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Speaker 2: Well, the Week four edition of the Minnesota Vikings podcast

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Speaker 2: is underway. It is border about a week here inside

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Speaker 2: the TCO Radio studio. And my name is Gabe Henderson

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Speaker 2: and our guest for tonight is a guy. When I

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Speaker 2: asked Brian Floores before this podcast, I said, hey, b Flow,

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Speaker 2: how would you describe our guest today? He said, Well,

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Speaker 2: his nickname, the way I used to call him is Playmaker,

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Speaker 2: and Playmaker aka Kamu Greja Hill is our podcast guest

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Speaker 2: today and Camu just a pleasure to be joined with

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Speaker 2: you today. One two. When I think of the word playmaker,

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Speaker 2: no other play stands out more to me than the

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Speaker 2: first play that you got in on Sunday against your

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Speaker 2: former team, the Easton Texans. You get an interception. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, Yeah, I mean that was It was such an

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Speaker 3: electric feeling to be in that stadium. And I mean, honestly,

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Speaker 3: those are one of those that I just I looked

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Speaker 3: up after and just thank god because that was that

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Speaker 3: landed in my lap, you know. I mean it wasn't

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Speaker 3: with the rest of the team and the guys and

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Speaker 2: What goes through your head during a play like that,

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Speaker 2: because you just said that landed under your lap. Usually

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Speaker 2: linebacker interceptions or interception like you gotta gotta do some work.

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Speaker 2: Tipball comes right to right.

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Speaker 3: So I've had, you know, I've had a couple of

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Speaker 3: interceptions where I've had to like truly work for you know,

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Speaker 4: And you know, those are obviously the best ones.

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Speaker 3: I mean, any every every interception is awesome, I think,

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Speaker 3: but that one was just you know, those tip balls

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Speaker 3: you're running your play. Things are happening quick, and the

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Speaker 3: ball is just it's like a flash of the ball.

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Speaker 3: We always talked about catching the flash of the ball, right,

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Speaker 3: And so I'm breaking to the guy and I cor

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Speaker 2: That's that's I mean, someone who doesn't know the game

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Speaker 2: what did you eat that morning?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Right, right right before you.

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Speaker 2: Get an interception of your first play against your former team.

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Speaker 2: Your emotions going into that game? Right, Like we've we

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Speaker 2: talked this offseason. We've done some interviews with you, Blake Cashman,

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, I honestly think that that gets

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's not even like the coaching staff when

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Speaker 3: chip on your shoulder. You know, it's an organization that

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Speaker 3: And they in their mind they're basically saying we don't

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Speaker 2: And that was that was great to see. One back

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Speaker 2: to the main point. What seven teams nine years last

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Speaker 3: McCreight, right, Yeah, I was with them for the two

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Speaker 3: So I don't even think it had to be the Texans.

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Speaker 3: think we all just left that game feeling like, you know,

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Speaker 2: It was a great feeling for our Minnesota Vikings fans.

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Speaker 2: As we're talking to Kamu gruge Hill here inside the

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Speaker 2: Brian Flores, who's probably the most talked about coach in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So, you know, like you said, he came, he was.

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Speaker 3: We were in the you know, classroom for a while

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Speaker 3: But you know, we leave that I felt good about,

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Speaker 4: He's not going to ask that of a player.

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Speaker 2: And just thinking of how he's been able to orchestrate

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I definitely have because I've seen it.

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Speaker 3: You know, I've seen his mindset in New England and

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Speaker 3: I mean he's just a mastermind with with everything he does.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's go to break and when we get back

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Speaker 2: talking a little bit about your interception last week against

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Speaker 3: Like I said, like you just said, I think he's

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Speaker 3: It's usually linebackers and safeties. But his understanding of the game, formation, run,

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Speaker 3: I think the biggest thing is you can't go into

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Speaker 2: You know what advantages or disadvantages does that play on

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Speaker 3: He's obviously making plays. So you got to watch both

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Speaker 2: I love that. I mean, I'm just thinking about you.

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Speaker 2: You made a good point earlier. First half verse second

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Speaker 3: I think that, like I said before, just keeps the

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Speaker 3: them and never let them catch up to what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: I love that, all right, Packer Week this week, A

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Speaker 2: couple more questions before we get you out of here.

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Speaker 2: What what have you? What do you know about this rivalry?

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Speaker 2: What if your teammates talked about your first time being

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Speaker 2: a part of Packer Fighting Week.

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Speaker 3: I probably played the Packers in every year that I've

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Speaker 3: been the league, just randomly on different teams, right, But

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Speaker 3: and to me, I'm like, Okay, we just played the Packers.

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Speaker 4: But like when I talk to.

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Speaker 3: Guys here, they're like, no, we play the Packers, bro,

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh, oh, it's like that. Okay, maybe

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Speaker 3: I gotta I gotta check myself. Then you know, it's

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Speaker 3: it's fun, man, when you have these rivalries like this,

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Speaker 3: and obviously every division game is is important, right, That's

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Speaker 3: all that matters is the vision. So seeing the energy

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Speaker 3: that we're going to have coming out, the coaching points

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Speaker 3: that's been talked about. It's a big game, man, This

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Speaker 3: is this is the one that matters, you know, right now?

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Speaker 2: Is there anything? And I asked this question because a

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Speaker 2: lot of people always talk about the historic stadiums in

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Speaker 2: the NFL, You don't. I mean, we're starting to see

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Speaker 2: a more new stadium start to be built. US Bank

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Speaker 2: Stadium is still the best stadium in the NFL in

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Speaker 2: my opinion, down Lambeofield. There's a there's an energy about

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Speaker 2: that stadium. Do you do you feel anything different playing

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Speaker 2: in a game or a stadium like Lambeofield.

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Speaker 3: I think it's it's always cool to play there just

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Speaker 3: because of the history, right, and their fans are crazy

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Speaker 3: and it's it's always a good time. But I mean

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Speaker 3: it's not like playing at us Bank, right, I mean,

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Speaker 3: so it's in fact it's cool.

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Speaker 2: It's cool. Well, look, what will be even cooler is

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Speaker 2: if this Vikings team gets a win on Sunday in

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Speaker 2: Border Battle and another Border Battle against the Green Bay Packers.

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Speaker 2: And if you listen to Brian Flores, you know, There's

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Speaker 2: gonna be a lot of guys that are gonna make

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Speaker 2: some plays, but none other than my guy to my right,

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Speaker 2: mister Kamu gru Jay Hill, who made a ton of

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Speaker 2: plays against the Houston Texans last week. And I'm looking

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Speaker 2: forward to seeing this continued success and such a pleasure

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Speaker 2: being able to have you on the Minnesota Vikings podcast.

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Speaker 4: AWESO appreciate you, Yes, sir, that.

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Speaker 2: It's Minnesota Vikings linebacker Kamu Gruge Hill kind enough to

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Speaker 2: join us on the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. I am looking

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Speaker 2: forward to him making more plays, especially when you look

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Speaker 2: back at his first play last Sunday against his former team,

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Speaker 2: the Houston Texans, where he got an interception off of

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Speaker 2: a tip pass by none other than Harrison Phillips. Well,

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Speaker 2: it's Border Battle week, Border Battle number one twenty eight

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Speaker 2: as in Minnesota Vikings head to Wisconsin across the border

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Speaker 2: to face the Green Bay Packers. I know a lot

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Speaker 2: of eyes will be on Minnesota Vikings running back Aaron Jones,

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Speaker 2: who spent the first few years of his career in

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Speaker 2: Green Bay. But if you talk to Aaron, he's going

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Speaker 2: to say it's just another game. Yeah, he had this circle, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he has a lot of memories playing for the Green

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Speaker 2: and Gold. But look, it's a new wave. It's a

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Speaker 2: new tide. The chapters turned. He's in purple. He's making

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Speaker 2: plays here and I'm excited to see what that looks

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Speaker 2: like on Sunday twelve pm kickoff lambeau Field. So many storylines.

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Speaker 2: Will Malik Willis play, Will Jordan Love play? If you

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Speaker 2: ask Kamu grew Jay Hill, it does not matter who

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Speaker 2: lines up a quarterback because the defensive scheme does not change.

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Speaker 2: That stopped the run and limit the opposing team to

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Speaker 2: explosive plays. And if you listen to him, I think

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Speaker 2: that's a good recipe for success because this Minnesota Vikings

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Speaker 2: team is looking to go four and zero for the

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Speaker 2: first time since twenty sixteen, and no better way to

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Speaker 2: do so than beating your arch rival, the Green Bay Packers.

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Speaker 2: With that said, we're going to close today's show so

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Speaker 2: for our producer Eric Davison and Minnesota Vikings linebacker Kamu

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Speaker 2: Gruge Hill. My name is Gabe Henderson. Thank you guys

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Speaker 2: again for tuning into this edition of the Minnesota Vikings

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Speaker 2: Podcast presented by PEPSI