Minnesota Vikings predictions vs Chicago Bears: JJ McCarthy, Kevin O’Connell, and more

Minnesota Vikings predictions vs Chicago Bears: JJ McCarthy, Kevin O’Connell, and more

Like a dog in the street. 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. Okay. Happy Bears week. We’ve officially turned the the page on the NFL weekly calendar. No more looking back. It’s all about looking ahead now to the Chicago Bears, right? I’m curious to hear Kevin Oonnell and JJ McCarthy’s press conferences today. Are you going to be out there for those today, Jud? Uh, unfortunately, I can’t be have have a uh a Jud’s hockey show, Road to the World Junior Hockey Championship recording with former uh NHLR Derek Plant, so I can’t be I I’m curious to hear it, too. I’m curious to hear I guess I’m more curious probably to hear Okonnell than McCarthy. Um, but I’m Yeah, I think it’s going to be it’s either going to be interesting or it’s just going to be nothing but clich, you know, coach speak and things like that. Yeah, I I I want him to like keep the full heel turn going here where he, you know, I listen, I know I kind of talked about this on Monday and I’ve thought about it even more quite frankly over the last couple days just all the criticism of my play calling and the third and shorts and the fourth and shorts and um yeah, I just want to let you guys know that after thinking about it, you’re all idiots. I am an NFL head coach. I am Kevin O’Connell. Mic drop. And you guys are fired. Before we get to our write that down predictions here, the accountability session, we’ll get to a quarterback cesspool challenge. I would say one of the one of the most noteworthy weeks in the history of the quarterback cesspool challenge. I’ll leave it at that and and we’ll get to it. Yeah. Crazy. You’re teasing the cesspool challenge. A crazy crazy twist in the quarterback cesspool challenge. Yeah, but uh there is no twist at Quick Trip. You know right where it’s at and exactly what you’re getting, Jud. 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And listeners, if you want to be like Aaron here in a couple minutes and be a guest listener predictor, you can send Dex a message through the Scor app. There’s a feedback tab and we can get you scheduled hopefully sometime in the coming weeks and months. Jud, why don’t you step to the floor here? Why don’t you step up and get your comeuppance? All right. Okay. That’s a pretty good week for you. Okay. We’ll start with the bad. You said Travis Hunter will have three or more interceptions and two or more touchdown receptions in 2025. Well, well, the season’s not over yet. His season is that season. Yeah, I know. And you could argue that the Jaguars after blowing that lead in the fourth quarter that their season’s also getting close to being over. But uh you did say that JJ McCarthy would be sacked fewer than three times against the Ravens. Silver lining once. Sacked once. Sacked once. Should have been sacked twice if he’d known how to manage the clock, I guess. Yeah, that’s true. Yeah, he needs to be thinking about highlevel game theory chess in his fourth ever NFL start at the end of a half. Did that just dis Oh, we I think that was everyone. I don’t think that was a production meeting. I think that was an entire glitch. I told you our site. I told you when I came into the room it got it did exactly that before we started. Little false start. You know, we’ll have seven more now throughout the rest of the episode. It’s going to be okay. It’s uh you just got to work You just got to work with more yardage. That’s that’s what we’re gonna have to do now. It should have taken the sack. It should have. Yeah, it should have. Uh you said JJ McCarthy would throw for 200 plus yards against the Ravens. It didn’t. This is a touchdown for you just because the specificity of during the season. You said the Giants would fire Brian Dable during the season, which if you would said like by March or something, it’s felt like pretty obvious, but they did it during the season. Little touchdown. And then this one doesn’t come off the board, but the clock starts on it this week. Yes. If you guys saw the news, but you predicted Jameus Winston will start at least five games for the Giants. It was announced Jameus Winston will start against the Packers this weekend. Mhm. And if you’re the Packers and you’re coming off a couple bad losses, you’re having a hard time getting it going, you got a bunch of division games coming up on your schedule, you might think, “Oh, the Giants. Yeah, they’re kind of a train wreck.” You get a nice little reprieve here this week. Well, you’re going to run into one of the great yolo quarterbacks in NFL history, Jameus Winston. In a week also where the Giants might give you the, “Oh my god, we just fired our coach. We have to like show some pride this week. So, I think the Packers might be screwed with this announcement. Wow. So, um did did I see this right? So, it’s um basically it sounds like Russell’s going to be the third QB once they’re all healthy. Yeah, but but Jackson Dart’s not going to be like an active backup this week. So, Okay. Right. But I’m saying once Jackson Dart comes back, he can start again and then Russell. So, uh, Russell might just want to, you know what, call it a career, buddy. I I know you don’t want to, but just call it a career. It’s okay. It’s so bad. Who I mean, it’s it’s kind of wild. Like, his Seattle career was borderline Hall of Fame caliber, and it’s just been an abject disaster. Okay, we’ll get to my accountability here. I I tried to oneup you and say JJ McCarthy will throw for 300 plus yards against the Ravens. And when they got the ball back and they were trying to make that, you know, 90 yard trek down the field or whatever it was, the math was mathing there for a second there, but uh then it stopped mathing. He did not quite get to 300. I did tell you that Lamar I tried to I tried to see if Lamar Jackson passer rating under 90 would be a touchdown because it’s only happened like three times in the last two years. Mhm. and and Judge sternly came down and said, “For this to be a touchdown, you also have to add QBR under 60.” And I was like, “All right, whatever gets me a touchdown, both those things happen.” Got the got the gremlins of Streamyards potentially sabotaging shows here. So, we’ll uh the the the accountability session just disappeared for me and then popped right back on. So, yeah. And right now I’ve got a white screen. Fun show, but I don’t know what the what the viewers are seeing. So hopefully they’re seeing all these correct touchdown passes being thrown by the show. Um, no. It came back for a second when it glitched again and now it’s gone. So I’m just looking at a white piece of like it’s a white piece of paper. Well, you’re in the same boat as the Apple Spotify audience right now. No visuals. I will talk you through it. That’s a good point. Yeah. Uh, this one does not come fully off the board yet, but I said by March 1st, 2026, Mike McDaniel, Brian Dable, Dave Canales, and Brian Callahan would all not be coaching their current teams. Well, another one bites the dust there with Brian Dable. We’re halfway home on that prediction. Nice. Just need the other two guys. And then listeners, Tanner said the Vikings would go at least two and two over the four-game stretch, starting with the Eagles game as part of a parlay, but they went one and three. And then Jeff said the Vikings would beat the Ravens and continue the trend, the 25-year trend of when the Vikings play the Ravens, if they win, they go to the NFC title game. If they lose, the coach gets fired. Kevin Oonnell, man. Keep keep an eye out. Oh boy. Oh boy. Will somebody ask him like they asked Matt Laflur at his press conference if there’s if if he’s coaching for his job? I mean, you could you could ask him about the Ravens trend. Kevin, does it worry you at all that in like the last three decades that that Ravens game is very telling? It may have told a story. Foreshadowing. We need Chris Thomasson. Thomasson would ask that question. He would. you would ask that question. Does it worry you that you might be sent home with like a parting gift of $30 million? There we go. Now I see the graphics again. Now I don’t see it. This is serious. It just disappeared for me. Phil just did. What about we’re going to try? Okay. Can you see? Did it say Declan? Nothing off the board. Everyone can see that. No, I I can’t see it now. That’s fine. Hell. Phil’s talking me through it. You know what this is? It’s like old school. It’s fine. It’s fine. And Apple Spotify, you guys have no idea what’s happening. Uh AJ has his own category now. And he said the Vikings would win the turnover battle against the Ravens. Ouch. Yeah, not quite. So, here are the 2025 season stats. I’m at 44%. Jud’s at 36 1/2. Tied with the listeners at 36 1/2. Declan 33.7%. AJ 33.3%. I have 10 touchdowns. Jud has nine. Listeners have, let’s see, Declan has eight. Listeners have seven touchdowns. AJ with four in a short spurt there. Wow. And then the all-time career stats going back to 2021. By the way, the season goes from Super Bowl to Super Bowl. Uh Declan, 36 12% completions leads that category. Listeners and myself with 67 touchdowns a piece lead that category. So, we’ll see if we can get through this show without technical difficulties crashing the whole thing down. But, uh, Aaron, can Aaron see us? Can we see Aaron? Yes, sir. I can see you guys. Okay, there we go. What’s going on, man? Tell us about your uh your Vikings fan background. Um, I’ve been a Vikings fan my whole life. Um, my grandparents lived in this tiny house in Crystal, and every Sunday a dozen of us would pile into the living room and watch the game. Um, my dad and my stepmother had season tickets when I was in my 20s. So, my first ever game was a a Vikings Packers game. Um, that was phenomenal. Um, I also was at the uh Adrien Peterson single game rushing record against the Chargers. Um, which that was an amazing game as well. So, what what year would was your first game? 2000 like 2003 like in my mid20s. Okay. 2004 somewhere around there. So would that have been So there was a Vikings Packers game you said, right? Yeah, they had some crazy they had a bunch of like highscoring Brett Favre. 2003 was the Christmas Eve game, right? It might it might have been later than that. I don’t remember exactly what year it was, but okay, there was a 3:00 game that Favre just threw the ball up and down the field. Um, and the Vikings end up winning, which was fantastic. I think that might have been the Christmas Eve game. I think it started at 3:00. Wow, look at that. You know what? I’m going to look that up. I want to see start at 3:00, I think. What year do you think that was? 2003, uh, December 24th. I I was on the Packer beat at the time and came back to cover it. Okay. They were Yeah. 2003. That was the year they started 6 and0 and the playoffs and the the Cardinals have knocked the Vikings out of the playoffs. Count. Well, they didn’t play at Christmas Eve that year. It would have been 04 then. Oh, it was 04. Okay. Uh, which they didn’t they also start hot in ’04? Yeah, they started 5 and one in 04 and had to grind their way. It was Wow, look at you. It was a Friday Christmas Eve game. Yep. And it was uh it was like it was midafter afternoon and they lost at home 34 to31. But then they got revenge in the playoffs. Yeah. By the same score or similar it was 30 at Lambo. 3117 in the playoffs. Hard to beat a team three times. It is. That’s what Yeah. The old adage supplies. Yeah. Boy, that game was that game was kind of crazy. Yeah. Ryan Longwell with the game-winning 29 yard field goal. That was a fun game. Yeah. Yeah. With the the Vikings. Uh I think I if I’m not mistaken, that was the game where there was a crucial play. There was like a Donald Driver touchdown catch where he beat a then young EJ Henderson who hadn’t really developed yet. Yeah. And e it, if I’m right on that, EJ had a very up and down year. I think he was trying to play at middle linebacker at one point and then they had to to take him off that position. But anyway, yeah. So, um, Donald Driver caught 11 passes in that game. Oh, yeah. For like 142 yards. Absolutely crazy. So, all right, let’s uh The screen absolutely wigs out here. It’s It’s weird. It’s like um like typically there’s a macro on my keyboard. If I go control D, it’s supposed to mute me. And it does mute me, but it also shifts the entire screen now. So that’s very strange. Do you have a macro that like this? It just automatically Jud has to spew a hot take. That’d be awesome. A macro where Jud automatically has to has to call for a new play caller. Hot keys. Hot keys. Oh, hot keys. Hot hotkeys sounds like a segment. There is a thing in here called hotkeys and control D is mute, but it also I guess uh does something else. Pretty crazy. Well, Aaron, you’re going to be uh first out of the gate here with your first prediction. Then over to Jud. Dex back in the mix taking some uh some throws down the field than me. So, if you’re ready, Aaron, we’re ready for your first prediction. Write it down. You like writing things down. The Bears are ranked 25th in pass defense in the NFL, averaging 237 yards per game. JJ McCarthy will throw over 237 passing yards. And after the game, Colin Cowardd will praise KOC saying JJ is the product of a system. Wow. Okay. So, it’s I think we’re gonna give you it’s going to be a you know it when you hear it. So, if Cow Herd says something along those lines, I think we should give Aaron the credit here. Sure. Absolutely. Cuz he’ll probably throw it in like where Colin was right where Colin was wrong. Okay. Did you see his show after the game this past week? I did not. No. He said it’s time to cut the cord on JJ. Maybe give him Oh go already. Maybe maybe give him till the end of the season and then just say that’s it. Wait, so you he’s suggesting that you cut the cord like before the season’s over now and move on to Max Max. He wants to see Max Bromer or did he not take the take that far? What’s his like what does he do the rest of the year at quarterback then? I’ll email the clip to to Declan. It’s okay. I saw some of it too. It’s it’s uh it was on the volume. Fantastic. It’s uh it’s something it’s somewhat and look Colin Coward is in the takes business is one of the best and he’s going to miss a lot. In fact, the Tik Tok algorithm served me the one where he talks about Josh Rosen being the next of the NFL. It’s hilarious. Uh there was the LeBron Ben Simmons one, LeBron Ben Simmons, which is all time bad. Ben Simmons is here now. He basically there there’s one where where he basically comes out and says Baker Mayfield should retire right now. Yeah. And that he could tackle Bagel May Mayfield. Yeah. Right. I mean, as we sit here in this glass house, there is currently a clip going around Vikings Twitter of me a year and a half ago saying that JJ McCarthy will absolutely have a better career than Drake May, which by the way is still wide open and up in the air, even though but because of the infrastructure. And my fight back that is I was talking about the Gerard Mayo infrastructure pre- Stefon Diggs, pre Mike Greyel in fairness. But um doesn’t work like that. Okay. What are what are you guys seeing on your screen right now? Is there like a gigantic white space between me and Jud? I see four. I see by our normal four. But like I said, if I go now, okay, now now everything goes go. I’m fine with this. I I see you two guys in your or ordinary place. Oh, there we go. Now I’m back. I’m back in the right spot. some but if someone hits their mute their control D like that’s how I mute myself. It Jud I think Jud muted himself and it did it earlier. I did it and it just did it again. I won’t mute myself anymore. Everyone has to open mics. If you have to cough just cough on the show if you have starting Sunny has a hot Yeah. Leave it. Leave the open mics. Leave it all out there. Down. You like writing things down. Good. The Vikings will have 30 or more rushing attempts against the Bears. So, they have had as many as 30 once all season, and that was 31 attempts because they absolutely blew the drawers off the Bengals in week three at home. Uh, but I think no matter what KO says, he’s going to um he is definitely going to rethink, hash it out, whatever. He’s heard the criticism, so I’m going with 30 or more rushing attempts. I want to I want to see him I want to see him take it to another level. I want to see like five rushing attempts and I want I want him to be defiant. I think it’d be Write that down. It’d be hilarious. Uh okay, Dex, what’s your first prediction back in the pool here? All right, write this down. The Vikings will run the ball with two yards or less to go in a down or goal to go situation against the Bears at least three times. Okay. Okay. He will he will attempt this at least three. So as long as it’s two yards or less and a go or the goal to go. So from the two yard liner on, he will run the ball at least three times. Write it down. All right. I love where you’re going and I’m curious how much we’re going to cannibalize each other’s predictions here. So, I’ll start with this one that the Vikings will they will rush for a first down. So, they will successfully run and convert a first down or a touchdown on a third or fourth and three or less. So, I’m I’m going to include cuz that that was the number I used. We’ve talked two or less, three or less. I’m mirroring it with what I brought to the show yesterday, uh, which is three or less. So, third or fourth down, three or less, they will successfully run for a first down and off the record, the home crowd will do a Bronx cheer. You know how like when a when a baseball team when a baseball team commits three errors and they’re kicking the ball around or a pitcher walks two hitters on four pitches and finally throws a strike and the crowd’s like, “Oh, so makes a save. That’s going to happen. Oh, finally. Yeah. Yeah. A potential clarification or caveat. If it’s a design pass and McCarthy rolls out and Has to be a designed run. Has to be designed run. Has to be a designed run. Has to be a design run. I don’t want the back door on. I I want I want I’m going through the front door on this prediction. Same with me. I designed run. Designed run. Y love it. We’re going to We’re going to will this into existence. Okay. Aaron, your second prediction. Justin Jefferson will finish the season with eight or more touchdowns. Oh, and what’s he got? Two now. Two, right? Two. Two. Boy, you got to pick up pick up the pace. We have to fight a little more aggressively for those 50 before last game and then eight now. Oh, you had it ready to rock at 10. You just bring it down. Then him playing like he had a 109 fever the entire day made it Write this down. Yeah. Okay, Jud. All right. Hey, write this down. Um, after being embarrassed on Sunday and uh and somewhat like calling out the assistant coaches as well for their their role or what they did do or didn’t do, I don’t know. The Vikings offense will be called for no more than two false start penalties against the Bears. No more than. So, no more than two. So, two is the max. Two or fewer. Two or fewer. No more than two. Yes, they can’t be called for three, but um they were called for eight. I mean, I think they were humiliated by it. I mean, Wes Phillips, the OC who never gives an opening statement, got up to the podium on Tuesday and basically started apologizing and said, you know, this can and and I think and KO made a comment on Monday about the assistance. I don’t I think that was a huge point of contention. It’s just embarrassing. What What do you think his contention is with the assistance in that case? I don’t know. I think he’s frustrated with everything and so I think he’s bringing I think he’s just he’s right now. Well, yeah. I mean, I’m concerned about him. I like him personally. Let’s make one thing very clear. I consider him a great guy. I consider him to be a friend, but he’s spiraling a little bit. I don’t like to see that. I consider him a close friend. I haven’t talked to him personally in a while, but I consider But anyway, um yeah. So, so I think they’re going to I don’t know if they’re going to win, but I think they’re going to clear up the false start thing. Like that’s just I’m sorry. That’s a complete embarrassment. That’s Pop Warner kid football crap. It’s bad. It’s really bad. They should go to like one of those Pop Warner where it’s just ready, set the Techmo Super Bowl. Ready, set, hot, hot, hot, hot until someone hits the A button. All right, Dex. Uh, all right. So, I want to will this McCarthy prediction next into existence. If you guys and only four games, but have you guys gone by quarter by quarter split of his passer rating one through four so far through the four? It probably starts off I I saw Sever had a stat, not that one, but he had something and it starts off really solid and then it just disintegrates. Perfect. Fourth quarter is terrible. So, yes, it’s uh his first quarter passer rating is 153.9. It’s almost perfect. 158.3 is perfect, right? Yeah. In the second quarter, it’s 41.6. Okay. In the third quarter, it’s 16.8. Oh my god. And then and that includes a decent couple drives against the Bears, right? Oh my gosh. And in the fourth quarter, it’s 90.5. Okay. Mostly because of the Bears game. That’s Yeah. Yeah. Back up. Okay. But and and what’s weird too in the second quarter like he has led. So he’s 21 of 36. He has nine first downs. He has 221 yards, but he has three interceptions and he’s taken seven sacks in the second quarter. Like, he has he’s actually moved the ball, but has made literally a third of his decisions have been the most costly decision you could possibly make as a quarterback, sack or interception. So, write this down because he has no passing touchdowns. He did rush one, but no passing touchdowns in the middle quarters in the second or third yet this season. Uh, write this down. JJ McCarthy will have or lead multiple touchdown drives in the second and third quarter for the Vikings against the Bears. Okay, so uh just to ask a dumb question. So only in the second and third quarter, if they if they have a rushing touchdown drive and another rushing touchdown, whatever it is, if they if the offense scores touchdowns on two drives, yep, in the sec and the second and third, I almost made them the middle eight. They almost made exactly the middle eight, but I’m going to give myself a little bit more more of a room there. But yes, multiple touchdown drives. He just has to lead them. I’m I’m I was going to say he has to pass, but I’m hoping Kevin Oonnell maybe runs the ball, and I then I don’t want to lose a technicality point. So, multiple touchdown drives in the second and third quarter, right? Okay, write this down. All right, I’m going to I’m going to keep trying to will some things into existence here, too. It feels like the spirit of these predictions is just willing things into existence. So, write this down. JJ McCarthy, who as documented on yesterday’s State of the Vikings Purple Daily episode, when the Vikings call a pass play on third or fourth and three or shorter, they have zero completions on 14 called pass plays. Write it down. JJ McCarthy will complete a pass on third or fourth down and three or fewer in this game. Write it down. Write this down. Maybe maybe it won’t be a first down. Maybe it’ll be a little flat route that someone gets tackled before the sticks. I’m not even saying it has to be a first. Just has to complete a pass. It could go backwards 10 yards. We’re really shooting the bar low right now for this one. Well, let’s start by getting one completion on a third or fourth and short. If you’re going to, by the way, if you’re going to call those plays, I would just say don’t even call a pass play in those situations. But again, it sounds like we’re like, “Hey, you’re 12 years old. Can you just complete a pass?” I don’t know, mister. Well, you should I think you should treat a young quarterback that way. I don’t I don’t want to throw him this down. JJ McCarthy, Mr. Bill. Yeah. Oh boy. I want to run the ball. I want to run the ball. His arm comes off. Oh my gosh. Uh Aaron, what’s your third and final prediction? Write this down. A little bit of negative, but the Vikings will have either a turnover or a penalty. in the first quarter on a kick return. Oh god. Yeah, that’s almost a slam dunk. It’s not even It’s not even it can’t statistically it it can’t be a a touchdown for Aaron because they are averaging like two or three special teams penalties a game at this rate in the first quarter. Yeah. Oh, in the first quarter. Okay. I will say I think that’s that’s a touchdown. Aaron, you just said kickoff. So, do you want punts looped in or just just the standing? Just the kickoffs. Just kidding. He doesn’t need punts, Dax. That’s a ton. Okay, just wondering. He doesn’t need punts. He’s probably going to be right. Love it. Aaron just bringing some great predictions here on his Write That Down debut since you have this lifealtering platform right now. This life-changing day in your life. Aaron, is there anyone you’d like to thank or shout out that helped you get here? The show, of course. It’s fantastic. I’ve been watching since the uh preJJ McCarthy draft. Um, I want to thank my wife, um, and my kids are not Vikings or sports fans at all, but they let me watch every Sunday. Um, you know, shout out to the golf boys and my fantasy football league. Um, and my buddy Chris who he and I talk football all the time. And then, um, my mom and my father-in-law both have birthdays today, so I want to say happy birthday to them. That’s awesome, man. Awesome. Happy birthday to them. And Aaron, hopefully we can see you again sometime, man. Good stuff. Thank Thanks so much, guys. It was a pleasure. Yeah. I love reminiscing about the random 2004 Vikings Packers game, too. I think we’re back now. Are we? The white space. I I think something uh to be honest, we might have to loop in our our buddy Pat Leger cuz like the hotkey and buttons are all wonky. And even when I there’s this little gear here. It says hot keys. And you can, if you know, if you shift or hit control buttons, it’ll you know, manually do things for you, which in theory is a great idea. Uh, but they are they are causing uh organized chaos on the streamers. So, I’m not I’m not sure. Perhaps Dex simplify at run more. Just run the ball more. Quit trying to pass the damn doing things my way. Damn it. I’ve been doing I’ve been executive producing for 5 years and this is how I produce. Can can hot key. Oh man, I’m just glad Jud doesn’t know what the hotkeys are or every show. I don’t I didn’t even know there was such a thing, but now I’m enamored with it and I believe that it it could actually be a se like a segmented thing like like hot keys. 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And you had to find the right sports bar at the time. Well, have I got the right sports bar for you? If you’re a Vikings fan, but you want to see the rest of the games, Mystic Lake and the Hop House are the place to go. Absolutely fantastic. Um, not only is this a place that’s comfortable, great food, great drinks, but also with the TVs, the most important thing, they’re well-run, well orchestrated. Every game is going to be on so you can watch it all the Vikings and everything else. The perfect place to spend your Sundays, folks. Mystic Lake Hop House. Check it out. Write this down. All right, boys. Final predictions here and we’ll get to a quarterback cesspool challenge. But Jud, what’s your final prediction? My final prediction is this. I’m going to go with some positivity here. Um, I am going to say, write this down, that Miles Price will not fumble a kickoff return for the rest of the season. Oh, the rest of the season. The rest of the season. I’m I’m You know what? I have faith in him. He had a rough game on Sunday. He lost one. He lost one that was not great. He fumbled another that was actually a more egregious one, but the Vikings got that one back. But I’m going to say exclusively, by the way, kickoff return. So, I’m not saying punt. Uh, kickoff returns. He will not fumble another kickoff return the rest of the season. Yeah, I think he learned his I a lot of people just kind of wrapped up in the moment or done with him, cut him, find a new kick returner. That was pretty bad though to fumble the second time after you just kind of partially cost your team the game potentially. It’s a learning experience, I hope, because I do think that like in that role, he’s he is good. He’s definitely shown explosiveness. So, I’m gonna show some faith in the young man because that’s how I am. He’s good. I mean, he’s a he’s I know if he can hang on to the football. Do you think he’d ever be playable as like a third or fourth wide receiver or is he just a special teams guy? I think he’s just a special teams guy. Might be wrong. Not a lot of size, right? Or at least he doesn’t look like he has a lot. Um I I mean guys have played before. Yeah, guys have played before. Strikes me as a guy that’s a returner, but wouldn’t absolutely be shocked if he developed a little bit. And and as I’ve been in some dark corners of like Vikings Twitter and Vikings internet, they might they might need Miles Price to step up after Justin Jefferson gets traded this upcoming March. Where are you going? Like you’re going to really dark places, huh? The algorithm is feeding some dark things. Stay out of those places. You don’t want to put yourself in that mindset. The amount of I’m done with Justin Jefferson. There’s actually a conversation off that because yeah, for one game, uh, I’m with you. I saw I’ve seen some like we’re acting like now I’m seeing, well, he’s Digs. It’s going to be Digs all over. It’s like, okay, let’s calm down just a little bit. It’s one game and and he’s never done this before. We’ve never had we have never had this conversation before. Yeah. Well, we never had it before. Diggs started to show some odd behavioral scientific. You’re going Oh, you’re spending time in dark corners and believing the conspiracy theories. We We need a We need the hot keys back and we need a win so we can get out of the dark corners of hot keys. Yeah, hot keys. Control DR D on Dan can control Ir F. Search it. Search it. Search the words. Write this down. Uh Declan. Yeah. Uh last one for me. Write this down. I think I made it in week one, too. Uh, and I’ll repeat it again. Uh, the Vikings defense records a pick six or a scoop and score against the Bears. All right. Vikings defense gets a touchdown against the Bears. Um, I like I like I even though the Vikes have lost back to back here, I I I still or not back to back, but coming off a rough game against the Ravens, I still like their chances against Chicago at home. So, give me the Vikings defense to fluster Caleb, which they’ve mostly done. Uh, so a pick six or a scoop and score against the Bears. Write it down. And that’s that’s one thing Caleb has tightened it up. He had between like fumbles, sacks, and interceptions last year. By far the most of any NFL quarterback. And so far this year, he’s not really taken sacks. He’s only taken 14 sacks in nine games. So like maybe a sack and a half a game after leading the league with 68 sacks last year. And he only has the four interceptions. So he’s throwing an interception once every other game. So it’s it’s harder to get and that Ben Johnson system if he’s not always playing on schedule and it I think drives Ben Johnson a little bit nuts, but it would have to be Caleb getting off schedule a little bit and then maybe uh the Vikings pass rush getting to him, but I’m going to put my money where my mouth is here. I kind of alluded to it, but I think the I think the Packers are spiraling here and I think they think the Giants are a get right spot. I almost made this prediction. And it it should probably be a get-right spot. They’re seven and a half point road favorites, but the Giants are going to have a little extra pride. They’re going to feel bad that they got their coach fired. You always see a team kind of rise up a little bit after the coach gets fired. And Jameus Winston doesn’t give a bleep. Jameus Winston’s going to hunt for 350 yards even if he throws seven interceptions. Oh yeah. But there’s a chance that Jamus could just be an absolute killer on Sunday. So, I’m going to say it. Packers lose outright to the Giants. Okay. Outright. Oh, what’s the I hate I hate the spread because I was going to make a spread. I hate this. I hate that spread. Like for the Packers. I would Yeah, I would take the Giants to cover that. Yeah. If they lose outright, the McCarthy the Lafleur slander calling for his head. I mean, that’s all that and that is, you know, that’s a sneaky thing about that market because they’ve had so much success and because they have nothing but the Packers. Mhm. Basically, they are they are in my opinion much harsher than us. Like we’re harsh. They’re way harsher. It’s also kind of all they have. There’s like Yeah, there’s some Milwaukee sports fans and stuff, but uh it is the team. The Vikings are the team here, but even more so, the Packers are the team. And I don’t know how much of an effect this has, but you know, I think a lot of people have cashed in their chips on the Badgers. And so now it’s basically football-wise, all you have left Yeah. is the and their their schedule they are after losing to the P the Eagles lost in a vacuum. You know, it was ugly the way they lost, but it’s not really a sin to just to lose to the Eagles. the Browns and the Panthers losses and the Cowboys tie where you gave up 40 points in that game. You’re in a spot now where you got to find five more wins on the schedule if you’re the Packers. And it they should get one against the Giants, but they still have two against the Vikings and even though the Vikings are in the dumps right now, those are going to be a fight. Oh yeah. They’ve got two against the Bears. Those are going to be a fight. They’ve got at Detroit on Thanksgiving, at Denver on their schedule still, and a game against Baltimore in week 17. So, they are even with a win this weekend, the Packers are have put themselves in a spot where missing the playoffs is on the board. It’s on the board. Crazy crazy league. Crazy league. It is. It is a crazy league. Write this down. Write it down. You like writing things down. All right, boys. Um, before we before we get to the quarterback cesspool challenge here, I we brought this up at the beginning of the show, but just out of curiosity, what what do you do you feel like, and I know that like you’re not going to be there for this press conference today, but what do you think the tone is right now inside that building? feels kind of feels kind of tense just from Yeah, I think the tone that we’re going to get this afternoon on the press conference front and the actual tone behind the scenes are very different cuz I think they’re going to come out sending positivity and polyiana and everything is great and because there’s no reason there’s no reason for them to go sour publicly, right? And you know, if you had a guy, if je if Justin Jefferson was actually a problem child, you might have a guy like that pop off, but he’s not he’s not going to. No, zero chance. I mean, postgame Sunday and and what clearly was like frustration of some sort or something was wrong, he like was, hey, you know, a ball didn’t hit my hands or stuff like that. So, I think the public tone is going to be very positive. I think internally I think there’s a lot of strife because their plan hasn’t worked and it’s that simple and they were and look they were threading a needle that’s it was fun to watch like like I was excited to talk about it and if if it had worked it would have looked genius but you know if you think about it you can’t really be totally shocked right I mean in March you sign these veterans and then you say okay but what we’re going to do is we’re going to have a quarterback who’s going to be a young quarterback who’s going to come in and start and we’re going to juggle this and hope it works and then the quarterback back gets hurt and the center gets hurt. So, I think internally there’s probably a lot of strife and I think it starts with the Wils, but there but there you’re never going to see that until unless it blows up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The other thing and we I think we contextualized some of this yesterday, but I’ve seen a lot of people um correctly preaching patience with McCarthy and I think that needs to continue to be a theme that you have to whether your fans media or the head coach there’s got to be a level of patience. He’s not 27. He’s not he’s hasn’t played 30 games. He is just sort of starting off a year and a half after his contemporaries in that draft. Um, so yes, like we need to exercise patience, but I feel like in terms of the tone of this show, it’s less about impatience with McCarthy. I think I feel like we have an understanding of, hey, there’s going to be some ups and downs and anyone who’s bailing on him right now, you know, cow herd style, you got to bail on him if he plays bad this weekend is mistaken. I’m more curious about the dynamic with Kevin Oonnell and just I keep the the word tense comes up to me. It just it it feels like there’s a lot of tension and maybe I know we were emailing about this last night, Jud, and maybe this is a Thursday topic. If they lose to the Bears, the playoff hopes are over. It like you’re not making the playoffs. You’re probably not making the playoffs even if you beat the Bears just based on the math. But I do wonder if alleviating that pressure of, hey, well, this isn’t how we drew it up. It certainly doesn’t fall under the win one before we die mantra and accountability bar here. Yeah. But um at least there’s no needle to be thread anymore. You are you are playing out the rest of the season specifically to develop a 22-year-old quarterback. Yep. And everything you do should be aligned with make getting him as far down the road as possible or finding out as much about him as possible going into a big offseason. Yeah, that was my my biggest thing is you cannot go you cannot go into training camp with questions that can be answered now. Like if you do, shame on you. You’ve done you’ve done a terrible job. Now, I do think there’s an interesting dynamic. I agree from an on-field standpoint and from a simplification standpoint and from what’s best for McCarthy, I think if you sort of just put the playoff hopes out of your mind, which players and coaches don’t like, some of them will do it, but some won’t. But if you put that out of your mind, I do think that that allows you then to go about developing him, which is the most important thing. I just think if you show up for training camp and and you’re like, “Okay, here’s what we didn’t find out, then you’ve not done your job.” But it will be interesting then to see, and again, this is all internal. We we will not see it. The amount of fingerpointing that goes on behind the scenes because the Wils are going to say, “Well, what happened here?” Right? Like you guys were told you guys told me in March like I I believe they cash over cap they might have spent the most money in free agency and I think from a cap standpoint they spent the second most to the Patriots. So like it’s like okay when you audit the season and sit down the wills aren’t going to say ah too bad that didn’t work. They’re going to say what happened and so I think you could have some serious fingerpointing that could get out publicly but will certainly start in a private discussion. Yep. The the biggest question nonJJ McCarthy related that I would have if I’m the Wolves, if I’m really anyone, if I’m US, remains Dallas Turner. 19 pressures in nine games, two sacks. Yeah, you could have said that he he had a third sack, but kind of a ridiculous penalty. I I like by the end of the year, that’s another question that I want a better answer to is is that dude emerging into a highlevel pass rusher. And the answer right now is no. If Grenard’s out, it sounds like he’s going to be out this weekend. Okay, it’ll be another chance in theory for now, if Dallas Turner doesn’t get about 50 or 60 snaps with Grenard out, that’s the team telling you something. Um, and if he does and he doesn’t generate pressures again, that is that’s something to keep an eye on between now and the end of the year. I actually think Dallas Turner’s performance from now until the end of the year is going to say a lot more about how Quasy is evaluated moving into another draft than even JJ McCarthy. Well, I think there’s a couple of really intriguing bins here. That’s one of them. Like like there’s no question. And just the draft as a whole, if one guy busts, that sucks. But you’ve got a lot of like okay that guy’s a first round pick. he is if he is not deemed playable consistently and now you you’ve got the depth of drafts which has been not good. But my other bin is this one too and and again I’m sure the Wolves were excited just like we were but we but you know the Wolves and us are are not directly paid to make the decisions that the front office is. Okay. So here’s my question in in retrospect now. Why did you think you could thread the needle that you couldn’t? Like like why did we go out and sign these guys? I mean JJ McCarthy looks unfortunately and it’s hindsight but if you’re the owners you have the benefit of saying I pay you to be right about this stuff. So I think that there’s a a hard audit of like different questions and paths about what happened. I mean heck you know what personally if I owned the team I would ask questions about and at the end of the day it’s a small thing but it ended up being big the Sam Howell thing. So why did we go to training camp with a quarterback that was very very clear from day one wasn’t going to work out as a backup when we knew, you know, JJ McCarthy missed an entire season. So him being hurt is not like a I can’t believe he got hurt and then you didn’t have a quarter and then you didn’t have a backup in training camp um who went through training camp and then you signed Carson Wentz at the 11th hour he had to play and clearly it hurt him he didn’t get training camp. So, like I think that there’s a bunch of really hard fair questions to be asked that run the gamut and you know if we’re and and we did if we’re going to give Quazy and the front office and they deserve credit for this that unbelievable probably the best in franchise history free agent class of of 24 then they got an answer for 25. Yeah, the Adam Thielen trade too. Let’s add that to the bin. Oh, I like that. Yeah, good call. fifth round pick and a fourth round pick. And I know it’s in two drafts from now, but good call. Like this guy is washed, man. Adam Phelin is washed. He has seven receptions in nine games and just go get it. Go play. Go play it. Go get the trade. Make it happen. Bring him in. You’ll be wide receiver three. Jaylen Naylor is far and away a better and more reliable receiver right now than Adam Thielen. That was also a complete overpay. And if he didn’t have the Minnesota nature attached to his name, that trade doesn’t happen for a fourth and a fifth round. Yeah, I think two things off that. One, yeah, like he clearly does not have a whole ton of juice left. I think they panicked a little cuz they weren’t sure about Jaylen Naylor’s hand. Jaylen Naylor had a hand injury that knocked him out for a few weeks toward the end of camp, like end of preseason. Yes. and and he was maybe on the verge of missing a long chunk of the season, but he opted for like a shorter term was it a procedure that brought him back quicker because it’s a free agent year for him and that decision is going to make him a lot of money. I think that there are and I don’t know I don’t know full details but I think there are also like like speaking of bins I think there also are injury questions too because didn’t didn’t Doogie report that on Jaylen it was initially the team’s like okay you’re probably going to have to have surgery and Jaylen then said whoa hold on a second I’m a free agent I want to go out so he he went and consulted with a guy in California who’s like I can get you back by the opener like there’s a lot there is a lot we also don’t know that’s gone wrong here. So, um I would not be shocked if there is accountab some accountability. I’m not saying Okonnell is in any trouble, but I would not be shocked if there is some accountability to be held through that building because this is definitely not the plan. It wasn’t what they thought was going to happen this year 100%. Uh injuries have definitely there’s a couple games early where if you had your full aotment, maybe they go differently, but yeah, there’s a lot. No, a win against the Bears alleviates some of the pressure nozzle here. But um by the way, speaking of Sam Howell, the quarterback cesspool challenge is next here on Purple Daily. Hello friend, my little friend here. Pendleton Whiskey just hanging out next to me. No, I drink responsibly. Carter proof. No, responsibly. I’m glad you Pendleton Whiskey is bringing together fans of the Vikings and the Bears this weekend during their first ever Friendsgiving on Sunday, November 16th from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at downtown East Plaza at US Bank Stadium. 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So, uh, if you haven’t already, schedule your HVAC, uh, checkup now. Make sure you get on to it. And to be honest, by the way, I heard from our friends at Standard Heating, you, the Purple Daily audience, have responded very well to Standard from their messaging here. And I know obviously we do a lot of advertisers. Uh, we appreciate all the time when our audience obviously supports our advertisers. So, just from my end, thank you for those that have contacted Standard Heating. I think that’s incredible. And if you need that HVAC system serviced, go contact Standard and tell them that Purple Daily sent you. Awesome. That’s awesome to hear. Appreciate you guys supporting our uh our partners here. So, it’s the quarterback cesspool challenge, which is a weekly celebration of bad quarterback play in the National Football League. And here’s how it works. Each member of the show selects a quarterback that we think is going to be terrible for the upcoming week’s games. Here’s the catch. Once you use that quarterback, you can’t use him again the rest of the season. So, there’s some strategy on when and how you deploy certain quarterbacks, timing, etc. And the scoring is pretty simple. It’s ESPN’s QBR on a 0 to 100 scale. And obviously, we’re going for the lowest QBR. Uh we have weekly winners and then we have the seasonl long uh aggregate measurement as well. And I alluded to this earlier in the show. Declan was teetering there. You know, AJ was kind of running it and things were going okay for a couple weeks, but Jud and I had really started pulling away from Declan. Yeah. But look what happened this week. Declan correctly nailed Justin Fields for his second weekly victory of the year. A 15.8 QBR. Nice. While Jud and I got stuck. Marcus Mariota for Jud. An 82.8 QBR. That’s a bunch of crap by the way. And Mac Jones for me had an 88.7 QBR. I want to recount. I want to recount. I cannot believe that I got burned with the first Tyler Shuck start against the Rams when he pulled up a 70 QBR with like the most pedestrian performance of all time. Uh, that one pissed me off. And then Russell Wilson, the one game when Russ almost in week two, whatever game that was, Russ’s last like stance as a viable starting quarterback apparently over the last 30 starts. Uh I pick the one where he goes off one last time. So hey man, this is the game a QB cesspool challenge just bec you think you have it and then also you think you understand the formula of how QBR stew is made. You have no idea. You have no idea. The the worst quarterback in week 10 was Aaron Rogers with a 4.5 QBR for him. Not good. Oh, but if the Vikings had only signed Next question. Yeah, I don’t I don’t think it would have gone well regardless of who Aaron was playing for. But uh here so here are the updated tight standings for the weeklys. I have six wins with a wide lead between you guys. Each have two wins, but there’s still plenty of season left. For the season long, Jud narrowly leading 41.3 average QBR. I’m at 42.2 2 and Declan a big jump to 46.7. So we’re all separated by just five points of QBR. And I’ll put on the screen here, you can see who we’ve selected to this point in the season. Remember, we can’t select a quarterback that we have selected before. And we all have to pick different quarterbacks for week 11 here. If someone takes a quarterback that winds up not playing, you automatically get the backup quarterback. And if you have used the backup quarterback, then you get stuck with a 75 QBR. So, we’ll go in reverse order of last week’s standings. So, I get the first pick, Jud gets the second pick, and then Declan will bat third here. And I’m I think this is there’s a there’s a bunch of good candidates, but for me, it’s pretty cut and dry. I’m the only one that hasn’t used Dylan Gabriel yet. And he’s playing a Ravens defense that’s kind of back the last month. So, I’m I’m gonna I’m gonna rifle off my Dylan Gabriel pick here in week 11, who has the second worst QBR of any starting quarterback in the NFL for the season. Dylan Gabriel. He screwed me too, I think. I picked him against He had a 39 QBR for you. Wasn’t terrible, but I didn’t win that week. Yeah. Well, this is the Well, that’s the problem. You have to either do you want the high score or do you want like a lowish score that doesn’t get you the win? What’s more frustrating? I just want these quarterbacks to suck cuz they all suck. You just want to win. I I just want you that you suck. You’re not good at what you do. Just not be good at, you know, don’t be good at what you do. But Dylan Dylan Gabriel helped your season total. I know. I know. I know. At the end of the day, you won’t score regardless. Yeah. Congratulations. Um, so I’m next. Yeah. I will take Justin Fields, who I’ve not used yet against the Patriots. Some one of you two has to take Justin Fields on Thursday night. I’ve I’ve already or I guess I have not rifled off Justin Fields yet, but did you guys see the the latest Aaron Glenn at the podium? No, I can’t with that guy. So, I think he’s over his head. So, oh god. So, he gets up there yesterday and he, you know, or ordinarily in opening statements, a lot of coaches like Okonnell give you the injury update, right? Like so and so is working through this blah blah blah. Yeah. Aaron Glenn gets up there and says, “Where is uh Rich me meaning Rich Samini of ESPN?” And he says, “Because he’s got because I he broke the news about Garrett Wilson being out like four to six weeks.” And and Glenn says, “Well, he’s got the information, so I’m going to have you ask him.” And they’re like, “But we want to ask you.” He’s like, “No, Rich has it now.” And Rich wasn’t even there. He is out for four weeks, right? So it’s it’s But they’re like, “We want to ask you about this.” and and he’s he’s like, “Well, he’s he’s reporting stuff now, so he’s got it.” Yeah, that dude’s going to get painful. Yeah, he’s not he’s not cut out for it. Not cut out for it. That market. All right, so I take Fields. Okay, green. Green. Oh, man. I got all three of my options here on the board. Um I’m between So, I am very tempted to take Caleb. I have I haven’t used uh Caleb Williams. He is having a very good and and from a QBR standpoint, he’s had a couple clunkers against New Orleans and Washington, but mostly has posted above average above 50 QBRS in the majority of his starts. So, he hasn’t taken many sacks this year because they’ve made the offensive line better. He’s been less turnover prone, uh which has been good for him. So, the other options I’m going are actually Bon Knicks at home against the Chiefs defense. Now, they’re they’re at home, which like if that was an arrowhead, this would be a slam dunk for me. Yeah. Um and you know what? I’m going to I’m going to I’m going to take Bicks. So, I’m going to do it. I’ll take the home quarterback. Uh coming off an atrocious start. Chiefs will make life hell here. Maybe some regression to just in general for Denver who’s gotten off to a really good start this year and probably is going to be in the playoffs regardless. But uh I’ll take Bo Knicks. Give me Bo. Everybody hold your water. Yeah, you got to take some chances in the quarterback success pool challenge. You know that’s right. So all right. So Dex Bo Nicks, Jud Justin Fields, and I will uh go with Dylan Gabriel here for the week 11 quarterback cesspool challenge picks. Gentlemen, good luck to all of you and may your quarterbacks be terrible and confused. Please, be yourself, guys. All right, guys. Uh, tomorrow it’ll be Thor’s day again and there’s a lot to discuss. We will react to the press conferences today and I believe so and I are going to connect for a Trenches episode tonight. I think he want he might want to go live tonight. We’re usually we pre-record those and then release them in the morning, but there’s half a chance that we go live tonight on the Purple Daily YouTube channel. 8:30, 9:00. I don’t know. Depends what time. Well, he’s been pretty he’s been pretty good about like 8:30, 8:45, which is very reasonable. All right. You know, there was a day where it used to be like 10:30, 10:45. It’s a little late for my old ass. I like to be in bed watching watching the scrolling. I’m like a second h like prime time games. watch the second half in bed and kind of like prepping on my phone for our show tonight. Scroll a little bit, check out the Tik Toks, what the kids are watching. Yes. You know, once I get once I get sunny down, which his bedtimes is now going earlier, which is great. Like at first it was like 10:30, 10:00, and now it’s more like 9ish, which is which is great. But my wife will go to bed usually like when I’m getting Sunny to bed, but then I get like that hour where it’s just me and a cocktail and whatever else I want to watch for an hour and a half. And it’s now become my I’ll be I’ll be completely honest. It’s my favorite period of the day is the last hour and a half of my day. Your little buddy comes walking into the room panel. Hey. Hey. What’s going on? Hey, you are officially in. You want crushed ice? You want regular ice? Dad life right now. That’s right. Daddy’s busy. [Laughter] Quit crying. I want to see I need to see Jud babysitting Sunny at some point. All right. We uh we will have an OG write that down episode on Mackie and Jud as well. And Flagger House today is the hottest Wolves takes edition. Plus Jud’s hockey show. Barard down Beauties are part of Score North. The score twin show uh reacting every week to various offseason moves. 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