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Speaker 1: Marsters.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. I'm your host Tatum

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Speaker 2: Everett from the Vikings Entertainment Network. We've got a great

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Speaker 2: show for you Today will be joined by nine to

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Speaker 2: noons Eric Nordquist to talk everything Purple as the team

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Speaker 2: gears up for that Sunday afternoon contest against the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 2: We'll also catch up with former Fox nine sports anchor

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Speaker 2: and Vikings Entertainment Network frequent guest Hoby Artigue. He's now

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Speaker 2: the sports director at Local for Detroit and gives us

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Speaker 2: some insight into the divisional adversary. But first let's dive

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Speaker 2: into the status of the team. The Vikings quarterback shuffle

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Speaker 2: continued after Carson Wentz was put on season ending injured

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Speaker 2: reserved this week. He suffered a left non throwing shoulder

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Speaker 2: injury in the first half of the London game against

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Speaker 2: the Browns. He gut it out that second half performance,

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Speaker 2: let a game winning drive, going nine for nine for

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Speaker 2: seventy one yards and that go ahead Addison touchdown. He

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Speaker 2: tried to rehab and started in two more games while

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Speaker 2: wearing a brace on his shoulder. Against the Chargers, he

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Speaker 2: was ACKed five times and tallied eight quarterback hits and

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Speaker 2: you could just see the wincing in his face that

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Speaker 2: he was in so much pain. He talked to the

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Speaker 2: media this week about his time with his childhood team,

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Speaker 2: after joining the roster in late August and now ending

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Speaker 2: his season on IR.

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Speaker 3: Feeling good with the ultimate decision that we've made collectively.

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Speaker 3: And you know, it's weird being done this early in

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Speaker 3: but never this early. So it's a bummer all those things.

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Speaker 3: But life's a lot bigger than this. You know, any

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Speaker 3: minutes or day, I'm about to have my fourth little

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Speaker 3: are so much bigger than this are really occupying my

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Speaker 3: mind in time. But it is a bummer, obviously, it's

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Speaker 3: a bummer, the little loss, all the things. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm doing a right What was.

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Speaker 2: The process in the game, whether you're trying to decide

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Speaker 2: whether you can or should go.

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Speaker 3: Back out there, you're talking the game the other nights,

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Speaker 3: I mean, it sounds like it's been reported kind of

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Speaker 3: all the things. But the whole time, I felt I

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Speaker 3: can still help this team. You know, at the end

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Speaker 3: of the day, I knew what I was signing up for.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't like anyone was forcing me to go. I mean,

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Speaker 3: this is my tenth year in the league. There's a

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Speaker 3: lot bigger things in my in my life to worry about.

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Speaker 3: So I wasn't gonna do anything that would be detrimental

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Speaker 3: to my own health. So I knew what I was

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Speaker 3: getting into and knew there was a chance I'd be

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Speaker 3: playing with some pain and discomfort the other nights, and

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Speaker 3: I'd be lying if I thought it. I thought it

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Speaker 3: at the end of the day, it's it's pain, And

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Speaker 3: I felt like, Okay, the hit happened, and then I

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Speaker 3: And so it was never something and i'd be lying too.

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Speaker 3: I mean, as a competitor, like you never want to

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Speaker 3: take yourself out, Like, no matter what you're going through,

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Speaker 3: it's hard to remove yourself from the game. And you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm maybe optimist, too optimistic, like thinking we can still

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Speaker 3: and that it feels crazy. Teams can score fast. We

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Speaker 3: So I never once was like, yeah, I need to

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Speaker 3: get hit the next play and we're gonna, you know,

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Speaker 2: So with wentz on ir JJ McCarthy starting on Sunday

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Speaker 2: at Ford Field against the Lions. He's back after six

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Speaker 2: weeks of rehabbing a high ankle sprain he suffered against

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Speaker 2: the Falcons in Week two. He spoke on Wednesday afternoon

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Speaker 2: about his feelings heading back to Michigan for his third

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Speaker 4: Just finish up a great practice, felt like there was

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Speaker 4: a lot that you know, we did well and a

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Speaker 4: against divisional opponent, really tough opponent. You know, they've done

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Speaker 2: Now, let's bring in friend of the show, Eric Nordquist,

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Speaker 2: you know him as Nordo from nine to Noon. Nordo,

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Speaker 2: how is your mini bie? I guess we'll call it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the Baby Bye, Baby Bye.

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Speaker 6: That's cute.

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Speaker 1: Well, we kind of framed it up, Pa and I

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Speaker 1: framed it up. Nine to Noon is turning the page?

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Speaker 6: I love it.

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Speaker 1: So Monday it was what do we need to turn

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Speaker 1: heads around the thirty seven to ten debacle on Thursday

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Speaker 1: night at so Far. But then Tuesday morning, fresh new day,

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Speaker 1: we're ready to look at the Lions.

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Speaker 5: We're ready to look at JJ McCarthy. We might be

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Speaker 5: rolling with some kid qbs here.

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Speaker 1: So yes, I spent the Baby Bye trying to somewhat

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Speaker 1: forget and understand what I watched and witnessed on Thursday night.

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Speaker 1: It was enjoyable time away. And now we're back at

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Speaker 5: This is sweet.

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Speaker 2: So when head coach Kevin O'Connell walked in for x's

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Speaker 2: and o's on Tuesday, how did you assess his overall demeanor?

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Speaker 2: Did he also feel the turning the page theme that

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Speaker 1: He walked in as he normally does. Yeah, good conversation

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Speaker 1: I'm just kind of intrigued by it. Where there has

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Speaker 1: confident in the development plan of JJ McCarthy. There has

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Speaker 1: because this season through seven games soon to be eight,

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Speaker 1: going to unveil this fresh new offensive line interior with

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Speaker 5: We're back on the road again after taking a weird

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Speaker 1: So I just I've kind of summed it up as

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Speaker 1: just I think he and and oh, by the way,

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Speaker 1: we have the Lions at Ford Field where we haven't

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Speaker 6: Hook of a game to have when you come back, right, So.

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Speaker 1: Picture, just picture where that coach has had his ass

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Speaker 1: and it's it's got to be he's.

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Speaker 5: Got to be locked in, dialed in.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he is, but man spinning a little bit

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Speaker 2: So now he's going to get that entire week of practice,

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Speaker 2: He's going to be healthy during it, getting the first

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Speaker 2: What are some of the things you think they can

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I need I need my left and right tackles

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Speaker 1: This has kind of been that's kind of an evergreen talker.

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Speaker 1: And then Carson goes nine to nine on that game

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Speaker 1: winning drive and that touchdown to Addison. So committing to

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Speaker 1: The timing of the offense, he's gonna have Jordan Addison,

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Speaker 2: Those, and that that connection during training camp was something

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Speaker 2: So I'm excited to see what he can he can

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Speaker 1: I'm really looking for JJ has an opportunity to do

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Speaker 1: But I'm looking at timing. I want to see just

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Speaker 1: better timing on offense, on time on target's going to.

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Speaker 5: Lead to success.

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Speaker 1: And then just some hints that the decision making and

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Speaker 5: Those are all things. Again, I hate to say win

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Speaker 1: I want my favorite team to win every game, but

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Speaker 1: just I need to start seeing signs of improvement from

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Speaker 5: So this Sunday might be that first opportunity. Again.

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Speaker 6: Well, and they're not.

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Speaker 2: They're not out of this divisional race by any stretch.

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Speaker 2: You know, you've only played one divisional game, this this

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Speaker 2: next couple of Detroit Green Bay. Seeing these teams and

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Speaker 2: the Bears, you know that it's going to be so

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Speaker 2: important to hang in there. However, assessing the NFC North

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Speaker 2: right now, how difficult is it going to be on

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Speaker 5: Yeah? They well they have.

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Speaker 1: And my idea with the Lions, I figured there'd be

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Speaker 1: a regression because of all the change, all that is

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Speaker 6: Four started out that way. It felt like.

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Speaker 1: Right wow for one game, and then we realized it's

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Speaker 1: still Dan Campbell, it's still Ham and Ross and Brown,

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Speaker 1: it still Jami Gibs and they still got all the

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Speaker 1: trickery and everything. Defense is healthier, by the way, I

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Speaker 1: think Kirby Joseph and Brian Branch are both going to

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Speaker 5: They missed them. Aleem nick Neil is a game changer,

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Speaker 5: big guy in the middle. He's there.

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Speaker 1: Aiden Hutchinson is healthy. I mean the analyzing the NFC

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Speaker 1: I think I think he performed admirably. You know, people

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Speaker 2: All right, thanks Nordo for your time. Appreciate it as

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Speaker 2: Former Fox nine sports anchor, the face of several Vikings

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Speaker 7: Well, you know what, catching up with you an old

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Speaker 5: It's not even seeing.

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Speaker 7: It play out, it's hearing it play out because my

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Speaker 7: It's like the new version of the same old Lions

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Speaker 5: If they can't get.

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Speaker 7: On the field, it's his ability to maneuver the pocket

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Speaker 7: the on field. But off of the field, it's the

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Speaker 7: way I have seen people gravitate toward him. That's how

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Speaker 7: he was at Michigan. He was the unquestioned leader not

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Speaker 7: only of that offense, but that entire team. They look

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Speaker 7: to him because of his positivity and the way he

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Speaker 7: not only approached the game, but the way he approached life.

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Speaker 5: And and I see that.

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Speaker 7: In Minnesota, at least from what I've been able to follow,

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Speaker 7: And it seems like that part of him has not

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Speaker 7: changed whatsoever in the grand scheme of things for his

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Speaker 7: transition from college to the NFL. But now it's it's

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Speaker 7: time to show what we saw at Michigan and do

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Speaker 7: it on an even bigger level. Because at Michigan he

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Speaker 7: had a lot of help on offense. I mean, he

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Speaker 7: had Blake Korum, he had Donovan Edwards, he had a

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Speaker 7: great offensive line with a lot of draft picks. He

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Speaker 7: we see today. And now it's gonna be time for

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Speaker 7: him to kind of to kind of shoulder that load

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Speaker 7: and be the leader on the field that his team

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Speaker 6: I love that vantage point. Thanks so much to Hobie Artigue.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, we have a long and deep personal connection. So

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to see him on Sunday, as about excited

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Speaker 2: as I am to see the Vikings take on the Lions.

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Speaker 2: Finally we get a Sunday at noon game. Hallelujah. Suggs

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Speaker 2: that one. The kickoff is set for noon. It's the

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Speaker 2: Fox A team with Kevin Burkhardt, Tom Brady, Aaron Andrews,

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Speaker 6: We're excited for that.

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Speaker 2: Game and for the Vikings to break that four consecutive

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Speaker 2: losing streak at Ford Field. Tough place to play, but

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Speaker 2: it's going to make for an amazing game on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening to the Minnesota Vikings podcast.

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