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Speaker 2: Another thing stuck out to me today though, was Jordan

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Speaker 2: Addison returning, and it's just a reminder every time you

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Speaker 2: see him the natural.

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Speaker 3: Gift he has for catching a football, which.

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Speaker 2: Seems so effortless easy because they're in the NFL, and

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Speaker 2: he just reaches out and snatches it out.

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Speaker 3: Of the air like it's going two miles an hour.

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Speaker 4: Definitely is truly one of a kind.

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Speaker 5: Not very many stadiums make you feel like you're outdoors

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Speaker 5: when you're not outdoors. As someone who grew up going

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Speaker 5: to games the Superdome, it's completely different for all the

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Joy Practice edition of the Minnesota Vikings Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Gabe Henderson HOWM alongside Vikings dot Com

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Speaker 1: statum Everett, Jay Nelson and our special guest mister Matthew

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Speaker 1: kyllarand guys, a what a hot one it was today

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Speaker 1: here at the TCO perform missentered as the Vikings hosted

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals for two competitive days of joint practices

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Speaker 1: and we know things were chippy last week with the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans, clearly Kevin O'Connell. The messages got across this week,

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Speaker 1: don't swing your fist, let's have some fun, let's get

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Speaker 1: some quality reps, and let's have a really good joint

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Speaker 1: practice with Arizona Cardinals, simply because this is going to

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Speaker 1: be the last time we see these starters in game

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Speaker 1: like action until Week one against the Tampa Bay Buccaneer.

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Speaker 1: So Colorad'll start with you, what do you make of

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Speaker 1: this week's work for the team in Purple.

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Speaker 2: Well, I totally agree with you that it needs to

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Speaker 2: be less intense than it was last week. I feel

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Speaker 2: like that was the peak of training camp. That was

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Speaker 2: as intense as you ever want to push it because

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Speaker 2: I think that having even two joint practices is hard

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Speaker 2: you know, the temperature is insane out there, and people

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Speaker 2: start to get frustrated to push each other around, so

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Speaker 2: you don't want that, and there was none of that

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Speaker 2: number of guys who are coming back from things that

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Speaker 2: or maybe even tomorrow, you know, get on the field.

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Speaker 2: But someone like Jordan Adison who missed last week and

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Speaker 2: just kind of sharpening the edges, I think more than

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Speaker 2: But you know, there's also some battles to still be

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Speaker 2: there's receivers trying to make one more play just to

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Speaker 2: So I think that for some it's sharpening the edges

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Speaker 5: It's nice that we have such a great facility here

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I think, just to echo.

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Speaker 5: What Matthew said, it's it's so important right now for

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think there's a group of guys though, that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Matthew Kyller and I were talking on our walk

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I thought both of them had a very

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Speaker 2: only so long you get to be talked about as

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Speaker 2: an upside player. But Jalen Reger is more physically gifted

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Speaker 1: on CBS. Well before the owners came in, I asked

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Speaker 1: Jalen Rager, Brandon Powell, that competition about it? What's your

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Speaker 2: I now before the tour of owners of our situation here,

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Speaker 2: which is you know?

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Speaker 3: I mean it is a heck of a studio.

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Speaker 6: You have it.

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Speaker 2: It is very beautiful, So I would bring people in

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Speaker 2: as well, yes if I owned it, but I don't,

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Speaker 2: so I'm here to talk about the wide receivers.

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Speaker 3: And it was such a great answer. I was in

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Speaker 2: I think that Ziggy should have listened to my answer

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Speaker 2: then we could have maybe got his take on it.

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Speaker 5: Probably an avid MVP listener though, oh for sure.

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Speaker 1: That's the reason why he came in on the recording.

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Speaker 1: It's like I want to get a live appearance, I

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Speaker 6: We missed our interview opportunity to get up and right and.

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Speaker 5: Then we just hijacked your answer again, exactly, sorry about that.

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Speaker 2: At some point, Yeah, people are waiting for the receiver battle. No,

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Speaker 2: I think that there's only so long we could talk

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Speaker 2: it's pretty clear one of them was a first round

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Speaker 2: last year. When you trade for a guy right before

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Speaker 2: I look at Powell as a more refined player. I

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Speaker 2: He's a very confident player. You don't make it if

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Speaker 2: the future. I think that's the question that they have

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Speaker 2: guess right now, I would say they keep Raager. But

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Speaker 2: I waffle back and forth from the time that you

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Speaker 2: I think it's Pole, Nah, I think it's Riager, And

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Speaker 2: I continue to go back and forth.

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Speaker 1: I think as the owners that walked down, it's got

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Speaker 1: you kind of shook. I get it. But at the

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Speaker 1: same time, Tatum, I know you've seen that position battle

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Speaker 5: I mean I don't. That's actually what I was gonna

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Speaker 1: Yeah, by far, the most talented room on this Minnesota

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Speaker 5: For me, I think that Nick Muse has been slowly

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Speaker 4: But I do think it's a place where there needs to.

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Speaker 6: Also, Jay, My bounce forward was Nick Mullins. The other

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Speaker 6: You get to stand out somehow. And again it's like

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Speaker 1: that I think needs to bounce back this week is

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Speaker 1: as a collective, the backup offensive line. When you look

439
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Speaker 1: at just the stats in particular, you give up six

440
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Speaker 1: quarterback hits and you give up three sacks with a

441
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Speaker 1: handful of penalties. That's something that Kevin O'Connell who addressed

442
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Speaker 1: He addressed that in his press conference postgame, basically saying

443
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of things we need to clean up

444
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Speaker 1: from that unit. So I'm expecting another big week from them.

445
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Speaker 1: They had one of the best defenses in the NFL

446
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Speaker 1: last week in the Tennessee Titans. Now you get to

447
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Speaker 1: use that experience against a team and the Arizona Cardinals

448
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Speaker 1: who's really trying to figure out who their defensive front

449
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Speaker 1: is going to be.

450
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think, going back to your point

451
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Speaker 2: on Lewis scene, I think it's sort of a needs

452
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Speaker 2: a bounce forward just in general.

453
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure made.

454
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Speaker 2: Progress from game one to Game two. But part of

455
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Speaker 2: your job as a safety is to not make big mistakes.

456
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Speaker 6: Right.

457
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Speaker 2: It's like that position in a lot for ninety percent

458
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Speaker 2: of players that aren't Harrison Smith, is about the mistakes

459
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Speaker 2: you don't make. That's why cam binam is good. That's

460
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Speaker 2: why Josh mittellis is good because those guys are so solid.

461
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Speaker 2: So but he did play faster, and he did play

462
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Speaker 2: with more aggression, so continue to bounce in a forward direction.

463
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Speaker 2: But I thought the interior line their struggles caused some

464
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Speaker 2: of the other things we're talking about, like the receivers

465
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Speaker 2: to not get the targets, the timing of the offense

466
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Speaker 2: and just getting the ball out to those receivers. And

467
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Speaker 2: the other thing is too We've wanted to kind of

468
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Speaker 2: evaluate ty Chandler, and I thought there was no opportunity

469
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Speaker 2: to evaluate ty Chandler, especially when Tennessee has a guy

470
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Speaker 2: kicked out of practice who's a starter and then plays

471
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Speaker 2: him because he got kicked out of practice and he

472
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Speaker 2: mauls everybody at once.

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Speaker 3: He was just throwing people.

474
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Speaker 2: It was like the high Sea guy breaking through the

475
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Speaker 2: wall every snap. So I really felt like, I really

476
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Speaker 2: feel like there's another opportunity here for ty Chandler, who

477
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Speaker 2: is trying to show them that he belongs behind Alexander

478
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Speaker 2: Madison and that he could be trusted there and that

479
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Speaker 2: they shouldn't go out and bring somebody else in.

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Speaker 1: I hate to play the game of what if, but

481
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Speaker 1: if Ty Chandler had a game similar to what he

482
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Speaker 1: had in Seattle seventy all purpose yards. If he had

483
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Speaker 1: that game against Tennessee, do you still play him in

484
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Speaker 1: Week three of the preseason.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good question. I probably would.

486
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Speaker 2: I think that Ty Chandler needs as much experience as

487
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Speaker 2: possible when it comes to all of these reps, that

488
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Speaker 2: there are certain guys that just really need that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: No, I'd play him one hundred percent. Yeah, I mean

491
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Speaker 5: at this point, you need you need to know who

492
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Speaker 5: is going to back up out jen Asen, Who's going

493
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Speaker 5: to be the compliment back that comes in, and you

494
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Speaker 5: just need you need to know. I don't think you've

495
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Speaker 5: necessarily seen back to your Tiior offensive line. I don't

496
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Speaker 5: think you've seen what this running game can do, especially

497
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Speaker 5: with the struggles they've had timing and things like that.

498
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Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean it's funny because you sit back

499
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Speaker 5: and you want to talk, oh, this is this tea,

500
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Speaker 5: you still don't know what they're going to exactly look

501
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Speaker 5: like because we are one of the few teams that

502
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Speaker 5: has not played starters super cautious route. So it's kind

503
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Speaker 5: of like week one, We're gonna.

504
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Speaker 1: This is bid that's Kevin's big Yeah.

505
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Speaker 4: We're going to see what it is.

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Speaker 6: We had a little bit of that though, like and

507
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Speaker 6: I know this is the way by way way back machine,

508
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Speaker 6: but like in nine when when FARV came in, it

509
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Speaker 6: was that kind of a deal too, where it took

510
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Speaker 6: a couple of weeks then for the offense to feel

511
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Speaker 6: like they were really clicking because they weren't quite sure

512
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Speaker 6: what was happening with the new guy behind in that quarterback.

513
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Speaker 6: But at least for us, think the feeling is at

514
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Speaker 6: least quarterbacks in the same system now for the second year,

515
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Speaker 6: and that offensive line is you know for everyone just

516
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Speaker 6: looking at it saying you are the guys that are

517
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Speaker 6: going to make this work. So you know, for them,

518
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Speaker 6: they got to make sure that, especially with these joint practices,

519
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Speaker 6: that they're seeing what they want to see. Otherwise you're

520
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Speaker 6: going to get about a week and a half to

521
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Speaker 6: really try and shore that stuff up until Tampa comes

522
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Speaker 6: in the building. And you know, I don't think that

523
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Speaker 6: there's a feeling that you know that week one is

524
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Speaker 6: going to be easy, and it just means that you've

525
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Speaker 6: got to make sure you're on your p's and q's,

526
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Speaker 6: especially offensively to kind of be able to, you know,

527
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Speaker 6: try to sprint Tampa and make them try to chase you.

528
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Speaker 6: So hopefully, you know, the coaches are getting what they

529
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Speaker 6: want and the starters are feeling comfortable with what they're

530
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Speaker 6: what they're doing, and what they're seeing at this point,

531
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Speaker 6: especially if they're not going to play in this third game.

532
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Speaker 6: So yeah, that's a very interesting take because when you

533
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Speaker 6: look at practice this week, joint practices, the plays that

534
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Speaker 6: Kevin O'Connell was calling, we don't see those plays in

535
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Speaker 6: the actual game on Saturday, And I'm basically you can

536
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Speaker 6: tell that this Minnesota Vikings offense is already preparing for

537
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Speaker 6: Tampa Bay. They're just using this joint practice to see

538
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Speaker 6: how their trenches work. So when when you look at

539
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Speaker 6: practice today, Jah, I know, I think all of us

540
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Speaker 6: was there. When you look at just how they want

541
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Speaker 6: to joint practices went like who was a guy or

542
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Speaker 6: was something that stood out to you? So I was

543
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Speaker 6: primarily watching on the defensive side, and the difference to no,

544
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Speaker 6: you were kind of nudging me, telling me what was happening.

545
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Speaker 6: Now we were trying not to melt in the middle

546
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Speaker 6: of the sun. At this point, it was a little

547
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Speaker 6: a little warm out there. Defensively, I was basically sitting

548
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Speaker 6: on that side, And the thing that was interesting to

549
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Speaker 6: me was that, I know we were watching blitz and

550
00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 6: we were watching kind of the goal line time, but

551
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Speaker 6: the intensity of our defense against their offense was causing

552
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Speaker 6: all sorts of fits for Arizona. Defensively. They were flying around,

553
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Speaker 6: they were picking passes, they're swatting stuff down. The amount

554
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Speaker 6: of times I saw Colt McCoy, who would have been

555
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Speaker 6: absolutely obliterated on a blitz off the edge, I'd probably

556
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Speaker 6: five or six times at least. And so just to me,

557
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Speaker 6: the amount of intensity defensively that the ones and the

558
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Speaker 6: groups were trying to put against their offense. Brian floor

559
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,719
Speaker 6: as in this group were very very vocal and what

560
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Speaker 6: they needed and what they wanted. There were a couple

561
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Speaker 6: of times that you know, guys are out of position

562
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Speaker 6: and gave up a play and then they're instantly coaching

563
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Speaker 6: them up, kind of like what happened? What did you see?

564
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Speaker 6: But to me, just the intensity of the defense was

565
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Speaker 6: very encouraging, because that's something that there's been a lot

566
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Speaker 6: of questions and saying you just want to see some

567
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Speaker 6: sort of a sea change there within that group and attitude,

568
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Speaker 6: and so what I saw was a lot of fun

569
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Speaker 6: to watch.

570
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Speaker 5: I think it's almost a bit of a contrast from

571
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Speaker 5: what we saw from the defense last year too. I mean,

572
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Speaker 5: I get that it's just practice. I'm not taking it

573
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Speaker 5: that far, but it was It's nice to see them

574
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Speaker 5: get into the backfield. The pressure is there to watch

575
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Speaker 5: Marcus Davenport and Daneel Hunter meet in the middle ofac there.

576
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Speaker 5: I mean, I've also really enjoyed watching that at practices

577
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Speaker 5: the last two weeks, the joint practices, you get more

578
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Speaker 5: of a glimpse of what that's going to be like,

579
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Speaker 5: and it already looks like there's a lot more movement

580
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Speaker 5: going on.

581
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh, there's a lot yeah, more movement than there

582
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Speaker 3: was last year. Yeah.

583
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Speaker 2: And that's one of the I think the most interesting

584
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Speaker 2: storylines of this training camp is that Flores's the is

585
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Speaker 2: very unique, and I think it's one of the reasons

586
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,439
Speaker 2: that opposing teams would like to come in here and

587
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:09,360
Speaker 2: practice because that's a lot of blitz packages and assignments

588
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 2: that they're going to have to work out in the

589
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 2: regular season on third downs and things like that. So

590
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Speaker 2: I think it helps these other teams. But I also

591
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,879
Speaker 2: think it helps the Vikings offense to see that level

592
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Speaker 2: of intensity all the time because a lot of these

593
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 2: games are decided on whether you convert a third down

594
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Speaker 2: or not, and that's when all the teams are dialing

595
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Speaker 2: up what Brian Flores is sending on first and second dout.

596
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 2: He doesn't care if it's third down, but most teams

597
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 2: are doing that where they're loading the front of the

598
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 2: defensive line, and you have to be very solid when

599
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 2: it comes to picking up who you're picking up and

600
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Speaker 2: deciding who's blitzing and who's not. So that is interesting

601
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Speaker 2: to watch as Also Tennessee was pretty befuddled by it

602
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Speaker 2: as well. And I think that if you're going to

603
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Speaker 2: have a defense with a bunch of young players who

604
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 2: might not fully grasp all the different route combinations, assignments, whatever,

605
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Speaker 2: being superive is a way to balance some of that out, Like,

606
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 2: all right, there's gonna be mistakes, but we're also gonna

607
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 2: get big sacks, we're gonna cause tip balls interceptions, and

608
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 2: I like that strategy just generally overall. If another thing

609
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 2: stuck out to me today though, was Jordan Addison returning,

610
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Speaker 2: and it's just a reminder every time you see him

611
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,680
Speaker 2: the natural gift he has for catching a football, which

612
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 2: seems so effortless easy because they're in the NFL, But

613
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 2: when you watch other people do it and the ball

614
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,439
Speaker 2: clanks around their hands before they drag it in, or

615
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 2: they have to catch it up against their body or something,

616
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 2: and he just reaches out and snatches it out of

617
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 2: the air like it's going two miles an hour. And

618
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 2: to see him back out there, I mean that's a

619
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Speaker 2: concern when somebody gets hurt in a practice, how long

620
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Speaker 2: is he going to be out and so forth.

621
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Speaker 3: But to participate in full.

622
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Speaker 2: At this point where they've got even another joint practice,

623
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Speaker 2: I think was big. And you know week one it's

624
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Speaker 2: gonna be the starting three that they hoped going into this,

625
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Speaker 2: and I think Jordan Addison has solidified himself as a

626
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Speaker 2: starting wide receiver who you can also think could be

627
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Speaker 2: a major contributor. Not just oh well, he's a rookie

628
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 2: who's going to get out there, but really from day

629
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Speaker 2: one that's the way it looks.

630
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Speaker 1: Man. If that's the case, our offense is going to

631
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: be smoking. I think Jordan Addison a good year for

632
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 1: him would be a seven hundred plus receiving yards and

633
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,239
Speaker 1: three or less drops. Don't have to put too much

634
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,640
Speaker 1: pressure on him. Just come in, make your plays when

635
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: you can make him, And that pretty much sexist and

636
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 1: sets this entire offense up for success. So my big

637
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: talking point just from training campus kind of did owing

638
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Speaker 1: off of what Jay and Tatum said. Just from looking

639
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 1: at practice today, the Minnesota Vikings defense was the best

640
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: unit on the field, like the entire field, and I've

641
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 1: in Pace, I was a guy that had a lot

642
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 1: to do with that. I think Jay and I watched

643
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: about five plays in a row, and I think two

644
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: out of the three plays Ivan Pace had an interception

645
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 1: and then the next play he had a sack. So

646
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 1: clearly Brian floores whatever he's teaching and whatever he's saying

647
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: in those meeting rooms, that's starting to pay off. And

648
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Speaker 1: I've I got hired here in twenty twenty and I

649
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever said that the Minnesota Vikings defense

650
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 1: is the best unit on the field. So I think

651
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 1: that is saying a lot about what this team can be.

652
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: I hate using the word Tatum said it before, the

653
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 1: word potential, but there is a lot of that potential,

654
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: a lot of potential in this Minnesota Vikings defense.

655
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Speaker 6: So I was going to say, the fun part about

656
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 6: that is just weakly it's turned into a talking point.

657
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 6: I have and pace on this everything that he's doing

658
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 6: for years, you always look at it and say, I

659
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 6: wish we can get production out of a rookie that

660
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 6: is somebody that's kind of a diamond in the rough

661
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 6: or whatever that can really plug in and make a difference.

662
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 6: And it just feels like, so far, this guy is

663
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 6: that guy for us this year, which is great because

664
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 6: it just feels like it's almost like an added bonus

665
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 6: to what you're expecting. And so when you sign him

666
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 6: as a undrafted rookie and you're getting the kind of

667
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 6: production you are, let alone the chance that he's trying

668
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 6: to do everything he can to make his throw his

669
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 6: hat in the ring to be a starter. If that's

670
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,239
Speaker 6: the case, I mean, it's gravy. So hopefully you know,

671
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 6: continues on this trend and just continues to accelerate throughout

672
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 6: this year. Given that he's a rookie, this is going

673
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 6: to be the longest eighteen months of his life when

674
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 6: it comes to football, having to go from college to

675
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 6: the off season workouts to the draft, to offseason with

676
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 6: the team and then you know, playing through the season.

677
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 6: So hoping that the good things that are happening with

678
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 6: him continues to go through for the season and beyond.

679
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 5: Are we going to start his defensive Rookie of the

680
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 5: Year campaign right now?

681
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 1: I saw played Jacquelin Roy made today and I was like,

682
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 1: maybe that's.

683
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 5: Defensive year Okay, Okay, So he's being healthy, Yeah, I

684
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 5: think he's the guy to bring up.

685
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 3: I think he's been good.

686
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he hasn't played at all in the preseason.

687
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 7: Hey, he was banged up, yeah before the first preseason game,

688
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 7: but I was impressed before that, and now he's got

689
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 7: an opportunity here to come back and show it.

690
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jacquelin Roy. But all eyes and all roads after

691
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: the Saturday leads to Week one, the home opener inside

692
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 1: the number one stadium in the NFL. That's right, the

693
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: Athletic voted US Bank Stadium is the number one stadium

694
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And that pretty much is a testament

695
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: to ownership leadership here. I mean the hard work that

696
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: all of you know, our colleagues put in to make

697
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: sure it is one of the most raucous, loudest, best,

698
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: most beautiful stadiums in the NFL. And Jay, you've been

699
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: a part of this Minnesota Vikings organization since us Bank

700
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: Stadium opened. So from where it started when it first

701
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: when they first opened the doors in twenty sixteen, to

702
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: where we are now, what are some things that stand

703
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: out to you that makes us Bank Stadium the number

704
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: one stadium in the NFL.

705
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 6: So going back to the Metrodome. Way back in the Metrodome,

706
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 6: part of that was it was known as just an

707
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 6: insanely loud building, the acoustics of it echoing in the

708
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 6: audio and whether or not you pumped in audio, who knows.

709
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 6: But the Metrodome itself is known as an intimidating place

710
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 6: to play. That's why Vikings players love playing there, especially

711
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 6: in playoff games. But then you went to the open

712
00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 6: air stadium at TCF which is now Huntington Banks, and

713
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 6: it was just a completely different atmosphere. But one of

714
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 6: the things that was carrying on from the end of

715
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 6: the metrodme days to the Gopher Stadium and then to

716
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 6: where we are now, it was a vision for how

717
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 6: we wanted to conduct our game days, and there was

718
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 6: kind of it's almost like when you move a house

719
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 6: and you leave certain things behind, or you'd kind of

720
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 6: get rid of certain things and you try to refrain

721
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 6: and bring the good stuff with you. We've kind of

722
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 6: did that over that period of time from when we

723
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 6: left the Metro Dome to the Gopher Stadium and then

724
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 6: US Bank, and there's been a huge push internally to

725
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 6: make sure that when you go to a game, whether

726
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 6: it's the one time you get to go for your

727
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 6: life or if you're a weekly person, when you get

728
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 6: to those games, it's gonna be something memorable for your

729
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 6: future and make you want to come back. From adding

730
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 6: in initially with you the Dragonflame to now with the

731
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 6: Pyro and the Pyro that we do have the snow

732
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 6: and adding in those other elements. There are some extra

733
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 6: bells and whistles that'll be available week one of the

734
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 6: regular season that we haven't talked about yet. But because

735
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 6: of that, and because of the attention Breaknesota, because of

736
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 6: the attention to detail that we've been putting into kind

737
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 6: of our game production and really thinking it out. The

738
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 6: thing that's been great for us is we've been recognized

739
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 6: for it. We've won the Best in Football at the

740
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 6: IDEA Conference for out of the last five years. We

741
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 6: won the best in all of sports last this previous season,

742
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 6: and so for us, we just take a lot of

743
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 6: pride in that and know that the amount of time,

744
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 6: effort and people that have put in their hard work

745
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 6: and just taking something that was a vision and actually

746
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 6: making it reality is paying off and people enjoy it.

747
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 6: And that's the biggest thing. As long as everyone goes there, win, loser, draw,

748
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 6: we can put our best foot forward and in the

749
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 6: games that you win, everyone loves it, and in the

750
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 6: games that you lose, hopefully had fun in those moments

751
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 6: with something else that was going on besides a game.

752
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 6: So for us, we just love it and we take

753
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 6: a lot of pride in it, and so we're going

754
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 6: to keep that tradition going well into the future.

755
00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 3: I think it's food related.

756
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 2: I know one thing that just kept me going during

757
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 2: that preseason game was the whatever flavor of ice cream

758
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 2: that was.

759
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to figure that was, you know, I.

760
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 2: Really is that what it was, because I was really

761
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 2: having trouble picking up on what it was. Anyways, thank

762
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 2: you for that, so I can buy that in the future.

763
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 2: But I think that just in general, this franchise and

764
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 2: it's sort of ironic that we're sitting here recording this

765
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 2: when Ziggy comes in and is showing the owner of

766
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 2: the Cardinals, like what they're doing here?

767
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 1: Just tell them to tell us the paycheck you just

768
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: gave you.

769
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, right, No, But really in terms of top

770
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 2: to bottom, and this has played out in a lot

771
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 2: of objective measures. Uh, the NFLPA survey. The facilities that

772
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 2: exist here, you just cannot take them for granted and

773
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,319
Speaker 2: gave you were not here when we were at winter Park,

774
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,280
Speaker 2: but it was not ideal in a lot of different ways.

775
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 2: At Winter Park, h the media situation was not ideal,

776
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 2: but for the players either in the facilities that they

777
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 2: have and the you know, the stadium, the Metro, I

778
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 2: think has a lot of great memories for people, but

779
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 2: if you were doing more of an objective look at it,

780
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 2: maybe not the best stadium by the end of its

781
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 2: life because the roof collapse. That's my evidence of that.

782
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 2: So to put this in place and have incredible sight

783
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 2: lines for fans where any place in that building you

784
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 2: could see. I was up in the three hundreds for

785
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 2: T Swift and let me tell you, I was like, oh,

786
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 2: you know what, it's actually pretty comfortable. Up here and

787
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 2: I could see t Swift pretty well. But I just

788
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 2: think from from top to bottom, you can't ask for

789
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,720
Speaker 2: a better fan situation, but also a better home field

790
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 2: advantage that the Vikings have deployed over the years. And

791
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 2: you mentioned the game presentation. I mean, there's a reason why.

792
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 2: It's just at the very top. And for me, it's

793
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 2: one of my great memories of covering this team is

794
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,320
Speaker 2: being there for the first game of US Bank Stadium

795
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 2: was also the first regular season game I covered, and

796
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 2: I was like, so, this is what it is like.

797
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 2: I mean, because I was in Buffalo and they had

798
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 2: Ralph Wilson Stadium, who they wanted to tear down because

799
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 2: it's a million years old. The experience here versus an

800
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 2: older stadium, and we travel to all the stadiums and

801
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 2: so forth, there's just nothing quite on this level.

802
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 6: There's a lot.

803
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 2: I mean, Los Angeles' new stadium is sort of similar

804
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 2: to this, but it's just a complete level up from

805
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 2: so many other facilities, whether it's fans, players, or US

806
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 2: up in the media as well.

807
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, it's it's absolutely top notch.

808
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,839
Speaker 6: I have a friend of mine who, for example, lived

809
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 6: here his entire life. He's in his forties. The memories

810
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 6: of going to World Series games and Vikings games and

811
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 6: all that kind of stuff was just embedded in him.

812
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 6: And when we had built a new stadium and everything,

813
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 6: he was going to his first game and we were

814
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 6: talking about he says, man, I don't know. I'm just

815
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 6: I missed the dome. I missed the fact that it's gone.

816
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 6: This beautiful building looks beautiful and everything, but I'm really

817
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 6: having a hard time the fact that it's not going

818
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 6: to be a metrodome for a Vikings game. And I

819
00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 6: told him, I said, when you walk in the building,

820
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 6: you will change your tune and gates open. Fifteen minutes

821
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 6: into gates open, I just get a text going, you

822
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 6: were right. And that was the moment where I think

823
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,359
Speaker 6: a lot of fans, especially who have gone through the years,

824
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 6: all the way even back to Mett Stadium, there is

825
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 6: a sense of lore for each of those because it's

826
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,280
Speaker 6: different eras of when you were paying attention to football

827
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 6: and when you're paying attention to Twins games and other

828
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 6: events that were going on in those places. And I

829
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,839
Speaker 6: think the thing that's been most gratifying since we open

830
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 6: the building is just how many memories have already started

831
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 6: in that part, and for the people that had an

832
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:35,919
Speaker 6: older building or had been to some of those older

833
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,839
Speaker 6: buildings coming to the new places with the new amenities

834
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 6: and everything that we're trying to provide for a game entertainment,

835
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 6: it just feels like it's paying off and people are

836
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 6: enjoying themselves. And that's all we can ask for is

837
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 6: the time and effort we put into it and feeling

838
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 6: like the details mattered that we're seeing that kind of

839
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 6: results from the way that people react to it, not

840
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 6: only the players, but other owners, other players and other teams.

841
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 6: You'll see people being mic up for for NFL films

842
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 6: and they'll even make a comment about the skull chant happening.

843
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 6: Like having those kind of moments and making those kind

844
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 6: of traditions are the things that we've really put a

845
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 6: lot of time and effort and thought into and just

846
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 6: making it a reality of something that's been very gratifying.

847
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 1: It's all intentional, and I think that's what makes it

848
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: such a great experience for Vikings fans or even if

849
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 1: you're not a football fan, if you come to the

850
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: US Bank Stadium, you just feel the energy here and

851
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 1: just so many people behind the scenes that make this

852
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: engine go or make this ship sal. So on top

853
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 1: of that, clearly US Bank has really been a really

854
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,799
Speaker 1: good place for Vikings fans because if you rewind back

855
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: to nineteen seventy, the Vikings have the best home winning

856
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: percentage in the NFC since nineteen seventy sixty seven percent

857
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: winning percentage, and that's better than the Cowboys, the Packers,

858
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks, and the San Francisco forty nine ers. So

859
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: clearly you're coming in for an experience, but it's also

860
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: a home field advantage for the team in Purple Kyler.

861
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 3: You had to go back to nineteen seventy on that one.

862
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 1: I had to go all the way back.

863
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 3: Okay, wow, that I mean that is the league merger well,

864
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 3: since we.

865
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 2: Are not going to focus too much on like the

866
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 2: far of Rogers era at Lambeau too much for their

867
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 2: home field advantage. But no, I mean, honestly, the I

868
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,320
Speaker 2: think if you're an opposing team coming in here, especially

869
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 2: teams that haven't liked the Packers, have been enough times

870
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 2: to game plan for it. But you just see the

871
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 2: looks on some faces, like what is going on with

872
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 2: this noise? And there's a there's a peak level that

873
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 2: it got back to last year with Kevin O'Connell's first

874
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:27,959
Speaker 2: year and just things that were happening with the team

875
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:30,959
Speaker 2: where and I'm sure you guys have experienced this, there's

876
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 2: this sort of reverberation where it almost sounds like it's

877
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,000
Speaker 2: going in and out, but it's probably just your ears

878
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 2: messing with you, and that I think you know. Twenty

879
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 2: twenty one, it wasn't quite the same. There was a feeling,

880
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 2: I think within the fan base that some changes needed

881
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 2: to be made, and it returned last year and you

882
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 2: just see the like, oh no, a tight end is

883
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 2: blocking Daniel Hunter because they couldn't figure out who was

884
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 2: supposed to block who. And there's there's an intensity to it.

885
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 2: But there's also a distinct advantage that comes along with

886
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 2: the amount of noise that this place is able to create,

887
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 2: and I think that that does help them for sure.

888
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:05,880
Speaker 4: It's so special.

889
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 5: I love being able to have family and friends come

890
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 5: up here and watch a game and take it in

891
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,880
Speaker 5: just because it definitely is truly one of a kind.

892
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 5: Not very many stadiums make you feel like you're outdoors

893
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 5: when you're not outdoors. As someone who grew up going

894
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 5: to games the Superdome. It's completely different for all the

895
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,879
Speaker 5: best reasons. And yeah, I can I can see why

896
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,839
Speaker 5: it's such a nice home field. I mean sure home

897
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 5: field tertory obviously is the stadium, but I think it's also,

898
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,720
Speaker 5: like you mentioned, it's the fan base. It's it's the noise,

899
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,400
Speaker 5: it's it's that feeling of comfort and home. And this

900
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 5: is I love when a team is like the only

901
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:40,800
Speaker 5: team in a state that matters. It's not like a

902
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 5: state where it's divided by two teams or whatnot. I

903
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 5: do love when it's just like a one team kind

904
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 5: of state. Take that Los Angeles exactly, or New York

905
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 5: or some Texas. I know it sounds kind of crazy,

906
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 5: but it is nice when you've got like you represent

907
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 5: the whole.

908
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,959
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I know, like for me, the other state

909
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 6: that always have kind of the noise advantage as well, Seattle.

910
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 6: Like Seattle with the way that it's even just built,

911
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 6: kind of pushes that audio back in off of the fans.

912
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 6: Kansas City is always a madhouse, to be fair. The

913
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 6: New Orleans, you know, former super Mercediti has been super

914
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 6: Dome down. New Orleans was one of the craziest I

915
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,360
Speaker 6: mean that O nine Championship game was probably the loudest

916
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 6: game I've ever been to. I know a lot of

917
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,399
Speaker 6: people have talked about as well, the London game last

918
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:32,439
Speaker 6: year being insanely noisy at Tottenham. But to have those

919
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 6: kind of advantages, I mean, if you are at to

920
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 6: a peak, especially in a playoff game, and you're on

921
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 6: the opposing sideline and you can't communicate, that is a

922
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 6: ridiculous advantage because it just it throws everything off by

923
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 6: a couple seconds, and those couple of seconds can be critical.

924
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 6: You're burning timeouts, you're you're you know, causing busted plays

925
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 6: and all that kind of stuff. And so for us,

926
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 6: I think and our fans are smart enough that when

927
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 6: you get to that point and we start throwing noise, graphics,

928
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 6: stuff up, they just understand ratchet it up over and

929
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:05,760
Speaker 6: over and over again. And there really is there's nothing

930
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 6: like when fans are just completely bought into an intense situation.

931
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,359
Speaker 6: Fourth quarter got to have it and to have them

932
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:14,280
Speaker 6: there in that building is really special.

933
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 2: I do have a stat for that on for you games,

934
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 2: we'll go research for research. When I was trying to

935
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 2: figure out what it was going to be like, without fans,

936
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,839
Speaker 2: which is a nightmare that I want to forget. For

937
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 2: like the first three plays like, oh I can hear

938
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, this is weird, and then I never want

939
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 2: that to ever happen again. But I looked at twenty

940
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 2: sixteen from the time it opened until the end of

941
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:44,960
Speaker 2: the twenty nineteen season obviously pre COVID and home and

942
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 2: away sacks for the Vikings, and they were midpack away

943
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 2: and number one at home, and I think that Mike

944
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 2: Zimmer specifically knew how to take advantage of that. I

945
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 2: also think Brian Flores is going to take advantage of that, Yeah,

946
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 2: because when you load up the box with seven or

947
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 2: eight people and you don't know who's blitzing and who's not,

948
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 2: that's a lot of communication that is very difficult to

949
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 2: do for opposing offensive lines. I think that's where they

950
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 2: could get an edge with him as their defensive coordinator specifically.

951
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 6: That kind of reminds me of just like the Steelers

952
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 6: teams when you had your palamlos and everybody running up

953
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 6: to the line and you just see seven guys across

954
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 6: or even you know New England, you know they would

955
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 6: do the same thing, and just that having those kind

956
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 6: of defenses, and the fans are even excited to him,

957
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,839
Speaker 6: going like, what is this. You know, you're definitely paying

958
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 6: attention going out of this chaos comes order, and so

959
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 6: to have that kind of a thing that's potentially going

960
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 6: to be your defense, I think there's gonna be a

961
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 6: lot of excitement for fans who have paid attention for

962
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 6: a lot of years just to say this is something

963
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,439
Speaker 6: completely different than what we've seen for a very long time.

964
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: Well, it's the Pop Warner plays that Brian Flories calls.

965
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 1: It's the plays that he steals from his son. And

966
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: if you don't know what I'm talking about, he answered

967
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 1: her question on via press conference yesterday and he said

968
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,280
Speaker 1: he's one who samples when he comes to his playbook.

969
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: He says, So if I see something I like as

970
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,839
Speaker 1: I'm watching the game, for example, must just started Pop

971
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: Warner the other day and they do something in their

972
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:06,360
Speaker 1: nine man football that I think is worthy of installing,

973
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,280
Speaker 1: I'll put it in. So clearly, Brian Flores has figured

974
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:12,439
Speaker 1: out the concept of football, keep it simple, have fun,

975
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:14,359
Speaker 1: and if the kids are doing it, why not us.

976
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 2: Well on med and I use the engage eights, you

977
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 2: just send everybody, So I think him and I are

978
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:19,439
Speaker 2: very much on the same base.

979
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm throwing go balls on you.

980
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:24,360
Speaker 6: I'm just looking forward to somebody wheeling out a cooler

981
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 6: with popsicles for the defense in between.

982
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 1: P exactly. Yeah, Jay, before we get out of here,

983
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: tune in info for Saturday against the Cardinals.

984
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 6: So Saturday against the Cardinals is a noon game this

985
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 6: week from US Bank Stadium. As we were talking about earlier,

986
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 6: check out Fox nine KMSP locally here for the game

987
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:46,839
Speaker 6: at noon game day livebl pregame before our game, so

988
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 6: check that out at the exact same space and just

989
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:52,719
Speaker 6: kind of parlay that straight into our simulcast broadcast with

990
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 6: KFA audio. Simulcast again ten am begins on Kfan for

991
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 6: the Vikings Radio network, so check them out here locally

992
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 6: in the Twin Cities on one hundred point three FM

993
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 6: and then all across the Vikings Radio network within the

994
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,959
Speaker 6: Twin Cities market. You can also stream the Vikings game

995
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 6: from your Vikings app or Vikings dot Com. You can

996
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 6: also check out the iHeartMedia app in order to get

997
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:20,359
Speaker 6: your live stream for audio there as well. If you're

998
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 6: in Duluth, Rochester, Mancato Fargo, North Dakota, Bismarck, North Dakota,

999
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:28,799
Speaker 6: So Fall, South Dakota, Des Moines, Iowa, or Lacrosse, Wisconsin.

1000
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 6: Check your local listings to find it on your local

1001
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 6: TV station and then within our designated international markets in

1002
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 6: the UK and Canada. You can also stream it on

1003
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 6: our app and on our website. And all of this

1004
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 6: to be said, if you have NFL Plus as a subscription,

1005
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 6: you can get it there, so anywhere that you can

1006
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 6: get NFL network and all of your local viewing areas

1007
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 6: it is available.

1008
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 1: So check it all out.

1009
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,799
Speaker 6: And make sure to tune in at noon for the

1010
00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 6: Vikings kickoff against the Arizona Cardinals this Saturday.

1011
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: Man, this is a on podcasts. Kyler, thank you for

1012
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: joining us.

1013
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 5: Thanks for having me gosh, I thought I definitely just

1014
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:05,919
Speaker 5: thought you said Kyler.

1015
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:08,839
Speaker 1: Kyler Kyler Murray. Matthew Kyler, Murray.

1016
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Speaker 3: I'm taller.

1017
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Speaker 4: I can't argue that one.

1018
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Speaker 1: Well for Matthew Coller, Tatum, average A. Nelson and Eric Davis.

1019
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Speaker 1: And my name is Gaye Panderson. Thank you guys for

1020
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Speaker 1: tuning into this joint edition of the Minnesota Vikings podcast.

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