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Speaker 1: Joining us now on the Minnesota Vikings podcast is Vikings

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Speaker 1: radio analyst Pete Bursag, and we are here coming to

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Speaker 1: you from the garden Center on the Hanbury Mary Handbury

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Speaker 1: Mary Handburry manner.

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Speaker 2: This place is unreal.

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Speaker 3: It is. It's it's gigantic, It goes on forever as

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Speaker 3: a golf course around it. It's it's a I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's a super nice spot where people asking how's London.

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Speaker 3: It's like we're hour hour and a half from London,

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Speaker 3: so we're out here to work. Yeah, and it's nice

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Speaker 3: and quiet, peaceful.

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Speaker 2: Very tranquil, very peaceful.

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Speaker 3: You can get a lot of work done, a lot

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Speaker 3: of Yes, yes, there's a lot of greenery. I always

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Speaker 3: I've always admired English gardening, so to speak, just everything

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Speaker 3: that they all work that goes into it. It's amazing.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine if you close your eyes right now,

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Speaker 1: since you're listening to this on audio platforms, and think

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Speaker 1: of what an English countryside would be. We are currently there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, hedgerows everywhere. Can't see very far.

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Speaker 1: I just got up the hill from practice because it's

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Speaker 1: literally down in the valley and a little winded myself

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Speaker 1: because it is quite the hike, but a beautiful setting.

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Speaker 1: The sun came out to We were recording this on

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Speaker 1: Wednesday afternoon here in London, and the sun came out accordingly.

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Speaker 1: It was very nice to see. The guys looked like

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Speaker 1: they were having a lot of fun. I'm sure it's

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Speaker 1: nice to just be out there. But let's reflect a

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Speaker 1: little bit. I know we've kind of started talking a

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Speaker 1: little bit more about London, but I want to look

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Speaker 1: back on your overall experience in Ireland. I mean, you're

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Speaker 1: on the call for the first ever NFL regular season

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Speaker 1: game in Ireland for the Minnesota Vikings. For you a

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Speaker 1: moment like that, did you Was there a moment where

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Speaker 1: you sat back and you're like, Okay, this is like

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Speaker 1: pinch me, this is really cool.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think I think the cool the

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Speaker 3: fun part with that was Saturday going over there for

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Speaker 3: the walk through and then seeing the stadium, which is

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Speaker 3: it's a lot like a lot of college stadiums in America,

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Speaker 3: we were able to sit outside like our press box

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Speaker 3: of it is is different. The view was fantastic where

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Speaker 3: that was was it was unique because it doesn't happen

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Speaker 3: not as loud as a normal NFL game, but it yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was. It was. It's always cool. I always I

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Speaker 3: always think back and I think about the records I've seen,

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Speaker 3: like Adrian Peterson's single game, Brett Favre touchdown and consecutive

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Speaker 3: all the different things that we've seen over the years

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Speaker 3: that are records, you know, like Isaiah Rodgers with just

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Speaker 3: the with the two force fumbles and the.

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Speaker 2: Two sixty two yard field cool, that's the.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the biggest, the biggest comeback in NFL history of

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Speaker 3: the Colts. I mean, so many things. Then to be

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Speaker 3: in Ireland, yeah, it is. It's it's it's really cool

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Speaker 3: and didn't turn out the way we wanted it obviously,

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Speaker 3: no Pete.

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Speaker 1: But it was the second most watched NFL network international game.

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Speaker 1: An average is seven point nine million viewers, which is incredible.

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Speaker 1: People obviously wanted to see what Croke Bark was all

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Speaker 1: about and what this how this game was and that experience.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, it didn't turn out the way this

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Speaker 3: Probably when it was it was a it ended up

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Speaker 3: Third quarter was bad right offense, but you know, offensively

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Speaker 1: Well, coach said that in this week's Exits and O's

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Speaker 1: he said that the Steelers played.

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Speaker 2: Their game on their turns.

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 3: If you look at the Steelers and how they're built.

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Speaker 3: I mean they they brought in I think his name's

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Speaker 3: jack not Donovan Jackson, but it's number seventy. Home on

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Speaker 3: It'll be worth it. Darnel Washington, excuse me, number eighty.

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Speaker 3: He's six foot seven two and seventy pounds. I mean,

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Speaker 3: just running the ball efficiently. That's what That's how they're built.

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Speaker 3: That's Aaron. I'm just saying, that's Aaron. Yeah, with their

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Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers, that's that's his thing. It's a quick throwing game.

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Speaker 3: That's what he meant is if you make a big

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Speaker 3: do things like that, they're not as well equipped. Right.

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Speaker 3: They're built. They're built to play out on grass in

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Speaker 3: we really we needed that. We needed that game to

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Speaker 3: be more athletic, We needed that game to be more

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Speaker 3: really got to that point. I think that's kind of

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Speaker 1: When that starts to hopen Pete in your mind, what

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Speaker 1: is it that you can do to play your style

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Speaker 3: Defensively, you got to kind of match what they want

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Speaker 3: now you're kicking field goals again instead of scoring touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: And we're down the field passing type of a team.

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Speaker 3: and you start having to, you know, chip on your

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Speaker 3: way out like t J. Watt right, TJ. Hockinson was

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Speaker 3: chipping TJ. Watt almost every play. That limits your formations,

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Speaker 3: field goals. I mean that that helps. I mean we did.

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Speaker 3: There are some things in that game that that could

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Speaker 3: You know, there's no three and outs there. Well, Earl,

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Speaker 3: there was, but I mean you just couldn't get yourself

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Speaker 3: they just wear ye out, wear ye out, wear ye out.

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Speaker 3: And you know that's kind of you know, we let him,

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Speaker 3: letting them get the lead early like that quickly, have.

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Speaker 2: This changes your whole idea of how you're going to

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Speaker 3: We knew going into that game that they were run

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Speaker 3: after the catch. That's seventy four percent of Rogers passing

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Speaker 1: I am your host Tatum Everett, and I am joined

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Speaker 1: by Pete Versuchar, Vikings radio analyst. Here in the Hanbury Mariner,

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Speaker 3: And coaching you are what you emphasize, right, And so

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