9-14-26 Purple Positivity w/ Justin Ekstrom - Week 1 Recap

Football this weekend.

And you hear me talking with the voice of the Iowa Hawkeyes, Gary Dolphin for a Hawkeye preview on Fridays at seven 10 a.m.

But we've been working with this gentleman, former classmate of mine, and he's on the beer belly sports network now, Justin Ekstrom with purple positivity and a little bit about the Vikings.

Good morning, sir.

Welcome aboard.

How are we doing, my good man?

Are we ready for expectations?

Like, are we ready for high hopes right now?

I, I don't know what to do.

I got a text message from my boss yesterday who said, are you watching the Vikings game?

And I said, I am, and I'm pleasantly surprised.

Man, you got, uh, you're used to mediocrity.

So you were like already holding back like all that positive pervading, um, that we want to have and then get paid off in the end with a Superbowl chip.

But boy.

I don't know about that.

Are we ready for that though?

Because that second half, um, I don't know what I just saw.

I don't know what just happened.

Kyler Murray goes down.

What do you know so far about his injury?

Uh, man, he looks like he's probably going to be eating out of one of those Boba straws for a while.

Um, so I,

I mean, I'm not much of an ex as an old guy.

I'm not much of a medical.

I don't even play a surgeon on TV or anything like that.

But I'm pretty sure he doesn't know if he's scrambled eggs or a human right now.

When they say she scrambled out of the pocket, he's just like, well, okay, I'll do that.

Well, I mean, that's kind of been the thing on him anyway, where he's not quite sure if he should slide normal.

He's not quite sure.

But that was

sort of a vicious hit.

I'm not going to call like ill intent on the, the Packard defender, but you know, the voice of the Vikings, Paul Allen was definitely not happy with it.

But from watching it on TV, it didn't look malicious intent.

It's just one of those where Tyler probably should have slid a little bit earlier, probably should have got down a little earlier.

And now he's scrambled eggs.

Just an extra purple positivity podcast with us.

So why Carson Wentz over JJ McCarthy?

JJ just doesn't have the confidence of anyone.

I'm thinking that's the case and for the situation in which we saw because Carson threw himself into a rhythm.

J.J.

McCarthy's a guy that would start with a rhythm and throw himself out of it.

Carson Wentz threw himself into a rhythm.

We saw the first couple times where he was mad at himself, he had a couple wide open guys, but then he started throwing guys open.

Then he started trusting his guys.

There's a couple throws on like third, it was a third and 12 on his third drive of the second half where

Nobody's making that throw unless you trust Justin Jefferson to go up and get it.

Cause if it's short, it's intercepted.

If it's long, it's intercepted and you just trust that.

So he threw himself into a rhythm.

I think that's why KOC, our heavenly father, decided to go with him and two because proof is in the pudding already in the game one.

Get this type of breakdown on the purple positivity podcast, Justin Ekstrom on the beer belly sports network.

Now it's not just Vikings up next for the bikes.

The Bears winning 59 to 37 over Carolina.

Kayla Williams, 269 yards to passing touchdown, 65 rushing yards, two touchdowns there, high on the fantasy board this last week.

Hey, if you listened to my last week podcast, you said I'm scared of the Bears.

And if you've listened to me in the past, you've known me for a long time.

I say the NFL is better when the Bears are good.

Oh, like it just, I don't know.

Just look throughout the past seasons that you had fun watching football.

The Bears were good.

And.

Caleb Williams is good at football.

They got a defense that's a little more rampant.

I was kind of scared there for a while when they were giving away their lead.

And then they put up almost a 60 burger.

So I am scared of the Bears.

There's no mincing words.

I think the Bears are the team of the division this year.

And Matt LaFleur of the Packers probably should have lost his job because of his meltdown against the Bears and probably should have lost his job because of his meltdown against the Bites.

Back to back games where he just showed

He's like the third longest tenured coach and it looks like he doesn't know what he's doing.

It's interesting to see that with the pack.

So right now in the NFC North Vikings with a W Bears with a W Lions with a W Packers with an L, but it was still early in the season.

Right, Justin?

Well, the beauty of it is like to combine 150 points between the winning teams unreal out of the NFC.

That's not NFC North football.

It's usually like

You know, 17-13 when you have wins like that.

Vikings aren't putting up massive amounts of points.

Bears aren't putting up almost 60.

Lions try giving away that game.

They put up 31 points.

It's just week one.

I think it's more along the lines of an extended preseason.

That's why we're seeing all these weird things.

And I don't have an abacus in front of me.

But I swear this has to be one of the highest scoring weak ones in NFL history.

It just has to

be purple positivity.

It not only does positivity breed positivity, but it can also breed success.

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I wanted to take the little clicker to see how many times you dropped the F bomb in that first episode, but we'll see what you do on that three.

I did okay in the second one, but there's, it's just too much fun just letting it fly because you said it perfectly.

You commented, you were one of the first comments on that message board on the, the dump of faces or whatever.

If you're talking about the Vikings, you kind of have to cuss.

You, you got a curse.

You got to say something that alleviates stuff.

And then.

I, my therapist a few years ago says, Hey, you need something that gives you an outlet that lets you cuss and lets you curse and talk about sports.

And, and I'm like, you know what I'm going to do?

I'm going to do a podcast and then there you go.

So there I am.

I'm listening to my therapist.

That's good.

I like that.

Listen, just like you listen to a coach, you listen to your therapist.

They're your life coach, Justin.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They're there to help.

Purple Positivity Podcast on the Beer Belly Sports Network.

Justin, thanks so much for the time.

Oh, thanks for having me, man.

I can't wait.

I hope it's a good season.

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