September 12, 2025 • 14 mins
WOW! The Vikings pulled out a fantasic win agasint the Bears on MNF, is JJ the real deal? What does Justin Ekstrom going to say about the game they had agasint the Bears we look forward to the Falcons this weekend.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Get your vikings updates with Justin extrom on Purple Positivity
on Beer Belly Sports Radio Network Brocket. You buy it
up at the Avenue Pizza before pizza became trendy. That
is correct, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Justin exter Men.
This is purple positivity, and we are one to zero
(00:20):
with having something positive to talk about. At least one
of those four quarters was about as good as I
could have imagined that they were gonna play. But let's
start with the beginning. This is all special thanks to
Seventh Avenue Pizza, MATC. Geffrey, Beer Belly Sports. Thanks guys
(00:41):
sticking with me yet another season. Here we go recapping
Game one, Bears Fikes, Fikes come out of Soldier Field
twenty seven to twenty four victoriously, and raise your hand
real quick. If in the first half you're little screwed,
Now put your f and hand on because the podcasts,
(01:03):
I can't see anything anyway, and this isn't live. So
I was. I was a little fl mixed as to
some of the situations in which JJ McCarthy was being
put in that offensive line without Christian Deris. I it
was sort of like Swiss cheese. There was no rhythm.
(01:24):
There were some things just out of source. And the
Bear's defense man they were rolling like the Bears defense
and even Caleb Williams and that offense man Roman Dunes
that those dudes were really rocking there for a little
bit and everyone. They did show some glimpses of what
people are saying Bears are going to be a little
(01:46):
bit better. They're also showing some glimpses of what a
lot of people think the Bears might be too. Not
the greatest team in the world. With just a little
bit of flashes here and there, but the whole entire
first half was a flat even man like. Everything was
going not the way we wanted to. Thirty one yard punt,
(02:09):
Come on, man, things started to turn around and you
got the fifty nine yard field goal. I'm not sure
if I heard this correctly, but is that the longest
field goal in that stadium? Fifty nine yards at least
going that way anyway, I thought I heard that. But
my goodness, thank you. We needed that cut to devsit
(02:32):
ten and six. Did JJ McCarthy comes out second half
throws that pick six? Who that's a So that's a
rookie throw. That's a throw that I probably would throw
all the time. Get your body completely into it, completely,
stare down your receiver and the corner breaks off their
route like they're supposed to, and boom gonzo. That was,
(02:56):
you know, a little depressing. And if you look on
Twitter or ex verse, whatever you wanna call it, everyone
else was a little sad, some cases of the sads.
But luckily the case of the sads lasted just as
long as dollar General milk. And it turned around like
all these people saying, oh man, what a bus. Jaj
(03:18):
McCarthy's a bus that lasted that that aged like taller
General milk, and it was fantastic. I'm here to say
that I was a little down, but I'm not like
the normal fandom where I'm like, oh my god, this
is the worst. Buh No, I'm not like that. I
just was hoping things were gonna turn around, and lo
(03:40):
and behold, they did. Kitch yourself. Someone that believes in
their quarterbacks like Kevin O'Connell, our Kevinlee father, holy cow,
he is the biggest cheerleader on that sideline for his QBS.
We saw it with the Dobbs effect. We saw it
with Cousins. We saw it with every single person sign
(04:03):
and the resurgence of Sam Donald, who here thinks they
should have stuck with Sam Darnald and paid him that bag.
No thanks. And I'm telling you right now, those last
two big losses last year save that Brinks truck from
getting piled from Minneapolis onto I guess probably Egan. Egan's
(04:24):
probably where they write those checks. But that brings truck
from Egan all the way to Sam Donald's piggy bank.
That saved some things. And I think that's for the better,
to be honest with you, because then they invest in
JJ McCarthy, they get him the people that people around him,
(04:44):
Javon Hargrave. Two sacks, Thank you big man, Thank you Alan,
very very solid between the two of them. I thought
I saw they had thirteen pressures, lucky number thirteen. That
is phenomenal. First half not getting home it seemed. So
it seems I've said this in the past two and
(05:06):
in this season. Obviously different personnel, but the Vikings have
the tendency to have issues with mobile quarterbacks. We saw
it with Matthew Stafford back in the day. We saw
it with a few of those guys that you don't
think of. The dudes that can run, you don't think
of them. Remember we had the it was the Josh
(05:28):
Allen game. Josh Allen just leaped over the Vikings and
that's all of a sudden, guess what, There goes Josh
Allen and he's now perennial MVP. It looks like a
guy that's going to be a superstar for a long
long time. But I'm here to tell you about the
Minnesota Vikings. That offensive line, Darrisaw coming back hopefully really
(05:49):
really soon. They're kind of baby stepping that Harrison Smith.
Still no word. This has the makings of something like
an infection or a hernia or something that they don't
have to disclose because the personal health issue. So who knows. Man,
(06:11):
godspeed to you, because in the first half, that leadership
of his would have been able to show through. I
think it would have been a lot closer. Maybe the
game would have been not as tough to overcome, and
we didn't have to wait until the fourth quarter. But
that's neither here nor there. I don't think we're gonna
(06:33):
see him again. I hope I'm wrong about that. I
don't think we're gonna see him this week. I don't
know when they plan on clearing him, but you gotta
be positive about the fact that he's not on the
IR and as of this recording, he's not on the IR.
Weird things happen sometimes when I speak and all sudden boom,
(06:53):
But we need him in the defense. Blake Cashman looks
like he's going to be out for a while. Wilson
comes in us very very well with that green dot.
Kevin O'Connell gave him props in the postgame locker speech.
Postgame locker room speech that would make you run through
a brick wall, like I love it. See I like that.
(07:15):
And now it kind of seems scripted, like where he's
walking back and forth, and hopefully some of the times
where he just kind of stays hyped up. But JJ McCarthy,
we knew he was a baller. We knew he's a guy.
He's like forty eight and three in his entire career
or something like that, or fifty eight and three whatever
it is. He has three losses. Ever, dude, I had
(07:36):
three losses today, Like I literally lost at three separate
things today, And this dude has only lost three times
in his entire football playing career. That's that's not even
that cool man like. As we talked to him, as
we're talking about this, I went to grab for a
donut and fell on the floor. I would call that
a loss. I bet you that doesn't happen in JJ McCarthy,
(07:57):
No way. Hopefully he's eating some Seventh Avenue something instead
of donuts. But still twenty seven to twenty four Mike's win.
I said theling was gonna get in the end zone.
He did, but it was only a two point conversion,
so I can't can't claim that one as successful. But
JJ getting the end zone, I got that one. I
(08:18):
thought Hawk was gonna get in the end zone. He
was also open on that play, but chose to go
with JJ. Sure hands, sure hands he had. I'd say one,
we're gonna call it one point five drops. DeLand had
to drop. McCarthy has some pretty good zip on some
of those passes where they put him. He put him
(08:38):
where they had to, and they just came up into
a spot where it was kind of in between the
body and the hands, And it's tough to a judge.
You can say, you can make all the excuses you want.
Those guys usually make those catches, probably seven or eight
out of ten times. It's just we needed it to
be ten out of ten, and it would have been
a lot better because one of them would have been
for a first down steat of punting. I think I
(09:00):
think that one missed one was when we got to
see the thirty one yard punt. Come on, right, well,
you do not, dude like that is the most depressing
thing ever where you're you're sitting back on your own twenty,
your own thirty, and then you give the ball to
them on their forty. What come on, man, you got
(09:21):
a big, long leg. I don't understand it. You've got
a powerful leg, and I have no idea what happens there.
And in turn, their kicking team kind of gave us
that win only up three. Instead of kicking it, angling
it out of the end zone or all the way
through the end zone, they kick it to about six
(09:44):
and a half seven yards deep in the end zone,
maybe five and a half six yards deep in the
end zone, and ty Chandler say, which you want. He
hasn't been getting a lot of opportunities with the offense,
but he gets that and looks at his sideline just
like Kevin O'Connell probably told him to, and most of
us at home were like, dude, you gotta run that out.
You gotta get below the two minute warning. And he
(10:06):
did and took off like eight nine seconds. Very valuable
seconds there, because the Bears just kind of ran out
of time, which and then the defense just sealed it. Man.
It was very very fantastic how the defense just done.
Seeing that, I'm guessing that Bears maybe would have declared
(10:27):
that they were going to go on sidekick, but it's
gonna be a lot tougher for on sidekicks. I understand
why they did it now real quickly. Twenty seven to
twenty four, victory one, and oh, very very positive about that.
Let's go to week number two. Week number two, Atlanta
comes in. Obviously, it's not Kirk Cousins at the Helm.
It's Penix. I kind of like what I saw out
(10:52):
of him, to be honest with you, he had that
game in hand. There's a few few miscues where they
were in that divisional game. And I'm not gonna say
this is going to be easy by any stretch of
the imagination. I just think the Vikes do get it done.
I think that defense has showed enough. Pennix another one
of those guys drafted at a McCarthy, same draft as McCarthy,
(11:15):
whatever it was, it is paramount that we put McCarthy
in a good spot so where he can succeed early
on in the game. Then get that defense to tee
off because we saw that d man. I don't know
if Flores was just kind of figured out in the
first half and then he just switched it around. Obviously,
(11:36):
we're not gonna see the pen and paper what he
did to see what he decided to do. But Vikings
were tackling a lot more. They're not giving up that
big play, and they're they're putting offenses on skates a
little bit because they're very, very good at keeping everything
in front of him, even when they only had a
ten point lead. They're not giving up the huge home runs.
(11:57):
They do give up chunks, but just not the fifty
yard bombs, which is kind of what Brian Flores does.
He likes when things get into their own red zone,
they tighten up, and I hope that continues. I think
it's going to continue again. I think the Vikes go
one to zero at home and they get out of
(12:20):
there up two to oh before the schedule gets a
little bit tougher. This isn't going to be an easy
game as of right now. I thought I saw the
Vikes were three and a half point favorites. The old
age old adage is you get three points for home games.
I don't know if that's even true anymore, but I
would put it right around three to seven. I think
(12:41):
the Vikes actually win. I'm going twenty seven to twenty
this time, so they do cover and it's probably going
to hit the over, which I didn't expect this last
game to get the over, and the way the first
half went, I didn't think the over was going to hit,
and it did, so I think the running game teams
are going to try to stop that, and that's when
(13:03):
JJ is gonna come alive. I think Hockinson has a
much bigger game. I think Feelan has a much bigger game.
He will definitely not stay off the stat sheet other
than a two point conversion. I think he gets give him,
give him four or five catches because they didn't target
him all that much either. So JJ. I think he
(13:23):
gets over a hundo and gets a tuddy. I think
Felan gets a Tuddy, and I think Mason will get
his first Toddy. I think that's it. Those are the
three tutties because we're going twenty seven to twenty so
it's gonna be twenty one. And then the two field
goals that's twenty seven. Right, Yeah, there we go. So
(13:46):
here you haven't. You don't even have a watch game
now because I'm so good at predicting things. Anyway, he
thinks to seventh Avenue, Pizza, Verbelly Sports. There you have
it till next week. Let's goal Year twos.
Get your vikings updates with Justin extrom on Purple Positivity
on Beer Belly Sports Radio Network Brocket. You buy it
up at the Avenue Pizza before pizza became trendy. That
is correct, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Justin exter Men.
This is purple positivity, and we are one to zero
(00:20):
with having something positive to talk about. At least one
of those four quarters was about as good as I
could have imagined that they were gonna play. But let's
start with the beginning. This is all special thanks to
Seventh Avenue Pizza, MATC. Geffrey, Beer Belly Sports. Thanks guys
(00:41):
sticking with me yet another season. Here we go recapping
Game one, Bears Fikes, Fikes come out of Soldier Field
twenty seven to twenty four victoriously, and raise your hand
real quick. If in the first half you're little screwed,
Now put your f and hand on because the podcasts,
(01:03):
I can't see anything anyway, and this isn't live. So
I was. I was a little fl mixed as to
some of the situations in which JJ McCarthy was being
put in that offensive line without Christian Deris. I it
was sort of like Swiss cheese. There was no rhythm.
(01:24):
There were some things just out of source. And the
Bear's defense man they were rolling like the Bears defense
and even Caleb Williams and that offense man Roman Dunes
that those dudes were really rocking there for a little
bit and everyone. They did show some glimpses of what
people are saying Bears are going to be a little
(01:46):
bit better. They're also showing some glimpses of what a
lot of people think the Bears might be too. Not
the greatest team in the world. With just a little
bit of flashes here and there, but the whole entire
first half was a flat even man like. Everything was
going not the way we wanted to. Thirty one yard punt,
(02:09):
Come on, man, things started to turn around and you
got the fifty nine yard field goal. I'm not sure
if I heard this correctly, but is that the longest
field goal in that stadium? Fifty nine yards at least
going that way anyway, I thought I heard that. But
my goodness, thank you. We needed that cut to devsit
(02:32):
ten and six. Did JJ McCarthy comes out second half
throws that pick six? Who that's a So that's a
rookie throw. That's a throw that I probably would throw
all the time. Get your body completely into it, completely,
stare down your receiver and the corner breaks off their
route like they're supposed to, and boom gonzo. That was,
(02:56):
you know, a little depressing. And if you look on
Twitter or ex verse, whatever you wanna call it, everyone
else was a little sad, some cases of the sads.
But luckily the case of the sads lasted just as
long as dollar General milk. And it turned around like
all these people saying, oh man, what a bus. Jaj
(03:18):
McCarthy's a bus that lasted that that aged like taller
General milk, and it was fantastic. I'm here to say
that I was a little down, but I'm not like
the normal fandom where I'm like, oh my god, this
is the worst. Buh No, I'm not like that. I
just was hoping things were gonna turn around, and lo
(03:40):
and behold, they did. Kitch yourself. Someone that believes in
their quarterbacks like Kevin O'Connell, our Kevinlee father, holy cow,
he is the biggest cheerleader on that sideline for his QBS.
We saw it with the Dobbs effect. We saw it
with Cousins. We saw it with every single person sign
(04:03):
and the resurgence of Sam Donald, who here thinks they
should have stuck with Sam Darnald and paid him that bag.
No thanks. And I'm telling you right now, those last
two big losses last year save that Brinks truck from
getting piled from Minneapolis onto I guess probably Egan. Egan's
(04:24):
probably where they write those checks. But that brings truck
from Egan all the way to Sam Donald's piggy bank.
That saved some things. And I think that's for the better,
to be honest with you, because then they invest in
JJ McCarthy, they get him the people that people around him,
(04:44):
Javon Hargrave. Two sacks, Thank you big man, Thank you Alan,
very very solid between the two of them. I thought
I saw they had thirteen pressures, lucky number thirteen. That
is phenomenal. First half not getting home it seemed. So
it seems I've said this in the past two and
(05:06):
in this season. Obviously different personnel, but the Vikings have
the tendency to have issues with mobile quarterbacks. We saw
it with Matthew Stafford back in the day. We saw
it with a few of those guys that you don't
think of. The dudes that can run, you don't think
of them. Remember we had the it was the Josh
(05:28):
Allen game. Josh Allen just leaped over the Vikings and
that's all of a sudden, guess what, There goes Josh
Allen and he's now perennial MVP. It looks like a
guy that's going to be a superstar for a long
long time. But I'm here to tell you about the
Minnesota Vikings. That offensive line, Darrisaw coming back hopefully really
(05:49):
really soon. They're kind of baby stepping that Harrison Smith.
Still no word. This has the makings of something like
an infection or a hernia or something that they don't
have to disclose because the personal health issue. So who knows. Man,
(06:11):
godspeed to you, because in the first half, that leadership
of his would have been able to show through. I
think it would have been a lot closer. Maybe the
game would have been not as tough to overcome, and
we didn't have to wait until the fourth quarter. But
that's neither here nor there. I don't think we're gonna
(06:33):
see him again. I hope I'm wrong about that. I
don't think we're gonna see him this week. I don't
know when they plan on clearing him, but you gotta
be positive about the fact that he's not on the
IR and as of this recording, he's not on the IR.
Weird things happen sometimes when I speak and all sudden boom,
(06:53):
But we need him in the defense. Blake Cashman looks
like he's going to be out for a while. Wilson
comes in us very very well with that green dot.
Kevin O'Connell gave him props in the postgame locker speech.
Postgame locker room speech that would make you run through
a brick wall, like I love it. See I like that.
(07:15):
And now it kind of seems scripted, like where he's
walking back and forth, and hopefully some of the times
where he just kind of stays hyped up. But JJ McCarthy,
we knew he was a baller. We knew he's a guy.
He's like forty eight and three in his entire career
or something like that, or fifty eight and three whatever
it is. He has three losses. Ever, dude, I had
(07:36):
three losses today, Like I literally lost at three separate
things today, And this dude has only lost three times
in his entire football playing career. That's that's not even
that cool man like. As we talked to him, as
we're talking about this, I went to grab for a
donut and fell on the floor. I would call that
a loss. I bet you that doesn't happen in JJ McCarthy,
(07:57):
No way. Hopefully he's eating some Seventh Avenue something instead
of donuts. But still twenty seven to twenty four Mike's win.
I said theling was gonna get in the end zone.
He did, but it was only a two point conversion,
so I can't can't claim that one as successful. But
JJ getting the end zone, I got that one. I
(08:18):
thought Hawk was gonna get in the end zone. He
was also open on that play, but chose to go
with JJ. Sure hands, sure hands he had. I'd say one,
we're gonna call it one point five drops. DeLand had
to drop. McCarthy has some pretty good zip on some
of those passes where they put him. He put him
(08:38):
where they had to, and they just came up into
a spot where it was kind of in between the
body and the hands, And it's tough to a judge.
You can say, you can make all the excuses you want.
Those guys usually make those catches, probably seven or eight
out of ten times. It's just we needed it to
be ten out of ten, and it would have been
a lot better because one of them would have been
for a first down steat of punting. I think I
(09:00):
think that one missed one was when we got to
see the thirty one yard punt. Come on, right, well,
you do not, dude like that is the most depressing
thing ever where you're you're sitting back on your own twenty,
your own thirty, and then you give the ball to
them on their forty. What come on, man, you got
(09:21):
a big, long leg. I don't understand it. You've got
a powerful leg, and I have no idea what happens there.
And in turn, their kicking team kind of gave us
that win only up three. Instead of kicking it, angling
it out of the end zone or all the way
through the end zone, they kick it to about six
(09:44):
and a half seven yards deep in the end zone,
maybe five and a half six yards deep in the
end zone, and ty Chandler say, which you want. He
hasn't been getting a lot of opportunities with the offense,
but he gets that and looks at his sideline just
like Kevin O'Connell probably told him to, and most of
us at home were like, dude, you gotta run that out.
You gotta get below the two minute warning. And he
(10:06):
did and took off like eight nine seconds. Very valuable
seconds there, because the Bears just kind of ran out
of time, which and then the defense just sealed it. Man.
It was very very fantastic how the defense just done.
Seeing that, I'm guessing that Bears maybe would have declared
(10:27):
that they were going to go on sidekick, but it's
gonna be a lot tougher for on sidekicks. I understand
why they did it now real quickly. Twenty seven to
twenty four, victory one, and oh, very very positive about that.
Let's go to week number two. Week number two, Atlanta
comes in. Obviously, it's not Kirk Cousins at the Helm.
It's Penix. I kind of like what I saw out
(10:52):
of him, to be honest with you, he had that
game in hand. There's a few few miscues where they
were in that divisional game. And I'm not gonna say
this is going to be easy by any stretch of
the imagination. I just think the Vikes do get it done.
I think that defense has showed enough. Pennix another one
of those guys drafted at a McCarthy, same draft as McCarthy,
(11:15):
whatever it was, it is paramount that we put McCarthy
in a good spot so where he can succeed early
on in the game. Then get that defense to tee
off because we saw that d man. I don't know
if Flores was just kind of figured out in the
first half and then he just switched it around. Obviously,
(11:36):
we're not gonna see the pen and paper what he
did to see what he decided to do. But Vikings
were tackling a lot more. They're not giving up that
big play, and they're they're putting offenses on skates a
little bit because they're very, very good at keeping everything
in front of him, even when they only had a
ten point lead. They're not giving up the huge home runs.
(11:57):
They do give up chunks, but just not the fifty
yard bombs, which is kind of what Brian Flores does.
He likes when things get into their own red zone,
they tighten up, and I hope that continues. I think
it's going to continue again. I think the Vikes go
one to zero at home and they get out of
(12:20):
there up two to oh before the schedule gets a
little bit tougher. This isn't going to be an easy
game as of right now. I thought I saw the
Vikes were three and a half point favorites. The old
age old adage is you get three points for home games.
I don't know if that's even true anymore, but I
would put it right around three to seven. I think
(12:41):
the Vikes actually win. I'm going twenty seven to twenty
this time, so they do cover and it's probably going
to hit the over, which I didn't expect this last
game to get the over, and the way the first
half went, I didn't think the over was going to hit,
and it did, so I think the running game teams
are going to try to stop that, and that's when
(13:03):
JJ is gonna come alive. I think Hockinson has a
much bigger game. I think Feelan has a much bigger game.
He will definitely not stay off the stat sheet other
than a two point conversion. I think he gets give him,
give him four or five catches because they didn't target
him all that much either. So JJ. I think he
(13:23):
gets over a hundo and gets a tuddy. I think
Felan gets a Tuddy, and I think Mason will get
his first Toddy. I think that's it. Those are the
three tutties because we're going twenty seven to twenty so
it's gonna be twenty one. And then the two field
goals that's twenty seven. Right, Yeah, there we go. So
(13:46):
here you haven't. You don't even have a watch game
now because I'm so good at predicting things. Anyway, he
thinks to seventh Avenue, Pizza, Verbelly Sports. There you have
it till next week. Let's goal Year twos.
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