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Speaker 1: Hey everybody. Okay, everybody listening to the postgame report, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I mean three consecutive wins for the Minnesota Vikings. That's

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Speaker 1: good news. But they've all come down to the wire.

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Speaker 1: And Pete Versus the analyst of the Vikings radio network,

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Speaker 1: and yours truly, Paul Allen, we deeply care about your

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Speaker 1: mental wherewithal because this team is working on your minds

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Speaker 1: and your hearts right now. But the bottom line is,

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings are four and one a day the

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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers lost in London to the New York Giants.

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Speaker 1: So you get some breathing room with that four and

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Speaker 1: one and they win twenty nine twenty two when Cam

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Speaker 1: down Unseler steals the ball from his former teammate a

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Speaker 1: Mere Smith Marsett and wins the game. Peter, are you okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm fine. But and you can't make those things up right.

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Speaker 1: I Mean, the other thing is is this the last

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. You go to London, you play a

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's been a lot of travel, a lot

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Speaker 1: of back and forth. We choose not to take the

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Speaker 1: buy early, decide to say, hey, we'll take a home game,

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Speaker 1: We'll play one of our division rivals, and you know,

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Speaker 1: you come out all guns blazing. And I think the

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Speaker 1: key the takeaway from all of this, Paul, is really

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Speaker 1: we stopped ourselves today. You know, you know hat tip

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Speaker 1: of the Bears. You know, they they they they hung

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Speaker 1: in there, came back, found a way scrappy way to

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Speaker 1: get a lead. We had one turnover, they had a

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Speaker 1: you know, on site's kick that didn't work. But the

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Speaker 1: bottom line is is that we hung in there and

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Speaker 1: found a way to win this football game, and when

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Speaker 1: we needed it from our offense, we got it. Um,

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Speaker 1: they really didn't stop JJ. Again, it's a matter of

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Speaker 1: us just stopping ourselves. I think, Paul, the interception didn't help.

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Speaker 1: So add all those things together you come out with

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Speaker 1: the type, you know, type football game. And Kirk Cousins

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Speaker 1: began the game as Peaches referenced a team record seventeen

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Speaker 1: of seventeen and in the first half, Justin Jefferson had

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Speaker 1: one hundred thirty eight receiving yards, which means he finishes

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Speaker 1: with one fifty four. So when it comes to the

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Speaker 1: first half and the second half, twelve catches, one fifty

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Speaker 1: four at the end of the bottom line equation for JJ, who,

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Speaker 1: by the way, did throw a pass to Dalvin for

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Speaker 1: twenty three yards and it was sweet. But with Jefferson,

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Speaker 1: you know, when we're watching these replays, he is open,

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Speaker 1: you know, but sometimes there's pressure on Kirk and whatever

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Speaker 1: leads to JJ not catching passes when he's open. One

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Speaker 1: thirty eight in the first half, and you finish this

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Speaker 1: and I think the one thing to keep in mind

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Speaker 1: athleticism at corner to roll up and jam and slow

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Speaker 1: a long day. And the Bears definitely did not have

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Speaker 1: that athleticism in their backfield, and we made them pay

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Speaker 1: this offense was a well oiled machine going all the

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Speaker 1: way into jest about just before the half, you know,

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Speaker 1: us down we're penalties things like that on ourselves, and

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Speaker 1: so that's a it's a great thing to see the

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Speaker 1: We're still waiting for that really big long run. I

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Speaker 1: So when when we were just executing, executing the play

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Speaker 1: So that's a good sign. It wasn't as if the

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Speaker 1: up on the postgame report following an exciting twenty nine

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Speaker 1: twenty two victory at us Bank Stadium over the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 1: Where by the way, the Vikings are undefeated at home,

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Speaker 1: and they're undefeated through the first half of the division swing,

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Speaker 1: and that includes a victory over Green Bay, which now

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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins press conference also three takes with Ron Johnson.

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Speaker 1: Then right at the end Kevin O'Connell's very exuberant post

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Speaker 1: game locker room speech to the team. But let's begin

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Speaker 1: with Ben Lieber and Gabe Henderson and Between the Lines.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to a winning edition of Between the Lines, fueled

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Speaker 1: by Gatorade, the Vikings victorious over the Chicago Bears twenty

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Speaker 1: nine to twenty two. My name is Gabe Henderson. Alongside

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Speaker 1: Ben Lieber and Ben we were just talking about how

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Speaker 1: the game just ended. Cam Dansler stole the ball away

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Speaker 1: from Amirisith Marsett, who was drafted by the Vikings a

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Speaker 1: him money. I've never seen a walk off by a

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Speaker 1: cornerback ever since I've been covering of the NFL. What

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Speaker 1: were your thoughts on that last play of the game.

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Speaker 1: First of all, you said you were nervous, and then

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Speaker 1: Viking fans, I wasn't nervous at all. I was fully

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Speaker 1: I think that's that's the main thing. But when Kirk

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Speaker 1: Cousins threw that interception the second to last drive of

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Speaker 1: the game. I was worried that how are we going

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Speaker 1: five or five on third down. What did you see

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Speaker 1: on that last drive offensively that stood out to you

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Speaker 1: for this Vikings offense, Well, we crushed it on third down.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that we ever had a super long

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Speaker 1: So I just thought that they were they were poised.

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Speaker 1: You know, the whole offense was just poised. There wasn't

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Speaker 1: a lot of scrambling going on. At least the feeling

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Speaker 1: for me on the side adeline as I'm watching the game,

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Speaker 1: it was surgical, it was methodical, very much like the

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Speaker 1: game opened up with the first three drives by putting

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Speaker 1: no hesitation, no panic from this team. I think that

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Speaker 1: that really matters. And head coach Kevin O'Connell talks about

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Speaker 1: their Gritton resilience. I think five games in we definitely

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Speaker 1: just gonna be honest here, I feel like that Groten

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Speaker 1: continue to score, score on touchdowns or kick a field goal.

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Speaker 1: The momentum shift right before the half. How did you assess,

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Speaker 1: they continue that into the second half. So that's the

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Speaker 1: adversity part that we're talking about. Not only is adversity

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Speaker 1: a way that shows you know championship caliber that again,

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Speaker 1: there was never a panic. Obviously, they made some adjustments

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Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears. They went to a different safety look,

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Speaker 1: a lot of single high safety. Early in the game,

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Speaker 1: we were able to kind of pick them apart. Then

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Speaker 1: in the second half they went a little bit more

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Speaker 1: We can't take some bigger shots. So good adjustment by them,

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Speaker 1: but ultimately better adjustments by us, Better adjustment by Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 1: Also in this game, if you three wind back to

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Speaker 1: last week, getting on the plane after land to win,

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Speaker 1: Christian derrisaw put his chain on Kirk Cousins, and I

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Speaker 1: feel like we saw a different Kirk Cousins to start

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Speaker 1: their first half. Seventeen straight completions to start the game today,

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Speaker 1: that's a Vikings franchise record. And then fast forward to

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Speaker 1: What were your thoughts on just his play today. I

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Speaker 1: thought he'd just looked crisp. You know, you look at

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Speaker 1: those seventeen for seventeen on the passing completions. Every time

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Speaker 1: He had that little bounce to him, a little bounce,

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Speaker 1: His eyes was like first read, second read, get the

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Speaker 1: He was decisive, he was accurate. He knew that all

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Speaker 1: don't try to do too much. And you couple that

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Speaker 1: They had rhythm. They used tempo as well. Second play

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Speaker 1: of the game, they go up, no hot, they use tempo,

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Speaker 1: get to the line, assess the defense, bark out an audible.

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Speaker 1: Put your offense in the best situation. I thought, for

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Speaker 1: a really good point Before we talk the running game.

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Speaker 1: I gotta give Justin Jefferson a shot out twelve receptions

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty four yards today. Somehow best they

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Speaker 1: care about guarding him on the first half. I feel

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Speaker 1: like they did they watch film of him before. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, but to your point, they made adjustments in

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Speaker 1: the second half and they, I guess limitsed Justin Jefferson

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Speaker 1: But Dalvin Cook got going in the second half. In

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Speaker 1: my opinion, this was probably Dalvin Cook's best performance today.

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Speaker 1: How would you assess the way he was able to

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Speaker 1: that one, that one big pop, you know, the one

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Speaker 1: Very hard thought, tough football game. I thought, you know,

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Speaker 1: the perimeter. Kind of a mix of man and zone,

429
00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,399
Speaker 1: some disguised man that you got to react post snap,

430
00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:22,960
Speaker 1: post snap two really playing quarterback today as far as

431
00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,320
Speaker 1: playing the game post snap, throwing completions, being accurate, and

432
00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:29,280
Speaker 1: then the details of our guys, whether it's IRV or

433
00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:33,560
Speaker 1: kJ or obviously Justin and Adam, Um, you know, getting vertical,

434
00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:35,879
Speaker 1: you know, yards after catch. I just thought there was

435
00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,400
Speaker 1: a bunch of hidden yardage in this game that you'll

436
00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,200
Speaker 1: go back and see that. Really, it's a great test

437
00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,240
Speaker 1: to a testament to our players and their ability to

438
00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,520
Speaker 1: understand how we're being defended and then as it adjusts

439
00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:50,080
Speaker 1: throughout the game. Um, they're they're they're a really smart group.

440
00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:54,760
Speaker 1: The exotic plays that you called, I'm wondering if that

441
00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:57,040
Speaker 1: if we can read anything into that that that you

442
00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:01,280
Speaker 1: feel a step better about your offense and how it's executing.

443
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,000
Speaker 1: You get the fleet flicker at the past, Yeah, I

444
00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:06,000
Speaker 1: you know, I wish we could have got a little

445
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,639
Speaker 1: bit more out of that flee flicker screen. But no,

446
00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,800
Speaker 1: it's just it's all situational for me. Um. Sometimes those

447
00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,119
Speaker 1: players are going to come up and on early downs,

448
00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:17,320
Speaker 1: early downs, no huddle, then they're going to be you know,

449
00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:19,119
Speaker 1: chunks that we need to get back. We're in kind

450
00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,600
Speaker 1: of a long yardage situation right there after a penalty

451
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,439
Speaker 1: we went back to you know whatever, it was, second

452
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:28,199
Speaker 1: and ten M. I think I think our team can

453
00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:30,920
Speaker 1: handle a lot, and because our quarterback can handle a lot,

454
00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:34,200
Speaker 1: we're trying to find that right balance between giving them

455
00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,240
Speaker 1: the tools for success and then ultimately allowing them to

456
00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,920
Speaker 1: play within the offense. We want to be with great

457
00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,400
Speaker 1: comfort and confidence in what we're doing, and it's it's

458
00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,159
Speaker 1: really about all eleven and how they're executing that allows

459
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Speaker 1: us to continue to build on where we're at. We

460
00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,080
Speaker 1: got a long way to go five games in UM,

461
00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,960
Speaker 1: but we're really seeing some of our philosophy come to life.

462
00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:55,080
Speaker 1: You look at a game like this when you're up

463
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:56,879
Speaker 1: with that big in the first half and say, this

464
00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,640
Speaker 1: is what we should kind of turn into a role

465
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:01,840
Speaker 1: actually win or is it just kind of a nature

466
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:02,960
Speaker 1: of the league where a lot of these are going

467
00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:04,440
Speaker 1: to come down and the last a couple of plays.

468
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 1: I think it's both. I think there's some things that

469
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 1: I go back to and can point to that, you know,

470
00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,160
Speaker 1: maybe could have helped contributed a couple those early down

471
00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:15,560
Speaker 1: kind of negative runs that kicked us behind the chains

472
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 1: and then ultimately led us to kind of need to

473
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Speaker 1: be a little bit more you know, conservative with some

474
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 1: of those third down calls. But like I said, twelve

475
00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,480
Speaker 1: or fifteen, you know, we were able to battle back

476
00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 1: from some of those long, longer yardage situations and at

477
00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,200
Speaker 1: least give ourselves a chance a couple chances at field

478
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,439
Speaker 1: goals there that didn't work out, But ultimately, you know,

479
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,160
Speaker 1: I just got to continue to do a better job

480
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,399
Speaker 1: being Razor sharp for our guys for four quarters. And

481
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Speaker 1: that's where I really do when I tell you it

482
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Speaker 1: starts with me. You know, I want to set the

483
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Speaker 1: tone for our group because I've got so much confidence

484
00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:45,600
Speaker 1: and our guys, we're putting out their offensively, defensively and

485
00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:50,520
Speaker 1: special teams to go perform. Mentioned the seventeen for seventeen

486
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:52,439
Speaker 1: with Kirk, but they were also like I mean, I

487
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,320
Speaker 1: think almost every one of those was too a pretty

488
00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:57,520
Speaker 1: open receiver. Yeah, wondering like are you seeing and evolving

489
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Speaker 1: nature across the board of understanding of scheme or execution

490
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 1: of scheme or was that just a good matchup for

491
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:06,680
Speaker 1: you guys or why was there so many openers? Yeah,

492
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 1: I think it has to do with I think Justin,

493
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 1: you know, really kind of as the game went on there,

494
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 1: Justin was able to attack someone on one coverage early on,

495
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,679
Speaker 1: and then they kind of settled into a little bit

496
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,680
Speaker 1: different philosophy defensively. And that's what I meant by Kirk

497
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,399
Speaker 1: making that seamless change to understand what the picture was

498
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 1: looking like pre snap, possibly post snap change into a

499
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,800
Speaker 1: different defense. And then ultimately the respect that people have

500
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:32,240
Speaker 1: for our skill players they're playing so fast or running

501
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,360
Speaker 1: off the ball and then Kirk being decisive like that.

502
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,160
Speaker 1: It leads to great chances and examples of yards after catch,

503
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,440
Speaker 1: and you don't have to throw it over people's heads

504
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,160
Speaker 1: all the time to generate explosives. Some people just won't

505
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,479
Speaker 1: allow that, and that's when we kind of have to

506
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,440
Speaker 1: lock into a mode of all five eligibles coming to life,

507
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 1: attacking coverage within depth, and our guys just have done

508
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 1: a tremendous job. And we've learned from some early times

509
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 1: during the season where maybe me especially have learned to

510
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Speaker 1: kind of adjust in the real time and just let

511
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,159
Speaker 1: our guys play football. Are you aware that that was

512
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,399
Speaker 1: a team record seventeen in a row, and are you

513
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Speaker 1: aware when it's going on that, hey, he hasn't had

514
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 1: an incompletion. Yeah, somebody told me at halftime. I had

515
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 1: no idea. It just felt like he was playing really

516
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,719
Speaker 1: well and the ball was coming out and very decisive

517
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:18,920
Speaker 1: and really taking advantage of the plan that we kind

518
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 1: of put together. He's going to continue to have comfort

519
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 1: and also continue to have a say in what we

520
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Speaker 1: do offensively. I want him comfortable with not only the

521
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 1: plays I do call, but him and I spend a

522
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:32,680
Speaker 1: lot of time together, and if there's plenty of them

523
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Speaker 1: that I can take a red pen too and gone

524
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 1: to the old play graveyard. That's okay too. But I

525
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Speaker 1: want whatever comes out of my mouth on game day

526
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 1: to him have ultimate clarity because where he's at and

527
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 1: where he's headed in this offense. I feel very, very

528
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Speaker 1: good about Kirk Cousins defense played today. It seems like

529
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 1: they kind of continue to a then but then come

530
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,359
Speaker 1: up with big plays and the big moments, Like yeah,

531
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Speaker 1: I thought I thought it was you know, it was

532
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 1: kind of a back and forth there, a little bit

533
00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:59,879
Speaker 1: a couple of loose plays that kind of helped extend

534
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,679
Speaker 1: some drives for them, But I thought they were physical upfront.

535
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 1: I thought ed did a great job kind of mixing

536
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 1: personnel to try to take away what we thought was

537
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 1: coming with different personnel grouping. Saw some different guys in

538
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:12,479
Speaker 1: there at times, both on the front and you know

539
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 1: at the you know, in the secondary linebackers, just to

540
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,440
Speaker 1: try to fit with how we want to play and

541
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 1: turn guys loose in those situations. Thought that contributed to

542
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 1: the strips act there towards the end of the game,

543
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 1: and then ultimately Cam going to get the ball but

544
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,479
Speaker 1: just like offensively, there's a lot of things we can

545
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 1: do better. Special teams is the same. You know, I

546
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 1: thought we could be cleaner there, you know, But I

547
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,160
Speaker 1: think for the most part, complimentary football means a lot

548
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 1: of things, and sometimes it means picking each other up

549
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:39,959
Speaker 1: or playing off of the momentum of those other sides,

550
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 1: and just continue to want to see more consistency out

551
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 1: of our group. But it's great to be able to

552
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 1: say that after another win here at YO Spank Adam

553
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,119
Speaker 1: was saying that you spent a lot of the offseason

554
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 1: really emphasizing execution in the late games. Yea, what do

555
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,880
Speaker 1: you see in this group coming together that has allowed

556
00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 1: them to just keep keep their heads about them and

557
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: even whether things are going good or bad, if to

558
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 1: finish like you have with some of these games here, Yeah,

559
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,439
Speaker 1: I think, you know, especially for our offense we've played

560
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,360
Speaker 1: that we've got We've got some guys that have played

561
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 1: a lot of football together and learned a lot along

562
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 1: the way about each other. And the scheme is one thing.

563
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: But you know what allows a lot of that to

564
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 1: come to life is my comfort not only in Kirk

565
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: as our quarterback, but those guys up front to give

566
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:23,919
Speaker 1: him enough time and then our guy's execution, I mean,

567
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 1: very very similar to play to what we had a

568
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 1: little bit different variation, but it's very similar play even

569
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: at the end of the half that kJ catches there,

570
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:33,879
Speaker 1: you know, gets the yardage we need and we you know,

571
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,400
Speaker 1: we show that as long as the defender doesn't knock

572
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 1: the ball out of our hands, we're gonna, you know,

573
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: at least have a chance to kick a field goal

574
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 1: at that point. Those are little plays that although it

575
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: didn't work out, I care about the process at which

576
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,200
Speaker 1: we've continued to show great understanding of how to close

577
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,880
Speaker 1: out halfs, how to be aggressive at the end of half,

578
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 1: but also go win a game when you have to

579
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,439
Speaker 1: however you have to do it, and I think that

580
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 1: bodes well for our team in the future. How do

581
00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,640
Speaker 1: you feel about how do you feel about being three

582
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:01,879
Speaker 1: and oh in the division? And how weird is that

583
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 1: all your home division games are now over and then

584
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: all the other the road ones are late in the air. Yeah.

585
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 1: We talked a lot to our team in training camp

586
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: about we're gonna get three opportunities to play at the

587
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: you know, in the greatest home environment in the NFL

588
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 1: against divisional teams to start the season. Let's make sure

589
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 1: we use that. So I'm proud of our guys for

590
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 1: doing that. I'm proud of our fans and what they've

591
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 1: been been like for us here at home, like I said,

592
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,679
Speaker 1: willing us to some of these victories, and and just

593
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 1: being just a tough, tough environment to come in and

594
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: play out for a road team. Now, we've got to

595
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:32,680
Speaker 1: you know, we'll take our home games whenever we can

596
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 1: get them, but we gotta be able to like we

597
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,360
Speaker 1: did last week, traveling and taking our outfit on the road.

598
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 1: We got to go try to win a lot of

599
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,119
Speaker 1: football games on the road against some really tough teams.

600
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: Little relays you mentioned, you know, with the dancer play

601
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 1: at the end, he also he starts running but then

602
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: he goes down. Yeah, And so I know that's small

603
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: and the overall scheme of things, but not small to me.

604
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: To what extent do you kind of coach that and

605
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 1: talk about that? And we've seen games around the league

606
00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 1: go right after that point sometimes? Yeah? Had he not

607
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 1: done that? Yeah, Ryan Cordell, Mike Petton, they do a

608
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: great situational Masters meeting every single week for our team,

609
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 1: you know, and It's very, very important. No matter how

610
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 1: little or a little time we have in a stress

611
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,120
Speaker 1: busy week coming off of a long trip, we've got

612
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 1: to have that meeting because they show we have a saying.

613
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,199
Speaker 1: The tape makes itself because you can every Sunday in

614
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: this league you can watch teams win and lose games

615
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: with little decisions that they make either when they have

616
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 1: the ball in their hands when they don't, how to

617
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: go get it back, how to manipulate the clock, how

618
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:31,160
Speaker 1: to be great at the end of the two minute

619
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: and at the end of the first half. But I

620
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 1: think those guys do a great job teaching, and our

621
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: players are you know, Friday morning early those you look

622
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: up there and you got guys on the edge of

623
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 1: their seat just wanting to learn football. And I think

624
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 1: it's a huge part of what we do here. And

625
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: like I said, Ryan Cordell has been phenomenal with me

626
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: on game day as well as you know with our

627
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: team with Mike Petton right there with them. Question Cam's

628
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: answer is coming up with plays last couple leaves. Is

629
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 1: this something that you saw coming? I mean that you're

630
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: expecting from multiple plays. I just think Kim's a talented player,

631
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 1: and I just continue to tell him, be confident in

632
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: your abilities. You can get around the football when we

633
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: when we're competitive and trying to be tight in our

634
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: coverage and trying to fit into the scheme and our disguise,

635
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: but ultimately go play football and be physical. He's been

636
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: great in the run fit. He's been great tackling pet

637
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 1: Pee as well. Those guys are a huge part of

638
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: us being able to hold our shelves but still play

639
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: a lot of single high coverages because we're asking them

640
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: to do a lot of different jobs. But at the

641
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: end of the day, making tackles and getting the ball

642
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 1: out and being physical. Pet p blocking a punt, you

643
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 1: know earlier, blocking a field goal early this year. I

644
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: almost had another one today. I just I like where

645
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: those guys are at, and we'll continue to mix our

646
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: scheme up build as the season goes on. And I'm

647
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: proud of the way Cam play. That's why I gave

648
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: him a game ball today. That's koc. Kirk Cousins finished

649
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: the day two ninety eight, passing a touchdown and an interception.

650
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: The touchdown went to jail and Rager on a shovel.

651
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: That is Jailn's first touchdown. Wearing ow Our colors and

652
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: a noted sneaker Tom Brady like fashion, Kirk Cousins sneaked

653
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: for what turned out to be the game winning touchdown.

654
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: He did it from a yard out, the eighteenth rushing

655
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: touchdown of his career, and Kirk Cousins after the game

656
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 1: had this to say, great to get a win, Great

657
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 1: to get to four and one, be a divisional opponent,

658
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 1: went a home game. Um, you know, that's really what

659
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: we're here to do. What, um, what it's all about.

660
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 1: So winning was huge, and um, I thought for much

661
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: of the game, you know, our offense played at a

662
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 1: very high level. Um. You know, it's never gonna be perfect,

663
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: and today, uh, you know, there were some times where

664
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 1: we started bartow, but Mum, for much of the game

665
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: played at very high level. And I also felt that

666
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: a lot of the success in the first half was

667
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: just a really good planned by our coaches, putting us

668
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: in some pretty good positions to uh to be effective

669
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, kind of putting the win at

670
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: our back for us. So I thought that was a

671
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: great job by them, with the game plan coming out

672
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: fast and the way they attacked and uh, um, you know,

673
00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: we obviously, uh, and we need to play better for quarters,

674
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: so we need to play better through the stretch of

675
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 1: the game, so that um, um, you know, we can

676
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: pull away and uh and not live in these games,

677
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: you know, in the last two minutes. So UM, that'll

678
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: be the challenge moving forward is how can we you know,

679
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: if we were to get out ahead of somebody, how

680
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: can we just pull away and and uh and not

681
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 1: not linger. But UM, I can take any questions. Yeah,

682
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: what was it about the game plan they colis? Oh,

683
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: I just think the way that uh that our staff

684
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: prepared for it and the way they planned to attack. Um,

685
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: you know, the mix of running pass, the play action

686
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 1: screen game, the uh no huddle, the um you know,

687
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: the red zone plan. Uh, the run game was effective.

688
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: So uh you know, it's any time you're effective usually

689
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: because you're being pretty multiple and and uh and not

690
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 1: leaning any one thing too much. But I just thought that, um,

691
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: you know, after the first couple drives the start we had,

692
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: I look back at the plays and you're like, well,

693
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 1: you know, I felt like I'm being put in a

694
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: position to be successful, you know, and that's uh, that's

695
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: a great feeling, you know when you realize your coaches

696
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: are kind of putting the wind at your back. Talk

697
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 1: about your hot start, and were you aware that you

698
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: broke Tommy Kramer's record most consecutive team record, most consecutive completions. Yeah,

699
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: I saw the graphic when it came up because I'm

700
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 1: just sitting there watching the game, like seventy thousand other

701
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: people in the stadium when I'm on the sideline. But

702
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: it felt like we'd only thrown about eight passes to

703
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: me when you know they had said that, so um,

704
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: you know, you just kind of play, you're not really

705
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: thinking about it, and so it was. It was a

706
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: productive day. Great to see the production on third down.

707
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: I think that's been a place that we want to

708
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,479
Speaker 1: be better and need to be better to win, and

709
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: the last two weeks have been better, and so that's

710
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 1: been encouraging to see you run of completions like high school, college,

711
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: any other time. I have no idea. I have no idea. Certainly,

712
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 1: you want to pride yourself. I'm being a high completion

713
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 1: percentage guy, you know, within reason. I think sometimes it's

714
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 1: a it can be a stat that, um, you know,

715
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 1: you can misuse, but I think completion percentage tends to reflect,

716
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: you know, making good decisions, getting through your progressions, being efficient,

717
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: staying ahead of the chains. And so I think it's

718
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: it's a good sign that your offense is operating efficiently

719
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: if your quarterbacks completion percentage is higher court for the

720
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: third and five at the end the decision don't rhyme, yeah,

721
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: you know, tucking and running. Yeah, I think it was

722
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: two man. So that already gives you a chance as

723
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: a quarterback to run because there's nobody man on you. Um.

724
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: I felt Adam get bear hugged. He was really my

725
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: number one guy on the route, and he got bear hugged,

726
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: and I said, he's not getting open. And then Earth

727
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: kind of got mugged as well getting off the line.

728
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: So uh, and then the rush, you know, I just

729
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 1: felt somebody across my face and rather than progress to

730
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: the backside to Adam and or Justin and kJ, I

731
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: knew it was two man, kho. I had a chance

732
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: to run and felt the rush kind of across my

733
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:41,479
Speaker 1: face and I'm just gonna take off here and try

734
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: to get it. And um, you know, usually you have

735
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: us a slide, but when it's you know, third down

736
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: and you're down there, you gotta gotta find a way

737
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: to get across the line speak third and one. I'm

738
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: trying to recall how much you can You don't do

739
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 1: that a whole lot to you. Um, I mean, we

740
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: do what we have to. You know, we snuck last

741
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: week against the Saints for first down and then we

742
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: snuck here. But again, you know, quarterback on a sneak.

743
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: I mean it's not it's not really me as much

744
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: as that's that's Garrett, that's Ezra, that's Ad, that's CD Brian.

745
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I think CD provided a great late push

746
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 1: with the way he kind of came down and um,

747
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: and so that was that was obviously an enormous play

748
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: that the call all the way or did you haven't

749
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: it looked like you were kind of in shotgun for ZEC. Yeah, yeah,

750
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 1: direction or what. Yeah, it's gonna just based on what

751
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: you're seeing there. Yeah, in that case, there were a

752
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: few options there. There were a few options, yep. So

753
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: we were able to get that one in. Kirko coach

754
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: was just saying how much faith he has in you

755
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 1: to make decisions pre snap, to to kind of go

756
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 1: through a post snap like the synergy that you two

757
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: are developed, feel like just that you know, no, you're

758
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: in you the way that he does. Yeah, he's really

759
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: been that way from day one. I will say that

760
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:50,879
Speaker 1: you said it. You know, we're developing. I think we're

761
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 1: getting there. I would tell you that after being in

762
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,240
Speaker 1: a system for three us years, three different play callers,

763
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: but a similar system. You know, I'm not where I

764
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 1: was at the end last season in that old system.

765
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: So but we're developing it. We're getting there, and I'm

766
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 1: excited about that continued growth. And we have to keep

767
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 1: showing that. You know, we got to get to the

768
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: buy and look back and feel like we are every

769
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 1: week taking another step towards that synergy. And he certainly

770
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: is in my corner, and I think that makes it

771
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 1: makes for a great help as a quarterback at seventeen

772
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: through seventeen at the stage there is that like a

773
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: confidence or something, you just feel that you can put

774
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: the ball pin quite. I mean, you feel that all

775
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 1: of a sudden you're hot. I really didn't. I think

776
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: it goes back to again, the coaching, the plan when

777
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:36,839
Speaker 1: you're just dropping back and going where your reads take you.

778
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 1: But they're giving you number one open and players are

779
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:44,319
Speaker 1: separating and the run game is giving you favorable opportunities

780
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: to throw the ball. It just kind of all converged

781
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 1: on putting me in a position to be successful. But no,

782
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: I don't think I was ripping it into brutally tight

783
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: windows or having to throw, you know, and kind of

784
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: be at this hero. I think when you do that,

785
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 1: it's because everything around you is giving you this opportunity

786
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 1: then to be successful. But if you go back and

787
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: watch those seventeen throws, I would think you'd see they're

788
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 1: very automatic, which I think My point is it says

789
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 1: a lot about the plan the coaches and my teammates

790
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: kind of putting me in that position. We're kind of

791
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:15,400
Speaker 1: going off of that. What did you see them do

792
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 1: differently with Justin in the second half after Yeah, they

793
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 1: were open partment first sent Yeah, I think probably a

794
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: little less single high, a little more split safety, maybe

795
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: a few more pressures here and there. Um, you know,

796
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,600
Speaker 1: the rush got home a couple of times in the

797
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: second half. But I will say that we just didn't

798
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: run off plays in the third quarter. You know, they

799
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 1: start with it and then we get the ball. We

800
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: got a good field position, converted a first down, and

801
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: then on a third down trying to get the ball

802
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 1: out to Earth, they hit my arm and you know,

803
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: whether it's a fumble or incompletion, you know, had to

804
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 1: settle for kicking a field goal there. And then we

805
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 1: didn't get the ball back really to the fourth quarter,

806
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 1: so you know, you only have like, you know, six

807
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: plays or whatever it was run in that third quarter,

808
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 1: which I think just doesn't give us the opportunities that

809
00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: those twelve plus play drives in the first half gave us.

810
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: We see on that exception. Yeah, I M that was

811
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:09,280
Speaker 1: an example of allowing previous plays to influence your decision

812
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: instead of just running the play in a vacuum. I

813
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: had taken that that flat route so many times, and

814
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: a couple of times last week a time earlier in

815
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 1: this game with Earth, the guy was open elsewhere, and

816
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 1: I kind of was allowing those previous plays it starts

817
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: to try to hunt something up that really I should

818
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 1: have just said, you know, let's just play this in

819
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 1: a vacuum in its own entity and take the guy

820
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 1: that's opening the flat and settle for a shorter game

821
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:36,839
Speaker 1: if it's a shorter game, instead of trying to use

822
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: previous reps to hunt something up that really wasn't there.

823
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:45,360
Speaker 1: Part of that developing in a new offense. Yeah, I

824
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 1: think what's tough is like me, I'd love to say, oh,

825
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 1: it's a you know, I threw a pick because it's

826
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:50,360
Speaker 1: a new offense, But when you look at it's like,

827
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: I mean, I've run bootlegs my whole career. I mean

828
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 1: that that was just another bootleg that I've run a

829
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: thousand times. And so all I can say there is,

830
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: don't allow a previous clip where you think you might

831
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 1: have had something and you settled for the checkdown. Don't

832
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: allow that to then make you on the next place,

833
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 1: start to look for that when it isn't there, start

834
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: to feel like, oh maybe I'll get it. You know.

835
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: Just treat each play as its own entity. Quarterbacks and

836
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: teams are measured up and in how you perform with

837
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,879
Speaker 1: those last minute drives. Are the factors there that you're

838
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 1: seeing developed which this team and with you that you've

839
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 1: almost embraced those times now that you look forward to

840
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,439
Speaker 1: having an opportunity with the confidence level of this team, well,

841
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: I think you always embrace them. Um, you know, you

842
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 1: always until the clock says zero, you're really feeling like

843
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: you've got a fighting chance and been a part of

844
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: too many games where you know you have the odds

845
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: against you, but with timeouts and some clock, you find

846
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 1: a way to get down there and get points, whether

847
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: kicking it or scoring a touchdown. So you kind of

848
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 1: always keep hope alive. And with the players we have

849
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 1: as well, you keep hope alive because you expect guys

850
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 1: to make plays and give you a chance until the

851
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: clock says zero. And we kind of learned it the

852
00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 1: other way too. When you have a lead. You know,

853
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: the teams in the NFL, I'll tend to find their

854
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,360
Speaker 1: way back and so you have to keep playing and

855
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: every play matters so much. Being three and oz in

856
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: the division and how odd is the schedule this year

857
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 1: with all the home games early and all the division

858
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: road games, right, Yeah, it's a it's a it's a

859
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: great start. It's a great start, and uh that's all

860
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,879
Speaker 1: it is, though, And we're gonna be talking each week

861
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: here and all the way through to January, and you

862
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:26,839
Speaker 1: know that's where really when it matters is we got

863
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 1: to finish strong. But um, it's a great start and

864
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: we got to build on it. When you're running that

865
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,319
Speaker 1: no hudden, when you're running that no huddle, I think

866
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: sometimes people have a misnomer that it's a hurry up

867
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: and in your case, yeah always yeah, curious, like what

868
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: are you guys doing in that sort of period when

869
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 1: you get on the line and then you sometimes you

870
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,839
Speaker 1: back away, like what's that? I think it's just an

871
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: opportunity to kind of um, keep going, keep keep the

872
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 1: momentum going in our favor. Uh, kind of going back

873
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: to that wind at your back field where you're playing

874
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: downhill in a good way where you kind of got

875
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 1: momentum and you just kind of keep that tempo going

876
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: and apply pressure. That's really what you want to do there.

877
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: And so it's been I think it's been effective for us.

878
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:08,839
Speaker 1: I think it's important each week, how we do it,

879
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: when we do it, why we do it, what we're

880
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:12,799
Speaker 1: looking to do with it. Those are the questions each

881
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,359
Speaker 1: week and a game plan that are important. And that's

882
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: where I say the way the game plan fit this

883
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 1: week and the way it got designed by our coaches,

884
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: it just would appear it was really strong, you know,

885
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: the first two drives of the game of the way

886
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: they designed it and then the way it was executed

887
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,840
Speaker 1: by the guys. Any part of it. Keep the defense

888
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 1: from substituting. Yeah, if we sub, then they get to sub.

889
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 1: They can substitute for like if they're tired, correct, well said,

890
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 1: I mean they can take an injury, but which seems

891
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:41,840
Speaker 1: do But yeah, it does allow you to hopefully play fast.

892
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 1: The fatigue goes both ways. But if we can be

893
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: conditioned at a high level, we can use that to

894
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: apply pressure to a defense. But they know that, and

895
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: so if we sub, they sub. And so that's all

896
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 1: those conversations of hey, I know you're tired, but you

897
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 1: guys stay out there so we can keep going, keep

898
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,959
Speaker 1: our foot on the guests. You convert it five third

899
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: downs on the seven team play, go ahead drive. Just

900
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 1: how does each one of those conversions kind of change

901
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: what you think you'll be able to do? Yeah, third

902
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,839
Speaker 1: down conversions are such a big, big part of why

903
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: you win or why you lose, you know, and they

904
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: get a big emphasis every week in your preparation. You

905
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:16,719
Speaker 1: spend basically a whole day on Thursday trying to lock

906
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 1: that in. And again it goes back to so many

907
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 1: pieces at the work. Design needs to be good, it's

908
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 1: got to be well protected. Guys got to get open

909
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: and separate versusor coverage and we've got to find it

910
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 1: and throw it. And then you know, you gotta have

911
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:30,720
Speaker 1: a mix of running past. You gotta stay in third manageable.

912
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: I think we had ten third downs five or less.

913
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 1: You know, we're in third and eleven all game. That's

914
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: different conversion than third and one. So staying in third

915
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 1: and manageable, being productive on first and second down to

916
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: give you that fighting chance on third down really helps

917
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:45,360
Speaker 1: a couple of times. To Davis Derris, I just burry, yeah,

918
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, how have you seen him develop here?

919
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 1: And what kind of confidence do you have in him

920
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 1: holding down that edge for you? Yeah, I'm excited about him. Um.

921
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: You know I made a comment earlier this week about

922
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: how you don't even know he's there. And at one

923
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: point in today's game I felt him he uh, he

924
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,800
Speaker 1: was upset about something, whether it was a snap count

925
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 1: or a call or he got fired up. And I

926
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 1: remember thinking, like, I like this, Like I like I

927
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,880
Speaker 1: like feeling his edge a little bit. And you realize

928
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 1: you start to get that, I think because he's starting

929
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 1: to realize, you know, what it takes, what it looks like,

930
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: what to expect as a player in this league, and

931
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,360
Speaker 1: and seeing that from him, you know, you start to

932
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:24,359
Speaker 1: feel like this guy's a vet, you know, more than

933
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 1: a young player, and he's only going to get better,

934
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 1: and so really grateful we have him and the way

935
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:34,879
Speaker 1: he's he's improving, the way he's working every week. Thank

936
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: you cousins. Thirty two or forty one. He had a

937
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:39,399
Speaker 1: big run at the end of the game, by the way,

938
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 1: to get a first down. It was only five yards,

939
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 1: but they needed it badly. What did you think of

940
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 1: Kirk's game? Well, you know, I think Kirk obviously the

941
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: way he started it out, and you gotta give some

942
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: credit to the Bears. He started playing a little bit

943
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: of two man uh in the back end, and that's

944
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:54,760
Speaker 1: where some of the routes and some of the wide

945
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 1: open receivers kind of dried up a little bit. And

946
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 1: we talked about it during the broadcast. There's gonna be

947
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:00,800
Speaker 1: a point in time when you see two man what

948
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,919
Speaker 1: kills two man? When a quarterback pulls the ball down

949
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 1: and scrambles. And it wasn't, like you said, a twenty

950
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 1: yard run like we saw out of fields, im fields

951
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 1: an unbelievable athlete. It was the timing of it right

952
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: and the Bears felt like it was long enough on

953
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 1: third down they could get away with the two man

954
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,720
Speaker 1: offensive line doing a pretty solid job, I think throughout

955
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: the entire day, especially early on, and that's what you

956
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: see out of this offense when it has a rhythm, right,

957
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: when it has that rhythm going, it is it's second

958
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 1: to none because you have so many weapons. So I

959
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: think we saw a glimpse of that today, right, we

960
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 1: saw a glimpse of that today. It's just a matter

961
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 1: of keeping that foot on the gas pedal, right, keeping

962
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 1: keep pressuring this Bears team, keep making them do some

963
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,319
Speaker 1: things that they don't want to do. Because they could

964
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: not stop the run and the pass at the same time.

965
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 1: They had a sacrifice one for the other. And we're

966
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: gonna run against run, up against more defenses out of

967
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: that way. Ron Johnson with Fox nine as part of

968
00:43:55,520 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: the postgame report, RJ has three takes. Thanks. This is

969
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:03,879
Speaker 1: Ron Johnson coming to you from the KFA in studios,

970
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:07,919
Speaker 1: and this is my three takeaways from today's Vikings Verse

971
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 1: Bears game. Well, let's just jump out with the first

972
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:13,760
Speaker 1: one that to me was really glaring. Why on third

973
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,279
Speaker 1: down in the first four games, the Vikings offense was

974
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 1: thirty one point five percent on converting third downs. Today's

975
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: offense for the Vikings versus the Bears was lights out

976
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:28,759
Speaker 1: twelve or fifteen eighty percent. The play calling look glorious.

977
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins looked confident. He started the day off awesome,

978
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 1: and it paid off. When you're talking about third downs,

979
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 1: what does that mean? Vikings offense stays on the field,

980
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 1: Vikings defense gets to rest. The Bears don't have a

981
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 1: chance to get Justin fields going. And it showed when

982
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 1: the Vikings went up twenty one to three, they were

983
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 1: on top of it. That is what this team's gonna

984
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 1: need going down the stretch to be a lot more

985
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:54,399
Speaker 1: consistent on third downs. Yes, they were converting first downs

986
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: because they were getting a lot of first downs on

987
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 1: first second down, but you know, when you get to

988
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,120
Speaker 1: that money down, third down, the defense wants to get

989
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:03,720
Speaker 1: off the field. The Vikings offense did not let that happen.

990
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 1: My second takeaway, I would love to talk about Justin

991
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:11,280
Speaker 1: Jefferson twelve catches, one hundred and fifty four yards, no touchdown,

992
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:14,760
Speaker 1: got a two point conversion, didn't gritty because why gritty

993
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: on a two point We know when the Griddy's coming

994
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: to a touchdown, But no, that's not my take number two.

995
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 1: Take number two is Cam Danceler never gave up. Cam

996
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: Danceler is a microcosm of this season so far, which

997
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 1: is a never give up attitude. This team never feels

998
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: like it's over. Cam Danceler missed the tackle by on

999
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: a Mere Smith Marsett, his former teammate, his friend, and

1000
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 1: then Amir Smith Marsett. Instead of trying to get out

1001
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,800
Speaker 1: of bounds in a two minute situation, he tried to

1002
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,839
Speaker 1: get a little bit more and Cam Dancer came right

1003
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:46,919
Speaker 1: back up behind him. I don't know if he didn't

1004
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,400
Speaker 1: fill him coming behind him and ripped the ball. He

1005
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: ripped the ball in the hearts out of not just

1006
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: a Mere Smith Marsett, but the Bears fans and Cam

1007
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: Danceler because in the past you've seen Cam Dancer make

1008
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,280
Speaker 1: some mistakes and big moments at the end of games.

1009
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: When you think about the Seattle game and DK Metcalf,

1010
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 1: when you think about the Lions game and backing up

1011
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: into the end zone and giving up a touchdown, Cam Danceler,

1012
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,879
Speaker 1: because we've all heard Paul Allen with the what are

1013
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 1: you doing? Cam Danzler, Well, today, Cam Danceler, you are

1014
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: the hero. You won the game. And he is building

1015
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 1: on a great season so far, playing within the scheme. Yeah,

1016
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: there's been some been but don't break moments. But he's

1017
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 1: getting better and better and he's growing more and more confident.

1018
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 1: dB is all about swagger. At the cornerback position, you

1019
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 1: gotta have swagger, and Cam Danceler is dripping in swag

1020
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 1: and he showed it today with the never give up

1021
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: attitude on that last play of the game. And then

1022
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,359
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, He's in the record books people. That's take

1023
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 1: number three. Kirk Cousins seventeen for seventeen to start the

1024
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 1: game off seventeen consecutive passes. That's Kirk cousins best start

1025
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 1: of his career ever, which means Kevin O'Connell is doing

1026
00:46:55,719 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: something right. But that's also a Vikings record seventeen executive passes.

1027
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 1: Previous record holder was Tommy Kramer, and Kirk Cousins has

1028
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:11,280
Speaker 1: broken that record. So everybody raise your glass, celebrate, congratulate

1029
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins on Twitter, Instagram, whatever you do, if you book,

1030
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 1: face it or Facebook it, either way, congratulate Kirk cousins

1031
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: because he has now put his name in the Vikings

1032
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: history books with the seventeen for seventeen And that is

1033
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 1: my three takeaways from the Vikings Verse Bears game. Back

1034
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: to you at us Bank Stadium on the field, PA,

1035
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:36,280
Speaker 1: and we purposely saved the best for last. You can't

1036
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: make it up. I mean, if you listen to KFA

1037
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: and you're home for Vikings football, you'll hear most of

1038
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 1: not all of us say that a lot. You can't

1039
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 1: make it up. Seriously, you can't make this up. Former

1040
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 1: Viking a Mere Smith Marsett cut into the first game

1041
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 1: picked up by the Bears. His first reception goes for

1042
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 1: a big fifteen yards and the Bears are in business

1043
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 1: until Cam Danceler, a close friend of the Mere Smith Marsetts,

1044
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 1: rips the ball from said receiver and wins the game

1045
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 1: biggest play of Cam's career. A week after Cam made

1046
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:13,320
Speaker 1: the previous biggest players of his career, singled up against

1047
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 1: Chris o'lave and knocked the ball away late, very late

1048
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 1: in the game. Are you kidding me with that play? No?

1049
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:22,839
Speaker 1: And for Cameron Dancler, we you know we've talked about

1050
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 1: it before. Where for him to get to that next level.

1051
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: He has to stay on the field. He has to

1052
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 1: keep making plays. He has to see what offenses do.

1053
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:32,799
Speaker 1: And sneakily on that play, he was doing the right thing,

1054
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 1: meaning cut off a Mere Smith Marsett from the sideline

1055
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,359
Speaker 1: to keep that clock moving. A Mere Smith Marsette made

1056
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: a cut back to the inside and Dancler actually went

1057
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 1: down to a knee, went down to the ground, but

1058
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: he didn't give up. He got back up and chased

1059
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,360
Speaker 1: and Is Harrison Smith. That slowed down a Mere Smith

1060
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 1: Marsett enough for Dancer to get back in there and

1061
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:54,399
Speaker 1: rip that ball loose. And he, like you said, Paul,

1062
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 1: he just basically stole it and turn it and ran

1063
00:48:56,360 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 1: the other way. And what a fabulous heads up play,

1064
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 1: an effort play for Cameron Dancer. That's exactly what he

1065
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 1: needed right now. And hopefully he'll continue to improve, continue

1066
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 1: with the consistency, get better and better and better, you know,

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Speaker 1: and then by getting Andrew Booth back and by the

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Speaker 1: end of this year you might have some depth at

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Speaker 1: the cornerback position. That's pete versas analyst for the Vikings

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Speaker 1: Radio Network. Work on the radio as usual likewise for

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Speaker 1: Ben Leeber with between the lines and the kfa N

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Speaker 1: Vikings radio network. You will hear us on kfa N

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Speaker 1: next week from South Florida as the Vikings take on

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Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. It is a noon central kick and

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins were annihilated today by the New York Jets.

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Speaker 1: So the Vikings, on a three game winning streak, had

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Speaker 1: to play the AFC's Miami Dolphins in hopes of heading

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Speaker 1: into the by on a four game winning streak. So

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Speaker 1: many things about which to be positive and bring excitement.

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Speaker 1: I'm Paul Allen, speaking of excitement. Here's your head coach,

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Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell the locker room following the spine jingler first

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Speaker 1: and foremost. He did it again, but this time he said,

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Speaker 1: a franchise record for receptions in his first three years

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Speaker 1: with the ball club. I have a female and be

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Speaker 1: giving me a lot of these balls. Many seventeen straight

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Speaker 1: completions start today. All we talked about doing was doing

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Speaker 1: your job all day long. This guy let us like

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Speaker 1: he has who are fourth victory Kirk cousin? This one

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Speaker 1: I might really enjoy right here. Okay. Eight tackles. Eight tackles,

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Speaker 1: including when we say don't get the ball, that's exactly

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Speaker 1: what it looks like one