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because they save fans money by never charging service fees ever. Oh, Matthew Collar along with Sam Ekstrom. We just wrapped up Mike Zimmer's press conference.

There's a few things we talk about from there. Also I put a poll out about whether Vikings fans would want to face Arizona or Green Bay in the playoffs

and got some interesting responses from that that I want to discuss and one of Pro Football

focuses analytics guys

says that the opposing NFC team

should be rooting for the Vikings to miss the playoffs.

So I want to discuss whether we agree with that statement or not.

But Sam, COVID it be lurking everywhere in the

NFL everywhere in sports right now the wild game is shut down. They've got practice squad guys who are on the

COVID list. D.D. Westbrook is on it. Dan Chisna was put on Alexander Madison yesterday and Madison will not be able to play I believe because of his

vaccination status but the other ones I guess we'll see and also the Chicago Bears Eddie Goldman who usually eats the Vikings alive, he's on the list,

as well as several other of their players as well.

And I guess the question to start off with is how much this affects the Vikings going forward, but also because the

NFL going to have to stop some games here from happening? I mean this seems like

we are having COVID absolutely everywhere in pro sports right now.

Yeah, it's concerning at this point in the season, you hate to see games getting affected by large numbers of absences.

I mean, the Rams, you know, now they won the game last night,

so clearly it didn't affect them too much,

but losing guys, day of game, they've got Beckham now on the list. them

in the losing guys day of game they've got Beckham now on the list and that could very easily affect them in the Vikings Rams game next week.

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