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Speaker 1: Welcome back to MVP the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. I'm your

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Speaker 1: host Tatum Everett from the Vikings Entertainment Network. After a

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Speaker 1: much needed bi week, Minnesota back in action for a

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Speaker 1: Sunday matinee contest against the Philadelphia Eagles. And guess who

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Speaker 1: we have back with us, Eric Nordquist. You may know

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Speaker 1: him as Nordo from nine to noon. He returns to

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Speaker 1: break it all down. We've got a lot to cover, Nordo.

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Speaker 1: So are you ready to go?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 3: I'm ready and you kind of got me excited, not

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Speaker 3: just for the for the game moving forward, but that

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Speaker 3: you said mattin a.

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Speaker 4: And not lovely.

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Speaker 2: I'm tired of primetime.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate the eight thirty am games didn't do it for you.

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Speaker 3: Kegs and eggs thing. That's cool maybe once, but I

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Speaker 3: and I didn't endure the trip to both Dublin and London,

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Speaker 3: so I didn't miss my home after twelve days. But

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Speaker 3: I am excited for a noon kickoff for sure.

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Speaker 4: I mean for us, it was a two thirty kickoff

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Speaker 4: from those back to back away games. So that's that's fun.

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Speaker 4: When you're over there, quite lovely to wake up, eat

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Speaker 4: some breakfast, then you get ready to catch the bus

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Speaker 4: and go.

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Speaker 2: Like countryside resort.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was that all that was very very lovely.

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Speaker 1: But I will say I'm happy to be back in

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Speaker 1: the routine. Yeah, unfortunately that will be you know, the

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Speaker 1: wrench in that ointment or is that how you say

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Speaker 1: it now, the fly in the ointment.

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Speaker 2: The fly in the ointment, wrench in the spokes.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I just should coin wrench in the ointment. It's

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Speaker 1: not terrible, it's perfect. Uh.

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Speaker 4: Is that there's that Thursday night game living right after this?

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Speaker 1: Correct, So once you get through like that part of

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Speaker 1: the schedule, I feel like it's kind of smooth sailing

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Speaker 1: for the rest of the season as far as random

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Speaker 3: Sure, Yeah, it's not bad this this schedule. It's It's

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Speaker 3: funny how within within even a season. And we'll talk

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Speaker 3: about the Eagles, but just how quickly things can change.

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Speaker 3: You see, like the Buffalo Bills losing in primetime earlier

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Speaker 3: this week. They're down to the turnover situation with them

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Speaker 3: is a problem, but you look at them as one

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Speaker 3: of the elites in the AFC certainly, and even the

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Speaker 3: Eagles as we look at head to Sunday, this is

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Speaker 3: a team, whether it's infighting I look at Philly like

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Speaker 3: their biggest enemy is theirselves. Yeah, is themselves. And so

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Speaker 3: now this is a team that is lost too. Does

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Speaker 3: that mean it's a get right weekend type of thing?

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Speaker 3: But how Lamar Jackson the injury issues. They have one

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Speaker 3: So you just kind of think from an August perspective

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Speaker 3: of what the schedule looks like to now the Giants

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Speaker 3: have something with Jackson Dart and cam'skataboo. So you kind of, well,

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Speaker 3: this game is going to be tough, this game is

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Speaker 3: going to be easy. You play that scenario out and

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Speaker 3: run through it every spring and summer, but it changes

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Speaker 3: with playing the context of the season, our team feeling

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Speaker 3: after some health issues and such.

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Speaker 2: We feel differently now.

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Speaker 3: Through five games and a break than maybe we did

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Speaker 3: a month and a half ago. So but very much

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Speaker 3: looking forward to this grind of a schedule and seeing

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Speaker 1: Maybe down the road the noon games give them to me.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited. Well, speaking of we're going to get

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Speaker 1: And if you're a longtime listener of this, I think

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Speaker 1: we did this a couple maybe three four seasons ago.

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Speaker 1: We talked about two things we liked and one thing

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Speaker 1: a talking point. Let's start with you with the first

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Speaker 1: thing that you like about the team in its current state.

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Speaker 3: In its current state, so I'm loving Brian Flores's defense. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: in totality, now we can speak to stopping the run

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Speaker 3: best third down defenses in the NFL, one of the

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Speaker 3: team that's had to do it a bit differently again

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Speaker 2: Him on the field again.

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Speaker 3: But this is a team where they feasted on takeover

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Speaker 3: takeaways a year ago.

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Speaker 2: Well we haven't seen that.

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Speaker 3: Actually, two games in a row they've gone dry and

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Speaker 3: save for the Bungles game, week three. It's been few

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Speaker 3: so but they're still doing it again in different ways,

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Speaker 3: through confusion, through disguise, just kind of getting my head

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Speaker 3: around the new tandem of Hargrave and Allen in the middle.

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Speaker 3: That's just one thing that I'm really in love with

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Speaker 2: It looks different thus.

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Speaker 3: Far, Harrison Smith on a snap count that's super weird,

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Speaker 3: but in the end, they're still keeping this team in

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Speaker 4: I really feel like that is a Flora's signature.

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Speaker 1: Like you think about his defense right now, and they

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Speaker 1: no matter where they are on the roster. I'm going

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Speaker 1: because my one thing I hope improves is something that

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Speaker 1: now they're currently at minus two, which is something we're

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Speaker 1: not used to seeing. Not good and at Kevin O'Connell offense,

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Speaker 1: our Kevin O'Connell team. Rather, the seven takeaways in five

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Speaker 1: games is not enough, right because five of them weren't

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Speaker 1: against the Bengals, as you mentioned, And when you turn

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was the twenty twenty three season

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Speaker 2: Fumbling the ball.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was the beginning.

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Speaker 2: It was you had t J.

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Speaker 3: It was Josh Oliver in Week five when the Chiefs

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Speaker 3: So like the turnovers, just it felt you almost felt

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Speaker 3: in a vacuum in the Cleveland game, right, I mean

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Speaker 3: Jordan Mason fumbles it, and that's two weeks in a row,

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Speaker 4: So that was not good.

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Speaker 2: The turnovers are an issue, both the inability to find

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Speaker 2: O'Connell has made that, you know, oh yeah, the ball's

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Speaker 2: the program. The consistency factor. He wants to see that

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Speaker 2: consistency factor. Okay, so then let's go to your second

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Speaker 2: thing that you like about this team.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mentioned justin Jefferson that Hammy in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 3: well in twenty twenty five. It's just it's impressive to

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Speaker 3: not a hot take. He's terrific. He does it with whoever's.

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Speaker 2: Throwing him the ball.

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Speaker 3: And there was specifically in the Cleveland game where I felt,

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Speaker 3: He sounded exhausted after that game, felt like maybe he

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Speaker 3: from Stefanski's group, but justin Jefferson just rises to every occasion.

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Speaker 3: But he just it's at times in that game he

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Speaker 3: are not losing this game. You throw it within five

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Speaker 3: But there's just justin Jefferson as a leader on this team,

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Speaker 2: Get better, he just keeps getting better. So I had

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Speaker 2: one of my favorite things.

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Speaker 1: I love that because I had the chances to talk

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Speaker 1: he is the most recognizable face on this team and

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Speaker 1: globally sure, and for that matter, when I asked him

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Speaker 1: about playing in front of me, he goes, I go

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Speaker 1: back to what Michael Jordan used to say, is every

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Speaker 1: that have our fans that have never seen me play

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Speaker 1: in person before. And I don't think he took that

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Speaker 1: Like I was kind of prodding a little bit, but

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Speaker 1: he started talking about that, which I was very you know,

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Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, very being open like that.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to go with the special teams unit as

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Speaker 1: one thing that I like, Oh okay about this team.

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Speaker 4: I know, maybe maybe a little bit of.

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Speaker 1: A different thing, but after a few years of just

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Speaker 1: kind of it being fine, I think that there are

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Speaker 1: a lot of cornerstone pieces there. When you look at

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Speaker 1: they are the second ranked special teams unit, which I

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Speaker 1: think is quite interesting if you buy into that stuff.

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Speaker 1: You think about that being such a big question heading

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Speaker 1: We're going to dig into this matchup with our MVP guest,

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Speaker 4: Yes, no one really knows what's going to happen just yet.

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Speaker 3: He's kind of quiet, he's kind of chill until he

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Speaker 3: fact themselves And this feels like frustration boiling over from

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Speaker 2: They're going to be ready to absolutely rule.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about that because I think the Vikings

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Speaker 1: as a fan, what will you see that will give

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Speaker 1: you the most promise for the rest of the season. Ooh,

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Speaker 1: is it the penalties? Like if you if it's a clean.

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Speaker 3: Game against against this phil against this Philadelphia team winning

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Speaker 3: that Yes, the penalties absolutely matter to me.

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Speaker 2: But but that's also the easiest thing to fix.

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Speaker 3: I want to see what this looks like if the offense,

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Speaker 3: I just need more healthy bodies.

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Speaker 2: How about that.

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Speaker 3: It's a simple one, yeah, I I mean there's there's

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Speaker 3: There's all sorts of things. Let's make aj Brown as

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Speaker 3: want to see healthy bodies. I want to see what

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Speaker 3: that continued evolution so we can slowly get back to

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Speaker 3: supposedly a roster that was very excited about and very

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Speaker 1: I tell you what, I'm just excited that this game

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Speaker 1: I think the last couple of times we've been out

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Speaker 1: and it's on short weeks, and you know.

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Speaker 4: Et cetera, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to face this team in the backyard, our

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Speaker 4: It's Philly fans are mean.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've been flicked off, mooned, flashed all.

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Speaker 4: On the way to the game before. So it's quite

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Speaker 4: a choice.

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Speaker 1: It's quite a choice. But yeah, I'm excited. I don't

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Speaker 3: Minimal penalties, Let's get a couple of takeaways on defense,

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Speaker 3: let's shut down Saquon.

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Speaker 2: There you go, let's improved a foreign two.

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Speaker 4: All right, you want to go say that you should

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Speaker 4: do the pregame speech.

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Speaker 2: Come on now, No, I don't know about that.

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Speaker 4: I'm teasing.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Norma for your time. Really appreciate

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Speaker 1: your insight. Of course, you can hear him every morning

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Speaker 1: from nine to noon on nine to noon on Kfan.

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Speaker 1: Well that'll do it for this week's Minnesota Vikings podcast.

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Speaker 1: A huge thank you to Eric Nordquist for jumping back

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Speaker 1: in helping us break down what's shaping up to be

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Speaker 1: a gritty, high stakes matchup against Philly. The Vikings are arrested,

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Speaker 1: the defense rolling in the quarterback situation still a question mark.

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Speaker 1: Sunday's game is going to tell us a lot about

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Speaker 1: this team.

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Speaker 4: We'll be watching and we back next week to talk

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Speaker 4: all about it.

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