Minnesota Vikings NEED Kyler Murray or J.J. McCarthy to be consistent in 2026!
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Who was Jessi Pierce and why is she being honored at the start of the episode?
Super Bowl, no problem.
Turnful Daily is Daily Vikings Entertainment. We just want the Vikings to win a Super Bowl before we die. I will ride with this group! Seriously, man. Please. And away. Go. Away we do go for the 2026, 2027, hopefully deep into 2000 early 27, Minnesota Viking season. I would be Score North's Ross Brendel, joined by Leighton James from Strictly, and Jason Harmon, content creator for Sleeper. And now covering the Vikings for SI.com, both back for another season. Gentlemen, great to see you both.
Good to see you, Ross.
Great to see you. This is the this is the time of year where the uh football goosebumps start popping up. Starting back this pod, it means we're getting we're inching closer.
We're working it out. As are the Vikings, as I'm sure we'll talk about. They're working out and getting the goosebumps out as well.
Just days away and hours away from meaningful preseason football. Gentlemen, as we get started today, I do want to do this. I do want to acknowledge our friend Jesse, who many of you know watching and listening. Jesse passed away a few months back along with her three children and the family dog. All three of us here on the show, we remain heartbroken. Many of you too. We're gonna do our best all season long to honor Jesse, have some fun talking football. And general shenanigans that she would bring to the show. And really, we just want to be an outlet for you guys, whether that be a football outlet or whether that just be you're trying to escape the day-to-day grind of work and life. Knowing Jesse like we do, I do want to get this out in the open too.
There were talks at Purple Daily and Score North with what happened. Do we need to change the name of this show? How should we handle this? And we all pretty quickly, unanimously, and I would say this was somewhere between seven or eight different people, decided that we need to keep the name of this show because Jesse would probably start prodding us and be very angry if we decided to change the name of the show from Before I Die to something different. We do as a group, this includes Leighton Jason. The Score North family. We do plan to honor Jesse with something a little bit later on, maybe early to midfall, that we will take to everybody. Not quite ready to do that at this moment, but when we do that, we will let everybody know so we can continue to lift up Jesse and her family and just honor her and her legacy in this community.
Some more to come on that when the timing is right. And I Will say for myself, boys, and everybody watching and listening. It's not lost on me the role that I'm gonna fill this year, sliding back onto this show and I guess playing a moderator and separating you two from getting after each other's throats too much. Yeah, it's it's not lost on me that Jesse did that so well. She was our quarterback, she was our coach, most importantly, she was all of our friends. And my promise here, I'm gonna get this out of the way here and then Maybe we'll get to some football here in a little bit. This is already about as difficult as I expected it would be today. My promise, and I had to write this down because I I'm going to try and live by this every show.
I'm going to have fun doing this. I'm never going to take myself too seriously. And we're going to strive to have a good time talking, Minnesota Vikings, with all of you, Jason and Layton included. I think that that is exactly what Jesse did and what she would want us to continue to do. So with that, I want to give the floor to Jason and Leighton before we get into some Minnesota Vikings football talk on this edition of Before I Die.
Yeah. Uh well, first off, I know I speak for Leighton, Ross, when I say I know what you're doing is not the easiest thing that that you could be. sliding into and we we really appreciate you because I think to your point like you said uh Jesse would ridicule us endlessly if we didn't keep this going and uh didn't you know talk about this team with the enthusiasm and and blunt responses she often had.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Who was Jessi Pierce and why is she being honored at the start of the episode?
0:00–5:04
2
What were Leighton and Jason’s first impressions of the night practice and the quarterback battle between Kyler Murray and J.J. McCarthy?
5:04–13:45
3
How do the hosts evaluate the consistency and upside of Kyler Murray versus J.J. McCarthy after the practice?
13:45–25:20
4
Why do the hosts think fans should (or shouldn’t) take training camp performances seriously?
25:20–35:28
5
What bold predictions do the hosts make for the Vikings vs. Giants preseason game on Saturday?
35:28–44:55
6
Which defensive rookies and position upgrades are expected to give the Vikings a boost in 2026?
44:55–46:33
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