All right, we welcome back into the show for, I don't know, fifth, six, seven time.

Former college linebacker now a senior data scientist with Sumer Sports.

Sam Brookhouse, it is great to have you back on the show, sir.

How are we doing, man?

What a start to the season.

College NFL, we got madness everywhere.

Everything we thought was wrong.

It's football season.

Proving myself right and then finding out I'm wrong is both such a beautiful and great feeling.

And that's happened like 10 to 20 times already this season.

And it's only week four, Matthew.

So I'm really excited to discuss some of the excellent stuff that has been going on with you today.

Yeah, I feel like at some point in my life as a journalist, I stopped trying to be right and just sort of like,

let's just see what happens. Let's just all strap ourselves into this ride that's the NFL and we'll

try to figure it out on a weekly basis, but it's always going to show us that sometimes the Atlanta

Falcons can whoop the Vikings and then lose 30 to nothing the next week

to an 0 and 2 football team.

So since you are a senior data scientist now at Sumer Sports, though, I am very curious

about some of the data with the Minnesota Vikings because three weeks is a tiny sample size.

One season is a tiny sample size sometimes, as we know. And when one player takes back two touchdowns in the first half on defense, I think that's going to throw off some of the numbers for what it says about the Vikings defense. But what I've really noticed is how much the defense has stepped up in these first

couple of weeks and has carried them to being a two and one football team. So I'm very

interested about your observations just from the Vikings as a as a as a data point in the NFL.

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