00:00He had some injuries over the weekend, obviously.
00:03We were telling you about Caleb Williams, but good news is they don't think it's anything
00:09long-term or serious, so maybe a day-to-day, week-to-week kind of situation there.
00:16The Vikings announced that Kyla Murray cleared the concussion protocol, and he is now named
00:23the starter already for week three versus the 0-2 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and we were just
00:31sitting here talking, and I'm trying to figure out why are you going from Carson Wentz, who
00:36was 12 of 19, a buck 33, and three touchdowns, no picks in that comeback win against Green
00:44Bay, and then he was just as efficient, 11 of 20, a buck 43, no turnovers against the
00:52Bears in that win yesterday.
00:55No turnovers is huge, so you go from a guy that knows the offense clearly, can see over
01:02the offensive line, and now you're going to put a guy in Kyla Murray who can't see over
01:07the offensive line, and how much you want to make a bet, interceptions and turnovers are
01:11coming, Scott.
01:13And let's not forget he threw an interception before he got the concussion, right?
01:17So he already started with Kyla Murray in Minnesota not actually doing well.
01:22So I don't get that either, Joe, unless there's something, you know, a handshake with 3-0 Toronto
01:28over Baltimore already, unless there's a handshake deal that, Kyla, you signed with us, and you're
01:34going to get every opportunity in the world to play, and then maybe even with Wentz, you
01:39know, when they signed him, you know, he was the third stringer, you know, two years ago,
01:44so maybe they thought, okay, maybe they put some stipulations in there, you know, you start
01:48a certain amount of games, you're going to get extra money.
01:51I don't know, it just seems like they're going out of their way.
01:54So, and it's a concussion, you don't want to screw around with a concussion, right?
01:57So if there ever was an injury that you want to take your time, you would think that would
02:00be it.
02:02But yeah, they seem hell-bent on going back to Kyla Murray, you know, against the Tampa
02:06Bay team that lost to the Browns yesterday, tied an NFL record, oh, by the way, 11 straight
02:12failed covers against the spread, going back, obviously, the last year.
02:150-11, which ties an NFL record.
02:17So, I don't know, if I'm Minnesota, I'm not screwing around.
02:20I'm just, Carson Wentz, you're doing okay, you keep playing.
02:24And Kyla, take an extra week, two weeks, whatever it is, to get completely healthy.
02:28You still got plenty the rest of the season?
02:30Seems kind of weird.
02:31It does.
02:33I don't get it, but okay, we'll see.
02:36I mean, they only signed him to a year contract, so we'll see how that goes in that spot there.
02:42I mean, 2-0 Minnesota, clearly.
02:46Aaron Jones, I think, was great yesterday, rushed for over 100 yards.
02:51There.
02:53Defensively, they can play with anybody, the Vikings.
02:56And now what happened?
02:57I mean, Tampa, I don't want to say must win, Scott, but is this not about as must win for
03:02Tampa as it comes?
03:04Can you start 0-3, even in that division, and come back?
03:08And if you're the Vikings and you start 3-0 with two wins already against teams in your
03:13division, all of a sudden, Minnesota very much alive and well here this season.
03:20Yeah.
03:21I tell you, Tampa Bay, to me, Joe, dropped the ball.
03:24I think they, you know, everyone loves, you know, you're getting guys in the last year
03:28of their contract to their extra motive.
03:30No matter what the sport, baseball, football, basketball, right?
03:33The extra year, they know they're going into the offseason as a free agent.
03:36Now you're going to do everything right and just be the perfect citizen and put up all
03:41kind of numbers, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right?
03:42They had Baker, you know, for whatever reason, they didn't want to re-sign him this offseason.
03:47They let the whole thing linger on and linger on and linger on, and finally, we had the
03:52Baker saying, all right, that's it.
03:53We're shutting it down.
03:54I'll play out the final year of my contract, and then we'll go from there.
03:57And then they end up giving him a contract, you know, a second before the season begins.
04:01And it just, it took that mental edge, I think, off Baker.
04:06You know, you had him all pissed off and all, you know, all pumped up.
04:09They have a great, great year.
04:10Now you throw him $50 million a year for three years at him, and it's like, oh, okay.
04:15You know what?
04:15I accomplished everything.
04:16I don't know if that's playing a role in it, but he hasn't played well.
04:19He's got four turnovers already this season, leads the NFL in turnovers over the last year
04:24and change, and, you know, you got one loss to the Bengals.
04:27Okay, you know, maybe you can excuse that on the road, but you can't lose to the Cleveland
04:31Browns yesterday.
04:33That's just horrible.
04:34And Baker in particular, I thought you wanted to get back at this organization.
04:39Organization, right?
04:41So could they lose to the Vikings?
04:43Listen, if they struggle against the Browns defense, they didn't necessarily struggle against
04:48the Bengals defense, but I think that Vikings defense is going to eat them up.
04:52Vikings are road favorites.
04:53Last time I checked, now this was before they announced Kyler Murray, but they were two and
04:57a half point road favorites.
04:58What are they now on Vandal?
05:01Same thing.
05:01One and a half twos.
05:02Yeah.
05:03One and a half and two is what you're seeing there.
05:05And they should be.
05:05I mean, that's a problem, what's going on for Tampa Bay right now.
05:10But again, they can ill afford to go 0-3.
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