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Speaker 1: Man, Welcome into the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. I am your host,

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Speaker 1: Tatum Everett from the Vikings Entertainment Network. The Purple are

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Speaker 1: gearing up for a huge NFC North showdown against the

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Speaker 1: Chicago Bears this Sunday at us Bank Stadium.

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Speaker 2: The Vikings come in.

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Speaker 1: At four and five, looking to bounce back after a

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Speaker 1: tough loss to Baltimore, while the Bears are riding high

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Speaker 1: at six and three with Caleb Williams leading a string

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Speaker 1: of late game heroics.

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Speaker 2: We've got a great lineup for you on this show.

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Speaker 1: ESPN's Courtney Cronin checks in to chat about the Bears,

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Speaker 1: who have been four and one since the bye. Plus,

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Speaker 1: we have Eric Nordquist from nine to noon to give

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Speaker 1: us a Roobs perspective into Sunday's divisional game. We'll dive

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Speaker 1: into key matchups and all the storylines heading into Sunday's

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Speaker 1: matinee matchup, bringing us in on this lovely Thursday. Although

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Speaker 1: we record this on a Tuesday, it is Eric Nordquist

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Speaker 1: from nine to noon.

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Speaker 3: I like to.

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Speaker 1: Preface these with that because it's it is so hard

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Speaker 1: sometimes to really focus on the game ahead when we

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Speaker 1: are sitting here recording on a Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: Do you find that more difficult?

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Speaker 4: You mean, like we're still reeling a little bit on

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Speaker 4: a Tuesday, right, a little bit. Wow, everything that happened

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Speaker 4: against the Ravens game was within reach. But it is

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Speaker 4: theater of the mind though, because there are those out there,

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Speaker 4: wonderful listeners of the fan. It's a Thursday for you.

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Speaker 4: So I'm going to say, happy Thursday, isn't it?

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Speaker 2: All those beautiful weekend here?

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Speaker 1: Well, now that we're entering week eleven and I have

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Speaker 1: only played two division games, So as much as maybe

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Speaker 1: the four and five record isn't pretty, they're not out. No,

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Speaker 1: you're not, because you could still win all these divisional games.

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Speaker 1: Get the birth right. So that's the positivity optimistic outlook

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Speaker 1: right then and there. But when you think about this

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Speaker 1: Bears team that we've only faced what ten weeks.

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Speaker 2: Ago, Yeah, it feels like they have had.

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Speaker 1: A shift and identity the more that they have played.

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Speaker 1: How have you seen that play out?

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Speaker 4: Well, not necessarily as much as shift, but an evolution

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Speaker 4: and the creation of an identity where Ben Johnson, you know,

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Speaker 4: what are you going to get week one out of

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Speaker 4: your team? First chance leading the team? What are you

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Speaker 4: know behind the scenes. He talked about tearing Caleb Williams

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Speaker 4: down to the studs and trying to rebuild him after

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Speaker 4: his rookie year last year.

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Speaker 2: With a different coach and ibra flus.

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Speaker 4: How much can you really take from Week one in

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Speaker 4: terms of the QB you saw on Caleb Williams different,

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Speaker 4: the running attack that you you know it was. It

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Speaker 4: was fine at times, they got swift down to space,

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Speaker 4: but overall really not very effective against the Purple Week one.

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Speaker 4: The only game that they lost to the Ravens was

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Speaker 4: the one game in which they weren't able to really

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Speaker 4: get things going on the ground. So the Bears we'll

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Speaker 4: see on Sunday are different than the Bears we saw

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Speaker 4: week one. But I think in the spirit of what

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Speaker 4: Ben Johnson wants to do, it's still going to come

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Speaker 4: down to some similar principles where if you can limit

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Speaker 4: the run, talked about that a lot this year. But

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Speaker 4: then then in terms of Caleb Williams, the playmaking ability,

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Speaker 4: second chance opportunities, He's making fewer mistakes, the play actions

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Speaker 4: working better, and they're finding some aggression through the air

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Speaker 4: with some explosives. This is a different team than what

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Speaker 4: we saw. It's also a team. I think specifically from

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Speaker 4: up and down the field nicely on Sunday against these Bears.

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Speaker 1: What did you make of Jalen Naylor's emergens in this game?

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Speaker 1: And can you how confident could you be at this

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Speaker 1: point to feel like the Vikings have may have found

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Speaker 1: their wide receiver number three?

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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I think I think Jalen Naylor in some

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Speaker 4: ways it shouldn't be a new revelation, at least in

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Speaker 4: the regard where I think when when Jordan Addison a

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Speaker 4: year ago was out for a game, may have been

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Speaker 4: like Week two. Let's just say he was out the

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Speaker 4: Niners game. I forget there was one or two games

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Speaker 4: there early on where Addison missed. Naylor started the season

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Speaker 4: off with a touchdown in three straight games to begin

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Speaker 4: the season, and it felt like the season turn for

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Speaker 4: him with the Lambeau muff on the punt in that

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Speaker 4: game late first half, teams up like twenty eight and nothing.

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Speaker 4: It got way more interesting than it should have been

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Speaker 4: and Vikings get out with the victory.

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Speaker 2: So we dig that.

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Speaker 4: But then he just kind of he kind of disappeared,

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Speaker 4: and so you know, I think with JJ McCarthy, you

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Speaker 2: I mean, how about how about.

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Speaker 4: Seven total catches for Addison and Jefferson this last Sunday

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Speaker 4: on twenty three targets. Meanwhile, right out of the gates,

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Speaker 4: how about Naylor? And and that's a play by the

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Speaker 4: way where the kid QB who's made some mistakes, also

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Speaker 4: does some cool things where he identifies coverage sees he's

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Speaker 4: going to have that opportunity Addison with the legal yet

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Speaker 4: kind of if he pick play to get one one

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Speaker 4: have the beautiful, gorgeous fade ball that you saw that

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Speaker 4: we would be lauding the Mahomes and the josh Allens

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Speaker 4: of the world for seeing the same pass we saw

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Speaker 4: that from JJ. And then he makes the play Naylor

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Speaker 4: does after the catch to to make you know, a

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Speaker 4: thirty yard catch sixty two So you dig that, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I mean I think he he right now. And speaking

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Speaker 4: of cricket sounders, in lieu of TJ. Hawkinson being productive

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Speaker 4: in this offense, the third best option for JJ McCarthy

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Speaker 4: absolutely is Jalen Naylor, a guy that the coach is lauded,

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Speaker 4: you know, and again he's he's not lighting up the statue,

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Speaker 4: but he's running the routes. I would bet Jalen Naylor's

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Speaker 4: probably been missed on three four five touchdowns this year

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Speaker 4: just by being in a just a high end route runner,

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Speaker 4: consistent production coverage being drawn to number eighteen and number three,

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Speaker 4: and Naylor's been that guy and it was cool to

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Speaker 4: see him have that jump out game.

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Speaker 2: Love it. Look man, what a roller coaster this season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. Thank you so much for your time,

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Speaker 1: marnopgiate you. You can also catch him on fan line

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Speaker 1: after the games on kfan as well as with Paul

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Speaker 1: Allen on nine to noon every weekday on KF. We'll

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Speaker 1: have more for you have the break, including a fun

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Speaker 1: catchup with ESPN's Courtney Cronin, who covers the Bears regularly,

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Speaker 1: I'm Tatum Everett from the Vikings Entertainment Network and the

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Speaker 1: Vikes are back in divisional play this week, so let's

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Speaker 1: get to it. It's Bears week, so that means we

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Speaker 1: get the pleasure of having ESPN's Courtney Cronin on our

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Speaker 1: Channel's Courty obviously used to cover the Vikings, but now

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Speaker 2: Her on ESPN.

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Speaker 2: Sunday, Courtney.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful to say, you're excited to come back to Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: Anytime I get to go back to Minnesota, which was

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Speaker 3: home for so long, and to play the game indoors

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Speaker 3: where I don't have to stand outside early in the

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Speaker 3: morning and freeze, I will sign up for that. Ten

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the one thing I'm sure you missed a

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Speaker 1: little bit about this place. But speaking of the Bears,

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Speaker 1: who have been really turned their season around, they only

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Speaker 3: Well, I think Vikings fans can resonate with this because

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Speaker 3: they remember all those one score games their team was

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Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks. Given that they're now a

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Speaker 3: and certainly the key to that has been Caleb Williams

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Speaker 3: putting this team in position with four fourth quarter game

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Speaker 3: But they've shown that they can pull it off, and

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Speaker 3: so far it's worked and has them sitting tied for

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Speaker 3: first place. In the division.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, how how much of that is the

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Speaker 3: I think that's a big part of it, And there

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Speaker 3: seems to be a different level of coaching acumen and

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Speaker 3: Cincinnati two weeks ago. It's not just that the defense

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Speaker 3: last year, that torpedo the Bear season, they rush the

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Speaker 3: they're on the attack. That to me is emblematic of

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Speaker 3: what this coaching staff is bringing to these games and

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Speaker 3: It's so interesting anytime the Bears played Brian Flores, and

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Speaker 1: It's a very fair evaluation.

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Speaker 2: Awesome.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much, Courtney, and we appreciate you

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Speaker 2: Looking forward to seeing you on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: A big thank you to Courtney Cronin again.

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Speaker 1: You can catch her on ESPN NFL Countdown reporting live

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Speaker 1: from US Bank Stadium on Sunday at noon.

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Speaker 2: Of course, you can hear the pregame show.

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Speaker 1: On Kfan beginning at ten am with mus Paul Allen

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Speaker 1: and Pete Bursach. And we've just got so much great

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Speaker 1: things happening here as far as content goes. You can

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Speaker 1: check out a film with Pete Bursag currently online as

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Speaker 1: he breaks down the Bears.

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Speaker 2: We also have the latest episode.

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Speaker 1: Of Vikings Weekly that will encompass everything to get you

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Speaker 1: ready for Sunday's game. Just check out vikings dot com

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Speaker 1: or the Vikings app.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening to MVP.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tatum Everett signing off and saying, have

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Speaker 1: a wonderful evening and let's skull Vikes on Sunday kickoff

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Speaker 1: is at noon on Fox. Hive is extending their support

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Speaker 1: of local families by providing affordable meals for families until

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Speaker 1: November fourteenth, from four to seven pm at all stores

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Speaker 1: with hot food service. These meals will continue to be

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Speaker 1: available for children ages twelve and under for free. For

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Speaker 1: everyone else, the same meal will be available for three

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Speaker 1: dollars with options for dine in or takeout. This week,

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings will support this effort at the Cottage, Grove, Egan,

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Speaker 1: to see your favorite Minnesota Vikings cheerleader, legend or Victor

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