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Minnesota Tim discusses Sam Darnold's recent comments regarding the Minnesota Vikings and the broader implications of success in sports. Darnold's candid admission about his performance and the team's failure to win the Super Bowl sparks a conversation about the mentality of fans and players alike.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Sam Donald, former Minnesota Vikings quarterback, owns consolation loving Minnesota
Vikings fans and sports fans everywhere with his recent comments,
and I love it and we're gonna talk about it today.
So hang with us, hang out with me, and I'm
gonna break down Sam Donald's recent comments that are fiery
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Donald's comments, let me read them. In a recent interview
with The Athletic, former Vikings quarterbacks Sam Donald admitted to
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his poor for poor performance the last two games of
the twenty twenty four season. This I read from the
Purple Persuasion Twitter account on x which is the best
Vikings account, and here's what it says. He quoted him
and took a picture of the screenshot. In the article
of The Athletic, it says this, for a lack of
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a better term, we laid in the egg as an offense.
Arnold said in an interview with The Athletic following a
mini camp practice last week. And I think for me
personally that sucks. I felt like we were a really
good team. But at the end of the day, and
this is gonna sound a little pessimistic, but here it
comes here, it comes, ready for it. But when you
get to the end of it and you don't win
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the whole thing, you failed. I feel like I could
have played way better. To be completely honest with you,
I feel like I didn't play up to my standard.
I truly feel that way. I feel like I would
have just played better. I would have been able to
give the team a chance. The part that sticks out
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to me more than any other part in this article,
in this quote is but when you.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Get to the end of it and you don't win,
the whole thing you feel I love that quote.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I love it. Just last week and really over the
course of this podcast that I've been doing for two years,
I have been so adamant that winning the NFC North
and losing in the first round is nothing more than
a consolation trophy. And Minnesota Vikings fans come at me
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and say.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You're not a real fan. You hate the Vikings. Go
be a Packers fan. I love sensitive Vikings fans. You
don't know what it's like to be a sports fan.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And I keep on coming back to the point that
the worst team in the league and the team that
wins the NFC North and loses in the first round
is in the same spot and same position. At the
end of the day. You won nothing of significance, you
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won nothing worth bragging about. You're sitting at home watching
the rest of the playoffs. If you are a one
and done team in the playoffs and you're going home.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Even if you're a.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Want you win your first game, you lose your second game,
and then you're going home. What have you accomplished? The
true fact of this situation is exactly what Sam Darnold said.
When you get to the end of it and you
don't win the whole thing, you failed. The Vikings went
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home after losing again the Rams, despite having a fourteen
and three regular season. The fourteen and three means nothing
if you lose in the playoffs. Why don't we grade
the Minnesota Vikings on the Patrick Mahomes scale. Mahomes lost
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it in their Super Bowl and now everyone's saying he has
a losing record in the Super Bowl. He lost to
the Eagles, lost of Tom Brady. He lose another one
in there too. I think it's two and three, And
my point being is that Patrick Mahomes is now being
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judged harshly because.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
He lost in a blowout against.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
The Eagles in the Super Bowl and now has lost
another Super Bowl. Do you think Mahomes was just happy
to be to the Super Bowl? Say yeah, you know,
we didn't win it, but at least we got there,
and you know, we gave ourselves a chance. Absolutely not.
That is a losing consolation trophy mentality, and it's a
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mentality that the Minnesota Vikings have gotten too used to
because they have not reached a super Bowl since the
nineteen seventies. When you don't reach a super Bowl since
the nineteen seventies, you try to redefine success because you
haven't been successful for a long time, and you try
to redefine it as well, at least we've won a game,
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or at least we we tried hard, and we made
it to the playoffs, and we studied and we were prepared,
and even though.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
We lost, we tried. At least we got there. At
least we gave ourselves a chance.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
That's not success. Success is winning the whole damn thing.
If you don't win the whole damn thing, you're sitting
at a home trophy list like every single other NFL organization, and.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
That should be the standard.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Even though Kevin O'Connell and the Vikings organization has made
the playoffs two out of three years, either winning the
North or entering as a wild card team, they lost
both playoff games in the first round against the Giants
with Daniel Jones and the Rams with Matthew Stafford, and
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they're going home booking their vacations like all the other
NFL organizations.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
That did not make the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
So my challenge to you as a Vikings fan is
to not get sensitive about this podcast, but see this
podcast as fact and go back to redefining success as
winning the Super Bowl. Anything show of winning the Super
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Bowl is a consolation trophy.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Oh, we won at least one playoff game. We got
to the NFC Championship game. Oh good?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Is anybody cheering today because the Vikings with Brett Favre
made it to the NFC Championship Game. No, they're still
pouting about the bounty gate the Saints put on him
in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
The expectation for two thousand.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
And nine was nothing short of winning the Super Bowl.
And I don't know why the definition of success has
been redefined. I think it's because the Minnesota Vikings have
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fallen short so many times in a row that Vikings
fans want to feel good about their team and want
to feel good about them else, so they redefined it.
They redefined what success looks like. Do you think the
Detroit Lions are happy because they got a first round
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by and then lost to the Washington Commanders because they
made the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
So I want you to think about this podcast objectively,
and I think that's the biggest issue that people have
with this podcast. Yes, I'm a Vikings fan, but I
think objectively. I'm not some a homer guy that bleeds
purple and has Vikings memorabilia all around my house and
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has Vikings jerseys and studies tape and watches every single
training camp practice. Yes I have a Vikings pennant behind me,
but it's a background. I'm an objective thinker in all
aspects of my life. I may make a mistake in
my marriage or raising my children, a simple mistake, not
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like a career ending marriage mistake, but I look at
it objectively and said, yeah, I should have done something
different there, or yeah, I'll apologize to my children if
I was wrong. It's okay to think of things objectively,
and I'm an objective thinker. So I look at the
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Vikings and what fans define as success, and it's nothing
short of a consolation trophy. That's how Vikings fans act.
And Sam Darnold, with his recent comments blitzed right through
that and really expose it. Because when you get to
the end of it and you don't win the whole thing,
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you failed. That's the right mentality as a player, as
a fan, as a coach, as.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
A general manager.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
In ten years from now, nobody looks back at the
twenty twenty four season and says fourteen and three, that
was successful. They did a great job. No, you look
back on years you win the Super Bowl. Nobody is
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going to remember twenty twenty four in fifteen twenty years
because it wasn't a successful season. So those are my
thoughts for the day. Thank you for joining this podcast
and making it a part of your day. Remember five
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good day and we'll talk to you soon