Minnesota Vikings predictions vs. New York Giants: JJ McCarthy, Justin Jefferson, and more

Minnesota Vikings predictions vs. New York Giants: JJ McCarthy, Justin Jefferson, and more

big boys at >> Purple Daily is daily Vikings entertainment. I 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. >> Put this down. >> It’s a It’s a rare uh no Jud Purple daily here. The sports dad has earned himself. It’s a well-earned day off, but before he took the day off, he did send in predictions via satellite here. So, we’ll see. I’m assuming you’ve looked at them. >> I I’ve looked at them. I heard them. Uh, the second one you will enjoy. >> Okay. Did he follow your instructions and go horizontal frame? >> I I I was very proud of him. I did. Um, Jud does the uh and I think it I think Trevor Plof talked about this and even though Jud doesn’t fall into this generation, Jud is guilty of the millennial pause before before a video starts. So, when he starts recording, he’ll hit record and he’ll wait a good 3 to 4 seconds before he actually starts saying something. So when I when I said, “Can you send them to me?” I just want to make sure I can chop off the head and tail. You know, shave off about 5 seconds of of dead time on the head and tail. Yeah. But yeah, he’s got three predictions. He’s ready to rock. He he followed followed orders like a good good soldier. It was very impressive. Very impressive. >> I feel like like if it’s beyond like a half second or a second, like the half second or a second is the millennial pause. I’m very familiar. >> If it’s like two or 3 seconds, that’s more like a Gen X or a boomer pause. >> The Gen X pause. [laughter] And then at the end it’s like 10 seconds of trying to hit the stop button. >> Uh, okay. Before we get into it’s a write that down Wednesday here. We are the only show >> in all of America that has the stones enough to put percentages and statistics next to our predictions. It’s every Wednesday we make Vikings and football related predictions. 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Federated uh in addition to helping small and medium-sized businesses for over a hundred years, the backbone of America, they also help next generation business owners. So, if you recently took over a family business, maybe you are a younger business owner, Federated can provide a valuable guiding hand in the insurance space. If you work in an industry like retailers, wholesalers, manufacturing companies, auto services, dealerships, they have a full list of industries they specialize in. Find out more at federated insurance.com where it’s our business to protect. >> Write this down. >> Yours. All right. Sexy Dexi >> and Macadak flying without our sports dad here today. >> So, uh, this is how it works. Every single week, we all make three Vikings or football related predictions. They must be quantifiable in some way. We keep track of completion percentage and touchdowns. So like a touchdown is if it has a 25% chance or less is kind of how we gauge it, then it would be deemed a touchdown. So kind of a long shot prediction. >> And then listeners, if you want to be like Blaine, who’s about to jump in and make his debut as a guest listener predictor, if you want to be like Blaine, you can send Declan a message through the Score North app and we’ll get you scheduled for some time in hopefully like early 2026 at this point. So, let’s get to the old accountabilities here. >> Okay. >> And we’ll start with Jud if this tab will open here. >> Couple things came off the board. >> All right. All right. >> Some touchdowns you’ll see coming coming in hot here, too. So, uh Jud said we’ll start with the bad that Jamus Winston would start at least five games for the Giants this year. I believe that is now mathematically not possible. Jackson Dart, even though he’s in the concussion protocol, the blue tent every five minutes, uh, they keep running him out there. So, >> I was kind of hoping for a Jameus Winston. >> Me, too. >> Start this week. >> Me, too. I I love Jamus. Hey, may I mean, maybe maybe that’s your suitable backup for next year. >> I mean, >> Jameus JJ, >> I’ve seen some people make the McCarthy Winston comparison where it’s like they they’re hitting on yolo balls. Yeah. >> They’re throwing a ton of interceptions. They really like they don’t play like low-risk football. >> No, >> Jamus a little bit of a bigger body and uh has thrown for 5,000 yards in a season. So, and then uh this is a TUD just because McCarthy had only had one passer rating over a 100 game going into last week. Jud said he’s going to have a passer rating over 100 again the Cowboys and he did. [applause] We’ll give Jud a touchdown on that. I had two things come off the board. We’ll take this parlay off. I had a a three team futures parlay here. I did hit the over on Panther 6 and a half. >> Cowboys under seven and a half is still in play technically, >> right? Yeah, >> but uh the Raiders going over six and a half is >> Sorry about that. >> I I also thought they would be I mean over six and a half would still be a seven and 10 season, but I I thought they would be a little bit more competent with Pete Carol. I was I was wrong. It’s kind of so his worst season I think he might have had a dud like well he was with the Patriots >> y >> but basically like over his last 20 years of being an NFL head coach or college for that matter too. His worst season is seven wins >> and I thought I mean >> he brings culture in but now it’s like they might fire him. It’s so bad >> and he’s in his mid70s and I don’t know. Uh, but I did tell you that the Vikings, who were 5 and a half point underdogs, would have a doubledigit lead against the Cowboys and they had a 34-23 lead in the fourth quarter. Little tud. Uh, and then listeners, two things came off the board, both red. Ryan said the 2025 Vikings will win at least one playoff game. We did leave that on the board for you, Ryan, until the math killed it. And then Brady said KOC will get his playoff first playoff win. And I think he meant here as a Vikings head coach in the 2025 season and will cry fight back tears or will be visibly emotional in the postgame locker room speech. Well, have to wait another year to see if he cries. >> I saw some stat that only it’s only like the second time since 2018. I think it was Jay Guden in Washington that a head coach is getting a fifth year without having won a playoff game. assuming he gets the fifth year next year, which he >> undoubtedly will. >> But interesting stat. Yeah, it’s uh if the Minnesota Vikings choose to bring back Kevin Okonnell >> as a head coach next season, it would mark the first time since 2018, Jay Gruden, that a head coach received a fifth season without a postseason win. >> That’s interesting. It says a lot about the impatience of NFL franchises. >> Agreed. But but also like in most cases, if you get to a fifth year and you have not won a playoff game yet, you also likely don’t have a 13 and a 14 win season on your resume. >> It’s probably that you’ve missed the playoffs a couple times in a row and things are going the wrong direction. >> Um but it he’s a he’s a curious case because he has he took Sam Darnold to 14 wins and rejuvenated Darnold’s career. >> Yeah. and he Kirk Cousins has been just like an auto 500 quarterback every team he’s ever been on till he gets to the Vikings and even with a bad defense Kirk plus KC 13 wins. So I think those don’t equal a playoff win necessarily, but it makes it a no-brainer that he should get a fifth year. >> Absolutely. >> Some people might disagree, but uh Okay, you said we’ll start with the bad and then we’ll get to the good here. You said the Vikings offense will have a touchdown of at least 33 yards or more against the Cowboys. Most Well, all of their touchdowns were kind of close range. >> Yeah. >> Yep. Pounded in. >> You said Jordan Mason would score a touchdown in 13 personnel against the Cowboys. I think CJ Ham might have >> might have sniped me here. And then they were in jumbo when they handed it off to Mason when McCarthy rolled out. Oh, on the on the fake uh they so they faked it to Mason and then Okay, >> I believe that was and that so that wouldn’t have counted either, but I remember thinking about that when he first handed it off being like, “Oh, is this No, no, no, that’s jumbo. That’s not >> personal.” [snorts] And then you had NFC North exact predictions with the Bears fourth, Lions third, Packers second, Vikings first. You might nail the middle two there, but >> yeah, >> this was uh the ultimate pandering decks move at the Minnesota State Fair. I made this prediction during our write that down and I got a great applause. I I I get I get digged for, >> you know, in the Write That Down session, but but the audience in August really liked this prediction for the pop, right? >> Yep. Yeah. Exactly. Cheap pop, but Yes. Yep. >> It was like when Yeah. Like when professional wrestlers wear the if they’re if they’re a good guy, it’s like wearing the hometown jersey out to the ring for the cheap pop. >> Oh, yeah. or if you’re the heel wearing the wearing the Packers jersey inside like the Minnesota arena. It’s kind of what you did. >> I know. Uh I know fans love when we talk wrestling, but I love that Gunther is in ultimate troll mode right now over John Cena. Like just talking crap to fans. You see that one fan, the one that went viral of right before the match started on Saturday Night Main Event, there’s this kid just pouring his heart out of like, I love John Cena. You suck. You’re going to lose. And Gunther’s just sitting there taking it, letting him just air out all this frustration of it pretty much was the meme of it’s real to me, but but of a little kid and Gunther’s just playing along with it. It was >> He had to have security like >> Yeah. >> to leave the arena. >> Yeah. >> Old school, man. >> Yeah. >> For the wrestling nerds out there. And then uh you get a tud too here. You get a tud. You get a tud. >> You said the Vikings would run at least seven plays a season high in 13 personnel against the Cowboys. The final tally, I believe, was eight. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Eight plays in in three tight end sets. So, uh the 13 personnel predictions working out there. And then AJ had nothing off the board. So, the season stats look like this. I’m sitting at top the completion percentage list 41%. Jud 36 12%. Dex 33 and a halfish percent. AJ 312. Listeners 28 1.5%. Uh, with the touchdown additions here, Jud and I each have 11 tied for the league lead, Declan with nine, listeners with seven, AJ with four, and um, the season runs from Super Bowl to Super Bowl. So, we have I a little less than two months left in the 2025 Purple Daily. Write that down. Season in terms of career stats, Dex with the completion percentage lead 36%, I have the touchdown lead >> 69. Nice. Yeah, very nice >> with listeners kind of nipping a couple behind there. So, there you have it. Those are the accountabilities, >> mostly wrong predictions. Let’s get guest listener predictor Blaine in the house here. >> Is that a quarterzip little Vikings quarter zip? >> Yeah, >> love the quarterzip game, man. >> Yeah, it’s a nice one. At work where I would have brought my wife just got me an Andrew Vaninkle jersey, so >> Oh, nice. >> Yeah, >> they should make Andrew Vaninkle quarterzips, actually. That would be awesome. >> Party in the corporate in the front, party in the back kind of a feel. >> And he he had a gklike game again. >> Yeah, he vang he vangled. >> He did, if you will. >> He gked. >> So Bla, give us your background as a Vikings fan. How’d you get hooked? >> No. Um, I’m from the Philadelphia area. Uh, born 1991, so the Eagles were not very good back then. Um, my mom tried when I was younger to be more of an Eagles fan. She got me the old VHS highlight tapes of like the early 1990s and late 80s with Randle Cuttingham. >> Dude, they were kind of like they were kind of fun right around when you were born and then they Yeah, they got back. >> Yeah, those were great videos to watch and then we would watch the games and they were not like that. [laughter] So, but I don’t really remember Chris Carter being in those. I think he was off the team at that point. But um 98 obviously Ronald Cunningham was the quarterback for the Vikings and probably I would assume it would have been the first either Sunday night or Monday night game that they had with him at quarterback that immediately drove my eye. >> Yeah. >> And then seeing Randy Moss really hone it in. And then I’ve been basically was a diehard Randy Moss fan growing up. It’s funny, everyone in my neighborhood, we all bought Randy Moss jerseys even though they were all Eagles fans and they were Vikings fans for that year. And I remember we were all sitting there watching the NFC Championship game and missing that field goal with Gary Anderson and they all took off their Randy Moss jerseys and never put them back on. >> So this I I find all this fascinating because I think the Eagles the Eagles must have been really bad in 98 because they drafted Donovan McNab second overall in 99, right? Y >> all these Philadelphia fans are like, “Oh, our team sucks. Let’s be a Vikings fan or or go somewhere else for our fix >> and now it’s been since they won the Super Bowl been it’s been interesting.” >> Yeah. What is I mean did you So did when the Vikings played the Eagles in the 2017 I guess it would have been January of 18 title game. >> So I was in a physical therapy school so I had a bunch of friends and they all just did not watch it with me. They were like, “We refuse to be around you right now.” So, it’s just me and my wife watching it in my uh like our house at school. And I remember that first drive being like, “Oh, yeah. This is awesome.” Like, “Good thing they didn’t watch this with me.” And then I remember at halftime my like our roommates came back and they were just screaming, like cheering, yelling. I was just like, “Yep.” Like, “Well, how you feeling?” And I was like, at this point it’s kind of funny like cuz I told him I was like in order for this to happen Nick Fos had to have had perfect weather because before that in those really bad weather games like the wind he was throwing ducks and they were just like not hitting the target >> and for just that night for some reason it had to be perfect with no wind and those balls were just sailing. It is now. And now that we’ve had like more sample of Fos and Keenum’s careers, it is one of the most crazy improbable NFC Championship game matchups. And then for Fos to continue forward and dagger the Patriots in the Super Bowl. >> Like you literally had Case Keenum and Nick Fos in the NFC Championship game and the winner went on to beat a dynasty Patriots team. >> Yeah. And in the moment, I think we were all just like, “Oh, the Vikings have the best defense and the Eagles are good.” Like, no one really thought that much of it, but when you look back, it’s kind of crazy. >> Yep. And then um and then of course them winning then in the Viking stadium. So, I hear that a lot too. >> Yeah. That that that was the biggest thing here. It was it was so sad cuz when the miracle happened and then then after they score on that first drive, >> you’re thinking like this is it’ll be the first time in NFL history. It’s a home Super Bowl and and it’s just it and then it was the most depressing week and we had that was the only time that the old Mackey and Jud radio show >> that we took that we took it to uh radio row Super Bowl >> and these poor Vikings were because all these players are walking around current and former with like sponsors like Stefon Diggs was had an Old Spice t-shirt and >> I don’t remember what Case Keenum was hawking but but Case Keenum came over and there were some other current players too. They they were just like zombies walking around shell shocked. I’ll never forget Keenan came over, came on our show for like 15 minutes for his little sponsor deal and he looked like he wanted to cry the entire time. Then he goes to the next radio station cuz every question is, “Oo man, that was a tough game. Like what happened? And is it sad that you’re not going to play a home Super Bowl?” It’s like, “Get me out of here.” [laughter] >> Yeah, that was one of the most fun seasons, too, that I think I remember because it was just such a shock like when Bradford goes down. I mean, that was also like we traded for Bradford from the Eagles. So then I kept hearing about that. Like >> Yeah. >> They’re like, “Why would you do that?” I’m like, “We had to. There was something else we could do.” Yeah. And then he came out and had that game against the Saints. I was like, “Oh, look at this.” >> Yeah. >> Bradford was Bradford was a baller, man. For like the 17 games he played for the Vikings. >> He was a baller. Uh well, let’s get into it. Blaine, you’re going to make your first prediction and then we’ll go to Jud via satellite. Over to Dex, back to me. We’ll make three trips around the room. So Blaine, if you’re ready, then fire away with your first. >> All right, so write this down. So the Vikings are always a um every other year team with playoffs. So write this down. It’s a parlay. JJ McCarthy will be the starter for all 2026. And the Vikings will make and win a playoff game. >> Okay. And can we say uh u are you saying he’s going to start every game or just be the primary? Okay. >> He’ll be and he’ll start majority of the games. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So he’ll go in as the starter. Not >> he’ll be we’ll say primary starter in 2026. So you can >> you can avoid some weird technicality. >> Yeah. >> Avoid. >> All right. Jud possibly with a millennial or Gen X pause via satellite here, but correctly horizontally framed, I believe. >> Yeah, I cut it out. I I I saved him the pause. I saved him that. Saved that embarrassment. >> Hello friends. Sorry I’m not on the show live today, but next best thing can record my predictions. I wouldn’t miss a write that down session. So, write this down. Patrick Mahomes will be named the NFL’s comeback player of the year for 2026. ACL and LCL has been repaired. Rehab begins immediately. I think he comes back at some point next season. And I think the NFL says, “Oh my gosh, an award we haven’t given him. Here’s your opportunity. Comeback player of the year, Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City Chiefs 2026.” >> Wasn’t expecting to to be that close to Jud there. I’m guilty of that sometimes, too, with selfie videos, but okay. Good stuff, Dex. Write this down. >> All right, write this down. I’m I’m going to continue down the train here. Uh the Vikings will have a conversion of at least 25 yards in a 13 personnel package against the Giants. >> Obsessed. >> Just just obsessed with this. I I am I am strictly having pro NFL nextg stats as a tab open, hitting refresh after every single play, making sure did I miss anything? Uh they’ll have a a conversion of at least 25 yards in 13 personnel. Write it down. Against the Giants. >> It could be. What’s funny, I think if if I remember from Dex football focus last week, they they actually passed the ball on at least or over half of those formations. >> Yeah. >> Which is like, okay, we’re we’re going to send out three tight ends. You think we’re going to run? No, we’re not. Play action. So it could be that you hit on like maybe like Ben Sims, the third tight end, catches a pass wide open, broken coverage. >> Inject it. Write this down. >> Okay, it’s time for JJ McCarthy to connect with Justin Jefferson. So, here’s my prediction. >> Justin Jefferson is going to be rewarded for his patience, for his leadership, for his calm, and JJ McCarthy will hit Justin Jefferson on a 30ard gain or more in this game against the Giants. A 30 yard. Maybe it’s a touchdown, maybe it’s not, but it’ll be a 30- yard gain or more to to finally break the seal between those two. It’s been like two months since Jefferson’s had anywhere near a big game. Here we go. >> Write this down. >> All right, back to Blaine for your second. >> All right, so although I’ve been feeling pretty good these last two weeks with everything positive, JJ looks great. Um, some coaches and assistants though do need to kind of something needs to happen at the end of this season because of how it started and how everything’s going. So, I have a parlay of some guys that I think that are going to be fired. So, I’ll start. So, special teams coordinator Matt Dan Matt Daniels will be let go and we’ll say um like the week after the Super Bowl by then. Assistant coach Mike Pentton will be let go. We still do not know what happened with that Seattle situation where he did not make the trip. >> Yeah. >> So, I don’t think he will be back. Offensive line coach Chris Cooper will not be back. Just too many like they’ve been playing well the last two weeks, but there’s just been too many guys not developing. And seeing Ed Ingram not sack CJ Strad stepping on his foot is really annoying because he was very, very bad for a while. >> Somebody else stepped on McCarthy. Did I >> Yeah, I think it was [sighs] Who was it? I think it was um What is his name? >> Was it Donovan? >> No, it’s a center. Uh >> okay. Uh well, Ryan Kelly. Yeah, >> it was Kelly the first game his first game back after the concussion. That was like >> there. Yeah, >> it was always nice to see that return. >> It’s built into the Vikings playbook at this point, >> right? And then assistant GM Ryan Griggson will also be let go before [screaming] >> he has anything to do with that draft. >> Wow. Wow. the Blaine Reaper were just rolling through the entire Vikings organization here. >> I knew I’ve been watching, you know, all the other ones. So, like there’s been guys on here. I was like, “All right, I have to do a parlay with it.” But definitely been feeling great the last few like two weeks. So, >> but they should do it like uh Do you guys ever watch that Traitor show on Peacock? >> I I haven’t. I’ve heard nothing but good things. I’m familiar with with the show. >> It’s It’s phenomenal trashy reality TV. But uh and so not to spoil the whole thing, there’s another season coming out in January, I believe, exclusively on Peacock, but uh they they have like 20 or 30 sort of like B-level celebrities at the traitor’s table and at the beginning of the show starts with all of them blindfolded and uh and the host taps them on taps like four of them on the shoulders and you are the traitors for the rest of the season, but no one knows. That’s how they should fire people on the they should literally turn it into a reality show that like the day after the season’s over that Black Monday, >> we televise it, man. Like everyone, all the key stakeholders, all the coordinators, the coaches, the front office people sit in a room and you’ve got 32 NFL screens or however many teams aren’t in the playoffs and you have someone going around the room. You tap Brian Griggsson on the shoulder. God comes walking in. >> I I’d watch it. >> Yeah. Like seven up. >> Yeah. [laughter] It’s a kid. I know Jud hates this movie, but in Blair Witch Project when they, you know, they the lore was they had to stand in the corner and that meant the witch was about to kill you. Same thing. You see, if you see Ryan Griggson [laughter] or Matt Daniels just head down in a corner, >> it’s over. [screaming] >> It’s over. It’s a wrap. Okay, back to Jud via satellite here. Let’s get a closeup on Jud’s second prediction. >> Write this down. JJ McCarthy will throw three or more touchdown passes against the Giants on Sunday. He threw a career-high three against Washington a couple of weeks ago. Um, I think the Giants have quit even more than the Commanders. Sorry, Phil. Can’t talk about it right now, but I think JJ McCarthy has another big day. Three or more touchdown passes >> and then Jud can minimize those three touchdown passes on Monday because the Giants quit and around we go. >> It’ll be great. It’ll be great fun in front of >> this down. >> Uh, okay. Dex, your second prediction. >> Uh, impromptu one. I I I just thought of this after the 13 personnel one. Ben Sims will catch a touchdown by the end of the season. >> Wow. >> Ben Sims, >> how many does he have in his Does he have one? He was the Packers for >> He’s like a Packers uh >> Yeah, Packers loved them. I mean, and also like if you were just to look at that guy, you’d know. Oh, quintessential Green Bay Packer. Just just Yeah. plays so many great snaps. So, >> yeah, he’s got all the I mean, he was he he spent the first part of the season this year with the Packers, too, including the last couple. He does have one touchdown reception in 2023. >> Nice. Okay. Um, so and also I’m trying to pull this up here. Plays plays plays because he wasn’t really starting being featured until lately. Can’t find how many plays he’s been in off off I know. I can find this event. >> Oh, like how many snaps he’s been part of. >> Snaps because right now he’s played in 14. He’s played in 38 snaps in Minnesota, but I think a lot of those have come um in the last like two weeks. >> Yeah. >> In those 13 personnel >> because they’re running 13 personnel because they’re listening to >> right >> to the Dexter. [cheering] >> Ballnar. >> Balln or Dex. Okay. My second prediction. >> Write this down. I’m going to say, well, this is probably kind of a a gimme at this point, but I’m going to say Jackson Dart can uh goes into the blue tent at some point during this game. Again, Jackson Dart, this is not anywhere close to a difficult prediction because I think he’s been in the blue tent every game or close to every game, but he will continue that blue tent hangout sesh. Uh Jackson Dart will will be spotted going into the blue tent at some point during this game. Write it down. >> Write this down. Which brings us back over to Blaine for your third and final prediction. >> So, I will be at the game this weekend with a bunch of Giants fans and we were just talking about Jackson Dart and how he needs to stop using his head as a battering ram [laughter] because they’re getting very concerned. But Addison kind of ruined my prediction last week without having I was going to do something about his drops and he didn’t have one. So now I’m gonna add Justin to it. So write this down. Addison and Justin Jefferson will not record a drop against the Giants. Okay. Yeah. I mean, Jordan Addison, is it eight now? Seven. He He definitely tied his previous career total like a week ago in drops. I don’t know. I don’t think he was given one against Dallas, but he did have one against the Commander. So, love it, man. Blake, great work with your predictions. Go going to rep the Vikings uh in the is it the new what do we call it? Metife stadium. It’s not the Metalland. >> Yeah, Metife Stadium. >> Yeah, Metife. >> Okay. >> Still Metife. Yeah. Since you’ve got this particular platform here, this lifechanging platform, is there anyone Blaine you’d like to thank or shout out right now? >> Yeah, love to thank my wife. She listens to me talk about the Vikings all the time, even though she might not want to. She unfortunately has turned into an Eagles fan since being here, but she has started to like football more, so she’s more likely to have, you know, have those conversations and stuff. Does she ever throw like uh just completely full cans of beer at your head in moments of anger or is that >> not like that? No, she’s not that intense. Yeah, luckily. >> That might start coming soon though. >> But she It’s funny because like I’ll be watching a game. I think it was the Buffalo game specifically a couple years ago and I like freaked out when they scored like that end of the and she was like, “You need to calm down. Stop doing that.” >> That’s her calling right now. >> Yeah. >> You need to calm down. >> Stop doing that. Like you know, like you’ll have to watch it somewhere else. So now that she’s a Eagles fan watching the game, like every patch she’s like freaking out. I’ll be like, “Oh, do you need to go somewhere and like watch it somewhere else because you’re kind of freaking out a bit. It’s a little harder.” Um, I’d love to thank my parents. You know, they got me they every time the Eagles and the Vikings would play in Philadelphia, we would go to every game. Never wore my Viking stuff for obvious reasons, but >> yeah, careful. >> Was always there. Um, and I’d like to thank my I’m a physical therapist. I would love to thank all my employees. We all talk football all the time. Vikings, Eagles, and my patients, we talk trash back and forth constantly about Vikings and Eagles stuff. >> Love that, man. >> By the way, you’ve you’ve kind of landed on to bring it full circle with the Cunningham stuff. I think the trick is if you are an opposing fan, Vikings fan, going to like an Eagles game, hostile territory, where they might actually physically assault you. No joke. >> The key is to wear an Eagles jersey of a Vikings player. So, like if you had a Randle Cunningham Eagles jersey, a Chris Carter Eagles jersey, there’s a bunch of other examples. Then you can kind of sit there secretly, you know, repping your team, but not risk getting physically accosted inside the stadium or outside. >> It’s funny because everyone ends up knowing I’m a Vikings fan anyway by the end of the game because very hard to hold him. Whenever they play in Philly, it never seems to go well. So, I’m like, damn it. And then I’ll be like, oh no, >> I’m color blind. I’m sorry. I don’t know what’s happening out there. I think it was the one with uh Bradford and when they had when they were five and0 and they lost and they kept having like the one yard line. I mean the uh the one like fourth and inches and they kept I just kept throwing my hands up and everyone’s like why are you doing that? >> No reason. >> Aren’t you? Yeah. I don’t uh just a little itchy. I don’t know. It’s uh trying to reason at all. >> Love it, man. Blaine, great stuff and hopefully we can do it again sometime. Happy holidays to you and enjoy the game this weekend. >> All right. Thanks, guys. Happy holidays. guest listener predictor Blaine. We’ll get to Jud’s third prediction via satellite. We’ll get to a quarterback cesspool challenge coming up here. 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I think he’s going to get paid. I don’t think he’s going to break the bank, but he’s really fit in nicely and had a really nice season. Uh Jordan could be traded. Jordan’s also on his rookie contract. he can be brought back along with Jaylen. Uh, and I think that you can make that work. There’s going to be some salary cap maneuvering done by the Vikings, but Naylor has shown a lot. I think he stays here. Found a good situation. And so, Jaylen Naylor remains with the Vikings in 2026. >> Okay. >> So, uh, we’re going to get to a quarterback cesspool challenge here after you and I make our final predictions. Now, a little bit on us, but also a little bit on Jud. Jud did not prep a quarterback cesspool pick. >> Yeah. So, I I was going to bring this up to you before the show. Totally forgot to. >> Yeah. >> So, the the good news is he I’ll spoil it. He’s going to pick last this week based on last week’s results. >> So, you and you and I can pick ours and then he can he has until for all I care like Sunday to make a pick. >> Okay. >> If that works for you. >> It does work. Uh he also is claiming he wants to come on and make the pick with us. >> Oh, okay. Should we do that? >> Yeah. >> Okay. He’s gonna he’s gonna he’s going to join us. He’s in a good state from what I’ I’ve [laughter] asked I asked him. I was like, “Are are you sure you want to do this?” And he said, “Yeah, shoot me the link.” >> So, >> oh gosh. >> We’ll see how this goes. >> We’re going to see. We’re going to see. >> Oh my god. This could be this could be this could be one of the best moments of Purple Daily or or maybe a self-sabotaging. I I don’t know. I don’t know. And I’m sure our audience too is like >> I should have sent Yeah. Okay. Okay. Well, there he is. Okay. Okay. >> On. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Gentlemen, >> how we doing? How are we doing? >> We’re doing good. We’re doing good. Early morning colonoscopy. Now, this we wanted that to be your news to share. So, we didn’t say you had a well a well- earned day off. Yeah. >> No, no, no. I had to go get [laughter] >> You got the hospital band on. >> Hospital wrist is on. Wristband. Um um not knocked out, but uh I was told I was going to get fentanyl, which I guess I did. I I don’t don’t really get the attraction to that drug. Like I’m just sort of like I’m not like drugged up. I’m just like sort of dazed. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Like what’s the >> So you don’t see yourself uh falling into like a spiral. >> I don’t get the excitement. I don’t get the excitement. I I there’s so much hype. I just don’t understand it. >> What’s the What’s the other one? Uh it starts with the P that they give you. Pro >> Prozac. >> No, no, no, no. For your colonoscopy. Oh, >> my my ironically my sister was one telling me about it. Po propherol. Proferol. I forget what it is. It’s >> Oh, yeah. >> It’s something it’s something like it’s it’s like a like a drug to help the procedure go a lot better and not as >> Oh, and this definitely helps. I’m I’m just saying like I would not be like going back to to the hospital to try to steal from their pharmacy because I was like, “This is [laughter] so great. I am I’m in love with this drug. Who can get me more of this drug?” That’s all I’m saying. So, we just played your third prediction, so you’re uh you’re you’re good on the predictions. Dex and I are going to make our final two, and then we’ll get into the quarterback pool challenge, and then we can send you off uh to do whatever you want. I You going to take a nap or you going to hang out today? What’s your What’s your game plan today? >> Let’s wait and see. Let’s wait and see. I I will say this, easily the worst part was the prep. >> Yeah. What time did you have to start the How was it like 24 hours or >> uh 6 PM last night and and you got to drink eight 8 oz glasses of the stuff. Then the worst part though was my appointment was at 7:40. So I had to get up starting at 2:30 and and do it again every 10 minutes. >> Okay. >> So like I couldn’t get sleep. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. So you’re like Yeah. So you’re kind of drugged. You’re also just kind of sleepd deprived. >> I’m a little sleepd deprived. The um the only thing though is so I’ I’ve heard horror stories about the actual stuff that you drink. Like it’s awful. It tastes awful. >> It’s fine. The problem is you have to drink so much of it. But I mean I don’t want to drink that much water, but it’s like I had heard this stuff is terrible. I have had worse bad beers >> than this stuff. >> Okay. >> Like a skunky beer is way worse than this. >> Yeah. like a like a four months expired Keystone Light or something. >> Well, well, back in my day, there were some beers that I obtained before I was 21 and I was just happy to have a beer and it was awful. It was worse than this. >> Duffs. Isn’t that Wasn’t that the Simpsons beer? Do >> Yeah. >> I think uh the first beer I was ever handed by my uncle, a red dog. >> Oh, yeah. Red dog is >> Where the big dogs at? I mean, I suck. We The term dog water is one thing and and red dog is certainly that. >> It lived up to it. Write this down. >> Oh boy. Oh boy. >> Uh we’re back to Dex for your third and final prediction here. >> Last prediction for me. Uh write this down. So the spread in this game, Vikings are favorites, but just two and a half point favorites in New York as of this recording. Uh so write this down. The Vikings win by double digits or more. >> 10 or more points. >> Snipe. You kind of sniped me there a little bit >> against the Giants. >> Okay, so posit positive Phil >> had Vikings by by two touchdowns or more in this game. >> So positive Phil is going to pivot. Last week he told you that the Vikings, despite being near touchdown underdogs, would have a double-digit lead against the Cowboys at some point and they did. I’m going to one up it and say the Vikings will have a double- digit lead in the first half. write this down >> against the uh per Jud disinterested potentially New York Giants. If this was the Commanders, you’d get a full fight, but it’s the Giants. Different story. So, we’ll see what happens on Sunday. Uh, okay. Since Jud’s here, Jud is here against all odds. [screaming] >> After a nice morning of probing >> and poking, >> here’s the quarterback cesspool challenge layout. If if you’re new, by the way, if you’re new here, click that subscribe button. Click that like button. Welcome to the Purple Daily family here. 365 days a year of Vikings discussions, speculation, and uh we’re also celebrating tomorrow night. I should mention this, too. Uh 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Padres’s in Northeast Minneapolis. We are going to be uh having our next Purple Daily Unplugged event, ugly sweater edition, open to the public. Come on in. We’ll be podcasting. Thor’s going to be in the house as well. We can talk about JJ McCarthy and whatever else you guys want. Bring your ugly holiday sweaters, your ugly Vikings gear, and join us at Northeast Minneapolis Padres’s uh tomorrow for the next Proply Unplugged. So, the quarterback success pool challenge is a weekly celebration of bad quarterback play in the league. Each member of the show drafts a quarterback each week that we think is going to be crappy. Once you select that quarterback, you can’t select him again the rest of the season. So, there’s some strategy and all of us have to pick different quarterbacks each week. The scoring is on a 0 to 100 uh ESPN QBR basis. So low score is what we’re looking for. And last week, >> yeah, >> all of us kind of got burned, but Jud got burned the least. You pick up the weekly victory with Philip Rivers of 52 and a half QBR. [applause] >> I can’t Okay. I I looked at his QBR and just assumed I was toast. >> Yeah. I mean, it’s a it if that’s like the leader in the clubhouse score, you’d be a little nervous knowing that I had Jacobe Brassette, Declan had Kurt Cousins. You edge Jacobe Brassette by.3 52.8 QBR and then old Kirky boy >> sticking the dagger in 64.8 QBR. The worst quarterback in week 15 was Kenny Picket with a 6.2 QBR. So with that on the season, Jud picks up his fourth weekly win. Dex has two. I have nine. And the uh we have three weeks left in the in the season here. I have a 35 seasonl long QBR. Jud 45.9, Dex 47. And we pick in reverse order of last week’s standings. So Jud, you’re actually going to bat cleanup here. It’ll be Declan, myself, and then Jud will bat third. I’ll pop up the list for the YouTube audience of quarterbacks that all of us have picked so far. this season. >> Okay. Okay. So, uh, by the way, I don’t think I’m going to pick him because it just feels like a classic bounceback game and he’s playing, uh, a bad defense, but Tua has been benched. >> Oh, that’s official. >> That’s official. >> Is it? >> Yep. >> Quinn Us is going to start. >> Oh, okay. >> Okay. I’m I’m going to ask slightly drugged up Jud. Now that you know Tua and the Dolphins have had a falling out, would you buy low on Tua as insurance for JJ McCarthy? >> No, I don’t think I would. >> It’s too much money to pick up. >> It’s It’s a lot of money and I just I don’t know. There’s something about him that’s I don’t know. >> I don’t think I would want him in my >> back in the same room together or back in the same locker room together. >> I don’t think I would want him in my >> Oh, that would be [laughter] >> Oh, floors might be out of here anyway, but yeah, that would be good. >> Oh, man. I would pay money for that to happen. >> Me, too. Me, too. Uh, so between a couple picks here, but you know what? I haven’t taken him and I feel like he’s going to get flustered. I’ll take Jackson Dart. >> Yeah, >> I’ll take Jackson. I I don’t think I have P. I don’t know if I have picked. >> Will he last the whole game? >> Maybe Dylan. Not Dylan Gabriel. I don’t think uh Oh, no. Uh Jake Browning. I took Jake Browning on when Sunny was born. Um when he played the Vikings. So that was the only other time I took a quarterback playing >> Oh. against the Vikings. >> Against the Vikings. Um so yeah, I’ll take Jackson Dart. I’ll take Jackson Dart here. >> Yeah, it’s there’s a good chance he gets confused and they don’t have a ton of great playmakers to to balance it out. So feels like a pretty pretty safe pick there. And like Jud said, you might he might be bad early and then like hit the blue tent and not come back and now he’s posted a bad score for you. So uh okay, he was definitely on my big board. the other two on my big board. You know what? I can talk this out loud cuz >> Yeah, >> it doesn’t mean Jud will pick whoever he’s going to pick. I do have Philip Rivers against the Niners on Monday night on my big board, but >> I did too. >> He was like he played in Seattle first time in 5 years and he did he didn’t like light the he didn’t light up for 250 or 300 yards or anything, but he was like a steady game manager who avoided the big mistake. So, I’m going to I’m going to play my Shadur Sanders card here. He’s been so bad. I’m the only one that hasn’t used Shadur Sanders, and I’m worried that if I wait another week, it’s going to be >> it’s going to be too late. >> Mhm. >> Uh, by the way, I forgot to uh I I’m noticing here that the week 15 quarterbacks, I forgot to update this for the YouTube audience, but like it’s updated in front of me here. Yep. So, I will take Shadur Sanders against the Buffalo Bills and play my Shadur Sanders card, which brings us to Jud. Colonoscopy Jud with the hospital band on. >> Yeah. And fentanyl courarssing through my veins. Uh, do we know if Kenny Picket is uh is starting again? I’ve tried to find that and I can’t. >> I don’t think it’s been determined. It’s either him or Gino. >> I can’t I’ve used in fact to much success I used Gino Smith to a 7.7. So, I can’t complain about that. >> Yeah. >> Um, all right. Well, you know what? It’s I’ve gotten to the point now where I’ve used a lot of bad QBs and I feel like I could take a risk and take a a decent QB and hope he fails. Uh, >> well, there’s one there’s I don’t know if >> there’s one going against the Titans that wouldn’t normally be. Yeah. Yeah. >> There’s one going against the Titans, but that’s what sort of concerns me is can guard is Gardenner Mchu going to be terrible against the Titans? I mean, he might be, but uh I’ll take him. Gardner Menchu. >> Yeah, I think I feel like you have to. It’s It’s the right thing to do. >> I wish he was just playing a team that was not just absolutely awful. >> Yeah, >> like just a middling team. But, uh yeah, >> cuz the problem is like if you wait, you might cuz neither one of us has selected him either. And it’s likely that you wouldn’t get a chance to pick him if this is maybe your only chance. >> Yeah. Yeah. I’ll take it. It’s the old deathbed test we talked about yesterday. >> Death bed. Yeah. >> Are you going to regret you’re going to regret the time that you didn’t take Gardner Mchu and he threw four interceptions against the Titans? You know, >> poor Gardner, too. He probably thought, I’m going to sign with one last team. I’ll never have to play again. Like, I’m just going to collect a paycheck. I’ll never have to play again. >> I don’t know, man. He He has those Uncle Rico vibes. I think he I think he loves to still think he’s QB1. So, you know, if coach puts me in in 82, we win state, you know, like he’s he’s got that mindset for every every single team he plays for. He uh he’s the like the short memory closer guy. Doesn’t matter how terrible he looked on the last drive, he thinks he’s going 98 yards. >> Twins. Can he can he close? >> Can he pitch? >> Oh god. >> I mean, if he can pitch. >> Wow. Great work rallying here. What time? It’s like we’re It’s like 9:30 in the morning. What time were you at the hospital this morning? >> My Well, I was there at 7:15. My appointment was at 7:40. And I’ll say this, they were quick. I was going to say, >> dude, that is super efficient. >> It was efficient. Great doctor. Real good guy. The nurses were great. >> What are they? >> Good here. >> Very patient. Very patient with me. Very patient with the rest of the uh clientele as well. So, >> love it. >> Oh, did they like line they have like a lineup? Were you like with five other clientele? All of you like holding hands together while >> there was a No, there there was a uh there was a decent amount of people actually by about 7:15 waiting. And I’m guessing that we were all going for the same thing, but I’m not quite sure. Um, I did feel for the first time in a long time, I felt very young, though. >> I I there might have been one other guy about my age, and after that it was probably all late 60s, early7s. >> Okay. Well, you’re being proactive, younger than they are. >> The one do you >> Yeah. >> No, go ahead. Oh, I I was going to say the one fun thing is when you’re told to go wait, if you sit close enough to the station where they check people in, it’s really interesting to hear birth dates cuz cuz you’re like that person looks really really old. And then it’s like ah 1959. I like you were 10 years old when I was born. Oh my god, you’re not that old. Wait, I’m old. >> Wait, Philip Rivers, is that you? >> Yeah, Philip. Yeah, there was like a 1947. I’m like, “That’s impressive, dude.” >> Oh, man. Can’t believe you’re still alive, huh, Lair? >> Yeah. Well, they told me, “You’ll you’ll like this.” So, fortunately, the procedure went great and and they’re they’re like, “Oh, this is fantastic. You did really well. We’ll see you in 10 years for your next colonoscopy.” And I thought to myself, maybe >> Oh, you’re Well, wait. Two things. One, >> I mean, that’s celebrating if you’re you want to still be alive. Like, that’s right. >> Right. Right. But I’m just saying >> I feel like it should be every like 3 to 5 years once you get in your face. >> I had no polyps which is really good. >> So there’s no like precancerous concerns but I mean and look I’m not saying it’s just they say it with such confidence. >> Yeah. >> See you in 10 years. >> Well they’re being optimistic. >> Yeah. Jud Judge theory. No it’s it’s your theory. It’s your your 50th birthday theory. >> Yeah. Yeah. You get to don’t assume 60. >> Don’t assume 60. So I I think this is on par. I’m not looking for like I’m not looking for like well we’d see you in 10 years but you’ll probably be dead because that’s not true. But you know I was just looking for like a it’s not like I went for my like my first dentist appointment and I’m you know like three years old or two years old. I don’t even know when you go you know then it’s like we we’ll see you next time for sure or in like 10 years we’ll see you for sure because you’ll be they should put the word hopefully on the end of that like pause it. We’ll see you in 10 years. >> Best hopefully. >> Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Comma. Hopefully. >> Uh, would you like to stick around for a mock real quick? >> Yeah, sure. Of course. >> Okay. >> There’s a fun one out from PFF here. Presented in part by Standard Heating and Air Conditioning. >> Yes. Yes. Go contact Standard Heating. Uh, shout out to Standard Heating. They’ve made my home uh a reality. They helped out make sure that furnace was in check when I was doing the inspection. So, that also was was a great piece of mind to have. Uh, you can join their smart club, too. And now uh through February 15th, standard heating has special savings on comfort across that make a huge difference like home humidifiers to fight that dry air. UV light to help indoor air cleaner. 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And then before we mock here, uh Roku TV is your home for sports, entertainment, even like this time of year. I’ve been telling you guys about the music recommendations. Let’s We’re got having some people over. Uh what can we put on? Oh, boom. open up the Roku menu and there’s a Ulog channel, there’s like a Christmas jazz channel, all these things they’re recommending >> [snorts] >> uh through the Roku menu and uh and it’s just a great place to figure out what channel or platform sporting events are on now, too. All these leagues are partnering with different streaming platforms. I don’t know what channel or what platform things are on, and I do this for a living. Better TV for everyone with Roku, America’s number one streaming platform. Go to roku.com to learn more or shop at a retailer near you. >> I want A MOCK. [screaming] >> OKAY, BOYS. >> PF has a new mock out here and I think I think you guys are going to well I think you’re going to like this but have some questions. So, once again, the top mockers are coming out aggressively with trades. Just right out of the gate, let’s do the right thing and let’s put some trades in here. You’ve turned a corner in this and I love this corner. >> So, PFF has the Jets moving up to number one for Fernando Mendoza. >> Yep. >> Fernando. >> Uh, and then Dante Moore, quarterback Oregon goes to the Raiders. And then there’s a bunch of other things happening here that will spare you. You can you can check it out if you want to. And uh with the 12th overall pick on the clock here, the Minnesota Vikings select wake up the Echos out of Notre Dame. Running back Jeremiah Love, the best and most explosive running back in all of college football right now. Heisman Trophy finalist. Uh PFF says the Vikings continue to evaluate whether JJ McCarthy is a long-term answer at quarterback. They can ease some of that burden by adding an elite running back prospect in Jeremiah Love. He’s put up a 95.2 PFF grade since 2024, the highest among all running backs in that span, including Ashton Genty’s monstrous season last year. >> Mhm. >> So, Jeremiah Love to the Vikings at number 12. >> I want TO MOCK. [screaming] >> I MEAN, I’m in. I I don’t know if KC is going to use him properly well enough, but I’m in. I feel like if if you took him, and this is just a hypothetical because I don’t trust him, but I feel like if you took him that you would be committing to more of the offensive scheme that we’ve been talking about, right? >> The last two weeks. Yeah. The last two weeks it’s like, “Oh, he’d fit in perfectly.” >> Yeah. So, I mean, I don’t see you taking him and then saying, “Oh, but by the way, I run my offense now.” I it has happened with JJ to a certain degree but um I would be heartened if they took him because I think they would use him correctly and if they used him correctly that would also mean if McCarthy starting he’s used correctly. And I I’ll add something here too. So Brett Coleman who has built he’s one of the the big uh NFL film breakdown YouTube guys. He’s got a couple different big YouTube channels. Uh Brett Coleman K ln >> and he tweeted something interesting last night. offensive line sets the floor for a running game. The running back sets the ceiling. He says these teams already have the floor mostly in place for a good running game and they make the most sense for Jeremiah Love to go to. Number one, the Chiefs. Like imagine the Chiefs adding an explosive running back to that offense. >> Yes. >> Number two, Vikings, he says. And if you think like the Vikings are like tenth in yards per attempt and they run the ball pretty well, but they rarely have chunk runs over like 20 or 30 yards. And there’s been a couple times in recent weeks where boom, a run breaks the second level. And Aaron Jones and Jordan Mason just don’t really have a shot to to break it to the house like Dvin Cook and his primer or Adrian that. So the Vikings ceiling in the running game is capped at like if you block it perfectly, it’s like a nice little 20 yard run, 25 yard run. But if you had a guy that could blow right through all of it, 60 yard call, that’s Jeremiah Love. So I find that an interesting evaluation from Brett Coleman. >> That’s a great one. And especially if you’re patient, like on Sunday, I’ll go back to the Cowboys game, right? Because if you’re patient, if if you have a guy like Jeremiah Love and you’re patient and it you don’t get off to a great start, but you just stick with it, that’s where he breaks a a huge touchdown run or something like that. >> Yeah. So, there it is. Jeremiah Love, he’s officially a Viking. >> No need to even do the draft. >> Thor’s all in. I know that. >> Yeah. Which I know some people are going to say, well, he was all in on McCarthy. Well, McCarthy’s playing pretty damn well the last two weeks, too. You can come to Padres’s and tell Thor to his face what you think about JJ McCarthy tomorrow night. >> And the thing I appreciate about Thor though is is like I I know he has been and remains all in on JJ, but his overall knowledge of prospects. >> Oh my god. >> Like and he’s not all in on all prospects. It’s not like he loves every player, but like just doing the uh doing the football take show with him yesterday, I mean, it’s crazy. I’m telling you, I texted you guys this last night. So, I in the background, I I produced the uh last night’s Football Takes live stream, Scorn North Football Takes YouTube channel, Apple, Spotify, where we’re just we’re we’re putting a bunch of just NFL college uh draft related football stuff out to you guys. >> It’s a buffet of football content. and Thor did he’s brought this show that he used to do on Twitter spaces, this college props kind of preview show with um two guys, Matt uh Mike Bainbridge and Eric Fronton from NBC Sports. Over an hour last night of those guys breaking down the various angles and props and things to bet on for every College game this week up to the Alabama Oklahoma first playoff game. Like they’re literally doing 12minute dives on Old Dominion’s depth. That’s the degree to which Thor and some of his buddies know college football and draft and prospects >> and you might and you might not care about the teams, but the cool thing is the prospects then like like that’s the thing his his depth of knowledge on the prospects like because you know every team might have a guy, right? And like they know those guys and it’s >> Yeah. Thor basically I I think what we’ve done is I think we’ve signed a Pro Bowl left tackle. >> Yeah. Put a quarter in him. Just put him on an island against the edge rusher. >> Exactly. Right. >> Let him let him talk draft. >> Exactly right. And he’s like a 10year 12year Pro Bowl left alle. >> Yeah. All right. Jud, what a warrior coming in with the hospital band still on. Still hopped up on some drugs. >> Yeah. Exactly. But good enough to to make a quarterback cesspool prediction and have some Jeremiah low take. So >> now I can eat. >> You want to come to the lunchon today? >> I can return to eating. No, you know what? Can’t drive. >> Okay. Well, we could >> probably can’t drive. So unless I can get Now if the company wants to send the limo to my house, I’m all in. >> Maybe the maybe the copter will send the copter over. >> What if the copter came and landed in my front yard? >> Just keep keep the hospital band on while you run over to the chopper. Get to the chopper. Let’s go. >> All right. Uh we uh we will see you for a Thursday episode tomorrow and hopefully uh as many of you as can make it tomorrow night to Padres’s in Northeast Minneapolis. Come on out, hang out with us, talk some Vikings and uh participate in our Purple Daily Unplugged podcast. And for the sports dad, for the real dad, and for the dog dad, we just want the Vikings to win a Super Bowl before Judies.

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