and Hello, welcome to the Vikings actually have a schedule podcast, Matthew Collar here along with Paul Hoduanic of WCCo radio.

Paul we've got football games in order to discuss which is sort of funny because we

had all the opponents but once they're in an actual order then it feels very real how are you Paul?

Yes, I I can feel the football I am ready I am ready to talk about these games and I'm excited

are the Vikings gonna go better than 9 and 8 Matt let's find out let's find out

all right so week one we'll get right into it.

We will go game by game, talk about the biggest storylines

and give our predictions.

I have also ranked these games on the website

by their difficulty, so if you want to go check that out please do. Green Bay Packers could not start out with a better opponent for Kevin O'Connell to debut at U.S. Bank Stadium. Get it out of the way right away.

And also, Paul, I think it's good from the perspective of

maybe Aaron Rogers is doing the same thing he did last off season.

Like maybe he's partying in Hawaii with more celebrities

and is not going to come out and set the world on fire.

I mean in 2020 he did against a bunch of rookie defensive backs for the Vikings.

So I guess maybe that theory doesn't hold up very well.

But last year he played extremely poorly early in the season

and then took a while before he got going from an atmosphere

perspective everybody will be jacked up for the new coaching staff a new era

here in Minnesota I think that the Vikings couldn't have drawn it up any better.

You know that you have to play Green Bay twice.

How about make one of them at home right off the bat?

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