Talking the Most Notable Thursday Night Football Matchups in 2025

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00:00DRS our technical first short week Thursday night football game comes week number two I guess when

00:06you're fresher it's better to play on a short week as opposed to like week number 14 the Packers will

00:13host the Commanders week number two in Lambeau a matchup between two teams expected to contend

00:19for the NFC divisional game Rams Niners week number five Chargers Vikings week eight that's

00:26Jim Harbaugh against his college quarterback in JJ McCarthy now in the NFL the Texans in the Bills

00:33week number 12 Lions Cowboys week number 14 Bucks Falcons maybe an NFC South game that could have

00:40huge implications on that divisional title race coming late in the year week number 15 Donnie I

00:47do find it interesting for the Vikings by the way when total for Minnesota entering this year eight

00:52and a half the over has a slight bit of juice you could look at it one of two ways whoa that's a

00:58steep drop-off for a team that even with Sam Darnold won 14 games a season ago or you could say hmm

01:05seems a little bit steep for a team led by a rookie quarterback de facto in JJ McCarthy that still has

01:13a ton to prove at the NFL level how do you look at the Vikings this year Donnie it's hard to look at

01:19the Vikings optimistically and say they're going to be just as good as they were last year with Sam

01:23Darnold but then you're saying to yourself well there's a reason why they moved off Sam Darnold

01:27and went to JJ McCarthy because they feel he gives them the best chance at the future and the future

01:32being the key word and also understand this like JJ McCarthy is a winner he's got a strong arm that's

01:37why he was drafted high and they probably think great things of him inside the building but sometimes

01:42you got to go back to college football and say yeah this kid was a gunslinger this kid got after

01:46through for 4,500 yards 5,000 yards 50 touchdown passes like he is a gamer and he is a gamer a game

01:53manager here which is not what you want for the Minnesota Vikings when you got some high-powered

01:57weapons out there that you want to shoot that football down the field now KOC is a great offensive

02:02coordinator a good head coach I'm sure he'll make it work but the optimism of yeah they're a 10-win

02:07football team with a rookie quarterback rookie quarterbacks do one thing typically that's burn your money

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