November 13, 2025 • 26 mins
Welcome back to The Vikings Tailgate - Presented by Ticketmaster - The official ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings. Cy Amundson and Chad Daniels are riding the rollercoaster going into Week 11 against "Da Bears." The guys talk about being heckled by upset Bears fans, Chad's favorite spots to chow down at U.S. Bank Stadium, Harrison Smith's 200 the game, and their predictions for the game. All of this and more is in Episode 63 of The Vikings Tailgate - Presented by Ticketmaster - The official ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings.
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Speaker 1 (01:23):
Hey everybody, Welcome into another episode of The Tailgate. I'm
your host, Cy Amanson, joined by my co host, the
Great Chad Daniels, and it is Bears Week Chatty. Hello,
We once again find ourselves in need of a rebound,
you know, tough one. We're like we always say we're
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a forward looking podcast. But my question for you, you've
known me to be a sports psychopath. I don't handle
the emotions, the ups and downs.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, I don't even think we need to an end
to No, I think we can go. It's it's I
know you to be a psychopath. Currently, we don't have
to go past tense.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Here the how, I don't this thing where? And you've
seen it in the text messages. I'm up, I'm down,
I'm up, I'm down.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
What is uh?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And I'm not somebody who sports affects every aspect of
my life, right, but I do take joy in it
and so I get way too emotionally tied to those
ups and downs.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah, what are.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You doing in this moment where we were we were
way down after the Chargers, we were way up after
the Lions. Suck at Zach Martine and now I just
feel I feel so down again. How are you riding
the roller coaster?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Well, listen, it might seem to fans that we've got
Sybil under center, but I'm going to tell you something.
It's easy young quarterback, and that has to come with grace. Right,
You get a lot of young quarterbacks. They get a
full season, in a full season of starting to make
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these mistakes and get the hang of the game. And
that's okay. I mean, he's this guy has shown signs
of brilliance and then other times you're sitting there going like,
how about seven yards lower on that one?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
And so.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
But but there has to be grace involved, and there
has to you have to remember, like this kid has
the talent. It's just it is gonna there's growing pains
with that stuff. And we're also it's like, hey, we're healthy,
just kidding, We're not healthy. I will say this, Maybe
we just go on one eight fall starts bro Hot
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hot Weight for Hot. It was so wild, I am
gonna put Visio you check the stock if this game
doesn't go how I wanted to go, because I'm breaking
every TV in my house. It's getting crazy over here.
I think I'm gonna have to go to the game
live and watch.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, you will be at the game, and so here's
my thing. I think I'd be doing a lot better
with it were it not. Everybody dislikes the Green Bay Packers,
of course, right, that's everybody. That's the whole Minnesota thing
for me, even though there hasn't been as competitive of
a rivalry. I love the city of Chicago. I like
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performing in Chicago. I don't love the people of Chicago,
and I gotta be honest, I don't think they love me.
And I'm happy to describe them as a bunch of
men with mustaches and or beards that look like they
may be played minor league baseball.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You know what I'm saying, still jacked.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Upper arms, but the rest of it hasn't kept going.
It looks like there's a bunch of semi pro softball
players who There is no city, and I'm not talking
about on a comedy club stage. I'm talking walk in
the street. There is no city that I've been and
heckled in my life like I am heckled in Chicago,
and I so desperately want to watch them lose. Sure,
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that's what I need. I don't love the mind frame
I am in going into this game.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
They're a little bit shy of Philly when it comes
just a smidge just when it comes to the sports, right.
I mean, you can go to a Cubs game and
you can be fine. It is in Wrigleyville. I mean,
there's nobody's throwing beers at you. But I went to
a Bears game once and full beers were coming at us.
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And then the Bears destroyed us, And so then I'm
walking through the same parking lot and now they're handing
me beers as if to say, hey, looks like you
need this. We murdered you today. And so it is
a little different because Philly, even if they beat you,
they'll throw beer cans at you after the game. So
it's a little different. I love it's it's interesting because
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they can turn sports in Chicago's They're so huge that
you could have a great show on Sunday or excuse me,
on Saturday, two shows sold out. Everybody's there for you.
Come through the merch line, give.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
You a hug, hey man, love you, dude.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And then they could see you and recognize you at
the game and want to fistfight you. It is it
is wild there.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
When I first started working for the Vikings, I did
this thing. I can't even remember what it was called,
but it was like the Keys to the Game, right,
and it was the really fast paced it was meant for,
like Instagram and TikTok and stuff. Sure it was a
rapid key, but it was a lot of humor in it.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So it's basically, here's what we should do, here's what
we should do in the game.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
And I only came up with those so I could
make these jokes and without fail, every week those they
would be flooded with fans from the other fan base
just up. So given the way social media works now,
you know, that would have been a real successful venture.
But I was at two times ago. When I'm at
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Zanies by the way, it's the summer, it's the beginning
of June. There's no football going on, and I get
up on stage and I'm about four minutes into my
show and so Zany's for the audience is a tiny
hallway of a club, one hundred and forty seats and
they go straight back and I'm a few minutes in
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and this guy just goes the Viking suck and I
was like, and I was like, I was like, oh
my god, did I wear Viking stuff on stage? And
then I kind of I was like, I didn't I
go thank you. I'm thinking they must have said that
I'm from Minnesota when they introduced me. And then I
did another joke, the Minnesota Vikings suck. And now I'm
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as mad at the life of originality in the second
attempt as I am at being heckled.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, but just in case you thought it maybe was
a high school team he was referencing called the Vikings.
He did want to make sure you knew he was
speaking of the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
The next one is the Minnesota Vikings, who play in
US Bank Stadium suck. So this guy in an hour
set probably layers eight to ten. Your team sucks in
some variation in and nobody likes it. And I'm not
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acknowledging it because I think if I engage in it,
it's going to become a really unenjoyable experience for everyone. Right,
And so I finish the show, and when you meet
the fans in the crowd after the show, you're like
standing by a doorway as the whole crowd. It's very
tight and everybody's filing out, and then I see about
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twelve people back. I see this short, musty mustache. I go, well,
that's the Viking suck guy, guarantee it. Why is he
in line? He comes down the line and he tells me.
He goes, I'm the guy who was saying the Viking suck.
And I go, I know, is did you? Did you
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need to tell it to me again?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
What's up? Man?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And he goes you and then he goes you five
years ago. So he starts telling me about a joke
I made in the three Keys segment years ago.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Wow, followed me.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
On social media, sat in waiting until years that I
did that segment. I think in twenty nineteen or twenty
oh wow.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
And let's not forget with his accent. He must have
taken a flight from New York to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I'm doing the best I can. Okay, Okay, he waited
like half a decade.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
That's pretty good to come.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
He paid for the ticket. There were no compsole out.
It was a one night event. He bought a ticket
and he wasn't even mean about it. He like and
on the way out, after we talked about he just
goes your team sucks, and he just kept going. It
was one of the weirdest. He wasn't there with a
partner or a friend.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
It was bonkers.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, that is wild to go. That's when I remind
people I go, you know what, I got eighty percent
of your ticket. Oh, never mind, it was sold out.
I got eighty five percent of your ticket cost. Thank
you for coming.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
It's a It is a weirdly Heckley city. I'd been.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Last time I was there, I tried to have dinner
at Michael Jordan's steakhouse and the waiter was doing the Hey,
where are you guys from? And I said Minnesota, And
then it was like every course it was like him
telling me why my team sucked. Hey, a lot of
your team suck. They have sucked.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, for a significant amount of only teams.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Your city is zero to one. Again to cow and
a lantern.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Shut up.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
It just it just put me in this place, like
as I've been reflecting on where we are so far
this year and where we're going and the fact that
we have to I told you in the opening week
Bears on the road Week one, you know that's a
tough start, and I mentioned it's tough for my dad,
who just doesn't watch that game, this one, with the
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way everything is gone, It's just drummed up all my
Chicago feelings. And even though I like the city, just
the amount of disdain I have for all things Chicago
or Bear related right now it's not healthy. I don't
I don't think I'm doing a good job. I don't
think I'm gonna be like awesome this weekend. I just
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I think I'm in lunatic mode. I think I'm in
full blown lunatic mode.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, I mean, there's no question that has nothing to
do with this game. That's where you live.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
It's amped up. It's where you live, amped up because
of the game.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I'm excited because I have watch the Bears win their
last two games in dramatic fashion. And that throw to
win the Cincinnati game wasn't good. I'm saying like he
threw it behind the receiver. It was an amazing catch.
Then it was the Keystone Cops. The Bengals all hit
each other and fell backwards like bowling pins. It was crazy.
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And then this last one. So, so here's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Are you pitching their riding high and we're gonna come
in underneath it and flip the table over.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I'm pitching they're riding high on fake I'm saying fake
stuff because they think, like, oh man, we did this,
they weren't good plays.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I can get all on board with a We're gonna
come underneath their false confidence and really take this game
from them. And I think if you get if you
get the game tilted that direction early at home, that's
a good thing.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
That'll be a very And I think we can. I mean,
he is, he is gettable. And so we get back
there and Forrest starts like throwing stunts, and we get
healthy people that are hitting the holes and confusing him.
I'm telling you, man, it's gonna it's gonna be fun
to watch. It's gonna here's here's I'm doing my prediction early.
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You're doing your prediction in the first This is just
one of them. This is just one of them.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Early segment prediction.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Okay, it is going to be the fourth quarter of
the first game for all four quarters.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I need to talk about some how I processed going
into this week, knowing that I'm in lunatic mode. How
I've been processing Chad the stress, the football stress, and
because I do think you're four and five. It's a
big moment, right. You get to four and six, that's tough,
five and five. You climb above at six and five,
seven and five. Now we're talking again. The later you
get in the season, hanging around five hundred, the more
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vulnerable you are to things going obviously, right, I mean.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
That's just math, baby.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
But what I did is I went and I was
just doing what I always do when I don't know
how to handle myself for one of the preview shows
and I get mad about a statistic or I worry
about a matchup, I just go learn about the city
a little bit. And I was reading this list of
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like the craziest things to ever happen in the city
of Chicago, and for a second I thought I was
reading something about you.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Oh no, it must have been amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
The title was just I was like, the title was
just the man who died from eating too much ice cream.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
In eighteen ninety two, a twenty one year old Frenchman
named Gone Beyond Jean. He emigrated to Chicago and took
a job at the Leland Hotel. While working in the
hotel's pantry, on his very first day, Jean got his
very first taste of ice cream, and I quote quickly
fell into a downward spiral of ice cream addiction that
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led to his untimely death five days later. Yeah. When
questioned by the police, his coworkers, who seem only slightly suspicious, right,
they claimed that Jean did nothing but eat ice cream morning, noon,
and night for five days until his stomach literally froze,
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causing him to die.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I I imagine that's the way you will go out.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Well, I'm gonna tell you something. So Daniels is a
stage name. Gone Beyond is my is my real name.
But I didn't want to have MC's and hosts trying
to figure that. Hey guys, it's Chad going be in.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
You know.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I didn't need that, so I just changed it to
Daniels where everyone could read it. But this is my
great great this is my great grandpa.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Nothing has ever made more sense.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah. So, right before he had that first bite of
ice cream, he laid with a lady.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, yeah, he had he had a he made sure
he got someone, he got someone with child, right, and
then he found the ice cream and spiraled out of control.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Are you do you do? So you've been you're doing
a lot.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Of games in person these days. Do you behave differently
from a snack standpoint in the stadium at home because
you're more of like a shame snacker sometimes where if
no one's around, you might go deep. Do you is
there a preferred snack at the bank? How does Chatty
handle himself with access to everything?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
So if we look at the little pavilion where you're
walking around, right, you're walking around and you are seeing
all the food there are. Technically it's an oval, so
there are technically four straightaways and four curves. Now in
those four curves, I like a rice druck exactly. And
I have found uh weird corners and under staircases and
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whatnot in every single curve. I know where those are.
And that's where I eat my food. I go out
and I go, hey, guys, I'm gonna go I'm gonna
go get a water. And then I go out and
I house a parlor Burger or I house a hockey
mom Brownie Sunday under the stairs, and then I come
back with my bottle of water. I go a long line,
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am I right? And so nobody is the wiser that
I've eaten all those things until I belch and people go, well,
that's not water, and I go, hey, mind your business.
I got you these tickets I have.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I had a sneaking suspicion that the Brownie Sunday was
your go to at the stadium.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Bro the hockey mom, Brownie Sunday. Let me tell you something,
if you're going to the game, get out of the line,
or let me get to the front of the line.
But you have to be in the line.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
That's an interesting thing to eat. I just imagine a
kid walking by you, huddled by a staircase eating a
Brownie Sunday.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
That is the most I'm gonna say on brand thing
I've heard.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Have you ever seen a rescued dog eat its food from.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
A and they eat a Brownie Sunday.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
And then you can't can't have chocolate? What are you
doing to rescue dogs? So they're in there eating their
food out of a bowl, and then you go over
to pet them and they just turn their head and
they go, ah, that's what I look like under those staircases.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I know a couple of times you've been fortunate enough
to be in the influencer suite, which is the thing
they have at the stadium. That is a place when
I heard about what goes on and there, that is
a place that I assumed they would have to roll
you out of.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I didn't have one thing when I was in there,
had a bottle of water. That was it.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Did you have to make that choice because you didn't
want to get blueberry girl? Willy Wonka moved out, like, no,
you think.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I'm gonna go up to Vanilla Ice when I have
chicken wing sauce on my beard, Get out of here.
I gotta look respectable when I'm meeting my eros.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Huh, I forgot that you were in the influencer suite
for Vanilla Ice night. Yes, Ice Ice, Baby, let's get
let's get out of snacks. Let's get into the game. Okay,
let's put all my emotions aside. Now here's the good news.
Here's let me give you some good news. Bears might
be six and three against two, but the record of
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the teams they have won against those six wins fifteen
forty one and one. Now, the Vikings also have an
eight and one record against the Bears in the last
nine And yeah, am I trying to tell you stuff
that maybe doesn't matter to get you ahead in the
right direction.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Sure, but it's a big game, folks.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
It is a big game. And let me just say something.
If you tie in professional football, you should be kicked
out of a league for the rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I think, I mean, I don't know that they're gonna
put that into action. They're not.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
I have so many good ideas no one ever listens.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I think this is the opportunity to there's gonna be
a point, there's just it's just gonna happen this year
where I believe it, even with a rookie quarterback, where
it's just gonna click. You know, you know when you
watch like a Treasure Hunt movie or something and all
of a sudden, like a vault door.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Click like.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
And then everything opens. I think that's gonna happen. I
don't know when, where, or how, but I think we're
gonna have a game where all of a sudden, we're
gonna go oh man. The running game is working. The
o linemen are moving downhill, and everything they are doing
to try to stop it is going to present the
perfect opportunity to just gash, gash, gash, and the rhythm's
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gonna be right, and the flow is gonna be right,
and this team is gonna put a thirty something on
the board without even needing turnovers. Right, I think that's
gonna happen. I think it's coming. I truly believe there's
a chance that it's this week because if you look
at how few rushing attempts they had last week in
a very winnable game. If you look at how tough
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the Chargers game was, if you look at how well
they ran against the Lions. I just think like we're
floating around this identity because I told you last week
it's Donovan Jackson. Kid is a beast. He's a beast
moving downhill. Aaron Jones looks fresh.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I think this might be the game where you look
around and go, damn, did they just run for one
hundred and ninety yards? And also JJ threw for two
or three touchdouts? Like I think it could be the
one where the lock clicks and the vault open.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah, we saw first of all, Jay, if we can
get the actual sound effects of a safe opening, I
think that would help people listening.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Secondly, I thought I did a great job a lot
of like Star Wars noise criticism, of my accents, but
I thought I did a fine Michael Winslow safe opening.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
So I think that we great reference. I think that
we saw glimpses of it in Detroit and then it
was ripped from us during the Ravens game. I think
that we need everybody to stay on site. I think
third and four is gettable. I think third and nine
after a mistake is frustrating. I also think, sure, maybe
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the refs are gonna have to let Dallas Turner sack
a quarterback. Is this not an NFL quarterback? He didn't
put his weight on him. If he tries to avoid him,
he's gonna hurt himself and somebody else. He's trying to
tackle the quarterback. Let him tackle the quarterback. It's not
roughing anyways. I think that we are looking sharp, and
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I think this is the game where it's gonna get nuts.
And I'm telling you, combine your thoughts about putting thirty up,
about rushing for one hundred and ninety plus JJ throws
for a couple. I know what a person looks like
when they're about to break. I see it every single
morning in the mirror. And I'm telling you this young
quarterback for the Bears. I'm telling it's gonna take two
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sacks and an overthrow and it is lights out.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
And you know who I hope gets to him and
gets to him early, ladies and gentlemen, it will be
the two hundredth game of one Harrison Smith.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Absolutely send him on a stunt or pick six, just
for the two hundredth baby.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Man to get to get a big moment in that
big milestone game. Yeah, that's that's one of those things
where he has He's so quietly great. It's you know,
when you have a Randy Moss. You haven't Adrian Peterson,
you have some of these guys. They're so big and loud.
From a performance standpoint, I often argue that even though
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we all talk about how great Harrison Smith is, we
don't often remotely understand how great he is, right And
I yeah, man, I just I really hope that dude
has a big game and the defense has a big game.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Let's two predictions.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I'm sure they will. I just want to add to
that quickly is that you know, the reason you don't
see a lot of Harrison Smith or hear about him
on TV is because they're scared to throw his way
and so you're not seeing I mean, you're not seeing
the fantastic coverage and closing speed and just on them
every single play. And so I can't wait. I think
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it's gonna be a big one.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I think it's gonna be a big one.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Give me the score player and Chad okay score.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
As we know, we've kind of upped, We've kind of
pumped it up, and we've.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Pumped it up, and we looked dumb for pumping it up.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
We did look stupid. So I think that the Bears
are going to come out swinging because they need it,
because they're riding this pretend high off their last two
you know, fancy victories, and the Vikings are hurting. They're
licking their wounds from a lot.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Of silly playing.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I'm gonna say and and so I'm gonna go Bears
three Vikings to forty two.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I also a little embarrassed that we've pumped it up
too much. We've been overly cocky. Then we go lose
against the Ravens, so I wanted to dial it down
a lot. I think this is gonna be a lot
lower scoring of a game. I have the Bears at
fourteen and the Vikings at two hundred and ninety six.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Player performance.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Well, you know we said it already, but Harrison Smith
of course got him taking one. I got him. I
got him for a sack and a pick.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Listen to me.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I think my last week prediction predict predict predict prediction
was JJ. I think, and then I think he had
a very frustrating game. And I don't say that from
a fan standpoint. I think he was frustrated. I think
he has very high standards for himself. So I'm doubling
down big big JJ.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
You talk, you're talking about Jets, You're talking.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
About I'm talking about Jets, talking about Jets, Okay, I'm
talking about Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
And then my prediction is that I'm gonna do it
for both of us.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I don't think we're.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Going to talk a lot on Sunday. You're gonna be
at the game. I'm gonna be pacing around my house.
I think we will talk starting at halftime based upon
how the game's going, given what you're willing to listen.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
From too from me in a normal game situation.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Okay, And my my personal prediction is, and I hate
to say this about the game, but I think there
are going to be two and again, as fans, please
understand what I'm saying. I think there are going to
be two hockey mom brownie Sundays eating under the stairs.
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Speaker 2 (01:14):
Recket Reckett, Come on, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Hey everybody, Welcome into another episode of The Tailgate. I'm
your host, Cy Amanson, joined by my co host, the
Great Chad Daniels, and it is Bears Week Chatty. Hello,
We once again find ourselves in need of a rebound,
you know, tough one. We're like we always say we're
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a forward looking podcast. But my question for you, you've
known me to be a sports psychopath. I don't handle
the emotions, the ups and downs.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, I don't even think we need to an end
to No, I think we can go. It's it's I
know you to be a psychopath. Currently, we don't have
to go past tense.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Here the how, I don't this thing where? And you've
seen it in the text messages. I'm up, I'm down,
I'm up, I'm down.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
What is uh?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And I'm not somebody who sports affects every aspect of
my life, right, but I do take joy in it
and so I get way too emotionally tied to those
ups and downs.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah, what are.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You doing in this moment where we were we were
way down after the Chargers, we were way up after
the Lions. Suck at Zach Martine and now I just
feel I feel so down again. How are you riding
the roller coaster?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Well, listen, it might seem to fans that we've got
Sybil under center, but I'm going to tell you something.
It's easy young quarterback, and that has to come with grace. Right,
You get a lot of young quarterbacks. They get a
full season, in a full season of starting to make
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these mistakes and get the hang of the game. And
that's okay. I mean, he's this guy has shown signs
of brilliance and then other times you're sitting there going like,
how about seven yards lower on that one?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
And so.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
But but there has to be grace involved, and there
has to you have to remember, like this kid has
the talent. It's just it is gonna there's growing pains
with that stuff. And we're also it's like, hey, we're healthy,
just kidding, We're not healthy. I will say this, Maybe
we just go on one eight fall starts bro Hot
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hot Weight for Hot. It was so wild, I am
gonna put Visio you check the stock if this game
doesn't go how I wanted to go, because I'm breaking
every TV in my house. It's getting crazy over here.
I think I'm gonna have to go to the game
live and watch.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, you will be at the game, and so here's
my thing. I think I'd be doing a lot better
with it were it not. Everybody dislikes the Green Bay Packers,
of course, right, that's everybody. That's the whole Minnesota thing
for me, even though there hasn't been as competitive of
a rivalry. I love the city of Chicago. I like
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performing in Chicago. I don't love the people of Chicago,
and I gotta be honest, I don't think they love me.
And I'm happy to describe them as a bunch of
men with mustaches and or beards that look like they
may be played minor league baseball.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You know what I'm saying, still jacked.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Upper arms, but the rest of it hasn't kept going.
It looks like there's a bunch of semi pro softball
players who There is no city, and I'm not talking
about on a comedy club stage. I'm talking walk in
the street. There is no city that I've been and
heckled in my life like I am heckled in Chicago,
and I so desperately want to watch them lose. Sure,
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that's what I need. I don't love the mind frame
I am in going into this game.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
They're a little bit shy of Philly when it comes
just a smidge just when it comes to the sports, right.
I mean, you can go to a Cubs game and
you can be fine. It is in Wrigleyville. I mean,
there's nobody's throwing beers at you. But I went to
a Bears game once and full beers were coming at us.
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And then the Bears destroyed us, And so then I'm
walking through the same parking lot and now they're handing
me beers as if to say, hey, looks like you
need this. We murdered you today. And so it is
a little different because Philly, even if they beat you,
they'll throw beer cans at you after the game. So
it's a little different. I love it's it's interesting because
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they can turn sports in Chicago's They're so huge that
you could have a great show on Sunday or excuse me,
on Saturday, two shows sold out. Everybody's there for you.
Come through the merch line, give.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
You a hug, hey man, love you, dude.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And then they could see you and recognize you at
the game and want to fistfight you. It is it
is wild there.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
When I first started working for the Vikings, I did
this thing. I can't even remember what it was called,
but it was like the Keys to the Game, right,
and it was the really fast paced it was meant for,
like Instagram and TikTok and stuff. Sure it was a
rapid key, but it was a lot of humor in it.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So it's basically, here's what we should do, here's what
we should do in the game.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
And I only came up with those so I could
make these jokes and without fail, every week those they
would be flooded with fans from the other fan base
just up. So given the way social media works now,
you know, that would have been a real successful venture.
But I was at two times ago. When I'm at
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Zanies by the way, it's the summer, it's the beginning
of June. There's no football going on, and I get
up on stage and I'm about four minutes into my
show and so Zany's for the audience is a tiny
hallway of a club, one hundred and forty seats and
they go straight back and I'm a few minutes in
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and this guy just goes the Viking suck and I
was like, and I was like, I was like, oh
my god, did I wear Viking stuff on stage? And
then I kind of I was like, I didn't I
go thank you. I'm thinking they must have said that
I'm from Minnesota when they introduced me. And then I
did another joke, the Minnesota Vikings suck. And now I'm
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as mad at the life of originality in the second
attempt as I am at being heckled.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, but just in case you thought it maybe was
a high school team he was referencing called the Vikings.
He did want to make sure you knew he was
speaking of the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
The next one is the Minnesota Vikings, who play in
US Bank Stadium suck. So this guy in an hour
set probably layers eight to ten. Your team sucks in
some variation in and nobody likes it. And I'm not
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acknowledging it because I think if I engage in it,
it's going to become a really unenjoyable experience for everyone. Right,
And so I finish the show, and when you meet
the fans in the crowd after the show, you're like
standing by a doorway as the whole crowd. It's very
tight and everybody's filing out, and then I see about
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twelve people back. I see this short, musty mustache. I go, well,
that's the Viking suck guy, guarantee it. Why is he
in line? He comes down the line and he tells me.
He goes, I'm the guy who was saying the Viking suck.
And I go, I know, is did you? Did you
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need to tell it to me again?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
What's up? Man?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And he goes you and then he goes you five
years ago. So he starts telling me about a joke
I made in the three Keys segment years ago.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Wow, followed me.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
On social media, sat in waiting until years that I
did that segment. I think in twenty nineteen or twenty
oh wow.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
And let's not forget with his accent. He must have
taken a flight from New York to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I'm doing the best I can. Okay, Okay, he waited
like half a decade.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
That's pretty good to come.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
He paid for the ticket. There were no compsole out.
It was a one night event. He bought a ticket
and he wasn't even mean about it. He like and
on the way out, after we talked about he just
goes your team sucks, and he just kept going. It
was one of the weirdest. He wasn't there with a
partner or a friend.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
It was bonkers.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, that is wild to go. That's when I remind
people I go, you know what, I got eighty percent
of your ticket. Oh, never mind, it was sold out.
I got eighty five percent of your ticket cost. Thank
you for coming.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
It's a It is a weirdly Heckley city. I'd been.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Last time I was there, I tried to have dinner
at Michael Jordan's steakhouse and the waiter was doing the Hey,
where are you guys from? And I said Minnesota, And
then it was like every course it was like him
telling me why my team sucked. Hey, a lot of
your team suck. They have sucked.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, for a significant amount of only teams.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Your city is zero to one. Again to cow and
a lantern.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Shut up.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
It just it just put me in this place, like
as I've been reflecting on where we are so far
this year and where we're going and the fact that
we have to I told you in the opening week
Bears on the road Week one, you know that's a
tough start, and I mentioned it's tough for my dad,
who just doesn't watch that game, this one, with the
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way everything is gone, It's just drummed up all my
Chicago feelings. And even though I like the city, just
the amount of disdain I have for all things Chicago
or Bear related right now it's not healthy. I don't
I don't think I'm doing a good job. I don't
think I'm gonna be like awesome this weekend. I just
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I think I'm in lunatic mode. I think I'm in
full blown lunatic mode.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, I mean, there's no question that has nothing to
do with this game. That's where you live.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
It's amped up. It's where you live, amped up because
of the game.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I'm excited because I have watch the Bears win their
last two games in dramatic fashion. And that throw to
win the Cincinnati game wasn't good. I'm saying like he
threw it behind the receiver. It was an amazing catch.
Then it was the Keystone Cops. The Bengals all hit
each other and fell backwards like bowling pins. It was crazy.
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And then this last one. So, so here's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Are you pitching their riding high and we're gonna come
in underneath it and flip the table over.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I'm pitching they're riding high on fake I'm saying fake
stuff because they think, like, oh man, we did this,
they weren't good plays.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I can get all on board with a We're gonna
come underneath their false confidence and really take this game
from them. And I think if you get if you
get the game tilted that direction early at home, that's
a good thing.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
That'll be a very And I think we can. I mean,
he is, he is gettable. And so we get back
there and Forrest starts like throwing stunts, and we get
healthy people that are hitting the holes and confusing him.
I'm telling you, man, it's gonna it's gonna be fun
to watch. It's gonna here's here's I'm doing my prediction early.
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You're doing your prediction in the first This is just
one of them. This is just one of them.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Early segment prediction.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Okay, it is going to be the fourth quarter of
the first game for all four quarters.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I need to talk about some how I processed going
into this week, knowing that I'm in lunatic mode. How
I've been processing Chad the stress, the football stress, and
because I do think you're four and five. It's a
big moment, right. You get to four and six, that's tough,
five and five. You climb above at six and five,
seven and five. Now we're talking again. The later you
get in the season, hanging around five hundred, the more
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vulnerable you are to things going obviously, right, I mean.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
That's just math, baby.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
But what I did is I went and I was
just doing what I always do when I don't know
how to handle myself for one of the preview shows
and I get mad about a statistic or I worry
about a matchup, I just go learn about the city
a little bit. And I was reading this list of
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like the craziest things to ever happen in the city
of Chicago, and for a second I thought I was
reading something about you.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Oh no, it must have been amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
The title was just I was like, the title was
just the man who died from eating too much ice cream.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
In eighteen ninety two, a twenty one year old Frenchman
named Gone Beyond Jean. He emigrated to Chicago and took
a job at the Leland Hotel. While working in the
hotel's pantry, on his very first day, Jean got his
very first taste of ice cream, and I quote quickly
fell into a downward spiral of ice cream addiction that
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led to his untimely death five days later. Yeah. When
questioned by the police, his coworkers, who seem only slightly suspicious, right,
they claimed that Jean did nothing but eat ice cream morning, noon,
and night for five days until his stomach literally froze,
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causing him to die.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I I imagine that's the way you will go out.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Well, I'm gonna tell you something. So Daniels is a
stage name. Gone Beyond is my is my real name.
But I didn't want to have MC's and hosts trying
to figure that. Hey guys, it's Chad going be in.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
You know.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I didn't need that, so I just changed it to
Daniels where everyone could read it. But this is my
great great this is my great grandpa.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Nothing has ever made more sense.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah. So, right before he had that first bite of
ice cream, he laid with a lady.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, yeah, he had he had a he made sure
he got someone, he got someone with child, right, and
then he found the ice cream and spiraled out of control.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Are you do you do? So you've been you're doing
a lot.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Of games in person these days. Do you behave differently
from a snack standpoint in the stadium at home because
you're more of like a shame snacker sometimes where if
no one's around, you might go deep. Do you is
there a preferred snack at the bank? How does Chatty
handle himself with access to everything?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
So if we look at the little pavilion where you're
walking around, right, you're walking around and you are seeing
all the food there are. Technically it's an oval, so
there are technically four straightaways and four curves. Now in
those four curves, I like a rice druck exactly. And
I have found uh weird corners and under staircases and
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whatnot in every single curve. I know where those are.
And that's where I eat my food. I go out
and I go, hey, guys, I'm gonna go I'm gonna
go get a water. And then I go out and
I house a parlor Burger or I house a hockey
mom Brownie Sunday under the stairs, and then I come
back with my bottle of water. I go a long line,
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am I right? And so nobody is the wiser that
I've eaten all those things until I belch and people go, well,
that's not water, and I go, hey, mind your business.
I got you these tickets I have.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I had a sneaking suspicion that the Brownie Sunday was
your go to at the stadium.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Bro the hockey mom, Brownie Sunday. Let me tell you something,
if you're going to the game, get out of the line,
or let me get to the front of the line.
But you have to be in the line.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
That's an interesting thing to eat. I just imagine a
kid walking by you, huddled by a staircase eating a
Brownie Sunday.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
That is the most I'm gonna say on brand thing
I've heard.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Have you ever seen a rescued dog eat its food from.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
A and they eat a Brownie Sunday.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
And then you can't can't have chocolate? What are you
doing to rescue dogs? So they're in there eating their
food out of a bowl, and then you go over
to pet them and they just turn their head and
they go, ah, that's what I look like under those staircases.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I know a couple of times you've been fortunate enough
to be in the influencer suite, which is the thing
they have at the stadium. That is a place when
I heard about what goes on and there, that is
a place that I assumed they would have to roll
you out of.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I didn't have one thing when I was in there,
had a bottle of water. That was it.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Did you have to make that choice because you didn't
want to get blueberry girl? Willy Wonka moved out, like, no,
you think.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I'm gonna go up to Vanilla Ice when I have
chicken wing sauce on my beard, Get out of here.
I gotta look respectable when I'm meeting my eros.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Huh, I forgot that you were in the influencer suite
for Vanilla Ice night. Yes, Ice Ice, Baby, let's get
let's get out of snacks. Let's get into the game. Okay,
let's put all my emotions aside. Now here's the good news.
Here's let me give you some good news. Bears might
be six and three against two, but the record of
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the teams they have won against those six wins fifteen
forty one and one. Now, the Vikings also have an
eight and one record against the Bears in the last
nine And yeah, am I trying to tell you stuff
that maybe doesn't matter to get you ahead in the
right direction.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Sure, but it's a big game, folks.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
It is a big game. And let me just say something.
If you tie in professional football, you should be kicked
out of a league for the rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I think, I mean, I don't know that they're gonna
put that into action. They're not.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
I have so many good ideas no one ever listens.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I think this is the opportunity to there's gonna be
a point, there's just it's just gonna happen this year
where I believe it, even with a rookie quarterback, where
it's just gonna click. You know, you know when you
watch like a Treasure Hunt movie or something and all
of a sudden, like a vault door.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Click like.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
And then everything opens. I think that's gonna happen. I
don't know when, where, or how, but I think we're
gonna have a game where all of a sudden, we're
gonna go oh man. The running game is working. The
o linemen are moving downhill, and everything they are doing
to try to stop it is going to present the
perfect opportunity to just gash, gash, gash, and the rhythm's
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gonna be right, and the flow is gonna be right,
and this team is gonna put a thirty something on
the board without even needing turnovers. Right, I think that's
gonna happen. I think it's coming. I truly believe there's
a chance that it's this week because if you look
at how few rushing attempts they had last week in
a very winnable game. If you look at how tough
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the Chargers game was, if you look at how well
they ran against the Lions. I just think like we're
floating around this identity because I told you last week
it's Donovan Jackson. Kid is a beast. He's a beast
moving downhill. Aaron Jones looks fresh.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I think this might be the game where you look
around and go, damn, did they just run for one
hundred and ninety yards? And also JJ threw for two
or three touchdouts? Like I think it could be the
one where the lock clicks and the vault open.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah, we saw first of all, Jay, if we can
get the actual sound effects of a safe opening, I
think that would help people listening.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Secondly, I thought I did a great job a lot
of like Star Wars noise criticism, of my accents, but
I thought I did a fine Michael Winslow safe opening.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
So I think that we great reference. I think that
we saw glimpses of it in Detroit and then it
was ripped from us during the Ravens game. I think
that we need everybody to stay on site. I think
third and four is gettable. I think third and nine
after a mistake is frustrating. I also think, sure, maybe
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the refs are gonna have to let Dallas Turner sack
a quarterback. Is this not an NFL quarterback? He didn't
put his weight on him. If he tries to avoid him,
he's gonna hurt himself and somebody else. He's trying to
tackle the quarterback. Let him tackle the quarterback. It's not
roughing anyways. I think that we are looking sharp, and
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I think this is the game where it's gonna get nuts.
And I'm telling you, combine your thoughts about putting thirty up,
about rushing for one hundred and ninety plus JJ throws
for a couple. I know what a person looks like
when they're about to break. I see it every single
morning in the mirror. And I'm telling you this young
quarterback for the Bears. I'm telling it's gonna take two
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sacks and an overthrow and it is lights out.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
And you know who I hope gets to him and
gets to him early, ladies and gentlemen, it will be
the two hundredth game of one Harrison Smith.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Absolutely send him on a stunt or pick six, just
for the two hundredth baby.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Man to get to get a big moment in that
big milestone game. Yeah, that's that's one of those things
where he has He's so quietly great. It's you know,
when you have a Randy Moss. You haven't Adrian Peterson,
you have some of these guys. They're so big and loud.
From a performance standpoint, I often argue that even though
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we all talk about how great Harrison Smith is, we
don't often remotely understand how great he is, right And
I yeah, man, I just I really hope that dude
has a big game and the defense has a big game.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Let's two predictions.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I'm sure they will. I just want to add to
that quickly is that you know, the reason you don't
see a lot of Harrison Smith or hear about him
on TV is because they're scared to throw his way
and so you're not seeing I mean, you're not seeing
the fantastic coverage and closing speed and just on them
every single play. And so I can't wait. I think
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it's gonna be a big one.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I think it's gonna be a big one.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Give me the score player and Chad okay score.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
As we know, we've kind of upped, We've kind of
pumped it up, and we've.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Pumped it up, and we looked dumb for pumping it up.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
We did look stupid. So I think that the Bears
are going to come out swinging because they need it,
because they're riding this pretend high off their last two
you know, fancy victories, and the Vikings are hurting. They're
licking their wounds from a lot.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Of silly playing.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I'm gonna say and and so I'm gonna go Bears
three Vikings to forty two.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I also a little embarrassed that we've pumped it up
too much. We've been overly cocky. Then we go lose
against the Ravens, so I wanted to dial it down
a lot. I think this is gonna be a lot
lower scoring of a game. I have the Bears at
fourteen and the Vikings at two hundred and ninety six.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Player performance.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Well, you know we said it already, but Harrison Smith
of course got him taking one. I got him. I
got him for a sack and a pick.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Listen to me.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I think my last week prediction predict predict predict prediction
was JJ. I think, and then I think he had
a very frustrating game. And I don't say that from
a fan standpoint. I think he was frustrated. I think
he has very high standards for himself. So I'm doubling
down big big JJ.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
You talk, you're talking about Jets, You're talking.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
About I'm talking about Jets, talking about Jets, Okay, I'm
talking about Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
And then my prediction is that I'm gonna do it
for both of us.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I don't think we're.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Going to talk a lot on Sunday. You're gonna be
at the game. I'm gonna be pacing around my house.
I think we will talk starting at halftime based upon
how the game's going, given what you're willing to listen.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
From too from me in a normal game situation.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Okay, And my my personal prediction is, and I hate
to say this about the game, but I think there
are going to be two and again, as fans, please
understand what I'm saying. I think there are going to
be two hockey mom brownie Sundays eating under the stairs.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
That's gonna do it for us, folks. Thank you Chad
for joining the show. Thank you to all of you
for listening to the feed. Leave a review, rate it stars,
thumbs up, nice words. We appreciate it. Finally, a huge
shout out to Ticketmaster, the official ticket marketplace of the
Minnesota Vikings, for helping make this show happen. Enjoy the game, everybody,
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