December 31, 2024 • 15 mins
Minnesota Tim discusses his personal struggles with injury while delivering a passionate podcast. He reflects on the Minnesota Vikings' recent victory over the Green Bay Packers, emphasizing the celebration in the locker room and the implications of such celebrations on team mentality. Tim also previews the upcoming game against the Detroit Lions, highlighting the strategic advantage the Vikings have due to extra rest and preparation time.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the show, everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I might not be one hundred percent today, but I
am here to deliver through injury, through persecution, through suffering.
I don't want anyone to ever say once again that
I didn't give my heart, my soul, my everything to
this podcast while I battle through a challenging injury both
(00:27):
physically and mentally this afternoon. And I'm gonna show you
this injury in one second. Are you ready for this?
Because you might want to close your eyes. You might
want to hide your children. If you know watching graphic
call photos or graphical videos of NFL players getting injured
(00:51):
makes you cringe a little bit, you might want to
close your eyes for the next five to ten seconds.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Are hear this? Yeah? See that right there.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
My finger got pricked this morning because I needed a
wellness exam before the year was over to get a
decrease in the premium that we pay for my iHeartMedia
health insurance. So, despite the challenges, despite the uphill battle
(01:27):
just to sit down in this chair, I am mentally
and physically preparing myself to endure all battles and deliver
another beautiful podcast to you today. All right, The topics
that I want to discuss. One of the topics coming
up is the Minnesota Vikings massive advantage against the Detroit
(01:52):
Lions on Sunday. It's a big advantage that the Minnesota
Vikings had no control over and they have really been
given a gift when we analyze and examine this massive
matchup ahead of this football game. But first I want
(02:12):
to talk about the celebration in the Minnesota Vikings locker
room following their victory twenty seven to twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Five over the Green Bay Packers. A few things.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
This is the first time the Vikings swept the Packers
since twenty seventeen. This is the first time ever that
a quarterback has won fourteen games in their first season
with a new team. A little background information. Sam Donald
after the game, of course, is being interviewed by Tom
Ornaldi and Tom Brady of Fox, and the team was
(02:48):
waiting to celebrate.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
With Sam Donald. They were hanging out in the locker room.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
They were high five in each other, I'm sure, and
waiting patiently for Donald to finish up his postgame interviews
so they could celebrate together.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's awesome. That's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
It's very cool to wait for your bridge quarterback that's
now turned into a one hundred plus million dollar man
this offseason, either from the Vikings or from another team,
unless the Vikings franchise take him. So he comes into
the locker room and the team goes nuts, And I
(03:32):
got a short snippet of the video right here for
you if you have not yet seen it. They lift
Sam Donald up like he's rudy coming off of the
Notre Dame football field and water spraying everywhere, his hair
(03:56):
is soaked.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
They're chanting and singing a song.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
And this went on for a lot longer than the
ten second snippet that I just shared with you. Kevin
o'conn sitting on the side, nodding, laughing, smiling, seeing his
team celebrate and hoist up a quarterback that's been on
so many different destinations that so many teams have given
(04:22):
up on. And my takeaway from all of this is
have your fun. Do what you gotta do. If they
want to have fun, have fun. If you want to
hoist Sam Darnold up over your shoulders like you just
won the super Bowl, go ahead and do it. But
the messages it sends me is that this shows me
(04:45):
that you have never actually won anything significant during your
NFL career, if you're celebrating like you just won a
Super Bowl following a victory over the Packers, in which
the season is not even over. You're fourteen and two
(05:05):
and being a wild card team going on the road
against the Rams, the Buccaneers and another team I think
is still an option, and you're celebrating like this, do it,
have your fun, go crazy, do whatever you want to do.
(05:25):
But the message it sends me is that you've never
won anything before. You don't know what it's like to
win a Super Bowl. You don't know that feeling or
have that experience of making it to an NFC championship
game or hoisting the Lobardi Trophy. Because when you celebrate
(05:47):
like that, you are celebrating small victories.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
At a super Bowl victory level. Because you don't see.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Patch Mahomes celebrating like that after defeating a divisional opponent
they're Chargers or Broncos. He don't see Tom Brady during
his NFL career celebrating like that after he beat the
Jets or the Bills. Because these guys are super Bowl
champions and they have Super Bowl aspirations. I remember one time,
(06:23):
long ago, I think it was in two thousand and six.
We're going back to the NBA a little bit here.
Two thousand and six, the Dallas Mavericks defeated the Spurs
in the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Derk Davitsky.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
The Mavericks, they celebrated like they just won the finals,
and they lost in the finals to the Heat in
six when Dwayne Wade went off with Shaq as his
second guy. Fast forward five years to twenty eleven, the
Mavericks are in the exact same position. They win the
(07:01):
Western Conference Finals. Do you know who's not celebrating like
they just won the NBA Finals?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Dirk Novitski. And do you know why?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Because he felt the ache and the pain of losing
an NBA Finals in six and was not celebrating too
early in twenty eleven, he saved his big celebration for
the NBA.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Championship, in which he won.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It's a mindset thing, and right now, this mindset from
the Minnesota Vikings of celebrating this hard after a regular
season victory, it's not to my liking.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You know, do whatever you want. I'm not gonna hate
you for it.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But is it the mentality that I would have fourteen
and two, still got one massive game against the Lions
to determine who's the number one seed in the NFC,
and you're celebrating like you just hoisted the Lombardi Trophy.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It just doesn't sit right with me.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I just don't like that feeling of, you know what,
let's just celebrate and hoist Sam Donald up and sing
some songs and sing kumbah Yah, like we've accomplished something
this year. Because at the end of the day, what
have the Vikings accomplished? And that's what the greats recognize.
Mahomes and Brady and Novitski, the greats recognize when it's
(08:30):
time to celebrate. The greats recognized what are legitimate accomplishments.
Because defeating the Packers sweeping them is awesome, it's a
great story. Fourteen and two is unbelievable. Sam Donald being
an MVP top five candidate this year is nothing anyone expected,
(08:57):
and it's great. But when you celebrate like this, you
send the wrong signals and the wrong messages to your
teammates and to the fan base. Whatever, we won nothing,
and they're celebrating like they just won the championship. Do
it all, dude, whatever, have fun, But this tells me
(09:20):
that you've never actually won anything significant before. This reminds
me of the Minnesota Timberwolves a few years ago. They
were playing a play in game against the Los Angeles Clippers.
This is with Pat Beverly, Anthony Edwards calling Anthony Towns
the Timberwolves hadn't done much and forever before this happened,
(09:44):
and they win the game.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
D'Angelo Russell goes off in this game.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And here's the Minnesota Timberwolves, specifically Pat Beverly after the.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Game on the planefs.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Pat Beverley jumping on the scoreboard, taking out of his jersey,
throwing it into the crowd, walking off the.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Court in tears.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Wait, wait, after winning a playoff game, playing game, excuse me,
a playing game just to get into the playoffs, he
walks off the court in tears.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
That tells me that.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Pat Bev has never done anything significant in his NBA career.
If he's celebrating these small moments that massively. Same thing
with the Vikings, it tells me that they have not
done anything that significant. If they're celebrating these small victories
(11:05):
that huge, if they're pulling out the entire bag of
celebrations when they advanced to fourteen and two.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
That's just me, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
The next thing, I wanted to talk about the Minnesota
Vikings and their big advantage against the Detroit Lions. So
the Lions played the San Francisco forty nine Ers on
Monday night, a meaningless game from all angles. The Joe
(11:38):
Buck Troy Aikman crew had a tough time making interesting
narratives because it was a meaningless game for the Lions
and it was a meaningless game for the forty nine ers.
So how do you come with an interesting storyline? Well,
the Lions played all their starters, so I guess that's
the storyline. Do you risk getting them into do you
risk playing them like it's a preseason game? And Campbell
(12:01):
played him? Of course he does. That's what Campbell does.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I haven't thought about that take or opinion, so you know,
whatever it is. But here's the big advantage of the
Minnesota Vikings got against the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And there's a tweet from Kevin Seaffert.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Vikings walked off the field yesterday Sunday at seven to
twenty four pm. Eastern Lions kicked off tonight in San
Francisco at eight sixteen PM Eastern, almost twenty five hours later,
and he continues for a game that will be previewed
from all angles. It's notable that Vikings players are resting
(12:43):
today on victory Monday after a home game, while the
Lions are in San Francisco awaiting tonight's game followed by
a light flight back to Detroit. Vikings have thirty more
hours of rest time. That's a big deal, especially from
the Detroit Lions perspective. We're talking about a team that
(13:06):
has been struggling with injuries mightily on the defensive side
of the ball. An offensive lead Detroit will be fine.
They put up points every week. But for the Detroit
Lions are who are already decimated with injuries to have
(13:27):
less rest time, not just by like a few hours
and on afternoon to noon kickoff, We're talking about over
a day, thirty more hours of rest and prep. The
Minnesota Vikings got more than the Detroit Lions, and we're
talking thirteen, fourteen to fifteen guys injured on the Detroit
(13:48):
Lions defense. This is a big advantage for the Minnesota Vikings,
and it's a big advantage that they receive not because
of their own doing, but because of the NFL schedule makers,
probably before the season. They're thinking, you know what, the Vikings,
they're not gonna be in it late. It's gonna be
the Lions Division all the way from game one to
(14:08):
Game seventeen to the season.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
And you know what, this will be a toss up
easy game. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
The Vikings get a huge advantage before this game even
starts because they got rest time and flying out from
the West Coast back to Michigan. You played all the starters, Campbell,
played all the starters, and now they have to figure
(14:35):
out how to game plan against the Minnesota Vikings high
flying offense with a defense that's already decimated with injuries.
Oh and now you got thirty plus hours less of
prep time and rest time and recovery time to prepare
for Jefferson, Addison, Hockinson, Donald on a heater and an
(14:57):
offensive line that's been performing pretty well recently.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Oh that stinks for the Lions. Stinks bad for the Lions.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
And it is a big, big deal for our Minnesota Vikings,
who are hoping to clinch the number one seed following
this matchup. So big things ahead and it's going to
be a very exciting game.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
A preview will be out later this week.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Thank you for watching this episode and for making this
podcast a part of your day.
Welcome to the show, everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I might not be one hundred percent today, but I
am here to deliver through injury, through persecution, through suffering.
I don't want anyone to ever say once again that
I didn't give my heart, my soul, my everything to
this podcast while I battle through a challenging injury both
(00:27):
physically and mentally this afternoon. And I'm gonna show you
this injury in one second. Are you ready for this?
Because you might want to close your eyes. You might
want to hide your children. If you know watching graphic
call photos or graphical videos of NFL players getting injured
(00:51):
makes you cringe a little bit, you might want to
close your eyes for the next five to ten seconds.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Are hear this? Yeah? See that right there.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
My finger got pricked this morning because I needed a
wellness exam before the year was over to get a
decrease in the premium that we pay for my iHeartMedia
health insurance. So, despite the challenges, despite the uphill battle
(01:27):
just to sit down in this chair, I am mentally
and physically preparing myself to endure all battles and deliver
another beautiful podcast to you today. All right, The topics
that I want to discuss. One of the topics coming
up is the Minnesota Vikings massive advantage against the Detroit
(01:52):
Lions on Sunday. It's a big advantage that the Minnesota
Vikings had no control over and they have really been
given a gift when we analyze and examine this massive
matchup ahead of this football game. But first I want
(02:12):
to talk about the celebration in the Minnesota Vikings locker
room following their victory twenty seven to twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Five over the Green Bay Packers. A few things.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
This is the first time the Vikings swept the Packers
since twenty seventeen. This is the first time ever that
a quarterback has won fourteen games in their first season
with a new team. A little background information. Sam Donald
after the game, of course, is being interviewed by Tom
Ornaldi and Tom Brady of Fox, and the team was
(02:48):
waiting to celebrate.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
With Sam Donald. They were hanging out in the locker room.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
They were high five in each other, I'm sure, and
waiting patiently for Donald to finish up his postgame interviews
so they could celebrate together.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's awesome. That's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
It's very cool to wait for your bridge quarterback that's
now turned into a one hundred plus million dollar man
this offseason, either from the Vikings or from another team,
unless the Vikings franchise take him. So he comes into
the locker room and the team goes nuts, And I
(03:32):
got a short snippet of the video right here for
you if you have not yet seen it. They lift
Sam Donald up like he's rudy coming off of the
Notre Dame football field and water spraying everywhere, his hair
(03:56):
is soaked.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
They're chanting and singing a song.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
And this went on for a lot longer than the
ten second snippet that I just shared with you. Kevin
o'conn sitting on the side, nodding, laughing, smiling, seeing his
team celebrate and hoist up a quarterback that's been on
so many different destinations that so many teams have given
(04:22):
up on. And my takeaway from all of this is
have your fun. Do what you gotta do. If they
want to have fun, have fun. If you want to
hoist Sam Darnold up over your shoulders like you just
won the super Bowl, go ahead and do it. But
the messages it sends me is that this shows me
(04:45):
that you have never actually won anything significant during your
NFL career, if you're celebrating like you just won a
Super Bowl following a victory over the Packers, in which
the season is not even over. You're fourteen and two
(05:05):
and being a wild card team going on the road
against the Rams, the Buccaneers and another team I think
is still an option, and you're celebrating like this, do it,
have your fun, go crazy, do whatever you want to do.
(05:25):
But the message it sends me is that you've never
won anything before. You don't know what it's like to
win a Super Bowl. You don't know that feeling or
have that experience of making it to an NFC championship
game or hoisting the Lobardi Trophy. Because when you celebrate
(05:47):
like that, you are celebrating small victories.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
At a super Bowl victory level. Because you don't see.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Patch Mahomes celebrating like that after defeating a divisional opponent
they're Chargers or Broncos. He don't see Tom Brady during
his NFL career celebrating like that after he beat the
Jets or the Bills. Because these guys are super Bowl
champions and they have Super Bowl aspirations. I remember one time,
(06:23):
long ago, I think it was in two thousand and six.
We're going back to the NBA a little bit here.
Two thousand and six, the Dallas Mavericks defeated the Spurs
in the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Derk Davitsky.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
The Mavericks, they celebrated like they just won the finals,
and they lost in the finals to the Heat in
six when Dwayne Wade went off with Shaq as his
second guy. Fast forward five years to twenty eleven, the
Mavericks are in the exact same position. They win the
(07:01):
Western Conference Finals. Do you know who's not celebrating like
they just won the NBA Finals?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Dirk Novitski. And do you know why?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Because he felt the ache and the pain of losing
an NBA Finals in six and was not celebrating too
early in twenty eleven, he saved his big celebration for
the NBA.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Championship, in which he won.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It's a mindset thing, and right now, this mindset from
the Minnesota Vikings of celebrating this hard after a regular
season victory, it's not to my liking.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You know, do whatever you want. I'm not gonna hate
you for it.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But is it the mentality that I would have fourteen
and two, still got one massive game against the Lions
to determine who's the number one seed in the NFC,
and you're celebrating like you just hoisted the Lombardi Trophy.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It just doesn't sit right with me.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I just don't like that feeling of, you know what,
let's just celebrate and hoist Sam Donald up and sing
some songs and sing kumbah Yah, like we've accomplished something
this year. Because at the end of the day, what
have the Vikings accomplished? And that's what the greats recognize.
Mahomes and Brady and Novitski, the greats recognize when it's
(08:30):
time to celebrate. The greats recognized what are legitimate accomplishments.
Because defeating the Packers sweeping them is awesome, it's a
great story. Fourteen and two is unbelievable. Sam Donald being
an MVP top five candidate this year is nothing anyone expected,
(08:57):
and it's great. But when you celebrate like this, you
send the wrong signals and the wrong messages to your
teammates and to the fan base. Whatever, we won nothing,
and they're celebrating like they just won the championship. Do
it all, dude, whatever, have fun, But this tells me
(09:20):
that you've never actually won anything significant before. This reminds
me of the Minnesota Timberwolves a few years ago. They
were playing a play in game against the Los Angeles Clippers.
This is with Pat Beverly, Anthony Edwards calling Anthony Towns
the Timberwolves hadn't done much and forever before this happened,
(09:44):
and they win the game.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
D'Angelo Russell goes off in this game.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And here's the Minnesota Timberwolves, specifically Pat Beverly after the.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Game on the planefs.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Pat Beverley jumping on the scoreboard, taking out of his jersey,
throwing it into the crowd, walking off the.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Court in tears.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Wait, wait, after winning a playoff game, playing game, excuse me,
a playing game just to get into the playoffs, he
walks off the court in tears.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
That tells me that.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Pat Bev has never done anything significant in his NBA career.
If he's celebrating these small moments that massively. Same thing
with the Vikings, it tells me that they have not
done anything that significant. If they're celebrating these small victories
(11:05):
that huge, if they're pulling out the entire bag of
celebrations when they advanced to fourteen and two.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
That's just me, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
The next thing, I wanted to talk about the Minnesota
Vikings and their big advantage against the Detroit Lions. So
the Lions played the San Francisco forty nine Ers on
Monday night, a meaningless game from all angles. The Joe
(11:38):
Buck Troy Aikman crew had a tough time making interesting
narratives because it was a meaningless game for the Lions
and it was a meaningless game for the forty nine ers.
So how do you come with an interesting storyline? Well,
the Lions played all their starters, so I guess that's
the storyline. Do you risk getting them into do you
risk playing them like it's a preseason game? And Campbell
(12:01):
played him? Of course he does. That's what Campbell does.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I haven't thought about that take or opinion, so you know,
whatever it is. But here's the big advantage of the
Minnesota Vikings got against the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And there's a tweet from Kevin Seaffert.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Vikings walked off the field yesterday Sunday at seven to
twenty four pm. Eastern Lions kicked off tonight in San
Francisco at eight sixteen PM Eastern, almost twenty five hours later,
and he continues for a game that will be previewed
from all angles. It's notable that Vikings players are resting
(12:43):
today on victory Monday after a home game, while the
Lions are in San Francisco awaiting tonight's game followed by
a light flight back to Detroit. Vikings have thirty more
hours of rest time. That's a big deal, especially from
the Detroit Lions perspective. We're talking about a team that
(13:06):
has been struggling with injuries mightily on the defensive side
of the ball. An offensive lead Detroit will be fine.
They put up points every week. But for the Detroit
Lions are who are already decimated with injuries to have
(13:27):
less rest time, not just by like a few hours
and on afternoon to noon kickoff, We're talking about over
a day, thirty more hours of rest and prep. The
Minnesota Vikings got more than the Detroit Lions, and we're
talking thirteen, fourteen to fifteen guys injured on the Detroit
(13:48):
Lions defense. This is a big advantage for the Minnesota Vikings,
and it's a big advantage that they receive not because
of their own doing, but because of the NFL schedule makers,
probably before the season. They're thinking, you know what, the Vikings,
they're not gonna be in it late. It's gonna be
the Lions Division all the way from game one to
(14:08):
Game seventeen to the season.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
And you know what, this will be a toss up
easy game. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
The Vikings get a huge advantage before this game even
starts because they got rest time and flying out from
the West Coast back to Michigan. You played all the starters, Campbell,
played all the starters, and now they have to figure
(14:35):
out how to game plan against the Minnesota Vikings high
flying offense with a defense that's already decimated with injuries.
Oh and now you got thirty plus hours less of
prep time and rest time and recovery time to prepare
for Jefferson, Addison, Hockinson, Donald on a heater and an
(14:57):
offensive line that's been performing pretty well recently.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Oh that stinks for the Lions. Stinks bad for the Lions.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
And it is a big, big deal for our Minnesota Vikings,
who are hoping to clinch the number one seed following
this matchup. So big things ahead and it's going to
be a very exciting game.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
A preview will be out later this week.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Thank you for watching this episode and for making this
podcast a part of your day.
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