all right welcome in to the first Tuesday morning left guard of the year with myself

matthew collar jeremiah surles former minnesota viking where we break down a football game

and my understanding mr surles is that you got a little bit of mixed emotions

about this football game. I don't know how to feel, Matthew. I honestly don't know. Like,

I woke up this morning being like, did that, did I watch three quarters of Iowa football and then

one quarter of NFL football? Like, I'm so confused of what I witnessed last night. And like, talk about a 24-hour shift of watching Sunday night football, Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson exchange haymakers. And then the first three quarters of just a pillow fight between Caleb Williams and J.J. McCarthy. Like, it was just one of these things. It was like, am I buying this? Like, am I willing to take the 12 minutes in that fourth quarter and go, oh, I'm all in on this. I think this is going to be great. Or am I going to take the first three quarters and be like, what am I watching? I'm just, I'm so torn from a what to expect from this offense going forward. Well, why don't we, why don't we work backwards with this? Because the headline is the last thing that we saw.

The most important thing is the last thing that we saw that they won the football game.

One and O, apologize to no one for victories in the National Football League, Jeremiah.

What was it about the fourth quarter in your estimation that worked?

You know, I kind of, I went back and I watched again this morning and there was a turning point.

And the turning point was, unfortunately for Bears fans' misery, the terrible holding call on Darnell Wright.

Like that is not a hold in any stretch of imagination.

That is a beautifully executed trap technique where you knock his

hands down. Like from that point on, the Vikings hit the gas pedal and the bears imploded.

And so for me, I look at that moment and go, okay, there's bad calls in every single game.

Every game has an up and down of bad calls that go one way or the other. The teams that can overcome those

bad calls are good teams and the teams that can implode are bad teams. And you saw last night the

difference between a 14 win team last year that went into the playoffs and a team that won five games.

And I think that for me shows a culture and it shows that Ben Johnson has a lot of work to do in that building. And it shows the belief that that team has in Kevin O'Connell and what they built there in Minnesota. And so you look from that moment on, the bears were anemic. Like they were completely anemic on offense. It's like it just zapped the sales, because went holding intentional grounding, missed field goal, right down the field and scored. And that just shows

me a resilience from this Vikings team as a whole, not just JJ McCarthy, of just finding a way

to hang in there when things aren't going well. And then when you finally get a rhythm, gas pedal

down and go. Right. So I think that we can all acknowledge that if the opponent is not the Chicago Bears

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