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Speaker 1: the insanity of the fact that don't ever tell me

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Speaker 1: the odds we were ninety nine percent probability to lose

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Speaker 1: that game. There hasn't really been a comfortable win since

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Speaker 1: Weak one, and so I'm wondering, Ben, do you think

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Speaker 1: that there could be one in the foreseeable future. Well,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't it be great if it was done at lambeau

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Speaker 1: Field in about two weeks. You're listening to the NFC

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Speaker 1: North Champion Minnesota Vikings podcasts. I'm Tatum Everett alongside Gabe Henderson,

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Speaker 1: je Nelson, and our producer Eric Davidson. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you guys are still in belief in disbelief. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm in disbelief because the Vikings pulled

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Speaker 1: off literally the impossible on Saturday, making the are just

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Speaker 1: come back in NFL history to beat the Colts and

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Speaker 1: walk off over time field goal clinch to division and

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Speaker 1: that means playoff football. Guys. I'm pumped about that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've never experienced it. Personally. So even in Washington is

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Speaker 1: a joke. I mean, it is a drug that I

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Speaker 1: also was like, well, maybe he hasn't our house. So

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, Washington, we were six and three leading the

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Speaker 1: NFC East and then Alex Smith broke broke his leg.

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Speaker 1: We lose six out of our last seven, missed the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: So twenty twenty twenty, yeah, exactly. UM So it's weird, Like, um,

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Speaker 1: I was talking to some of my boys about it,

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Speaker 1: and it's just like, bro, like this is like, this

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Speaker 1: is like next level football, Like you're excited. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I just want to get through these next three games.

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Speaker 1: But this Minnesota Vikings team deserves it more than anybody.

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Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell Quacy. I just remember Greg Joseph pulling Quacy

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Speaker 1: off to the side in the locker room post game.

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Speaker 1: It was like, hey, that field goal was for you, Like,

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Speaker 1: you deserve this in your first year, what you've done

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Speaker 1: for this organization, you deserve it, and being Quasy was saying,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's about you, guys, but the fact that

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Speaker 1: everyone is doing it for the person beside him and

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Speaker 1: the person in front of him and whatever you want

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Speaker 1: to call it is so exciting to see and to

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Speaker 1: do it in the fashion that we did it. You can't,

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Speaker 1: you can't make it a total team effort, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're you're the lifelong Viking stand That must have been

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Speaker 1: an incredible game. Literally, the one thing I was texting

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Speaker 1: to everybody after that happened, with everyone saying, how in

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Speaker 1: the heck did we get to this point? Never a doubt?

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Speaker 1: And the reason I said never a doubt is purely

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Speaker 1: because is there any other way that this team would

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Speaker 1: and pulling off an epic comeback later? That is what

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Speaker 1: of the fact that don't ever tell me the odds.

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Speaker 1: don't ever tell me the odds. We were ninety nine

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Speaker 1: when this thing flips, it will be incredible. And Eric

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Speaker 1: back down to fifty fifty for halftime, I just showed

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Speaker 1: those guys and said, if this was the stock market,

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Speaker 1: hype video. If you haven't seen that on Vikings dot

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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a really fun visual

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Speaker 1: like Parcels. Where Parcels was. He was that football guy.

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Speaker 1: And even when you know, we talked to him at

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Speaker 1: the Pro Football Hall of Fame when when we had

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Speaker 1: players going in and Zim was starting stuff like and

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Speaker 1: we went and did an interview with him to talk

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Speaker 1: about Zim. And he's just at that point he was

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Speaker 1: happy to be a casual football person. Like he still

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Speaker 1: paid attention, but he did not the rat race of

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Speaker 1: what it meant to be a coach. And I think

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Speaker 1: the one thing for Bill as well, the fact that

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Speaker 1: he's not only coached but essentially GM as well. For

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Speaker 1: the Patriots, I do not think most teams at this

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Speaker 1: point will give that kind of control to a guy.

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Speaker 1: He's still old school enough that he's not going to

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Speaker 1: get that kind of control. And I think for him,

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Speaker 1: Kraft is going to let him go as long as

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Speaker 1: he wants to, and when he finally has had enough,

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Speaker 1: that's when he walks away. I've got an idea. What

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Speaker 1: if he takes over as the Titans general manager, play

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Speaker 1: coaches alongside Mike Rabel as the defensive coordinator and because

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Speaker 1: Shane Bone will probably go and get a job somewhere

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Speaker 1: else after it, well maybe not for this year, but wow,

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Speaker 1: I'm just I am totally going unicorn mode. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. Great idea will not be crazy,

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Speaker 1: it is, but again, I'm just saying like Rabel wouldn't

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Speaker 1: want to requish control. I know that first. Well, anyway,

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Speaker 1: we're going to get to our three M play of

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Speaker 1: from the Field of the Roof and everywhere in between.

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Speaker 1: And I struggled with this one. It truly was hard

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Speaker 1: to narrow down because there were so many plays that

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Speaker 1: choose from. But I am gonna go with the game

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Speaker 1: winning overtime field goal Greg jos forty eight yard or

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Speaker 1: made the most epic comeback complete forty yard dry wrighthash

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Speaker 1: Greg Joseph with Andrew De Paulo snapping, Ryan Wright holding

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Speaker 1: Snapspot Joseph right footed kick. It is the Minnesota Vikings

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Speaker 1: have completed the greatest comeback in the history of the

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Speaker 1: National Football League. From thirty three down. They beat the

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis coach thirty nine thirty six special teams in the

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Speaker 1: second half, also laying a huge part in this come

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Speaker 1: from behind. When Ryan writes punting, I mean, I know

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Speaker 1: that we say this every week, like, oh man, he's

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Speaker 1: just so good, but he just continues to be such

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Speaker 1: an MVP of the special teams. He had that sixty

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Speaker 1: four yard or there at the end of the fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter that pinned the Colts at the two. Should have

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Speaker 1: been one yard line. Yeah, I mean, don't get me

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Speaker 1: started on the rest. Shades of Buffalo were happening at

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Speaker 1: that point too. But the fact back to your main point,

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Speaker 1: because I'm starting to think about I don't want to

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Speaker 1: get fined the fact that Greg Joseph, you know, is

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Speaker 1: starting to become more automatic, don't I don't think he's

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Speaker 1: missed a phil. He's made like nine of his last

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Speaker 1: field goals. Well, he's making his extra points, which I

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Speaker 1: know he struggled with a little bit. Very true. And

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Speaker 1: I feel like every time Greg gets up to go kick,

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Speaker 1: everybody holds their breath and it's like, okay, especially at

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Speaker 1: that moment exactly. But at the same time, the fact

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Speaker 1: that Greg is building his confidence and like we're building

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Speaker 1: our confidence back in Greg with him, it's been a

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Speaker 1: sight to see. And the fact that he was able

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Speaker 1: to walk off in that type of fashion. I'm happy

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Speaker 1: for the guy. I know he started it by Greg,

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Speaker 1: you know, me being in the locker room and hearing

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Speaker 1: over hearing Greg tell Quacy he's happy for him. But

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Speaker 1: the fact that Quacy was like, you know, I'm happy

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Speaker 1: for you, and you know, we all left the game

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Speaker 1: talking about Greg Joseph, I think that that really says

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Speaker 1: a lot about you know, him flushing and fixing and

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Speaker 1: forgetting what happened that last kick. So Special Teams wasn't

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Speaker 1: the greatest on Saturday. I believe the average drive start

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Speaker 1: for the Indianapolis Coats was like the forty six yard

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Speaker 1: line that was in the first half, and it's like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you only got fifty four yards to

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Speaker 1: go every time you're on offense, like you should score

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Speaker 1: every time. Kudos start a defense for not letting that happen.

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Speaker 1: But Special Teams the fact that they fixed it in

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Speaker 1: the second half, that was very encouraging to see. And

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Speaker 1: no more, no one more deserving than the three M

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Speaker 1: Play of the Week than Greg Joseph and our Special

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Speaker 1: Teams team. If you will watch the sidelines at all,

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Speaker 1: if you're out of game, Special Teams Ryan Ry Ryan

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Speaker 1: writes one of the most emotional, like pump up kind

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Speaker 1: of guys on the sidelines. He's always like trying to

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Speaker 1: make the crowd go quiet when the offense is on

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Speaker 1: and he's pumping his fist and clapping and getting into it.

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Speaker 1: And I just love watching a punter with like that

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Speaker 1: because all of the Special teams guys are you know,

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Speaker 1: like Greg's very quiet, he's focused. You will not know

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Speaker 1: what he's thinking when he's feeling and he's all just

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Speaker 1: one note. But Ryan Wright is like an emotional Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's it's kind of fun to watch yeah, Ryan is

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Speaker 1: uh and it makes sense because I mean the fact

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Speaker 1: that he's had no touchback this year that I would

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Speaker 1: get fired up about that too. But when when you

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Speaker 1: see Ryan just walking in the hallways here, it's just like, man,

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Speaker 1: does that guy even say a word? And then you

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Speaker 1: start talking to him and it's like oh oh wow.

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Speaker 1: Then you see him was like oh oh wow. I

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Speaker 1: don't know who has more energy on the sideline, Ryan Wright,

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Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell, like ko effort touchdowns is just like I

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Speaker 1: love it. I mean I think two weeks ago he

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Speaker 1: was miked up and he just let's go, oh wow,

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Speaker 1: like this this guy loves his job. So man, Ryan

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Speaker 1: is the guy. I'm not going to say that there's

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Speaker 1: a comparison to this, but I would like to point

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Speaker 1: out that the World Cup started on November twentieth. Ye okay,

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Speaker 1: Greg Joseph has not missed a field goal well since

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Speaker 1: pre World Cup, but you know he's a soccer guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's only missed one extra point no field goal since

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Speaker 1: the World Cup started. Hey, that the World Cup saying

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Speaker 1: the mojo the mojo must be. I mean he posted

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Speaker 1: on his stories yesterday he was watching the World Cup

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Speaker 1: final from the facility. You could tell it was like

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Speaker 1: the TV's in the locker room. Good for him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure players were in here on Sunday just getting treatment,

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Speaker 1: but for sure, good exactly. That was a crazy game.

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Speaker 1: That was a crazy game, and we're gonna have a

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Speaker 1: crazy conversation with our special guests on the podcast coming

547
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Speaker 1: up now. Joining us now on the Minnesota Vikings podcast

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Speaker 1: as Vikings or Radio sideline reporter and also one of

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Speaker 1: the co hosts of Twin Cities Live, Ben Lieber. Ben,

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Speaker 1: thanks for fitting us in. I know you are a

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Speaker 1: busy man on Mondays. Oh well, thanks guys. Anything for

552
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Speaker 1: you guys, it's not it's not too busy. A little

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Speaker 1: morning radio, a little Twin Cities Live call. Um, just

554
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Speaker 1: our morning call and then I'm free really for a

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Speaker 1: couple of hours and then m things kind of ramp

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Speaker 1: back up in the afternoon. But I'm excited to talk

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Speaker 1: to you guys after a historic win. Yeah, we're just

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Speaker 1: forming those vocals up for I guess another early week

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Speaker 1: this Saturday. But yeah, it's historic win to say the least. Um,

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Speaker 1: I forgot it was a game number one thousand, so

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Speaker 1: that's how that's as good as it gets for you know,

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Speaker 1: a memorable moment for franchise history. You know, would you,

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Speaker 1: guys have rather had the one thousandth game be a

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Speaker 1: thirty six to ten blowout of the Cults or an

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Speaker 1: epic comeback, a historical comeback? I don't know, guys. I

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Speaker 1: mean my blood precor and all that stuff. I think

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Speaker 1: I think I would have rather had just a really

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Speaker 1: really comfortable win for the one thousandth game. But we'll

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Speaker 1: take it anyway we can get it. There hasn't really

570
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Speaker 1: been a comfortable win since Week one, and so I'm wondering, Ben,

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Speaker 1: do you think that there could be one in the

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Speaker 1: foreseeable future here as we round out the regular season? Well,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't it be great if it was done at lambeau

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Speaker 1: Field in about two weeks, so the only comfortable wins

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Speaker 1: this week would be there this year we the Packers.

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Speaker 1: That'd be rich. Uh Yeah, wouldn't that just be awesome

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Speaker 1: for all the Vikings fans that our two most comfortable

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Speaker 1: wins is Week one against the Pack and then at

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Speaker 1: their own place at lambou Field, which I'm going to

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Speaker 1: guess is going to feel like like it does this

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Speaker 1: whole week it's gonna it's gonna be frigid cold in

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Speaker 1: their elements, And wouldn't that be awesome if we had

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Speaker 1: like a three touchdown victory? Oh my god, what is that? Look?

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping that. I'm hoping that we can dispel a

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Speaker 1: lot of a lot of doubt if we do it

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Speaker 1: against the Giants this weekend on you know there they're

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Speaker 1: a playoff team as of right now, so with another

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Speaker 1: strong defensive front. So if we can do it against

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Speaker 1: that that team, that feel a lot better. Speaking of

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Speaker 1: the Giants, I feel like, um, the fact that we

591
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Speaker 1: had a Saturday game, we were able to watch some

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Speaker 1: of those Sunday games at least for myself, and last

593
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Speaker 1: night's game was something where I was able to get

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Speaker 1: ahead on my notes. Right Sunday night football, everybody's watching.

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Speaker 1: When when you turned that game on last night, we

596
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 1: were some glaring things that caught your eye that this

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings team should you know, definitely game plan for Well,

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Speaker 1: obviously cave on Thibodeau. You know he's he's an absolute

599
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Speaker 1: force off the edge. But you know, here's here's the

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Speaker 1: thing about our team, and is at least offensively, we're

601
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Speaker 1: pretty battle tested. You know, Colts defense defensive front another

602
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Speaker 1: great you know, top ten defensive front defense that we

603
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Speaker 1: played against. And so I feel like we shouldn't be

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Speaker 1: shaken into boots by looking at Thibodeau and the rest

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Speaker 1: of the gang up front. For the Giants, we'll know,

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Speaker 1: we'll have a game plan for them, We'll know how

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Speaker 1: to handle that. I I think the biggest thing for

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Speaker 1: me is, you know, we've gotten kind of lucky. We

609
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Speaker 1: haven't seen a lot of premier running backs. You know,

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift, even with the Lions, he was banged up

611
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Speaker 1: and the first time we played him, and you know,

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Speaker 1: it's been there's been quite a few guys that I

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Speaker 1: think have been kind of nicked up and either out

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Speaker 1: of the lineup for our defense. So having Saquon Barkley

615
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Speaker 1: coming to the US Bank Stadium, watching what he does,

616
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Speaker 1: how they can just mash the middle part of their

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Speaker 1: offensive line and open up holes, It's going to be

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Speaker 1: a huge challenge for our our defensive tackles and our linebackers,

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Speaker 1: which look date, they have not played you know, tremendous

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Speaker 1: against you know, power running teams and big offensive lines

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Speaker 1: that can that can really you know, move you with

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Speaker 1: the double teams, So that's gonna be the biggest challenge

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Speaker 1: for me. Speaking of that defensive game plan after the

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Speaker 1: win on Saturday, Jordan Hicks I asked him, you know,

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Speaker 1: what was it about the second half the changed for

626
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Speaker 1: you guys, And he said it was Donna Tell's great

627
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Speaker 1: job calling the defense and Nick's described it as continuing

628
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Speaker 1: to stay aggressive. How would you describe the defensive game

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Speaker 1: plan there in the second half, Yeah, a lot of

630
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Speaker 1: the same thing. I mean, I don't think that we

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Speaker 1: are great on first down. You know, I think, as

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Speaker 1: they probably look back in the film, you know, we

633
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Speaker 1: gave up too many chunk yardage on the ground on

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Speaker 1: first down. But but we really, you know, buckled down

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Speaker 1: on second down. You know, I think that was our

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Speaker 1: most successful down in the second half. Was we continued

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Speaker 1: to force the thirdain mediums and and that's when we

638
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: saw a lot more movement from our defense. You know,

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Speaker 1: we did see some some more I guess quote unquote

640
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: exotic blitzes. They weren't just the casual five man pressure

641
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: or you know, you're just gonna, you know, try to

642
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: sneak in a linebacker there here and there. Um, you know,

643
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: we we were bringing different angles, and we were bringing

644
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: you know, more pressure and more blitzes than we have

645
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 1: in the past. And I think a lot of it

646
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: does come down to just you know, our defense is

647
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: much more forbidable when we have our safety's roaming around

648
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: and you look at what Zim did with the defense

649
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. You know, our pre snap

650
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: movement and our discus was one of the best in

651
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 1: the league. And I think that we can do some

652
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: of that without compromising you know, some of the injury

653
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: issues and the inexperience that we have in the back

654
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: end of our defense. So I hope to see more

655
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: of that in the next few weeks and into the playoffs. Yeah,

656
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: we clinched the playoffs, which is um the the most

657
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: exciting thing this time of the year. But but understanding that,

658
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: I mean just being on playoffs. You've been on the

659
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: playoff team before, right man? Yeah? Oh yeah, Like when

660
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: do you like, come on, you know, I gotta make

661
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 1: sure got me because I mean when Ben played here,

662
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, like you guys, I feel like

663
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 1: that was like in between like the greatest years in

664
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 1: Vikings history, like the nineteen ninety eight season and the

665
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine season. So I'm just thinking about

666
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: you know, just um your career, but understanding that, like

667
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: what changes when you make the playoffs? When you understand

668
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: you make the playoffs, does the intensity ramp up or

669
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: you try to rest guys? Like what's the locker room

670
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: like when you when you know you already made the

671
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: playoffs before the season ended. Well, I mean it is exciting.

672
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: I mean, first and foremost, if there is a little

673
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: bit of a cybe relief that all right, we check

674
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: that one box that we had as far as preseason goals,

675
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: and you know, all right, we did that, and that

676
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 1: should be applauded. You know, there there should be some

677
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: time where you allow players the same thing with the

678
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: twenty four hour rule when you win to lose, like

679
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 1: allow guys to you know, feel that, like feel that

680
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: emotion of like we did it. We there's a lot

681
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: of sacrifice. We did that. But you do have to

682
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: just recalibrate and you've got to resettle in and like, okay,

683
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: well now we got a little bit of a target

684
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: on our back. You know, teams are gonna be gun

685
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: for us. And I think one of the trickier things

686
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: is remembering that you don't have to play perfect, you know,

687
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: still going out there with an edge, still going out

688
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 1: there with the idea that, you know, we have something

689
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: to prove. And I think that this this team has

690
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: shown that already that they enjoy proving people wrong. But

691
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: as far as the intensity of the actual playoff game,

692
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 1: it's it's incredible. I mean, it's hard to be believe

693
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 1: that the game is played at such a high level

694
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: with such velocity and explosiveness and suddenness. In the regular season,

695
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: you're like, well, how in the world can it get

696
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 1: any faster? Well, it does. You know, you know that

697
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: that game could be the very last game that you

698
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 1: put on the cleats. And for some guys it's like

699
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: maybe the last time I ever played in the NFL,

700
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 1: or maybe this was the last time I played for

701
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: this team. Guys feel that, and they let that emotion,

702
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: that intensity out in the actual playoff game. So it

703
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 1: is it has ratched up another notch. It's super fun,

704
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: but you still have to stay the course and stay focused. Man,

705
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: I completely blew a gasket. I was thinking you were

706
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: with the Vikings two to five, but you were on

707
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,879
Speaker 1: both the oh nine and twenty and ten Minnesota Vikings team.

708
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 1: So terrible question, but I guess for a follow up,

709
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: is any similarities between those playoff teams and this playoff

710
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: team right now? From this Minnesota Vikings you know, I

711
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,719
Speaker 1: don't know. I guess maybe the OH nine year, there

712
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: was there was that confidence that offensively we were going

713
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 1: to score some points. You know, knew that FARV was

714
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: going to come out with Adrian Peterson in Sydney rights

715
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 1: and in our our weapons, and they were gonna they

716
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: were gonna move the ball to the ball in the

717
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: end zone. So from that aspect, there was a lot

718
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 1: of offensive confidence. And I think the differences we were

719
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: just a better defense in O nine, you know, we

720
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Speaker 1: I think, um shoot, I would say and every year,

721
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: maybe at least my first three years, you know, we

722
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: were you know, a top two or three run defense

723
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 1: in the league. We were always in the you know,

724
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:32,800
Speaker 1: towards the top ten and total defense. So our defense

725
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: was definitely better than what the Vikings defense is this year.

726
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: But you know, there is a there is such a

727
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: thing of just learning how to win. And I think

728
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: this group, you know, more than our team at O nine,

729
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:46,839
Speaker 1: they knew how to win. They were more they were

730
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: probably more than they are more battle tested than we

731
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 1: were in two thousand and nine. Is there anything you

732
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,959
Speaker 1: need to see from this team to feel confident going

733
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: forward into the playoffs? Yeah? I think it is again

734
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 1: just the defense. We know that, you know, been with

735
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,879
Speaker 1: koc talking pretty openly about the way they change their

736
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 1: offensive approach in the second half, and he was just

737
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: jokingly saying, you know, we drew up a couple of

738
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 1: plays in the dirt that we're not even on the script,

739
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,800
Speaker 1: and you know, we kind of we've stopped thinking about

740
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: plays and more about players and who we want to

741
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: get the ball in the hands of. I think that

742
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: flexibility has been shown throughout the season, So I don't

743
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,240
Speaker 1: think I need to see any more from the offense.

744
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: It is still the defense. You know. Can can we

745
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,800
Speaker 1: stop you know, giving up these middle of the field throws?

746
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 1: You know? Can we get off the field more on

747
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: third down? Can we affect the quarterback more? I just

748
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: don't think that we're putting is the consistent pressure and

749
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 1: make these quarterbacks really second guess what our coverage is

750
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,359
Speaker 1: going to be, where the blitz is going to come from,

751
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 1: where the pressure is going to come from. There's a

752
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: lot I would like to see out of our defense

753
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:51,919
Speaker 1: in the next three games going the playoffs, and and

754
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 1: you know which one is the number one priority. I

755
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: don't know, you know, I know a lot of people

756
00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: want to say they want to see more of the

757
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 1: quarterback on the round and more pressure. I think for

758
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: me is we need to do a better job dominate

759
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage in the run game, you know,

760
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: forcing those third longs more often, because that's that's where

761
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: you you make the offense play, you know, out of

762
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:16,320
Speaker 1: their mind and out of character. So I'd like to

763
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: see better run defense and more third longs. Well, they'll

764
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: definitely get the shot on Saturday against the Giants. Thank

765
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: you so much to Ben Lieber for being on the

766
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: Vikings podcast. Been one last thing before we go. How

767
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: pumped are you about a whiteout? That's going to be

768
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 1: a really special you know, I don't have we have

769
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 1: we done these color coded games before, not at home.

770
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 1: We've never won worn white jerseys at home. Yeah, and

771
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: we've I don't think we've ever been to a blackout.

772
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 1: We've never done like oh, I don't know, don't know

773
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: anything like that, that whole college thing. I don't think

774
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 1: that we have, so we have purple Friday. I'm excited

775
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: to see the fans show up and do that. Yeah.

776
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 1: I think there are some people that were like, oh man,

777
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 1: I got a purple sweatshirt for the Christmas Eve game.

778
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: I guess I got to go return it it. Besides

779
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: that's I think it's going to be pretty slick. Yeah. Yeah,

780
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be fun. I just don't know

781
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna wear. Yeah, we were talking about it.

782
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: Maybe white jaggers, Maybe white jaggers, white T shirts. Yeah,

783
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 1: do the guys wear white pants? Who were having this

784
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,399
Speaker 1: debate the other day, like if it's an all white thing,

785
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: like do men wear white pants? That's a really good

786
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: question because, like you only, is there like a certain

787
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:21,359
Speaker 1: cut off in the year that you can't wear. Yeah,

788
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 1: that doesn't that doesn't count anymore. Okay, we can't wear

789
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 1: white shoes, white boots and stuff. I figured I would

790
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: ask the fashionista Ben Lieber, though, if he plans I'm

791
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 1: wearing white pants, well, um, you know, I'll have to

792
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 1: break out my white lue louse. Um. I don't know

793
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 1: if they may wants to see that, but you know,

794
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: it'll probably have to be some version of a, I

795
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 1: don't we just have like a white just a white

796
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: button down, you know, if we're gonna be doing you know,

797
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 1: all the pregame TV stuff, and now I gotta like

798
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 1: look like I somewhat professional. I suppose I have a

799
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: white button down, but that's so boring. Maybe you could

800
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 1: get like a cool winter themed tie or something, or

801
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,760
Speaker 1: like winter colors. I just feel like you have to

802
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: put that order in like two weeks ago. Yeah, you

803
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 1: can go shopping in person. Well, if you're a bend leab,

804
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 1: we probably beget yeah, probably, yeah, you can brave them all.

805
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 1: I have to buy gifts for my families. So the

806
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: last thing I'm doing is thinking about what I'm going

807
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: to wear to the white out. Hey, you know, of

808
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: course that's my question. I love thinking about what I've cattle.

809
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: Where the Vikings came back from a thirty three to

810
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 1: zero lead, you can come back from nineteen to zero.

811
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: You got six more days to figure it out, all right, Ben, Well,

812
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: we look forward to seeing you on Saturday. Thank you

813
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: so much. All right, thanks guys, I mean thanks for

814
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 1: Ben Lieber for calling in despite that super busy schedule.

815
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: And don't forget fans. We talked with Ben just at

816
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: the end about the Winter white Out game twelve to

817
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: twenty four. US Bank Stadium. Team will take the field

818
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 1: wearing white for the first time at home. Help US

819
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,879
Speaker 1: ice out US Bank and wear white to the game.

820
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that me too. I mean the

821
00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 1: college environments like that look crazy, oh for sure. Like

822
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,280
Speaker 1: I think of Penn State, like the Penn State whiteouts

823
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 1: or you know, things of that nature, and like the

824
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: fel like US Bank Stadium and where the Bills play

825
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: High Mark Field, Like we're the only two stadiums that

826
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:15,439
Speaker 1: can do something like that because of the atmosphere. So man,

827
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. I'm sure Saturday will feel

828
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 1: like a playoff game just with the intensity of the environment.

829
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: You know, you got the holidays, I mean the next

830
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:27,320
Speaker 1: day is a big day. So last home regular season,

831
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,879
Speaker 1: last home regular season game. Also, I didn't Oh wow,

832
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:33,399
Speaker 1: that's great. I know, better, more sweet than better. Since

833
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 1: we got another that's very true, very true. Yeah, Well,

834
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 1: they get you, yeah, to get you ready for the

835
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,720
Speaker 1: Giants game. We got a lot of good stuff coming

836
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: your way. Jay Nelson currently not on the podcast right

837
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: now because he is recording another podcast. Yeah, Siamison and

838
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:49,479
Speaker 1: Dan Saint Germaine will be on the Tailgate this week.

839
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 1: You can listen to that at six thirty on Kfan

840
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 1: and that will be following the audible, which we are

841
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:01,799
Speaker 1: going to be recording on Wednesday, No Tuesday. Does the

842
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: schedule so crazy? Yeah? But who's our guests this week?

843
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: I believe the guest this week will be uh, this

844
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: is like bipopular de man, Duke Shelley and Chandon Sullivan.

845
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 1: Both of those guys are the talk of Minnesota right now.

846
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:19,359
Speaker 1: Duke Shelley with you know, just his unbelievable play and

847
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 1: then the past couple of weeks and then uh, Chandon

848
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,319
Speaker 1: Sullivan with this unbelievable plays that got called back. We

849
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: should call it the Sully and Shelly Show. Well maybe

850
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: not Shelly and Sully Show that two or one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to having those guys on. We'll

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Speaker 1: have some fun. Oh yeah, sure, for sure, for sure.

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Speaker 1: We'll have Dalvin Tomlinson this week for the Game Day

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Speaker 1: Live interview on Fox nine. H pumped to talk to him,

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Speaker 1: what MVP. I believe it was live recording. Super pumped

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Speaker 1: about that. It'll be an Apple Valley following a Pa

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Speaker 1: in Charges nine to news show, and PA will to

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Speaker 1: that'll be fun. We'll have some fun. The last one

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Speaker 1: was pretty cool, so yeah, it'll be fun. I love

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Speaker 1: having Charged on there because I roo rooms of rooms,

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Speaker 1: say that. Though this will it'll it'll be a good show.

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Speaker 1: Everybody knows pas Pa, So oh yeah, come for the

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Speaker 1: Friday football feast, stay for m VP. There you go.

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Speaker 1: I like that we should get shirts made for that. Yeah, anyway,

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Speaker 1: I hope you wear Yeah right, I was gonna hope

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Speaker 1: you wear your all your white shirts on Saturday as

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