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Speaker 2: Now here's kfans. Ron Johnson and Eric Nordquist.

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Speaker 3: In primetime thirty four twenty six the final the Vikings. Hey,

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Speaker 3: this is six and eight radio. The Vikings beat the Cowboys.

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Speaker 3: They win to and zero, making Ron Johnson laugh.

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Speaker 4: Why not?

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Speaker 3: It's a night and thank you for listening to your

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Speaker 3: home for Vikings Football the Fan.

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Speaker 4: JJ McCarthy.

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Speaker 3: If you were looking for growth steps, you got that

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Speaker 3: fifteen to twenty four tonight, two hundred and fifty yards,

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Speaker 3: a couple of touchdowns that all coming after whatever. That

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Speaker 3: first a weird interception was early on in the game,

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Speaker 3: but you needed more from the quarterback tonight, just seventy

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Speaker 3: seven yards on the ground productive yards at time, but

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Speaker 3: But in the end they found their way through and

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Speaker 3: it was will riker to believe, as the vox said,

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Speaker 3: if there's a will, there's a win, and the Vikings

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Speaker 3: founded six and eight stacking it. As you heard Aaron

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Speaker 3: Jones chatting with Ben Lieber last segment, I am going

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Speaker 3: to bring Ron Johnson to the conversation momentarily, but right

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Speaker 3: off the bat, I do believe we're headed back to Dallas,

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Speaker 3: and Ben Lieber is with linebacker Blake Cashman.

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Speaker 5: All right, thanks luck guys down here with Blake Cashman,

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Speaker 5: you know, also talking to Aaron Jones, and he was

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Speaker 5: on one of those songs. Are you familiar with some

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Speaker 5: of these TikTok dances you guys are doing here in

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Speaker 6: I am not, but I do get educated on them

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Speaker 4: I do.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, between the guys in the locker room

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Speaker 6: and my fiance at home, who's always scrolling on.

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Speaker 4: TikTok, I get copped to speed pretty quick.

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Speaker 5: I was gonna say, not a shocker to me that

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Speaker 5: But either way, it's really fun to be in this

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Speaker 6: Well, we we kind of had a good jump on

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Speaker 5: You know, some some negative plays that that happened out there.

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Speaker 4: I know there was one I could have played better.

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Speaker 6: I was trying to too gap with a guard and

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Speaker 6: specifically talking about me, where like I wasn't getting enough

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Speaker 5: As you guys go into the rest of the season,

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Speaker 5: we all found out that we're not going to make

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Speaker 5: the playoffs. We found out this afternoon. But you guys

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Speaker 5: still came out and played really really hard. What's the

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Speaker 5: as you guys are just out here just playing for fun.

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Speaker 6: Well, we love uh, you know, we love what we do,

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Speaker 6: And so you know, the reality of it is, yeah,

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Speaker 6: we are. We are out of the We're not getting

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Speaker 6: And you know, we understand we're professionals. We have a

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Speaker 4: Well, we enjoy watching you guys go to work. Congratsmen,

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Speaker 3: Blake Cashman, Vikings linebacker with Lieber in the locker room

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Speaker 4: Big night for the Vikings defense.

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Speaker 3: I mean, in the end, you're looking at the score line,

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Speaker 3: you're like, all right, well, it's kind of a fantasy

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Speaker 3: football feast actually, But in spots the Vikings defense just

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Speaker 4: Thirty four to twenty six.

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Speaker 3: Let's pause, reset, we heard from the player, let's hear

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Speaker 3: from Ron, and let's hear from you. I got calls

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Speaker 3: on hold, I got talkbacks locked and loaded. Vikings Fan

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Speaker 3: Line is going to continue around the corner as we

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Speaker 3: Nordo from nine to noon. It's Vikings fan Line. This

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Speaker 1: Home for all things purple. Come on FM one hundred

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Speaker 9: JJ looks like he's improving, and it's just going to

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Speaker 9: really upset everybody who's hoping we lose every game for

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Speaker 9: a better draft pick, because I'd rather watch him entertaining

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Speaker 3: It's two in a row for the Minnesota Vikings. A

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Speaker 3: lines now, Ryan and Maple Grove. Ryan, welcome to Vikings

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Speaker 4: Ryan, you there, Hey, guys, how you doing Hey?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm here.

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Speaker 10: So we've all been critical of JJ right the whole time,

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Speaker 10: what do you guys think about this guy being our

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Speaker 4: Well, I think that I appreciate your phone call. Ryan.

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Speaker 4: What did you think of the QB tonight?

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Speaker 11: Well, Kevin O'Connell did a great job, So I mean

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Speaker 11: it starts there, like everything we talked about before, about

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Speaker 11: Dallas defense on first down was absolutely terrible this year.

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Speaker 4: So I loved it. I think he did a great job.

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Speaker 11: But it starts with Kevin O'Connell calling the right plays

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Speaker 11: and that's what you saw. And then you saw him

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Speaker 3: And that's the thing we're seeing right now. I heard McCarthy.

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Speaker 3: I was listening to the TV copy. I was at

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Speaker 3: party there. He at one point said Aubrey the Cowboys kicker,

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Speaker 3: watching him kick was like watching Deon Sanders run.

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Speaker 4: And he missed too.

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Speaker 12: I mean, I mean, I just he equated the kicker

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Speaker 3: Aubrey's good, uh, and just I mean just uncharacteristic, characteristically

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Speaker 3: off tonight, Nathan and Ossio. Nathan, welcome to Vikings fan line.

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Speaker 10: Hey, I appreciate the welcome.

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Speaker 13: We were hanging out at neighbors Bar and grill and Rogers. Uh,

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Speaker 13: kind of Chris Hockey territory. And you know one thing

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Speaker 13: we were paying attention to is that the offensive lion,

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Speaker 13: the old lion, telling you that that's the reason why

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Speaker 13: that we won two games in a row. Gave JJ

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Speaker 13: time to relax, put some throws on and win the game.

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Speaker 2: So take them here.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I appreciate it. I hope you had a great night.

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Speaker 3: The offensive line without Darris that that was kind of

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Speaker 3: what twice in the last three weeks where derisatt isn't

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Speaker 4: Can you do it? You can't do it? And so

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Speaker 3: But justin school and McCarthy plays into this, and it's

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Speaker 3: part of that O'Connell conversation. Part of the kid QB

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Speaker 3: JJ's got the ball out on time and he even

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Speaker 3: continue the conversation. Vikings win thirty four twenty six are

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Speaker 3: now six and eight.

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Speaker 4: You heard that talk back.

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Speaker 3: All the quote unquote haters that want them to tank, well,

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Speaker 3: the Vikings are still picking twelve, so not a lot

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Speaker 3: changing in regard to the draft stock. While the it's

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Speaker 4: Two in a row for the Purple. Now at six

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Speaker 3: Of your phone calls, more of your talkbacks and text messages.

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Speaker 1: The twa City Song for Viking. Scott f one hundred

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Speaker 14: Two hundred and fifty yards passing, two touchdowns, one amazing fake,

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Speaker 14: our rushing touchdown. JJ is getting better and better each game.

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Speaker 14: Let's go to all the JJ haters for comment. Oh nothing,

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Speaker 14: That's what I thought. He's going to continue to get better.

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Speaker 14: This is showing the progression. Have him practice more, be healthy,

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Speaker 14: and he'll continue to grow. The future is bright. Minnesota

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Speaker 14: Viking fans believe in them. Scull Vikings, thanks for the talkbacks.

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Speaker 3: Free iHeartRadio app Ooh, I think this one's this one

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Speaker 3: specifically for you, Ron, Hey.

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Speaker 8: Ron, I would just like to ask if you had

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Speaker 8: it was just a route, because JJ seems to be

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Speaker 8: trying to figure it out. He's getting some layered in

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Speaker 8: He's getting a lot of fastballs, though, which one would

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Speaker 8: you prefer to catch?

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Speaker 4: There were a couple he had some touches.

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Speaker 3: He had a little I mean by his standards, he

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Speaker 3: was showing a little touch.

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Speaker 4: There's some maybe some work to be done on that.

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Speaker 4: One balls and two balls in there. Welcome back to

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Speaker 4: Vikings Fan line.

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Speaker 3: Thirty four to twenty six is the final Vikings improved

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Speaker 3: to six and eight winning at.

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Speaker 4: The Dallas Cowboys.

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Speaker 3: JJ McCarthy of those fifteen completions, Yeah, there were a

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Speaker 3: lot of fastballs tonight, A couple with some touch, some layering,

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Speaker 3: if you will, as part of the growth process. I

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Speaker 3: got some text messages on this as well. Let me

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Speaker 3: just find one well, I mean just simply enough to

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Speaker 3: paraphrase it, JJ can't throw a catchable football and so

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Speaker 3: and Jefferson, Well, this one he gets a little melodramatic.

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Speaker 3: Jefferson has sacrificed his career. Damn shame, et cetera. Rips

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Speaker 3: the coach. Uh, Jefferson needs to catch that one in

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Speaker 3: Josh Allen doesn't throw a hard ball at times, Aaron

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Speaker 4: I mean that was the bit with Farv.

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Speaker 3: Farv basically only had fastballs, but nobody was complaining. Now

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Speaker 3: with JJ, when it's leading to overthrows and inaccuracy, that's

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Speaker 3: But I mean in the end, if it's within that zone, man,

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Speaker 3: you got to catch it right right?

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Speaker 11: Oh yeah, you have to into the caller's answer, what

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Speaker 11: is your what is your favorite?

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Speaker 4: FABA?

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Speaker 11: Come on now, faith FA, tlet me the fade. I'm

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Speaker 11: six three, two hundred and thirty pounds. I wanted to fake.

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Speaker 11: Give me a little cornerback on me. I'm taking that

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Speaker 11: all a day every day, but for for you, did

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Speaker 11: you need a soft ball and.

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Speaker 11: All right, the dB was in front rock, if the

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Speaker 11: somebody just posted one from the Purdue game. I didn't

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Speaker 11: Travis Cole threw it. It was perfect, like I had

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Speaker 4: It was a couple of plays in ESPN. But anyway you.

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Speaker 3: Were, you had a pretty good run playing the sport

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Speaker 11: It was decent kind of imagine how you caught it.

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Speaker 11: Justin Jefferson. And here's the thought. We have to remember,

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Speaker 11: And honestly, with three games left, I don't know if

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Speaker 3: I don't know if he's gonna get there one hundred

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Speaker 4: I want him to two for twenty two or over

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Speaker 3: But if he has him figured him out, like you're saying,

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Speaker 11: I'm wondering why that wasn't Justin Jefferson's play though. I mean,

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Speaker 11: is guys are coming to the game. They're not gonna

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Speaker 11: And the minute you know you got man coverage, which

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Speaker 11: corner and I got Justin Jefferson, I'll probably have safety help.

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Speaker 4: Like let's be real, like I'm not on an eye.

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Speaker 11: I'm not you know, it's not Champ Bailey, it's not

443
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Speaker 11: you know, Dion Sanders out there anymore.

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Speaker 4: They're gonna have some type of help.

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Speaker 11: So that's the biggest issue is when you run that

446
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Speaker 11: deep ball, it's addison because you know, if I got

447
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Speaker 11: Jefferson on a dig, that safety in quarters is watching

448
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Speaker 11: Justin Jefferson, and that's what happened. You know, Like whenever

449
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Speaker 11: you go quarters, you want to send Justin Jefferson to

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Speaker 11: the side to make the safety bite. And that's that's

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Speaker 11: what you're getting in a lot of these guys is like, hey,

452
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Speaker 11: JJ your cover man, I don't know how we get

453
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Speaker 11: to the ball besides a one step, and.

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Speaker 4: Then we can't always guarantee you're gonna get yards on that.

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Speaker 3: So but to that to that end, the reason I

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Speaker 3: asked that question is because then that is another growth

457
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Speaker 3: opportunity for because Justin Jefferson can't just be a sacrificial

458
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Speaker 3: lamb every game. Correct and whether and whatever type of

459
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Speaker 3: ball he gets a touchdown that's pulled back on the

460
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Speaker 3: formation penalty. I think Mason was covering up all over there,

461
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Speaker 3: you know, and Jordan Mason, And.

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Speaker 4: How often has Jordan Mason motioned to be the receiver.

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Speaker 3: You know, like, hey, you know what, we're out of

464
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Speaker 3: the playoffs. That doesn't mean we're not going to keep

465
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Speaker 3: it trying to get tricky. He gets that one pulled back.

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Speaker 3: Then the one that getting back to this is it

467
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Speaker 3: just feels like, as Jji McCarthy continues to take, you know,

468
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Speaker 3: the lower hanging fruit in the entire offensive concept that

469
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Speaker 3: is going to be nailor more often it's going to

470
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Speaker 3: be Addison, et cetera. And he's feasting on at the

471
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Speaker 3: last two games. So he dig that but that means

472
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Speaker 3: that when you have eighteen, you got to get eighteen.

473
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Speaker 3: And once he had him, it was pulled back by penalty.

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Speaker 3: Two or three times tonight. He tried to force it,

475
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Speaker 3: and maybe on one of them you possibly get bland

476
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Speaker 3: on a penalty because he kind of turns his head back.

477
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Speaker 3: But basically he had his army hand in the shirt.

478
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Speaker 3: He was trying to reach for those chains man. He

479
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Speaker 3: was trying to steal his money and his jewelry, all in.

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Speaker 4: On playing like I need his money and so.

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Speaker 3: But then the one that goes through his hands, like

482
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Speaker 3: eighteen's got to get that. All ball related jokes aside,

483
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Speaker 3: I don't care if he's a South Paw. I don't

484
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Speaker 3: care if it's soft, I don't care if it's one

485
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Speaker 3: hundred miles an hour. Jefferson has to catch that, and

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Speaker 3: I just hope that he sees that or feels that

487
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Speaker 3: understanding post, you know, after the game.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, and McCarthy's probably gonna watch that. Back to saying, ah, yep,

489
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Speaker 11: I knew I had him on the corner. I could

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Speaker 11: have thrown it a little bit sooner, a little bit softer,

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Speaker 11: you know, on the fade ball, like you said, when

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Speaker 11: Bland had the hand in the in the jyro in

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Speaker 11: the collar area. He probably could have said, you know,

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Speaker 11: I could have floated this a little bit to let

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Speaker 11: you jump up and make that catch. I don't know

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Speaker 11: if you watch any of the Lions Rams game, but

497
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Speaker 11: Davante Adams had a similar like I think three or

498
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Speaker 11: four plays in the same drive ran kind of like

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Speaker 11: a stutter out, stutter corner. He was killing the cornerback,

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Speaker 11: and Matthew Stafford threw like a perfect ball before Devonte

501
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Speaker 11: Adams broke, but it was soft and it was high,

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Speaker 11: so that once he broke to the corner, even if

503
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Speaker 11: the corner is there, now it's a jump ball between

504
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Speaker 11: Davante Adams and the corner route or sorry, in the

505
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Speaker 11: corner back. That's the stuff that Jaj McCarthy's gonna learn.

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Speaker 4: Again.

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Speaker 11: This is Matthew Stafford's what twelfth I don't know how

508
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Speaker 11: many years he's been in the league now.

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Speaker 4: Oh eight, so, but that's in eighteen seasons. Yeah, that's just.

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Speaker 11: Learning, right, that's just learning, guys, learning receivers, learning the

511
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Speaker 11: game and how quick you need to get the ball

512
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Speaker 11: out of your hands when you need to throw a

513
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Speaker 11: three ball or four ball versus a two or one. Again,

514
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Speaker 11: this is game eight or nine for JAJ McCarthy, Like

515
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Speaker 11: we we just haven't he hasn't learned this stuff yet.

516
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Speaker 11: But the fact that he's making some of those throws,

517
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Speaker 11: like the play action to his left and he throws

518
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Speaker 11: absolute dime, that's the things you can say like man,

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Speaker 11: And then the one he threw the.

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Speaker 4: Oliver, like, yeah, he drove it through guys, you know, like.

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Speaker 11: That's the balls You're like, okay, man, but then the

522
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Speaker 11: the interception, you're like, maybe that's when you need to

523
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Speaker 11: pump and in.

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Speaker 4: Or just go yeah.

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Speaker 11: Like and there's a couple of times where you could

526
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Speaker 11: have run the day and he either took a sack

527
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Speaker 11: or threw a bad ball, And again that's just that's

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Speaker 11: just again growing learning knowing, Hey, if we're if we're

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Speaker 11: in four down territory, let me go get nine yards

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Speaker 11: and then let's go forward to fourth for one. So

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Speaker 11: again that's Jalen Hurts. We know he knows that because

532
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Speaker 11: he knows that offense. We know Patrick Mahomes knows that

533
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Speaker 11: he knows that offense or Jayling there. This is JJ

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Speaker 11: McCarthy's first year, so it sucks to Ke saying that.

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Speaker 11: But it's the truth, Mike, Honestly, it's the truth. Think

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Speaker 11: about your first year marriage. It wasn't great, you know

537
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Speaker 11: he used to marry that's pretty good.

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Speaker 4: With a lot of kids, you made it.

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Speaker 3: Each one of those years has been equally amazing in

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Speaker 3: by any stretch of the imagination, of course, a blessing.

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Speaker 4: Indeed, it is good points all around from Ron.

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Speaker 3: That's Ron Johnson DOMNRDO from nine to noon and we're

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Speaker 15: I mean when you watch, when you watch Jefferson in

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Speaker 15: his route tree from McConnell, like the play calling, he's

560
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Speaker 15: running deep all the time, corners, posts, flies, goes deep

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Speaker 15: deep corners that that ball is so hard to layer

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Speaker 15: in and it's a great play.

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Speaker 4: I get it.

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Speaker 15: But can you imagine he needs to be running slants

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Speaker 15: and ins and outs.

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Speaker 4: He needs to just.

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Speaker 15: So that he could set up his own double moves

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Speaker 15: later on in the game, or he could be running

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Speaker 15: it instead of blocking.

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Speaker 4: He can just run a route and then have Jones

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Speaker 4: come out of the back.

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Speaker 4: That talkback you just heard.

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Speaker 3: They're kind of in the I mean, you've had you

577
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Speaker 3: you've talked about this a bit in terms of and

578
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Speaker 3: and we saw it a couple of times. Uh and

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Speaker 3: and one worked for for JJ, not JJ, the other

580
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Speaker 3: one Jefferson justin Jefferson. One of his receptions tonight was

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Speaker 3: actually just he's going to take two steps and he's

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Speaker 3: going to jump inside and just beat his guy and

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Speaker 3: make the catch. We actually saw that. We saw a

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Speaker 3: couple last week. I think it's I think it's something's

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Speaker 3: happening here. Yeah, and uh was it Chris Collins word

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Speaker 3: for somebody. I don't know who said it, Tarico. Somebody

587
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Speaker 3: was like yeah, and see they're trying to run the

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Speaker 3: progression here, and this is what they're teaching them on

589
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Speaker 3: the pure progression crap.

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Speaker 4: Right, it's just read read the defense, not get it.

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Speaker 4: You give it a word. So it's pure progression.

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Speaker 11: Cause I talked to Wes Phillips about this, and you

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Speaker 11: know the ever evolving NFL offensive calls and how you

594
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Speaker 11: make things sexy and you know, hit, what's what's What's

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Speaker 11: a buzzword?

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Speaker 4: Right? Pure progression is a buzzword. Now we're seeing our

597
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Speaker 4: Lowski and everybody.

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Speaker 11: He was able to come on line his scrippage and say, okay,

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Speaker 11: you're five yards off. I know you're going to back

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Speaker 11: up at least one or two steps. I know what

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Speaker 11: my guy has. He has a one or two stepper.

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Speaker 11: He's gonna break in. I'm gonna throw the ball on

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Speaker 11: time boom, I'm gonna look to my left. I'm not

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Speaker 11: gonna let the safety. No, I'm going right because if

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Speaker 11: he had stared it, now I think Justin Jefferson season

606
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Speaker 11: is over because the safety would have killed him. But

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Speaker 11: he looked him off, So it's just a little bit

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Speaker 11: late mention. He threw a fastball, and he threw a

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Speaker 11: fastball and Justin Jefferson caught it. He needed that fastball.

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Speaker 11: If it was being decapitated, he would have got killed,

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Speaker 11: like I was. Even when he threw it, I was

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Speaker 11: like oh, and I was like, oh wait, he missed.

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Speaker 11: The guy missed the hit. Now, I will say this though, Nordo,

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Speaker 11: if this would have been five six years ago, that's

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Speaker 11: a hit.

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Speaker 4: That guy's actven going for the ball. He still gets hit. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: he's not going for the ball.

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Speaker 11: See now they kind of have to play it where

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Speaker 11: they're like, oh my god, to make a play on

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Speaker 11: the ball.

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Speaker 4: Let me se if I can break this up. If

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Speaker 4: that was Ryan Clark ed Reeve Man, they're de capitate him.

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Speaker 4: That's the difference. They took that out the game.

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Speaker 11: Now, you can't hit a guy after he as soon

625
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Speaker 11: as he catches the ball anymore like that.

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Speaker 4: That would he would have got to he would have

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Speaker 4: got killed. Isn't it kind of the.

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Speaker 3: Interesting culture change in football over the course of time.

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Speaker 3: Where Ed, I mean Ed Reid did a ton of

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Speaker 3: great things in the return game, I mean, his ballhawking ability,

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Speaker 3: just I mean, the total thing was hof no doubt.

632
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Speaker 3: But a big part of his game was the physical intimidation.

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Speaker 3: And so fifteen years ago, Ed Reid knocking a guy's

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Speaker 3: head off, it's not only not a penalty, it's talked

635
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Speaker 3: about on the top ten list on Sports Center.

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Speaker 4: He's being celebrated. He's that's dollars.

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Speaker 3: Williams, it's dollars in his pocket in the form of

638
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Speaker 3: future contract considerations, all Pro honors and all of those things.

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Speaker 4: These guys are freaking heroes.

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Speaker 11: Cam Chancellor, Roy Williams, Brian Dawkins, Like you don't have

641
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Speaker 11: that anymore, Like you can't do that. I remember playing

642
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Speaker 11: Brian Dawkins and it was scary.

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Speaker 4: This is one of those back in my day. I

644
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Speaker 4: was scared.

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Speaker 3: Right now, I realized, like he was literally a scary guy,

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Speaker 3: like you just knew.

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Speaker 11: But I mean we were prepared for that, Like we

648
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Speaker 11: were like, look, you're gonna get hit. Like I remember

649
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Speaker 11: like getting hit and I was miked up. Maybe guess

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Speaker 11: the Saints. And the only reason I remember this because

651
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Speaker 11: I heard the micd up. I lost, like I couldn't breathe.

652
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Speaker 11: I was in the huddle and Chris Redman's like, are

653
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Speaker 11: you all right? And I didn't say anything. I couldn't

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Speaker 11: get knout. He hit me so hard I couldn't talk.

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Speaker 11: But that was legal back then. They could decapitate us

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Speaker 11: and I had to play the next play. Who knows

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Speaker 11: if I was concussed or not, but literally Chris repmins

658
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Speaker 11: like all right, and I just didn't say anything, like

659
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 11: it was just the mic was quiet, and I remember,

660
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 11: like we did the little show back in the day

661
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 11: of the mic of stuff, and they're asking me like,

662
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 11: do you remember what happened? I was like, yeah, I

663
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 11: got hit, that's all I remember. I don't remember what

664
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 11: else happened. But you can't do that anymore. So now

665
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 11: safety's in college. You know they're getting.

666
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 4: Kicked out of the game.

667
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Speaker 13: Guy.

668
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Speaker 4: Now yeah, now it's targeting. Before it was just maybe

669
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Speaker 4: a flag. Now you're you're losing.

670
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 11: If it's second half, you're losing the next half of

671
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 11: another game.

672
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 4: So it's crazy, how like they've taken that out the game.

673
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Speaker 11: So to go back to that though, justin Jefferson he

674
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 11: made that catch, because that's there.

675
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 4: They're protected now.

676
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 11: But JJ McCarthy throwing a fastball also saves him from

677
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 11: his rib because again, you can still put your shoulder

678
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 11: into his ribs, you just can't go to his head

679
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 11: and try to try to knock him out.

680
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 3: Now, you mentioned that he looked off the safety or

681
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 3: maybe yeah, Quick was first a linebacker off or something

682
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 3: like that. He did have one earlier in the game

683
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 3: where he just eyeballed him and it was nearly disastrous

684
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 3: as well, and it was incomplete, so maybe they're just learning.

685
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 3: Even within the game. He goes and sits down, he's like, yeah,

686
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 3: that's right, I was. I mean, as as fun as

687
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 3: it's been watching him see success on the field, JJ

688
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 3: still eyeballs the bleep out of the a topic and

689
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 3: a route once in a while, and I just wonder, well,

690
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 3: and we saw it. It was in the end zone

691
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 3: and I forget, I forget who, and maybe it was Bland.

692
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 4: It was Bland following him.

693
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 3: For a large part of that game, for the most part, Jefferson,

694
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 3: the most part, because and he ends up throwing it

695
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 3: maybe a foot or two over his head and it

696
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 3: was way too far back towards the pylon, and there

697
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 3: was just no chance Jefferson was going to have a

698
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 3: true opportunity on that ball. But it was almost like

699
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 3: JJ just decided five seconds pre snap, this is absolutely

700
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 3: where it's going. And again kind of getting back and

701
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,479
Speaker 3: this is in some ways too much Jefferson conversation maybe,

702
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 3: but hey, it's six and a radio. The Vikings won

703
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 3: the what we're seeing there in those moments, and there's

704
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 3: much there's far fewer of them now as he's taking

705
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 3: advantage of these opportunities, as you have Hawkinson open on

706
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 3: that play, you have Naylor as an option. Yeah, and

707
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 3: not only is Bland on Jefferson, but I believe one

708
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 3: of the safeties or potentially even a slot corner just

709
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 3: stayed over on that side. So in every moment he's

710
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 3: being double teamed and in that compressed area like that

711
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 3: just should never be a pre.

712
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 4: Snap lock in for him. I don't.

713
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 11: Yeah, And so it's it's not so much pre snap,

714
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 11: but more of the minute he saw the coverage and

715
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 11: so the way when Ix West phillips this the way

716
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 11: I'm learning it because I know how we did it

717
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 11: back in the day, Like as a tight end receiver.

718
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 4: Like what I knew the quarterback was reading, It's nothing's changed.

719
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,479
Speaker 11: The biggest difference of the pure progression I'm doing air

720
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 11: quotes for those that can't see the pure progression part

721
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,479
Speaker 11: of this is the minute he knows he Justin Jefferson

722
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 11: has a certain coverage that this this route is gonna

723
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 11: work versus coverage. He does lock in, but I think

724
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 11: he I'm pretty sure, like unless I'm wrong, he's supposed

725
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 11: to look the other way just for a little bit,

726
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 11: just to hold the safety.

727
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, just hold the safety and then come back.

728
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 11: But again, I mean it's tough, Like I if I'm

729
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,479
Speaker 11: a quarterback and I know I got Justin Jefferson. I mean,

730
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 11: the human nature of it is you get a little

731
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:40,959
Speaker 11: antsy and you stare him down. You know, you you

732
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 11: want to make sure he's gonna be where he's supposed

733
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 11: to be when's supposed to be there, and you want

734
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 11: to get the ball to him when you're supposed to

735
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 11: get the ball to him.

736
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 4: And coach total so freaking badly.

737
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 11: The crazy thing I look at sometimes because he's my guy,

738
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 11: is a Jimmy neutron, which is Josh McCown.

739
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 4: If you look at his hair. It just reminds me

740
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 4: of Jimmy Neutron. I don't know why.

741
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 11: Sometimes when he's to walking across the screen, I'm like, man,

742
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 11: look at the look at the hair. But when you

743
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 11: watch Josh McCown, like you're saying, after a play happens,

744
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 11: I feel like that's what Josh McCown is telling JJ

745
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,879
Speaker 11: because he's going up and telling them something. I feel

746
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:11,440
Speaker 11: like he is saying that, like, hey, don't you know,

747
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 11: like whatever, don't stare this down, or hey make sure

748
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 11: you look the safety off or whatever it might be,

749
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 11: because again, that's just what time.

750
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 4: The more you play, the more that becomes easy. You know.

751
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 4: We joked about.

752
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 11: The no look you know, mahomes passes and the no

753
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 11: look Aaron Rodgers and the no look Josh Allen. It

754
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 11: takes time to get to that, right. You gotta know

755
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,479
Speaker 11: where guys are gonna be. Are you looking at Jimmy

756
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 11: newshown pictures now?

757
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 3: No, I just I got to talk back and it's

758
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 3: a shot at you. But I think it's funny, so

759
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 3: I'm gonna play it.

760
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 9: Unless he was knocked completely unconscious, I don't believe for

761
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 9: a second that Ron Johnson was unable to talk.

762
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 4: How about that?

763
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,839
Speaker 11: Even in my I did get a good cussion one

764
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 11: time in Calgary. I'm pretty sure I still probably was

765
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 11: talking with the stam Peters. Yeah, I got flipped on

766
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,280
Speaker 11: top of my head and I was out, Wow.

767
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 3: How many let me see did you play? So you

768
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 3: were specifically with Calgary? Yeah, it was with Calgary. Okay,

769
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 3: we were interronogi happen?

770
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 4: How much time did you spend in the CFL? Just

771
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:11,839
Speaker 4: a year and a half, two years? Basically a year

772
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 4: and a half. I got like back then, how much

773
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:14,839
Speaker 4: different different there?

774
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 13: Oh?

775
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 4: Way different?

776
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 11: Like the motioning towards the line of scrimmage that was

777
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 11: a learning you know, learning curve.

778
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 4: You have like a fifteen yard head start.

779
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 11: Yeah, you could just run full speed and block a

780
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 11: dB like you get a full head start to hit.

781
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:29,760
Speaker 4: A DV like it's ramming fans. Oh yeah, they were crazy.

782
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 11: But the cool thing about Canadians too is like they

783
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 11: get to they like come to the bars after the

784
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 11: game because like the team is sponsored by like a

785
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 11: local bar, So after the games we get to go

786
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 11: to a bar and we drink for free, eat for free,

787
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 11: and all the fans show up. That was part of

788
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 11: the bit like you go to the bar and they

789
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 11: tell the fans those Stampeder's are going to be at

790
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 11: this bar after the game. Doesn't feel kind of like

791
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 11: the NFL, like thirty some years ago, partying with the fans. Well,

792
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 11: I just remember, and I saw it as a kid,

793
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 11: and then as I got the high school and then

794
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,919
Speaker 11: in college and man Cato, I mean training camp down

795
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 11: to Mankato.

796
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 4: You can see the players.

797
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 11: Yeah to my social media now corraud cell phones videos

798
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 11: Like I mean, I'm not gonna say guys' names, but

799
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 11: I've still been out. You know, we'll go out and

800
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 11: I'll see guys out, and you know I'll be like,

801
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 11: oh man, what you're doing here about?

802
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 4: But where? You know?

803
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 11: So, yeah, I still see some guys out. But I

804
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 11: think more's Incognito. Like one of the people saw out.

805
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 11: It was the funniest thing ever. But like in a

806
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 11: full like turtleneck trench coat. It looked like Nino Brown

807
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 11: from a New Jack City, like in the corner, And

808
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 11: unless I had known who he was, I wouldn't even

809
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,280
Speaker 11: realize that was him, Like he was just in the corner.

810
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,839
Speaker 11: Super Incognito had his own little booth with a couple

811
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 11: of people, and I just happened to see him, and

812
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 11: you know, he kind of did the tap on the

813
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 11: shoulder and I'm like, what are you? Why are you

814
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 11: in the corner like this? But then I realized, like

815
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 11: I get it. You don't want to be seen, like

816
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 11: you don't want people video in.

817
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 4: You just trying to relax with your people. So yeah,

818
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 4: you guys.

819
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 11: Can't go out, you know, fifteen players deep anymore because

820
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 11: I mean, imagine if fifteen players were on a right

821
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 11: now for the vikings, It's gonna be all over Twitter.

822
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 3: Well that's a terrible Yeah, yeah, I mean just from

823
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 3: a historical context, this is why history matters. There will

824
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 3: be no kes were both people though they're all just

825
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 3: wearing Groucho marks glasses just where just where Pooh Shisty's

826
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 3: and nobody knows just where the shisty with some swim

827
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 3: trucks going like nobody would know. He must have had

828
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,959
Speaker 3: the sisty over his eyes because Pickens and his three

829
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 3: catches and thirty.

830
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 4: Three yards they did not even look for him. I

831
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 4: didn't see it was tough.

832
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,359
Speaker 11: Yeah, and and even for so here's the thing, CD Lamb,

833
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 11: I think I don't know if you heard it too

834
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 11: in the broadcast, but they were talking about how Dak

835
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 11: Prescott said, I'm gonna find George Pickens and he went

836
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 11: off and then he said some in his eyes change

837
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 11: where he's like, Okay, I'm going to Cede Lamb now.

838
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,439
Speaker 4: And then Brian Flores brought up the you know, they said,

839
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:51,479
Speaker 4: Brian floor Is brought up the Jeckel and hide. Yeah.

840
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 4: I think that's what we're That's what they're probably experienced

841
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 4: right now, like eleven hundred yards. Man, he's great, whoa

842
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 4: what just happened? In practice? What is he doing?

843
00:37:59,560 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 13: You know?

844
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,359
Speaker 4: To think about three games left now that I mean,

845
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:03,399
Speaker 4: losing this one was.

846
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,720
Speaker 11: Nasty and they're trying to get Yeah, so he's probably

847
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 11: gonna check out this eminated Yeah one percent chance if

848
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 11: they if I forgot who has to win Saturday? But

849
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 11: whoever plays Saturday, if they win, the Cowboys are out.

850
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 4: They're effectively where we were today. I think is the

851
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 4: Eagles commanders maybe just like that.

852
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 11: I don't have this sketch. If the Eagles play, I

853
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 11: think the Eagles play Saturday. But they were talking about

854
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 11: whoever wins Saturday, which I think is the Eagles eliminates

855
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 11: the Cowboys. So they basically say that the Cobboys could

856
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 11: be eliminated before their next game because the only way

857
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 11: they can get in is through the division. So the

858
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,320
Speaker 11: Eagles effect, if the Eagles win, Yeah, the Eagles win Saturday,

859
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 11: they must play Saturday and then they're out. And so

860
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 11: if that happens, just keep an eye on George Pickins

861
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 11: watch because that's I mean literally, that's what Mike Tomlin

862
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 11: talked about.

863
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 4: Flores talked about it. That's that's the stuff we used

864
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 4: to see on social media. We hadn't seen it this year.

865
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 11: He was getting the ball, he was happy and uh, yeah,

866
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 11: we might find out what's.

867
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 3: What's really under that shisty well and uh and Flores

868
00:38:58,000 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 3: new pickings from that year.

869
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:03,399
Speaker 4: He spin still, so maybe he knew how to turn.

870
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 4: I can't believe.

871
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 11: Somebody said that or did that. And then he's like, wait,

872
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 11: he did that though, you know, it's just like Laws

873
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 11: definitely knows how to probably get under his skin. Here's

874
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 11: what oh absolutely does.

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Speaker 3: you're six and eight. Vikings sounds like they they knocked

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Speaker 3: a consolation six and eight radio as we call it,

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Speaker 3: Vikings win down in Dallas thirty four to twenty six.

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Speaker 3: They've won two in a row, loving that, loving the

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Speaker 3: in primetime down in Dallas. JJ McCarthy once again kind

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Speaker 3: of looking the part fifteen to twenty four, two hundred

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Speaker 3: and fifty yards, a couple of passing touchdowns. He did

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Speaker 3: have that early pick that was just hideous, But then

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Speaker 3: he asked he had one of the great the Peyton

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Speaker 3: Manning esque fake as he ran his way and as

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Speaker 3: the box said, sauntered in, galloped in, skipped in, gritted

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Speaker 3: in to the end zone for a rushing score as well.

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Speaker 4: CJ.

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Speaker 3: Ham That may have been his first carry of the season,

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Speaker 3: by the way, one carry for one yard.

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Speaker 4: Resulting in a touchdown. That's how you get to thirty

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Speaker 3: Will Rekerd continues another fantastic season for the Kid and

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Speaker 3: the Cowboys six seven and one the Vikings. Effectively, they

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Speaker 3: still have one percent chance, but there are seasons about over.

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Speaker 3: Because of this victory tonight, here for the Purple eight

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Speaker 3: hundred and three two zero five three two six talkback

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Speaker 3: and let's jump to the phones Christine and Woodbury.

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Speaker 4: Christine, welcome to Vikings fan line.

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Speaker 16: Hey guys, that's us. I just wanted to add on

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Speaker 16: to when you were saying, yes, this is eighth game, right.

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Speaker 16: Everybody says that, But it's so much deeper than that

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Speaker 16: when you put the numbers to it, if you think

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Speaker 16: about it. Let's take Williams for example, it's what his

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Speaker 16: thirty first game that he's playing like we're talking thirty

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Speaker 16: one to eight. Yeah, I mean that's a lot of games, right,

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Speaker 16: And what I remember watching last year, what was he

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Speaker 16: like in his seventh and eighth game. I remember Chicago

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Speaker 16: wanting him to run out of town and people were

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Speaker 16: laughing because he was laying down pouting on the bench,

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Speaker 16: you know. And McCarthy is the opposite of that, which

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Speaker 16: is what you can't develop. You can't develop that inner strength.

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Speaker 16: And honestly, I am I shocked at the strength that

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Speaker 16: this young kid has with all the media nowadays and

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Speaker 16: what he hears and the pressure, he just keeps coming

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Speaker 16: back and there's no attitude.

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Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate, I appreciate your thoughts, and I appreciate

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Speaker 3: the perspective on that, Christine. Yeah, that is you know,

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Speaker 3: trying to trying to figure out and you know the

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Speaker 3: difficulty to what you're saying. And I'd not disagreeing with Christine.

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Speaker 3: Ron Johnson here remaining as part of Vikings fanline, I'm

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Speaker 3: not disagreeing with with what Christine when you put it

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Speaker 3: in those sorts of contexts. Just again reps the head coach,

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Speaker 3: Kevin O'Connell said it after the game mentioning just continuing to.

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Speaker 4: Get more time on task.

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Speaker 3: I think was part of his response when when someone

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Speaker 3: asked him just kind of impressed by his poise, JJ's

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Speaker 3: poise and just how he came back after that interception

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Speaker 3: and ultimately played a very very good game. But as

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Speaker 3: we've felt kind of the ebbs and flows of this season,

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Speaker 3: you know, there has been a significant lack of patience

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Speaker 3: for many in terms of giving this kid that opportunity

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Speaker 3: to accrue that time on task.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I'm not I.

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Speaker 3: Personally, it's so difficult to look at individual QBS schemes, systems,

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Speaker 3: scenarios and circumstances and say McCarthy's first eight games versus

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Speaker 3: you know, even a Caleb Williams who who did struggle mightily.

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Speaker 4: At times last year and is now looking much better.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, or Josh Allen how bad things looked for him

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Speaker 3: at times his rookie season, et cetera. It's tough to

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Speaker 3: of that, to Christine's point, kid needs more than eight

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Speaker 3: games before the book is written.

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Speaker 11: Right now, season of sixteen games, so he hasn't even

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Speaker 11: gotten a full season yet.

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Speaker 4: Seventeen games, seventeen games. Yeah, sorry, that's just how old

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Speaker 4: I am. I keep forgetting the.

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Speaker 11: Game from when he got hit in that game. Yeah,

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Speaker 11: when I couldn't talk. I'm just I'm just catching up now.

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Speaker 11: But I'm sorry to agree with that.

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Speaker 4: There's no chance here. I mean I might have been like,

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Speaker 4: but here's one thing.

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Speaker 11: So average completed air yards today, right, JJ McCarthy and

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Speaker 11: Matthew Stafford both at ten point one yards. So when

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Speaker 11: you think about that, right time to throw for JJ

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Speaker 11: McCarthy today two point nine to seven, So that means

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Speaker 11: he's getting the ball out of his hands, he's not

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Speaker 11: holding on to it for a long period of time.

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Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford two point eight.

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Speaker 11: You look at intended air yards in point four, so

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Speaker 11: meaning Kevin O'Connell was calling the plays and he's throwing

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Speaker 11: it where it's intended to go, like he's not asked to, like, oh,

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Speaker 11: here's a five yard dump off and you're gonna go

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Speaker 11: get me eighty yards. He's making the throws in the

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Speaker 11: air and making the completions in the air. You look

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Speaker 11: at for his aggressiveness number sixteen percent, almost seventeen percent,

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Speaker 11: Like all of that little stuff there where he's right

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Speaker 11: up there with here's the names he's with in time

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Speaker 11: or sorry in a lot of these metrics today, Trevor Lawrence,

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Speaker 11: JJ McCarthy, Matthew Stafford, Jarrett Goff, Caleb Williams, and bow Knicks.

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Speaker 11: Like that's a good group to be around when you

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Speaker 11: think about aggressiveness, you think about air yards all that stuff.

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Speaker 11: So again, this is only eight games. This is week fifteen.

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Speaker 11: I'm just looking at one week. But he's only had

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Speaker 11: eight games for some of this stuff. So yeah, we

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Speaker 11: got three more games. Season's over for the most part,

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Speaker 11: no playoffs. But let's see what he does. He's next

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Speaker 11: three at the end. Because people keep saying like the

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Speaker 11: Commander's defense was bad, the Cowboys defense is porous. Well,

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Speaker 11: you got the Giants that great either, So another week

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Speaker 11: from note to poll on. But then you got the

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Speaker 11: Lions and the Packers, Like you'll get your answer at

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Speaker 11: the end of the year. Where when two pretty you know,

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Speaker 11: better defenses coming to the someone get to the bill

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Speaker 11: and sorry coming to Minnesota.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, that's Ron Johnson. I'm Nordo. We're gonna pause, come back.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna give you.

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Speaker 3: Our local Chevy Dealers drive of the game. Thanks to

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Speaker 3: our local Chevy dealers, I got several to choose from.

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Speaker 3: So I'm gonna take this next break and find a

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Speaker 3: goodie for y'all. Is the Vikings win thirty four to

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Speaker 3: twenty six. It's Vikings fan line. Ron Johnson's here, I'm Nordo.

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Speaker 4: This is the fan let's hear from the talkbackers. Hey guys,

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Speaker 4: Hey love what JJ has been doing the last couple

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Speaker 4: of weeks.

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Speaker 3: I'm just trying to figure out if we should play

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Speaker 3: spoiler for the rest of the Central Division or do

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00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 3: we just kind of hang back try to figure.

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Speaker 4: Out something for the draft.

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Speaker 8: Okay, we got Harrison Smith coming up on the end

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Speaker 8: and maybe a dB.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for the talkbacks. Free iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 3: Hit that microphone, give us up to your best thirty seconds.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, what do you? What do you think? Ron at three?

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Speaker 3: Ron Johnson via social media. I mean, with with the

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Speaker 3: way that they're playing these games, clearly they're they're trying

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Speaker 3: to unleash something in the quarterback. They're trying to find

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Speaker 3: something over this final stretch. I think naturally becoming a

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Speaker 3: potential spoiler could be.

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Speaker 4: Part of that conversation.

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Speaker 3: Now you know, I'm not familiar with the Central Division anymore.

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Speaker 4: I think that the Tampa Bay Bucks are now in

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Speaker 4: the NFC South.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they I apologize to the Talkbacker. Some things have

1051
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Speaker 3: changed since the nineties, and so now we actually have

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Speaker 3: the NFC North that would be the division. There are

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Speaker 3: just four teams in it, no longer five. The Bucks

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Speaker 3: really probably should never been affiliated with the rest of

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Speaker 3: us up here in the.

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Speaker 4: North, but well, they needed they needed two more teams

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Speaker 4: to join the end. They needed a place, yes, and

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Speaker 4: more team. We were happy to house them.

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Speaker 3: But now they are nestled not so nicely in the

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Speaker 3: NFC South with these freaking Panthers.

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Speaker 8: Now.

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Speaker 3: I think the Panthers lost today, but it is Bucks

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Speaker 3: and Panthers play each other twice over the final three

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Speaker 3: I think to determine who's going to win the South.

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00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 3: How about those Panthers at seven and six or seven

1066
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 3: and seven whatever they are, seven and seven they are, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they lost to the Saints today. The Saints winning games.

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Speaker 3: By the way, there are three or four win team

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Speaker 3: weird things in the NFL.

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Speaker 4: It is interesting the.

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Speaker 3: Mentality though, Ron where you heard it, you heard it

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Speaker 3: during that and it was kind of it was almost amusing,

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Speaker 3: just like I don't know how like you get into

1074
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Speaker 3: that place mentally. Liber was talking with play Cashman, and

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Speaker 3: it's kind of like you are kind of just playing

1076
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 3: for fun, right, and you know it's like, well, I mean,

1077
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Speaker 3: you're playing for a paycheck, you're playing for statistics, you're

1078
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Speaker 3: playing for you know, good tape into the offseason and beyond.

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Speaker 11: And I mean, honestly, if they win the next three,

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Speaker 11: the Lions have to play the Steelers and the Bears,

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Speaker 11: so they could potentially not be in the basement.

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Speaker 3: Well with the way things are going here now, the

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Speaker 3: Lions losing today kind of hurts them because I think

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Speaker 3: it's still two games. Instead of just saying I think,

1085
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Speaker 3: how about I just look at the freaking standing. So

1086
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Speaker 3: Detroit's eight and six, Packers nine to four and one,

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Speaker 3: so they're a game and a half back.

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Speaker 4: So it makes things a little dicey.

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Speaker 3: You can effectively keep the Lions out of the playoffs

1090
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:33,719
Speaker 3: if you win on Christmas, and that's fun. Additionally, you

1091
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 3: have the ability here. Now we'd have to do some

1092
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 3: more math on it. I think Packers losing Parsons is

1093
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 3: potentially catastrophic for that team, but I still the Packers

1094
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 3: are a good squad. I think they're going to end

1095
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 3: up in the playoffs, but that could be a potential

1096
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 3: seeding l if you're able to kind of play that spoiler.

1097
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 3: I think it's more likely that the Vikings on Christmas

1098
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 3: actually could send a just a nice Christmas gift, just

1099
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:01,799
Speaker 3: a bag of dog who set it on fire and

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00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:03,440
Speaker 3: say you're.

1101
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 4: Out of the if we're not.

1102
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Speaker 3: Going to the playoffs, you're not going.

1103
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 4: To the playoffs either.

1104
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 3: Merry Christmas, Lions fans, you could so playing spoiler. I

1105
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 3: think there could be an element of it, specifically with

1106
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 3: these division rivalries and the frustrating way of the season.

1107
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 3: But all that comes into I think seeing JJ McCarthy

1108
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 3: just make plays right.

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00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:24,880
Speaker 11: Yeah, and you think about the Packers being the seventh

1110
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 11: seed right now, Lions are the A seed. So Packers

1111
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:34,040
Speaker 11: the tie nine four and one first, the Cowboys save them.

1112
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 4: I think that's what they tied. They did, yeah, forty

1113
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 4: forty That saved them.

1114
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 11: So instead of them being nine and five, you know,

1115
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:42,480
Speaker 11: or particularly to help them, they were ten and four,

1116
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:44,960
Speaker 11: but being not, you know, instead of being nine and

1117
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:48,839
Speaker 11: five and one game back from the Lions, that half

1118
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 11: game gives them a little bit more cushion. So the

1119
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 11: Vikings could easily just beat the Lions and say, hey,

1120
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 11: you're done too, Like if we're going down, where not

1121
00:51:57,719 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 11: going You're coming down with us. But again, if the

1122
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 11: loose of the Steelers and they're probably going to lose

1123
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 11: to the Bears, that's an eight to nine season for

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Speaker 11: the Lions.

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Speaker 4: Which the Bears are really going to be the two set,

1126
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:11,799
Speaker 4: aren't they? Yeah? Right now? I mean here's the thing.

1127
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 11: Man like Caleb Williams every once in a while still

1128
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 11: does the unbridled horse thing and throws an absolute just

1129
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:19,719
Speaker 11: I mean, I don't know if you saw the Dj

1130
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 11: Moore back of the end zone touchdown today, it.

1131
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:24,280
Speaker 4: Was pure insand it was a prayer.

1132
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 11: Yeah, and he just to his right threw off his

1133
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 11: back foot as hard as he could. I don't know

1134
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 11: how both Browns players missed the ball. Like I didn't

1135
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 11: even realize it was a touchdown because the ball was

1136
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:38,879
Speaker 11: on the ground so quick like Dj Moore caught it

1137
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 11: and then just strew it on the ground. I was like,

1138
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 11: was that an incomplete ball? And then I look, I'm like,

1139
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 11: these dudes are celebrating that's a touchdown. So when you

1140
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 11: see Kayleb Williams do that, but then fast forward, nice

1141
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:52,399
Speaker 11: little outroute, nice little hitch, nice little goal ball.

1142
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 4: He does the basic stuff.

1143
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 11: Like I think almost that's like a little fix like Okay,

1144
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:59,360
Speaker 11: I no, you need to do some crazy do it here, Okay,

1145
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:01,880
Speaker 11: do it and I'll be done. And so that's what

1146
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:04,359
Speaker 11: Ben Johnson is done. He's turned Kayleb wins Toto, Jared Golf,

1147
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:05,879
Speaker 11: Jared Goff. Remember he used to go eight for eight

1148
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:09,239
Speaker 11: to start games, seven for seven, sixteen for sixteen. Why

1149
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 11: because it's just I'm gonna give you the script and

1150
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 11: you just follow it. Jared Goff follows it better than

1151
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:17,600
Speaker 11: Kayleb Williams. But that running game too, like the Bear

1152
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 11: and the Cole Comett deal. I mean, I'm not co Comett, sorry,

1153
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 11: Coaston Loveland like he is playing like a veteran tight end,

1154
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:27,360
Speaker 11: like nobody's even talking about Travis Kelcey and some of

1155
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 11: these other guys. And because the Chiefs aren't doing anything,

1156
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 11: but you know, it's the Bears. The Bears offense, like

1157
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 11: the Bears might be in the super Bowl.

1158
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,359
Speaker 4: That's that's how that's how good they're playing right now.

1159
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 3: They're the twenty twenty two vikings Man you think so,

1160
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 3: because that ball is picked in the end zone.

1161
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:48,879
Speaker 4: Nine at the very least, it's batted down.

1162
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 11: Because what was the Vikings they love They won every

1163
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 11: one score game that year, right or something like that.

1164
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 4: They were eleven to zero in one score game or

1165
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 4: something like that.

1166
00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 3: I mean, it was just it was always hanging by

1167
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:00,319
Speaker 3: a thread, and they fought the season, but.

1168
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:01,399
Speaker 4: They found and they found a way.

1169
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:03,960
Speaker 11: I mean, the Bears are built for the postseason though,

1170
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 11: because one, if they can run well that they can run,

1171
00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 11: and the weather in Chicago, like if you have to

1172
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:12,399
Speaker 11: go to Chicago for an NFC championship game, like the

1173
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 11: only hope is the Rams get the host. But if

1174
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 11: the Rams somehow screw up and it's in Chicago, that's

1175
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 11: a tough place to win in January, Like.

1176
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,279
Speaker 4: It's going to be freezing. Let me do this and

1177
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:24,240
Speaker 4: then we're gonna pause.

1178
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 3: I took the break and I found, thanks to our

1179
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 3: local Chevy dealers, the drive of the game, and I'm

1180
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:32,760
Speaker 3: taking this one here. Late stages of the third quarter,

1181
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:35,920
Speaker 3: Aubrey kicks a field goal after a five and a

1182
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:40,360
Speaker 3: half minute drive, put the Cowboys up twenty three to seventeen,

1183
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 3: and McCarthy and the Vikings offense went eight plays seventy

1184
00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:50,440
Speaker 3: three yards and they take the lead. And of course, now, man,

1185
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 3: we got we got a wonky system today, don't we

1186
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 3: hear there? It is CJ Ham touchdown time, second and

1187
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:58,400
Speaker 3: goal from the two, trying to get a touchdown in

1188
00:54:58,440 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 3: the nextra point.

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00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 4: Take the lead off, I write McCarthy. Puts Addison in

1190
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:04,279
Speaker 4: motion to the right hand.

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00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 15: Off CJ Ham, pump the middle touchdown.

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00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 3: Nobody's not coming, see J with this first touchdown this year.

1193
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,360
Speaker 3: And we're all tied to twenty three about minute twelve

1194
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:19,839
Speaker 3: to go in the third quarter. Man, they needed that

1195
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 3: the three and out after the field goal drive to

1196
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:24,799
Speaker 3: start the third quarter. Then you get a five and

1197
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:27,400
Speaker 3: a half minute field goal drive to make it twenty

1198
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 3: three seventeen. If you were to falter there and give

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00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:34,840
Speaker 3: the Cowboys back the ball at the late stages of

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00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 3: the third early fourth, could have been curtains. However, it

1201
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 3: was not. Eight plays seventy three yards. First first carry

1202
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 3: of the season for CJ. Is a touchdown. It's leap

1203
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:44,440
Speaker 3: to fifteen.

1204
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 4: Not a bad conversion rate for a CJ.

1205
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 3: We're gonna pause, come back, put a rap on this thing,

1206
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:59,480
Speaker 3: moving forward Vikings Fan Line on the fan final segment,

1207
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:02,800
Speaker 3: Vikings Line six and eight Radio Vikings beat the Cowboys

1208
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 3: thirty four to twenty six, and it's early on a Monday.

1209
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 3: Excited to be back with you. It'll be live in

1210
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:10,839
Speaker 3: Local five point thirty with the Power Trip. I will

1211
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 3: be in I believe for at least half the show.

1212
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:15,759
Speaker 3: Four pas PA and the squad will be traveling back

1213
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:17,280
Speaker 3: from Dallas.

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00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:18,839
Speaker 4: Super late arrival time.

1215
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 3: I mean, I think there's still maybe four hours out,

1216
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:23,920
Speaker 3: but he's going to jump into the studio as soon

1217
00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:26,239
Speaker 3: as he's able to. He did send back some cool

1218
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:28,680
Speaker 3: drive by chats in the locker room from after the game,

1219
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 3: and we're going to continue to break this thing down

1220
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:33,440
Speaker 3: into the day, and then over the course of the

1221
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 3: week we turn this thing around and then we go

1222
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:38,680
Speaker 3: beat the Giants hopefully a week from today at nooner

1223
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:43,239
Speaker 3: at MetLife Stadium in Jersey Ron. You know, darisaw just

1224
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,120
Speaker 3: kind of just kind of odds and ends that just

1225
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:47,919
Speaker 3: kind of sparked from that from that talkback we had

1226
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:51,920
Speaker 3: about the Central Division, but the point of it playing spoiler,

1227
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 3: et cetera, looking ahead to the draft. These are all

1228
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:57,160
Speaker 3: things I'm sure inside the building that they're having conversations about.

1229
00:56:57,200 --> 00:57:00,319
Speaker 3: But you look at a guy like Darisaw you paid

1230
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 3: over the next few weeks, maybe you start seeing it's like,

1231
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:05,960
Speaker 3: we want as much on the field as possible for

1232
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:08,799
Speaker 3: JJ McCarthy to utilize offensively.

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Speaker 4: But whether it's darisof.

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00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:13,800
Speaker 3: And just I mean, what a freaking roller coaster ride

1235
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 3: that thing's been from a health standpoint. In twenty twenty five,

1236
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 3: I think about Jonathan Grinard, you know, reaggravating potentially that

1237
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 3: shoulder and he left the game early nicking an ankle.

1238
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 3: Was Brian O'Neill. You know, things like that. I mean

1239
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 3: you envision potentially not being playoff bound. Maybe they just

1240
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:36,920
Speaker 3: kind of say you're gonna chill, you know, dearis a

1241
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:39,360
Speaker 3: let's let's shut it down and try it again in

1242
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six, you anticipate anything like that.

1243
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, so there there's always performers bonuses. We

1244
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 4: know that.

1245
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 11: So you got players that you know still want to

1246
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 11: play because they want to get their bonuses. I'm pretty

1247
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:53,600
Speaker 11: sure JJ McCarthy or sorry, Justin Jefferson, has you know

1248
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:57,479
Speaker 11: something for a thousand yards potentially multiple thousand yards seasons,

1249
00:57:57,520 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 11: all that kind of stuff to get more money. Also,

1250
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 11: that's a way to pay guys the money you probably

1251
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 11: told them to be easy to get. You know, hey,

1252
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:09,960
Speaker 11: take less money up front, we'll backload your deal. But

1253
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 11: for FORGT like Christian Darrisaw, I mean, when you think

1254
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:14,640
Speaker 11: about the youth of his, you know the age, right,

1255
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 11: there's no reason to risk potential longer term injury knowing

1256
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 11: you're not going to go to the playoffs and you

1257
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 11: want him back day one of OTA's in mini camp.

1258
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:25,720
Speaker 4: So that could potentially be.

1259
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:27,960
Speaker 11: One of those with him where if justin school actually

1260
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:30,920
Speaker 11: wasn't bad today, like he's been bad in the past,

1261
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:32,520
Speaker 11: justin school wasn't bad today.

1262
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 4: So I think that's another part of it.

1263
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:36,760
Speaker 11: But if you're putting JJ McCarthy out there, you do

1264
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 11: want as healthy of an offensive line as possible, and

1265
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:43,880
Speaker 11: so you can't really just throw, you know, throw out

1266
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:46,080
Speaker 11: just whoever and say, hey, you guys, go out there.

1267
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:48,440
Speaker 11: Just do what you can do to keep his say

1268
00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 11: that's what it feels like the Cleveland Browns are going

1269
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 11: to do at some point, right, Like, whoever wants to

1270
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 11: go out there, go out there.

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00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:54,840
Speaker 4: I don't care. Paper says a rock for it. But

1272
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 4: the Vikings can't do that, so I could see Christian

1273
00:58:58,680 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 4: Darasaw just because.

1274
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 11: If it's the Nie swelling and it's not getting any better,

1275
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 11: you know, at what point do you just shut him down?

1276
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:06,800
Speaker 11: Do they maybe put him on a one or two

1277
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:09,400
Speaker 11: quarter pitch count just to get through the last three games?

1278
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:13,400
Speaker 11: Potentially Grenard if it is bad, Yeah, he's probably done.

1279
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:14,800
Speaker 11: And that's the other key to that too.

1280
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, And just with Darrisaw, I mean, I just wonder

1281
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:20,480
Speaker 3: how that impacts game planning. I mean, think about it,

1282
00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:23,680
Speaker 3: if it's a true mystery each you know, for the

1283
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 3: last handful of weeks effectively and specifically two of the

1284
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:29,720
Speaker 3: last three where he ends up bound out, if we

1285
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:31,960
Speaker 3: can't get this thing right, and I'm trying to plan

1286
00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 3: a script in a game plan against whether it was

1287
00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 3: the Seattle Seahawks at the time with Brozmer really could

1288
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:41,440
Speaker 3: have used him in that game or most recently now

1289
00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 3: against the Cowboys, And I kind of got a Willie

1290
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:47,960
Speaker 3: won't he factor, knowing that there is a significant difference

1291
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 3: between having seventy one there and then justin school. I mean,

1292
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:53,360
Speaker 3: I just think at some point you just got to say, hey,

1293
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:55,240
Speaker 3: CD man, like we just need to.

1294
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:55,640
Speaker 4: Get you right.

1295
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:57,600
Speaker 11: Yeah, so you got to get him healthy and we're

1296
00:59:57,600 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 11: going to stop the roller coach. You know, I think

1297
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:01,520
Speaker 11: went out today too, th ankles. So you know, it's

1298
01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:02,920
Speaker 11: just it's it's one of those things where this has

1299
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:03,800
Speaker 11: been one of those seasons.

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Speaker 4: Your center was out.

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Speaker 3: Because Brandell played every position on the line then probably

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Speaker 3: except for right guard.

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Speaker 4: Maybe probably. Yeah, I mean, let's get let's get a game.

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Speaker 11: Fifteen different offensive line jaepins.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what it is. It's only been fifteen

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Speaker 4: weeks of the season. Yeah, it's not. So that's that's

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Speaker 4: not great.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's how you come into a game like tonight

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Speaker 3: with only five wins.

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Speaker 4: But that's why you go quick game. But if you put,

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Speaker 4: if you put your if.

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Speaker 11: Your blind side is not Christian Darisol, you got to

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Speaker 11: get the ball out your hands quick.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's say good night to all of you

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Speaker 3: who have been listening to Vikings fan line. The Vikings

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Speaker 3: have improved as six and eight at six and eight Radio.

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Speaker 3: They beat the Cowboys thirty four to twenty six. No,

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Speaker 3: they're not going to the playoffs, but yes, it was

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Speaker 3: cool to see the defense standing up against dak It's

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Speaker 3: cool to see a team potentially keeping the Cowboys out

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Speaker 3: of the playoffs. A dig that spoiler like fashion and

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Speaker 3: I like seeing the quarterback taking steps. So thanks to

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Speaker 3: Ron Johnson. Thank you to our local Chevy dealers for

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Speaker 3: providing the drive of the game. Thank you to Max

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Speaker 3: Fuller for producing, and again live at Local tomorrow with

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Speaker 3: the Power Trip at five thirty am and then nine

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Speaker 3: to noon.

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Speaker 4: Now we're going to jump into it.

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Speaker 3: There is also, you know, kind of a little ho

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Speaker 3: hum Minnesota Wild transaction made over the weekend with Quinn

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Speaker 3: Hughes scored a goal.

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Speaker 4: Today, we're going to talk.

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Speaker 3: With the voice of the Wild, Joe O'Donnell on that

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Speaker 3: and so much more as we dig into as Vikings

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Speaker 3: victory the Wild one. Oh how about the Wolves making

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Speaker 3: it a trifecta today too against the sack Kings. That's

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Speaker 3: been it for Vikings fan line. Everybody, have a great sleep,

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Speaker 3: Thanks for listening to the fan