Editing Episode 251

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{{EpisodeInfobox
| number      = 251
| title       = Double Trap Game?
| hosts       = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik
| guests      = Blake Allen Murphy
| type        = Preview
}}

'''Norse Code Episode 251: Double Trap Game?''' features a preview of the Vikings' upcoming matchup against the Arizona Cardinals.

== Overview ==
The hosts preview the Vikings-Cardinals game with special guest Blake Allen Murphy, a staff writer for Revenge of Birds and co-host of the Bird Gang Blitz podcast. The episode covers Cardinals personnel, game planning strategies, and addresses multiple mailbag questions about the team's performance and expectations.

== Segments ==
; Opening : Kyle Rudolph YAC tweet discussion
; Cardinals Preview : Game planning and matchup analysis with guest Blake Allen Murphy
; Mailbag : Fan questions covering various topics

== Mailbag Questions ==
* Luke Braun - How would you gameplan for the Cardinals secondary? Budda Baker has excelled in the box, but struggled in coverage especially against slot corners. Patrick Peterson is far and away their best corner - do you take your chances on Diggs winning, or find ways to align only LT wide?
* Alex Johnson-Fry - Who does Patrick Peterson line up against this week? Does he take diggs all game 1v1 or do the cards play zone to try to limit both guys so thielen doesn't run rampant into wide open spaces?
* Matt Nelson - Is murder allowed for anyone that suggests that we can just pencil this one in as a win?
* Don from Ohio - What seems more unrealistic: @bigmono in 1st place of the @NorseCodeDN FFL or the Vikings lack of running game?
* John Belk - Situational football aside, I feel like the area where Arif's analysis of what the Vikings should do has most often and consistently disagreed with what the Vikings actually do is who to play where on the offensive line. Any ideas why this might be?
* Zach Beeman - With 5 games down and Vikings record at 2-2-1... How many wins will it take to win the division? What's realistic, 10-5-1?
* Eric Thompson - What would the Vikings equivalent of the Jimmy Butler fiasco be? Name specific players for each role.
* Luke Braun - Also, what could Kirk Cousins do (off-field) to alienate the locker room and fanbase Jimmy Butler style?
* Alex Goble - Given that the Cardinals are starting a rookie QB, do you think we'll see any parallels between their offensive game script and what the Buffalo Bills ran against us?
* Noah - Seems like the Vikings took a big step backwards this year in maintaining coverage assignments, particularly with slot receivers. How much of this is related to replacing Newman with Alexander?
* Kenneth Allen - If you both were to create D&D characters of yourself what would you be? Something tells me James has to be a nice dwarven cleric, but I'm lost for Arif.
* AaronTheBest - Should all candy corn be melted and used as fertilizer and/or thrown into space where it belongs?
* Bojack Norseman - What's the worst non fatal injury you've ever sustained?

== Guests ==
Blake Allen Murphy appears as the featured guest, providing Cardinals insight as a staff writer for Revenge of Birds and co-host of the Bird Gang Blitz podcast.

== Key Bits & Lore ==
Don from Ohio contributes a question about the Norse Code fantasy football league standings.

== Production Notes ==
Potential edit points noted at timestamps: 25:42, 28:28, 41:32, 51:49, 55:43, 116:08. Live show promotion for Bar None in NYC on Thursday October 18th.

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