Vikings Happy Hour

Your Minnesota Vikings are now in survival mode. The problem is that the Pittsburgh Steelers are too, and they meet tonight in US Bank Stadium. The Steelers came off a big emotional win versus the Ravens. The Vikings are coming off a situation clarifying loss against the Lions. Which team will take the most advantage of that? Our Vikings, but again it was too close. The Vikes will be wearing their Primetime Purple as we all watch in anticipation. One of the anticipations will be to see how Anthony Barr and Eric Kendricks get to play with the Meaty Boys, Dalvin Tomlinson and Michael Pierce in front of them for the first time since training camp. Can they, with the rest of the defense shut down and take advantage of the aging Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers offense? They did in the first half. Can the Vikings O-line keep Kirk Cousins from being sacked from the defense that leads the league in sacks led by TJ Watt and Cameron Hayward? They did! Can Justin Jefferson still be as effective with Adam Thielen out? He was for the most part. Cook had a heck of a game. We will all find out with you, and will be going live in the final two minutes of the game with The Final Score.

1) Highlights

2) Lowlights

3) Speed round and your questions

4) What’s ahead

The Final Score [the name for CTP’s Postgame show] is ready for the season. There are 4 new regulars and the occasional guest. The focus will be on you the fan, and how you felt the team did. Hopefully racking up the wins in the regular season. Today, Flip, Matt Fries from Kindred SKOLS, and Dave will all be here. Did you like what you saw? #SKOL

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BJ Reidell and Drew Mahowald briefly touch on the Minnesota Vikings' demoralizing loss to the Detroit Lions and move forward to their Thursday Night Football matchup with the Pittsburgh Steelers before offering their picks for Week 14 of the NFL season.

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It gets dark early this time of the year. We all know that. We just didn’t expect it with our football team. After the loss to the Detroit Lions, your Minnesota Vikings are looking to rebound against the Pittsburgh Steelers. The question is, does it matter? They will be playing in US Bank Stadium, in primetime, on Thursday night. It looks like the Mike Zimmer era is winding down to a close. Can having a good chunk of his defense back healthy be the catalyst to start a winning streak? Would it be enough to save his job? How about that of Rick Spielman? And is Kirk Cousins playing well enough early, versus waiting until later in the game when the defense is gassed, to make this all work?

On tonight show, Matt, Ryan, and Dave will be looking at that. We will follow the normal Vikings Happy hour format until we get into the preview, and then dive into that stat look That you expect from the Two Old Bloggers show. Can the Vikings beat this year‘s Steelers? The answer should be a resounding yes, but will they? …And you wonder why we enjoy our beverages so much? LOL.

Grab your favorite beverage and join the conversation!

Discussion topics tonight:

Intro

Recap

Vikings vs Steelers preview

A look at the stats

Lighting Round

Over under

Buy/Sell

Predictions:

Ryan: 7-5

Matt: 5-7

Dave: 5-7

Guest: 7-5

Fan with us!!! The regulars: @Matt Anderson @MattAnderson_8, and Ryan Ortega @sportsguyry, and Producer Dave @Luft_Krigare. This is a @Climb_ThePocket's & @DailyNorseman's production.

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Your Minnesota Vikings are facing the end of the Mike Zimmer era. The loss to the Detroit Lions solidified that fact, and barring a miracle finish to the 2021 season, the team will be welcoming some changes. For the miracle however, it will have to start with a win against the Pittsburgh Steelers Thursday night in US Bank Stadium. First, the In The Huddle group including Eric Eager, Myles Gorham, and Jayson Brown will talk about it.

On tonight's show…

Agenda:

- Who’s to blame?

- What to expect moving forward

- Why are they like this?

- How can they turn it around?/Can they turn it around?

Kick Cousins’ number piece by Matthew Coller that was discuss can be found here: https:/purpleinsider.substack.com/p/why-arent-the-numbers-adding-up

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It’s Monday and fans of the Minnesota Vikings are in a mood. After a dreadful loss to the previously winless Detroit Lions, things look bleak for our favorite franchise. The Vikings lost agin yesterday 29-27 on the last play after a slow start, comeback due to the Lions being the Lions, then let them score one last time as the clock runs out. It is time to call out the good things like Justin Jefferson having a big game. Up next will be another struggling team this season. The Pittsburgh Steelers come to town for a Thursday night showdown. A good thing about the game is that those that love purple get to see the Vikes in their Prime Time Purple. Another good thing, and maybe the best big thing, is that the knowledge of at least head coach Mike Zimmer will be released soon, even if that is at the end of the season. Since we hope to lighten your Mondays, we’ll start the next coach search and are interested in your thoughts.

Deshawn, and Dave will be here with you to talk about just that, and to turn your Monday Purple!

Other talking points for tonight’s show: 

Quick review of the loss on Sunday.

Counting our blessings:

Justin Jefferson

Brian O’Niell

Christian Darrisaw

The Wilfs

The Facilities

The Pittsburgh Steelers

Looking at offensive minded head coach prospects

QBC Mike Kafka - Chiefs

OC Josh McDaniels - Pats

OC Mike McDaniels - 49ers

OC Joe Brady - Panthers [fired]

OC Byron Leftwich - Bucs

OC Eric Bieniemy - Chiefs

OC Kellen Moore - Cowboys

OC Brian Daboll - Bills

Fan with us!!! Tyler Forness @TheRealForno, and Deshawn Vaughan @vikingsfans16. In the truck is Dave Stefano @Luft_Krigare producing this @Climb_ThePocket Network’s & @DailyNorseman’s production.

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Your Minnesota Vikings stay on the road, this time matching up with the Detroit Lions in their color rush silver uniforms. The Vikes are looking to get back to .500 once again and keep their hopes to slide into the playoffs alive. Will they? Nope. The Lions are looking to get their first win. Will they? Yes, they did. The beloved Purple are short some very key players, especially on defense. Eric Kendricks is out, along with Camryn Bynum who backs up the safety spot and comes in for dime situations. There is also Patrick Peterson who’s been on Covid IR. He could possibly, theoretically return with a second negative test. Will he? Nope. Then if the questionable of Anthony Barr and Mackensie Alexander don’t actually play, stopping even the Lions could be tough. Barr was out, but Mac was in. Over on the offensive side, the team will miss RB Dalvin Cook and LT Christian Darrisaw. Obviously Alexander Mattison will take over as the primary runner, and hopefully Kene Nwangwu will be spelling him. The only problem there is that Kene is questionable with an illness. He played. Are you looking forward to seeing what Nwangwu can do from the backfield? We at Climbing The Pocket sure are. With Darrisaw out, the Vikings are up to there shenanigans again, shuffling the O-line. They moved Oli Udoh from RG to LT, Garrett Bradbury will resume his starting role at center, and Mason Cole will slid to RG. How will that go? Meh. It could go extremely well or horrifically bad. What was your guess? We will all find out with you going live in the final two minutes of the game with The Final Score.

1) Highlights

2) Lowlights

3) Speed round and your questions

4) What’s ahead

The Final Score [the name for CTP’s Postgame show] is ready for the season. There are 4 new regulars and the occasional guest. The focus will be on you the fan, and how you felt the team did. Hopefully racking up the wins in the regular season. Today, Flip, Matt, and Dave will all be here. Did you like what you saw? #SKOL

Fan with us!!! Regulars Jayson Brown @brownjayson, Flip Mazzi @Flipmazzi, Matt Anderson @MattAnderson_8 and Dave Stefano @Luft_Krigare producing this @Climb_ThePocket Network’s & @DailyNorseman’s production.

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Your Minnesota Vikings are visiting the Detroit Lions looking to get back to .500 and stay in the playoff race. They feel that they can get a string of wins as the schedule looks to get a little easier. Will they? We all know how this team loves to keep it close playing up to or down to their opponents. There have been many times this season that they could have easily won, but seem not to by being unable to put a full game of complimentary football together. It could be the offense going ultra-conservative, the defense being unable to get a stop, or even tackle at times, to missed kicks. Even if all that goes right, then bum time management and bad challenges pop their heads up. Will this be the game the Vikes pull it together? 

Dave and Darren who both started blogging on the Purple decades ago will go over a way to possibly see how this game will go and if the Vikings can win, so get ready for the Climbing The Pocket and Daily Norseman pregame show!

Here are the themes for the show:

We'll go over the usual stats to start - strengths and weaknesses of each team.

Theme #1 The LOLOLions ...

Who do you fear on this team? Jared Goff? Charles Harris? DeAndre Swift? (Oops! He's not playing)

Theme #2 - No Cook, no problem?

So, Alexander Mattison will get to be the starter again.

Theme #3 - Disastrous Defense

It's looking like 2020 all over again. 

Join us for your Minnesota Vikings talk amongst Two Old Bloggers and join the conversation! Fan with us!!! Come join the @Climb_ThePocket’s & @DailyNorseman’s blogger show with Darren @KickassblogVike and Dave @Luft_Krigare.

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Mike and Ed discuss the not so disappointing loss to the 49ers, the playoff status, and what the Detroit Lions game could actually reveal about the Minnesota Vikings.

Loss to 49er’s likely takes the Vikings out of the NFC North race

Hold some wildcard tie breakers

Possibly a frisky wildcard team

Cousins worst game of the year

Exceptionally poor Run Defense

Positives

Aggressive Zimmer

Kick Return success

What Detroit game can tell us

If we struggle, serious doubts going forward

If we maintain offensive aggression, could set the tone for the remainder of the season

Need minimum 4-2 in the final 6 games to be in the wildcard race

Predictions 

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The Minnesota Vikings are looking to get to .500 again, again. This time the Vikings have a chance to get there against the 0-10-1 Detroit Lions in their place. The Vikes are 7 points favorites but there are still issues on top of 9 of 10 games coming down to one score. Will this one?

Football continues! Your favorite team has started its 2021 campaign, the no excuses season. It is time to go further than any other Vikings team before it. Can they? Flip and Eric are here for the 22nd episode of Viking Hot Takes on the Climbing The Pocket channel on Thursday night during half-time of the game. Following the usual format of the show, we put the usual 20 minutes on the clock and asked each other three questions:

Flip asks

1. How many good players do the Vikings have?

2. What position would you spend a first round pick on?

3. Are the 2021 Lions as bad as the 2008 Lions?

Eric asks

1. What was the most disappointing part of the loss to the 49ers?

2. Which player do you want to see more of on Sunday against the Lions?

3. Would sneaking into the playoffs and losing in the first round be better or worse than missing them altogether?

Fan with us!!! Talk with Flip Mazzi @Flipmazzi, Eric Thompson @eric_j_thompson, and producer Dave @Luft_Krigare as part of a @Climb_ThePocket Network’s & @DailyNorseman’s production.

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