Portal pay off? Chuck Foreman (Vikings), Bart Winkler (Packers)

Happy Hour with John Gaskins

USD's Aidan Bouman and NDSU's Bryce Lance — two of the best players on two of the best teams in FCS football — decided to not take six figures (maybe seven) to "move up" in the FBS, like SDSU's Tucker Kraft before them but unlike SDSU's Mark Gronowski and Griffin Wilde. Why might it be a better "pay off" to stay put at an FCS power? Also, takeaways from Bouman's chat with John yesterday, including his uber-motivated state of mind for 2025.

Get ready for raw, real, hard-hitting thoughts from five-time Pro Bowler and three-time Super Bowler Chuck Foreman, one of the biggest Minnesota Vikings legends. He makes his case for Sam Darnold after two Darnold disasters forced a full-steam-ahead purple freight train to a screeching hault. Foreman goes down memory lane in revealing why he thinks the Vikings were 0-3 in his three Super Bowl appearances in the 1970's, has vivid first impressions of a young Tommy Kramer.

Did the Packers overachieve or underachieve? Are Jordan Love and his head coach the right men to take Green Bay back to a Super Bowl in the next few years? A lot to unpack with the blunt Bart Winkler, a veteran Milwaukee-based sports talker, lifelong Packer fan, and host of nationally syndicated "The Bart Winkler Show."