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Your Minnesota Vikings have traveled down to a hot and humid South Beach to play the Miami Dolphins. The Vikings are a slight favorite versus Skylar Thompson. Will he make them pay? The defense has opportunities to put pressure on the young QB. Will they? Will Kirktober continue? Kirk Cousins has been hot in October, but will the heat and humidity be too much? Justin Jefferson leads the league in receiving yards. Does he continue to widen his lead? Will Dalvin Cook have another great day in this stadium? He has a history of huge games here. All these questions and yours will be answered on Climbing The Pocket’s "The Final Score" streaming live at the final 2-minute warning. 1) Highlights 2) Lowlights 3) Speed round and your questions 4) What’s ahead The Final Score [the name for CTP’s Postgame show] is here. There are 4 regulars and the occasional guest. The focus will be on you the fan, and how you felt the team did—hopefully racking up the wins in the regular season. Today, Jonas, Tyler, and Dave will be

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Your Minnesota Vikings are back home in the friendly confines of U.S. Bank Stadium taking on the division nemesis, the Chicago Bears. Will the Vikings get the win and sweep the NFC North at home so far this season? They did, 29-22. Will the defensive line have their biggest pressure day of the season? Nope. Will they fail the team? Almost, but for another 4th quarter comeback by Kirk Cousins. Will the offense score their most points of the season? They did, 29. Will the Bears cause the team problems like they always seem to do? They did as usual. All these questions and yours are to be answered on Climbing The Pocket’s The Final Score going live at the final 2-minute warning. 1) Highlights 2) Lowlights 3) Speed round and your questions 4) What’s ahead The Final Score [the name for CTP’s Postgame show] is here. There are 4 regulars and the occasional guest. The focus will be on you the fan, and how you felt the team did—hopefully racking up the wins in the regular season. Today, Matt Anderson, Flip Mazzi, Ja

In this episode of Two Old Bloggers, we ask the question of what’s wrong with Kirk Cousins. Kirk has been a different player since the arrival of Kevin O’Connell. All his normal stat metrics like yards thrown, touchdowns, QBR, Football Outsiders DVOA, and Pro Football Focus grades are down after the first 4 weeks of the season. Is something wrong with him? He may be declining like other quarterbacks such as Russell Wilson. Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers have spoiled fans with how long a QB can play but normally most start to decline as they get into their 30s. Or is all of this the transitional growing pains of migrating from a Kevin Stefanski/Gary Kubiak/Klint Kubiak offense to a Kevin O’Connell-called offense? The reading of progressions has changed, and Kirk has publicly talked about that. Even Kirk’s biggest detractors have pointed out however that he has improved in the only stat that matters this season, QB wins. He even has two fourth-quarter comebacks. Is he declining or is it just hiccups in the transit

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Your Minnesota Vikings have traveled to England to play the New Orleans Saints at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Will they get a more even play distribution to their weapons? Partially. Will Justin Jefferson return closer to week 1 JJ? He did with 10 receptions for 187 yards and a 3-yard run sweep for a touchdown. Will Adam Thielen prove the crafty vet that can bail out Kirk Cousins? He did numerous times. Can the offensive line continue to improve? At first look, they had a hard time today and it constantly left Kirk Cousins feeling the pressure. Can the defense stop a 4th down conversion? This is still a question and they did give up one conversion. All these questions and more are to be answered on Climbing The Pocket’s The Final Score going live at the final 2-minute warning. 1) Highlights 2) Lowlights 3) Speed round and your questions 4) What’s ahead The Final Score [the name for CTP’s Postgame show] is here. There are 4 regulars and the occasional guest. The focus will be on you the fan, and how you felt

Over the last two games, Justin Jefferson’s production has been way down versus the breakout game in the season opener. He has only caught 9 passes for 62 yards and no TDs when he caught over twice that much, 9 for 184 and 2 TDs in week 1. Is there a problem? Yes, there is, and we will “tell” you all about it on this Vikings at New Orleans Saints in the London edition of Two Old Bloggers.  On this Climbing The Pocket pregame show, your Minnesota Vikings got their second win against the Detroit Lions last week in a close game. They had to come back from behind twice it was a gutsy performance, and we have Dan Campbell to thank for it, at least partially.  So far in the three games, what do you think about Kevin O’Connell and how the team has done? Do you like it? Are there some concerns? Why does it look really similar to what the previous offensive coordinators used to do? Darren and Dave will then get into breaking down the Vikings at the Saints in London and what you all can expect, should the Vikings wi

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Your Minnesota Vikings are back home in the loving embrace of US Bank Stadium to play the Detroit Lions in this NFC North matchup. Will the Vikings bounce back after Monday’s loss today? Yes. Has coach Kevin O’Connell looked at what went wrong and how to fix it? He did, at least some of it. Will he learn lessons from watching not only that game but both Lions games to date? Starting to. Will he have Kirk Cousins playing with the calm mind he has talked about? When it counted. Will Dalvin Cook and Adam Thielen get the ball more? They did. All these questions and more to be answered on Climbing The Pocket’s The Final Score going live at the final 2 minute warning. 1) Highlights 2) Lowlights 3) Speed round and your questions 4) What’s ahead The Final Score [the name for CTP’s Postgame show] is ready for the season. There are 4 new regulars and the occasional guest. The focus will be on you the fan, and how you felt the team did—hopefully racking up the wins in the regular season. Today, Matt Anderson, Flip Maz

On this Two Old Bloggers, the Minnesota Vikings got humiliated on Monday Night Football when the Philadelphia Eagles ran all over the team and the offense had ‘bad’ Kirk show up. As Glover Quin said earlier in the week, the key to winning against the Vikings isn’t to take Justin Jefferson and Adam Thielen out; it is to take the run game out by scoring early and, most importantly, the biggest of keys… make Kirk Cousins uncomfortable. Do that and everything will fall in place. We all knew that the defense was going to be the weaker of the two units, but the offense needed to make up the difference, and by no means did they do that. We expect better! Are you worried about the results? How about the early results from Kwesi Adofo-Mensah’s 2022 draft class? The Vikings’ #1 draft pick has not seen any significant time. Sunday against the Lions with Harrison ‘Hitman’ Smith already being called out, you’d think he would get the start but it looks 5th rounder Josh Metellus will get the call. Does that bother you? We

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Your Minnesota Vikings are in “the city of brotherly love” playing the Philadelphia Eagles. Are they going to see love or the more traditional rancor of Eagles fans? Hopefully, Kevin O’Connell has his playbook working generating all sorts of love in Vikings fans. Can the Eagles guard Justin Jefferson? Will Dalvin Cook have a big night? Can the Vikings' Ed Donatell-led defense clip the Eagles' wings on the ground and in the air? Will they put a hurting on Jalen Hurts? We will watch and find out, then go live in the final 2 minutes of the game with the entire crew and you! 1) Highlights 2) Lowlights 3) Speed round and your questions 4) What’s ahead The Final Score [the name for CTP’s Postgame show] is ready for the season. There are 4 new regulars and the occasional guest. The focus will be on you the fan, and how you felt the team did—hopefully racking up the wins in the regular season. Today, Matt Anderson, Flip Mazzi, Jayson Brown, and Dave will be here. Did you like what you saw? Fan with us!!! Regulars