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Speaker 1: What's up, guys, Welcome into a Week ten edition of

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Speaker 1: Chargers Weekly. I got my guy back fresh in a lecture,

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Speaker 1: if compearance on the Pat back, if he's show with

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Speaker 1: the Vipers and the tag top Bat, Muddy Smith is back, brother.

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Speaker 1: What's up? Yeah? Oh, it's great to hang out with Pat,

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Speaker 1: one of my absolute favorite people affiliated with the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and talk some Chargers football talk about you know, justin

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Speaker 1: Herbert the humble superstar just gets so uncomfortable when you

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Speaker 1: say good things about him. Otherwise, I'm sure he'd be

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Speaker 1: doing a whole lot more interviews than he already does.

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Speaker 1: But that's one of the things that makes us love

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Speaker 1: him as much as we do. So yeah, it was

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. If you missed it, just check

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Speaker 1: out the Pat McAfee stuff on his YouTube channel. He's

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Speaker 1: posted ton of videos from all the fun we had yesterday.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, that's what's gonna happen when you go on

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Speaker 1: with Pat. Just like here, Chris, I go on with you.

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Speaker 1: What do we do? We have a lot of fun,

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Speaker 1: but instead it's a little more get you ready for

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Speaker 1: the game. And my apologies for missing last week dealing

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Speaker 1: with the COVID stuff but thankfully I'm through it. So

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Speaker 1: thanks to all the fans out there that we're hitting

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Speaker 1: me up on the social media channels. I certainly appreciate

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Speaker 1: all your well wishes as I'm ready to get back

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Speaker 1: in the booth. Missing two games was not fun. I'm

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Speaker 1: never gonna have that chickhern streak. You know, give it.

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Speaker 1: It's okay. You know what if it's any constellation. I

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Speaker 1: was in Philly and someone screaming at me on the field,

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Speaker 1: call me Matt money Smith. Hopefully they love my work.

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Speaker 1: Perfect it happens. It happens almost every other game, and

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Speaker 1: I love it. It's I'm very helpfuled by it because

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Speaker 1: they think I'm Matt money Smith. But it's just hilarious.

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Speaker 1: They wanted me to sign his beer can, so I

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Speaker 1: love it. So he didn't just love it. Hey, we're

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Speaker 1: two stiff white guys. You know it's uh you can

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Speaker 1: you know, just plug and play. Figure it out, stiff

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Speaker 1: white guys with a side part. There you go, that's

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Speaker 1: what we are. Hey, Philly watching that game, man, just

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Speaker 1: your reaction to that kind of gutty performance to get

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Speaker 1: back in the win call. You know. I was texting

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Speaker 1: with with Shannon Farren and DJ a little bit through

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Speaker 1: the broadcast, and I said, man, this is not for me.

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Speaker 1: I need the distraction of calling the game and being

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Speaker 1: responsible for what's happening in the game, because man, the

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Speaker 1: Chargers they are they are a heart attack team. You know,

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Speaker 1: they just are it is. It is stressful wins, it's

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Speaker 1: stressful losses. And I and it's interesting. I'm almost kind

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Speaker 1: of happy I got to watch it from that perspective

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Speaker 1: instead of you know, when you're calling a game, you're

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Speaker 1: you're trying to develop a storyline. You're trying to figure out, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I've got all these stats and does this one fit here.

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Speaker 1: So there's so many moving pieces that a lot of times, um,

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Speaker 1: you sort of miss maybe a big picture or some

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Speaker 1: of the takeaways that I was able to gather in

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Speaker 1: doing just pregame, halftime and post and actually watching the

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Speaker 1: game in that manner, just kind of thinking about what

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Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about at halftime, what I wanted

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Speaker 1: to talk about a post. And I think that to me,

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Speaker 1: the number one thing of all. Look, every team has issues,

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Speaker 1: but to me, the number one thing that has got

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Speaker 1: to be has got to be fixed, is third down defense.

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Speaker 1: That is what really jumped out to me is this

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Speaker 1: think that's how the charters end up in all these

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Speaker 1: close games because their offense simply doesn't have enough opportunities

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Speaker 1: the number one thing that has got to be sorted

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Speaker 1: out if this team is going to make the playoffs

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Speaker 1: and make it run in the playoffs. It's funny say

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Speaker 1: that because the first thing I noticed in the game

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Speaker 1: It was even doubt by halftime because of those long

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Speaker 1: You know, they were able to and that running game.

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Speaker 1: and they still ran for four nearly five yards per

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Speaker 1: every team has a Jalen Hurts that changes the dynamic completely.

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Speaker 1: And when it was just running plays, you know, again,

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Speaker 1: you can maybe deal with Dalvin Cook a little better

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Speaker 1: it looks a little bit more like the New England game.

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Speaker 1: You know, before I get into this, Vikings team of

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Speaker 1: Cordy Cronin of ESPN coming up a little bit later

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Speaker 1: to get this week's opposing view, and Kevin Coogler Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports the Chargers first Fox game of the year. Gonna

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Speaker 1: join me in money, but you know. Brandon Staley also

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Speaker 1: I mean those are almost extended runs there too, so

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Speaker 1: that was what was interesting about Dalvin's day is that

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Speaker 1: because the Chargers are five and three and in first place.

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Speaker 1: But again, just observations. Like the one thing also that

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Speaker 1: painful to see Derwin James fifteen yards from the ball

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Speaker 1: I think five quarterbacks have thrown and completed eighty percent

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Speaker 1: Like Keenan had some very odd drops, which I mean,

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Speaker 1: whatever reason, just something wasn't clicking between the two of them.

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Speaker 1: that Keenan does is he knows how to make himself available.

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Speaker 1: Like you always say, well, the defense knows where he's

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Speaker 1: you know, where this ball is going. How's he able

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Speaker 1: Keenan one of the greatest receivers in the NFL. Is

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Speaker 1: And it was just awesome to see, because man, that

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Speaker 1: kind of combination there to try to get the you know,

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Speaker 1: plus a sante to try to get this thing right

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Speaker 1: and get you some some chickens dwiches. Yeah, we'll see

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Speaker 1: if Kirkle will give one up. All right, Coming up

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Speaker 1: a bit later, we'll get this week supposing view from

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Speaker 1: Courtney Cronin of ESPN. But first, Kevin Kugler Fox Sports.

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Speaker 1: He'll be on the call. We'll talk to him now.

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Speaker 1: All right, money, let's bring on our first guest, Kevin Kugler.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be on the call with Mark Sanchez in

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Speaker 1: the booth, Laura Oakmen on the sidelines. And I believe

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Speaker 1: this is our first Fox game for the Chargers, Kevin.

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Speaker 1: So we're pumped to have you, brother. I'm fired up

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Speaker 1: to be there. I love Sofi Stadium. I'm very excited

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Speaker 1: to see this Chargers team in person. I've been watching

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Speaker 1: watching games this week to try to get up to speed,

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Speaker 1: and I like what I see is a fun group.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna lean on you here, keV. As you you

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Speaker 1: work for Fox, so you get a lot of NFC

445
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Speaker 1: and man, it seems like this Vikings team is a

446
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Speaker 1: real hard one to figure out. You look at the record,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to match the on field production. I

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Speaker 1: would agree it's it's a they're a weird team. They

449
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Speaker 1: are very talented, one of the best running backs in

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Speaker 1: the game, and Dalvin Cook kirk Cousins is having a

451
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Speaker 1: tremendous season. But they've just been little things that haven't

452
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Speaker 1: worked for them. You know, they've had key injuries and

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Speaker 1: everybody has those, but you've got issues on third down.

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Speaker 1: They just cannot convert on third down. The run game

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Speaker 1: has been good, but it's been a little inconsistent, and

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Speaker 1: they don't score off takeaways. You know, they've gotten thirteen

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Speaker 1: turnovers this year and they've only scored twenty six points

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Speaker 1: off those turnovers. So they're not cashing in on the

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Speaker 1: opportunities they have. And I mean, you look back at

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Speaker 1: their game last week against the Ravens, it's sort of

461
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Speaker 1: the epitome of how you don't finish a game. In

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Speaker 1: the first half, they get a pick, they take it

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Speaker 1: back to the sixteen, they lose a yard on first down,

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Speaker 1: they throw two incompletes, and they kick a field goal,

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Speaker 1: so they're up, but they only use sixteen seconds off

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Speaker 1: the clock and the Ravens go down and score a touchdown,

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Speaker 1: So instead of up, twenty one three at half. They're

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Speaker 1: up seventeen ten at half, and you're missing out on

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Speaker 1: opportunities with that. So I don't think I'm saying anything

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Speaker 1: coach Zimmerwin say. I mean, they've lost out on too

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Speaker 1: many opportunities this year, and thus, as has been said,

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Speaker 1: you are what your record is, and that's kind of

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Speaker 1: where they are right now. It's incredible. Five losses by

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Speaker 1: a combine eighteen points. They've played a few overtime games.

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Speaker 1: I think three overtime games too, So you know, we

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Speaker 1: always talk about the Chargers playing close games and being

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Speaker 1: on the wrong side of them, talk about this Vikings team,

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Speaker 1: and that's pretty much what we've been seeing from the

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Speaker 1: Chargers the last couple of years. Yeah, it's just one

480
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Speaker 1: of those weird quirks of this game where you know,

481
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Speaker 1: and all five of those losses for the Vikes have

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Speaker 1: been against winning teams, so you're you're trying to figure

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Speaker 1: out how to break through against the winning team and oh, look,

484
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Speaker 1: you've got another winning team on the schedule coming up

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Speaker 1: this weekend and the Chargers. But it's just one of

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Speaker 1: those things from Minnesota that when they get into that position,

487
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Speaker 1: something weird happened the Cardinals game, the field goal. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you just you look at everything that's happened with this

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Speaker 1: Vikings team this season and their numbers and their production,

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Speaker 1: says this is a five and three or even six

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Speaker 1: and two kind of team. But it's not. They're three

492
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Speaker 1: and five and you've got a team coming out West

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Speaker 1: this week that's trying to figure out exactly how to

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Speaker 1: get on track after you had another difficult loss against

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Speaker 1: Baltimore last weekend. Yeah, and I think you know, for

496
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Speaker 1: me is I'm trying to get ready for this and

497
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Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of fans but would ask the

498
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Speaker 1: same think Kevin just I can't figure out what they

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Speaker 1: should be on offense. You know, Dalvin Cook is such

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Speaker 1: a good runner. But I mean this is in the conversation,

501
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Speaker 1: is one of the best receiving duos. And you always

502
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Speaker 1: look down and you see Kirk Cousins numbers and you're like, yeah,

503
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Speaker 1: I mean this is a top five quarterback in the league.

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Speaker 1: Like what what is your takeaway when when you've seen

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Speaker 1: him play and when you watch back kind of like

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Speaker 1: the best way to operate this offense is what? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think the best way is You've got to figure

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Speaker 1: out a way to get Jefferson and feeling more involved

509
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Speaker 1: certainly than he did last week. I think at five

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Speaker 1: to catches total last week. So you've got to figure

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Speaker 1: you've got, like you said, you've got two of the

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Speaker 1: best wide receivers in the game. It's a terrific duo.

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Speaker 1: But those guys have to have the ball in their

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Speaker 1: hands more than five combined times. That's just you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna win games with those two guys not participating at

516
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Speaker 1: a higher level. And then you've got to run Dalvin Cook.

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Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook is a superstar. He is a terrific running back.

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Speaker 1: He is a game breaking running back. And it's a

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Speaker 1: league that doesn't necessarily have a ton of those game

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Speaker 1: breaking running backs anymore. He's one of them, So use

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Speaker 1: him as much as you can. He got one hundred

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Speaker 1: and five yards against the Ravens, but most or one

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Speaker 1: hundred and five of his yards run three carries against

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Speaker 1: the Ravens this past week. So you've got to figure

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Speaker 1: out a way to get him involved, get the run

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Speaker 1: game going. But one way to do that is justin

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Speaker 1: Jefferson and Adam Feeland. And I'm really surprised, Matt when

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Speaker 1: you look at this Vikings team that they haven't been

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Speaker 1: more play action heavy, especially with as good as their

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Speaker 1: run game is. Those numbers are way down for Kirk

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Speaker 1: Cousins over the last couple of years, and he was

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Speaker 1: really good off play action last year. I'm really surprised

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Speaker 1: that they seem to have gone away from that, and

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Speaker 1: I'm anxious to talk to them before the game on

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Speaker 1: Sunday and find out why, because it seems like they

536
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Speaker 1: are the perfect team to be very effective in play action.

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00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 1: Chargers last against the run too. I think Priority ab

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Speaker 1: NC is going to be containing Dalvin Cook, but Kevin,

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Speaker 1: you flip it to the Chargers And just what Justin

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Speaker 1: Herbert did on Sunday, And you know, Matt's called a

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Speaker 1: number of these remarkable Justin Herbert games, and this one's

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Speaker 1: right up there. Thirty two thirty eight, three hundred fifty

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Speaker 1: six yards, three total touchdowns, And I think what's most

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Speaker 1: impressive is is icing the game that last drive six

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Speaker 1: minutes plus, converting two fourth downs and getting the game

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Speaker 1: winning kicked. Just your impressions at Justin's from afar Is

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Speaker 1: specifically last Sunday against the Eagles. Oh, those two fourth

548
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Speaker 1: downs were so big because especially with the two failed

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Speaker 1: fourth downs early in the game last week, and they

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Speaker 1: kept going for it and you get the two fourth

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Speaker 1: and ones converted and you get that winning drive. He

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Speaker 1: has the moxie of a championship quarterback. He certainly has

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Speaker 1: the talent of a championship quarterback. I think he's one

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Speaker 1: of the best in the game. I don't remember a

555
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Speaker 1: few years ago when everybody was looking at the veteran

556
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks and their runs were starting to end in this league.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, where was this league gonna be with

558
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks or leaving or who's in there? You know they're

559
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,439
Speaker 1: out of their primes. Where's the league going to go?

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Speaker 1: I think the league is in really good shape. You've

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Speaker 1: got Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen and Justin Herbert, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know that people are talking about Justin as

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Speaker 1: much as they are the other two and winning. Of course,

564
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Speaker 1: he'll take care of that, but I think he is

565
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Speaker 1: every bit as talent as Patrick Mahomes. I think his

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Speaker 1: accuracy is off the charts. I love the composure he has.

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Speaker 1: He plays much beyond his years, and we had them

568
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Speaker 1: in the final game of last year, his final game

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Speaker 1: of the regular season, and it was a game against

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs that didn't mean anything. We kind of knew

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Speaker 1: they were gonna be changes with the Chargers, and the

572
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Speaker 1: Chiefs rested everybody before they started their running the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: But just talking with him, it was a game that

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Speaker 1: everybody knew probably didn't mean a whole lot in the

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Speaker 1: grand scheme of things, and the approach he had was

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Speaker 1: the same as if it were a game that was

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Speaker 1: going to clinch the AFC West for the Chargers. I

578
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: walked away very impressed in that meeting, and nothing he's

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Speaker 1: done this year has made me think that he has

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Speaker 1: lost any of that that I saw at the end

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Speaker 1: of last season. He's a superstar in the making and

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be a fan favorite for Chargers fans for

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Speaker 1: a long long time. UM, I'm gonna I'll just ask

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Speaker 1: you this first, Kevin, did you do some RAMS games

585
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Speaker 1: last year? YEP? I did one game. No, I didn't.

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Speaker 1: A couple of games last two of them Eagles and

587
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Speaker 1: Eagles and the Jets. So I'm guessing you may have

588
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Speaker 1: met with Brandon Staley when when he was the DC.

589
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,160
Speaker 1: They're perfect. So you've done a couple of RAMS games

590
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Speaker 1: this year? So many people you know kind of describe

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Speaker 1: him as the defensive Sean McVay, as someone who's who's

592
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: sat with Sean McVay now a couple of times this

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Speaker 1: year and a bunch of times last year. Kind of

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Speaker 1: does that Does that line up for you? Like, how

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00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: would you describe those two guys? Is sort of because

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Speaker 1: they're both young, they both have a ton of energy.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know, I just I don't quite feel

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Speaker 1: like they're similar personality wise. The way I would describe

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Speaker 1: Sean McVay is like intensity personified. You're sitting with him

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Speaker 1: and he's like like ready to just tackle you. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's like the office linebacker. You never know when he's

602
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Speaker 1: gonna come over to smack it, and you feel like

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Speaker 1: that could happen at any point. Brandon, it is. Don't

604
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Speaker 1: get me wrong, He's probably plenty intense. But we walked

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Speaker 1: away from him last year and we got into a

606
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Speaker 1: great conversation with him in our first meeting about all

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Speaker 1: of the stuff his family had gone through, the cancer

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Speaker 1: and everything else. And you walked away from that first

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Speaker 1: meeting and I can remember this perfectly. It was still

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Speaker 1: with Chris Spielman at the time. He had not abandoned

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Speaker 1: ship to go run the Lions, because working with me

612
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: for a full year makes anyone go to the Lions.

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Speaker 1: So he was there, Laura was there, I was there.

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Speaker 1: We walked away from that. We thought, this guy is

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Speaker 1: the real deal. I mean, he had compassion, he was

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Speaker 1: unbelievably thoughtful, but you knew what he could. And later

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Speaker 1: in the year we talked with them and we were

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Speaker 1: talking about the touchdown passes they had given up. He

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Speaker 1: went down, and this was late in the year. They're

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Speaker 1: probably sixteen or seventeen touchdown passes allowed by this point,

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Speaker 1: and he read off, not read off from his memory,

622
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Speaker 1: went through every single touchdown pass that he had allowed

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Speaker 1: his defense and allowed that year, and walked us through

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Speaker 1: every play. It was I don't seen much like that before.

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Speaker 1: He's just he's incredibly sharp. I thought the best job

626
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Speaker 1: available in this offseason was the Chargers job. And I'm

627
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 1: not just saying that because I'm here with you, guys.

628
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Speaker 1: I said that to a lot of people. I thought

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Speaker 1: this was the best job with Justin Herbert, for so

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Speaker 1: many things that you had in place already with the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: and what a great fit. I'm a big fan of

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Speaker 1: his I'm a big fan of what he's been through

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Speaker 1: from a family standpoint. I don't know that I see

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Speaker 1: he and Sean McVeigh as similar personalities, but I understand

635
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: where the comparison comes from because they're both sharp in

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Speaker 1: their respective side of the ball, they're both young, and

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00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: they're both very very good. Kevin, we're just talking offline

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Speaker 1: about this, Jim bulld AFC West right now, Chargers five

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Speaker 1: and three top the division at the moment, but everybody's

640
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Speaker 1: got five wins and just the league in general, man,

641
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Speaker 1: Like you guys did the forty nine ers Cardinals game

642
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 1: last week and Colton McCoy, no DeAndre Hopkins, no Kyler Murray,

643
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 1: no problem. Right, what do you make of this league

644
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 1: just halfway through the season. I don't know which ways

645
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: or down. It's the best reality show going. I mean,

646
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: it is the absolute best thing because every single week

647
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: you roll out, we're talking about this before we came

648
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: on a couple weeks ago, we did the Lions and

649
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: Rams game at so Far and you know, nobody thought

650
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 1: anything about that game. It was going to be close,

651
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: and the Lions do everything and it's a terrific game

652
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: all the way through. Four quarters, and that's what we

653
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: get every week in this league. And you never can tell.

654
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: I mean, last week we go into that Cardinals forty

655
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: nine Ers game, and you guys do this. You look

656
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,239
Speaker 1: at a game beforehand, you kind of think in your mind,

657
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: all right, what's gonna happen. I kind of think this

658
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: is gonna happen. I think this might happen. You got

659
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: no wide receivers, You've got a guy who started two

660
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 1: games last year and they were kind of a mixed

661
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 1: bag of production. You lose you one of your top

662
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: two running backs. The Cardinals do on the first series

663
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: of the game, and you're thinking, in San Francisco is

664
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: getting healthy, they're looking good, they're coming off with big win.

665
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 1: You're thinking their home this is gonna be you know

666
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 1: how this game is gonna go, And it goes completely

667
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: the opposite. And you can say that about almost every

668
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 1: weekend in the NFL. There's three or four game. Look

669
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: at last week, the Jaguars beat the Bills and they

670
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: hold them to six points. That shouldn't happen, but there

671
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: it is. I mean, the NFL is just the best

672
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 1: reality show going and every single week brings us something

673
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: new and weird. When are you getting out to La

674
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: Kevin late Friday night? I've got basketball on Friday evening

675
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: and then I fly out late Friday night so we

676
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: can be there for meetings and stuff on Saturday. Gotcha,

677
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 1: that's a bummer. You got your man. Sanchethos mission va Hode.

678
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: The Oblos taken on Corona Centennial in Division one first

679
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: round of the CIF Southern Section playoffs, So just a

680
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 1: heads up. He may be a little upset or he

681
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: may be extremely excited about his Diablos making the Division

682
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: one run here in high school football where there is

683
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 1: no better high school football on Earth than in Southern California.

684
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: He is not only going to be either upset or not,

685
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: but it's his birthday weekend, so we've got we've got

686
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: all kinds of competing things going on from a partner.

687
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 1: So hopefully he'll be dialed in by the time Sunday

688
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Speaker 1: shows up, because you know, all the presence will be

689
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: opened by that point to either know where the tombamd

690
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: or one or lost. He'll he'll have been a great

691
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: mood or he didn't get a win and he didn't

692
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: get anything he wanted for his birthday and we'll have

693
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: to just kind of call him down all day Sunday. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I can't wait, Kevin. My favorite thing is your Twitter

695
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: bio in your location, rooting against you in a booth.

696
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: It's just stupendent, good one, well done. Well, you guys

697
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 1: know this. Every one of us as broadcasters is clearly

698
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: biased against the other team, whatever the other team is.

699
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: As you're watching the game or listening to the game, clearly,

700
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: there's bias against the other team. And so you know clearly.

701
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: And that's since I'm just gonna own it, since that's

702
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 1: what we all are, biased broadcasters. I'll just own it,

703
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 1: and I'll root against you whoever you are in a booth.

704
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: You heard it. Their Bolt Nation, get after him, get

705
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: after him on social media. Team. You're a Charger fan,

706
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: I can't stand your team. But if you're a Viking fan,

707
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: I also can't stand your tea. Being kind to Kevin

708
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 1: in his mentions, we can't wait to see it so

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Speaker 1: far on Sunday, brother to give for your time, Chris Matt,

710
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,239
Speaker 1: thanks so much, Bett, enjoy having you coming on with you.

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Speaker 1: All right, Thanks Kevin, All right, before we get to

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00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: Cordy Cronin a quick note, to let you know that

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Speaker 1: supposing view, let's bring in Corny Cronin covers the vikings

720
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Speaker 1: for ESPN and Cordy. I know it's been quite a

721
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: busy week in Minnesota as we take this on Thursday.

722
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Speaker 1: What's the latest, Well, the big news this week has

723
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 1: to deal with Dalvin Cook, who is facing a lawsuit

724
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: right now. It's a lot of off the field concerns

725
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. Cooke was practicing on Wednesday and on Thursday.

726
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: The anticipation is that he will be playing on Sunday.

727
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 1: There's no talk of moving him to the Commissioner's exemp

728
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: lifts after this lawsuit, which is a civil lawsuit, surfaced

729
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: on Tuesday accusing him of abusing an ex girlfriend, which

730
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Speaker 1: you know, in parsing through all of that with the lawsuit,

731
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Speaker 1: it is pretty alarming if the allegations to end up

732
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: proving true, But the Vikings really have had not too

733
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: much comment about that and just trying to keep the

734
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: focus on Dalvin Cook is going to play on Sunday,

735
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: so that's the anticipation for right now. And then the

736
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Speaker 1: Vikings are also dealing with a bunch of COVID cases.

737
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: They have five players currently on the COVID nineteen reserve

738
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: list to Coda Dozer, who was a practice squad guard

739
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 1: was in the emergency room this week with breathing issues

740
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 1: due to COVID. So I mean, there's just been a

741
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: lot of stuff off the field and the fact that

742
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 1: this team lost by a field goal in overtime and

743
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 1: all of these close losses that keep mounting for the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. It's really taking a toll on a the

745
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,720
Speaker 1: direction the season's going, and I think really the psyche

746
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 1: and overall feel of the players and the coaching staff

747
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: trying to write the ship and figure out why this

748
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: keeps happening. So certainly no shortage of news on and

749
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 1: off the field here in Minnesota. And like, oh, by

750
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Speaker 1: the way, they do play the Chargers on Sunday, Like

751
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Speaker 1: let's not forget that they do have a game to

752
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Speaker 1: prepare for in Week ten in spite of all this

753
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 1: other stuff happening. Courtney, I'd love to hear your perspective

754
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 1: on kind of where you felt things were with Kirk

755
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: Cousins coming into the season. Obviously there were again some

756
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: more like off the field issues with him with the

757
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 1: vaccine and all that sort of stuff, But just as

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Speaker 1: far as a team leader, the production has been their

759
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,919
Speaker 1: year and year out, like is he does it still

760
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 1: feel like he is the quarterback the face of this

761
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: franchise moving forward beyond this season. It really, honestly, I

762
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:44,360
Speaker 1: hate given this answer. It depends what happens these next

763
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: nine games. You know, we're at the halfway point of

764
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Speaker 1: the season and he's shown a lot of good and

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00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 1: also not some good. I mean, you take a look

766
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Speaker 1: back at why they lost to Baltimore and how that

767
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 1: overtime period went, and I think that they're you know,

768
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: sometimes you get risk over Kirk Cousins, and yeah, that

769
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: results in him having very few interceptions and turnovers this year,

770
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: but it's not resulting in giving your receivers a chance

771
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Speaker 1: to go and win the game to go and you know,

772
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 1: keep your foot on the gas as an offense against

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Speaker 1: other teams, and the Vikings have certainly played down at

774
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: their competition, you know, throughout the year. I mean, there's

775
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: no reason that the Detroit game should have come down

776
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Speaker 1: to Kirk Cousins leading a game winning drive for a

777
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: field goal. There's no reason that the Carolina Panthers game

778
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 1: should have gone to overtime. Granted, yes, the reason that

779
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: happened was because that was on the defense at the end.

780
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 1: But offensively, they get in ruts and it's very hard

781
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: for them to get out of the ruts, and Kirks

782
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: Cousins can sometimes help them do that. Sometimes he's the

783
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Speaker 1: catalyst for why they're in it in the first place.

784
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Speaker 1: So you think about the future here in Minnesota and

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00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 1: what that entails beyond twenty twenty one. With his contract,

786
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Speaker 1: he's got one more year. It's a forty five million

787
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: dollar cap hit, So certainly you're gonna if you're the

788
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings, you want that number. You need that number

789
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: to be lower, So you'd be thinking about any extension

790
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 1: if he's your guy beyond this year. But there's so

791
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 1: many other pieces that factor into this, like if there

792
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 1: is a change in the coaching staff, following the twenty

793
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 1: twenty one season, are the new coaches going to want

794
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: to keep Kirk Cousins as their quarterbacks? So there has

795
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 1: to be kind of the way that this thing's going

796
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,800
Speaker 1: to fall in succession after the season will determine whether

797
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: he's the quarterback beyond the season or not. But I

798
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:23,879
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of good with him, but there's

799
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 1: also still kind of the same old, same old of

800
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 1: who he's been throughout his entire career as a starter

801
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 1: in the NFL that's showing up this year too. And Courtney,

802
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: you said, it is a game on Sunday, and this

803
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: is an opportunity for the Vikings to kind of try

804
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 1: to get back on track. They've had so many close losses.

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Speaker 1: What are the Vikings saying about the Chargers in coming

806
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: out west to play the team? Yeah, I mean I

807
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:48,359
Speaker 1: think that they talk about kind of like the way

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00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 1: that the defense that I mean, honestly, there've been a

809
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 1: lot more questions about the off the field stuff that's

810
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: happened here in Minnesota, you know, than kind of the

811
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Speaker 1: focus being solely on the Charger. But certainly, you know,

812
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: what Brandon Staley has built there defensively has kind of

813
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Speaker 1: been the key point of emphasis. Certainly Mike Zimmer knows

814
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: Linsville Joseph really well, so, um, you know, obviously knowing

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Speaker 1: what they have upfront, but Justin Herbert in the season

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Speaker 1: that he's had, and you know, Austin Eckler, Keenan Allen,

817
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: who I've always thought is one of the more underrated

818
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:21,359
Speaker 1: receivers in the NFL. Those those have all been, you know,

819
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Speaker 1: points that the Vikings have touted of like the type

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00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: of scale group that they know they're going to air

821
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Speaker 1: it out, and that's exactly what they have to expect

822
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Speaker 1: when they go into this Sunday and against a secondary

823
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 1: that doesn't still doesn't have Patrick Peterson, and they were

824
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 1: shaky at best, um, you know, the last couple of

825
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:39,919
Speaker 1: weeks against Baltimore two and trying to figure out how

826
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:43,840
Speaker 1: they cannot keep giving up big plays and big drives

827
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Speaker 1: that keep teams in the game and in the defense.

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Speaker 1: Right now, I mean that's they were gassed. I think

829
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 1: eighty seven plays last week was was if anybody was

830
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: on the field, one hundred percent of plays something like that.

831
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Speaker 1: It was a lot. So you got to think the

832
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 1: three full three or four days of recovery is that

833
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,760
Speaker 1: really enough before you're ready to go play another team

834
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Speaker 1: where they're going to be throwing the ball a lot

835
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: and you need to be prepared to be on the

836
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Speaker 1: field a lot. Like is that How is that going

837
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 1: to play out for this defense, which you know was

838
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 1: gas last week? Yeah, and Courtney, I love it if

839
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 1: if you can. I mean, I don't know if they've

840
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:18,880
Speaker 1: provided you with any answers, but look, we've known that

841
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 1: the Mike Zimmer was one of the best secondary coaches

842
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: in the league. They've invested an incredible amount of capitol

843
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: draftwise in that particular position group, and like you said,

844
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Speaker 1: it just seems like that's the group that's given up

845
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Speaker 1: a lot on defense. Have they kind of been able

846
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Speaker 1: Have you been able to sort through kind of why that?

847
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:38,759
Speaker 1: Because you still have Harrison Smith, you know, one of

848
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:40,799
Speaker 1: the best in the business there, So what's kind of

849
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,800
Speaker 1: gone wrong this year? Well, the unfortunate thing you mentioned

850
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Speaker 1: Harrison Smith didn't play against Baltimore be as he ninety

851
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Speaker 1: minutes before the game was put on the COVID nineteen

852
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,280
Speaker 1: reserve list, So they had to rely on a rookie

853
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:54,760
Speaker 1: safety and Cam Bineham, who wasn't even playing safety last

854
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,280
Speaker 1: week in practice, he was practicing a completely different position.

855
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,839
Speaker 1: So you know a lot of it's been on the fly,

856
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 1: and I think with the past defense, you know, a

857
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:06,360
Speaker 1: year without Patrick Peterson, Um Bashad Brelan's had a really

858
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 1: up and down year. The technique is something that's different here.

859
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: I mean, he was a great coverage corner when he

860
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: was in Kansas City, but the way that they're asked

861
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 1: game to cover here is different. It's just taking him

862
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 1: a lot of time to think to get that, and

863
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 1: he's been hurt too. And then you's have a kind

864
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: of like a young group of misfit toys where it's

865
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: Chris Boyd who's not very he's not great. Um Cam

866
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,359
Speaker 1: Dancer was a starter last year, but you know kind

867
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:28,800
Speaker 1: of took a step back this year because he was

868
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: put in a position where he shouldn't have been starting

869
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 1: last year as a rookie, but forced to do it

870
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: because they had nobody else. Like a lot of guys

871
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: are still learning how to play this position in their

872
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 1: past defense has you know, you really taken a hit

873
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: because of it, and then on top of the fact

874
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 1: that you lose Denil Hunter and you have like the

875
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 1: third worst pass pass rush win rate according to our

876
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: ESPN metrics. When hunters not on the field, that's a

877
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: serious problem because if you can't pressure them up front,

878
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:58,720
Speaker 1: you're giving you know, the receivers from the opposing offense

879
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: a ton of time to get open, and you know,

880
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,720
Speaker 1: you're asking your guys to cover and it's it's very difficult.

881
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 1: So I think it kind of goes both hand in

882
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: hand as to why the past defense has seen some issues. Courty,

883
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: you had a great piece about whether or not the

884
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 1: Vikings may have hit their ceiling. I think with this group,

885
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 1: and you know, if you get the pulse to the

886
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: locker room, each season is different. When you lose five

887
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: games by eighteen points, you have three overtime games and

888
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 1: it's going the other way. Sometimes a locker room could

889
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 1: get a little restless. So what's your gauge on kind

890
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: of where the Vikings are as we see it here

891
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: midway through the season. Yeah, it's tough this year. I

892
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: think for anybody covering the NFL to not be in

893
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 1: locker room to truly get the pulse of the team

894
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 1: of what it's like on a Monday after a loss.

895
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 1: I mean we're sitting in front of players on a zoom.

896
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 1: But you know there's been some player. It's a it's

897
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: a read between the lines type year, which you know

898
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:54,320
Speaker 1: when you hear from Adam Feeling expressing frustrations a veteran

899
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 1: on this team of you know, we got to quit

900
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 1: letting teams hanging around and hang around in games. We

901
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 1: have the talent to get it done well. Does that

902
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: mean that that's a shot at play calling? Not necessarily,

903
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: but it all kind of goes hand in hand when

904
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 1: you have players who believe that they have a killer mentality,

905
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 1: while coaching and other things have to match that killer mentality,

906
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 1: and that mentality has to stretch across all positions, not

907
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 1: just receivers who want to go get fifty fifty contested

908
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: balls and get be given a chance, but the quarterback

909
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 1: who needs to throw them that those balls and not

910
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 1: be afraid of a cover two look because he's afraid

911
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 1: he's going to throw an interception. I think a lot

912
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 1: of that boils into kind of where the where this

913
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: locker room is, like the vibe of the team and

914
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: whether they think they can actually bounce back and climb

915
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: out of a three and five hole. I mean they

916
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: were at this point last year. I think The last

917
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 1: time they were five hundred was you know, November or

918
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: early December of twenty twenty. It's been a while, like

919
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: they've they've had a lot of ups and downs last

920
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 1: like two or three years, ever since that playoff win

921
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: in New Orleans, and they feel like they're a good team.

922
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 1: But how many times can you go in week and

923
00:43:56,760 --> 00:44:00,399
Speaker 1: week out and keep saying the same things and things

924
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: to change. That's why when the article that you referenced

925
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: about that I wrote about let them hitting their ceiling.

926
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 1: It cannot continue this way if they want to be

927
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 1: a successful team. And yeah, eight and nine might get

928
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: you into the seventh seed in the NFC playoffs, but

929
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 1: you also have to worry about the Saints. You have

930
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: to worry about potentially Carolina. Apparently they just signed Cam Newton,

931
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens to get them back on track.

932
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:23,959
Speaker 1: But there's a lot that's going on there that could

933
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 1: end up becoming a hiccup for them and trying to

934
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: back their way into the playoffs down the road. Courtney,

935
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: just for all of the listeners we have that fancy

936
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 1: themselves scouts or future general managers. When the draft was

937
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 1: coming around, they certainly did not anticipate Rashawn Slater being

938
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 1: available at thirteen. He has been fantastic. I'm sure you've

939
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,800
Speaker 1: seen how good he's been. But Christian Derrisaw's name was

940
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 1: mentioned pretty regularly because of how bad the offensive line

941
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 1: was the season prior as someone they suspected that was

942
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 1: going to be there. I know he was hurt for

943
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 1: a little bit, but just kind of how would you

944
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:02,399
Speaker 1: describe his rookie campaigns gone since he got healthy? Yeah,

945
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 1: so he's got three full games under his belt. He

946
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 1: started in Carolina, they had to buy then it was

947
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 1: Dallas in Baltimore. The fact that we're not talking about him,

948
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:13,360
Speaker 1: I think is a really good thing that he's not

949
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: coming up in constant conversation, because really, you only talk

950
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 1: about the offensive line when there's you know, a misassignment, sacks,

951
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: you know, the quarterbacks under a ton of pressure, and

952
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: typically that doesn't come from their bookends like that comes

953
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 1: from the interior the offensive line. Like the reason we've

954
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 1: been talking about the old line a lot the last

955
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: couple of weeks because well, Garrett Bradberry has COVID, you know,

956
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: he has vaccinated. May he be back this weekend potentially,

957
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:43,799
Speaker 1: But Mason Cole in his place did really well. So

958
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:45,880
Speaker 1: that's probably where all the old line talk is and

959
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 1: is it really pertains to darisaw. I mean, this is

960
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: a team that had the fewest contributions from rookies of

961
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 1: any NFL team this year, and they had eleven draft picks,

962
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: so one of the biggest classes. So they need him

963
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 1: to play, they need their other rookies to play, and

964
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 1: you know, I think that kind of easing him in

965
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 1: the way that they did, Like I saw no signs

966
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: that he was not ready to take on a fuller

967
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 1: load after that Carolina after well, first off, I guess

968
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: it would have been the Detroit game the week before.

969
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:17,399
Speaker 1: That's when they were kind of doing like swapping him

970
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: in Rashad Hill, you know, half and half throughout the game,

971
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 1: and then he got the start against Carolina. After those

972
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 1: two games, I saw no reason to keep training wheels

973
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 1: on and kind of just let him go. And that's

974
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 1: that's been the case, and they're certainly happy about that

975
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: because they don't have a lot of other rookie contributors

976
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 1: this year and you need your first round pick to

977
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: play Courtney. You mentioned Lindvall, Joseph Brandon Staley, brought him

978
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:42,440
Speaker 1: up in his press conference on Wednesday, talking about the

979
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:45,280
Speaker 1: fact that he went He think he hit sixteen miles

980
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 1: an hour, the fastest VEDI D lineman in the GPS

981
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: against the Eagles. Remember that he was such a productive

982
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 1: player for the Vikings. What's it gonna be like to

983
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:57,280
Speaker 1: see him on the other side for some of these

984
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 1: Vikings players who did play with Lindball, It's crazy how

985
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 1: relevant he still is here in spite of him not

986
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:08,720
Speaker 1: being here since the twenty nineteen season. Like Michael Pierce,

987
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 1: who replaced effectively replaced Linville, Joseph constantly touts how much

988
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 1: he respects Linvill Joseph's game. I believe they trained together

989
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 1: during the summer and that he sees so much of

990
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 1: what he wants to be as a nose tackle in

991
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 1: what lj was here. And you know, he's such a

992
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 1: special player because of the different type of gap schemes

993
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: he can play. You can do a lot with him

994
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:35,439
Speaker 1: and that sort of power, that strength is so rare,

995
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 1: like among you any defensive lineman. But you know, to

996
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 1: have that consistently avoiding the injuries, you know, like a

997
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: consistent stretch and everything that he's done throughout his career.

998
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:48,840
Speaker 1: You know that was missed here, especially last year because

999
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: Pierce ended up opting out due to COVID. So I

1000
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: I think that LJ. I mean Mike Zimmer, that's always

1001
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 1: been one of his favorite players, and I think they're gonna,

1002
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:01,000
Speaker 1: you know, it'll be weird to see him kind of.

1003
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,239
Speaker 1: I mean, I've watched a couple of Chargers games, you know,

1004
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 1: throughout the last few years, and seeing him in you know,

1005
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 1: a different color is weird. But um, you know, the

1006
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: offensive line is in for the interior, the offensive line

1007
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 1: is in for a rough day. They definitely know what

1008
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,840
Speaker 1: they especially the guys who've been around like Garrett Bradberry,

1009
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 1: he ends up playing, he knows exactly what he's going

1010
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:22,879
Speaker 1: to go again, it's basically went against him practice all

1011
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: the time when LJ was here. Last thing for me,

1012
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 1: just since we're doing the old nostalgia thing here, Courtney

1013
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:33,800
Speaker 1: somebody that we certainly loved having around when he was

1014
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: at UCLA and in high schools in h back and

1015
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: a running back. Anthony Barr's still doing it, um kind of,

1016
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:41,879
Speaker 1: how how has his level have played been as he's

1017
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,279
Speaker 1: become kind of that that kg old vet here in

1018
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 1: his career. It's been tough for him. Um, you know

1019
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:49,879
Speaker 1: this year alone with a knee injury, which very much

1020
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 1: seems like it's a chronic thing. He was he's not

1021
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: at practice on Thursday, did not practice on Wednesday. Um,

1022
00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:00,799
Speaker 1: you know, missed the first couple games the season before.

1023
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:02,920
Speaker 1: I think it was Week five against the Browns where

1024
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: he was finally activated or Week four. It's tough because

1025
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 1: this is somebody who wants to play, came off a

1026
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: pectoral injury last year, you know, fought to get back,

1027
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: and now he's dealing with this knee injury that seems

1028
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 1: to be a chronic thing. Because some weeks he's good,

1029
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:19,840
Speaker 1: it feels good, he can play, he can practice, and

1030
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 1: then some weeks like this week, he's not practicing. So

1031
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: clearly it must not be in a good spot. You know,

1032
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: he's They clearly like him here. They liked him enough

1033
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 1: to restructure his contracts who you know, pushed money around

1034
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: to keep him here and then make him a free

1035
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: agent next year. So I will be you know, I don't.

1036
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:39,280
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I wouldn't bet that he will play this weekend,

1037
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:41,439
Speaker 1: just given kind of what we've seen and not seen

1038
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: from practice this week. But you know he's had he's

1039
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 1: had a rough few years just because of all of

1040
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:48,879
Speaker 1: the injuries he's dealt with and now trying to stay

1041
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:50,799
Speaker 1: on the field. And some weeks it's good, some weeks

1042
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 1: it's not. Courtney. We'll get your ad here on this.

1043
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 1: Just what do you think decides this game? A big

1044
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 1: one for the Vikings is they try to get back

1045
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: into things in the NF And for the Chargers, they're

1046
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 1: they're in this crowded AFC West. They're trying to get

1047
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 1: a little separation. Yeah, I think with Minnesota it's you know,

1048
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:11,839
Speaker 1: they're in such a if you're three and six, like

1049
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 1: you might be looking at like this regime ending with

1050
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:17,839
Speaker 1: another loss, and that could if it's three and seven

1051
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,399
Speaker 1: against the Packers at home, who knows if that's enough

1052
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:24,280
Speaker 1: for the ownership group here to you know, make changes.

1053
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 1: But the way that Mike Zimmer talked about it on Wednesday,

1054
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:29,800
Speaker 1: when we're talking about you know, the Dalvin Cook stuff

1055
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:31,719
Speaker 1: and all of the injuries and you got a player

1056
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 1: in the hospital because of COVID and like all these

1057
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 1: all these close contacts everything else, it's like one thing

1058
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,279
Speaker 1: after another for this head coach And how he's dealt

1059
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:41,839
Speaker 1: with it, and he actually was pretty calm about it, Like,

1060
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 1: you know, I think that that's a sign for him

1061
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:46,480
Speaker 1: of this is not the first time he's gone through

1062
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:49,719
Speaker 1: one thing after the other during the season. But they

1063
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 1: have to stop playing games close, like either get blown

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Speaker 1: out or blow the other team out, because I think

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Speaker 1: that even for them, like they like, there's such an

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Speaker 1: anxiety that comes with waiting to the last play, Like

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Speaker 1: you know, it seems honestly like when they when they

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Speaker 1: are down by like you know, it's say, like three

1069
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Speaker 1: points something like that, they have more of a fire

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Speaker 1: under them to keep going on offense than they do

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Speaker 1: if they're up by you know, two touchdowns the way

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Speaker 1: that they were in Baltimore. So I guess maybe playing

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Speaker 1: from behind in games might actually help them. But you

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Speaker 1: certainly don't want to be in the situation that they've

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Speaker 1: been with so many games being won possession games and

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Speaker 1: coming down to the to the final possession. Cordy, awesome,

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Speaker 1: awesome insight. You really appreciate your time, and we're seeing you.

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Speaker 1: It's so far. Would this be your first time? It's

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Speaker 1: so fine, it will be. I'm very excited about it,

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Speaker 1: all right, Yeah, we look forward to seeing you. We'll

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Speaker 1: see you on Sunday. Thanks Corney. All right, mighty good

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Speaker 1: stuff from Corney, good stuff from Kevin. We'll end it here.

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Speaker 1: Keys to the game for the Charges to get to

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Speaker 1: six and three. Yeah, I'll just quickly reset from what

1085
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Speaker 1: we said earlier. One. You know that defense, get the offense,

1086
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Speaker 1: get the Biking's offense off the field, whether that's third

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Speaker 1: down or not allowing them to to just churn the

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Speaker 1: clock with the run game. I think you got to

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Speaker 1: give your offense more opportunities. And then for the offense,

1090
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Speaker 1: you know, keep justin you know protected you did it

1091
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Speaker 1: in the game against Philadelphia. Just a single hurry and

1092
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Speaker 1: no sacks. Not going to be easy against this bunch.

1093
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Speaker 1: But I do think there are advantages out there in

1094
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Speaker 1: the secondary. So if they can keep them you know, clean,

1095
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Speaker 1: relatively clean, you know, maybe it won't be Philadelphia, but

1096
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Speaker 1: it's somewhere between. You know, how the issues you had

1097
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Speaker 1: against Baltimore and New England and how great you were

1098
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Speaker 1: against Philly. If you can keep it, maybe just at

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Speaker 1: least closer to the Philly game, I feel pretty good

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Speaker 1: about them having the advantage on both sides of the ball. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Vikes have twenty seven sacks this year. If you

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Speaker 1: can keep it similar to Philly, I think you'll be

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Speaker 1: in good shape. So we look forward to seeing you guys.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully it's so Fi Stadium. Hopefully you'll be out at

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Speaker 1: be listening to it. Money. Hey, look, you got seven

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Speaker 1: days between games, right, plenty of time to listen to

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