00:00Here's the problem that I have with the Vikings front office here.
00:03How am I going to believe that they're going to make the right decision?
00:06When over the last four years, you went from J.J. McCarthy,
00:11then you went into deciding that even Daniel Jones,
00:15who's a competent player, was in your building.
00:19He was on your practice squad.
00:20You had Sam Darnold in the building,
00:22and you just let these guys walk out of the building.
00:25Oh, and then you turn around and you land on Kyler Murray
00:28because his contract is still being picked up by the Cardinals.
00:30You thought that that was a cheap way to go,
00:33and then you turn around and you land on Carson Wentz.
00:35What makes me believe that that front office is going to have some epiphany
00:39and turn around and do the right thing by going
00:41and getting a Mac Jones with San Francisco?
00:44The problem with many of these football teams, in my opinion,
00:47you don't spend the equity on the backup quarterback position
00:50if you lose your starter.
00:51Look at the Eagles on what's going on there.
00:54I mean, dude, if you want to win that North,
00:57winning the North might be tougher than winning the NFC this year.
01:00Go get a quarterback.
01:02Yeah, I mean, all four of the NFC North teams right now,
01:05if the playoffs started today, would be in the playoffs,
01:07and all of them are above 500.
01:09If you look at the NFC South, Dan, they're all tied with three wins,
01:11which is also insane.
01:13But you're right.
01:14I mean, and this is the old adage.
01:15Like, if you don't have a quarterback, you don't have anything in the NFL.
01:17It's really hard to win, not only consistently,
01:20but compete to win a Super Bowl without a quarterback.
01:22And I said it when they let go of Sam Darnold.
01:25And, again, this is the discussion I got in with some Vikings fans earlier today,
01:28that, like, they're not super sad by the fact that Sam Darnold went and left town,
01:33you know, got pretty much the same deal to go play in Seattle, wanted that change.
01:36And it's really salt in the wound, though, because what did he do, Dan?
01:39He went and he won a Super Bowl.
01:40And I know that, like, he hasn't been great so far this season, as in Darnold,
01:44but you are paid as a professional football player and a professional quarterback
01:48and a professional head coach and a general manager.
01:50What is your job, Dan, to go and win a Super Bowl?
01:53So every single dollar and cent you spend on these guys is designed to go and lift Lombardi,
01:58regardless of how you play after that.
01:59I know a lot of guys end up falling off after they win a Super Bowl,
02:02but you get the job done.
02:03You do the thing you're supposed to do.
02:05You win at the highest level, and you get to the game that matters the most.
02:08So you said it.
02:10I don't know what's going to happen with this general.
02:11Nolan Teasley, this is his first time as the general manager in this Vikings room.
02:16He hasn't had an offseason.
02:17He hasn't had a draft to be able to kind of make decisions there.
02:21I was reading something from one of the insiders on ESPN earlier today that,
02:24you know, it's a really interesting spot because you don't know what –
02:27we don't know what this guy's going to do because they've never really seen it.
02:29So there's not really a lot of tape, quote-unquote, general manager tape,
02:33to go off of with this guy's decision-making.
02:35So it's a fascinating thing.
02:37Do they try to bring in back Daniel Jones, as you said?
02:40Do they try to maybe swing for the fences and go and try to bait Kirk Cousins
02:43to come back to town?
02:45Do they try to get a Mac Jones?
02:47Like, if I'm the Niners, you said Mac Jones.
02:49Why would you trade Mac Jones to the Vikings?
02:52Like, you're in the same conference.
02:53The Vikings – the Niners obviously always deal with injury problems.
02:57They're one sprained ankle from Brock Purdy away if they don't have Mac Jones
03:00from not being a good football team.
03:02So I'd be surprised if Mac Jones leaves town.
03:05I think that Daniel Jones or Kirk Cousins would probably make the most sense
03:08for either one of those football teams with the obvious situations that they both have.
03:13And for the Vikings, they obviously both have continuity with Kevin O'Connell in that offense.
03:17So those are the two easy ones.
03:19Maybe they don't get a deal done.
03:20And then we get to talk about whether or not this team is going to be able to compete
03:23with Kyla Murray or Carson Wentz going forward.
