September 4, 2025 • 36 mins
New **football analysis** video where we make **nfl schedule predictions** for the **Minnesota Vikings**. Are these **predictions** for **nfl week 1** accurate? We'll see this **nfl** season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's favorable, formidable, or fifty fifty where Jake and I
run through the Minnesota Vikings twenty one game schedule and
predict if they will become Super Bowl champions. Jacob, we
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do this every year. Last year, I couldn't have been
more wrong. I said the Vikings will go five and
twelve because I didn't believe the hype. But in my defense,
DraftKings didn't have the Vikings over under set at thirteen
and a half either.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
So it's a new year.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
It's a fresh slate of predictions, and I think I'm
feeling ready for it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
How are you feeling?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I'm feeling great.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Wasn't it one of the biggest like smashings over like
in odds history in terms of the win predict versus
actual win number.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I don't know how it's not.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, that's prett high. I don't think I did much
better last year. I think I was similar. You know,
we weren't fully trusting Koc as the quarterback whisper that
he has proven to be, you know. So, but yeah,
that's common public opinion. Everyone thought, yeah, they might be
there over under like five and a half or six
or whatever it was. But yeah, not double it or
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almost triple it, right, So yeah, we'll see what happens
this year. I'm totally ready to go. This goes back
to the Herald Journal days. So how many years have
we been doing this test?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That at least be the third year at.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Least as I think it's fourth, fifth, Yeah, I guess
fourth or fifth?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well, anyway, today is presented by five Star Bath Solutions
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of Minneapolis. All Right, Game one at Chicago Go Monday
Night football. Ben Johnson's debut favorable, formidable or fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I look at this season in kind of like three sections. Okay,
so we have our pre buy section, our impossible section,
and then our thank god we're getting to the end
of the season section. Okay, so we're in the favorable
section here. Obviously, the Bears should be improved. I saw.
I think Peter Schreger picked them as the division winner.
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Ye me. But I don't think Caleb Williams is him.
I don't think Ben Johnson is some savior. I know
they fortified their offensive line, but I have a fifty
fifty still soldier field money football. But a big dub,
the big dub JJ McCarthy's debut, Big dub.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Huge dub.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You see the question that they asked McCarthy because four
years when he was four years old, he went to
his first game. It was a Bears Vikings matchup. He
was wearing his Brian Erlacker jersey, and the question was
was how does it feel to go home and play
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Monday night against Chicago.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
He goes, I feel like Minnesota's home now. Just really,
it is a great answer.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You really just gave Minnesotans just a whole bunch of hm.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
He said something like, it's a business trip, right, play
some football and see what happens. Yeah, yeah, yeah, every
I heard Vikings fans.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
My god, Yeah yeah, you just gave Minnesota is a
massive erection with those comments.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Okay, maybe.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well you didn't say it. I said it.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I know, but you know you're associated with me, and
I want to make sure you're okay.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I won't post I won't post that publicly. Litchfield's fans,
if you're listening.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
To this on YouTube, appreciate it. Thank you, and on
Instagram too. Just shout out to Litchfield High School football team.
There a bunch of new loyal fan bases shout out Litchfield.
All right, my prediction formidable. I think the Chicago Bears
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will beat the Vikings on Monday Night Football, and the
Vikings McCarthy era will start oh to one.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
And here's why.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
The Bears defense I think is better than the Vikings defense.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And I think the.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Vikings I'm not afraid of Caleb Williams per se, but
I'm afraid of Ben Johnson. Brian Floores all time these
last few seasons versus Ben Johnson is zho and four.
Now you do need to consider the circumstances. Jared Goff,
Jamiir Gibbs, Mon Ross, Saint Brown. The Lions are just better,
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so you can't really bring that O or two the
Bears situation. It's not fair, But I think Ben Johnson
is gonna pull off some trickery and the Vikings better
be prepared for it because I think that's going to
be the difference in this ballgame. Bears win twenty four
to twenty one.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So the Vikings start zero to one, okay.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Week two Sunday Night home versus Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I go favorable. Yep, it's gotta be favorable. Now the
Falcons again should be decent. I think Pennix might be
all right. B John and Drake Lennon oftense should be okay.
But if you're gonna be any kind of serious team
this year, you gotta be able to beat a team
like the Falcons on Sunday night football at home. So
that's a favorable one. And I got him winning.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
So two and zero favorable for all the reasons you
just said. Falcons.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Not afraid of the Falcons in the first home game
of the year, that would be a juiced environment, favorable outcome.
Vikings win twenty seven to nineteen. Week three versus Cincinnati
home again, finally a noon game, the first and only
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noon game in the first five weeks of the season.
Home versus Cincy, twelve o'clock game. Favorable for admidable or
fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
So the Bengals are kind of a weird one, right.
Last year they started out was super cold and then
they got super hot, almost made the playoffs. Joe Burrow
through for like five thousand yards, not quite but whatever,
it was huge number. I got this fifty to fifty, okay,
fifty fifteen, and I have this one as their first
loss of two, and one main reason being if there's
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a flaw in any unit of the Vikings offense or defense,
the corners, they scare me. Okay, we don't bring I
mean obvious the what's my blanking on? The dude's name Murphy?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Ye?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Right, you know he should be solid, but we only
have four in the roster right now. Harrison sin it's
still recovering. Obviously, hoping by week three and four he's
good to go, but who knows. So it's just there's
a lot of question marks in the secondary. And if
there's one place you don't want question marks against the
team MC Bengals, it's the secondary, you know, Jamar, Chase T. Higgins,
Joe Burrow. So, I think they might be able to
throw it all over us. Take a big fan out.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I like the Vikings in this game. I'm calling it
is favorable. And the reason why is because I think
this exact game is why they brought in their defensive line.
This is a game one in the trenches and the
Cincinnati Bengals have.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
A terrible offensive line now.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Bringing in former Viking is great and former guests of
this podcast, Dalton Reisner, so he signed with their team.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Let's let's play the little Riisner drop while we're here.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
You're real and what you're saying is true.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
So I'm a realist. And what I'm saying is true.
Is what Dalton Reisner said about me. Okay, Vikings win
this game because of Jonathan Allen, Javon Hargrave, Jonathan Grenard
Van Ginkel, and the boys up front throw Dallas Turner
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Burrow won't have time to throw. Vikings are two and
one after an early loss to the Chicago Bears. All Right,
Week four versus the Pittsburg Steelers on the road, is
this one in Ireland or London?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I think you go to Ireland first and then we
can do four and five together. Here go Ireland and London.
I think it's that order. If remember and then Steelers,
then Browns yep.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And then if we got eight thirty starts for the
both of those games, yep.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I got favorable for both brown Brown's. Week five. I
mean they're they're kind of the Pooh Pooh platter, like
they should be one of the worst teams in the
league by week five. Will it'll still be Joe Flatt
thirty nine, forty one year old Joe Flacco. Who knows
whether it be Dylan Gabriel or Shadier Sanders. I mean,
it doesn't matter, It won't right they're running back rooms
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and mass their second round rookie hasn't signed yet. Like,
you gotta beat the Browns, especially coming off the second
week where you have the kind of the home field
advantage after being in Europe for already a week. Steelers
is one of those where I just don't think they're
going to be a great team this year.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Offensively is my biggest question. Defensively they're always good, but
offensively it's.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Like they might out some wins and stuff. But I'm
not scared of Aaron Rodgers at this point. Jalen Warren
and Caleb Johnson whatever, DK metcalf great, but there's sex
wide receiver is like Calvin Austin or Roman Wills. Like,
I just don't know that they're gonna be a score enough.
So I got both of them as favorable and both
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of them as wins. Putting at four and one.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I agree favorable. The Viking Steelers game might be like
seven to six correct, one of the worst games in
the history of Ireland football or overseas football in general.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
And they may never ask the Vikings to come back
ever again.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Well, they see Jaguars every year though, so they're familiar. Yeah,
we streamers game that we played with at three zero
like a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yep, one of the worst games ever.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
To maybe be like that at least three zero win.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Will Raiker at the buzzer.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
From sixty Week six by week favorable, love it, love
it four and one. Going into Philadelphia Week seven at home.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Gives us a chance twelve o'clock.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
So week seven, been at Philadelphia home, twelve o'clock game.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Week seven to week twelve here, Tim, I got a
lot of.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
For the Gauntlet.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
The Gauntlet, so obviously home is helpful. But Eagles, you know,
they're looking every bit as legit as they were last year.
Have it as formidable, and I have that as a loss,
even coming off the buye again. Just keeping up with
that dynamic offense, trying to score on that dynamic defense.
It's going to be a challenge for anybody, let alone
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a rookie quarterback and the guys that we got, so again,
I think we can give him a good fight. But
I got formidable with a loss.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
As much as it's an advantage for the Vikings coming
off the bye. The Eagles also have their short buy
because they play the Giants the Thursday before, so they're
coming off rest too, which then I would say is
formidable for the Vikings. If they Eagles had like a
Monday Night game the week prior and it was again
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a juggernaut like the Ravens or some other team in
the NFL, then I would be more.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Favorable.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah, but I agree formidable Vikings four and two after
Week seven, Week eight at the Chargers short week Thursday
Night Jim Harbas seven to fifteen start favorable, formidable or
fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I think the Churches are going to be an improved
team this year. And then you add in a short
week traveling across the country Dost Angeles after the Eagles.
That's a tough one. So I have it as formidable again.
I think a good game. I don't think the Chargers
are like a one seed type team, but a playoff team,
I think. So I got that as a loss as well.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Four and three, Yeah, I got it as a loss
as too. Four and three.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
That short week is tough, especially kind of going off
the theory you're not playing the Browns. In Week seven,
you're playing the eight who are going to beat you
up and bruise you down. So that's a tough back
to back Week eight loss Chargers four and three. I agree.
Week nine at Detroit twelve o'clock start favorable, formidable or
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fifteen to fifty.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
So one of my hotter tapes is that I think
the Lions are gonna have a pretty big step down
this way.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Now I'm not saying step down like not a playoff team,
but we're used to Lions being easy division winners, thirteen
fourteen to fifteen wins, you know whatever. I think they're
going to be more in that ten win range kind of.
I think where that Packers, I think it's gonna be
a three way race or all around ten wins, okay,
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and even the Bears being, you know, flirting with that too.
I think it's gonna be a pretty bounced division. But
regardless of all of that, at Lions still a formidable
Opponent's still a formidable place to play. Five hundred ah
another loss for here we go.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Three straight ls, and now people are questioning capitalcaddle and
the QB whisper formidable.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I agree, do they get to Week ten, four and four.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
At Baltimore home vers Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Week nine, Yeah, Formidable versus Detroit. I agree, four and.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Four, but again that's three tough opponents. I mean, it's
not like we'red Yeah, it's not like we're just losing
bad games here.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Week ten home versus Baltimore. Can they get off the schneide.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No versus Ravens again. You have your MVP, you have
I mean Allen, but you know multiple time MVP and
Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry, good defense. I know it's home,
but again, Ravens, they scare me stopping a scrambling quarterbacks
possible right, Formidable lost four game losing.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Streak, I'm gonna say it's favorable.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I like the Vikings in this game, and I think
this is another one of those ballgames where the Vikings
defensive line comes alive and is able to limit Lamar
Jackson enough to win this game. And why I like
this is because it's a home game. The thing about
Philadelphia and Baltimore which gives the Vikings the chances their
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home games, and I'd rather face Philadelphia and Baltimore at
home and face the Chargers on the road.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Than have it the other way around.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So I think being a home game, this gives the
Vikings of an opportunity to win. Vikings are five and
four after a week ten, Week eleven home versus Chicago.
You called that a fifty to fifty earlier. Is this favorable,
formidable or fifty to fifty?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I think at this pointing at home game, that helps
a huge, huge, huge lot huge much.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yes, huge, tons a huge, But.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I got it favorable and I got him winning some five.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
And five favorable. I'm all about those splits.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, Vikings favorable six and four.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
After Week eleven.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Week twelve at Green Bay twelve o'clock start, Micah Parsons
first matchup of the season between these two teams.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, so that could change things up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Getting an injection every week for his back or.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah right, it's the epidural.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I mean, do back injuries get better by playing through them?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Yeah? No one really says I used to have back pain.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Right, No one goes from all I have back pain.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
In week one to week twelve, after playing eleven games,
I'm feeling much better.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Yeah, that is interesting. Maybe Jerry Jones is actually big
braining all of US.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yes, I usually think it's the right trade from the
Cowboys perspective, but yeah, that's neither here nor there.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Week twelve at green.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Bay formidable, just because at Lambeau was always pretty much
always formidable unless.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
They would beat him last year on the road.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, I mean we only lost lost in the Rams
twice and uh well what kind of the playoffs and
then the Lions twice. Yeah, m hmm, but that's it's formidable.
I think the Packer was gonna be better. I think
Jordan Love I'm going to buy the narrative that he
was more injured than people. Then he let on and
the Packers let on last year, and that's kind of narrative,
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and then it impacted his play. I think Jordan Love
might have a big jump, and so I'd go formidable
and it'd be five and six for US.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Five and six.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Wait, just you wait, all right, I'll say formidable as well.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I'm six and five, okay, a Green Bay six and five.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Week thirteen at Seattle, Wow, we never play them on
the road, so kind of unusual there, right, never plays
Seattle on the road.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Were a rare situation.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Three oh five start favorable, formidable or fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
How does borderline it's fifty to fifty or favorable. I
went fifty to fifty just because at Seattle. Tough place
to play Sam donald revenge game, but I got it
as a win. I don't think the Seahawks are going
to be amazing, you know, I don't know that. I
think Sam Donald's gonna be somewhere between Viking Sam Donald
and the rest of career Sam Donald and just be
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kind of okay, Seahawks are going to be a maybe
five hundred team at best, and we got to win
that one to get this run going here.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
So six and six, all right, I'm gonna say formidable.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I think the throw Donald made last year to beat
the Seahawks late in the fourth quarter as he was
getting hit, I don't think MacArthur can make that throw.
And I think this is a formidable game. Vikings lose
fall to six and six, five hundred.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Five and six, and right back at the same.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Well, I had him at six and four and then
they dropped two straight versus Green Bay and Seattle. Okay, yeah,
fair enough, you're right, You're right. I didn't make fun
of you for having them five and six and you're
probably I wonder if we're gonna finish off with the
same record. These next two games get interesting.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah, so we're.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Both five hundred six and six final playoff push final
five games to play.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Week fourteen home versus Washington.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I have this one also has a fifty to fifty
home game, obviously helps. I don't know that Washington's going
to have that same magic in a bottle that they
had last year. Again, I think a little bit of
realism is gonna hit them on They're the oldest even
the NFL. We just think of them as young because
Jaden Daniels as young. You know, their running back situation
is not great. Terry mclaurin's a thirty year old receiver.
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They don't really have a debo is their second He's
not been healthy for a couple of years now. Maybe
he is this year. You know, Zach Ertz again, Madden
twenty twenty, like twenty nineteen, probably this would have been
an insane team. But defense is okay, right, But again,
if you're going to be making an actual playoff push,
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you got to take care of business at home. So
I got this as a win seven and six.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I agree, win seven and six for the same reasons
really that I had versus Baltimore and Cincinnati. I think
the trenches for the Vikings win this game, and that's
why they brought in these guys. Yes, Jada and Daniels
electric with what it can do. But I think last
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year was kind of the shock and awe year, and
this year will be not Eve's not gonna be terrible,
but it'll be more. Yeah, it'll be reality. Reality we'll
set in all right. So we both have them at
seven and six on the road. Week fifteen at Dallas
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seven to twenty start on NBC.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Can't wait for Sunday night.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
M hm. Been waiting all day for Sunday Nights. What
I've heard, that's what I've heard. I think the cops
me pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Defense is on the weak side. Offense, they don't have
a running back. They might throw for five hundred yards
a game. I don't know, but I guess it says
a win.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, Ceede. Lamb's a great fantasy option.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah, yeah, I'll say favorable as well. Dallas's defense is
the worst in the league, and at this point in
the season, I'm a big believer in the already booked
vacation guy, And at this point of the season, Dallas
and their players are just trying to get out unscathed,
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and they will have their vacations booked. Same thing for
Week sixteen against New York for me, yeah, they have
their vacations booked.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
So the Vikings win three in a row or four
if you're doing my list, if you're doing your math, yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Price Jackson dir at that game. That could be fun.
I'm glad we didn't spend any time talking about the Giants.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Six, all right, nine and six.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Week seventeen home versus Detroit and then Week eighteen home
versus Green Bay. So we'll start with Week seventeen favorable
for middle bar fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yeah, obviously it's nice to end these last two tough
division games at home. I got Lions as a fifty
to fifty and again, I think they're gonna sputter to
the finish much more than they're going to accelerate like
they did the last two or three years here. So
I got this as a win for the Vikings. Again,
for me personally, that's a five game winning streak here
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to go to Tens. You doubted us, You doubt us
five and six, and here we are at ten six.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Wow. Yeah, I'll say favorable. I think we can. I can.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I think we can split with Detroit this year because
I think they'll take a step back too. And if
you want to be entertained, go to my Detroit Lions
podcast like two weeks ago and look at those comments
and see how Detroit Lions fans.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Feel about me. But I'll say that's a win.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
VI Gangs are ten and six and then home versus
Green Bay to finish off the season flex game. Don't
know the time, don't know the date. Favorable for Middlemoor
fifty to fifty again.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
But I don't necessarily have a division winner, per se.
But I'm a little nervous the Packers might win the division.
This might be a very important game for them, obviously
comport the Vacans as well. But I have this fifty lot,
so I have facing ten and seven.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Oh, I hate agreeing with you.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
So are we lockstep for lockstep? Now?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I'll say it's I'll say that we sweep the Packers
last year, the Backers get us this year. So vikings
ten and seven, we are in agreement. They overcome their
middle of the season woes and somehow finished with double
digit wins. But the question is will that be enough
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with the Lions, Bears, and Packers competing not only for
the divisional.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Spot but also for wild card positions as well.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
So it'll be interesting in today's era when there's seven
playoff teams, like it's it's a lot easier to make
I mean a lot of people are kind of having three,
you know, playoff teams come out of the NFC North.
You know, ten wins is usually enough. That's should be
enough to make it in so we'd hope.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
So super Bowl prediction season, Now you're gonna say two
teams that you like to get to the Big Game
and who will win the Big Game? I can start
while you wrap your mind around it. I I think
last year I picked the Jacksonville Jaguars to go to
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the Super Bowl, or maybe that was two years that
was two years.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Ago, maybe coming off yeah, closer to like the yeah
two years ago, Lauren suck a little better?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah, all right?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
In the AFC, I really like the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Hold on, let me get this, Dalton Riis and drop.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
You're a realist, And what you're saying is true, I
have the Browns over the Lions. I actually don't think
they're gonna take a step back. Got him?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
How funny would be though, if the Carolina Panthers went
to the Super Bowl this season after Adam Thielen left
and the reason why he joined the Panthers was because
he wanted to win a super Bowl, I don't have
them as the super Bowl team either.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
No, if he's self aware, that's like the first thing
I would have said when I got back to Minnesota.
You either make fun of himself as saying, well, we
didn't get a super Bowl, or hey, I just want
to go somewhere record with a super Bowl, right.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Man.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
It's so hard not to pick the teams that you
almost everyone picks. Because I like the Rams, but I
don't like Matthew Stafford's back injury. No, I don't like
anyone from the NFC South. No, I don't like the
Packers enough.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Agree, But which is also team.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Difficult to get back to back to back Super Bowls? Yeah,
when you're in the position of the Eagles. But it
does seem like they have the best roster top to bottom. Yeah, right,
I mean when you have Drealen Hurts and you have
the defense that they do with aj Brown and Sequon Barkley,
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how can you pick anybody else? Yeah, So from the NFC,
I'm gonna pick the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Same. Yeah, that was my first thought. Like you said,
the other options, like I've heard like the Box is
kind of a sleeper. I don't love that Packers. Honestly,
I don't hate that as like a sneaky make a
run team. I do think the Lions could make a
playoff run, Like I don't think that's out of the question, right,
They're still going to make the playoffs Jared Goff. You
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know they were close last year, like they could make
a run. But again, I don't love it enough to
like have that be like my home, you know, my
big pick. Yeah, obviously, like I said, I don't think
the Giants are cowboys. I don't think the you know,
Washington Commanders are going to make a huge run again
like that. So yeah, I'm with you. It's like Eagles.
It's the obvious choice, but they're also the strongest NFC
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opponent by a margin, I.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Think so, and then a f C.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I mean it's the same conversation Bill's Ravens Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Maybe you could throw in the.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Bengals, but but their defense and their inefficiencies in that area,
hard to look at them. Maybe the Chargers could be
a sneaky one.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
I've heard too is like, yes, what predictors try to
get a little like fancy with it.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
A little spicy, go viral on Instagram reels and broncos.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I'm gonna say this season is not the whoa, it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
It's not the year the Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Bills make it to the championship game.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Your your right, did not want to hear this take
and run away.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
But it is the year the Baltimore Ravens make it
to the Super Bowl. So I got Ravens versus Eagles
in a battle of states that neighbor each other, that
are within maybe an hour or two of each other,
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Ravens Eagles in the championship in the Super Bowl matchup.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Mmm uh fascinating. But I do have the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Josh Allen finally gets over that playoff hope that everyone's
starting to put on his shoulders if he can't win
when it matters, they can't.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I'm trying to fort where the twenty twenty six Super
Bowl is. But while I figure that out. How far
do you have the Vikings going there? Does their season
end in week eighteen or does their season end in
the other championship game? First round of the playoffs. Super
Bowl is at Levi Stadium, by the way in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Ten School, San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yeah, I mean so if you if you put the
egos on a buy, Okay, I just kind of make
that assumption. You know, let's say ten to seven gets
the Vikings to like a seven seed, you don't hate.
I mean, that might be the Bucks. Don't hate that,
that might be the Again, what forty nine Ers or
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Seahawks or Cardinals, like whoever comes out of that one.
Who knows? So you don't hate your first round matchup.
You know, I don't think that's going to be a
super scary, one winnable fifty to fifty game. You might say,
you know, I don't know. Do they win a wildcard
game with JJ McCarthy in year one? It feels like
a big ass you know, sorry, I wouldn't you know,
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if I had to place my chips on either side
of that, I'd probably say no.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Well, now, Kevin O'Connell was zero and three in playoff
appearances Donald Cousin. Now, now you know you talk about
the proverbial hump over Josh Allen's shoulders. Now the hump
becomes on, well, why can't he get past the first
round in the playoffs?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
What is it about his teams that he can overcome this?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Yeah, and I think more fairly so for previous years too,
I mean losing to it because he like, you know,
Giants and wasn't Sis. You know those two are again
you should be in better, you know, Giants, you should win,
for sure. That was bad Rams. I think that's more
of a fifty to fifty that you just wish you
would have showed up a little more. Yeah, that's always
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what people don't like, you know, the best playoff team,
like the playoff teams like they're the best team in
the NFL. Like you're not going to win, just like
every wild card game you're in. Right, it's just about
the showing. Right, The Giants showing was pretty embarrassing, Right,
The Rams showing was pretty embarrassing. Like it wasn't like
a fifty to fifty game that was back and forth
and had a chance to win and blah blah, bah
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blah blah. I was like, ooh, that was bad. Yeah,
you know, so it's kind of the same thing, like
can you put up but they can they at least
put up a good performance that makes you go okay,
like we were in it and just didn't go our way?
Or is it or is it another game that's like
we don't even look like we belong on the same
field right now?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
So that's the key that'll be kind of a something
to watch, right, is it, Because then at that point
then you might actually be able to legitimately ask is
this a key see in a staff problem that they
can't you know, they're getting out schemed or out prepared
or out whatever, right, you know, by other coaching staffs,
or is it just a personnel problem? Obviously preadifferent quarterbacks
hard to say, you know, so that'll be interesting to see.
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But I'd pushed my chips on the not winning the
wild card game, but.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
I would agree very you know, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I will say this is the year the Vikings get
over that hump and they do win a playoff game.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
So well.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
You kind of test there. I did.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
It didn't feel great, coming, didn't feel good, didn't feel good.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
It didn't feel good in my headphones because in all seriousness, like,
I don't know if ten wins makes the playoffs this
season with where the Packers and Lions could be, I
think the final two weeks of the season are going
to determine playoff spots and I think the Bears will
be much better than they were before. Are they still
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a year away? Is the question? And McCarthy's first season,
I will say the Vikings, I know I had them
at ten and seven, but my theory is there's always
a game in there they lose that you don't anticipate
them losing, so I always subtract one.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
So they're going to be nine and eight.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Yeah, then I don't.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Think the Vikings make the playoffs this year. I think
they're a year away from making the playoffs. So that's
gonna be my take. I stand on that take. The
Vikings don't make the playoffs with a nine and eight record.
So I know I had them at ten and seven
going through the list of games, and of course there's
a game that they could win that I don't anticipate
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them winning, like maybe versus Philadelphia or at the Chargers,
but there's also games in there that I have them
winning that they could lose like Home versus Washington, Home
versus Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
So nine and eight is my final prediction, just to.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Be we always say that they'll win as many as
they should and they'll lose as many as they should, right, yeah,
yeah perspective. As quick Google excided, No, before the added
playoff team, yes, twenty teams with ten wins missed playoffs.
Oh so before whatever year they added, was it twenty
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twenty years, twenty twenty one, whatever year that was that
they switched from six to seven something on that. And
then last year the Seahawks missed it with ten and
that was the first time in there. So it's possible
because I remember, yeah, they won like they were Yeah,
they they had a tie with somebody and they lost
the tie breaker. I remember who it was.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
And that's why many people are high on the Seahawks
this year because the last year.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Yeah, so they were the first one to lose miss
out in the new era, so like this.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Will be team two. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Well, Jacob, thank you as always for joining the show
and delivering your Jake's take. Favorable, formidable or fifty to fifty,
always enjoyable, always fun to break down what's going down?
So thanks for joining the show today. You have a
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problem with these predictions. They don't take it personally. It's
our predictions.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Comment nice things about how you disagree, Yes, a disagree.
Just be plain about it, you know.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Yeah, Kindness love.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Kindness wins. Rage does not.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
I don't care. Rage all over me. I don't go ahead,
go ahead. Thank you, Jake, appreciate you.
It's favorable, formidable, or fifty fifty where Jake and I
run through the Minnesota Vikings twenty one game schedule and
predict if they will become Super Bowl champions. Jacob, we
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do this every year. Last year, I couldn't have been
more wrong. I said the Vikings will go five and
twelve because I didn't believe the hype. But in my defense,
DraftKings didn't have the Vikings over under set at thirteen
and a half either.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
So it's a new year.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
It's a fresh slate of predictions, and I think I'm
feeling ready for it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
How are you feeling?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I'm feeling great.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Wasn't it one of the biggest like smashings over like
in odds history in terms of the win predict versus
actual win number.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I don't know how it's not.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, that's prett high. I don't think I did much
better last year. I think I was similar. You know,
we weren't fully trusting Koc as the quarterback whisper that
he has proven to be, you know. So, but yeah,
that's common public opinion. Everyone thought, yeah, they might be
there over under like five and a half or six
or whatever it was. But yeah, not double it or
(01:25):
almost triple it, right, So yeah, we'll see what happens
this year. I'm totally ready to go. This goes back
to the Herald Journal days. So how many years have
we been doing this test?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That at least be the third year at.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Least as I think it's fourth, fifth, Yeah, I guess
fourth or fifth?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well, anyway, today is presented by five Star Bath Solutions
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of Minneapolis. All Right, Game one at Chicago Go Monday
Night football. Ben Johnson's debut favorable, formidable or fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I look at this season in kind of like three sections. Okay,
so we have our pre buy section, our impossible section,
and then our thank god we're getting to the end
of the season section. Okay, so we're in the favorable
section here. Obviously, the Bears should be improved. I saw.
I think Peter Schreger picked them as the division winner.
(02:32):
Ye me. But I don't think Caleb Williams is him.
I don't think Ben Johnson is some savior. I know
they fortified their offensive line, but I have a fifty
fifty still soldier field money football. But a big dub,
the big dub JJ McCarthy's debut, Big dub.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Huge dub.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You see the question that they asked McCarthy because four
years when he was four years old, he went to
his first game. It was a Bears Vikings matchup. He
was wearing his Brian Erlacker jersey, and the question was
was how does it feel to go home and play
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Monday night against Chicago.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
He goes, I feel like Minnesota's home now. Just really,
it is a great answer.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You really just gave Minnesotans just a whole bunch of hm.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
He said something like, it's a business trip, right, play
some football and see what happens. Yeah, yeah, yeah, every
I heard Vikings fans.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
My god, Yeah yeah, you just gave Minnesota is a
massive erection with those comments.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Okay, maybe.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well you didn't say it. I said it.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I know, but you know you're associated with me, and
I want to make sure you're okay.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I won't post I won't post that publicly. Litchfield's fans,
if you're listening.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
To this on YouTube, appreciate it. Thank you, and on
Instagram too. Just shout out to Litchfield High School football team.
There a bunch of new loyal fan bases shout out Litchfield.
All right, my prediction formidable. I think the Chicago Bears
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will beat the Vikings on Monday Night Football, and the
Vikings McCarthy era will start oh to one.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
And here's why.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
The Bears defense I think is better than the Vikings defense.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And I think the.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Vikings I'm not afraid of Caleb Williams per se, but
I'm afraid of Ben Johnson. Brian Floores all time these
last few seasons versus Ben Johnson is zho and four.
Now you do need to consider the circumstances. Jared Goff,
Jamiir Gibbs, Mon Ross, Saint Brown. The Lions are just better,
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so you can't really bring that O or two the
Bears situation. It's not fair, But I think Ben Johnson
is gonna pull off some trickery and the Vikings better
be prepared for it because I think that's going to
be the difference in this ballgame. Bears win twenty four
to twenty one.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So the Vikings start zero to one, okay.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Week two Sunday Night home versus Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I go favorable. Yep, it's gotta be favorable. Now the
Falcons again should be decent. I think Pennix might be
all right. B John and Drake Lennon oftense should be okay.
But if you're gonna be any kind of serious team
this year, you gotta be able to beat a team
like the Falcons on Sunday night football at home. So
that's a favorable one. And I got him winning.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
So two and zero favorable for all the reasons you
just said. Falcons.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Not afraid of the Falcons in the first home game
of the year, that would be a juiced environment, favorable outcome.
Vikings win twenty seven to nineteen. Week three versus Cincinnati
home again, finally a noon game, the first and only
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noon game in the first five weeks of the season.
Home versus Cincy, twelve o'clock game. Favorable for admidable or
fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
So the Bengals are kind of a weird one, right.
Last year they started out was super cold and then
they got super hot, almost made the playoffs. Joe Burrow
through for like five thousand yards, not quite but whatever,
it was huge number. I got this fifty to fifty, okay,
fifty fifteen, and I have this one as their first
loss of two, and one main reason being if there's
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a flaw in any unit of the Vikings offense or defense,
the corners, they scare me. Okay, we don't bring I
mean obvious the what's my blanking on? The dude's name Murphy?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Ye?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Right, you know he should be solid, but we only
have four in the roster right now. Harrison sin it's
still recovering. Obviously, hoping by week three and four he's
good to go, but who knows. So it's just there's
a lot of question marks in the secondary. And if
there's one place you don't want question marks against the
team MC Bengals, it's the secondary, you know, Jamar, Chase T. Higgins,
Joe Burrow. So, I think they might be able to
throw it all over us. Take a big fan out.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I like the Vikings in this game. I'm calling it
is favorable. And the reason why is because I think
this exact game is why they brought in their defensive line.
This is a game one in the trenches and the
Cincinnati Bengals have.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
A terrible offensive line now.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Bringing in former Viking is great and former guests of
this podcast, Dalton Reisner, so he signed with their team.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Let's let's play the little Riisner drop while we're here.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
You're real and what you're saying is true.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
So I'm a realist. And what I'm saying is true.
Is what Dalton Reisner said about me. Okay, Vikings win
this game because of Jonathan Allen, Javon Hargrave, Jonathan Grenard
Van Ginkel, and the boys up front throw Dallas Turner
(08:32):
Burrow won't have time to throw. Vikings are two and
one after an early loss to the Chicago Bears. All Right,
Week four versus the Pittsburg Steelers on the road, is
this one in Ireland or London?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I think you go to Ireland first and then we
can do four and five together. Here go Ireland and London.
I think it's that order. If remember and then Steelers,
then Browns yep.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And then if we got eight thirty starts for the
both of those games, yep.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I got favorable for both brown Brown's. Week five. I
mean they're they're kind of the Pooh Pooh platter, like
they should be one of the worst teams in the
league by week five. Will it'll still be Joe Flatt
thirty nine, forty one year old Joe Flacco. Who knows
whether it be Dylan Gabriel or Shadier Sanders. I mean,
it doesn't matter, It won't right they're running back rooms
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and mass their second round rookie hasn't signed yet. Like,
you gotta beat the Browns, especially coming off the second
week where you have the kind of the home field
advantage after being in Europe for already a week. Steelers
is one of those where I just don't think they're
going to be a great team this year.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Offensively is my biggest question. Defensively they're always good, but
offensively it's.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Like they might out some wins and stuff. But I'm
not scared of Aaron Rodgers at this point. Jalen Warren
and Caleb Johnson whatever, DK metcalf great, but there's sex
wide receiver is like Calvin Austin or Roman Wills. Like,
I just don't know that they're gonna be a score enough.
So I got both of them as favorable and both
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of them as wins. Putting at four and one.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I agree favorable. The Viking Steelers game might be like
seven to six correct, one of the worst games in
the history of Ireland football or overseas football in general.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
And they may never ask the Vikings to come back
ever again.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Well, they see Jaguars every year though, so they're familiar. Yeah,
we streamers game that we played with at three zero
like a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yep, one of the worst games ever.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
To maybe be like that at least three zero win.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Will Raiker at the buzzer.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
From sixty Week six by week favorable, love it, love
it four and one. Going into Philadelphia Week seven at home.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Gives us a chance twelve o'clock.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
So week seven, been at Philadelphia home, twelve o'clock game.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Week seven to week twelve here, Tim, I got a
lot of.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
For the Gauntlet.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
The Gauntlet, so obviously home is helpful. But Eagles, you know,
they're looking every bit as legit as they were last year.
Have it as formidable, and I have that as a loss,
even coming off the buye again. Just keeping up with
that dynamic offense, trying to score on that dynamic defense.
It's going to be a challenge for anybody, let alone
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a rookie quarterback and the guys that we got, so again,
I think we can give him a good fight. But
I got formidable with a loss.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
As much as it's an advantage for the Vikings coming
off the bye. The Eagles also have their short buy
because they play the Giants the Thursday before, so they're
coming off rest too, which then I would say is
formidable for the Vikings. If they Eagles had like a
Monday Night game the week prior and it was again
(12:00):
a juggernaut like the Ravens or some other team in
the NFL, then I would be more.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Favorable.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah, but I agree formidable Vikings four and two after
Week seven, Week eight at the Chargers short week Thursday
Night Jim Harbas seven to fifteen start favorable, formidable or
fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I think the Churches are going to be an improved
team this year. And then you add in a short
week traveling across the country Dost Angeles after the Eagles.
That's a tough one. So I have it as formidable again.
I think a good game. I don't think the Chargers
are like a one seed type team, but a playoff team,
I think. So I got that as a loss as well.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Four and three, Yeah, I got it as a loss
as too. Four and three.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
That short week is tough, especially kind of going off
the theory you're not playing the Browns. In Week seven,
you're playing the eight who are going to beat you
up and bruise you down. So that's a tough back
to back Week eight loss Chargers four and three. I agree.
Week nine at Detroit twelve o'clock start favorable, formidable or
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fifteen to fifty.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
So one of my hotter tapes is that I think
the Lions are gonna have a pretty big step down
this way.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Now I'm not saying step down like not a playoff team,
but we're used to Lions being easy division winners, thirteen
fourteen to fifteen wins, you know whatever. I think they're
going to be more in that ten win range kind of.
I think where that Packers, I think it's gonna be
a three way race or all around ten wins, okay,
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and even the Bears being, you know, flirting with that too.
I think it's gonna be a pretty bounced division. But
regardless of all of that, at Lions still a formidable
Opponent's still a formidable place to play. Five hundred ah
another loss for here we go.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Three straight ls, and now people are questioning capitalcaddle and
the QB whisper formidable.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I agree, do they get to Week ten, four and four.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
At Baltimore home vers Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Week nine, Yeah, Formidable versus Detroit. I agree, four and.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Four, but again that's three tough opponents. I mean, it's
not like we'red Yeah, it's not like we're just losing
bad games here.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Week ten home versus Baltimore. Can they get off the schneide.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No versus Ravens again. You have your MVP, you have
I mean Allen, but you know multiple time MVP and
Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry, good defense. I know it's home,
but again, Ravens, they scare me stopping a scrambling quarterbacks
possible right, Formidable lost four game losing.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Streak, I'm gonna say it's favorable.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I like the Vikings in this game, and I think
this is another one of those ballgames where the Vikings
defensive line comes alive and is able to limit Lamar
Jackson enough to win this game. And why I like
this is because it's a home game. The thing about
Philadelphia and Baltimore which gives the Vikings the chances their
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home games, and I'd rather face Philadelphia and Baltimore at
home and face the Chargers on the road.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Than have it the other way around.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So I think being a home game, this gives the
Vikings of an opportunity to win. Vikings are five and
four after a week ten, Week eleven home versus Chicago.
You called that a fifty to fifty earlier. Is this favorable,
formidable or fifty to fifty?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I think at this pointing at home game, that helps
a huge, huge, huge lot huge much.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yes, huge, tons a huge, But.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I got it favorable and I got him winning some five.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
And five favorable. I'm all about those splits.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, Vikings favorable six and four.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
After Week eleven.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Week twelve at Green Bay twelve o'clock start, Micah Parsons
first matchup of the season between these two teams.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, so that could change things up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Getting an injection every week for his back or.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah right, it's the epidural.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I mean, do back injuries get better by playing through them?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Yeah? No one really says I used to have back pain.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Right, No one goes from all I have back pain.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
In week one to week twelve, after playing eleven games,
I'm feeling much better.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Yeah, that is interesting. Maybe Jerry Jones is actually big
braining all of US.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yes, I usually think it's the right trade from the
Cowboys perspective, but yeah, that's neither here nor there.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Week twelve at green.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Bay formidable, just because at Lambeau was always pretty much
always formidable unless.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
They would beat him last year on the road.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, I mean we only lost lost in the Rams
twice and uh well what kind of the playoffs and
then the Lions twice. Yeah, m hmm, but that's it's formidable.
I think the Packer was gonna be better. I think
Jordan Love I'm going to buy the narrative that he
was more injured than people. Then he let on and
the Packers let on last year, and that's kind of narrative,
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and then it impacted his play. I think Jordan Love
might have a big jump, and so I'd go formidable
and it'd be five and six for US.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Five and six.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Wait, just you wait, all right, I'll say formidable as well.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I'm six and five, okay, a Green Bay six and five.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Week thirteen at Seattle, Wow, we never play them on
the road, so kind of unusual there, right, never plays
Seattle on the road.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Were a rare situation.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Three oh five start favorable, formidable or fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
How does borderline it's fifty to fifty or favorable. I
went fifty to fifty just because at Seattle. Tough place
to play Sam donald revenge game, but I got it
as a win. I don't think the Seahawks are going
to be amazing, you know, I don't know that. I
think Sam Donald's gonna be somewhere between Viking Sam Donald
and the rest of career Sam Donald and just be
(18:44):
kind of okay, Seahawks are going to be a maybe
five hundred team at best, and we got to win
that one to get this run going here.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
So six and six, all right, I'm gonna say formidable.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I think the throw Donald made last year to beat
the Seahawks late in the fourth quarter as he was
getting hit, I don't think MacArthur can make that throw.
And I think this is a formidable game. Vikings lose
fall to six and six, five hundred.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Five and six, and right back at the same.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Well, I had him at six and four and then
they dropped two straight versus Green Bay and Seattle. Okay, yeah,
fair enough, you're right, You're right. I didn't make fun
of you for having them five and six and you're
probably I wonder if we're gonna finish off with the
same record. These next two games get interesting.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah, so we're.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Both five hundred six and six final playoff push final
five games to play.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Week fourteen home versus Washington.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I have this one also has a fifty to fifty
home game, obviously helps. I don't know that Washington's going
to have that same magic in a bottle that they
had last year. Again, I think a little bit of
realism is gonna hit them on They're the oldest even
the NFL. We just think of them as young because
Jaden Daniels as young. You know, their running back situation
is not great. Terry mclaurin's a thirty year old receiver.
(20:09):
They don't really have a debo is their second He's
not been healthy for a couple of years now. Maybe
he is this year. You know, Zach Ertz again, Madden
twenty twenty, like twenty nineteen, probably this would have been
an insane team. But defense is okay, right, But again,
if you're going to be making an actual playoff push,
(20:30):
you got to take care of business at home. So
I got this as a win seven and six.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I agree, win seven and six for the same reasons
really that I had versus Baltimore and Cincinnati. I think
the trenches for the Vikings win this game, and that's
why they brought in these guys. Yes, Jada and Daniels
electric with what it can do. But I think last
(20:54):
year was kind of the shock and awe year, and
this year will be not Eve's not gonna be terrible,
but it'll be more. Yeah, it'll be reality. Reality we'll
set in all right. So we both have them at
seven and six on the road. Week fifteen at Dallas
(21:15):
seven to twenty start on NBC.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Can't wait for Sunday night.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
M hm. Been waiting all day for Sunday Nights. What
I've heard, that's what I've heard. I think the cops
me pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Defense is on the weak side. Offense, they don't have
a running back. They might throw for five hundred yards
a game. I don't know, but I guess it says
a win.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, Ceede. Lamb's a great fantasy option.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah, yeah, I'll say favorable as well. Dallas's defense is
the worst in the league, and at this point in
the season, I'm a big believer in the already booked
vacation guy, And at this point of the season, Dallas
and their players are just trying to get out unscathed,
(22:02):
and they will have their vacations booked. Same thing for
Week sixteen against New York for me, yeah, they have
their vacations booked.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
So the Vikings win three in a row or four
if you're doing my list, if you're doing your math, yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Price Jackson dir at that game. That could be fun.
I'm glad we didn't spend any time talking about the Giants.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Six, all right, nine and six.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Week seventeen home versus Detroit and then Week eighteen home
versus Green Bay. So we'll start with Week seventeen favorable
for middle bar fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yeah, obviously it's nice to end these last two tough
division games at home. I got Lions as a fifty
to fifty and again, I think they're gonna sputter to
the finish much more than they're going to accelerate like
they did the last two or three years here. So
I got this as a win for the Vikings. Again,
for me personally, that's a five game winning streak here
(22:59):
to go to Tens. You doubted us, You doubt us
five and six, and here we are at ten six.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Wow. Yeah, I'll say favorable. I think we can. I can.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I think we can split with Detroit this year because
I think they'll take a step back too. And if
you want to be entertained, go to my Detroit Lions
podcast like two weeks ago and look at those comments
and see how Detroit Lions fans.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Feel about me. But I'll say that's a win.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
VI Gangs are ten and six and then home versus
Green Bay to finish off the season flex game. Don't
know the time, don't know the date. Favorable for Middlemoor
fifty to fifty again.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
But I don't necessarily have a division winner, per se.
But I'm a little nervous the Packers might win the division.
This might be a very important game for them, obviously
comport the Vacans as well. But I have this fifty lot,
so I have facing ten and seven.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Oh, I hate agreeing with you.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
So are we lockstep for lockstep? Now?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I'll say it's I'll say that we sweep the Packers
last year, the Backers get us this year. So vikings
ten and seven, we are in agreement. They overcome their
middle of the season woes and somehow finished with double
digit wins. But the question is will that be enough
(24:35):
with the Lions, Bears, and Packers competing not only for
the divisional.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Spot but also for wild card positions as well.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
So it'll be interesting in today's era when there's seven
playoff teams, like it's it's a lot easier to make
I mean a lot of people are kind of having three,
you know, playoff teams come out of the NFC North.
You know, ten wins is usually enough. That's should be
enough to make it in so we'd hope.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
So super Bowl prediction season, Now you're gonna say two
teams that you like to get to the Big Game
and who will win the Big Game? I can start
while you wrap your mind around it. I I think
last year I picked the Jacksonville Jaguars to go to
(25:24):
the Super Bowl, or maybe that was two years that
was two years.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Ago, maybe coming off yeah, closer to like the yeah
two years ago, Lauren suck a little better?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah, all right?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
In the AFC, I really like the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Hold on, let me get this, Dalton Riis and drop.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
You're a realist, And what you're saying is true, I
have the Browns over the Lions. I actually don't think
they're gonna take a step back. Got him?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
How funny would be though, if the Carolina Panthers went
to the Super Bowl this season after Adam Thielen left
and the reason why he joined the Panthers was because
he wanted to win a super Bowl, I don't have
them as the super Bowl team either.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
No, if he's self aware, that's like the first thing
I would have said when I got back to Minnesota.
You either make fun of himself as saying, well, we
didn't get a super Bowl, or hey, I just want
to go somewhere record with a super Bowl, right.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Man.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
It's so hard not to pick the teams that you
almost everyone picks. Because I like the Rams, but I
don't like Matthew Stafford's back injury. No, I don't like
anyone from the NFC South. No, I don't like the
Packers enough.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Agree, But which is also team.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Difficult to get back to back to back Super Bowls? Yeah,
when you're in the position of the Eagles. But it
does seem like they have the best roster top to bottom. Yeah, right,
I mean when you have Drealen Hurts and you have
the defense that they do with aj Brown and Sequon Barkley,
(27:14):
how can you pick anybody else? Yeah, So from the NFC,
I'm gonna pick the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Same. Yeah, that was my first thought. Like you said,
the other options, like I've heard like the Box is
kind of a sleeper. I don't love that Packers. Honestly,
I don't hate that as like a sneaky make a
run team. I do think the Lions could make a
playoff run, Like I don't think that's out of the question, right,
They're still going to make the playoffs Jared Goff. You
(27:43):
know they were close last year, like they could make
a run. But again, I don't love it enough to
like have that be like my home, you know, my
big pick. Yeah, obviously, like I said, I don't think
the Giants are cowboys. I don't think the you know,
Washington Commanders are going to make a huge run again
like that. So yeah, I'm with you. It's like Eagles.
It's the obvious choice, but they're also the strongest NFC
(28:04):
opponent by a margin, I.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Think so, and then a f C.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I mean it's the same conversation Bill's Ravens Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Maybe you could throw in the.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Bengals, but but their defense and their inefficiencies in that area,
hard to look at them. Maybe the Chargers could be
a sneaky one.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
I've heard too is like, yes, what predictors try to
get a little like fancy with it.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
A little spicy, go viral on Instagram reels and broncos.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I'm gonna say this season is not the whoa, it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
It's not the year the Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Bills make it to the championship game.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Your your right, did not want to hear this take
and run away.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
But it is the year the Baltimore Ravens make it
to the Super Bowl. So I got Ravens versus Eagles
in a battle of states that neighbor each other, that
are within maybe an hour or two of each other,
(29:38):
Ravens Eagles in the championship in the Super Bowl matchup.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Mmm uh fascinating. But I do have the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Josh Allen finally gets over that playoff hope that everyone's
starting to put on his shoulders if he can't win
when it matters, they can't.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I'm trying to fort where the twenty twenty six Super
Bowl is. But while I figure that out. How far
do you have the Vikings going there? Does their season
end in week eighteen or does their season end in
the other championship game? First round of the playoffs. Super
Bowl is at Levi Stadium, by the way in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Ten School, San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yeah, I mean so if you if you put the
egos on a buy, Okay, I just kind of make
that assumption. You know, let's say ten to seven gets
the Vikings to like a seven seed, you don't hate.
I mean, that might be the Bucks. Don't hate that,
that might be the Again, what forty nine Ers or
(30:46):
Seahawks or Cardinals, like whoever comes out of that one.
Who knows? So you don't hate your first round matchup.
You know, I don't think that's going to be a
super scary, one winnable fifty to fifty game. You might say,
you know, I don't know. Do they win a wildcard
game with JJ McCarthy in year one? It feels like
a big ass you know, sorry, I wouldn't you know,
(31:08):
if I had to place my chips on either side
of that, I'd probably say no.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Well, now, Kevin O'Connell was zero and three in playoff
appearances Donald Cousin. Now, now you know you talk about
the proverbial hump over Josh Allen's shoulders. Now the hump
becomes on, well, why can't he get past the first
round in the playoffs?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
What is it about his teams that he can overcome this?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Yeah, and I think more fairly so for previous years too,
I mean losing to it because he like, you know,
Giants and wasn't Sis. You know those two are again
you should be in better, you know, Giants, you should win,
for sure. That was bad Rams. I think that's more
of a fifty to fifty that you just wish you
would have showed up a little more. Yeah, that's always
(31:53):
what people don't like, you know, the best playoff team,
like the playoff teams like they're the best team in
the NFL. Like you're not going to win, just like
every wild card game you're in. Right, it's just about
the showing. Right, The Giants showing was pretty embarrassing, Right,
The Rams showing was pretty embarrassing. Like it wasn't like
a fifty to fifty game that was back and forth
and had a chance to win and blah blah, bah
(32:14):
blah blah. I was like, ooh, that was bad. Yeah,
you know, so it's kind of the same thing, like
can you put up but they can they at least
put up a good performance that makes you go okay,
like we were in it and just didn't go our way?
Or is it or is it another game that's like
we don't even look like we belong on the same
field right now?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
So that's the key that'll be kind of a something
to watch, right, is it, Because then at that point
then you might actually be able to legitimately ask is
this a key see in a staff problem that they
can't you know, they're getting out schemed or out prepared
or out whatever, right, you know, by other coaching staffs,
or is it just a personnel problem? Obviously preadifferent quarterbacks
hard to say, you know, so that'll be interesting to see.
(32:53):
But I'd pushed my chips on the not winning the
wild card game, but.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
I would agree very you know, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I will say this is the year the Vikings get
over that hump and they do win a playoff game.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
So well.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
You kind of test there. I did.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
It didn't feel great, coming, didn't feel good, didn't feel good.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
It didn't feel good in my headphones because in all seriousness, like,
I don't know if ten wins makes the playoffs this
season with where the Packers and Lions could be, I
think the final two weeks of the season are going
to determine playoff spots and I think the Bears will
be much better than they were before. Are they still
(33:46):
a year away? Is the question? And McCarthy's first season,
I will say the Vikings, I know I had them
at ten and seven, but my theory is there's always
a game in there they lose that you don't anticipate
them losing, so I always subtract one.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
So they're going to be nine and eight.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Yeah, then I don't.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Think the Vikings make the playoffs this year. I think
they're a year away from making the playoffs. So that's
gonna be my take. I stand on that take. The
Vikings don't make the playoffs with a nine and eight record.
So I know I had them at ten and seven
going through the list of games, and of course there's
a game that they could win that I don't anticipate
(34:34):
them winning, like maybe versus Philadelphia or at the Chargers,
but there's also games in there that I have them
winning that they could lose like Home versus Washington, Home
versus Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
So nine and eight is my final prediction, just to.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Be we always say that they'll win as many as
they should and they'll lose as many as they should, right, yeah,
yeah perspective. As quick Google excided, No, before the added
playoff team, yes, twenty teams with ten wins missed playoffs.
Oh so before whatever year they added, was it twenty
(35:10):
twenty years, twenty twenty one, whatever year that was that
they switched from six to seven something on that. And
then last year the Seahawks missed it with ten and
that was the first time in there. So it's possible
because I remember, yeah, they won like they were Yeah,
they they had a tie with somebody and they lost
the tie breaker. I remember who it was.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
And that's why many people are high on the Seahawks
this year because the last year.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Yeah, so they were the first one to lose miss
out in the new era, so like this.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Will be team two. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Well, Jacob, thank you as always for joining the show
and delivering your Jake's take. Favorable, formidable or fifty to fifty,
always enjoyable, always fun to break down what's going down?
So thanks for joining the show today. You have a
(36:00):
problem with these predictions. They don't take it personally. It's
our predictions.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Comment nice things about how you disagree, Yes, a disagree.
Just be plain about it, you know.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Yeah, Kindness love.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Kindness wins. Rage does not.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
I don't care. Rage all over me. I don't go ahead,
go ahead. Thank you, Jake, appreciate you.
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