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That app. Well, I've been saying it,

and the more I look around, Vikings excluded, the more I feel vindicated in just the fact that we should feel very good. A lot of teams right now that are not feeling super good,

and I don't just mean the bears who are just in a complete tailspin, like every off or every end of a season, which we'll get to,

hopefully, we'll see how time permitting. But I mean, they're absolutely spun up. But when you

look at what we did to Seattle, how much complete and total despair there is in Seattle because of what we did to them. When you look at Detroit and their fans, one of the best teams in football, potentially, but probably not anymore, if I'm being honest, the number one seed in the

NFC that at this point, their fans are sitting around saying, well, it's, it was fun while it lasted.

And there's just glimmers. And let me tell you something that's, that I think is going to start

happening. I saw that in, this must have changed,

because when I checked it, it was no longer the case, but Vikings fans were upset that ESPN gave

the Packers better Super Bowl odds. What's funny is, when I go over to New York Times and their simulator, Super Bowl odds are actually better for the Packers.

I think we're going to start seeing more and more of this, and Vikings fans are going to start becoming very, very upset.

Now, there's a very small window here, so there's a possibility this doesn't end up happening because we're going to play the Vikings. And if we play the Vikings and lose, then obviously this all comes to an end. And if we play the Vikings and win, then it's not going to be a big mystery why we're ahead of them. But here's the reality. And I'll go through and start pointing this out. I think what we're having in this offseason is very similar to what has been happening the last several years. The Vikings and lions and bears, I guess, if they happen to,

but they really just haven't ever been in this category. They're a good team that begins to dip as

the season goes on. They start to get worse and worse. The Packers are a team at the end of

the season that just gets better and better. And so what you have is a Packers team with a worse

record and people who are starting to notice that give them more respect. They'll look at the Vikings

and they'll say, yeah, the Packers are better and the Vikings fans will lose their mind because they

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