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A Historic NFL Dublin Game Preview With Gregg Rosenthal

September 25, 2025·32 min·2 clips

Greg Rosenthal calls the Vikings defense "at a master's level" under Brian Flores.

1. RotoViz Fantasy Football Show focuses on the first NFL regular-season game on the island of Ireland in Dublin. 2. Colm Kelly hosts and Greg Rosenthal of NFL Daily joins as the preview guest because he is traveling to Dublin for the game. 3. The episode asks what the Dublin matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and Pittsburgh Steelers will look like at Crow Park. 4. Kelly says approximately 75,000 people in Ireland are expected to attend, with visitors coming from all over the world. 5. Rosenthal says the NFL is highly excited about the game and that the Steelers’ Rooney family push helped make it happen. 6. Kelly recalls the Steelers’ 1997 preseason game at Crow Park against the Chicago Bears as a previous Ireland reference point. 7. Rosenthal notes that Fox is sending Greg Olson and Joe Davis, which signals a high-profile broadcast assignment. 8. The discussion turns to the Vikings’ injury situation, with Carson Wentz starting, J.J. McCarthy injured, and Aaron Jones also sidelined. 9. Kelly and Rosenthal mention Jordan Mason’s Week 3 performance and T.J. Hockenson’s bounce-back game. 10. The other big Vikings storyline is Brian Flores’s defense, which Rosenthal calls a master-level unit because of its pre-snap disguise and creativity. 11. Rosenthal says the Vikings’ defense is hard to diagnose before the snap, even for experienced quarterbacks like Aaron Rodgers. 12. He also argues that the Steelers have been lucky to sit at 2-1 and would look very different if their early-season play continued. 13. On the Pittsburgh side, Rosenthal focuses on Rodgers, Jalen Ramsey, T.J. Watt, and a Steelers offense that has struggled to create explosive plays. 14. He says the Steelers’ passing game has leaned heavily on short throws, yards after the catch, and passes behind the line of scrimmage. 15. Rosenthal points out that D.K. Metcalf has shown explosiveness, but he has not been used enough within the offense. 16. Kelly and Rosenthal compare Minnesota’s receiving group with Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, and T.J. Hockenson to Pittsburgh’s thinner receiver room. 17. The tone is analytical, conversational, and shaped like a live preview between two people who know each other well. 18. The format mixes game preview, roster discussion, travel talk, and betting context around a single international matchup. 19. Fans of NFL tactics, Dublin sports events, and fantasy football previews will get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners who want a spoiler-free deep dive into another sport may skip it.

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