December 17, 2024 • 14 mins
The Voice of the Vikings, Paul Allen, joins the show to talk about the matchup between the Seahawks and Vikings on Sunday.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the only gift I need, and that is
the gift of friendship with my friend from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
What are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
The number one play by play voice in the National
Football League in my opinion, and a man that I
am honored to call my friend. The gift of getting
a chance to talk to him.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
On the air is good enough for me. Our friend
Paul Allen from the Minnesota Viking, Good lord, how are you, pal?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Softy DF? What's going on Tuesday? You're you're good with
that button, bar Man. I really got a high level
of appreciation for that timing. Now, the the Vikings may
never win in Seattle, Washington. What loss was that from?
The Vikings may never win a game in Seattle, Washington.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I know.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
The problem for me is there's been so many Viking
losses in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I've just forgotten which game that's from.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I don't think we've won there since six in the
regular season. Now, I mean, you know, because of because
of these mandatory vocal maintenance days you have coming up.
I was forced, I mean relegated, I mean asked to
do this interview on Tuesday. So I'm not super far
down the road on the Boye Mafes of the world.
(01:15):
But I don't softy, I don't think the Minnesota Vikings
have won a regular season game there since Ben Lieber
I believe scored a touchdown and Chester Taylor had the
longest run in the history of Vikings football O.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Six October twenty second, two thousand and six, thirty one
to thirteen over Seattle.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It's been all down long damn time.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
But you know what, Yeah, we got twenty twelve Percy
throw a fit and got mad at Ponder, and I
think it trickled into the week. Then we have that
Justin Coleman debacle. The undrafted corner from Tennessee zimmer Loved
tried to get sneaky on the practice squad. Never saw
him again. The offensive coordinator John D. Philippo didn't even
(02:00):
make it to the end of his first season. After
that game, he was fired. Twenty twenty super special calling
road games from US Bank Stadium. We had a cam
danceler what are you doing moment on a pop fly
to DK Metcalfs. Yeah, there are definitely been some fond
memories of the old Cappuccino Capital.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, and in your place as well, and in the
Gophers Park as well.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Season can't have like that.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I mean just all phenomenal g yeah, really legendary games.
But dude, you guys are all fat and happy. You're
twelve and two, you've won seven in a row. Sam Donald,
with time? Sam Donald, what time is tearing it up?
You're gonna come in here and get revenge and kick
the Seahawks ass on Sunday and get to thirteen and two.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
How confident are you?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Man?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
What do you think about Sunday's matchup?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well? First, the last two? All right, So Kirko Chains
comes back to town and they crushed the Atlanta Falcons.
Now the Bears. I mean you talk about catching teams
at the right time. I mean this this interim head
coach they have, Thomas Brown, with all due respect, he
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decided last night that he's gonna pick his first fight
of the game when they're backed up to their thirty
nine and it's fourth down, first drive of the game,
and they're going to go for it in minus territory
against a defense that's been number one on fourth down
the entire season. Oh, by the way, at home, and
it's super loud. It's not twelve's loud, but it's super
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loud now, so of course he didn't get it, you know,
so it was just a cub you know. It's like
the Bears into that game, man, you know, I'm like,
how can a team be plus ten and to take
give and have a quarterback? Caleb Williams into the game
had gone two fifty five in a row without a
pick and he didn't have one last night. It's on
two eighty something now, and I'm like, how can this
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team be on a seven game bender? And at four
and nine, Well, we figured it out with decisions like that,
So now we have some context, all right. Kevin O'Connell
is twenty four and nine coming up at the conclusion
of his third year, said coach here, twenty four and
nine in one score games, and that's really big because
the Vikings playing a lot of one score games. That
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number twenty four and nine is already top three NFL
history for one score games, so he's very comfortable in
those situations. There are a lot of players on the team.
Blowing out teams two weeks in a row is weird.
Now when it comes to the Vikings being fat and happy,
that ain't the case. That's another trait Kevin O'Connell has that,
(04:38):
Like I mean when when when the Hawks, you know,
were in their heyday, there were so many intangibles to
Pete Carroll that you could just reference about, Hey, one
six in a row. He keeps them humble. Hey, you've
lost four in a row. You know, he's trying to
keep them not depressed. O'Connell has a lot of those traits,
and I really like them.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Sam Darnold's been amazing.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
How much of what we're seeing in Sam Darnold this
year actually the new Sam Donald that is going to
be this way no matter who he plays for, and
how much is it a I think a top five
offensive mind in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
And Kevin O'Connell, Yeah, I can't you know what, I
can't say that about Sam moving forward now, you know,
it's he was pulled from a very difficult situation.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Now when he played for the Niners and went to
the Super Bowl, that was kind of the chill out period.
But I mean the Carolina and Jets narratives and comparing
them with this offensive staff with Jefferson and Addison and
Hawkinson and Aaron Jones, it was ridiculous. I mean, it's
like it may not be great, but it ain't gonna be.
(05:42):
It's not like he's trying to put Robbie Anderson on
double moves to win games. And we're not throwing de
Ian Thomas or Tommy Trumble to try to win games.
A right, The coaching staff and the skill set here
on offense a little different than what he came from,
all right, So that reclamation project clearly has worked out
what it worked out in a situation that is not
like this. I don't know, but he's going to get
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that opportunity potentially. Well.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Paul Allen again with us on the radio show what
are we doing here? Be here on Sunday for the
Seahawks and Vikings, And you mentioned.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
You're going to be more short winded.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I'm sorry, it's okay.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You mentioned the home field advantage for the Seahawks. How
loud the twelves are. Well, guess what, Paul, and you
can feel free to use this in your little broadcast
on Sunday on Kfan.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It's a big broadcast.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Since twenty twenty one when fans were brought back after
COVID shut them out of the park. We're sixteen and
seventeen at home at Lumenfield, they're a game under five
hundred in their last thirty three games. Do you still
do you still today, well, do you still today think
of Lumenfield as a house of horrors?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Well, a house of whores because we haven't won there
since two thousand and six, So I mean that's that now.
When it comes to the twelves and the fan base
for the Seattle Seahawks, they they have built up so
much league wide equity for being menaces, but menacing not
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in ways like Lincoln Financial, where the majority of those
fans are fools. They're just stone cold fools with the
way they treat things. And then some other places too,
No Seattle any like that. So hey, you know, I
know Gino's done quite well. You know, I know he
had that little injury in the last game, But I mean,
Kenneth Walker, those ice receivers and everything. There are players
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for whom to cheer. But I would assume it's incumbent
upon the players to give the twelves reason to cheer,
because they've shown that they can get loud and become
a menacing presence. But if it's boring, it's boring, and
they hang in a chair.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Well, road teams are one eleven and one oh nine
this year, so we're seeing it everywhere. I mean, Luminfield
is not an anomaly at all. Road teams have won
more games than home teams. How many Vikings fans do
you see on the road on a week by week
base system?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
How many do you think you'll see here?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
A lot? Good question about Seattle. That's a different place.
It's it's tougher to get tickets, you know, for us
to be a three h five game, I don't believe.
And a lot of people work on Monday, but it
is Christmas week next week. Like when we went to Tennessee. Now,
I mean, you know, it's it's Nashville, so you got
you got that vombits test known as Broadway. But nevertheless,
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the Titans are down so you can get you know,
like the first five rows in the third level the
upper deck for like eighty dollars a ticket, maybe up
to one ten. Now there were about fifteen close to
twenty thousand Vikings fans at that game. This this team
travels extremely well. I don't recall Seattle, you know ever,
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being like, well, why would it be massive skull chance
central when when we never win there so we got
to win there this week. And that's the bottom line.
This is a big game for the Minnesota Vikings coming
up Softy.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Well, it's a huge game for the Hawks.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I mean, they almost got to win out out to
make the playoffs considering their situation with the Rams by
the way and the tiebreaker going to La and they
got them coming up in week eighteen.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
So this is a massive game for them.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
But I mean, honestly, paint the picture, because you know
this Vikings team.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Better than me.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I think you got a grip of what the Hawks
are all about. Paint the picture for how a twelve
and two Vikings team walks in here and loses to
a Seahawks football team that, let's face it, in a
lot of home games this year, including Green Bay, including Buffalo,
has been getting pushed around on their home turf. What
will keep you up at night Saturday night before this game?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Nothing? But secondly, Dick answered it when he said one
eleven to one oh nine or that whole thing. Yeah, okay,
we'll just look at the twelve and two Vikings all right. Now.
The Seattle Seahawks with Geno Smith, all right, are better
than the Jacksonville Jaguars, which rever Lawrence right, and Seattle
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is better than the Chicago Bears. Well, we went overtime
with the Bear three three and a half weeks ago
or whatever, and barely won the game at Jacksonville. Darnold
threw three picks. We're in some stupid meat grinder with them.
I think we might have won twelve ten something like that,
or twelve seven. So we've been in games in goofy
fashion with teams that ain't going anywhere. That's that's Dick's
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one eleven and one oh nine or whatever that thing was.
That's just how it was going.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
How do you handicap this division? Because it certainly looks
different today with Detroit than it did six weeks ago
when it kind of looked like, hey, Detroit is clearly
the best team in the division.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
How do you how do you handicap these three teams?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
All right, well, let me ask you a question. Now,
I watched the game, but you guys know more about
the product than me. What do you think of Green
Bay Sunday Night?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I thought they were fab very good.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, okay, agree, I absolutely agree. The discretion has become
the better part of valor with this quarterback and the
way they're running Jacobs is working all right. So the
green Bay games trickier than I thought it would be.
I mean, when we went a Lamboman two months ago,
we were up twenty eight zero in like five minutes.
But then another road game and they come charging at us,
(11:06):
tried an onside kick at the end. That's what it
came down to, you know. But we were beating them
twenty eight zero in the first half. So with that said,
the Viking's winning a close one Sunday at your spot.
That's how I mean. If it's gone to the head terrorism,
then I say, yes that happens. Now you've got green
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Bay at home Detroit with these twenty two guys on
injured reserve and twelve out for the season, and now
they lost Aleem McNeil. He's the bomb. Now they lost
David Montgomery. The loss of David Montgomery, and people will
think this is dumb, but I know Detroit inside out. Man.
We see him twice a year, and I just know
him really well. The loss of David Montgomery is as
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significant as the loss of Aiden Hutchinson because it takes
away their calling card offensively of what they want to
do to set everything up and play Jamier with all
speed off David in the power. That's a massive, massive,
massive loss for the Lions. Yeah, if we can win Sunday,
we're gonna win, win the rest of our games and
finish fifteen to two and win the division.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Well, I gotta be honest with you. I want to
just leave it right there, because there's a couple of
numbers that I really like. Twelve for obvious reasons, ninety
one the year the Huskies won the national championship, seventy
three the year that I was born, nineteen forty the
year my dad was born, and forty eight.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I like forty eight for two reasons.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Number one, it's the year of the or the number
of the Super Bowl the Seahawks one. It's also the
amount of years it's been since the Vikings played in
a Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Was forty eight years.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
So I'll tell you what that was good. At the end,
it took me a long time to get there. I
know that.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Just hang on, hang on a minute, I'm not done yet.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
But we've had some really, really good Viking football teams
over the years. Why does this feel like maybe the
team that could end that streak?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
And finally get you guys back.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
All right, Well, in O nine this is a complete
loser's lament. But in fact, in O nine it took
the anti byte Sean Payton and a bounty gate scandal
that cost him a year if he got suspended. So
they stone cold cheated in that game. Or we're going
to the super Bowl now with this team. That's an
(13:23):
excellent question, softy, And you got to look at the
complexion of the NFC. Now. Now, when we went out
to Los Angeles and lost to Stafford on Thursday night,
I mean, they kind of handled us to be to
be honest with you, we almost beat Detroit the week before.
Here Philadelphia had Lincoln Financial. Nobody wants that in the postseason.
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I've done it before. I did it in the NFC
title game. I did it in the Divisional round after
the two thousand and four season. Nobody wants to be
at Lincoln Financial in the playoffs. It sucks. So well,
look what they have. They're at Washington. You know, with
us having Monday Night football, actually have to watch games.
Washington wasn't in any bargain against New Orleans and two
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quarterbacks nobody can name. But then they get Dallas. Now,
Cooper Rush is playing all right now. Now Dallas has
a little thing right now, and then they got the
Giants at the end. It's like an exhibition game. So
I don't think Philly's going to lose the rest of
the way.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, hey man, listen, great to hear your voice. Look
forward to hopefully seeing you at the park on Sunday.
And just remember, as I always tell you, if it
can't be us, I'm always rooting for you and we
love you.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Likewise, I love you. Go cracking and come by the
box box sometime and throw the headphones on and take
in a series.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Okay, I'll be there Sunday. I'll see you. Then peal
thanks Paul.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Later I get
This is the only gift I need, and that is
the gift of friendship with my friend from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
What are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
The number one play by play voice in the National
Football League in my opinion, and a man that I
am honored to call my friend. The gift of getting
a chance to talk to him.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
On the air is good enough for me. Our friend
Paul Allen from the Minnesota Viking, Good lord, how are you, pal?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Softy DF? What's going on Tuesday? You're you're good with
that button, bar Man. I really got a high level
of appreciation for that timing. Now, the the Vikings may
never win in Seattle, Washington. What loss was that from?
The Vikings may never win a game in Seattle, Washington.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I know.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
The problem for me is there's been so many Viking
losses in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I've just forgotten which game that's from.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I don't think we've won there since six in the
regular season. Now, I mean, you know, because of because
of these mandatory vocal maintenance days you have coming up.
I was forced, I mean relegated, I mean asked to
do this interview on Tuesday. So I'm not super far
down the road on the Boye Mafes of the world.
(01:15):
But I don't softy, I don't think the Minnesota Vikings
have won a regular season game there since Ben Lieber
I believe scored a touchdown and Chester Taylor had the
longest run in the history of Vikings football O.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Six October twenty second, two thousand and six, thirty one
to thirteen over Seattle.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It's been all down long damn time.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
But you know what, Yeah, we got twenty twelve Percy
throw a fit and got mad at Ponder, and I
think it trickled into the week. Then we have that
Justin Coleman debacle. The undrafted corner from Tennessee zimmer Loved
tried to get sneaky on the practice squad. Never saw
him again. The offensive coordinator John D. Philippo didn't even
(02:00):
make it to the end of his first season. After
that game, he was fired. Twenty twenty super special calling
road games from US Bank Stadium. We had a cam
danceler what are you doing moment on a pop fly
to DK Metcalfs. Yeah, there are definitely been some fond
memories of the old Cappuccino Capital.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, and in your place as well, and in the
Gophers Park as well.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Season can't have like that.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I mean just all phenomenal g yeah, really legendary games.
But dude, you guys are all fat and happy. You're
twelve and two, you've won seven in a row. Sam Donald,
with time? Sam Donald, what time is tearing it up?
You're gonna come in here and get revenge and kick
the Seahawks ass on Sunday and get to thirteen and two.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
How confident are you?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Man?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
What do you think about Sunday's matchup?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well? First, the last two? All right, So Kirko Chains
comes back to town and they crushed the Atlanta Falcons.
Now the Bears. I mean you talk about catching teams
at the right time. I mean this this interim head
coach they have, Thomas Brown, with all due respect, he
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decided last night that he's gonna pick his first fight
of the game when they're backed up to their thirty
nine and it's fourth down, first drive of the game,
and they're going to go for it in minus territory
against a defense that's been number one on fourth down
the entire season. Oh, by the way, at home, and
it's super loud. It's not twelve's loud, but it's super
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loud now, so of course he didn't get it, you know,
so it was just a cub you know. It's like
the Bears into that game, man, you know, I'm like,
how can a team be plus ten and to take
give and have a quarterback? Caleb Williams into the game
had gone two fifty five in a row without a
pick and he didn't have one last night. It's on
two eighty something now, and I'm like, how can this
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team be on a seven game bender? And at four
and nine, Well, we figured it out with decisions like that,
So now we have some context, all right. Kevin O'Connell
is twenty four and nine coming up at the conclusion
of his third year, said coach here, twenty four and
nine in one score games, and that's really big because
the Vikings playing a lot of one score games. That
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number twenty four and nine is already top three NFL
history for one score games, so he's very comfortable in
those situations. There are a lot of players on the team.
Blowing out teams two weeks in a row is weird.
Now when it comes to the Vikings being fat and happy,
that ain't the case. That's another trait Kevin O'Connell has that,
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Like I mean when when when the Hawks, you know,
were in their heyday, there were so many intangibles to
Pete Carroll that you could just reference about, Hey, one
six in a row. He keeps them humble. Hey, you've
lost four in a row. You know, he's trying to
keep them not depressed. O'Connell has a lot of those traits,
and I really like them.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Sam Darnold's been amazing.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
How much of what we're seeing in Sam Darnold this
year actually the new Sam Donald that is going to
be this way no matter who he plays for, and
how much is it a I think a top five
offensive mind in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
And Kevin O'Connell, Yeah, I can't you know what, I
can't say that about Sam moving forward now, you know,
it's he was pulled from a very difficult situation.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Now when he played for the Niners and went to
the Super Bowl, that was kind of the chill out period.
But I mean the Carolina and Jets narratives and comparing
them with this offensive staff with Jefferson and Addison and
Hawkinson and Aaron Jones, it was ridiculous. I mean, it's
like it may not be great, but it ain't gonna be.
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It's not like he's trying to put Robbie Anderson on
double moves to win games. And we're not throwing de
Ian Thomas or Tommy Trumble to try to win games.
A right, The coaching staff and the skill set here
on offense a little different than what he came from,
all right, So that reclamation project clearly has worked out
what it worked out in a situation that is not
like this. I don't know, but he's going to get
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that opportunity potentially. Well.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Paul Allen again with us on the radio show what
are we doing here? Be here on Sunday for the
Seahawks and Vikings, And you mentioned.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
You're going to be more short winded.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I'm sorry, it's okay.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You mentioned the home field advantage for the Seahawks. How
loud the twelves are. Well, guess what, Paul, and you
can feel free to use this in your little broadcast
on Sunday on Kfan.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It's a big broadcast.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Since twenty twenty one when fans were brought back after
COVID shut them out of the park. We're sixteen and
seventeen at home at Lumenfield, they're a game under five
hundred in their last thirty three games. Do you still
do you still today, well, do you still today think
of Lumenfield as a house of horrors?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Well, a house of whores because we haven't won there
since two thousand and six, So I mean that's that now.
When it comes to the twelves and the fan base
for the Seattle Seahawks, they they have built up so
much league wide equity for being menaces, but menacing not
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in ways like Lincoln Financial, where the majority of those
fans are fools. They're just stone cold fools with the
way they treat things. And then some other places too,
No Seattle any like that. So hey, you know, I
know Gino's done quite well. You know, I know he
had that little injury in the last game, But I mean,
Kenneth Walker, those ice receivers and everything. There are players
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for whom to cheer. But I would assume it's incumbent
upon the players to give the twelves reason to cheer,
because they've shown that they can get loud and become
a menacing presence. But if it's boring, it's boring, and
they hang in a chair.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Well, road teams are one eleven and one oh nine
this year, so we're seeing it everywhere. I mean, Luminfield
is not an anomaly at all. Road teams have won
more games than home teams. How many Vikings fans do
you see on the road on a week by week
base system?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
How many do you think you'll see here?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
A lot? Good question about Seattle. That's a different place.
It's it's tougher to get tickets, you know, for us
to be a three h five game, I don't believe.
And a lot of people work on Monday, but it
is Christmas week next week. Like when we went to Tennessee. Now,
I mean, you know, it's it's Nashville, so you got
you got that vombits test known as Broadway. But nevertheless,
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the Titans are down so you can get you know,
like the first five rows in the third level the
upper deck for like eighty dollars a ticket, maybe up
to one ten. Now there were about fifteen close to
twenty thousand Vikings fans at that game. This this team
travels extremely well. I don't recall Seattle, you know ever,
(08:46):
being like, well, why would it be massive skull chance
central when when we never win there so we got
to win there this week. And that's the bottom line.
This is a big game for the Minnesota Vikings coming
up Softy.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Well, it's a huge game for the Hawks.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I mean, they almost got to win out out to
make the playoffs considering their situation with the Rams by
the way and the tiebreaker going to La and they
got them coming up in week eighteen.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
So this is a massive game for them.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
But I mean, honestly, paint the picture, because you know
this Vikings team.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Better than me.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I think you got a grip of what the Hawks
are all about. Paint the picture for how a twelve
and two Vikings team walks in here and loses to
a Seahawks football team that, let's face it, in a
lot of home games this year, including Green Bay, including Buffalo,
has been getting pushed around on their home turf. What
will keep you up at night Saturday night before this game?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Nothing? But secondly, Dick answered it when he said one
eleven to one oh nine or that whole thing. Yeah, okay,
we'll just look at the twelve and two Vikings all right. Now.
The Seattle Seahawks with Geno Smith, all right, are better
than the Jacksonville Jaguars, which rever Lawrence right, and Seattle
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is better than the Chicago Bears. Well, we went overtime
with the Bear three three and a half weeks ago
or whatever, and barely won the game at Jacksonville. Darnold
threw three picks. We're in some stupid meat grinder with them.
I think we might have won twelve ten something like that,
or twelve seven. So we've been in games in goofy
fashion with teams that ain't going anywhere. That's that's Dick's
(10:18):
one eleven and one oh nine or whatever that thing was.
That's just how it was going.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
How do you handicap this division? Because it certainly looks
different today with Detroit than it did six weeks ago
when it kind of looked like, hey, Detroit is clearly
the best team in the division.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
How do you how do you handicap these three teams?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
All right, well, let me ask you a question. Now,
I watched the game, but you guys know more about
the product than me. What do you think of Green
Bay Sunday Night?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I thought they were fab very good.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, okay, agree, I absolutely agree. The discretion has become
the better part of valor with this quarterback and the
way they're running Jacobs is working all right. So the
green Bay games trickier than I thought it would be.
I mean, when we went a Lamboman two months ago,
we were up twenty eight zero in like five minutes.
But then another road game and they come charging at us,
(11:06):
tried an onside kick at the end. That's what it
came down to, you know. But we were beating them
twenty eight zero in the first half. So with that said,
the Viking's winning a close one Sunday at your spot.
That's how I mean. If it's gone to the head terrorism,
then I say, yes that happens. Now you've got green
(11:28):
Bay at home Detroit with these twenty two guys on
injured reserve and twelve out for the season, and now
they lost Aleem McNeil. He's the bomb. Now they lost
David Montgomery. The loss of David Montgomery, and people will
think this is dumb, but I know Detroit inside out. Man.
We see him twice a year, and I just know
him really well. The loss of David Montgomery is as
(11:49):
significant as the loss of Aiden Hutchinson because it takes
away their calling card offensively of what they want to
do to set everything up and play Jamier with all
speed off David in the power. That's a massive, massive,
massive loss for the Lions. Yeah, if we can win Sunday,
we're gonna win, win the rest of our games and
finish fifteen to two and win the division.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Well, I gotta be honest with you. I want to
just leave it right there, because there's a couple of
numbers that I really like. Twelve for obvious reasons, ninety
one the year the Huskies won the national championship, seventy
three the year that I was born, nineteen forty the
year my dad was born, and forty eight.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I like forty eight for two reasons.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Number one, it's the year of the or the number
of the Super Bowl the Seahawks one. It's also the
amount of years it's been since the Vikings played in
a Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Was forty eight years.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
So I'll tell you what that was good. At the end,
it took me a long time to get there. I
know that.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Just hang on, hang on a minute, I'm not done yet.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
But we've had some really, really good Viking football teams
over the years. Why does this feel like maybe the
team that could end that streak?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
And finally get you guys back.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
All right, Well, in O nine this is a complete
loser's lament. But in fact, in O nine it took
the anti byte Sean Payton and a bounty gate scandal
that cost him a year if he got suspended. So
they stone cold cheated in that game. Or we're going
to the super Bowl now with this team. That's an
(13:23):
excellent question, softy, And you got to look at the
complexion of the NFC. Now. Now, when we went out
to Los Angeles and lost to Stafford on Thursday night,
I mean, they kind of handled us to be to
be honest with you, we almost beat Detroit the week before.
Here Philadelphia had Lincoln Financial. Nobody wants that in the postseason.
(13:44):
I've done it before. I did it in the NFC
title game. I did it in the Divisional round after
the two thousand and four season. Nobody wants to be
at Lincoln Financial in the playoffs. It sucks. So well,
look what they have. They're at Washington. You know, with
us having Monday Night football, actually have to watch games.
Washington wasn't in any bargain against New Orleans and two
(14:06):
quarterbacks nobody can name. But then they get Dallas. Now,
Cooper Rush is playing all right now. Now Dallas has
a little thing right now, and then they got the
Giants at the end. It's like an exhibition game. So
I don't think Philly's going to lose the rest of
the way.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, hey man, listen, great to hear your voice. Look
forward to hopefully seeing you at the park on Sunday.
And just remember, as I always tell you, if it
can't be us, I'm always rooting for you and we
love you.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Likewise, I love you. Go cracking and come by the
box box sometime and throw the headphones on and take
in a series.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Okay, I'll be there Sunday. I'll see you. Then peal
thanks Paul.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Later I get
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