Minnesota Vikings predictions vs. Seattle Seahawks: Max Brosmer, Sam Darnold and more

Minnesota Vikings predictions vs. Seattle Seahawks: Max Brosmer, Sam Darnold 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. All right. Got the sports dad back in the house here. It is a Wednesday, which means it’s time for us to show you how wrong we are when we make predictions. Break this down. the only show in America that has the what’s funny is there is a lot or maybe it’s not funny there’s a lot of uh JJ McCarthy positive predictions out there a lot by the listeners too by the way combing through some of the accountabilities we’re going to start to take some of those off because like if you predicted he was going to throw for 4,000 yards I think uh we can probably start to take those off the board but uh we don’t run away from it we we’ll show you exactly how wrong we are every single Wednesday on Write that down here before we get to how this all works. 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And listeners, if you want to be like Lindsay and make guest predictions, you can send Declan a message through the Score North app and we’ll get you scheduled for sometime hopefully in like uh Q1 of 2026. The season runs from Super Bowl to Super Bowl, by the way. Uh, so there’s I don’t know a couple months left here. Two and a half months left for us to to do some work. So we’ll start with Jud. Why don’t you step up to the accountability podium here? Don’t love it. You said the Vikings defense would have an interception against the Packers. It’s remarkable. What is this now? Five consecutive games. I mean, yeah. Can we get a turnover? I mean, can we get a turnover one time? Yeah. Is it too much to ask? Yes. It’s ridiculous. I know that they kind of it’s hard it’s hard to predict, but with this defense and the way that they give you different looks and exotic blitzes, I mean, it’s exactly if you’re not getting home with takeaways and sacks, you’re getting torched. Whoops. Let me go back here. Uh the Vikings, you said the Vikings, it’s more red over here. Yeah. Okay. Well, we keep going with Judy. Uh you said on the second play of the the Vikings would go no huddle basically right away on their first drive and continue. Yep. So as you’ll see with with Declan’s accountability you So you’re wrong on this. They did not go no huddle on the second play of the game. Correct. But I’ll get back to that in a second. Uh the Commanders will win the NFC East uh East. I don’t know if mathematically they are eliminated but it’s fine. I would start taking some let’s start to take stuff off like that. I I pref I prefer that play under protest because if you don’t it’s going to be like at the end of the season it’s going to be like three pages of red for Jud. That that was my Well, and I started I started taking JJ McCarthy predictions off for the listeners too as you’ll see. It’s like good call. Yeah, we’ll we’ll spread the hit on that one. Yeah. Yeah. We’re gonna we’re gonna go ahead and take that commander prediction off and why don’t you go ahead and take the McCarthy predictions off as well. You said Shadur Sanders would start two or more games for the Browns. Well, unless he steps in a pothole on Friday, he’s Kevin Kevin Stfansky’s postgame speech barely mentioning Shadur might be one of my favorite hate things of all time. Yeah. And you’ll find out why in the quarterback cesspool challenge later. Maybe he didn’t think so highly of that performance. And then we’re going to highlight this one. It doesn’t come off the board, but it’s funny cuz you said Miles Price would not fumble a kickoff return for the rest of the season. Okay. I think the punt return muff like where it bounced out. I think that’s a fumble classified, but it was a punt and you said kickoff. Yep. So, what you’re saying is by the hair of my chinny chin chin, I escaped. Exactly. That being in red. Okay. So, a bad week for me. I said the Vikings defense would combine for at least five sacks, interceptions, fumbles, blah blah blah. I said the Vik a Viking would do a Lambo leap on Sunday. Will Riker should have done one after that 59yd field goal. That would have been awesome. Just run all the way down. Yeah, absolutely. Hell yeah. Be great. Uh JJ McCarthy will finish the season with more passing yards than Caleb Williams. These are the ones we’re starting to take off the board. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don’t think it’s Yeah. Uh Quy will win NFL executive of the year. What do you mean? We won’t find out for a few more months, but yeah, good call. I totally endorse this idea. I love this. Yes, this is way better. And you know what? These clowns, these Minnesota Vikings, the decision makers, the quarterback who can’t complete a pass, who’ve let everyone down, who’ve damaged our credibility giving takes on this show. It’s not our fault. That’s their fault for damaging our credibility. Yeah, they don’t deserve for these to stay on the board. We expected them to do their job and they couldn’t live up to the pressure of our expectations. You know, that’s always been my thing. It’s why I picked teams to win cuz cuz then I can dump on them worse. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Uh and then well, this one doesn’t come off the board here, but it’s a lot closer than I maybe thought it would be. I this was more of a career prediction, but I said Max Bromer will throw a regular season NFL touchdown pass at some point in his career. This was like in the summertime or training camp. And boy, we’re we might get there this weekend. But knowing how this offense has been operating, maybe not. I don’t know. We’ll see. Okay, listeners. Yep. Yep. Strap in here. I see you. So Joel said JJ McCarthy would not throw an interception against the Packers. Aaron said McCarth I think this was against the Bears here. He said McCarthy over 237 against the Bears and then Cowardd would praise him for being a system quarterback. Neither one of those things happened. Uh Brady said in 2025 McCarthy would throw for at least 3,776 yards, 30 or more TUDs, and a passer rating of 100.2 or higher. basically eclipsing all of the 2024 quarterback class guys from last it it ain’t going to happen. Uh McCarthy will throw a touchdown pass in at least 18 different games. Adrian Matt said McCarthy will throw for at least 3500 yards. Tony said he’d throw for over 4,200 yards. Brian said over 4,000 yard. So, I mean, unless he wants to throw for 2,000 yards in a game, mathematically, those aren’t going to happen. And then our guy McQueen, he made four predictions a few weeks ago. He’s three for three with one pending. He said the Vikings would lose their This is like starting with the Chargers game. Y the Vikings would lose their next two games and or lose three of their next five games. That happened. Plenty of clearance for that one. Uh Dex, we’ll start with the bad. You said the Vikings would cover the 6 and a2. They couldn’t even score six and a half. Yeah, let’s say. You said JJ McCarthy would have at least 3,000 passing yards by last week. This one technically could still happen. You said JJ McCarthy won’t crack Steven Ruiz’s top 20 quarterback rankings until at least November 1st, which means between November 1st and the end of the year. If he cracks the top 20, then uh you would lose this. But he ain’t cracking the top 20. So, all right. I think I’m right on this. So, you you said he won’t crack the top 20, correct? Until at least November 1st. So you’re leaving a window from November 1st through the end of the year. Yeah. To Yep. crack the top 20. He was outside. So my the spirit of this was he started like at 32 like I think to start the year and then I think after week one I made this prediction is when I when I did it and basically was saying all right he’s going to play well. That was my thought. and he’s still gonna be crapping on him and he won’t get into the top 20 at all like through the through from from then through at least November 1st. Yeah. And Yeah. Yeah. Naga naga ner. And then you said so this is where this is where Jud got a little bit screwed with the way that you phrased your prediction. So Declan said the Vikings will run no huddle at some point against the Packers in plus territory specifically. Yep. and not because of the clock. It’s kind of a we’ll know it when we see it. Well, they did run no huddle like at the end of the first half and when they were trailing in the fourth quarter, but when uh when the Purple Daily film review department went in and looked at the game all 22 style, the Vikings ran one no huddle play. I think it was after the Jefferson completion on the first drive at the Packers 34. They did not huddle after that play. Okay. Uh, so it Jud said they would run no huddle out of the gate on the first drive. So you’re wrong. Yep. But Dex gets the point because technically it was a no huddle play on the first drive. Yep. The spirit of my Yeah. And the spirit of my prediction was totally different. So So like it was it was worded like I wanted cuz I thought that starting with the second play because Tempo would work so well against the Bears at the end that they would replicate it for for a while. Um but they didn’t. So I am completely comfortable with this loss of a point and and Dex was right. Nothing off the board for for age. And so here’s where we’re at. I know a couple months, two months and change left in the season. I’m at 41.8% completions and lead with 10 touchdowns. Jud 36.2% with nine touchdowns. And then this is kind of crazy mathematically. listeners. Declan and AJ all at 33.3% completions with varying amounts of touchdowns. Career stats going back a few years. Declan a top the completion percentage list 36.3%. And then listeners and myself tied with 67 touchdowns in that category. So there’s your accountability session here. Write this down. Let’s get uh our guy Lindsay in here to make his debut. Hey guys, how to write that down. What’s going on, Lindsay? Just hanging out. Getting hanging around. Getting ready to head out in the tundra after this, I guess. So, yeah, we got some nice little snow shoveling. Yeah, I think we got about six, seven inches here. So, where are you at? Fargo. Okay. Okay. Different kind of different kind of snow last night. Probably it’s the uh it’s the icy kind of wet heavy mix here in this in this. That’s what I have at least over here in the Yeah, that’s how I start here. I think we probably got a/2 inch of rain and kind of destroyed everything. So, this is where we’re at with the Vikings now. It’s like we’re just stalling by talking about the weather. That wind is something today, guys. I’m not sure about you guys, but the wind is howling. It really is. Those wind chills are like 10 to 15° here. I’m sure glad the Vikings don’t play outdoors, huh? It looks like the snow is let up and it it should kind of clear up. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It’s improving. The uh the becoming your parents commercials from Progressive. I I I am the guy like just geeking out, super excited about the weather. Oh man, we’re gonna Oh, and my wife just she just rolls her eyes like what did I what did I marry? You are 30. You’re going to be 33 in a couple weeks and and you are 64 years old with your New Balance and cargo shorts just ready to rock essentially. All right, team. Dude, Jeremiah makes fun of New Balance on O line committee. I think New Balance is making a comeback. They got Show Otani. I said that’s Otani. Yeah, Hoka. Hoka is the new New Balance. That’s the dad shoe is Hoka. Okay. Hoka 100%. As a new time dad, I can uh I can agree. Lindsay’s like, I got six pair. It’s great. All right. Well, that’s a wrap on Purple Daily here, guys. We’ll uh see you tomorrow. It won’t snow for a week. Write that down. That’s That’s a wrap. Uh roll the credits. So, Lindsay, give us your background as a Vikings fan, man. How’d you get hooked? When did you get hooked? Uh, I’m not sure really on the year or whatever, but uh I guess back in the day as a we lad uh my family uh some of my family I guess was neighbors with the Klein Saucers up in Carrington. And uh Cool. Yeah, pretty cool. And uh I wouldn’t say every Sunday, but for about two or three years there, we’d go up there probably every other Sunday and watch football with their family and run around and get beat up and stuff. So that that’s kind of how I got hooked on the Vikings, I guess. It’s been a long road since, but yeah, I don’t know. That’s kind of cool. I guess that’s how I got hooked on it. Yeah. Yeah. Jim Klein saucer. One of the Klein saucers were tough, man. The Klein Saucers weren’t messing around. Even their 5-year-old nephews, you know, they were tackling me and stuff. Fullbacks. Exactly. Exactly. Fully bearded at age five. Lead blocking for mom. Neck rolls. Neck rolls into bed. That’s how they in fact in the crib. That’s how you prevent the the Klein saucer babies from rolling over. Just put a big neck roll on them. Um, well, if you’re ready to make some predictions here, Lindsay, we’ll start with you. We’ll go around the room three times and we’ll all make some predictions. You ready? Abs. Absolutely. All right. Write this down. Fire away. All right. Well, I’m going to steal one from you guys. And it was going to be the last one, but now with the week that the Vikings have had and quarterbacks and you guys know how all that works, things are going great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I’m I’m a big parlay guy. My percentage is probably like 3% of hits and then you know like 97 not. So the only way to get your percentages up is just throw more. Right. Right. Unless you’re JJ McCarthy. Uh so uh my first one, write that down. Is uh Max Bromer will have at least 200 or more passing yards, one or more touchdowns, and will not have a pass batted down at the line of scrimmage. And I’m going to take I’m going to take a little QBS challenge uh avenue so I don’t get marked on this. But if JJ McCarthy starts the game for whatever reason, he will not surpass any of those numbers. Okay. So that’s kind of a that’s like a tag at the end of the play. Alert alert alert. If he does start it he can it can can the third row. Way to go. Okay. Write this down, Jud. All right. So, um, the McCarthy predictions of obviously have gone from being incredibly positive in the summer and and week one to being to being still relevant but much more negative. So, let me uh let me hit the first ball, the breakfast ball here. JJ McCarthy won’t be the Vikings starting quarterback to open next season. I think he’ll be on the roster. I do not think he will. I don’t think he will be the starter. Is this are are they going to wind up because he’s only made six starts. It’s going to wind up being in a totally different way a Jordan Love situation where he does wind up mostly sitting for three years. Well, and then it’s either Jordan Love or Tre Lance Phil and I’d prefer the Jordan Love. So, like I mean though those appear to be options positive Phil is getting destroyed and trucked on the internet for just you know just let’s just see what happens. No, no, we must not. And we we should talk about this. I feel like your what you’ve said on the show makes perfect sense and but like when you say give give him a chance I think people quit reading the tweet right there and and they’re like no more chances and it’s like well no he can like like I could if anyone says cut him it’s done. I think you’re an idiot. Like he deserves he deserves to stick around but like you said but like Yes. Yes. He deserves to be on the roster and he probably deserves to be the backup quarterback to start next season. So your Jordan Love, like oppo Jordan Love, I think would be the best case. It would be like if Jordan Love peaked his head out in year two for five or six games. It was awful and got hit by a train, football train, and then they like put him back behind Aaron Rogers or something like let’s just forget that that happened. Correct. which I do think may have happened to Jordan Love because he was actually really raw and in in a I think from a tool standpoint he’s bigger, a little more athletic, whatever. But sure. Um Okay, Declan, your prediction. All right. Yeah, write this down. I’ll I’ll quantify I’ll put my hot take into a prediction. By next week’s Write That Down. Someone on the Vikings is losing their job or will be fired. Okay, someone will be losing their job, be fired. So that includes coaches, front office people. Okay, here here’s the here’s maybe the potential sticky wicket and maybe lawyer chase involved. Oh boy. If Max So let’s I’m going to assume that Max Brosmer starts. Okay, so Max Bromer starts the game. If JJ McCarthy doesn’t play again, would this still count? If if JJ McCarthy I have a hedge and another prediction by the way but but yes like that I I want to include players into this like because I think but you’re saying by next week so what would have to happen here is oh let me take the timeline away. Sure. Well if you put the timeline on it then it wouldn’t we we won’t know if Brosmer is a is a Yeah that’s true all things healthy starting quarterback. That’s true you know. Yeah that’s true too. So it becomes because we won’t really know until like Wednesday or Thursday. You’re basically saying you’re you’re you’re taking your hot take and saying if they lose this game, someone is getting canned. Mhm. But by before the following game. Yeah. But yeah. Well, no, wait a second though, cuz you’re are you you’re saying by this time next week or what do you what’s your timeline? Well, I I originally had it I originally had it as next week’s write that down. I my my spirit of this is once if they’re going to lose this game. By the way, they’re now 11 and a half point dogs in Seattle. Um I’m saying someone is going to be held accountable for this game. Okay, let’s do it. Let’s could I help you craft it this way and say absolutely by uh by like first by kickoff of the following game somebody will have lost their job because then if let’s say they deem let’s say bro plays pretty well but they lose. So JJ McCarthy is clear from concussion protocol. So he is no therefore no longer benched or or inactive because of injury. He is the active backup quarterback to Max Brosmer. then he would have lost his job to Max Brosmer. Yep. Right. Yep. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, end date uh kickoff by the Commanders game. Yeah. Let’s give a little more just let’s create a little more drama later into the week, you know. Uh All right. We’re all kind of following the same. Down. Again, I don’t uh if your goal is to win a Super Bowl as a franchise, I don’t know that either one of these players helps you get there. Uh, but if you’re looking for something better than like a 57 passer rating, which I think the Vikings are going to be looking for, write this down. Aaron Rodgers or M. Jones will be a Viking by week one of 2026. Aaron Rogers or Mac. Jones will be a Viking by week one of 2026. I brought up the the I say Aaron Aaron Rogers. Aaron Rogers. Is that what I said? Aaron Rogers. Magning. I wrote down Aaron Rogers, so I wasn’t gonna I wasn’t gonna ding you there, but Aaron Jones or Matt Rogers, it’s binding. Uh I I think I mean, if you put your There’s two conversations here. There’s the uh does JJ McCarthy have a shot, even as bad as he has looked, to turn a corner and live up to potential? But then there’s how long would that take and do the Vikings have the patience to wait that out or facilitate that continuing to happen. Um and I I think they’re going to hedge it. I think Jud’s right. He’s on the team for like there’s no way they would just like cut him or and what do you trade him for? Yeah. Trade him for 25 cents on the dollar. But when when if they finish this season with six wins or whatever, there’s going to be people coaching and GMing and front officing for their jobs, unless some of those guys are getting fired in January, February for the gap in what they thought was going to happen and what actually happened. Mhm. And so the hedge is bring in a better quarterback that can start for Mac. Jones would have one year left on his contract and then you can figure it out and Aaron Rogers would be 42 years old or whatever and you would just take your flirtations a step further just like you did with Brett Favre 16 years ago. You flirted with him for one summer and then it came to fruition the next summer. Again, I don’t would it be entertaining and fun for this podcast to cover an Aaron Rogers season? Yeah. I mean, it’s fascinating. Is that going to get you anything more than like eight or nine or 10 wins? Hard to see that happening. Only one quarterback ever has been highly productive at that age or later. It’s Tom Brady. Yeah. So, but I’m I’ll go on the record. Rogers or M. Jones will be a Viking by week one of 2026. Back to Lindsay here. Write it down. You like writing things down. All right. Off record real quick. Uh yesterday when positive Phil, you know, said uh Tua to the Vikings, I about drove right in the ditch, crashed the truck. So, just want to throw that out there. Uh let’s hope it’s M. Jones if it’s going to be anybody. But, uh this one might be a little tricky. I don’t know you guys have to help me with the with the wordage or whatever here, but uh Gabriel Murphy will replace Dallas Turner in the lineup next year. And obviously they won’t be starters. So I don’t know if we got to do like snap, you know, snap percentages or what, but or just like a clear-cut day one training camp type type deal or opening day. I guess I think you I think you need if I believe that they are listed at the same spot on the depth chart. I think you would need Gabriel Murphy to be officially put above Turner on the depth chart cuz cuz like Dallas can play interior linebacker and things like that. So it would get sort of murky, but if you had just had the depth chart flip, that would be that would be them essentially saying, “We like this guy more than this guy.” All right, let’s do let’s do that uh before opening day of the first game before kick things are things are not going well again. Things are not going well. Now we’re talking about both first round picks from 2020. I know he’s had a couple Vikings will fold by 2027. Yeah. Yeah. He’s had a couple good games, but Gabriel Murphy is a man. Write this down. But they it’s it’s weird because he just has they they don’t like him. They clearly don’t like him as a he’s a he’s he’s a great training camp guy, but um he’s on the practice squad right now, right? He’s still on the practice squad. Yeah, I agree. But Flores won’t be here next year. He’ll be in Cincinnati, so everything can change. He’ll be somewhere next year. We’ll see. Jud, percentage chance Flores’s contract is up. Percentage chance he is still with the Vikings next year. Uh I think there’s a better chance he’s with the Vikings next year than a head coach. I would say 45%. Yeah. Like I I would put on the lower end of 50, but I wouldn’t sub Marina completely, but um yeah, I don’t I don’t think he gets it. I I think between the lawsuit and sort of the stuff you hear behind the scenes, I don’t think he gets a head coach job. Write this down. Okay, over to Jud. Okay, there will be a report. Let’s just put the date. Let’s put the date of opening day 2026 in the National Football League. There will be a report by a credible athletic or ESPN, a credible news agency. There will be a report that that will be a story about the McCarthy Vikings relationship in which the term friction will be used in which it’ll basically be again to to quote Dexus thing from last week on the no huddle. You’ll know it when you see it, but it’ll be a a relatively large story going through all of what happened this season and alluding to the fact that there was at some point friction that began to develop between McCarthy, McCarthy camp, and the Vikings. Are we, you did say the word friction specifically, um, are you binding yourself to that word or can we or can the spirit of the you’ll know it when you see it? I think we’ll know it when we see it. Friction will probably be used. It might be schism to quote a great 2009 Brett Favre term. Uh but no, it it will it will be a pretty in my opinion lengthy story that will be the playby-play that we all want about what has gone on behind the scenes. It will include a lot of details. Yeah, fair. Cuz Yeah, I Yeah, I think you’re right. I think there’s I don’t think it has been as harmonious from the day of the draft. I feel like there’s been a picture painted publicly that hey, this was the Vikings guy and this is even if he’s been injured, uh Kevin Oonnell and Josh Macau are going to be working every day with him. You Sam Darnold’s the starter and obviously you have to pour some energy into that. just well I don’t know that it’s been that harmonious the last year and a half and we can’t like like we have sat here for how long and and Sunday was not an example of this but like questioned the play calling by Okonnell for McCarthy I mean we’re just three dudes that do a podcast and consume a lot of football like if you are in the McCarthy camp there’s no way that you’re saying hey you guys are wrong you know what we love the play calling right so like there’s just there’s too many obvious things that somebody who has the time, the resources, and the sources is going to find out about at least some of it. Can’t wait for that Diana Reini podcast to drop that athletic Michael Silver has a shot of this story. I also think that it could be the guy who who might be sneaky off the record. The guy who might be sneaky who might sneak in and get this is Seth. Is it Wickerssham? Wickersam. Wickersam who does a really good job. He gets a lot of quarterback stuff. He’s done a He’s really good investigative. I could see him. Yeah, I feel like he does the big investigative stuff like Yeah, but I mean this would be really this would be juicy. It wasn’t Mike Silver that threw in that line that like him and McCarthy and Darnold did not have a great relationship in like an expose in October. It was just like thrown into the article and it like was not and I not that I expected those two to be like best buddies going out hanging out all the time. But it was interesting that that was just thrown in and there wasn’t we haven’t like expanded on that at all. It’s going to get it’s yeah the he’s been so bad so far and the team has been so bad and now you start going into president as a as his JJ McCarthy and his camp Kevin Oonnell Quy there’s all these different stakeholders that are going to go into business for themselves here right no it’s on him no it’s on him where’s the equipment guy he did it yeah not trying to like drum up extra drama this is this is what happens in football this is what happens so should be unless something miraculously turns around Write this down this season. Okay, Dex. All right, write this down. JJ McCarthy will start only two games or less for the rest of the season. So, he’ll only make no he’ll make no more than two starts from here through the rest of the season. So, if it’s zero to two, I I I think Brosmer plays and might even take the job or gets the job back next week against Commanders, continues to crap himself and they’ll just they’ll have to bench him. So, six games left. He’ll only start two of them. Sunny, he’s like sunny needs. Write this down. Okay, I’m gonna It’s an indirect Brosmer prediction here because roll the boat sky, go Gophers. I love Max Bromer. I think it’d be awesome if Max Bros was like the sixth ever undrafted free agent quarterback to be really, really good. That’d be a great story. So, I’m going to say this. Write this down. Justin Jefferson, his high receiving yards mark in the last six games is 79 yards against the Eagles back in mid October. So he he forget about 100 yards. The Justin Jefferson hasn’t had 80 yards in a game since the Cleveland game in in Europe. Write this down. Justin Jefferson will have 80 yards or more. Max Bromer, listen buddy. Here’s what you got to do. Get the ball out and get the ball out to number 18 accurately. Write this down. That’s all you got to do. Drive the ball. Super easy. You gota drive that ball. Yep. Okay, back to Lindsay going to drive the ball for his third prediction. Here we go. Uh, one thing quick. So, if Max Bromer goes into Seattle, gets the win, comes out the starter, whatever. Is his alter ego 12 then? You know, beat 12 man in Seattle? It might have to be. Yeah, it’s great. I love that. I’m ESPN Get Up guys were just clowning JJ for the nine thing for 15 minutes this morning. I’m willing to bet that there has been that certain people within the Vikings organization have put a kaibos on anyone ever saying that they have an alter ego again. Yeah, don’t do that. It just uh it sets yourself up if you’re five years in. If Joe Burrow wants to talk about an alter ego at this point, all right, dude, you talk about whatever you want. Write this down. Lamar Jackson. All right. So, this is kind of this kind of a big one here. He’s kind of got uh the hot seat this last week especially, but I think Nick Mullen’s fourth and one. We’re throwing at 80 yards and hopefully we get a touchdown. Right. Uh right. So, the undrafted rookie Miles Price, uh he will lead the NFL in return yards and touchdowns in 2026 and have at least 15 receptions and 100 yards. Wow. Okay. Okay. So, you think they’re gonna double down and he’s not and and the next time he’s going to to give a poison call and get away from the football? He’s he’s been the best returner we’ve had since uh Cheryl’s. So, if it wasn’t for all those, you know, 90 holding calls a game, he would probably be up in the lead in the in return yards or all purpose yards, I guess, or whatever. So, well, Lindsay, great work with these predictions. The the Klein Saucer Connection is a great one. Since you have this lifealtering platform right now, is there anyone you’d like to thank or shout out in your life? Yeah, for sure. Uh like I said, my new son, my new son Theo, girlfriend Emily, she uh I don’t know if she could tell me a single football player besides Travis Kelce, but she is sure to uh walk through the living room at the worst times during the Vikings games, man, they still sucking. You know, like of course, you know, Chargers game, I really got that. So, uh my fantasy football group, it’s been a gauntlet. Everybody is really close and uh the loser has to pose in a calendar. So, I’d like to thank them and uh that’s all I got. Hopefully, we hit on one of those. All right, Lindsay. Yeah, update us. If you wind up on the calendar, you got to send us a couple copies. All right, it’s coming close. So, amazing. All right, Lindsay, great work and good luck with your predictions. Hopefully, we can talk again soon, man. Absolutely. We’ll see you guys. All right, before we get to our final predictions, some more thoughts on the quarterback situation here and a quarterback cesspool challenge. 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And here’s why. As you go back and watch all of these film reviews on JJ McCarthy, some some of them really good, some of them not so good. I think Barney My Dog, he might be coming out with one today cuz everyone is doing them. But the one thing that you see is McCarthy doesn’t process very well because you’re seeing the checkdown option available a lot and he often goes to his checkown a little too late or he doesn’t go to him at all. While Aaron Jones is a hell of a check down option with good with good hands, I think where Max Bromer is going to be at at his best is probably it might not be throwing the ball athletically. It’s going to be decisions and I think that he is not going to be afraid especially in that stadium to go to his checkdown. So Aaron Jones four or more receptions on Sunday. Yeah. Sometimes though, like just amateur idiot looking at film those we sit there like where’s the just get to a checkdown get to a why does he have the why does McCarthy have the and and Wentz not far behind the longest average depth of target dude mixing a as Thor said mixing a water once in a while man for god’s sakes there’s not that much water in this system sometimes when you especially when you have a tight end and or running back staying in to protect or chip and the problem with Hawinson on the tight end front is he’s not like he’s not explosively athletic enough to chip for a second and a half and then get out five yards and flash to be open within like two and a half seconds. So yeah, it’d be nice if there were some some of it’s schematic and some of it is like just get get if they’re if they’re available get to your reads. But yeah. Okay, Dex, what’s your final prediction? Yeah, final one for me. Uh, so the Vikings haven’t had a quarterback with a passer rating above 90 since week one. So McCarthy has had 30 Well, actually I I didn’t need to check once, but uh at least McCarthy himself has had passer ratings recently of 34.2, 47.7, 54.5, 82.6, 37.5, and then 98.5. So write this down. Now, the Vikings starting quarterback on Sunday will have a passer rating of at least 90. Have a passer rating of at least 90 or above. Write it down. It’s It’s Max Bromer. Like I I don’t think he’s officially been the starter. Everyone is pointing it this morning saying he’s going to start. Yeah, the head coach sort of messed up. So, he he does a he does a a spot on KFXN. You guys might be familiar with it. KFXN radio. Yep. Every Tuesday with the voice of the Vikings and he was talking about the game and Brosmer and he at one point said basically said well when Max starts and then he went and then he went back after that starts whoever starts but he had said Max starting. So yeah I think you’re very safe. I mean it’s not it’s not some they they’ve got the let’s call it what it is right now anyways the worst quarterback in the NFL has a concussion. Yeah. You’re not rushing that dude out to to play at Seattle. Of course you’re not. But anyway, like don’t be concerned. You’re going to get your Brosmer. You’re going to get your fix of Maxi on Sunday. It’s like when uh like working with the Twins the last two years. If Rockco was being really koi about well like we don’t want to announce who our start. Hey, if if your opener is Pierce, you’re not gaming the system. Like it’s it’s okay to announce Pearson is going to be your opener and your bulk guy. You know what? Let’s speculate on the bulk guy. That’s fine. But you’re you’re going to be okay announcing. I don’t think that the Tampa Bay Rays are going to be sitting on this information overnight. Freaking out that Pearson’s on the bump. Let’s let’s let’s take a step back. Twins rant there. No, that’s No, it’s all good. Yeah, the spirit of what you said is a thousand% spot on. All right, my final prediction is a Sam Darnold revenge game. Write this down. Oh, you don’t think I’m Oh, you’re just going to kick me to the curb for for this guy over here? Yeah. How’s that working out for you? I love my life in Seattle, the Pacific Northwest. And you guys are clowning around with a terrible offense. You couldn’t you couldn’t pony up $35 million for some stability at quarterback. Yeah, I’ll show you. So twice this season, Sam Darnold has thrown for over 300 yards. And twice he has thrown for four touchdowns or more. So I’ll say this, he will do one or the other or both. So he’ll either throw for 300 yards and or four touchdowns in his revenge game against the Minnesota Vikings. And you might say, well, yeah, but like the Vikings know what his kryptonite is. Brian Flores is going to pick at his sensitive places as a quarterback. Uh, but Sam Darnold also faced that defense all throughout training camp. I know that when you’re facing the defense during season practices, you’re facing kind of a scout defense, replicating the defense you’re going to face. But he’s seen that Flores defense plenty in training camp, too. So now we struggle a little bit, but I’m going to say three hundo and or four touchdowns for Sam Dar and or write this down andor. Yeah. Okay. Uh so before we get to a quarterback cesspool challenge, let’s I don’t know, let’s spend like 10 minutes and there’s plenty more where this came from probably in the next several weeks and months, this quarterback discussion. But Dex just sent us in our little group text thread, Diana Rousini did drop an article this morning about what she’s hearing about the Vikings quarterback situation. So now what she writes, delay McCarthy again, like sit him and delay him. I’ve been told that there were some concerns about how another year sitting on the bench would affect McCarthy and would it even help? every question has a cousin and suddenly they’re multiplying. I think that means that there’s a lot of questions surrounding it. And I saw that at first and I’m like, is she alluding to Kirk Cousins? And I’m like, oh, I reread it like twice, too. It stopped me for a second. I’m like, Diana, do not use the word cousins choice in this territory. Well, there is a fairly decent chance, Kirk, because if they decide McCarthy’s on Let me finish the quote and then we’ll uh can can a can a robot talented quarterback grow fast enough to match a team built to win yesterday? Uh if they do decide if they do decide that uh McCarthy is going to be on the team but not the number one starter, it opens up a bajillion different avenues where you could go. Kirk Cousins is one of those options. But Jud, uh, you haven’t been able to opine on this evolving quarterback situation since Monday. So, it feels like the temperature of the discussion among fans and media locally, nationally, is very hot right now. A lot of emotion, a lot of anger, sides being chosen. Um, I personally am willing to remain patient with the situation. I I franchise quarterbacks don’t always click overnight, especially when they are 22 years old and had an injury in their first season. I think red flags are duly noted. Historically terrible start through a handful of games. Uh the dude gets a new injury every 15 minutes it seems like and the concussions just the latest. Yep. Uh he’s constantly getting hit by cars on the road. Dog in the street getting hit by these NFL cars. Frogger feels like internally they’re losing some patience with him with articles like this coming out too. And also two years of that rookie scale contract value out the window. So that’s another red flag. Yep. Uh and he he’s unlikely at this point to be a top-of-the-line stud. And even with all those red flags, I’m sitting here like, “All right, well, maybe he he might pop in 2026.” And what am I like what am I missing out on if I don’t allow that to play out? M. Jones. Like is M. Jones winning you a Super Bowl. So, I’m still kind of in acknowledge the red flags, but willing to ride it out mode myself. And apparently that’s a controversial stance to take. Well, the one thing that people are sort of forgetting and and cuz I mean, yes, there there is the temperature is definitely it’s boiling hot. It’s very very hot. It’s it’s it’s beyond the scope of the norm. But the one thing that people aren’t talking about is none of the stuff that we are discussing about his play matters again right now because he’s hurt. He’s always hurt. And and so like that to me that to me that that is the biggest red flag. If you cannot stay on the field, I don’t care if you are Joe Montana or you are Steve Bono, if you can’t stay on the field, it doesn’t matter. And so it feels like that’s being lost. I mean, Kevin Oonnell again went to the podium on a Monday and buried in his opening statement that J.J. McCarthy is hurt. And so, like, we’re fighting about like, can he, you know, he’s been terrible. Well, he deserves a chance. Well, blah, blah, blah. It does, you know, you have to have a suitable option to replace him next season based on one thing, health. Um, if you are going to go into the season with a guy who’s just a backup slappy and JJ McCarthy and he’s going to get hurt again at this rate, you are going to look absolutely terrible, irresponsible, and quite frankly, it’s malpractice. So, I don’t think that’s being focused on enough. It’s the knee. Okay. All right. It’s a year unfortunate. Um, now it’s the ankle. Oh, okay. This is sort of weird. Then it’s the hand. Well, the hand’s impeding him, but he’s going to play through it. Now it’s a concussion on on a play in which he again ran and got slammed into the ground. So I I would like to sort of just start off by saying let’s put aside the statistics, the ineptitude, whatever he’s doing wrong, and point out he cannot stay healthy like and and that will submarine your career instantaneously. This is the National Football League which is Jerryville, the National Football League, which as Jerry Glennville once said means not for long if you can’t first of all in his point referee correctly. But my point, stay on the field. So, so let’s let’s see this for what it is. He’s hurt again. Um, as far as his play goes, I I I’ve begun to see this very clearly. He’s not going to be not on the team. You’re not going to cut him. He’s not going to be let go. He’s on a rookie contract still. It’s fine. That that that’s fine. You are going to have to have another quarterback though who you deem ready to play, who you deem a starting caliber quarterback to come in and if nothing else, challenge him. Because here’s here’s your problem. If you see some of the red flags again, like let’s say he stays healthy now, you start to see the play red flags, okay? You’re doing him no favors by playing him. Like I became convinced the last two games have turned me towards I don’t think it’s helping him one bit. And and then you know just in particular Phil and I think Dex watched this too but in particular we went through and I think it’s a pretty fair even keel breakdown. Kurt Warner’s breakdown of of his game, which is about an hour of your time, in which Curt Warner is, by the way, um criticizing a lot of Okonnell’s concepts and and doing his best, as he says, to defend the quarterback because he played the position and he does heir on the side of defending him, but he still gave you enough material where it’s like, okay, this isn’t this isn’t working yet. There’s too many things here. And and my last point is this. If you’ve listened to the last two months of dialogue on JJ McCarthy coming from like the Vikings, coming from a lot of people, let’s go through what the problems are. Okay, first it was the mechanics which were worked on in season which by the way that’s not going to fix things like you can’t fix things in a week but anyway that’s what that was. Okay, so that’s one. This is outside of his of his health. The second thing now is well look at the plays he’s missing like like it went from if he could just keep his mechanics good to the Packers game film which was look at all these plays he’s not seeing right so I think you got to bring in someone to play the position I think you continue to work with with him as much as possible but I also think you need to be acutely aware of the fact that this dude has shown you nothing to indicate he can ever stay on a football field which will be the end of him very quickly if that continues. Yeah, I to that point I wish we had more than six games of onfield data and experience in two years to be able to make let’s as I say this I I already hear the push back of before we can make a judgment when people like well those six games are enough to make a judgment and I know that those six games have been on many levels historically bad but I I think you have to leave room for there is still a chance based on his draft position. The the Vikings weren’t the only team sniffing around JJ McCarthy as a top 10 pick. It wasn’t like the Vikings got weird and desperate and every other team had him as a third round grade or they would have sniffed that out. Well, you could say, well, ponder, well, okay. Uh maybe he maybe he was a third round grade and the and the Vikings jumped two rounds. But other teams other teams were deeming him a first round talent. And so is there still a chance that he clicks and turns a corner, let’s say by like mid-season of 2026? I think the answer is yes. A lot of people are going to push back vehemently and say no. Uh is it less likely that he is as good as you hoped a year and a half ago? Of course, because of what we’ve seen so far and with the injuries. Uh, but I was texting with our Jeremiah Sir and I were bickering via text this morning. Uh, I he I went to bed last night and he saw some of the tweets I was putting out about just, hey, I’m I’m cool being patient. He’s like, you really don’t believe this, right? Like, you you think you can actually play? And I said, I’m not smart enough myself to determine that a top 10 pick is a bust after six games. If you are smart enough, anyone, you’re smarter than I am. And he goes, “Well, did you think that Zack Wilson was a bust like after six games?” I said, “Yeah, I did. I also thought after nine or 10 games that Sam Darnold was a bust, that Baker Mayfield was a bust. That Josh Allen and Jordan Love sitting for three years and then playing nine games was a bust. He looked terrible in those first eight or nine games.” Uh, and and turns out those guys, Daniel Jones thought was a bust. Now, do I want to wait five years for this to click? No, because by that point, you lose all contractual value of the rookie scale contract. Uh, and and that is a huge part of this. The clock is ticking. So, I’m I’m sort of caught between I personally do not think and I’m not smart enough to call it after six games. If you are, random guy on Twitter, you’re smarter than me and I’ll concede that and that’s fine. or Jeremiah like that dude played in the NFL for six years and he sees something. So from an onfield standpoint, I’m not ready to call it after six games is what I’m saying. Just to clarify then, are you saying that you think he would you like to see him as the starting quarterback opening day of 26 or are are you just saying he he should not be thrown into the garbage bin right now and jettisoned from the team? Definitely should not be jettisoned from the team like full stop period. Agreed. On the other part of your question, if if this is the last glimpse that we have seen, let’s say he doesn’t come back from the concussion and Brosmer plays or whatever, or maybe he starts a couple more games, but we have this terrible taste in our mouths. I know that overwhelmingly, and they’re and they’re going to decide this too, you’re going to want a different quarterback probably to start in 2026 because you don’t want to be an embarrassment. You want to at least compete for the playoffs. And I understand that. Correct. But if I had to ask you guys, forget about like coaching for your job and GMing for your job. If you had two options in 2026, knowing that the 2027 quarterback draft is sounds like it’s going to be a banger. All right. Mhm. Would you rather get back into the comfort zone of nine or 10 wins and probably getting if you get to the playoffs, probably getting beat by a better team with a better quarterback if you’ve got old Aaron Rodgers or M. Jones or if you trade for Tua’s contract or what whatever it looks like. By the way, the options aren’t plentiful. If you decide to move on from JJ McCarthy, go get Jacobe Brassette or Jameus Winston. All right. Well, yeah, those guys are going to get Jefferson 1,000 yards and maybe like nine or 10 wins, but you’re not like winning a Super Bowl, I don’t think, with those guys. So, would you rather feel a little bit better about them being competitive and winning nine or 10 games, or would you rather tank your ass in 2026 and go get a top three or four pick? I don’t think the Vikings or fans have the stomach for that. The Will the Wills 100% The Wilson never purposely tanked. It’d be terrible. The Wilson never purposely tanked. Um, so I I think the I think where you need to land because there’s a chance this kid can’t play. And by the way, there’s a chance he literally can’t play. So unfortunately, I think you’re at a predicament where even if you decide we sort of want to tank, I think you have to sell it better than bringing back JJ McCarthy as the starter for sure. So, like this is a very like this is a difficult difficult predicament because we’ve seen almost nothing and he’s hurt again. So, like if you went full tank, like if if you if you sort of went to the crowd and said, “We’re going with McCarthy next season.” I gota be honest, pretty attractive to this guy right here because I’ I’ve been I’ve been full tank guy for a long time, but I don’t think the Wolves have I don’t think they can do it. And and the wild card in this then is if you’re Justin Jefferson, like that’s where I could see him being like, “Okay, what the hell are you doing to me?” Um, which which, you know, he’s such a marvelous talent. That would be it would be fair for him to say, “I’m not going to be part I’m not going to be a party to what you’re doing here as much as I might appreciate the attempt to lose football games.” Yeah. One more thing and then we’ll get to the quarterback cesspool challenge. But I did uh my my my two tweets last night that have kind of fired up the the masses said, “All right, you want to bail on JJ McCarthy after a few games. Okay, like based on how he’s played, that is a reasonable decision for people that are coaching and GMing for their jobs that I we can’t we just hey, let’s just just be on with it, right? So he here are the options that and there’s probably options beyond this but the your options for 2026 I think are trade for M. Jones and it wouldn’t be a six round pick. That dude’s a former well top 15 and there’ll be competition who showed big flashes coming out of the San Francisco QB rehab school. That’s probably a second or third round pick for M. Jones. Would would you be surprised if it was I think third like a fifth. So third round pick. Yeah. I don’t think it’s a fifth uh for like one year of M. Jones. Yep. And you’d obviously be upgrading your quarterback play right there. Boom. You’re back in at least playoff contention there for sure. But by the way, he’s a free agent after next year. So then you’re back to you either have to franchise him or pay him $40 million a year. And now you’re back into he’s a better quarterback than what you’ve been getting this year. But is he worth paying 40 or $50 million a year? How does that Now you’re kind of back in the Kirk Cousins thing that we complained about for all those years, right? You could sign 40ome year old Aaron Rogers, which would be wildly entertaining for doing this every single day, like entertaining people on a podcast. You could draft another quarterback in what is mostly regarded as a fairly weak class in terms of there’s probably only two or three first rounders that you might not have access to. You could trade for Anthony Richardson who’s less accurate than JJ McCarthy last time we saw him. Yeah. Yeah. Or you could trade for like a like a Tua or a Kyler. Some people have said Trevor Lawrence, but I think they might win the division by the way. Jacksonville. Yeah. Or you go with Max Brosmer undrafted free agent. It’s all of these are either Oh, yeah. No, they’re risky themselves. Yeah. Or kind of cap you, I think, back in mediocrity where you’ve been. So, it’s they’re just they’re just in a really precarious spot at that position right now. Probably for the next year. They are. All right. The one place I would disagree with with what you read uh from the Rousini uh piece, and by the way, I know she’s a favorite of this show. So, I know all of you right now are thrilled that I’m quoting her, but the one thing that I would disagree with is um the Vikings were built to win yesterday when the season started. That is no longer the case now or potentially in 26 at all. So, so like this isn’t this this is going to be a very different team in many ways, I think, in 26. Uh that doesn’t mean that they can’t be successful. We’ve certainly seen that, but you know, the urgency to win with sort of a veteran roster and a young quarterback, it didn’t work. It’s not being run back. So, that that’s wrong. I just think you need to have a plan in place partially again for McCarthy’s sake. You have you have to have something. Sorry, D. Go ahead. Mark Florio, uh, Florio just dropped an article, too, about the Vikings QB situation 15 minutes ago. Kind of interesting that we have Diana dropped one this morning. Florio just dropped one 15 minutes ago on Pro Football Talk. Huge expose uh on the Vikings underestimating the quarterback situation. Um, and said, “Whatever the number of cooks, the absence of an executive uh chef is making the Vikings seem like a bunch of dodos as it relates to the handling of JJ McCarthy.” That’s the last paragraph uh of of this article. But this is going to pit so many people against each other. And you hate to see it, don’t you, Phil? It is. I mean, I know you’re an ambulance chaser. I actually do kind of hate to see it, but it I don’t know, man. It’s going to make this show zesty over the next I’m I’m sorry. You know what? It makes the show more entertaining. And and look, if if he was going to I mean, the best case he had worked out. He was going great guns right now and and that would be my favorite, but if it’s going to go bad, it might as well just go bad. Yeah. Yep. So, I can’t wait to dive into to that one here. All right. Well, we’ll do our quarterback cesspool challenge picks in a second here. Uh Jud Pepsi is the official beverage of the Minnesota Vikings and Justin Jefferson is the official the official face on these Pepsi souvenir cups again in 2025. You can get these cups that have a QR code on the side. When you scan it, you can enter to win Victor’s Ride, a Polaris Ranger 1000. You can get these cups at US Bank Stadium during games, at H High Fast and Fresh locations, and at Buffalo Wild Wings when you order 10 wings of any style and a Pepsi. So, head on in. Supplies are limited. Uh they may not even last through the end of the season. So, get in there before these cups are gone. And remember, Pepsi is the official beverage of the Minnesota Vikings, just like Padres’s is the official beer of the sports dad. All right, it’s the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving and you’re running errands today and you’re going around and one thing that you’re trying to figure out is what beer to buy to pair with the turkey tomorrow. And I’m going to tell you right now, Padres’s the perfect choice. Why? Because their red beer, the red chimney is perfect for watching football, perfect uh for for having on the Thanksgiving table. And the good news is this, their beer is available now in more than 200 liquor stores in the metro. Rochester and Mano. Plenty of great choices. But for Thanksgiving, may I suggest the Red Chimney? You are going to thank me. There are not a lot of good Irish reds left in this country. But Padre’s Bruise, in my opinion, the best. All right, boys. It’s time to pick what we think are going to be terrible quarterback performances. Yes. the quarterback cesspool challenge where we look to celebrate bad quarterback play in the National Football League. Here’s how it works. Each member of the show drafts a quarterback for that weekend’s games. You can only use a quarterback once per season. So once you use your guy, your Spencer Rattler, whoever, you’re done with that quarterback. Scoring is pretty simple. It’s ESPN’s QBR on a 0 to 100 scale. Let’s take a look at last week’s results. low score wins and Jud by correctly identifying what wound up being the worst performing QBR of the week. Shadur Sanders in a win 8.7 QBR. Oh wow. That’s why Kevin Stfansky Kevin Stfansky had the immediately processed QBR and said I ain’t giving a game ball for that. I’m barely going to He barely mentioned him. He’s like good job shooter. Bye. Ain’t going to give that guy a game ball. I had Gino Smith in the same game, a 12.7 QBR, sacked 10 times. If you want to look at those 10 sacks in carnage fashion, O line committee film breakdown from yesterday. And then Declan uh vindictively going at your guy Daniel Jones, even though he’s a changed man. Well, actually, I’m going to give you this one cuz he had an above average QBR 60 and he lost the game in overtime to the Chiefs. Karma. So with that on the season, Jud picks up his third win, weekly win. Oh man, I thought they’d move up in the average. I have seven weekly wins. Jud has three, Delan has two for the season long standings. Still pretty tight. I’m at 37.4. Jud 39.6. Declan 47.6. But still a lot of season left here, boys. Like a third of the season left in QBS pool. And a delicious table full of quarterbacks for this weekend. So, we go in reverse order of last week. So, Dex gets the number one pick. I pick second. Jud, you pick third. I’ll flash here for the YouTube audience. These are the quarterbacks that are already off the board for each of us this season here. So, Dex, who do you got? Yeah, give me Shadur. Give me Shador Sanders. Who are they playing? 49ers. I think it’s 49ers. Uh, yes. Brock Pury is playing the 49ers. So, it is. Yeah. Brock Pur’s playing the Browns. or the Browns. Yeah, the Browns. Yeah. Oh, are you tipping your pick there? I misspoke. Uh, no, potentially I’m not because it depends on who you pick. Um, Brock Pury at Browns is on my big board. It should be. Teddy Bridgewwater possibly starting against the Cardinals is on my big board, but the Cardinals are just I don’t know. And it’s And we are still hearing Baker very well might play, right? He might play. Yeah. So then you’d wind up with Baker and Yeah. Um gosh, do I do I do it? Do I do it? The undrafted rookie free agent at Seattle. Yeah, that’s another that’s on my big board in yellow. You know what? I’m going to This is a This is a pick for organizational dysfunction. I’ll take Max Bromer at the Seahawks. Wow. I’m going to be I’m going to be rooting for him. But this offense, you’re hedging your route. I’m hedging. Yeah, you’re hedging your route. I’m going to go for it because I I held out on not taking McCarthy at the detriment of my quarterback cesspool challenge score. Well, I got screwed. Yeah, you picked him in his best game. Yeah, almost dropped a word I shouldn’t say. It’s that upset. All right, who’s your pick? Boy, there’s some there are some interesting ones, including the return of Joe Burrow at Baltimore on Thanksgiving. Like Joe Burrow is coming back from a month’s long layoff. Tyler Shuck is at Miami. Bridgewwater, to your point, might start. But you know what I’m going to go with? I’m going to go with Bryce Young against the Rams. Okay. I still haven’t taken Bryce Young. The Rams right now are, as the kids like to say, a wagon. They are a wagon. He’s coming off a game in which he had a 13.5, I believe, QBR on Monday night against the 49ers. Give me BCA. There we go. There’s your quarterback, Cespool challenge here. Looking to celebrate and identify bad quarterback play in the National Football League. Uh tomorrow on Thanksgiving, we’ll have a trenches edition with our guy Alex Boon talking about the the current state of things. And then uh Feedback Friday on Friday. And don’t forget, whatever happens, Vikings Seahawks, we will be right here on the Purple Daily YouTube channel, the place to be for Vikings vent line after every single Vikings game. Roll the boat, Skya. Go Gophers. But if not, I’ll take a quarterback cesspool challenge win. We just want the Vikings to win a Super Bowl before we die.

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