reference, the Purple Persuasion tweeted this Vikings guard
at Ingram has never posted a past blocking PFF grade
of eighty eight or more in his entire NFL Vikings career.
His highest past a blocking grade was eighty four point
five and Week fifteen of twenty twenty three against the Bengals.
(17:42):
So Dalton Reisner steps in, dominates his role and the
Minnesota Vikings are rolling.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
At ten and two.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Thank you for making this show part of your day,
and thank you for going on this journey with me.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Everyone, have a great day.
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