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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. I'm your host, Tatum Everett,

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Speaker 1: and what a weekend it was. The Vikings walked into

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Speaker 1: four Field secured their first win there since twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: with a twenty seven to twenty four victory. Minnesota is

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Speaker 1: now two and oh in the NFC North and two

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Speaker 1: and oh in divisional road games. We've got a fun

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Speaker 1: show ahead for you if you're a Vikings fan line fan.

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Speaker 1: We've got the dynamic duo of Eric Nordquist and Ron

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Speaker 1: Johnson sharing their thoughts on the win and the game ahead.

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Speaker 1: The Vikings return to US Bank Stadium and hosts of

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Speaker 1: three and five Ravens, who are currently on a two

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Speaker 1: game win streak. This is only the eighth meeting between

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Speaker 1: these two teams all time, and is Baltimore's third trip

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Speaker 1: to Minnesota where they are oh and two. Look at

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Speaker 1: a try and make that ozho to three in Minnesota

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Speaker 1: is Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy, now making his four NFL start.

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Speaker 1: He's ready to keep building off the momentum created from

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Speaker 1: Sunday's victory.

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Speaker 2: I feel like that always comes down to game planning.

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Speaker 3: What do they do do well? What do we do well?

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Speaker 2: And you know, how are they going to try and

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Speaker 2: stop us, How are they going to try and re

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Speaker 2: engineer our rules to make it in their favor. But

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Speaker 2: you know, I feel like there's a lot of things

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Speaker 2: that I showed with my feet, you know, just being

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Speaker 2: able to extend plays on that crucial third down in

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Speaker 2: the red zone, and I think, you know, just the

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Speaker 2: ability to progress on just like the little things outside

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Speaker 2: we get those reps in even though on the run

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Speaker 2: it was like one for seven based on last game.

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Speaker 2: They know that I have that ability, so I just

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Speaker 2: got to be ready when those opportunities come up. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of things that go into this game

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Speaker 2: plan that you know, I feel really good about. We

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Speaker 2: just got to go out and execute.

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Speaker 1: It is now time to bring in Eric Nordquist Nordo

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Speaker 1: from nine to noon. I can't speak for you, Nordo,

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Speaker 1: but I'm feeling very well rested. I've got more energy

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Speaker 1: this weekend or this week. I think that's from the weekend.

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Speaker 1: I had such a pleasant experience at ford Field, my

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Speaker 1: first win ever there. It was just nice overall. I mean,

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Speaker 1: how are you feeling this week? You have to be

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Speaker 1: feeling revitalized as well.

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Speaker 4: Are you kidding me? I mean, it's Thursday. I'm looking

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Speaker 4: ahead to this Ravens game. I got to celebrate a

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Speaker 4: super cool victory where a massive underdog got the win

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Speaker 4: on the road, a place my favorite team had one

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Speaker 4: and a half a decade.

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Speaker 3: Been a pretty awesome week, Tatum.

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Speaker 5: I agree with you.

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Speaker 1: As our resident roube for the Minnesota Vikings podcast, You've

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Speaker 1: got the feeling that just feels different about this team,

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Speaker 1: whether you listen to the head coach, the quarterback after

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Speaker 1: the game, the scrums you head into all of the

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Speaker 1: press conferences this week, there just seems to be some

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Speaker 1: life in there.

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Speaker 5: How has a roub?

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Speaker 1: Do you not overreact over this knowing there are still

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Speaker 1: you know, a half a season left to play?

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Speaker 4: Well, it's a week to week league, Tatum, so feel

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Speaker 4: free to be emotional and overreact.

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Speaker 5: No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

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Speaker 4: It's the first time since Week one that we got

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Speaker 4: to see some certain names on defense all playing together.

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Speaker 3: How far is overreacting?

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Speaker 4: You wanted a place for the first time in five years,

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Speaker 4: You were nearly ten point dogs, You were supposed to

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Speaker 4: get beaten down. You kept Jamir Gibbs, who has tortured

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Speaker 4: the Vikings in his short NFL career. You kept him

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Speaker 4: on an awful day, kept him out of the end zone.

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Speaker 4: First time you've done that against Jamir Gibbs. And you

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Speaker 4: sacked off five times, and you finally got to see

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Speaker 4: some of the things you've been waiting two months for.

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Speaker 4: So I think people should be really pumped about that.

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Speaker 4: Now it's what it's We'll do it again.

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Speaker 3: Okay? Was that an aberration?

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Speaker 4: Was that just a little mid season fleeting moment of

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Speaker 3: Who knows?

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Speaker 4: You go out and you beat Lamar and Derreck Henry

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Speaker 3: Now you're onto something.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously it's all about carrying over to the next game. However,

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Speaker 1: this is the most complete team performance I have seen

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Speaker 1: I love the fact that every facet of the game

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 1: So that's just another way of saying what I wanted

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Speaker 1: to say three different times. However, I want to go

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Speaker 5: That's non quarterback related.

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Speaker 3: Ah, I know, can't just think JJ.

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Speaker 1: No, No, we'll talk about JJ in a second as

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Speaker 1: he prepares to face three evens defense, but non quarterback

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Speaker 4: Okay, Well, it's Aaron Jones as a person that's been

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Speaker 4: begging to see more effective, more efficient, and just a

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Speaker 4: better focus on the run game. Him rolling out and

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Speaker 4: I dig that although it was logged as a rush,

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Speaker 4: which I still don't understand, but all the same took

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Speaker 4: that stat away from the quarterback that I can't use

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Speaker 4: as an example here. I think Aaron Jones was terrific.

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Speaker 4: Really looking forward to him being able to continue on

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Speaker 4: with that. I think Mason Jordan Mason struggled mightily in

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Speaker 4: overall well rounded game of an Aaron Jones. So for offense,

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Speaker 4: it would certainly be Aaron Jones on Sunday against the kiddies.

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Speaker 5: I love it. Defensively, what really jumped out for.

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Speaker 4: You, somebody that you've spoken with this week could be

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Speaker 4: Blake Cashman.

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Speaker 3: How about those fourteen tackles?

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Speaker 4: He was everywhere and as a unit you can tell again,

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Speaker 4: Grenard and Van Ginkel as a tandem when both are

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Speaker 4: it's not about trying to rag on Dallas Turner specifically,

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Speaker 4: but you can tell after having a start and play

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Speaker 4: down to like fourteen or fifteen snaps on Sunday. That

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Speaker 4: tells you how tough it is to keep Van Ginkle

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Speaker 4: to maybe the best game in Purple for Javon Hargrave,

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Speaker 4: and all of that led to a free and expel

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Speaker 4: his closing ability on Sunday was well seen.

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Speaker 3: Defense has got to be Blake, Okay.

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Speaker 1: I love that he was so complimentary of everyone else

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Speaker 1: Ginkel gets the credit he should for being such a

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Speaker 1: when everyone's healthy. They're really doing exactly what the game

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Speaker 1: plan was. But it was interesting because he talked a

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Speaker 1: Lions think we're going to do all these things. They

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Speaker 1: of all of that preparedness that they had done on

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Speaker 5: I thought that was just really interesting.

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Speaker 4: Well, sadly that this just proves that Blake Cashman doesn't

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Speaker 4: listen to Nine to Noon because Nine to Noon has

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Speaker 4: been giving Andrew Van Ginkel all the credit and then

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Speaker 4: some trying to return Van Ginkel's style into this defense.

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Speaker 4: But the health and you know the way that he

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Speaker 4: talked that out, he's dead on correct is is he

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Speaker 4: has a fantastic game, but it's not it's not a

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Speaker 4: hearing Josh mittelis talking about Levi Drake Rodriguez blocking that

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Speaker 4: either him or Miles who Miles probably should have a touchdown.

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Speaker 4: But that's a Tavier Thomas conversation for another time. But

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Speaker 4: Blake doing his job. Mittel's talking about this as well.

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Speaker 4: Is okay, so defensive front, Javon Hargrave one of the

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Speaker 4: how does that impact what Blake Cashman is able to do?

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Speaker 4: Andrew Van Ginkel being back in the mix, How does

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Speaker 4: that affect what Javon Hargrave is able to do because

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Speaker 3: You just think about how one.

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Speaker 4: Thing leads to another, and in the end, you just

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Speaker 3: We're spectacular.

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Speaker 4: And you mentioned, you know, the defense and just it's

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Speaker 4: you know, inverting you you'd have you'd have both THEO

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Speaker 3: They kind of mug and then they back off pre snap.

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Speaker 4: But you also saw a lot of static blitz disguise

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Speaker 4: is where Eric Wilson wasn't mugging up, he was just waiting.

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Speaker 3: He was patient and then boom he goes. Another great game.

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Speaker 4: By the way, Eric Wilson, Cashman, Rodnie Ivan Pace, you know,

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Speaker 4: has given Eric Wilson a better shot and more snaps defensively,

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Speaker 4: Ivan Pace was used really effectively in blitzes on Sunday,

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Speaker 3: Things are happening.

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Speaker 4: You can say, well, Blake Cashman and those fourteen tackles mattered.

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Speaker 3: But how did he get him?

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Speaker 4: Took some teammates and a collective effort to get there,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and obviously you mentioned Levi Drake Rodriguez. He's also

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Speaker 1: been really good on the line. But he just won

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Speaker 1: the NFC Special Teams Player of the Week, which is

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Speaker 3: Love that guy.

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Speaker 5: LDR.

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Speaker 1: He obviously blocked the forty five yard field goal attempt,

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Speaker 1: then Isaiah Rodgers taking it back forty one yards to

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Speaker 1: set up the Vikings final scoring drive of the game.

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Speaker 1: And so just all these pieces coming together, it created

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Speaker 1: such a joyful experience for the this weekend.

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Speaker 5: So now you face a different style of offense, Nordo.

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Speaker 1: You've got Lamar Jackson, an extremely mobile quarterback coming off

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Speaker 1: a month long injury. He gets in his first game

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Speaker 1: since then all he does is score four touchdowns. So

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Speaker 1: Vikings Entertainment Network. The Baltimore Ravens are rolling into town

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Speaker 1: to face the Vikes at us Bank Stadium for this

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Speaker 1: Ron Johnson. I just talked to your Vikings fanline co

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Speaker 1: host Old Nordo a little while ago. You guys had

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: You know, whenever the Vikings win, there's two sides of

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about this about this upcoming matchup. Now, this

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Speaker 1: What should this Vikings offense expect to see when they

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So the biggest thing is Lamar Jackson changes the

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Speaker 6: like that that's the absolute Like I don't even know

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Speaker 6: All of a sudden he has two queens. You're like,

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Speaker 5: Disguise to confuse Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So the thing about Lamar Jackson is he can run.

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Speaker 1: How do you feel about this team being able to

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Speaker 6: So my feelings are the defense for the Ravens is

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Speaker 6: I think that's the key. Taking advantage of it. It's

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Speaker 6: the bottom of getting stops, right, So I look at turnovers.

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Speaker 6: They're not doing a huge advantage of it, you know,

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Speaker 6: for touchdowns. They're giving up twenty four touchdowns on third down.

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Speaker 6: So it is a team that you can attack. It's

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Speaker 6: a team that you can go after. I don't think

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Speaker 6: you need to be afraid to go after them.

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Speaker 5: So you just need to be aggressive, jump out early.

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Speaker 3: Right correct.

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Speaker 6: But then the flip side of it offensively with the

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Speaker 6: rape on third down, they are a team that's going

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Speaker 6: to continue to put it in play and their goal

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Speaker 6: so right now their goal on third down. They're kind

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Speaker 6: of a balanced run pass offense, you know, like they

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Speaker 6: don't just like most teams on third down if you

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Speaker 6: look at it, it's really pass heavy, you know, most

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Speaker 6: teams are like three fifty one and two fifty one.

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Speaker 6: That's Kansas City. So there's one hundred more plays in

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Speaker 6: the past game. In the run game, Ravens is two

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Speaker 6: forty three to two twelve. So it's a closer gap.

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Speaker 6: Like they do have a true run pass option with

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Speaker 6: Lamar Jackson, and so again that's where both teams it

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Speaker 6: can go back and forth. But in order to beat

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Speaker 6: the Ravens, I think you need to put them on

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Speaker 6: the offensive, like you have to make them want a score,

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Speaker 6: like when they are comfortable and they can sit back

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Speaker 6: and Lamar Jackson can have fun. That's when it gets bad.

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Speaker 6: But if you come out early, like JJ McCarthy comes

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Speaker 6: out early, deciphers the defense right away, I think the

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Speaker 6: Vikings should be fine.

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Speaker 5: I love that. Thank you so much, Ron, I really

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Speaker 5: appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: We will see you at the game yea Fox nine

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Speaker 1: Game Day Live and.

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Speaker 5: Uh yeah, can't wait to hear you on fan line

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Speaker 5: as well.

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Speaker 6: Hopefully ITT's ever win.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much to Nordo and Ron for joining

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Speaker 1: us on this week's episode. The Vikings look to add

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Speaker 1: another to the win column on Sunday when they face

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Speaker 1: the Ravens.

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Speaker 5: Kick off said for noon on Fox.

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Speaker 1: We hope see you out at US Bank Stadium, where

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