Purple Positivity (vs Eagles)

The Minnesota Vikings are coming of the BYE week, now facing a very hungry Eagles team, losing 2 in a row. What does that mean for the Vikings? Is the OL back? Who's starting at QB this week? Well Justin lets us know about it.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
That's right, ladies and gentlemen, I am back and better
ish than ever. I'm just an extroim. This is purple positivity,
purple positivety. Anyway, had a bye week. I hope everyone
was rested, had plenty of time to hang out with family,
do yard work because now we get into the gauntlet,

(00:38):
the gauntlet. If any of you know that reference, please
tweet at me or ex at me whatever it is,
because decumpet Oh, it is classic Eugene Levy. I wish
everyone knew exactly where I'm going with that one, because
it is a fantastic I'm gonna too my own horn.
That is a really good callback to a classic, beautiful

(01:01):
Eugene Levy performance. I hope some of you know it. Anyway,
Vikings three and two coming off the bye. Like I
have been saying this entire season, sometimes it's not who
you play, it's when you play them. Now we get

(01:21):
an Eagles team that just lost two in a row.
My saying can work good and bad. Let's say we
played the Eagles the last two weeks, probably got about
a fifty to sixty percent chance of coming out with
a win. Now we get a blueprint from a New
York Giants all of a sudden bully football type of

(01:45):
program on how to beat the Eagles, so you can
use that as a positive. You got to see them
get dismantled, get destroyed, fantasic. We don't have a cam Scataboo.
If we do who they haven't unveiled him yet. I
would love if we had a cam Scataboo. We believe

(02:07):
we have somebody and JJ McCarthy that is as good as,
if not better than, Jackson Dart. Does he have that
same like, no bullshit, no holds barred type of mentality.
I don't know. He's super confident. We got that. But
his body is seemingly made of birds bones, like bones

(02:31):
from a bird. That's what JJ McCarthy seems to be
made of as of right now, because he just gets
onto the field and then all of a sudden, something breaks,
something tears, whatever it is. He's questionable. Carson Wentz is
questionable as of the recording of this. I'm telling you
right now, I have a feeling we're gonna see Carson
Wentz in this. I could be immediately mistaken, but for

(02:55):
whatever reason, I just have it in my brain that
we might just have Carson Wentz again against the Eagles
on Minnesota Vikings territory. Even though the Vikings are one
and a half point underdogs right now, I would expect
that line to move to about two or three, where

(03:16):
they're gonna be two or three point underdogs. You're supposed
to get three points for home field. I don't know
if Vegas still does that. Vegas has to be losing
their absolutely got it. They got to absolutely be getting
their asses handed to them this year because of the
upsets and the weird, weird mixes in games. Those those charts,
those percentages where people are where it looks like teams

(03:38):
are gonna win, sitting in like the ninety percent range,
and then all of a sudden they're one hundred percent
loss within the last two minutes of a game. God,
bless NFL football, I tell you that much. Nah all
a bless whatever you believe in. Bless NFL football. I love.
The last couple of weeks has been fantastic to watch

(03:58):
people you know hot take here. Love the London games.
We've been getting trash games. But it is fun waking up,
starting the smoker, starting a pot of coffee, getting things rolling,
maybe even having a little bit of Irish whiskey in
your coffee. That is fun. Oh and you know with
your smoker, when you fired up, you want to put
a Seventh Avenue seven am pizza on there. Smoked seven

(04:21):
Am breakfast pizza from Seventh Avenue. I will put against
any breakfast pizza on the market. Smoke it with applewood
or cherrywood or even just competition blend. It is unbelievably delicious,
nice and crispy, and their toppings, their sauce, that cheese sauce.
Mm perfecto. Here we go. Vikings three and two, Eagles

(04:48):
four and two. We still think the Eagles are pretty good.
What do we think we got in the Vikings right now?
They have the toughest remaining schedule with the opponents that
they have coming up in the next six weeks, and
that is with a non Lamar Jackson Ravens team. Well,
Lamar Jackson is going to be back when the Vikings

(05:09):
play the Ravens this week. Got Jalen hurts. We know,
as Vikings fans, we know, for whatever reason it is
this year, especially quarterbacks that can move the pocket, quarterbacks
that can evade tackles are an absolute nightmare for this defense.

(05:31):
I can go back to nineteen eighty seven when I
first started watching football. It seems like that has always
been the case. I mean, even the NFC Championship game
against It wasn't even the NFC Championship game, it was
a game to get to the NFC Championship game against
forty nine ers and Steve Young just where I'm a

(05:51):
little kid thinking that he's in the grasp and stuff
like that, and he runs away and beats the Vikings
with a touchdown to end the game. Basically, little seven
year old and eight year old me just crying, crying
because the Vikings can't tackle quarterbacks that get out of
the pocket. And that's still a case now. Ryan Flores

(06:12):
defense is recent like recently, have not been very good
at tackling. We get Week one, see them in the backfield,
see them with the quarterback basically wrapped up, and the
quarterback just runs away fifteen twenty yards first down whatever

(06:33):
it is, or gets off a spectacular pass and that's
what Jalen Hurts does. He likes to be in the pocket,
but he is very very good at rushing the football.
He is very very good at throwing on the run.
And I hope, I hope Flores has some sort of
plan for that twitch push, the brotherly shove, whatever you

(06:56):
want to call it. I hope our Kevinlee father keeps
this game in a situation in which where there is
not third and two, fourth and two and they run that.
I hope they're put behind the sticks because the Eagles
have been shown that they need a lead. They need
a lead. They're kind of like the Ravens. They have

(07:18):
to have a lead in a football game, but sadly
so does Brian Flora's defense. That's one of those where
they got to be within striking distance otherwise it can
get ugly that both teams that way. And as of
right now, we think a few guys are gonna come back.
We think our offensive line is going to be healthy ish.

(07:40):
I guess Brian O'Neil probably not out there, but they
did okay without him. It's when we don't have Derisada
things start to get really, really ugly. And I hope
Kelly I hope Fries, I hope Jackson, the rookie that
is having a promising for season, can all come back eventually.

(08:04):
I don't think it's gonna be this week. I honestly
believe we're gonna have Carson Wentz. I'm wrong a lot,
very very often I'm wrong, but I just have an
inkling feeling for some reason, we want to see him
against the Eagles. And it's not like a revenge game.
It's not like the Eagles were the first team. You know,
we're in the history to kind of move on from

(08:27):
a guy that they drafted high, and they're not the
first team to ever do that. And it's not even
this regime. So we can call it a Carson Wentz
revenge game if we want. But he's been on like
eight billion teams since then too, So I mean every
game could be a revenge game for him because a
lot of people passed on him in whosal. I am

(08:48):
going to predict that it's gonna be a tough again.
For whatever reason. Kevin O'Connell's teams have not come out
of the bye very well the last couple of years.
It's just and I don't have the stats in front
of me, like how slow the offense is. It just
seems like they sputter to start coming out of that

(09:12):
buy and I'm blanking. I can't remember the last time
they won the first game after a buye. It may
have been a while. I'm sure people that actually pay
attention to shit and actually get paid for doing this
stuff from talking on their rear ends can probably tell
us that, but I haven't read anything about it. It
just from my memory, it seems like when they come

(09:35):
out of the by they just shit. The bit Amber
Herd style just gone. I don't know if that's still
a reference or not, but I use that all the time,
and it's like ten years old. I don't like the
Vikes in this spot. I hope I'm wrong. I think
the offense just has too many question marks, has it

(09:55):
right now? You have elite pass catchers who's going to
be throwing on the ball. I know JJ McCarthy. I
would love to see him out there, but I want
him one hundred percent healthy because that Eagles defense hasn't
been all that great right now, so you can blast them.
But we saw on the Super Bowl they got pressure
up the middle without sending anybody. If they don't send anybody.

(10:18):
Carson Wentz holds onto the ball too long. JJ McCarthy
holds on the ball too long. We need JJ McCarthy
to be one hundred percent healthy so he can run,
so he can do his best. Jalen Hurts impression now
with the brolla lea shove or the tush push, whatever,
whatever you want to call it. I just want him
running outside the pocket, running gun type thing. But I

(10:40):
think the Vikes lose at home. It feels like a
one score game. Again. I know that's not going out
on a limb predicting the Vikings to be in a
one score game, but I think it's gonna get out
of hand and then they're gonna get back into it
a little bit, maybe have the ball at the end
of the game to at least tie. But I think
the Vice lose. I'm going to go twenty seven to twenty.

(11:03):
I think it's just going to be too much for
them coming out of that buy Eagles losing two straight weeks,
so I think the Vikes lose twenty seven to twenty.
Eagles cover that spread. It's just it feels like a
get right game for the Eagles, which I hate even
saying that like it makes me vomit a little bit inside.
I just had a couple of SIPs of coffee. If
you can't tell by me talking about a million in

(11:25):
a raguidal style. And I hope I'm wrong. Vikings defense
needs to get healthy, Vikings offensive line needs to get healthy.
And JJ McCarthy, I think we might send him again.
I don't know. I you know, I could be instantly wrong,
but he's questionable. Wentz is questionable. Who's more questionable? I
guess they both hold on into the ball a little

(11:47):
too long, so that's questionable to me. Hit the ball quick, man,
Come on, Kevin O'Connell, Get some guys open quicker than
those deep routes. Anyway, I'm hoping that I'm wrong because
I'm used to it. Worst case scenario likes are you know,
still in the mix of it three and three if
they lose this game, but you still got tougher games

(12:10):
coming ahead, But we'll talk about those later. So until
we're talking about those later and until next week, school bitches,