Minnesota Vikings training camp notes: Sam Darnold, Jordan Addison and more

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off for players starting on Sunday cuts are Tuesday so we're not going to have practices through then so they probably will reconvene and do some light work at some point next week with the 53 but they're not going to really do much until they start preparations for the Giants uh the following week and so what they did yesterday was they had what I would call um a scrimmage that was situational in nature so it's not like just a but you know you run the clock you do situations you take a halftime to get the guys used to a halftime uh but their goal was to get the starters work and to Tire them out as much as possible because of the layoff coming up so I do have some Camp notes okay um real quick to answer this question here Charles Gail says why aren't you guys live at the fair this is week will be live at the fair tomorrow morning it's called Carousel park right the carousel Park stage yeah it's like the like Dan Patch Road yeah I think I saw Dan Patch stage or something I I thought 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open mic so yeah come see the sports dad and uh get get the last drops out of jud's Camp notes so let's let's do jud's Camp notes here so these notes some are uh some are off of the practice yesterday and some are more big picture okay and by the way all of these Camp notes as I told Dean can be found at Jud zad sub st.com I I wrote about this I wrote about these Camp notes but I'm going to give them to you right now and and the first one is the practice yesterday uh and it was this okay so let me set the scene first of all it's rainy it started to PO at the end but it was rainy throughout the practice the grass was wet so far from ideal conditions for the offense however in watching the defense against the offense one the defense looked really good again like they're they're they're going to be good I I don't know if they're I wouldn't say that they're going to be great but they're going to be good I think they're going to be improved um now the catch of this is this continues a theme Sam darnold sort of a rough day yesterday and it was the ball was wet there were some things but here's my concern in watching him in in live reps bullets flying now he obviously can't be hit he can't be sacked because he's wearing a red jersey but my concern is it feels like when the pressure gets on him he sort of panics at times and my only observation is I wonder and you know Kirk talked about this I wonder if in trying to run an offense that Kirk said it took him time to learn like it doesn't feel like things are firing in Sam's brain now if he just makes the play he's fine can throw a nice deep Ball but I'm saying when it when it's breaking down the fur is flying right and now the pocket is Muddy Things Are starting to break down saw some very questionable like checkdown passes which weren't great some frustration there so Sam darnold to me Remains the great unknown when they play the Giants who by the way should have a very good pass rush they traded for what Bryant burns from the Panthers they've got some nice nice um front line guys to put pressure on darnold that to me is is as I wrote the biggest X Factor what are we going to see and how much can Kevin oconnell try to control the situation cuz you can't completely but can you help darnold especially early on as it's clear he's processing so what is your after watching all these practices and a little bit of preseason I guess what is your level of confidence that darnold can come out and I don't know can they score 21 24 points a game offensively I he's got weapons all over the place I feel like if conditions are are pretty good he's fine if the line has conditions being like like the conditions around him like if the line is playing well if the line is is and and if he can make if if he can make like let's say the first or second play Bang Bang he's fine I feel like if things start to break down you're going to run into a problem there's also like you would think you would think that when all of the conditions are right that that would take pressure off a quarterback you'd feel like you don't have to save the offense or Force things but in this case even if conditions are great and protection is solid and the weapons are there Sam darnold's playing for his career really as a starter so I I wonder if there's any inherent pressure that cuz he's not you know he's kind of a I don't know if he's quiet but he's definitely more seems more like just introverted reserved and yes I don't know what's going on inside that Noggin of his going into the most important season of his professional life in 2024 yeah I don't think even obviously he was a what fourth overall pick in the draft like I don't think anyone's really ever questioned necessarily his physical tools of a quarterback I think his limitations has all come from the mental side and just his surroundings like Jud is saying awareness that's been what's preventing him from obviously living up and more trending towards being a first round bus than obviously living up to being a fourth overall pick but if his if his head game's in there like and that we can unlock that part and Kevin oconnell is a good handh holder for that but that's been the biggest thing that's probably has prevented Sam from obviously living up to his potential the biggest thing physically for him or in terms of like numbers and his accuracy rate and his completion percentage has always been below average is that what you I mean he's been great on the Deep balls or hey just throw it up there and let Jordan Addison or Justin deson run underneath but yeah and and I know you're not sitting the don't have a jud's camp notes doesn't have a completion percentage for all of the 11 on1 reps although we could probably dig through the raw notes and come up with something close do you sense that completion percentage and accuracy in this system with these weapons has been a problem for him over the last month so here's what's weird about that question it depends on the practice it depend it literally like at the at the start the timing with Jefferson I I would classify it as lousy it improved a lot lot and he had some you you saw him Phil he had some good practices so like it's it depends on the practice it depends but the other problem too is we don't know like what defensive looks that Flores cuz he he you know likes to mix things up certain defensive looks look like they threw Sam off he was okay with others it's liter I mean I am not joking it is it is The X Factor of X factors because I feel like the defense you know quarterbacks are a little bit of a concern but that room's now improved and I think o overall the defense is going to be fine um I look at you know Justin Jefferson and Aaron Jones and I look at things there and say you know what you got some nice skill position players and then you got darnold and you got these practices that feel like a roller coaster that's how I feel about it it's just an X Factor the Giants game the first few games are going to be incredibly interesting to see if if there's the ability to turn him into what I would classify and this would be a win a successful game manager you know don't make mistakes it is funny he was not drafted to be a game manager he was drafted to be someone that could potentially carry a franchise but hey that's that's all you really are being asked to do with this infrastructure around you so okay let's keep going through jud's Camp notes all right so um let's stand on the offensive side of the ball Jordan Addison again not surprisingly did not practice he has not practiced since he suffered an ankle injury of which we really don't know the severity but we know that it was it was not catastrophic but it was you know it was certainly something that's going to impede him um and that came against the Browns in the joint practices what I will tell you is this first of all I think there's no question he will be on the injury report when the first one is released a week from this coming Wednesday September 4th the other thing is I wouldn't just automatically assume he plays like it's an ankle and you're not going to screw with that uh so if he doesn't play or if he's impeded he tries to play but he is not he's not you know in his traditional role of a bunch of snaps your top three receivers it looks like will be Justin Jefferson Jaylen Naylor will bump up from 3 to2 Brandon Powell will go from four to three but I'm just telling you of all the things that I would be concerned about for week one Addison because it's an ankle and because he he obviously does rely on things like speed um I would not assume he plays for sure yeah well well if if he could get in a car and drive around MetLife Stadium's field dude would be fine just put hey throw it to me I'm open my hands out the window and the first official injury report doesn't come out for another week and a half right it's a week from Wednesday yep so they can they can kind of just play it close to the vest and lie to all of the reporters if they want yeah but this is where the number three receiver thing to me becomes a a concern I actually if you have healthy Jefferson and Addison and like let's say nailers your three or let's say Powell who I don't love but I don't think that's like some disaster like would would you like would you like a three that you know can make a ton of plays absolutely okay but you still have guys there that are building I mean one's a superstar and one's damn good uh now if if either one for instance in this case Jordan can't play then it becomes a conversation because now you're bumping everybody up one spot and after Justin it becomes a bit more dicey if they're all if they're all healthy I don't have a big problem with that that room eventually I think a three who's who's more established assuming that Jaylen doesn't become that guy might be nice uh but if jaylen's the two it does open some questions well if hackinson were healthy too yeah we wouldn't be talking about the number three wide receiver in nearly as much as we have because there's not that many teams I mean the Eagles just traded for uh for datson yesterday so they have a nice Trio of receivers plus Godard but there's not that many teams that run two high-end wide receivers deep and a tight end deep when everyone's healthy and a third wide receiver so we have to be a little bit realistic about what the rest of the league looks like and Jaylen Naylor I don't know maybe I I was really skeptical like two months ago can he stay healthy he wasn't even all that productive as a deep threat in college but if if he plays the way he's been playing at practice and in these preseason games I'm I have no Pro if it's Jefferson into Naylor eventually Hockinson comes back and Addison like that's a pretty good set of weapons I would I would say my Panic meter is probably a little bit more skewed towards Panic than it is not panicking and it more also dub Tales they they have to establish an effective Run game in week one so if Aaron Jones or Tai Chandler are getting stuffed and Jordan Addison isn't on the field Hockinson is obviously not on the field and you're going to force Sam darn to throw the ball 35 times I even with the Giants being suspect at best probably this year I don't love that recipe to win in week one if they do get stuffed you keep running the ball this time around I don't think you have a choice right do you think he's going to do you think Kevin oconnell if they're sitting there nine nine carries for 12 yards you think he's 20 carries on his play calling chart get the screen game then get to the screen game get to the screen game what is the get to the Choppers I mean right now even in that game I just because they have week one lines of course they do already load oh God they've had week one lines since week one lines came out in May yeah the day after the schedule came out uh so right now over under in that game for the Vikings and Giants which by the way if it if I were making a BET right now I would hammer the under in that game uh it's 41 and a half cuz I think this is going to be a slugfest I think this is going to be a 16 to 13 I don't see Daniel Jones leading the Giants to much more than 16 or 17 points I think that there might be a chance that you get at least one defense with a touchdown right or a special team or something yeah oh yeah if you're ranking darn pick taken back or a Jones you know there's rookie quarterbacks going be starting but if you take away rookie quarterbacks this is the game that's most likely to lead to a pick six or like a sack in the end zone for a safety or something only uh only Panthers and Saints have a smaller over under in week one in this game oh God Panthers and Saints what's that one 39 and a half yeah you have that 40 That's 40 40 okay yeah boy speaking of uh the afor mentioned tight end TJ hackinson who has been working out all Camp side field not taking part he's currently on the pup list I'm going to predict that he's he's going to be one of two guys placed on IR um to start the season and the rule has changed it used to be before this year it was you could you had to set your 53 and then at the day after that you you could cut a guy r i a guy on the active roster the rule now is on the day that the cutdowns are done IR can be used just arbitrarily for two guys with the ability to return I think hackinson gets that now the question is and okell was asked about this in his press conference yesterday the question is he looks pretty good like where are things because there's been there is literally that we know of no timeline like the Vikings I think have said that they have one but they're not sharing it um so I did some digging on possibilities here because he does look good he's doing some cutting um he's been I I guess according to oconnell in obviously all of the off the field stuff that you can possibly do as far as game planning ideas and things like that uh so if he's placed on IR which I think he's going to be he has to miss the first four games which I think is a given right like we're we don't expect him back um now what's interesting about that is game number five is the October 6 game against the Jets in London MH so do you bring him back for that game two concerns there one is the travel the second one is those fields have been notoriously not good there have been trouble with those fields in particular you don't have to bring him back game five right he just has to sit out at least four correct so then the question is after the Jets game you come back and get a bye now you would have the ability to sit him until week seven when the Vikings play H to the Lions his former team and the team that hurt him oh yeah um at US Bank Stadium so I think sanity prevails here I think they're going to be very smart I don't think they're going to take him on the trip despite the fact that he would be eligible to play against the Jets I think they're going to take advantage of the bye and I think we see him again against the Lions so to be clear on this cuz it is a little confusing there's the season long IR right which is where JJ McCarthy is stashed if you're placed on IR today your season is done over so JJ McCarthy dunzo there's no even if you can practice in December it's nii Thompson season right dzo so uh you get then two you for the guys that are kind of in question right now like Jordan Addison Hockinson not I mean howison in question only because he's not on season long ir and then um Whatchamacallit Gabriel Murphy the udfa and then Dalton Ryner is in this discussion yep you only get two slots IR where you can bring them back after four weeks like part time IR yes yes on Cut Down day now now you can bring guys back like if a guy gets hurt in week two that rule has changed he can be IR this season's not done he can come back but on Tuesday when the rosters go from 90 to 53 you now have two slots to put guys on IR with eligibility to return right so they might have to make a decision then let's say they don't with Gabriel Murphy my guess is you could sneak him out of the practice squad cuz he there's no film out there and he's been hurt for 3 weeks right but like if you if you felt hey you know Ryner not the greatest situation here here but uh he still wants to be here he's just been banged up and we could really use him at some point for depth you could put you could put him on you could also just be done with him if you wanted to sure but yes but but your point is right you you could say like you've got two you basically got two free spots hackinson is one of them for sure I think yeah the second the question is like is it Ryner is but so I think he comes back week seven against Detroit all right back to the defense I told you that they look good flying around I think that they are I think certainly in practice we see a lot more of what the ideas are than than we do in games in part because in these preseason games the starters for the most part aren't playing uh worth noting there might be a decision provided Health maintains there might be a decision to be made here on as far as Personnel usage in week one all right Stefan Gilmore not surprisingly already getting first team reps I believe he was at left cornerback now they'll be in nickel Aon which means it's going to be I think Griffin and and Gilmore on the boundaries Byron Murphy Jr inside when they're not in nickel is the question is is it going to be Murphy and Gilmore or Griffin and Gilmore they were sort of playing with that yesterday um so I don't think it's a done deal I I think they like Murphy more so my guess is if they're going to use two corners Murphy stays outside Gilmore outside but it's at least a competition because they definitely are trying to mix and match there and I think what I think they're trying to see on Griffin in particular who again is not coming off a good year all right so he's not the guy that that he was four years back I think they're also trying to determine where that hamstring is now the good news was on a wet field yesterday he PR red so clearly they're confident that he is completely recovered but just something to keep an eye on is I think the only certainty that I can tell you is I think Gilmore runs with the first team no matter what yeah that would make sense I think your instinct about them liking Murphy better think about he was a premier free agent signing for them a couple years ago he's the youngest of the bunch PFF has not loved him in his career but the one strength that they do highlight for him is single coverage which in Brian Flor has a there's a lot of times where you're sending two or three extra not three always but like you're sending five or six off the line of scrimmage and you're stuck in single coverage on the back end so and Griffin missing all that time I think you're probably right Murphy probably gets starter snaps even in the non- nickel situations but we'll see they're playing their cards close to the close to the best very close off day for will rker that's right second only the second second time in all the training camp now again I'll say this wet football wet grass not conducive to kicking but you know what you also play games in the NFC North in December figured out so you can't so so that's no excuse um in the first kicking session that he was involved in yesterday three attempts at field goals I don't think I don't think that they were like this unbelievable huge ask I think that they were kicks that he has basically hit almost all throughout training camp to wide rights one make two wide rights it's going to be you know what those conditions yesterday they were conducive to what we need to see from you will will you you know yeah that's disappointing it's disappointing you give a guy a job three weeks ago you know 5 days into training camp and you know he's missing uh bad weather kicks 3 weeks before the actual pressure I've got major questions I'd make some phone calls I got some good news because at the end then Dan baile still available another King session three for three including one from 50 plus yards I also have a candidate for a new a new nickname for Big Leg Bill okay the whip his leg so his leg he's skinny and his legs are really thin and when he kicks it looks like a whip going right through the football so will uh will the whip is that what you call yep yep he's got a whip for a leg it's just like uh it's unbelievable bang thing comes right through yeah some people have complained that big leg bill that that we need some W letter alliteration cuz his name is no but his name is Bill will is William Will Willie you know Bill you're right yeah no you're right it's an iteration thr out there as a possibility Austin just said this yeah whip it will whip it will whip it will it looks like a whip whip it you can't have pie without saying we'll add it to the list we'll see which one shakes out Whip and willly fine um so the so tomorrow the the Vikings have uh Dwayne McBride the running back is hurt I don't think he's going to play to tomorrow which is too bad because that game is all about guys at the bottom of the roster getting opportunities but interestingly enough Mo Ibraham is here to save the day the former goer has been signed and I think it's going to get a ton of work now he's not going to make the roster but you know what this open up the opportunity for a practice squad spot mhm so they um I think he'll see extensive time I don't so we're not going to see Jones for sure I don't think we see Chandler and and with what Wong wo's done and the fact that he's got a history of being hurt I wouldn't play him so G so it's GA down to gasin and then Mo Ibraham basically I would not look they've seen all that they need to see from anyone that they're for sure locked on keeping so yeah I I mean I don't see I don't see the advantage unless it's a competition I don't see the advantage to playing guys and there's a few and there's a few guys left that can probably make an impression for sure but I mean it is definitely guys towards the very bottom of the roster and I would predict it's some guys who will make the 53 but certainly in week one will not be active on game day so there's going to be some some of the lower draft picks like Levi Drake Rodriguez plays in this game right oh yeah yeah uh the Michael Jurgens Boors of the world okay yes yes so um yes they they will play but you know I'd say Naylor Wango you made the team don't risk it yeah don't go don't play Don't Go stepping in the wrong area twisting your ankle so those are my Camp notes final training camp practice we we are now practice is now watching stretching individual drills see by so the last edition of jud's Camp notes kind of because jud's Camp notes will continue on Sunday jud's preseason game three notes we will jump on Sunday morning but don't forget we talked about this the just the major Focus will be 4.0 53 man roster so are we doing that Sunday did we say you asked to do it Sunday okay in fact I've been working on it all week they've been cutting guys I've had to guys that they' and then I have to cut them and I have been and I'll tell you right now I have been major major vacillation on the quarterback position interesting I me are you is Judge Camp notes on the phone still talking to teams about Nick Mullins or now that JJ McCarthy is out no I'm talking about the I'm talking about taking let let's just say there are some new rules that allow me to get creative but sometimes creativ you get bitten in the ass but okay not to spoil don't do it the 53 man 4.0 do it you don't think a team would claim jiren hall for their 53 do you I choose not to answer that I I take the fifth I assert my fifth right Amendment here okay so Bravo judge Camp notes for the last month keeping you guys informed judge Camp not even going back to mini camp and OTAs back in May and June we're always going to have those memories yep and and Camp notes talk about overcoming obstacles broken window for two weeks because my folks couldn't replace it and then flat tire dud PSI of one and I drove out there on that small I risk my life for you people do you not like cuz I did this the other day we were driving to the cabin I don't know 3 weeks ago and before we left I looked and I was like Kelsey that tire is significantly low and it was like at 22 it wasn't at 1 but it was like low enough even my dumb ey who doesn't know Jack bleep about cars is like ah I think we need to fill that up and luckily filled it up before we hit the road but did the freeway with a PSI of one no no I took I took the car to to the garage they replaced they they fixed the tire while I was taking my camp notes they put the spare tire on and I went $494 on a spare tire I'm going to tell you right now they advise against that yeah you don't do so I'm I'm going 60 on a spare tire yeah you don't do it you know what this is football season and your windows was your window still out too no no it finally got fixed it took two weeks to get a replacement window how could it take two week how can it take two weeks to get a replacement window I saw a lot of people in the comment section say saying dude why don't you just like replace these things yourself well he's the sports dad jud's Camp notes you think he has time for okay mechanical things he's here football information will I will accept that my ineptitude completely like I can't even change attire so like that mock me okay but if you we moed for that by the way a lot Y no that's fair that is fair but if anyone says replace the window what are you talking about oh I think you're right about the window I have no idea I mean I mean I wouldn't even know where to start isn't it a safety thing too like you have to calibrate that that's not like just a sliding in a flipping glass window in your house a towel 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killed I'm probably deserve it too yeah you know what though how many of these spare tire tough guys can go and take accurate notes about the backup offensive line situation and deliver it of them not many of them humor and charm this is why I pay in a Godly amount for full insurance on my car for roadside assistance okay I I I will pull over and they will come and do it for me this is why I do that and I'm okay with that well I'm totally all right with that I just saw a note that said that like I I could have come into my house Googled how to change a tire and learned it quicker than going through the process of the fix at the garage but I don't think you understand my ineptitude yeah like like like you're saying you did that and that's awesome you are great but like my ineptitude I I would get frustrated I would screw it up like if you want to Tire to fly off a car have me do it yeah or or the damn thing would fall on my foot I I felt super accomplished when I like successfully learned how to YouTube and change my cabin air filter which by the way is like the easiest process in the world but they'll charge you like 70 bucks for that and that filter costs $10 at your local autoshop store and it takes 5 Seconds to install the furnace one no I'm talking about a cabin air my car a cabin air filter oh okay I didn't know what you're talking about I know nothing about cars my wife is the man of our house yeah your wives are so lucky is what they say what they sign up for I'll say this I'd make fun of you more I grew up on a hobby Farm doing all sorts of like you know until I was probably 19 or 20 years old just everything from shoveling horse poop to different odds and ends I feel like I've forgotten a lot of the handyman work that I knew when I was a teenager or college I don't know so if I haven't had to put a spare tire on ever in my life knock on wood it's going to happen this week I'm sure so I'd probably fumble my way around too otherwise I'd make fun of you more fumble I even try to Fumble Slowpoke says I have over 12 Flats a year most of my route is gravel roads oh God actually driving on on gravel roads is an entire story in itself it's hard to drive on gravel roads like I grew up on gravel roads love grael go fast you can't go no well you can go fast can turn over I'm just saying I'm just saying there's a lot don't fish tail don't fish tail you know what just the moral story stay on your couch oh sport dad's Mantra watch life don't participate life is not a participant sport uh let's do some feedback Friday and we'll have some spillover feedback Friday on the Saturday episode so if we don't get to everything don't worry let's start with some good McCarthy stuff in here let's start with Jack from St Paul could it be a blessing in disguise that JJ McCarthy got hurt McCarthy has shown to have a great work ethic staying in town between otaa and mini camp and then between mini camp and training camp to work on mechanics during that time he showed rapid Improvement and development now he gets to use this season to see behind the scenes how an NFL season works the ups and downs going on a losing streak maybe game planning week to week Watching Sam darnold prepare the there will now be no pressure to throw at him uh to throw him in if things go south this season so basically and he continues here could this be a blessing in disguise that he has to sit he's forced to sit for an entire year I've thought of that um I don't think like I don't think so I get what you're saying and I I have thought the same thing at times but the more I think about that you would have to be convinced that he is really mentally weak if like the prospect of playing um and if you are to believe uh quacy and oconnell they said we will not put him in until he is prepared it has nothing to do with Sam it has to do with him so a blessing in disguise it'll be good to learn behind the scenes but I'm sorry I I don't think it's I think if you were to say yeah you know what this is the best thing I think it's sort of an an indictment on McCarthy and his personality and his abilities and I saw nothing to in indicate that he was going to be overwhelmed by the situation so I would say no it's not a blessing well let me I think just if if I could translate because I've heard this variation of the same question a few times great I think what we're assuming here is the fact that he has to sit now for 12 months or 13 months before he can play an NFL game you're guarding against the worst possible scenario which we all perceive to be throwing a guy into the fire before he's ready stop starting his career Sam darnold's a great example planting bad reference Points bad memories maybe maybe your mechanics aren't fully developed and now you're out there with the full speed bullets flying and and bad mechanics are cementing in like can him being forced to sit for a year maybe maybe that's a hedge on the bottom end of like I think it probably raises the floor of his career cuz you cuz you don't have to worry about oh we actually undercooked the casserole a little bit there we thought it was done uh it's a little bit still the the chicken breast is still frozen in the middle and we're biting into it like that's how I translate this are they guarding against are they essentially raising his floor and guarding against the worst possible scenario y uh because he has to sit out for 12 months I just don't think that between all sides here cuz that would mean oconnell would panic and he might have I don't know but I mean give him I'm willing to give oconnell more credit than that right now and it would also mean that McCarthy would be completely ill-prepared I get the point and I don't I'm not saying it's totally wrong I am saying I think in the infrastructure to which uh McCarthy has been placed that I think it would have been handled correctly regardless so I don't think it's a blessing I don't I also as we've talked about a lot don't think it's like the end of the world that he's not going to play this year and oh my God now he's set back I'm not concerned about that either I will say the last time the Vikings drafted a quarterback in the first round stashed him for an entire year and then put him in year two fine right from week one that quarterback uh led the NFL in touchdown passes went to the Pro Bowl the Vikings won 11 games and went to the NFC Championship Game Dante Co Pepper with small hands he had very tiny hands he did fumble about 43 times that season yep and you might say yeah but he had Randy Moss cool JJ mccarth yeah exactly so yeah okay let's see here Troy Belcher says I've been a diard Michigan fan for a little over 20 years and watched every snap JJ McCarthy ever took so imagine my Elation when we traded up and drafted him 10th overall and then my ensuing despair when the news broke that he'd have season ending knee surgery I watched him lead men that's right football are those Jim Harbaugh they're both Leading Men mhm I watched him put aside his own feelings about how Harbaugh system featured him or didn't feature him I watched him remain calm cool and collected when Michigan totally abandoned the passing game against Penn State last year and ran the ball 32 straight times because it's what needed to be done to win he's a winner although 2025 can't come soon enough the waight will be worth it for JJ McCarthy well put and then here's one more on McCarthy from rich in Oklahoma after watching the Monday episode about why Vikings fans should remain optimistic for the season I have a theory about the dooming gloomer who are ready to throw the season away before it's even begun these are the JJ McCarthy super fans they had convinced themselves only JJ McCarthy was the key to a successful season they hate Sam darnold and do not want want to see him start under any circumstance they watched all the glowing preseason coverage of JJ McCarthy and convinced themselves he would not only be the week one starter but that he alone would carry the Vikings to Greatness the new Crusaders and now that they're yeah are are these the the McCarthy the McCarthy Marauders did they switch from Kirk they just switched from Kirk to JJ McCarthy the JJ Juice drinkers I don't know if we have a super cell of McCarthy Defenders quite like we did Kurt Cousins but I think a lot of people are just they got excited about the future and yeah you know you tell anyone in 2024 that it a delayed gratification and it's it's hard for people to handle but okay McCarthy Marauders if if that's what if that's what they are then consider me one I'm a darnold Defender and a McCarthy Marauder all in one I think there's space for both those things I'm a wait and see her okay I'm a wait and see her especially on Sam let's see here Miche speaking of wait and seer here's Michael kts a clear weight and Seer he says is anyone ready to take a look at BO Knicks after trash talking him all spring on this show as the only quarterback you wouldn't draft in the first round just thought it'd be fun for a few people to eat some Humble Pie after what bonck has done in the preseason does bonick deserve an apology for carving it up in the second preseason game no no he looked good in the pre-season against backups let's let's wait and see let's SL the he's like 24 years old he has the most experience of pretty much any quarterback in college history and you know he's he he looks like a mature rookie quarterback and we'll see if if he can do all the things now if he turns out to be Alex Smith which is kind of the like short Dink and dunk conservative I guess that'd be a hit cuz you know you're taking the sixth quarterback off the board or whatever ever in the first round uh but yeah let's let's wait for one let's not get yeah like like it's fine to be to to admit that you're impressed by how a quarterback plays in an exhibition game but as far as apologies go uh there have been a lot of guys that have had good exhibition uh schedu seasons and then it's like oh the season started guess what happened he got absolutely mauled by a first team defense yeah okay uh let's see here Gabriel Swanson chimes in here uh guys daily listener big fan of the show we listen to your show going to bed every night seriously no when do you fall asleep is it like 5 minutes into the episode or do you consume the whole episode some people just you know will fall fall asleep but then claim that hey I was still you know aware of what you talked about and burned into their subconscious I can't I can't do that I can't have noise while I'm sleeping oh you're silence only or like you mean white noise but I can't have I can't put like aast and like I'm yeah I can start the bedtime routine with a TV on but once like you know the eyes start getting heavier I'm doing the the nodding it's like that's got to be off I can't get into a sleep with noise on like that I'm with j and darkness as dark as it possibly can be I don't want any damn light on can't stand a light on white noise machine for the Mackie for sure and then sometimes maybe even a sleep meditation find a little sleep meditation app or they really soothing music and they'll fall asleep if I'm tired it's over it's called whiskey for me but yeah yeah meditation whatever whatever works for you also works for little Buffalo Trace right before bed so anyways Gabriel Swanson says we wanted to reach out and see if it would be at all possible to help spread the message of our GoFundMe for our son Roman uh Roman was born at only 23 weeks and has just finally been sent home from the NICU after spending 5 months there his medical care is still ongoing and extensive he's currently on oxygen feeding tubes uh has a shunt in his brain he's the cutest little guy we've both taken time off work to manage his crazy appointment and Medical Care schedule and members of our family started to GoFundMe to help maintain not only the household but keep up with the obvious expenses that come in from his special situation it'd be a huge blessing to our family and seriously a thank you to you guys uh and for for everything you do on the show except skipping out on half the time to attend half the time to attend weddings you know who I'm talking about I'll attach the link oh skipping out half the time to I think he's ripping Jud for leaving weddings early I think that's what that is or or is he saying Dex goes to Mr show I think that's what it is yes yeah de had 17 wedings weddings yeah so okay yes so I'm going to I'm just going to read the GoFundMe link okay sure it's it's a little bit maybe we can put this in the description but if there's anyone out there that would love to help here a fellow Vikings fan and purple daily listener it's gof fund.me Slash e269 2 B44 I wish there were like easier GoFundMe where you could just say like gof fund.me SL right whatever but uh but it's gof fund.me 2692 B44 if want to help the Swanson family and their their little guy Roman so yeah Gabriel thanks for the the kind words about the show and and uh best of luck to you guys okay James chimes in says Dear Phil I hope this message finds you in a cavern of Despair whoa not quite I'm having some trouble at work and hope to gain the sports dad's advice on a feedback Friday I assume that Sports dad does not read his own messages so I sent this to you instead it's a good yeah that's smart good I manage a team of 12 people who are mostly good but there's a couple of youngsters who are S A WFT soft what does Jud recommend I do to toughen these young softies up I consider buying sticks to prod them with at lunch KOC style like when he's trying to the fumble prevention thing but thought that might not be off as appropriate love the show thanks to you guys does Sports dad have any advice I'd like to know more about the job itself first of all like like like what are we doing here what are they soft about like are they just incredibly soft and so you don't like them at all or or is this some type of of manual labor potentially job so I think it depends on the situation here but what I would what I would suggest is you you um call them in individually sit down and tell them that you need more and and but by the way if they don't if they're like one-onone individual one-on-one Clos door meeting and and find out what they can or can't do because the key is this if they like if they don't like want to work past 5 o' on Sundays or they want to leave early on Friday just fire them throw in the towel they're hopeless like like you'll never get the commitment especially and and especially if it's a staff of 12 and it's two that's a really bad thing because that's and it's gonna well it's also going to poison the well we all know that that there are people on staffs who who are in that in between right they could go the good way or the bad way but then they see Callin sick guy or gal and they're like oh if he can or she can do do that I can too so do not let don't let these two clowns Poison the Well that's the most important thing do what you have to do working on a 12p person staff where a few people Poison the Well hits really close to home for the radio career previously of Jud and me I feel like you and I used to get clowned for working hard back in the day oh I've I've been clowned for that you guys actually care yeah but losers but more importantly like with our personalities we didn't care so so we weren't going to change what I've seen though is I've seen some people who are very much on the edge right so they could go the good way or bad way and then they observe the lazy ass behavior of of their co-workers and so they're like oh I can get away with that too and yeah contagious poisons the well cancerous whatever you want to call it so at the very at worst get rid of these two before you got a problem with four and then it'll be six and then and then the next thing you'll be fired because you'll have lost control of that 12 person staff yeah and that's not in fact uh listen leadership 101 here not that I'm an expert but your tolerance for poor performance is a reflection on you as a leader so if you don't take these two youngsters in and like some people are saying make them change attire or have some Stern words the other the other 10 of the 12 are going to start looking at you that's correct all right John John says uh I hope dear Phil I hope you and the boys are doing just fine what if we're not uh lately I've had some massive mental challenges really tough in fact purple daily really helps keep me going I want to pass a huge thank you to you all Excell John godp speed to you exactly one foot in front of the other week one is almost here yep then week two week three Sunday night football college football college football week zero Saturday like four games that's right zero and then pro football and then before we get to the snake draft of the week here this is just a totally random question from Cory Larson I think off the Russell Wilson Mike Tannon bombb did you guys talk about that briefly yeah doie okay yeah yeah Mike tanon bomb former GM said I would I would Thor ripped yeah Thor ripped tanon bomb okay yeah he said Russell Wilson should be a viking uh Cory Larson says will Russell Wilson be in the Hall of Fame really good question really good question I think he yes I I think he will be one reason why not and this is not fair but it's the politics you know he always I think crafted himself with the people that are going to vote very carefully the like the the media yeah the media he crafted he crafted himself very very well he built up uh so I think the answer he he's got the ring I think the answer is yes he yeah it's dude it's like it was a no-brainer lock after he left Seattle and he thought boy if he can just have a couple more good years y but it's been such a train wreck the last two years yep ah if he train Rex again this year with a different organization I don't think I don't think it's a no-brainer anymore cuz he only has the one Super Bowl win yeah he would be better off walking away right now well he's another guy that would have been like kind of like Joe Mau before playing first base and batting 260 every year he would have been better off just leaving after Seattle just being done everyone would have remembered him he but he could still sort of try to blame Shawn pton yeah for the disintegration but if he can't play now that's nobody's fault but his own I'm just saying he falls into to the zadian just walk away dude no one needs to see you grinding I see I don't need to see you look like a joke when you were really good at one time kind of like Joey vad he just yesterday you see his pressers yesterday yeah I love that guy he was just like I can't play anymore I'm too slow I can't hit I I don't want to be remembered as the guy that stuck around too long either which I respected self-awareness off the charts from that guy oh yeah wasn't he he was in the blue blue jays minor league system right yeah and so I appreciate too he has a very clean Major League the only team he's ever played for is Cincinnati do you want to have like 40 random at bats on your career resume where you batted 150 for the Blue Jays or do you want to just end it with the Reds being exactly the only and the Blue Jays suck so like what's the point exactly totally are you guys ready to snake draft let's do it let's do it let's do it this week's snake draft comes from Michael L via the feedback he sent us a bunch of you have sent us great ideas and we have probably 50 of them stashed but keep the snake draft ideas coming and we'll stash them he wants us to rank pizza toppings or pizza types and I and I will just sort of uh reform this to be we're going to rank and draft pizzas in all T types of style and toppings and whatever all of them are on the table so if we reach some sort of controversy or duplicate we can debate it but the draft order for this Jud you are scheduled to get the number one overall pick it's a three round snake draft so Jud Dean I get the last pick and then the first pick in the second round back to Dean Jud and then Jud Dean me to round out the three- round snake draft are you guys ready I am indeed in fact I was doing some uh prep this morning once I saw this as the topic were you eating pizza this morning or just researching oh I love some cold pizza in my refrigerator right now oh God that'd be fantastic I love cold pizza I like I like day after Pizza I think more sometimes than fresh out of the oven pizza I love a good pizza yeah all of these like that's a get get as creative as you want to with this y well that's a good one and uh I might come back to it but I'm actually going to start off with a uh with a type of Pizza in fact a type of pizza that might be you know that might be available at some of the best joints here I'm going to start off with the neapolitan pizza okay Tomatoes garlic oregano extra virgin oil I was going through today to try and you know because there are certain styles of pizzas I I love and I will say this my theme for I think for almost everything is going to be a thin crust too so so yeah you you'll want to specify I mean neapolitan pizza is but I'm just saying you guys take your Chicago Pizza your deep dish pizzas I'm sure some people love that that's that's awesome but that's not what I like yeah we're we're a big uh Punch Pizza family and their Neapolitan style love us there used to be a place there was a Punch Pizza next to a Neo like a pizza Nia in Northeast Minneapolis just competing on the same block for a number of years those were the years a Nia aitan Pizza rage in Northeast me all right Declan this on the clock all right uh give me the New York slice love me a New York slice style pizza big old style pizza love that fold it I I fold a little bit at the start but not you got to fold the back to even yeah you got to you got to fold it to start um afterwards I won't but I mean just a big old Slice of New York Pizza dude is there a like a topping style we can add to this cuz you're like monopolizing an entire genre of pizza here is it cheese is it pepperoni like I don't think we have to do that I'll be I'm going to push back on that because New York slice style pizza is exactly what it sounds like so like I can have any toppings I want on it but I I think New York style pizza is its own Jean Ren style I think I like cheese like like it it's pretty simple it but it's just a good slice of pizza with like a Diet Coke oh delicious okay so if I choose thin crust pizza does that wipe out everyone else's like any sort of thin crust pizza I think it's generic but no yeah okay it does not so I get back toback picks [Music] here I'm going to go I'm going to go specific sausage deep dish pizza oh so you're taking the deep dish okay Hardy just if you're I can't I can probably only eat like a piece and a half of it and then that's why I don't want it you take it home I'm going take on this kind it's like a casserole but we're going to go sausage deep dish that's a great call it is a casserole and then we're going to go so many options here we're going to go Minnesota style so square cut supreme pizza oh yeah that's good so all all of the toppings yep in a Minnesota style square cut I love the square cut you start with the little tiny the four tiny Corners 100% And you and you kind of work your way around devour a whole one too with no problem oh yeah that's a great call yeah so it's and I like when they when you order online different places when they give you the option to cut it in squares too there's just something I don't know poundable about the squares there is back to right back to back to me um let's let's go here because this is technically I guess still on the board but just pepperoni yeah pepperoni which I'm a little surprise kind of just felled in my lap here at pick five but pepperoni love me I mean you can't you cannot be no one dislikes maybe vegetarians pepperoni pizza it's the it's the universal topic people there people that people don't like it yeah interesting I feel like it's You' never met someone in your life that doesn't like pepperoni pizza of vegetarians what should we get and they say no pepperoni I've never heard that really it's probably the most like universally ordered topping though to that point so yeah yeah fight it's the safest topping I feel like so pepperoni with my all right back to Jud back to back picks here to round out the second and start the third round Margarita Pizza oo love the margarita P now it's it's thin it's thin again um and and here's what I like I like like what what toppings but also in cases like this one oil right olive oil like like you get like I'm talking about the young Joanie experience here right you go but they're all and Margarita Pizza is my second pick oh let's see what else what else should I pick I've got a list here I you could draft like young Joanie pizza if you wanted to yeah but they have different ones that that's fine I got one and this is going to sound like what but this can be done up in very intriguing ways the veggie pizza okay so a vegetarian pizza now now you're thinking well that's boring right but they're not like there are some great toppings are you out on any are you like artichokes black olives so you're in on all of it bring it on yeah I personally love I'm not going to draft this and I know I have the next pick so I'd be safe regardless uh like I love green olives and Canadian bacon on my pizza that's my go-to but I'm well aware that that is speaking of like we just talked about universally loved Pizza I can't order that pizza for a group they won't eat the pizza if I'm ordering it for myself I'm getting that pizza that's a good call I think pineapple on Pizza is something that people debate a l very very controversial it's very good I have no problem no problem with pineapp very good zero I'm indifferent I wouldn't say I I like I definitely don't seek it out but if there's pineapple on the pizza I'll eat it Dawn's a fan where I'm at and I am fine with it yeah mhm we're back to Dean here for his last pick all right uh last pick for me extra cheese I love extra cheese on pizza I love me a cheesy ass Pizza dude I I I love that's that's also a go-to on any pizza I order I want the toppings and I want the extra cheese so extra cheese in my pizza reminds me of a former colleague of ours who would not have cheese on anything including pizza and I remember I said are you lactose intolerant and and and he got indignant no I just don't like cheesee yeah that's the so it's Tom peliso we can throw him under the bus here uh Tom just yeah I thought the same thing like oh lactose intolerant no I just don't like cheese got pissed off like I've answered this before it's like I didn't know dude and you're you're weird not me that's first person I've ever seen order a pizza not like without cheese not because of lactose intolerance but because of just right right and like some kids don't like cheese but but then they grow up and are like oh okay cheese is is fine you know Tom at that point was 30 probably and he's like I don't like cheese at all I'm like how can you not like cheese you know now now if if you have a lactose problem totally different story agreed yeah oh man there's PE there's so many suggestions in here I've never had this where is this here bad dad joke Sarpino's cream cheese pizza that's uh going be me dog well okay it depends on what's on it with the cream cheese if you did if you did veggies like I wouldn't want meat I don't think on that but if you did cream cheese pizza with veggies I could see it and then another one from Bad Dad jug Gina Mar Gina Maria's great Minnesota style pizza taco pizza a lot of work it's a whole thing yeah yeah there's it tastes fine it's just a lot of work I feel like I prefer the taco toppings elsewhere okay I feel like there's three more rounds left of options here so I'm going to I have it's wide open I've got I have four different ones on my big board right now I have four left yeah me too on my board yeah so you're right that's what I'm saying y but I'm done all right I'm going to go I'm going to go General here someone's got to draft cold pizza okay so I will select cold pizza with the final pick in the 2024 purple daily Pizza snake draft so here's what we have here are the teams and voting will be as always on the the scor nor Twitter account shortly after this show is done live on the purple daily YouTube channel Jud winds up with neapolitan pizza margarita pizza and veggie pizza that's right DEA winds up with New York style pepperoni and extra cheese and then I wind up with sausage deep dish uh Minnesota style supreme pizza so the square cut and then cold pizza and those are the those are the rosters anecdotally I'm trying to see if anyone is getting shredded in the comment section I saw some I saw some very um very nasty comments towards me how about sauerkraut on Pizza yes sausage and sourkraut from Red seavoy is one of my also a go to Pizza ours yeah early returns here we got a Jud wins and a Dean wins we'll see on the we'll see on the I got shredded by by some I will say I didn't pick this but as as far as as far as take-home pizzas go heggies is probably my winner he is a very good frozen pizza a good oh my God a great beer so so here's my thing with pizza especially my test and and this is why I don't like deep dish can I drink a bunch of beer and eat this pizza and that's where like deep dish I get I can't do it cuz like I'm so full like one piece I'm like I got to take a nap my favorite Disney movie of all time is the Goofy movie love the the Goofy movie and there's a scene people the Millennials know what I'm talking about here or anyone who's seen that movie there's a scene where Max and his buddy are having pizza and the cheese just like dripping off the pizza I have been seeking out that pizza for 31 and a half years that's awes I want that pizza can't find it just for fun what what was left on your guys big boards that D I'll give you mine these are the ones that were left all right and not counting Brands cuz like none of us did a particular place or brand if if we did Brands heggies would have been high oh yeah brand would been fun yeah but uh barbecue chicken thin crust that's how my list those on mine that's on my list breakfast pizza I'll dabble in a breakfast pizza I didn't think of that one that's a gr that's great I love yeah and then as a genro Woodfired so you mentioned like young Janie you know there's different places Red Rabbit does Woodfired I've got I've got California style pizza and Hawaiian pizza see I I wish somebody would gone Hawaiian just just to see the voting cuz cuz there's a Die Hard group of oh yeah there's there's the never Hawaiian group but then there's the always cheese stuffed crust no that was on my list I had I had stuffed crust uh stuffed cheesed CR is that still around or no yeah I think so you can still get it also a style I don't even know if we can clud this the style but drunk Pizza I mean oh yeah oh drunk drunk Pizza is also yeah you could I think you could have drafted drunk P I think we could have drafted that that was that I had it on my list as well it's just drunk pizza coming home tell the amount of times can't tell you the am exactly oh my God and and you wake up the next day and you're like oh my God I just basically ate a whole pizza and now back to back back to the treadmill I guess all right there's the snake draft the pizza snake draft at some point we got to do a state fair food snake draft maybe we do that tomorrow at the state fair oh dude great idea look at that we do it at the State Fair we could even we could even welcome some other listeners on we could do like the three of us plus a handful of people that are live on site it' be kind of fun so yeah if uh maybe you just join this live stream late we are going to be at the Minnesota State Fair tomorrow so Saturday August 24th uh the carousel Park stage it's this massive stage with a bunch of benches and it's kind of by that bridge right in the middle of the state fair I feel like and we'll be there at 10:15 tomorrow morning throughout the hour talking Vikings hanging out with you guys so come join us bring the family if you want maybe the sports dad to hold your young child awkwardly I pay for that no I'm not holding kids no do not bring your kids I will not I do not have any interest in holding your child I'll say hi but that's it I'm not holding any kids hello hello all right that's a wrap feedback Friday snake draft Friday here purple daily daily Vikings entertainment we just want the Vikings to win a Super Bowl before we die