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CATHY WURZER: Wally Langfellow, Eric Nelson are our sports guys. Wally is the founder of Minnesota's Score sports Magazine and co-host of the sports talk show, 10,000 Takes. Eric is the other host of that show, and the Vikings reporter for CBS Sports Radio's Eye on the NFL. How are you guys doing?

WALLY LANGFELLOW: Good, Cathy, how are you today?

ERIC NELSON: Cathy, how are you?

CATHY WURZER: Hey, good, Eric, thanks. So let's talk about the Vikings, shall we? They looked OK Monday night against San Francisco. That was a big game for them, Wally, that they really needed to win that game.

WALLY LANGFELLOW: Yeah. And really, it was a coming out party of sorts on a Monday night for Kirk Cousins. Cousins has played well really the last two seasons now. All of last season, and most of this season, he's looked very good. And he was exceptional on Monday night.

But the knock on Cousins over the years has been that he doesn't show on games like that, on Monday Night Football, on nationally televised games, where he tended to struggle. But that was not the case on Monday.

He and Jordan Addison hooked up for a couple of touchdowns, one was remarkable. I'm sure that if you watched the game, you remember Addison stealing the ball from a 49ers defender on a long pass and scoring. So they had success Monday night.

They now are 3 and 4 on the season, so they're almost back to .500. They go to Green Bay this weekend. That's a game in Lambeau, or at Lambeau Field on Sunday afternoon at noon. And you know, I think that it kind of raises hopes again that this team can compete for a postseason spot. Long ways to go. There's still 10 games left in the season.

But a signature win, no doubt, beating the San Francisco 49ers, who certainly coming into the last couple of weeks and coming into the season, were deemed as one of the favorites to go to the Super Bowl from the NFC. So good from the Vikings perspective. Let's see if they can carry over, because now you get into these divisional games against the Packers and Lions and Bears, and those are very important.

CATHY WURZER: Eric, what about the Green Bay Packers this year?

ERIC NELSON: Well, they're going through a transition at the quarterback position, Cathy. Gone is Aaron Rodgers, as we all know. He's with the New York Jets, although he's injured. But Jordan Love is the guy now. And he started fast, but he's been struggling in recent weeks. And the Packers as a whole, can't put a lot of points on the board.

He threw a bad interception late in that loss to Denver last week out in Colorado. And there's a lot of pressure on this young kid, but I think one thing, at least in my opinion, it takes a while in the NFL when you become a starting quarterback to grow into the position and to thrive and have success.

Some guys do it right away, but those guys are few and far between. Even somebody like Patrick Mahomes had to spend two or three years on the bench behind Alex Smith in Kansas City, learn the system, grasp it, absorb it. Now he's an ultra elite quarterback.

I don't know if Jordan Love's going to be that guy, but Packer fans are hoping it starts Sunday against Minnesota, because from the Green Bay perspective, Cathy, if the Packers don't win this game, then they're probably looking at battling the Chicago Bears to stay out of last place. If they can beat Minnesota and get a little mojo, and the Lions got beat last week by Baltimore, then the Packers will have a pulse.

The oddsmakers say it's even. Nobody's favored. So, it's Lambeau Field, it's Green Bay, it's football in the elements. It should be in the low 40s as far as the temp goes. It's always fun when it's Minnesota and Green Bay over in Cheese Land.

CATHY WURZER: It is fun, truly. Hey, let's keep talking about football. Gopher football. Gophers won against Iowa. That was big too, Wally.

WALLY LANGFELLOW: Well, yeah, and I believe it was on these very airwaves that Eric was chiding me for saying if the Gophers win, that they'll-- that I'm looking at things through the rose-colored glasses. And I said, I said if they win, they're in control of their own destiny in the Big Ten West. And they are.

Now, it's going to be a tall task, because they still have to go to Ohio State. They still have Wisconsin to play. But the fact that they beat Iowa, and whether you like the controversial win or not or how the game ended, the fact of the matter is, they won the football game.

And they are now even in the Big Ten West at 2 and 2. They have Michigan State, which has really been a dumpster fire this year, a team that they should be able to beat or, I'm sure that they go into it confident coming off the win over Iowa.

The defense played great in Iowa. I mean, take nothing away from the Gopher defense. Now, they're going to have to figure out ways to get into the end zone, because their 12 points came on four field goals, and that's going to have to change.

They got to figure out ways to score when they get down close. They didn't do that against Iowa. They're going to have to do it going forward starting on Saturday against Michigan State. That's a 2:30 kickoff Saturday afternoon at Huntington Bank Stadium.

CATHY WURZER: And Eric, do you wish to make a comment about this?

ERIC NELSON: I do. I think in Iowa they're calling it the Floyd fluke. And for the listeners out there who don't know what happened, late in the fourth quarter, Cooper DeJean, the young punt returner for the Hawkeyes, fielded a punt near the out of bounds marker, but he stayed in bounds.

He cut to the center of the field, and then he went straight up to the end zone for what looked to be a game-winning touchdown for the Hawkeyes. But they reviewed it. They, being the officials. They wanted to make sure he stayed in bounds.

But after looking at the review, they came up with an incredibly obscure call, saying that Cooper DeJean, by moving his hands and pointing with his fingers, indicated fair catch, which means he can't return the ball after he catches it.

And of course, the Iowa fans went ballistic. The Iowa coaching staff, the players couldn't believe it, because nobody thought that's what they were looking at when they reviewed the play. He was clearly in bounds. And even Aaron Rodgers, the former Green Bay Packer, said earlier this week, one of the most bizarre and stupid calls he's ever seen.

So, yes, the Gophers get the trophy. They're not going to give it back. But I think it was a gift, a Christmas gift in October for the Minnesota Gophers.

CATHY WURZER: Let's talk about the T-Wolves. They lost the season opener last night. And here, they were doing so well during the preseason, Wally.

WALLY LANGFELLOW: Well, it shows what the preseason means, doesn't it? It means absolutely nothing. And Chris Finch said as much, too. After the game, he said, as well as we played and as well as we moved the basketball during the preseason, that did not happen last night.

He called-- he said their hands got sticky. In other words, when you got the basketball, you weren't making the next pass, you were looking to shoot. And Anthony Edwards took a lot of the blame on himself. He did lead them with 26 points, but he took 27 shots to get to those 26 points.

And the other piece that I think should concern Timberwolves fans, is that when they had their twin towers on the floor at the same time, that being Rudy Gobert and Karl Anthony Towns, things did not go well. They were a minus 9.

In other words, the opponents outscored the Timberwolves by 9 points while those two were on the floor at the same time. And those are your two highest paid players. They're going to have to figure that out. You would think that they would have it figured out over during the off season.

And they had most of last season to figure it out. Doesn't look like that's been fixed quite yet. Hopefully, going forward for the Timberwolves sake, they will return home on Saturday for their home opener. They play Miami and Jimmy Butler, the former Timberwolf.

CATHY WURZER: All right, that'll be interesting. Say, Eric, the Wild play the Flyers tonight in Philly. How do you think they're looking? They beat Edmonton on Tuesday.

ERIC NELSON: They did. It was a 7 to 4. Well, I would say this. The Wild right now, three wins, two losses, one tie, 7 points. That's the exact same record as the Philadelphia Flyers have out of the Eastern Conference. This is the start of a three-game road trip.

The concern I think Wild Nation has, is this team is giving up way too many goals. And it's not just Filip Gustavsson and Marc-André Fleury, the goaltending tandem, it's the defense. Minnesota's given up 25 this year. That's the fourth most in the National Hockey League. They have to fix that. You can't continue to try to win 7 to 4 games or 5 to 4.

The interesting thing is, the Flyers, their opponent tonight, have lost two straight. And I think anybody who follows sports knows that the Philadelphia fans are some of the meanest and orneriest on planet Earth. They go to bed angry and they wake up angrier.

Well, they're really in a sour mood tonight, Cathy, because their beloved Phillies coughed up a game 7 against Arizona, blew a chance to go to the World Series. So the Wild better watch out. They are going to walk into that building in a funk with a boulder on their shoulders. So good luck, Minnesota, in Philadelphia, the city of not-so brotherly love.

CATHY WURZER: I've completely lost track of the Major League. Where are when it comes to playoffs and World Series, by the way? Hate to ask that question.

WALLY LANGFELLOW: Oh, my goodness.

CATHY WURZER: I'm sorry. I know!

WALLY LANGFELLOW: Oh, my goodness.

CATHY WURZER: Come on! Geez, I've been busy.

ERIC NELSON: Starts tomorrow.

CATHY WURZER: Fine.

WALLY LANGFELLOW: It starts tomorrow. And it's Arizona and Texas. And as Eric pointed out, the fans in Philly not too thrilled, because they led that National League Championship Series 2 games to 0, ended up losing three of the last four to the Arizona Diamondbacks. So it's the Diamondbacks and the Texas Rangers in the World Series beginning tomorrow in Texas.

CATHY WURZER: Thank you, gentlemen, I appreciate it. Have a good weekend.

ERIC NELSON: Tune in, Cathy,

CATHY WURZER: I know, I will, Eric. Geez, I'm busy. All right, Wally-- Wally Langfellow, Eric Nelson, our sports guys.