Minnesota Vikings predictions: Isaiah Rodgers, Carson Wentz, and more

Minnesota Vikings predictions: Isaiah Rodgers, Carson Wentz, and more

Purple Daily is daily Vikings entertainment. We just want the Vikings to win a Super Bowl before we die. I will ride with this group. Seriously, man. Please. And away we go. Is a write that down Wednesday here on the show. Who’s fired up? That’s right. Little quarterback there, huh? That’s right. Ready? Let’s get going. Let’s go. Give me your hard count. Uh uh I want to hear Jud’s hard count. Yeah. I’m not doing a hard count today. Blue 42. Yeah. Yeah. Green. Wide 80. Green 80. Green 80. Green 80. Wow. That’s agent. That’s impressive. You’re Wow. That’s a great heart count by age and at home too. Like the neighbors are going to call 911 now. But that’s okay. Their dogs their dogs been barking since 6:00 a.m. They can feel Oh, it’s personal. It’s personal for AJ. That’s the haron. Just bark. Just bark like a dog. Get that tackle. That’s not That’s actually That’s not a good idea. Set. One of those edge rushers. Yeah. Don’t go on roof. Go on woof. Yeah. Oh god. Oh man. 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So, uh, here’s how it works. Maybe you are new to Purple Daily. If you are, welcome in. Click that subscribe button on the Purple Daily YouTube channel. And or if you could give us a fivestar rating and positive review on Apple and Spotify, it helps continue to grow the best and biggest Vikings fan podcast community in the in the world really because it’s fun to see how many people join Ventine from different parts of the world. So, um, if you’re new to write that down, we are the only show in America that actually puts statistics next to our predictions. Unlike all the other sports talkers out there who want you to forget how wrong they are, uh, we highlight how wrong we are on this show. Uh, it’s three Vikings or football related predictions from everybody each week. They have to be quantifiable in some form. We keep track of completion percentage and touchdowns. The touchdown is something that has like a much lesser chance of happening, a 25% or less chance. And listeners, if you want to be like Tanner and participate shortly as a guest listener predictor, you can send Declan a message through the Score North app. And then don’t forget about the OG edition of Write That Down on one of our other podcast, Mackie and Jud, and the Score North YouTube channel. Uh Jud, are you ready to be held accountable? Well, seeing as how I sign up for this not once, but twice every Wednesday, yes, I am. Okay, a couple things came off the board and then one that we will highlight. Okay, that first one not coming off the board is malpractice not by the man who predicted it. Aren’t Well, so your prediction was the Chargers will beat the Dolphins on Sunday, which they did. And Mike McDaniel would be or is it is it MC is it McDaniel or McDaniels? Mike. McDaniel. McDaniel. Mike McDaniel. Y singular. Okay. Y it’s okay. It’s Josh McDaniel’s Mike McDaniel. Okay. Yeah. didn’t even think of that. But now I I will also thank you for that. He’ll be fired before he coaches another game. And I get two up at the podium basically throwing his coach under the bus. Like I was I was running around pumping my fist like this is 100% going to happen now. And people might say, “Well, wait, the game hasn’t happened.” Yeah, but if you’re going to fire a coach before a game week, it happens before Wednesday. Cuz like Wednesday, you got to lock it in and go forward. happens when the Titans pulled the plug. Yeah. Which you said the Titans will fire Brian Callahan before the end of the season and we’re giving you a touchdown for the before the end of the season part. Mhm. because, you know, he was like he’s this offensive sort of mastermind that they hired and I don’t think they were he was on kind of a hot seat going into the season, but uh but for that to happen before the end of the season is enough specificity there. So, we’ll see. Are the By the way, back to the first prediction. I Are the Dolphins and Browns playing each other this week? Yes. So, you’ve got some real hot seat action in that game. Stfansky, especially since since Stfansky was asked about Mike Tomlin’s comment criticizing the Browns for trading Joe Flacco to the Bengals and Stfansky instead of defending his boss Andrew Barry said, “I have no comment.” Yeah. And don’t forget Tomlin Tomlin and Stfansky worked together at at least in the same office with the Vikings in 2006 under Brad Childris. They did. So there’s a familiarity there. But yes, uh I think the Stfansky thing again, he he should want to be fired cuz he’ll get a job. He will. He might have to be a coordinator first just to, you know, take a beat, but he’ll for sure get a head coaching job again at some point. And then we’ll highlight this one uh because a portion of it came off the board. You said Ky Per, the star safety for the Gophers, will score two or more touchdowns this season. He got his first one. You only have one to go. And I got a bad beat there uh because I think it was a week ago I predicted coming off that Cal debacle for him that he would get a touchdown in a particular game and he picked off a pass but he didn’t house it right. Yeah. But he houseed the pass. Is he still playing on offense though or has that been a I don’t know how many I can’t tell you like snap counts but he only he caught the first pass of the season and he only has four catches since then. So Okay. I feel like they pulled back on that because it became clear it was probably taxing his brain a little bit too much. Yeah. Okay, let’s get to my accountabilities here. I This is also kind of a bad beat. I don’t They haven’t reversed this, right? So, Will Riker, I said, would make at least his first 10 field goals. A lot of people saying it hit a wire. The NFL kind of confirming it hit a wire, but then our guy Thor and some others have done like really deep dive film breakdowns and they don’t think it hit the wire. But either way, and the Vikings actually, it sounds like sources told somebody that the Vikings during the by-week asked the National Football League to take that off the board and say, “Just say he didn’t make it, but don’t count it as a miss.” And the league’s like, “It I think the league said it hit the wire, but we’re not going to take it off. It’s still a miss.” It’s such a weird what a weird circumstance. So, cuz like it is a missed field goal unless they catch it in the moment. You can’t How about we don’t have a wire that low enough for a field goal to hit it maybe cuz it’s the National Football League. It’s billions and billions of dollars invested and yet we’re like, “Oh, sorry, man. Ball hit a wire.” Soccer. Soccer not ready for prime time. Soccer the world sport, but we can’t get the fields right to play uh America’s sport the right way. So, I also said this, we’ll just highlight this one because a portion of it came off. I said by March 1st, Mike McDaniel, Brian Dable, Dave Canales, and Brian Callahan will all not be with their current team. So, one down, three to go. Got the football coach Grim Reaper knocking on doors here. I wonder if Brian Dable might be saved here. I don’t think he necessarily should be, but Jackson Dart, I wonder if I wonder if he might save him. He’s got an interesting fascination with Jackson Dart now going into like the the injury tent like, “Hey, are you good to go? I can’t have Russell Wilson take another snap. Coach, I’m going to the bathroom. Can you please leave? He’s like concussed though. Like they’re they’re like, “Okay, the league cares about concussions.” And Brian D’s like, “Just get back out there. Your bell was your bell’s wrong.” Reaming that doctor. I know. Like doctor’s like, “Dude, I don’t know what to tell you. I’m trying to see if your quarterback is conscious.” But uh yeah, I mean his Yeah. his his main job is to develop Jackson Dart at this point. I think what saves his job is Jackson Dar playing pretty well and the Giants being competitive and to this point through three games those are happening. Uh listeners Mike said the Vikings will hand the Eagles their first loss and it’ll be a two-score win. Well, the Eagles are Eagles are already losing two games going into this one here. And then Omar said, this one should have come off the board a few weeks ago, but Omar said Aaron Rogers will sign with the Steelers and the Vikings will beat Pittsburgh when they play by 10 or more points. So, he got the first part, but uh Rogers got his revenge on the Vikings. And then Declan said that there’d be a credible report. So, there was a there was a report last year that teams were calling on trading for Kevin O’Connell and Declan said there’d be a credible report about which teams specifically checked in on KOC by week one and that I have not seen any specific hey it was the Titans that called or whatever. I forgot all about that. Mhm. That’s right. Okay. It’s like Jay was that Jay Glazer who just came in. And he’s like, “Yes, it was at the end of the season and we speculated it might have been the Bears like on game day like we’re set.” Right. It was like the Lions. It was the Lions game. Yeah, it was the last it was the last game of the the debacle in Detroit. But yeah, he reported that and but yeah, it didn’t get out. Didn’t get out. Interesting. So, here’s what we have. By the way, the season runs from Super Bowl to Super Bowl. So, there’s a ton of ground left here. Ton of predictions still to be made, but I’ve got a pretty healthy completion percentage lead on you guys. 44.7%. Declan 34.1%. Jud 33.3. Listeners 31.7. Uh me, Dex, Jud all with eight touchdowns. Listeners with seven. AJ currently still repping the listener category until you build enough sample size for us to make your own category. And then I’m going to I’m going to come in with like a 13% completion rate. just terrible or like a 70%. Yeah, that’s the problem is you it it might be too high the that’s where like we need we need some sample size so that you’re not you know five for nine and then and then boom Dex comes back for the the full week again. So and then career stats uh Declan 36 and a half% completions these date back to 2021 I’m at 35% Jud 34 listeners just under 25%. Listeners have a touchdown lead narrowly but with 67 career touchdowns. So, there you go. Write this down. All right. Uh, Age, if you could bring Tanner into the mix here, and we can bump the the stats off the screen there, too. Tanner, what’s going on, man? Welcome into your Write That Down debut, sir. How’s it going? Can you hear me? Oh, yeah. Tell us uh Are you like Is that your own CL? Oh, who do we have? This is Malow. Mow. Oh, what a cutie. What a cutie. I will know that they’re alive. Blink twice, Malow, if you’re alive, you guys. I mean, dogs just chill. Okay. Like Barney here. He chills. This Barney. Yeah. What’s Barney doing right now? Just chill right here. He sits here. Helps me out. It’s great. He’s my assistant. I love it. Yeah. So, Tanner, what are is that your closet of like Vikings jerseys? Where are you sitting right now? Uh, it’s just my basement man cave. Nice. I got few of the jerseys hanging up. Yeah, give us a give us a tour of got KJ Osborne, little that one’s actually signed. The KJ is we got McCarthy, uh Harrison Smith, couple Jeffersons. Yeah. Uh there’s Xavier Rhodess down there. Nice. Oh, dude. Xavier Rhodess. Love it, man. Just a just a down. The signed helmet up here. I actually just won that this weekend. Nice, dude. Who’s who signed that? Tommy Kramer and Ed McDaniels. Old Tommy Kramer. Actually won it at uh if you ever heard of Champions, it’s a Packers campground that’s owned by Gilbert Brown. Oh, and Viking Gilbert Brown, right? Yeah. Don’t tell him you were drafted by him. He didn’t want to hear that. But but yeah, they had a legends weekend, so there was a bunch of Packer players there and they were doing raffles, so I won the helmet. That’s pretty awesome, man. Love the man cave. So, yeah. When did you first become a fan? Like, what era or what year of of Vikings history? Uh, I mean, I really got roped in mostly the 2009 season. Uh, been a Vikings fan for a long time, but really kind of dug in after that. Um, you know, born and raised in Minnesota. I’m actually from Lansboro, Jud. Oh, are you? Okay, cool. Y high school there. So, great area. Absolutely. Love it, man. Yeah. So, you probably thought, “All right, that that kind of sucked in 2009, but we’re going to run it back in 2010. Everything’s going to break through.” City Rice’s going to be back in better than ever. Percy Yeah, Brett’s going to Brett’s going to come back. He’s going to be he’s going to heal that ankle up. And then uh I actually live in Winona right now. So I’m right on Packer border. Yep. Yeah. You’re f fending them off down there, man. So well, let’s we’re going to start with your first prediction, Tanner. Then Jud, AJ, and I’ll round it out. So we’ll make three predictions. We’ll go around three different trips around the room. So uh the floor is yours. Write this down, Tanner. What’s your first prediction? All right. So most of my predictions are going to be for this kind of middle games, the, you know, tough four that are coming up. Kind of got a good spot here on the show right after the buy. You know, see what’s going to happen. But for my first prediction against the Eagles, they will have an unsuccessful tush push. Oh, the who? Which? The Eagles will or the Vikings? Eagles will have an unsuccessful push. Okay. Vikings will stop them somehow. Whether it’s, you know, if it’s a third and two and they don’t quite get the first down, I’d say that’s unsuccessful. If they maybe finally get a false start or something like that, would be unsuccessful. So, yeah. And if they don’t succeed the first time, as we saw in the last game, they’ll just keep doing it. All they need is one. Yeah. Yeah. They’ll just keep doing it. God, that play has to go. That has to go now. It’s a non- football. It’s a it it sucks because here’s the thing. This league has done such a marvelous job of of creating excitement, right? Like offensive football and stuff. And the Ravens to me are were the prime offender on Sunday. Mark Andrews under center for a tush push from like the one with Derrick Henry in your back field. That ball has got to be in Derrick Henry’s hands. It’s uh I think it’s so tough because to to ban the tush push, you have to like quantify what you’re banning. It can’t just be like you can’t do that. It’s got What is the rule? And the rule is you can’t you can’t shove a player an offensive player from a form. No, no. I I would leave in the ability if there’s a player at the goal line and a guy has run like 50 yards and a guy has him, I say I say you can blast your teammate from behind to put him into the end zone. I would out Risner coming from 40 yards. What I would do is I would I would outlaw I would outlaw I would say from a formation you can’t push a teammate. Okay. So could you get around that by uh by moving the form doing like a moving formation tush push? So we’re going to we’re going to it’s going to be like a we’re going to like zone tush push out. You cannot snap a ball that from a formation with a snap. You cannot have a tush push. Okay. because then I can blast a teammate. Like I I like that because that’s fun. Like if a guy goes flying, it’s it’s kind of jarring when they line up and they’ll they’ll do this from like the two yardd line and do it like wait a second, the the defense is lined up past like they’re ahead of the goal line. So that play is so effective that they can they can run it from the two and like push the def the defenders back two yards, but they always jump. It’s it’s always a false start now. And and it’s just plus the last thing is it’s a bad TV play cuz you can’t see Jack. It is hard. I know it’s but I like I like the way that you’ve cuz again it can’t just be you can’t do that. You need to quantify what you’re banning and so I think you I think you did a pretty good job there. Thank you very much. This is how I help. Okay. Um I will uh I might be wrong here but I will take the lowhanging fruit of the week. Write this down. Carson Wentz will start on Sunday. We still don’t know. They They’re doing They’re both gonna speak today at the Are they going to be there together or like separately? Well, that’s That would be hilarious. That would be hilarious. But anyway, on their shoulders in a trench coat. It’s just like it’s just one quarterback. This is the old This is the old the old Brad Childers trick. Did he Did he do this with the podiums like TJ? Well, he wouldn’t have him go to the podium. It says, and it says in the Vikings release for today, they will both be in the locker room available. No one’s going to the podium. That’s the old children’s trip. Oh, no. Going to the podium. But you have to make your your starting quarterback available once a week. Yeah. So, in the absence of announcing who your starter is, you have to you can’t so if you don’t know or you don’t want to say who your starter is, you can’t not send someone. You just have to make two guys available and play that game. Correct. Correct. And what if Brosmer like is is like, “Hey guys, I’m here too.” Dude, I’m telling you, you’ve got one quarterback with a banged up shoulder who it feels like Carson Wentz is more hurt than maybe it seems. And you got another guy coming off a high ankle sprain with lower base mechanical issues that they don’t feel comfortable with. Yes, sir. We are super close to Max Bromer playing in this game against the E. I’m not saying starting, I don’t think they would do that. But like if Carson, let’s say Carson Wentz starts and they decide to your point the other day, well, we’re not going to make JJ the backup because that would that would then mean we are officially benching him. If you’re going to start Wentz, you would make JJ the emergency three and say he’s not fully there yet health-wise. But if Wentz takes one big hit on that shoulder, it’s it’s Brosmer. It’s very close to Brosmer time is my point here. I actually trust Brosmer more than 2023 when Jiren Hall started. So, yeah, I think I agree with that. Yeah, that’s where I write this down. Uh, age, what’s your first prediction? Um, I’m going to get in the same boat as Tanner here on the tush push. Uh, write that down. And I will say, write this down. The Eagles will not score against the Vikings using a tush push this weekend. Okay. Oh, you the confidence you guys have in the Vikings tush push defense. Yeah, you know, they’re going to lock things down. Brian Flores had a full by week to figure out how to stop it. You know, they’re going to they’re going to work out something or they’re just going to not let them get inside the five. Write this down. Yeah. Um, write this down. The Vikings I’ll do a parlay. So, I’ve I’m already on the record saying the Vikings before the Browns game are going to win their next two games. So, I’ve got Vikings winning as part of a parlay. I’ll make it part of another parlay. I’m I’m very confident the Vikings are going I don’t The Eagles are a broken team. It’s not just like two or three bad weeks. They’ve been outgainained by one of the widest margins of any team in the league. So, I think the Vikings are going to continue the Eagles tail spin. So, part one of the parlay is Vikings win and the Vikings will have more rushing yards than the Eagles. People keep expecting like, oh, this will be the week that their running game kind finally gets figured out. I don’t know. Not so fast, my friends. I don’t think it’s happening at US Corso. Not so fast, my friends. Where’s my Tanner? Back to you. Write this down. All right, my next one involves McCarthy, so I had to switch out to the McCarthy draft hat. Uh, for the next four games, the Vikings will go at least two and two, and McCarthy will start at least two of those games. Okay, not necessarily the winning games, but he’ll start at least two of the next four. Boy, the controversy when they go two and 0 in their next two and then decide after the long week of prep to make the switch to McCarthy and then they go 0 and2 in those games. That would be juicy fodder for Jud substack. Let me tell you. Got that right. Positive Phil. Come on. Got that right. Positive Phil’s not predicting that. Ne, but I could see negative Jud going down that road. I wouldn’t be negative. I would jilted Jud. It’d be a a fact if they lost both games. It would be a fact that they lost both games. Yeah. All right. So, one thing I think that’s going to happen in practice this this week, and Okonnell talked about this on Monday is there are certain things the Vikings in the first um in the first five games didn’t do well that was within their control. That includes penalties. All right, so write this down. The Vikings will have a season low and penalties on Sunday against the Eagles. Just for reference, their season low was actually the Cleveland game right before the buy. They had seven. Seven is their low. Oh, they’ve had eight a couple times, I believe. I believe they had they had double digits against the Bengals, and we didn’t talk about it because they won that game so easily, but the Vikings will have a season low in penalties. So, dude, six or fewer. That’s crazy. Oh, they’re near the top of the league in in penalties per game. It’s not good. Yeah, we got to clean that up. Write this down, AJ. All right. Um, I know there’s still some question marks about whether or not he’s going to play or how quickly he gets back on the field. But uh write this down. Andrew Van Genko will record a sack in the next game where he plays 10 or more snaps. Okay. Because I know he had what, eight snaps a couple weeks ago, but he got two sacks or something like that. Y I don’t think that’s sustainable. So, I’m going to at least bump it up to 10 and he gets at least one. Nice. He’s got a great snap to sack ratio. The the uh he he’s going to be the defensive start of the play in the 2026 season opener is what you’re saying. Wow. I’m just kidding. You want You want to go on the record? No. No. No. Oonnell actually said he’s progressing, which I don’t totally trust. So was Denil Hunter. Exactly. I am I Look, I’ve told you I don’t need to express my concern. The neck is one thing with football that I absolutely hate talking about. Write it down. You like writing things down. Write this down. Former Eagle Isaiah Rogers will be part of a takeaway in this game against his former team. So, it’ll it’ll be kind of a you know it when you see it, but obviously if he picks off a pass, if he scoops up a fumble or causes one, those are straight up. Um, I also would like to include if he tips a pass that gets taken away by somebody else, he’ll be directly involved in a takeaway. What if his finger like we can’t tell like the pass is like maybe deflected, but we can’t. It’s just the tip of his finger. There is a gray area here that I will fight for and I will consult lawyer Chase if needed. The wardrobe changes that are going on on this show right now are outstanding. I know Tanner’s on his third hat. Write it down. You like writing down for his third and final prediction. Tanner, this is this is good stuff, man. If Tanner if Tanner pulls a troll job and like rips off his Viking stuff and unveils Packer things and then like someone rips down the Vikings jerseys. It’s just this weekend I did get a It’s a Champions jersey that is Packers colors and I did get it signed by Gilbert Brown and Eddie Lacy. Oh, you had some Packers. That’s good, man. That’s great. Are they about the same size? Eddie Lacy and Gilbert Brown. He hasn’t lost any weight. That’s for sure. I told I told Eddie Lacy, I’ve cussed you out from my couch many times. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Gilbert Brown, man. He was God, the fact that Denny cut him in his rookie training camp when he was just uh especially in the 90s. Gilbert, I mean, he was couldn’t move him. Yeah. You know, he became like a huge part of those good Packers. Gravedigger. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah. Great great sack celebration. All right, Tanner, what’s your third and final prediction here? All right. Well, with the change to this year’s draft hat, uh, I’m going to make a prediction for the Bears game, which hopefully we’re kind of planning on going to. So, my prediction is the Vikings beat the Bears, and McCarthy will be better than Caleb Williams in passing yards, QB rating, and rushing yards. Wow. Wow. Yeah, I think uh that would be if that happens that’s a touchdown for sure, right? Or because also kind of assuming that he’s playing by then, too. But yeah, which to this point, I mean, if you could just project that he’ll play in that game, might actually be a touchdown cuz he’s only played in two games. So awesome, man. Tanner, great stuff. Uh great man cave since you’ve got this lifealtering platform right now on Purple Daily. Is there anyone you’d like to shout out or thank? Yeah. Well, I got to thank my wife. She puts up with, you know, me having a basement to myself and having Sundays and buddies over and doing cookouts for the game and stuff like that. And then, you know, my kids, they’re they’re really into the one before I die already. So, we’ll uh you know, and then a shout out to the Matts, my buddy Matt G, Matt D, and Matt A. I know they’re going to be watching. Do you have like Do you have like got to expand your friend group a little bit more to more like Yeah. Do you have a mat for every first letter of the alphabet last name? Do you like have tears? Do you tear your friend’s name Matt into different Matt didn’t make the cut. We’re We all just go by our last names at this point. So, and then uh my cousin Dustin, he I know he’s a loyal listener. He’s going to be watching this and it’s his son’s birthday today, too. So, happy birthday, Kenan. Love it, man. Awesome. Thanks to you guys. You know, you’re always in my ear at work and you help pass the time while I’m working. So, thank you. Thank you for the kind words, Tanner. Great predictions. Great man cave. And uh we hope to see you again sometime for another batch of predictions. Have fun. Have fun this weekend watching the tush pushes. See you. All right, Tanner, our guest, listener, predictor here. So, we’re going to make our final predictions. We’ll do a quarterback cesspool challenge and we can we can talk more about this upcoming game here too. But hey, Running Aces, if you’ve never been to Running Aces, just up north edge of the Twin Cities up 35, there’s a massive parking lot, there’s a hotel. So, it’s actually you can either go for a fun night with friends date night or uh you could spend a weekend, part of a weekend. Running Aces just underwent a multi-million dollar renovation and it is incredible. This is not your typical casino scene. It’s smokefree. It’s bright. It’s energyfilled. They’ve got a ton of upcoming fun events. So, in the in the summertime, they’ve got the harness racing, which is awesome. 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It’s this crazy new soda. Yeah, I know, right? Uh, so Pepsi has created these Justin Jefferson souvenir cups that you can see on the YouTube channel pretty much every day here. Uh, you can get these cups at Buffalo Wild Wings now in the Twin Cities. Uh, they just became available at B-Dubz, I think last week or the week before. When you order 12 wings of any style, you get one of these Justin Jefferson souvenir cups. So, go in, get some wings. 12 wings any style. Uh, Buffalo Wild Wings is the preferred sports bar of the Minnesota Vikings. And Pepsi is the official beverage of the Minnesota Vikings. On these cups, there’s a QR code. You scan it and you can enter to win Victor’s Ride, a Polaris 1000 ATV that they will uh they will drive right up the driveway of the winner’s home and they will drop this thing off. So, uh, courtesy of Pepsi, grab one of these cups inside Buffalo Wild Wings when you get 12 wings of any style. Write this down. Is Victor like checking out the the like it’s it’s like he’s like checking it out like making sure the brakes work. Yeah, it’s like he’s like looking at it. Steering’s a bit loose. Like, got to fix that front axle. I’ll fix this. Victor’s a great mechanic, you know. Victor uh multi-talented guy. Great. He might tell you that, too. Award-winning classical musician. I’m not sure that. Just ask him. He He might tell you. I told you. He talks. He’s like um Ben Stiller from Happy Gilmore. Like once you get once you get him one-on-one behind closed doors, you never know what he’s going to say. Crazy. You’re my world now, Grandpa. Um Jud, I think you’re up next here with your prediction fire. Um, I I will end this with a quarterback prediction that has nothing to do with JJ McCarthy or Carson Wentz, but it’s inevitable. Justin Fields will be benched by the Jets between now and their November 23rd game against Baltimore. So, you’re giving him that long. So, I’m going to give him that that long. Well, I was looking at their schedule. They got a by-week worked in here. I believe they play Carolina on Sunday. I mean, they’ll probably lose that game as well, but I’m going to give him that long, but just for clarification. So, he won’t play in that game. So, the November 23rd game will will be a game that he will not play in, but he will be benched at some point here after after um a reporter basically asked what after the last game he said Fields didn’t play well or something and the coach got all upset at the question and like the next day came back and said, “Yeah, he didn’t play that well.” Dude, Aaron Aaron I think Aaron Glenn’s in over his head, man. like he’s super weirdly chippy with the media. It’s a bad market for him. Even the way that they handled Aaron Rogers has kind of dug his own issues with his play and his he just kind of bounces around. But for them to fly Aaron Rogers out if you believe 100% of Aaron’s story and then Aaron Glenn just kind of weirdly Yeah. tells them on the spot like, “Yeah, we’re just going to move in a different” And Aaron’s like, “This is weird. Why am I here? You could have just I’m I live in California, guys. What’s that? The whole thing’s been weird. But what’s weird about the what’s weird too is why do the Giants and Jets hire coaches? Um they hire coaches like they are hiring a coach in you know in I don’t know a smaller market. It’s just very odd. Like you got to have somebody who can handle the market. Like Aaron Glenn might be a good coach someday but okay he’s a really chippy dude. He’s a DC. He’s never been a head coach before and the Jets who are just, you know, the Jets, they’re terrible, but they’re just going to hire him and it’s like it’s this is going to work. You need a big experienced personality in in that market. And it’s not even like just the media and the market. The owners react to those things and then they get all nervous and stuff, especially the Jets. So that’s where like a Mike McCarthy would be a perfect fit for one of those teams. I know people like kind of use him as a punch line, but all he does is win 12 games pretty much everywhere he goes. And he’s a mature adult who understands offense and he can fend off sort of right hot button questions from the media, right? Yeah, it’s a weird deal. Um, okay, AJ, what’s your write this down third and final prediction? Uh, my third and uh write that down is going to be Write this down. Justin Jefferson will have a TD streak, a touchdown streak of at least three games before the end of the season. I think uh I think they’re gonna they’re going to have to get back to him. Like he’s just too good of a player to ignore. Like what? He has one touchdown this season. Bye- to kind of get those kinks out. Wow. 18 hasn’t found the end zone in a while. Gritty. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. I haven’t gritty yet. You know, probably for good reason. I I shouldn’t be doing that to begin with, but um but yeah, touchdown streak three plus games. And can we please the entire league just close circuit? Quit grabbing your hamstring as part of a celebration. It’s not funny. It’s bad luck. It’s it’s there’s nothing about it that’s cute. Like the gritty is great. I have no But why does it have to start with acting like you just strained your hamstring? And I feel like we’ve had we’ve had a couple where there actually have been strained hamstrings did that with with the non-touchdown. He did that and then later in that game hurt his hamstring and then the train and if you’re a trainer you’re just looking over there for 20 minutes wondering I I think he’s still celebrating. I is he is he is he celebrating? I don’t know what’s Why is he yelling in pain now? You’re just tempting the football gods. Like sir, I have this perfectly healthy hamstring. It’d be a shame if something happened. Yes, sir. I’m kind of with it is kind of a boomer take but I’m with Write this down. I am Well, I’m running celebrations. I just don’t like the and and plus now it’s widespread so it’s not creative now it’s just like copycat stuff totally same with the gritty by the way it’s been like six years and a lot of guys six years is too long for for Jefferson okay it’s it’s kind of yours or in Jamar Chase it’s like an LSU thing right beyond that let’s come up with the next thing let’s let’s let’s innovate a little bit here write this one down I’m going leaguewide I’m going going beyond the Vikings I’m going to go on the record right now. This was one of my uh hot takes on hot take Tuesday O line committee yesterday and I’m going to put it in write that down form right now. So, it’s not a hot take. This is a spoiler. Write this down. The New England Patriots are going to win their division. The Patriots are going to win the AFC East. They’re in first right now. They’re in first. They have a tiebreaker over the Bills because they already beat the Bills. Yep. And if you look at their schedule, it is pretty incredible. So they they came in with one of the weakest schedules on paper cuz, you know, they had a bad record last year. Mhm. They play at Tennessee this week and maybe Tennessee pops up like we just fired our coach, we’re going to try hard type of thing. But it’s also a Mike Vrabel revenge game. So I think that offset does the Mike Vrabel revenge game offsets and the Titans trying for their new coach and the Titans are a mess. He he ain’t losing that game. And then it’s home against Cleveland. Atlanta, Tampa Bay are going to be tough ones. Home against the Jets at a Joe Burrowless Bengals team. Home against the Giants. And then you get Buffalo and Baltimore probably with Lamar Jackson back. So those those are going to be tough. But you finish the season against the Jets and the Dolphins. They’re like they’re tracking for 11 wins and they have a tiebreaker over the Bills. And the Bills just have looked a little bit rickety lately. you can run the ball down their throat. So, I’m just going to I’m going on the record right now, middle of October saying Patriots win that division. Coach of the year is done then, right? Oh god. Yeah. Like that’s a done deal. Totally. Take it to the bank. Um Titans should probably hire that guy. In the uh in the Chiefs in the Chiefs two and three start, did we lose sight of the fact that it might be the Bills who are going to take a step back? And and this is a question. This is not a hot take, okay? I’m just saying it feels like the Bills have some flaws that we probably didn’t talk a lot about because the shiny object of failure to us is, oh my god, the Chiefs might not be as good as they have been. Yeah. I mean, the Bills defense, they they’ve just gotten gashed on the ground and know it is possible to fix that going into November and December. Maybe they make a trade or just find a way schematically. But yeah, it’s uh it’s kind of wild how bad they’ve looked defensively. And the Patriots, dude, Mike Mike Vrabel, I know he hasn’t won a championship as a coach, but it wasn’t that long ago. It was like 5 years ago that Mike Vrabel had a Tennessee Titans team with Ryan Tanahill as the starting quarterback. 10-point lead in the AFC Championship game over the Chiefs. And then the Chiefs came back and won that game. But that Duke can coach his ass off. Patriots winning the AFC East is mine. Write this down. There you have it. Uh, do you guys want to hunt for some bad quarterbacks? Hold your water. Well, I think we have to ask the question first of all, is AJ being allowed to hunt for bad QBs or or has he again been given directions from Declan, who by the way bristled bristled at the suggestion that we were uh suppressing or or that he was suppressing age as far as the QBS pool challenge goes. Wow. Did this come up on like feedback Friday or where was this bristling? I think it was feedback Friday, right? Okay. Yeah, feedback Friday. And you know, I he got very defensive. As I think he should be. He’s earned the right to choose his his bad quarterback every single week whether he’s in or out of paternity leave. But Sure. But yeah. Yeah. You know, you confronted him and there was a little bit of push back both ways and it was a tugof-war or words, but uh we I think we’ve moved on and and grown as as humans. Oh, I haven’t one bit. No, no, no. So, with that said, I’m fixated. What percentage of of the pick this week is Declan making it versus AJ joining by committee? 11:00 on the nose last night. Cesspool options tomorrow in order. Oh, in order. Okay. And I have three names. Okay. This is the text I received. Oh my god. So, here here’s how it works. Every week, uh, we celebrate bad quarterback play in the NFL. I’ll be honest, like I feel like there’s there’s always a handful of kind of backup caliber guys that are that are out there, but there’s a lot of good quarterback play happening this season in the NFL. So, it’s been a little bit of a a landmine in this game, but every member of the show drafts a quarterback each week that we think is going to be bad. Once you draft that quarterback, you can’t use him again the rest of the year. So, once you fire your Spencer Rattler bullet or Cam Ward or whatever it is, you can’t use them again. So, there’s some strategy here. And then all of us have to pick different quarterbacks each week. So, uh, there’s strategy involved on that level, too. The scoring is just ESPN’s QBR on a 0 to 100 scale. And last week, Jud picked up his first weekly win of the year. Thank you, Lord. With Cooper Rush. Yeah. A 23.8 QBR for Cooper Rush. Baltimore Raven Cooper Rush. That is Oh, Jackson Dart bit you in the ass. Mackey Declan with Dylan Gabriel. Nice little week for him. 33.6 QBR. And yeah, I took Jackson Dart against the Eagles thinking, “All right, this Eagles are going to Eagles are going to buck up in this game.” And Jackson Dart was one of the best quarterbacks in the league. A 90 a 90 QBR. Uh, by the way, AJ, we’re keeping track of when AJ differs from what Declan would do. We keep track of that. Uh, you wanted Joe Flacco. After being correct the previous two weeks, Declan had you this time around. Joe Flacco had a 68.5 QBR. The worst quarterback in week six leaguewide was Justin Fields. Sacked nine times in was it London? And he had a 9 QBR. So, I’m going to have to use him soon. Yeah, that’s going to be off the board. And then who who’s their backup? Taylor. Trod Taylor. Yeah. Is it Trod Taylor? Yeah. Okay. I mean, they’re probably anyone who would just get rid of the ball. We we broke those down. We did a film breakdown on O line committee yesterday of the nine sacks and those guys are a little biased, but they did put three of the nine sacks on the quarterback and took protection credit for six of the nine sacks. Oh no. How about having minus 10 net yards passing? It’s amazing. It’s the worst in Jets history. Yeah. And think about what I just said. And that’s that includes like the 60s and the 70s when it was way harder to pass the ball. But I mean the Jets old Joe Nameoth and the Jets have had like this is not a proud franchise. Yeah, they’ve had some really bad quarterbacks. That’s quite the accomplishment by Justin Fields. So on the season here in terms of weekly wins, I have four. Jud has one. Declan has one. Uh in terms of average QBR for the entire season, I’m at 37.2. Jud at 43.9. Declan at 49.1. AJ, if he was allowed to pick with who he wanted, would be two and one over Declan for the weekly head-to-head between the producers, not to create drama here. Uh, I’ll flash on the screen for you guys to see. This is the these are the quarterbacks that we’ve all picked here for the YouTube audience. Uh, and then we’ll make our picks here for week seven. We go in reverse order of last week’s results. So, I get the first pick, Declan/AJ get the second pick, and then Jud, you’re going to back clean up with the third pick. Okay. All right. Mhm. So, I wish I could fully talk this through. Um, but I’ll wait till the end to see if if there’s any controversy, but I’ve got two options here that I’m just flipping a coin on. Mhm. Because I don’t think I’ve used either one of these guys. I already use Yeah. Cooper Rush is off the board. um Cooper Rush two weeks ago and got a win. Two very mediocre to meh quarterbacks on the road in against tough defenses, but I think it’s such a disaster right now in Miami. I’m going to I’m going to go Tua at the Browns. That’s a great Give me Tua at the Browns here with with the franchise teetering over the edge of crumbling into the seat. Tua screwed me at Buffalo. Yeah, he 62.7 there, but Buffalo I feel like Cleveland’s defense is much more stout than Buffalo’s. Well, we’ll find out. I guess the QBR also is weird. Like if you watch a game at times, you’re you’re like, “Okay, this is great. This is great. This is bad enough. Bad enough.” And then it’s like a 60. It’s like, “What was that?” I know. It’s t we don’t know what the form we’ve They’ve never like unveiled their formula to us. That’s true. Kind of guessing. All right. So, uh, Declan/AJ, you guys get the next one. I’m because of that pick. Because of that pick, I actually have a consensus now with Declan. Um, had I had a pick of the litter. Tu Tua would have been my guy. I I think uh they’re going to be ter I think he’s going to be terrible this week. But, uh, Declan is going to go with Cam Ward, the rookie down in Titanville. Damn it. Against the Patriots, right? Yeah. That’s what I want. That’s a good pick. I think that’s at home though, which is the only like downside to there. But still, Patriots have been uh pretty good defensively this year. Yeah. And it’s a defensive coach invariable who’s going to want revenge. Like that’s that was going to be my pick because I’ve been trying to save Cam Ward for a special occasion and this is the week and I thought this was a special occasion and Declan and AJ snipe me. Don’t like either of you right now. Okay. All right. So, you’re on you’re on the clock there, Judy. Thank you very much. Uh, I am on the clock and I am going to use a guy that uh that is going into what appears to be now a fairly hot Kansas City team. They’re they’re back. Arrowhead. Arrowhead. And it’s going to be the one of the great rivalries from the AFC days. The 1960s when football was football. It’s going to be the Raiders against the Chiefs. And I’m not taking Patrick Mahomes. No, no, no. I am taking Gino Smith. He was the he was the other side of my coin on the coin flip. Gino’s been a rough year for him. It’s been very rough. Seattle clearly saw something like now cuz I I like him or I liked him and I thought you know what I mean the Seahawks pulled the pulled the plug there pretty quickly but um the upgrade from Gino Smith to Darnold is clear and uh I’m going to hope that Gino Smith continues to have a rough season. Yeah. And sorry AJ, you guys were in alignment on Cam Ward or would were you going in a different direction if it was just AJ picking? If if your pick didn’t affect me, I would have gone Tua, but uh because Tua was taken off the board, my second option was Cam Ward, which lines up with Declan’s first choice. Okay, I’m just going to add a note that says AJ al these aligned for the first time a month doing stars. Yeah, that sort of stinks. age. Like it’s much more fun when you would would have done something different, but Declan’s overbearing personality didn’t allow you. Wow. Wow. Make sure you clip this so he he can hear that. Make sure you clip this. Okay. Wow. Overbearing. Dean will take that personal. Declan aggressive personality. Sunny Sunny’s able to watch himself for a few hours a day and Declan’s back next week. Uh Jud, let’s uh let’s talk about Listen guys, no reason to be embarrassed. There’s solutions out there for all your problems and rouette can be one of those solutions. Uh that that’s exactly right. And look guys, ED happens when there’s not enough blood flow often combined with a decreased arousal signals from your brain. It’s not about your age. It’s not not about uh your competitive edge going away. It’s biology and it’s treatable. 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So, I just I just looked this up because I remember a couple weeks ago it was it was bad news for the Eagles and it is still if you strip away all other things, all other stats and you just look at net yards per play. So, how many yards do you gain as a team per play and how many yards do you give up per play? And it’s usually a really good measurement of who the best teams in the NFL are at the end of any season. There’s some outliers here and there because obviously if you’re out gaining a team on a regular basis or your opponents, but you turn the ball over all the time, then okay, it negates some of the yardage. Or if you’re really bad or good in the red zone, there are other factors that can sway it. But at the end of the day, football is about gaining yards and preventing the other team from gaining yards. And uh at the top of that list this season, just net yards gained per play offensively versus defensively. The top 10 includes the Broncos, the Seahawks, the Rams, the Colts who are off to a ridiculous start. Uh the Bills are still in here, the Packers. The Vikings are actually like 12th. So not a total disaster for the Vikings in that category. At the bottom of the list, the worst teams in the NFL with the biggest gaps between how much they’re gaining versus giving up. The Bengals are 32nd. Not shocking. The Titans, who just fired their coach, are 31st. Not shocking. A few other teams here in the bottom 10 are like the Jets, the Dolphins, the Saints, the Cardinals, the Raiders. The worst teams in the NFL. Yeah. But third from the bottom, 30th in the NFL in net yards per play, the Philadelphia Eagles. They profile as one of the worst teams in the NFL despite starting 4-0 and 4-2. They haven’t been able to run the ball. They haven’t been able to stop the run. There’s all sorts of, you know, infighting and chemistry issues and AJ Brown drama, although they won a Super Bowl with some of that last year, too. So, how do you guys like kind of wrap your heads around this Vikings Eagles game? Cuz on one hand, they’re the defending champs. They’ve got a loaded roster on paper. They still have Saquon Barkley and in theory could like bust out that running game if they figure it out. Starts to click. Yep. Uh they’re still the Eagles. They’re 4-2, but they profile as one of the worst teams in the league through the first month and a half of the season. So, in some ways, it is a replica of a year ago because if you guys recall, they were two and two and all hell was breaking loose. Sirani was going to be fired. He was on the hot seat and they came back and I think uh if you look at it through the Super Bowl, they lost like one more game the rest of the season. So, that’s the parallel. The difference here is offensively. So, a year ago, things were a little bit off the tracks, but at the end of the day, I I think that Kell Moore, who’s now the head coach of the Saints, proved that he is a good OC and he got it back on track. Barkley had a marvelous season. They were, it felt like they were more of a mess from a a a psych uh psychologically from that standpoint, like there was more infighting. AJ Brown is I would say he is a Mercurial fellow but the difference is this year so Kell Moore goes to the Saints and they promoted a guy by the name of Kevin Patillo and Kevin Patillo’s offense has not been good and we are now to the point of Sirrianias defending him at the podium which is always the kiss of death. I mean, if the Eagles have another bad offensive showing on Sunday against the Vikings, I think we’re going to have talk about an OC change there because it might not be fair, but it’s Philadelphia and fans and and the media turn on you very very quickly. So, what I’m curious is, if I am correct on this, so the Eagles last played on a Thursday night game a week ago, Thursday. Yeah. Against the Giants. So, they do have the mini by week to try to get things right, which which could help them. All of that being said, if you are the Vikings, this is an advantageous time to get them because if they do get things settled like they did a year ago in a month or so, they’re going to be very, very tough. So, my question is this. Can Brian Flores exploit the weaknesses? Can the Eagles continue to uh not have the type of play calling or decision making that they need? So, I do think that this is a very good time to get to uh get them. But a year ago, we also started to write them off and were all wrong about that. So, I am on the fence here. But I do think the fact that a young or a new OC is struggling is something that a coaching staff can exploit. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. I was say it feels like a game where it springboards one of three narratives. You either beat this team that is the big bad, you know, Super Bowl champs that on paper, like Phil was just talking about, have a lot of weaknesses and are very beatable. And if the Vikings can come out after this by week and through all the things that they’ve battled through injury-wise, you missed your w uh wide receiver two for the first three weeks of the season and you’re kind of at three and two fighting for your life essentially. You propel yourself to now four and two. Four and two looks a lot different than three and three. Like that is that that like that would be massive for just the narratives moving forward. And beating this team would I think put a lot of people’s headspaces and you know what, now they’re kind of coming out of the woods. You expect some guys to get healthy. defense should get better. You expect um to get because Jonathan Jackson should be back for sure. Yeah, he’s back. So like you’re you’re getting out of the woods and then you can kind of use that as a springboard to propel the rest of the season of this team actually is what I think a lot of people expected at the beginning of the year, which is a pretty solid football team. No matter who is the quarterback, whether it’s your rookie who missed last season or it’s the juryman who’s now on his sixth team, if you lose, then it’s okay. things are probably going to be really rough the rest of the way. Um, and then there’s like that middle ground of they lose but they were competitive and you know maybe a couple bounces don’t go their way. Um, but a win I think would massively just boost the morale coming out of a by-week where through the first five weeks of the season for this team has been uh felt like they’ve kind of been running through mud like Yeah. I mean I think uh couple things. one, this is a game that on the schedule before, you know, when the schedule was printed back in May and then even like right before the season, this is a game you were probably supposed to lose if you’re the Vikings. They were they were not likely to be favored at any point going into this game. But the way the season’s played out, you’re catching the Eagles at this weak point in the and and a really important point too, which they could either snap out of and go back to being the Eagles or you could just you could take advantage of them being down right now and win a game that may you have a chance to steal one that you weren’t necessarily supposed to. And uh and you could either look at that as making up for the Steelers or Falcons game that I don’t think you were ever going 5-0 before the buy, but we we talked about 4 in one was a distinct possibility and then the injuries happen. So you could kind of get one back and get back on track with the 4-2 record that maybe leads to 10 or 11 wins. I also think just straight up the Vikings are a better team than the Eagles if they get a couple healthy guys back right now. the I mean again this isn’t last year’s Eagles or the year before Eagles. Last year’s Eagles averaged 180 rushing yards per game and Saquon Barkley went over was it 2,200 yards including playoffs or like 2,300 just insane historical uh run game output. So 180 yards per game on the ground last year. They’re averaging 95 rushing yards a game this year. Mhm. So, it is it’s not the same team to this point. And it also shouldn’t be a shock that a guy that had crazy usage like only you’ve only seen usage like that of a running back in the last 20 years a small handful of times and 50/50 maybe even more often than that the next year is really tough for that running back physically everything. Mhm. So, you know, famous last words here, watch it all click and they figure it out and they run for 200 yards right down the Vikings throat just like Bjan Robinson did. But I just right now I I I don’t think there is if there is a gap between the Eagles and Vikings. I actually think it’s the Vikings are a better team than the Eagles right now if they get a couple guy. If Cashman’s back, if Donovan Jackson’s back, how how confident are you guys that this I’m sure from the Philadelphia media perspective, they’re maybe looking at this as a everything they know that you just mentioned about the run game, they’re viewing this against the Vikings as like a get-right game for Saquon Barkley. Like, how confident are you that Brian Flores with the by-week now has been able to maybe work out some of the the lacks of the run defense and that they’re going to be able to limit him even though we know how prolific he can be on the ground? I’m actually more concerned about him in in potentially the screen game as well because like the the one thing about seeing him with the Giants a couple of years ago is the allaround type of style he brings. Now that being said, I think one thing that’s important to talk about as well when it comes to what’s wrong potentially with the Eagles is their offensive line is not the same. They’ve had injuries just like the Vikings. They’ve had injuries. The the interior has not been as good. like like there’s a case to be made that part of the Saquon Barkley regression is that offensive line kicked some ass a year ago and they’re not doing that that now. So, but um Saquon Barkley would always scare me, but that being said, I do think that you are looking at a chance for your defense to to make some potential hay here because you’re not talking about the 2024 Eagles offensive line. Yeah. Uh we’ll do we’ll do a lot more on this game. Obviously, we got Thursday tomorrow. We got feedback Friday. We’ll make our official picks on on Saturday. And there’s an injury report coming out later on on this Wednesday, too, that will give us more context for what the Vikings are going to have available that they maybe didn’t a couple weeks ago. But, uh, yeah, that’s a wrap on our Write That Down Wednesday episode here of Purple Daily. AJ filling in for Dex, the sports dad, Jud, and I’m Phil. We just want the Vikings to win a Super Bowl before we die. Come on, guys.

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