Hey, it's Zach Clark, producer of the Detroit Football Network Podcast with Justin

Rogers, Mike Stone and Will Birchfield, and I have some bonus content for you. But before we get there make sure you

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as the Lions march towards the playoffs.

Today's bonus content is a conversation between stony and

e-spn.com Minnesota Vikings beat writer Kevin Seifert.

All right, it is time for the Detroit Football Network Podcast, the stony interview portion of the show,

without Justin or Birch Field, the Birchy Kid as we call Will.

We're joined by Kevin Seifert who if you follow

E-SPN at all, E-S-PN.com he's been covering the NFC north and

particular the Vikings for it seems like a decade. Kevin thanks for joining us appreciate it.

Thanks for having me it has been decades but good to see you.

Before the season started did you ever imagine that this game would be what it is five and oh Vikings against four and one lions?

No, I mean this was I had been saying this prior to the season this was like the least anticipated Vikings

season that I can remember. Part of that was because of how strong the NFC North was expected

to be. Part of that was that the Vikings were looking at a season of starting

Sam Darnell, the quarterback, and he had never really had any extended success in

his entire career.

And part of it, it was a really tough schedule when you looked at it on paper and it has turned out that way they've done well with it, but they played San Francisco already, they played Houston, they had a game at Green Bay, and then had you know the lions coming on the other side

So we were trying to figure out how many games they would win in the first half of the

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