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Learn more at Liquiddeath.com. Insider. Hello welcome to another one of those episodes where we talk about the Minnesota Vikings playing a very, very hyped up game and then coming out and no showing and giving up a gajillion points to a very competitive team and then we walk out and we talk about their point differential and we talk about what it all means and we say well that can't happen in the playoffs and then we go through every bad thing

that happened and then we try to go well maybe that won't happen because in a lot of

other games it didn't and we just do this thing that we've been doing all season long.

And we try to spin it forward toward the playoffs,

but we honestly have no idea which one of the Minnesota Vikings

teams are going to show up in the playoffs. Is it the team that beat the Buffalo

Bills and came back on the road against one of the best teams, if not in the NFL? Or is it the team that went to Philadelphia

or the team that played the Cowboys or the team that went to Philadelphia or the team that played the Cowboys or the team that went to Detroit or the team here against Green Bay that threw three interceptions allowed a kick return for touchdown.

Aaron Rogers had no problem throwing the football against the Vikings. They ran successfully.

Kirk Cousins got hit a bunch of times and Justin Jefferson got shut down, truly shut down in the worst way he has all season long as he and the rest of the Vikings put their skates on and slid around Lambo Field, which, you know, maybe they brought out the water beforehand and tried to water it all down.

That's kind of what it looked like at some points during this game with how much the Vikings were sliding around.

So we do know at least in the first round of the playoffs that that won't be happening at U.S. Bank Stadium. However, at the same time, they might have to go on the road in round two. In fact, that now looks extremely likely and the Vikings have now a decision to make about Chicago. Do you just throw up the white flag because of how beat up you were and we will discuss that as well injuries to Austin

Schlopman Garrett Bradbury has been out with a back injury and then what might be

serious with Brian O'Neill which could be really crushing to an offensive line

that has already given up a ton of hits to Kirk Cousins.

So injuries coming out of this one as well and that one injury from the very start of this game, Paul,

it really seemed to just completely throw them off.

And we've talked about at different times

how the offense has been entirely healthy outside

of missing Garrett Bradbury for a few games but Austin

Schlopman is an experienced center who's taken a lot of snaps all the way from the

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