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The final yesterday came down to 0:00:57.560 --> 0:00:59.760 the six yard line. One final play for the Vikings 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:03.840 off defense seconds sticking down didn't go the Vikings way, 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.040 and that's been kind of the vibe through three games, 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:09.720 three one score losses for the Purple. Next segment you're 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.600 going to hear from a very disenfranchised head coach, Kevin 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:16.280 O'Connell spoke to the media earlier today. You'll hear a 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:19.000 large portion of that next segment, But let's just jump 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.280 into it and rewind to the action US Bank Stadium yesterday, 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:25.200 two to zero to two teams, Chargers gripping just like 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:27.920 the Vikings were, got to get that first victory of 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.920 the season. Barn Burner on the stat sheet, nine hundred 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.880 and fifty combined yards of offense between the two squads. 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.440 Started out slow, though, as the Chargers get the first 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.920 possession of the day on offense flores in this Vikings defense. 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.839 They force a three and out. So it's Vikings ball, 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:47.360 Kirk Cousins and company taking the field and five consecutive runs. 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.160 Only sixty nine rushing yards through the first two games. 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.920 Kevin O'Connell intentional about getting this ball moving on the ground. 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.440 Five consecutive runs by the Purple On offense. They're moving 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.400 the chains and they need a third down convert and 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:01.520 they get one from TJ. 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:06.880 Hawkinson, but Cousins shotgun five man roush Derwin James glitches 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.680 and Cousins hook on right house shot right side, caught 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:12.120 by Hawkinson and. 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.840 The ball was stolen away from him. Are you kidding me? 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:19.120 It happened again. The ball was stolen away from teams. 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:24.200 Perkinson will be covered by Los Angeles first down. 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:26.160 Yeah, it was a tough moment there. 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.080 The turnovers keep coming seven through the first two games. 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.160 Very first possession of the day. Some of these turnovers, 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.360 by the way, occurring in the red zone. Opportunities for 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:39.000 points for the Vikings offense taken off the board. Meanwhile, 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:43.080 Justin Herbert and the Chargers, they go twelve plays, seventy 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.960 nine yards, have the ball for nearly six minutes, and 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:49.400 they capitalize on another Vikings giveaway. 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.639 First and goal. Chargers game is scoreless. First quarter Minneapolis. 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.880 Mike Williams in motion to the right, Herbert, He'll throw 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.800 it out to Parham and the tight end caught it 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.480 front right of the the end zone. Touchdown LA Chargers. 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:07.760 That is Donald Parham fourth year from stetson his second 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:11.359 touchdown this year. So like everybody else in the NFL, 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:15.240 the LA Chargers are the newest. To take our newest 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.680 turnover and march down the field in spore. 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.040 Vikings follow that up with a punt. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.640 Zero targets for Justin Jefferson the first two possessions for 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:27.120 the Vikings yesterday, people kind of clamoring, what's going on, 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:31.240 let's get JJ involved. So after forcing it another Chargers punt, 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.560 we're into the second quarter. By the way, no points 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.120 scored on offense for the Purple in the first quarter 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.360 through three games, so that's got to be something that 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.760 changes for a team a year ago that in their 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:44.560 first eleven games scored seven touchdowns on their opening possession. 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:48.520 Need faster offense early from the Vikings. The Vikings ball 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.360 about ten minutes left in the second quarter, five plays, 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:55.480 seventy five yards that included two awesome catching runs from 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.680 Justin Jefferson. He tallied about fifty five of those seven 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.920 yards and finally Vikings on the board midway through the 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:03.320 second quarter to tie it up. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.880 It's Josh Oliver Munt in motion to the right. 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.640 Kirk back to pass looks right, see nothing, throws left 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:09.960 at the goal line. 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:17.600 It's cat got down Josh Oliver for this first. 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.479 Touchdown as a member of the Minnesota Vikings. 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.400 Heard in his career. Headed seven to six. 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:27.200 LA seven six, seven to seven after the extra point, 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.559 ensuing possession for the Chargers. Now this Vikings defense feeling 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.440 good about the plan from Brian Flores. They force a 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.880 fumble and Jordan Hicks retires recovers it. We're not the 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.880 only team that fumbles in the NFL. Thank goodness. Ensuing possession, 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.960 though it takes eleven plays to just go forty yards. 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:45.919 It was an ugly possession, to be honest with you. 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.400 A lot of penalties on both sides. There was a 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:53.360 Derwin James unnecessary roughness penalty. We have an Alexander Madison 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:57.240 fumble that luckily is negated because forward progress was stopped. 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.240 That there was nearly four minutes of possession. Felt it 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.400 took twenty five minutes to get through all of that. 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:04.760 But in the end, the Vikings settle for a field 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:08.279 goal and take the lead with just over two minutes 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.280 to go in the first half. Now the Chargers one 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:12.800 more shot before halftime. 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:15.360 Ten plays, seventy five yards. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:19.719 They were explosive, they were efficient, and it's par Ham again. 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.080 The Chargers three or four this year. 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.840 On court down, Herbert under center, puts effort in motion 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:28.320 to the right, takes the snap on cork down, play action, 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:34.120 pumps fires and caught a touchdown on fourth down by 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:40.560 the LA Chargers, and it's Donald Parham with his second 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:44.359 touchdown and the Chargers have reclaimed the lead. It's thirteen 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:44.719 to ten. 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.760 Vikings get the ball one more time, they're unable to 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.279 do anything with it before half, so it's fourteen to 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:53.840 ten at the break. Vikings ball out of halftime to 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.920 start the third quarter. They end up punting. Then the 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.200 Chargers miss a field goal. So that's kind of the 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.840 vibe of out. This game was going really early in 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:06.200 in the first half, early parts of the second half, miscues, mistakes, 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:10.120 and a ton of punting. Now three plays, eighty yards, Well, 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.840 those are the numbers for a Chargers drive midway through 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:16.320 the third quarter where Keenan Allen in the midst of 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.600 a historic day for him, eighteen catches. I think that's 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:21.800 the third time in his career that he had exceeded 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.559 fifteen or more receptions in a game. The two hundred 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.680 and fifteen receiving yards. That was a personal career record 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:31.200 for him there, but he had never thrown a touchdown pass. 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:32.799 Yeah he did yesterday. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.479 Keenan has been a problem today as he is for 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:39.040 most twelve catches one hundred and thirty five yards and 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.120 he is wide left. Now he goes in motion and 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.240 he will halo behind Herbert who will throw it to 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:49.200 him a whole pass, two guys wide open, caught twenty 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:52.800 five ten five touchdown. 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.640 And we just got oky dope. 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.240 Yeah, that was that makes it twenty one to ten 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.040 after that, and that was the it's spark we sawt 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.080 a ton last year. We saw in the Philly game 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:06.039 to an extent as well, where the title wave is 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.159 coming and the Chargers were handling business at a clip 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:13.720 yesterday and the Vikings offense woke up. They respond eight play, 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.000 seventy five yard drive in less than three minutes and 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:21.200 kJ Osbourne at the five leaps for the pylon touchdown 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.040 and we're back in at fourth and six from the 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:24.960 Chargers thirty six, three h nine to go. 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.800 In the third quarter, Curk on a straight drop, protection's 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.920 good fires to kJ caught it the twenty first down 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:32.120 to the ten to. 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:39.640 The five ten touchdown pz kJ. 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:44.880 It's a thirty six yard touchdown on fourth down and 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:46.400 it's twenty one to sixteen. 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.880 LA saw this a lot after yesterday's game. Should the 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.280 Vikings have gone for two, they kicked the extra point, 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.480 so just a couple of minutes left in the third quarter, 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.440 it's twenty one seventeen Chargers. If they go for two, 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.640 then it's just a field goal game, because now you're 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:03.520 doing the ultimately down by four last minutes of the 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.680 game yesterday instead of three. If you go for two, 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:10.160 it's a field goal game. If you miss it, then 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.400 later on when JJ does his thing, now you're not 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.560 up by three. You kind of play this game right, 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.520 chasing points. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.520 In this case, they kicked the extra point. It's twenty 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:24.080 one seventeen. Vikings defense standing tall again. They gave up 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.240 all those yards four hundred and chains through the air 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:30.880 to Justin Herbert and Keenan Allen. That Chargers offense but 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:35.240 made some stops yesterday, forced some punts and eight plays 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.839 eighty three yards later. Now we're early into the fourth quarter. 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.360 Justin Jefferson gets the lead back for the purple JJ. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.720 Hawkinson in motion to the left. Outside of him, Jordan 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.440 Addison Cousins back to pass. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.480 Pull it over the middle of hot JJ. He's on 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.960 the run and he is done. 0:08:53.240 --> 0:09:00.480 Tucks down Vikings justin Jefferson put this person touch down. 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.760 This season gives the Vikings. 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.679 A twenty three to twenty one lead. Hips off forty 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:07.359 eight yards, strike. 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:09.199 Eight to eighteen. 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:11.959 They do not go for two after this one either, 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:13.559 so they're happy. 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:14.240 At this stage of the game. 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.560 Let's kick that extra point, Let's make it a field 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.720 goal lead and go on from there. Well, the Chargers 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.480 went on from there, as in eleven minutes left in 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.680 the fourth they get the ball seven plays seventy five 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.960 yards in a game that started with a fumble. Weird 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:32.199 moments through three games of this season, Why wouldn't the 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:37.040 bald deflect through the hands of a Vikings cornerback trying 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:39.160 to make a play, trying to pick that thing off 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:41.520 from Herbert and end up in the hands of a 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.400 wide receiver for a touchdown. 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.320 First down Chargers, two tight ends to the right, two 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:49.200 receivers left. Herbert shotgun blitz again, pass left and oh 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.480 what Caleb Evans nearly had an interception. Really it bounced 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.920 into the arms of Josh Palmer, and the La Chargers 0:09:55.960 --> 0:10:00.280 have a serendipitous score. It's a thirty yard touchdown, and. 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.480 That touchdown, as frustrating as it was, gets you to 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.599 the final score line twenty eight twenty four Chargers. But 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:07.920 we're not even halfway through the fourth quarter yet. Lots 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.720 more stuff happened, including the next possession for the Vikings. 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:15.120 They go thirteen plays, seventy three yards and can't get 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:16.839 it in from inside the. 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:19.320 Three yard line. One hundred and thirty rushing yards for 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:20.400 the Vikings. Yesterday. 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.800 You saw improvement, you saw productivity there, but you could 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.720 not see the Vikings offensive line moving man, moving earth, 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.679 specifically in goal line situations at all. They had two 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:35.120 shots from the two yard line, could not close a 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.160 couple incomplete passes to Justin Jefferson. They turned the ball 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.360 over on downs and it's Chargers ball. Inside of three 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.400 minutes remaining in the game, they're put on a fourth 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.640 and one at their own twenty four yard line. And 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.320 if you follow Chargers football, you're not surprised by this. 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.600 Chargers coach Brandon Staley says, we're going to go for it. 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:56.000 Offset I right behind Herbert average so much formation at 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:57.120 all today, and they're going to. 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:58.559 Go for it, and they went. 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.280 They did not get it on the run to Josh 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:06.640 Kelly up the middle. All the Vikings have turned over 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:10.720 the Chargers on downs with a twenty eight to twenty 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:11.440 four lead. 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:13.840 Brandon Staley, a. 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:18.000 Third year head coach for the LA Chargers, just did 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:22.120 his football best friend Kevin O'Connell follow it by making 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:22.760 that decision. 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:24.080 I couldn't believe it. 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:27.920 Although this is again something that is part of Staley's resume. 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.240 He loves going for it in spots like this. Maybe 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:32.960 the numbers say statistically that you're supposed to, but it's 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.679 Vikings ball, minute forty six left in the game at 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.880 the Chargers twenty four, no timeouts, but a buck forty 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.920 six to go in that area. You're feeling good about 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.120 the amount of time you have Vikings moving. JJ hits 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.240 the turf, might be cramps, he returns to the game. 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:47.559 TJ. 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:52.520 Hawkinson hits the turf, He returns, and ultimately they need 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:56.400 a fourth down conversion at the Chargers fifteen yard line. 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:59.240 They get it, and then this happened twenty two seconds 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.560 to go in the game. The clock man kill it. Yeah, 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:02.840 we kill the clock. 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.000 We're trying to get everything set up because it's trying 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:06.480 to get a play out there, and we've burned about 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.040 five or ten extra seconds because of the Kirk shotgun 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:12.040 back to pass, grows to the end zone, falls, bouncing 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.040 about interceptive about the Chargers in a Minnesota Vikings Row 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:16.120 and Fred, are you kidding? 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:17.840 You got fumbles in the red zone. 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.840 You got bouncing interceptions, You got interceptions not made that 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:22.600 bounce into the hands of opposing teams. 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.839 As a wide receiver, you have a lack of composure 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:25.559 and clutch. 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.760 Spots, and ultimately you have a team that is now 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.200 zero to three to start the twenty twenty three season, 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:34.960 disappointing where everybody next up the also winless Carolina Panthers. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.480 Before I go to break, I mentioned koc around the corner. 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:39.720 I do want to remind you that we do have 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.800 the Friday Feast going on. 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Vikings dot Com slash Vikings 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:49.280 Country from more info and a full schedule I'mnordo from 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.280 nine to noon, Vikings rewind the team's zero to three. 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:55.600 You heard the highlights last segment. Head coach is about 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.280 as down as I've heard him during his tenure as 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:02.000 Vikings coach. He's feeling right now, Kevin O'Connell addressing the 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.560 media earlier today, Let's listen to a heavy portion of. 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.640 Very very frustrated. 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:12.679 And you know, our team is our team is, you know, 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.839 experiencing and our coaches and players we're experiencing a significant 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:21.080 test right now, trying to you know, have the mental 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:26.240 toughness to overcome some very very difficult results over the 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.520 last you know, a few weeks, and and what we've 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:33.400 got to do is find ways to continue evolving and 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:37.600 changing our process to prepare to find the advantages we can. 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.280 To be at our best for these games. 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.520 Having watched the tape, I do feel like, even with 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:45.440 some things that we could do a lot better, coach, 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.920 a lot better me personally, that it was right there 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:52.000 for us. And uh, you know, we we just need 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:53.760 to find ways to get that to. 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.520 Get it done. You know, in the end, I. 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.440 Think we got to write people in this building. I 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.160 think we have the right guys in that locker. I'm 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:06.240 very very confident that we will push forward through you know, 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:12.000 this test collectively, individually, and and really the best version 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.360 of this team is out there. It's still out in 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:16.080 front of us, and my job is to try to 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:20.120 get us to that point. And that's pushing everybody in 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:23.000 this building to embrace this as the challenge that it 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:27.120 is and ultimately attack it. And we can you know, 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:30.480 go through the tape today with the players. What I'm 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:34.560 asking for is you know, a personal and collective responsibility, uh, 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:38.120 for every single guy to and coach to look inward 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.840 and where those little things we can do better, where 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:45.120 the big things we can do better, and then ultimately 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.800 have those you know, those results start coming coming via 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.080 how we're going about attacking this. But come Wednesday, my 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:58.280 expectation is we'll have as much urgency and uh, you know, 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.640 positive energy going into having our best week of preparation yet, 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:06.000 and my belief is that the result will come with 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.640 you know, with that. But it's all about how we 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:14.040 get there. It's it's very easy to get you know, 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:17.480 be in a situation where we're on three and there's 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.320 gonna be a lot of noise about what that means 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.760 long term. But we've got to find a way to 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.600 worry about the little things first and collectively build on 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.640 those positive little things until it equals the result that 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:30.000 we needed to equal. 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:32.960 On Sunday positives. 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.120 I thought, you know, offensively, with the running game and 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.160 the explosives and kind of feeling a little bit more 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:41.720 at least outside of the red zone, how we want 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:43.960 to feel as an offense. One of four in the 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.520 red zone was definitely a huge reason why we lost 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.320 the football game. There were some plays to be had 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.200 there and we just didn't make you know, a couple 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:52.720 of those plays. And I got to have a couple 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:56.160 better calls, especially, you know, on on some of those 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.880 sequences where you know, we could possibly you know, either 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.440 on the football in or find a way to throw 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:06.480 it in. The turnover margin again, we lost the turnover 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:08.240 battle there on the last one. We had a chance 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:12.520 to maybe flip that number. That offense does not turn 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.239 the football over a lot. I think their quarterbacks, you know, 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:17.119 does a really good job of that. He did give 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.719 us an opportunity there late in the game when we 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.520 had the lead and they go from you know, third 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:26.560 and seventeen two plays later, they're scoring a touchdown, you know, 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.280 third and seventeen from midfield, and then two plays later, 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:31.520 you know, we're trying to chase that lead again. Those 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:33.440 are some of the things that I think, just as 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.359 a group, all three phases, we need to continue to 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:40.200 try to chase. Just giving you an injury update, Brad Burry, 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:42.600 our hope is that he can. You know, he had 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:46.480 a very good work week last week and feels stronger 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:47.680 and he's getting right there. 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:49.040 We'll see how he goes through the week. 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.760 Hopefully we'll have him this Sunday in Carolina. 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:55.040 We'll kind of monitor. 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.240 Marcus Davenport as well, see what kind of work he 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:58.840 can do early on in the week and how. 0:17:58.720 --> 0:17:59.720 That looks for Sunday. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.359 And then Byron Murphy did have a little bit of 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:07.000 a hip contusion. He'll be sore, but I'm hopefully expecting 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.080 him to be able to work through that. And then 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:13.280 Josh mantell Us with his shoulder, just ultimate toughness to 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.040 basically do what he did yesterday. Now we just got 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:19.560 to continue to try to get him recovered. And so 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:23.119 much respect for Josh and how he battles battles through it. 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:28.000 But with that altern it over to you guys, Kevin. 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.880 When it comes to the strange bounces that you've sort 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:32.840 of seen this year, you mentioned the acalable one. I 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.600 guess when you're making adjustments and changes, how do you 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:39.800 kind of separate what is random and strange and what 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.960 you're against you and what needs to be adjusted. 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:46.840 Yeah, it's all to me about uh, you know, situational emphasis. 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.800 It's all technique fundamentals. What was the call, what technique 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.600 did you play? Was it the right technique? Where were 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:56.639 your eyes, the reaction, all those things that we can coach, 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:01.639 you know, just continuing to coach the small of details 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:04.119 to make sure that those guys understand exactly how we 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.080 need them to play in those moments that when those 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:11.440 opportunities do present themselves, we start making those plays. And 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.000 and I think it's, uh, there's examples of it on 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:15.840 our football team. For for a lot of guys to 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:21.040 look towards of guys that play with great technique, fundamentals, urgency, 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.240 understanding of what we're trying to get done, and those 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:28.400 guys tend to, you know, shine on Sundays. And that's 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:30.040 where we got to get our whole roster to. 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:33.359 An interception or was the degree of difficulty on that 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:34.440 catch just two times? 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:36.160 Yeah, I think I think it was a tough play 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:38.560 for sure, But I think you know, Caleb will be 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:40.480 the first one to say, you know, he could have 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:44.439 made that play. And then ultimately, not only do we 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.120 not catch it, but they do on the tip. It's 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:49.919 pretty you know, pretty unique and and and quite a swing, 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:52.320 you know when you think about what might have been 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:54.440 in that situation, you know, with the lead and the 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:56.600 way we're running it a chance to finally have a 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:59.800 lead in the fourth quarter and and really put a 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:02.480 put a stamp on what we did run in the football. 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:04.960