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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's it's it's you know, whether that final

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Speaker 3: Close cir Good to the Vikings Entertainment Network. We need

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Speaker 3: a solo shop for a minute on yours surely regrettably

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Speaker 6: Okay, we're settled.

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Speaker 3: We can go back to the two Kevin O'Connell x's

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Speaker 6: Javon Hargrave gets doubled a lot, dozen't he.

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Speaker 8: Well, I think he, you know he is.

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Speaker 7: He is such a force from a standpoint if he

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Speaker 7: does get those individual rushes, even on those early downs

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Speaker 7: those you know, I'm defending the run, but then it's

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Speaker 7: a play action pass or drop back pass and I

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Speaker 7: can transition and go sack the quarterback.

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Speaker 8: They need to have two bodies on them then.

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Speaker 7: But in the run game, you know, a lot of

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Speaker 7: core principles of these good run games that we've played,

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Speaker 7: they're trying to get two bodies on them and move

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Speaker 7: the line of scrimmage, and that's where we've got to

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Speaker 7: be a little bit more connected as a group of

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Speaker 7: eleven to you know, get back to what we do

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Speaker 7: really well, which is a year ago, we stopped the run.

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Speaker 7: We got people in long yarded situations, and then the

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Speaker 7: turnovers started, whether it was Grenard into the quarterback, whether

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Speaker 7: it was you know, you know, one of our guys

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Speaker 7: getting their hands on a ball.

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Speaker 8: And intercepting it and changing the game.

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Speaker 7: We've got to give ourselves more opportunities to turn the

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Speaker 7: football over as a defense, you know, against who we're playing,

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Speaker 7: by generating more ops where the scales are tipping in

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Speaker 7: our favor, and the loun flow and his group to

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Speaker 7: call the game in a way where we can be

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Speaker 7: the aggressor and not so much playing a lot of

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Speaker 7: manageable downs for the other side.

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Speaker 8: And that's one of the things we got to try

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Speaker 8: to do.

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Speaker 3: But I mean, to a certain extent, discretion has to

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Speaker 3: be the better part of valor two at times. In

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Speaker 3: other words, if you're down Van Gankle and Cashman arguably

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Speaker 3: two of your three, maybe four best run stoppers period. Yep,

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Speaker 3: they both blitz very well. The assumption from Afar I'm

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Speaker 3: not an e laite football mind you are. But if

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Speaker 3: those two are out, well we're probably going to double

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Speaker 3: fifty eight, probably take care of ninety seven and figure

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Speaker 3: to like start there. So it I mean when I

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Speaker 3: say discretioning us to be the better part of valor,

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Speaker 3: you're like, well, we want to do it the way

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Speaker 3: Flow wants it done. But if you get overly aggressive

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Speaker 3: with backups, I would guess who have now played seventy

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Speaker 3: one hundred and ten one hundred and fifty snaps, you

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Speaker 3: get a little vulnerable, right.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you're just exposing yourself to you know, match up

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Speaker 7: problems and some things where the strength of your opponent

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Speaker 7: can then you know, take precedent over even what you know,

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Speaker 7: all eleven of your guys are trying to do as

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Speaker 7: a team defensive group.

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Speaker 8: One of the things we've done.

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Speaker 7: Really well here is tackle as well, Pa, and I

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Speaker 7: think there's been some mistackles and there's been some opportunities

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Speaker 7: to get a guy on the ground for a game

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Speaker 7: of three or four and force that third and six

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Speaker 7: instead it's seven or eight, and it's third and two,

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Speaker 7: and then the whole playbook at that point is open

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Speaker 7: and you're not dealing with as much stress of having

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Speaker 7: to play against flows defense as you possibly could be

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Speaker 7: in some of those longer yarded situations. So it's it's

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Speaker 7: a combination of a lot of things, but certainly getting

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Speaker 7: cash back and Van gink will working his way back

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Speaker 7: in there as well, hopefully will give us, you know,

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Speaker 7: just continued examples of the intent of what we put

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Speaker 7: our roster together to feel like this year.

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Speaker 3: Just a few more for Kevin o'connolex as the O's

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Speaker 3: Tuesdays Twin City's Orthopedics Performance Center KFA n Bikings dot Com.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, uh squon. He's yet to explode in a

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Speaker 3: game this year?

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Speaker 8: Why, you know, I don't know.

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Speaker 7: I think they're you know, I think they've got one

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Speaker 7: of the best O line coaches in football and in

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Speaker 7: Jeff Stoutlin. They've they've you know, had one of the

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Speaker 7: premier rushing attacks for a long time since he's been there.

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Speaker 7: And I think they're going to try to run the football.

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Speaker 7: I think they're going to try to run the football

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Speaker 7: to establish the line of scrimmage, get into those efficient

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Speaker 7: kind of staying ahead of the chains type of down

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Speaker 7: in distances. And that doesn't change the fact that they've

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Speaker 7: got those weapons on the outside and I know they

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Speaker 7: haven't quite been able to unlock the same level of

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Speaker 7: passing game that they had a year ago, but it's

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Speaker 7: always available to them, and we've got to make sure

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Speaker 7: we don't give them any easy paths to getting back

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Speaker 7: to where they want to be offensively. And that's where

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Speaker 7: the ex o's and all those things have to be

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Speaker 7: in alignment with what we go out in there and

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Speaker 7: do from a play style standpoint against a team that

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Speaker 7: wants to play physical, they want to it's not just

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Speaker 7: the tush push they you know, they they they have

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Speaker 7: some pretty elite players up front and the ability to

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Speaker 7: win the line of scrimmage. And if you give them

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Speaker 7: angles and you give them easy access to space, you know,

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Speaker 7: Saquon Barkley's the best in the.

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Speaker 8: League at going to find it.

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Speaker 3: Two to close. Chris Cooper, your offensive line coach, was

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Speaker 3: he was here to start the show at nine o'clock.

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Speaker 3: Great to chat with a coach, Coop, and I was

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Speaker 3: really excited to share with him that, you know, I

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Speaker 3: will watch some practice occasionally. You guys are kind enough

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Speaker 3: to let me do that. I don't exactly know what

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Speaker 3: I'm watching, but like you know, when we were in

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Speaker 3: London and or Dublin to a certain extent. I mean

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Speaker 3: it's the most I've ever watched. And I found myself

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Speaker 3: morphine to where the offensive line was with Cooper and

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Speaker 3: Keith Carter as assistant. I mean, it was unbelievable watching

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Speaker 3: those guys last week. It's like got like they're moving

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Speaker 3: Joe Huber by themselves, putting him in a spot doing

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Speaker 3: a drill. Then one of them leaves and they're like

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Speaker 3: with Brandell and they're working on head nods. It's just

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Speaker 3: the nuance and what must have gone into that week

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Speaker 3: to get all those guys ready. And you don't know

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Speaker 3: school is going to flip spots during the game, but

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Speaker 3: Rolse knows he's playing, but he doesn't know like when

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Speaker 3: or what the game situation.

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Speaker 6: Is going to be.

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Speaker 3: To watch those guys work individually with all it was

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Speaker 3: a work of art. It was fantastic, man.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and then you see that across our entire team.

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Speaker 7: You know, the the beauty of the game of football

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Speaker 7: is it is it does take people. Hear me say

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Speaker 7: it a lot, all eleven guys doing their job, but

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Speaker 7: within each one of those jobs there is you know,

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Speaker 7: a massive level of detail fundamentals, techniques, understanding how footwork

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Speaker 7: and hand placement and your your aiming points, and it

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Speaker 7: really is along the line of scrimmage. It's like, you know,

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Speaker 7: you're watching basically five to six separate UFC fights going

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Speaker 7: on at one time, where everything's tactical and everything's you know,

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Speaker 7: the is a leverage thing. And we've tried to build

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Speaker 7: that O line group not only just the starters, but

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Speaker 7: the depth players as well as guys that are powerful

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Speaker 7: and guys that are strong and can handle themselves not

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Speaker 7: only working in combination, but a one on one as well.

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Speaker 7: And that's how you're able to get through a situation

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Speaker 7: like that, as guys rising to the level of what

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Speaker 7: is required in that moment, and then Carson being able

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Speaker 7: to kind of run the show. And one thing I

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Speaker 7: know for sure is our receivers have played out standing.

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Speaker 7: I think what TJ. Hockinson and Josh Oliver have done

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Speaker 7: maybe not necessarily blown up the statue, but they're doing

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Speaker 7: so many little things that have helped us kind of

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Speaker 7: sustain especially over these last three weeks where we've really

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Speaker 7: been you know, three fifty plus yards and gotten a

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Speaker 7: little bit more plays, gotten a little bit more of

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Speaker 7: a rhythm at times. And really the only thing and

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Speaker 7: that we have to continue to try to have our

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Speaker 7: finger on is the penalties, the self inflicted things that

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Speaker 7: move your backwards where the defense had nothing to do

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Speaker 7: with it. And that's where our scoring rate and our

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Speaker 7: successful rate of drives, when we don't have a negative

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Speaker 7: play and or penalty, we're right up there at the

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Speaker 7: top of the league. And that's what we've got to

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Speaker 7: continue to search for, is how many of our drives

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Speaker 7: can be like that.

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Speaker 3: And I'm glad you mentioned wide receivers last one. I

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Speaker 3: promise as Jefferson elevated himself even more as a team leader.

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Speaker 3: And here here's it's like he handles business differently than

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Speaker 3: maybe in the past when the ball's not coming his

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Speaker 3: way and he seems calmer. He just seems more, you know,

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Speaker 3: and and and young men are going to mature naturally,

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Speaker 3: but it seems like he's elevated his already solid leadership role.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think he's been fantastic.

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Speaker 7: It goes back to training camp even when he was

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Speaker 7: you know, taking you know, had to take a few

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Speaker 7: days there in training camp to get healthy early on,

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Speaker 7: and his role changed a little bit.

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Speaker 8: It wasn't the daily igniter on the field by the

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Speaker 8: plays he was making.

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Speaker 7: It was his leadership and in that huddle and stepping

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Speaker 7: in and talking to JJ McCarthy or talking to Jalen

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Speaker 7: Naylor or letting TJ know when TJ made a bunch

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Speaker 7: of plays in training camp, he was as much of

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Speaker 7: a leader as I've ever seen him in those moments,

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Speaker 7: and that's carried over to the season. And then I

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Speaker 7: think the other part of it is, you know, we've

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Speaker 7: spent some time together over these seasons and Justin has

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Speaker 7: a bunch of confidence in what we're going to do,

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Speaker 7: what the plan.

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Speaker 8: Is going to be.

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Speaker 7: Obviously, we want to make him a featured focal point

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Speaker 7: of our offense every week. He knows that, and he

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Speaker 7: also knows whatever we find, whatever we meet on game

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Speaker 7: day from a scheme to take him away, that we're

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Speaker 7: going to find ways of getting him involved in the game.

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Speaker 7: And I think we've seen that over these last few

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Speaker 7: weeks against some really good defenses, that he's had his

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Speaker 7: impact and he's made plays that have helped us find

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Speaker 7: that successful rhythm that has led to points. We've done

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Speaker 7: a good job and we've gotten down to the red

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Speaker 7: zone and we've got to continue to find as many

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Speaker 7: drives as.

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Speaker 8: We can where we get down there and put the

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Speaker 8: ball on the en zone.

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Speaker 6: Great chat, Yeah, thank you, I appreciate you.

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Speaker 8: Man.

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Speaker 3: Kevin O'Connell, head coach of the Minnesota Vikings weekly nine

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Speaker 3: to noon. We call it x's and o's back after

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Speaker 3: this man, all right, we have learned about the Minnesota

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Speaker 3: Moving Company or the moving parts company.

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Speaker 6: About two and a.

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Speaker 3: Half hours ago from Chris Cooper, offensive line coach, we

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Speaker 3: learned about offense. Chatted a little defense, but mostly about

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Speaker 3: the offense and ancillary topics with head coach Kevin O'Connell.

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Speaker 3: What about the Vikings defense against Saquon Barkley, A. J. Brown,

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Speaker 3: DeVante Smith, Dallas Goddard and Jalen Hurts. Let's see what

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Speaker 3: b flow as up his leave.

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Speaker 9: That player up again if if that's the case.

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Speaker 10: But oftentimes you know they're just gonna, you know, they're

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Speaker 10: gonna stay on on the one guy and then which

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Speaker 10: means somebody else gotta make.

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Speaker 11: A play playing with the league versus not playing the league.

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Speaker 11: Effects the defense are called your defenses are called the

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Speaker 11: way players play their mindsets in the situations where you

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Speaker 11: know they might be in a lead or another situations

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Speaker 11: where they're not.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean there's certainly ebbs and flows in every

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Speaker 10: you know, football game. I think it's certainly a momentum game.

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Speaker 10: You know, emotions are up and down based on.

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Speaker 9: You know, winning losing, good play, bad play.

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Speaker 10: So I think that's something you know, we talk about

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Speaker 10: as a as a as a defensive unit, our you know,

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Speaker 10: our ability to respond regardless of situation, whether we're up,

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Speaker 10: whether we're down. I think oftentimes you go up and

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Speaker 10: sometimes you know there's a complacency that sets in and

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Speaker 10: then you know that's how other teams get back into games.

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Speaker 9: So, you know, I understand the question I do.

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Speaker 10: I think that's something that as a as a coach,

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Speaker 10: you know, as a you know, a leader, you know,

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Speaker 10: you try to or I try to talk about the

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Speaker 10: ebbs and flows of the game and we don't know

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Speaker 10: what's gonna happen to ball bounce.

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Speaker 9: It's funny.

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Speaker 10: And so you could be up, you gotta you know,

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Speaker 10: maintain a high level, gotta keep it foot on the gas,

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Speaker 10: you go, you know, you can be down, you know,

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Speaker 10: I think you gotta stay even, you know, and I think,

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Speaker 10: you know, I think we try to do that as

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Speaker 10: a coaching staff.

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Speaker 9: Uh and lead by example that way.

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Speaker 10: So so that you know our players, you know, kind

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Speaker 10: of respond whether s respond correctly, whether you know we're winning.

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Speaker 8: Or losing us gonnatically.

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Speaker 11: Do you find that either you or you observed other

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Speaker 11: people calling yeah, even differently when you're ahead versus when

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Speaker 11: you're you.

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Speaker 10: Know, and I I think ultimately you know you you

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Speaker 10: you know, I always want to be try to be aggressive,

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Speaker 10: you know, whether you know, regardless of the situation. But

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Speaker 10: you know, you're trying to limit points. You're trying to uh,

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Speaker 10: you know, win field position. You're trying to you know,

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Speaker 10: do everything we can to you know, get the ball

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Speaker 10: back to the offense.

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Speaker 9: And you know, I don't. I don't.

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Speaker 10: I can't say that it changes based on uh, you know,

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Speaker 10: ebbs and flows of a game.

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Speaker 9: Uh, but you know, we're always trying to be aggressive.

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Speaker 10: We're always trying to, uh, you know, get it back

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Speaker 10: to the offense and good field position if we could

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Speaker 10: obviously turn them over. We're trying to do that.

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Speaker 9: But you know, I don't. That's that's kind of where

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Speaker 9: I fall in there.

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Speaker 12: How do the better teams overcome these small meadum swings coming. Obviously,

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Speaker 12: you see teams after four no start down there, they

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Speaker 12: lose two in a row.

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Speaker 2: And I mean the better.

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Speaker 12: Teams over times you've been involved with better teams, how

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Speaker 12: do they overcome just these momentums?

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Speaker 10: And I think there's really both bowls down to relationships.

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Speaker 10: I think the the best teams that I've been a

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Speaker 10: part of have had, you know, great relationships within the team,

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Speaker 10: and those relationships allow them to uh overcome the adversity

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Speaker 10: that's gonna hit you know, within the football season. It's

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Speaker 10: it's like we we know it's gonna happen. It's not

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Speaker 10: going to always be you know, thirty to nothing like that.

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Speaker 10: That's just not this league. It's hard. There's adversity, there's frustration,

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Speaker 10: that stress, there's anxiety. All those things occur in the

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Speaker 10: National Football League and really in life. And so you

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Speaker 10: lean on the people you know to your left and

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Speaker 10: your right, you know, your teammates, the guys in the

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Speaker 10: locker room, uh, in our in our meeting room.

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Speaker 9: I know we talk about that quite a bit.

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Speaker 10: And so you know, the ebbs and flows of a

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Speaker 10: season of a game, I think you get through those

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Speaker 10: with you know, the people around you.

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Speaker 3: Let's let's get a dub against Philadelphia, so it can

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Speaker 3: be two in a row for B flow, too in

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Speaker 3: a row for B Flow two in a row four

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Speaker 3: B Flow. I owe you an apology. I apologize for

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Speaker 3: making you put down five years of Joel embiid game logs.

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Speaker 3: Yes to have to pull B Flow's audio out and

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Speaker 3: turn your microphone on for the.

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Speaker 6: Two in a row four B Flow two in a

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Speaker 6: row or B Flow. What's all Joel looking like these days?

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm trying to sweat this return and they're trying

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Speaker 4: to just to ease him into action.

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Speaker 5: And oh, healthier Sixers squad this year.

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Speaker 4: Big spot thoughts about their their Eastern Conference contention.

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Speaker 6: Tyrese MAXI for a zillion threes.

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Speaker 4: And I thought I had at least three more minutes

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Speaker 4: of at least half of an answer from Brian Flores

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Speaker 4: to a question in.

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Speaker 5: Relation to the team.

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Speaker 4: So I thought I had at least two to three

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Speaker 4: more minutes here of scoping out exactly how that thing's

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Speaker 4: going to look gone. Yeah, has Kelly Oubray been hitt

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Speaker 4: by a car and City Center again?

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Speaker 12: Ye?

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Speaker 5: Like what this thing's going to look like?

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Speaker 6: Take Julius Randall.

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Speaker 4: Oh, well, he's he's in the mix. But I can't

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Speaker 4: go and and Julius rand Why not?

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Speaker 6: I went Sga and Holmgren.

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Speaker 5: I got to mix it up.

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Speaker 4: Well, you should have just went with the trifecta added

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Speaker 4: Jwill to it, the good One and or Jay Dubb.

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Speaker 4: I forget if it's Jay Will or J Dubb the

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Speaker 4: good One versus the bench good ones J Dubb, Good

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Speaker 4: One's J Dub. Yes, I'm mildly disappointed. It's cool to

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Speaker 4: hear from Flow, though, I mean when I I'm joining

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Speaker 4: Tatum Everett actually VTN shortly after the show, we're going

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Speaker 4: to record some some Vikings dot Com content, and it's

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Speaker 4: kind of you know, good times bad times with a

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Speaker 4: three and two team and a money NFC North. But

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Speaker 4: just the takeaways that I was kind of referencing earlier,

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Speaker 4: the lack of sacks that you mentioned middle of the

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Speaker 4: pack from a sack standpoint, you get five turnovers in

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Speaker 4: the bungles game, but other than that, two straight weeks

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Speaker 4: without a take and it's just you're still looking at

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Speaker 4: a team one of the best third down defenses in

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Speaker 4: the NFL, terrific in the red zone. I think they're

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Speaker 4: holding teams to under fifty percent. I have to pull

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Speaker 4: up that stat in front of me again here, but

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Speaker 4: I know that their top ten specifically, let's find it here. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: eight out of sixteen they're they're fourth in the NFL

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Speaker 4: in red zone defense right now. This is a group

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Speaker 4: with Flores's team who's having to do it a little

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Speaker 4: bit differently because of injury issues of their own, and

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Speaker 4: they're finding that success and keeping this team in each

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Speaker 4: and every one of these games. But Man, Saquon, But Manaquon,

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Speaker 4: I wonder and it's it's worth diving into later this week.

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Speaker 4: And Kevin O'Connell when we heard him, he was quick

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Speaker 4: to praise the longtime offensive line coach and the success

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Speaker 4: and for good reason, by the way, feels like the

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Speaker 4: Eagles offensive line has been dominant and like Giants for

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Speaker 4: a freaking decade.

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Speaker 5: Something's up there.

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Speaker 4: Man Dickerson's injured, and I know they got my lotta

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Speaker 4: on the I think on the left side, and it

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Speaker 4: is at sayamlu I forget, but at any rate, I'm

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Speaker 4: mixing Johnson on the right side, Lane Johnson on the

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Speaker 4: right side. You know how that's working? With Cam at

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Speaker 4: center three and a half yards a clip man. That's

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Speaker 4: awful from a team that put out two thousand plus

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Speaker 4: with Saquon a year ago. You're not seeing the explosion.

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Speaker 4: You're not feeling like they're moving man in the same

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Speaker 4: way that they have historically and really has become a

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Speaker 4: cultural element to Eagles football. So this is simultaneously an

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Speaker 4: option an opportunity for Saquon to quote unquote get right

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Speaker 4: and explode. They've just shown no evidence of that for

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Speaker 4: the last month. I think they're banged up, and I'm

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Speaker 4: excited to see that part of the game and how

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Speaker 4: we handle that situation on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Final segment from a Twin City's Orthopedics Performance Center is

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Speaker 3: nine to noon up Monticello Way as we get back

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Speaker 3: into our Friday football feast swing and the week of

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Speaker 3: the Chargers game. Is is is that a game day feast?

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Speaker 6: Do you have any idea?

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Speaker 5: Yes, it is, so it'll be a game day feast Buffalo.

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Speaker 5: No in the morning of I've Got It.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he'll be headmanning that down at Batubs Savage.

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Speaker 5: That's home turf for Messy.

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