and So I want to talk about this situation the Vikings are in because, you know, where the irony exists to me is that there's still very much of the playoff race, Sam. I just talked to a guy who covers Washington today, which you'll hear later on the podcast.

And we were talking about this playoff race.

Does it feel like weirdly inappropriate to talk about the playoff race

after you lose to Detroit.

And yet it's very much in play,

like it's not out of the realm of possibility at all,

particularly because Philadelphia and Washington

play each other two times and if they split those

games it leaves the door open for the Vikings to beat the Steelers, beat the

bears and go into the post season and I know that people have said hey they couldn't beat Detroit are they gonna beat Pittsburgh and the bears I mean look up Pittsburgh in the bears like they're not good they're I mean

Rothusberger has struggled all year long and I don't

if it's Andy Dalton or Justin Fields either one of those quarterbacks I think Mike Zimmer has a

decent chance of messing with defensively.

There's no stout offensive lines here that are going to steamroll the Vikings defensive line,

but yet I still feel very funny about switching from fire everybody this all must end which was our conversation the

other day to hey but you know they are kind of in the playoff race yeah what's it called when you've got that little that little tracer that like you hook up to your pulse and it's like an echo cardiogram?

I might be wrong about that, not a doctor, but like the Viking season it's like, yep, they've got a pulse,

no they don't, lost two, one two, lost two, one two, and they've just got this like

pendulum that keeps on swinging and now now we're facing, I think another very realistic

two-game stretch where, yeah, they could win them both.

And they could be going into a day after Christmas must win against the Rams at home.

That would be a fun game.

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