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Speaker 1: Seventeen weeks have come and gone as we prepare for

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Speaker 1: the regular season finale of Vikings football this week, as

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Speaker 1: the team in Purple travels to the Windy City looking

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Speaker 1: for a win over the Chicago Bears. Happy Friday and

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Speaker 1: welcome to the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. My name is Gabe Henderson.

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Speaker 1: I am alongside Vikings dot COM's Tatum Everett as well

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Speaker 1: as producer Eric Davidson, and today's show is brought to

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Speaker 1: you courtesy of PEPSI. Bears Week is honestly always my

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Speaker 1: favorite week, simply because I'll Tatum, I know exactly who's

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Speaker 1: going to be our guest on the show, Miss ESPN's

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Speaker 1: Courtney Cronin. In my opinion, I feel like she goes

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Speaker 1: from being an ESPN reporter to her old Vikings days

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Speaker 1: as a Vikings reporter this week simply because of all

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Speaker 1: of the requests, But I'm so happy to have her on. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I feel like also she fills in so much

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Speaker 1: during the holidays around on the ESPN campus and on

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Speaker 1: so many shows. She knows so much more than just

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Speaker 1: the Bears and has a pulse on the entire league

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Speaker 1: and is doing wonderful things since leaving Minnesota and going

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Speaker 1: back to her hometown of Chicago, so I'm excited to

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Speaker 1: have to talk to her in a little bit. She

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Speaker 1: calls the Windy City home. But I think it's going

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Speaker 1: to be a win dcity for Minnesota Vikings this week.

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Speaker 1: I heard you say it kind of popped in my mind.

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Speaker 1: I had no plans of it. A win would be

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Speaker 1: best case scenario, which I want to talk to Courtney about,

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Speaker 1: but a lot of Vikings fans think a win is

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Speaker 1: not best case scenario for this team. I guess the

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Speaker 1: three seed means you play the New York Giants and

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, but I'm sure Kevin O'Connell does

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Speaker 1: not want to win. But for you, my question is,

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Speaker 1: you've been a part of every single game this year,

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Speaker 1: like myself, like Eric Davidson who's in the studio here,

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Speaker 1: and egan with this, how would you I mean, because

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Speaker 1: We've been asking so many different players, so many different analysts,

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Speaker 1: but I've never heard your opinion. How would you describe

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Speaker 1: this Viking season up to this point? I think this

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Speaker 1: season has been exciting. As pedestrian as that sounds, You're

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Speaker 1: I could think of three that we're not exciting but

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Speaker 1: for the but but the odds are in our favor. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's a great way to understand this

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Speaker 1: to come. I still don't think we one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: And so for me it is kind of exciting because

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Speaker 1: hopes to do and as they learn and grow themselves,

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Speaker 1: being you know, a first time head coach and Kevin

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Speaker 1: I would say exciting as again, pedestrian as that sounds.

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Speaker 1: That's fair because it has been exciting and there's been

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Speaker 1: But the word I would probably use this historically magical.

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Speaker 1: Oh Okay, well that's two words. Yeah, but it's the

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Speaker 1: You whatever you want, but historic, I mean you've got

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Speaker 1: Miss Courtney Cronin from ESPN. Courtney I was just asking Tatum,

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Speaker 1: They had a quarterback who was coming off of his

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Speaker 1: Like they let twenty plus free agents go last March.

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Speaker 1: how difficult rebuilding seasons typically are. Yeah, that's a really

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Speaker 1: but Courtney, looking forward to looking forward to connecting with

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Speaker 1: Soldier Field noon kickoff. You can listen to that game

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Speaker 1: right here on the Vikings Radio Network. Courtney, thank you

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Speaker 1: again Yeah, no problem. Thank you guys for Tatum Everett,

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Speaker 1: Eric Davison, Courtney Cronin. My name is Gabe Henderson. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you next week.