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Learn more at Liquiddeath.com. Insider. Hello welcome to the final Minnesota Vikings post-game show of the 2022 season.

The Vikings lose in their lone playoff game to the New York Giants 31 to 24 and Matthew

collar Paul Hoduanic here as always and I have to tell you something Paul to

start this I'm really kind of in shock I mean not in shock that they lost but we

just became so used to the way these things went that at some point in the

fourth quarter sitting next to me as always

as Judd's all get and I said to Judd I think what's going to happen is they'll get a

stop they'll punt the ball back the Vikings will tie this game will go to overtime and then the Vikings will win the coin flip.

They will kick a 43 yard field goal after Justin Jefferson gets a big gain and then I will

book a trip out to Santa Clara to see them play the San Francisco 49ers and we will spend the whole week talking about how there's no way they beat the 49ers.

And that's how I saw it going.

Until the final throw that was short of the sticks and we'll talk about that and what Kevin O'Connell had to say about it.

But even when Kirk Cousins made that throw to TJ Hawkins' my brain said I must have the down wrong I must think that it's third down because there's no way that he just did that after a season in which Kirk cousins took his game to a different level in the key moments.

That was very much quintessential of a 2018 through

2022 Kirk Cousins moment where he plays spectacularly through the whole game and then when they

need it at the very end and their defense has failed them repeatedly again we'll get to it.

That he just that's not what he does anymore that there's so many weapons that this team has so many clutch players and boy none more than t.J.

Hawkinson on this day who was all over the place made play after play in the clutch,

third and fourth down conversions over and over again.

And I just could not compute.

And I was looking around like at the scoreboard and at the sidelines and it's like that that's it that's it it's over the season is all right there the season is over what that's how it ends and it is. And now everyone looks around in kind of a state of shock. I mean, Kevin O'Connell said that he believed all the way to the end, all the way to the last play, that they were going to score a touchdown and that they were going to go to overtime and he looked kind of shook up and

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