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Speaker 1: Yo, what's going on? Is the Vikings postgame report with

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Speaker 1: p Versuch.

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Speaker 2: I'm Paul Allen.

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Speaker 1: This is powered by Looman and the Sunday was powered

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Speaker 1: by everything that is Minnesota Vikings football. Snapping a four

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Speaker 1: game losing streak, taking the ball from the adversary three times.

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Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy with a career best three passing touchdowns, Josh

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Speaker 1: Oliver with a career best two receiving touchdowns. It's the

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Speaker 1: fiftieth victory all time at US Bank Stadium and JJ

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Speaker 1: McCarthy finally got a victory in front of the home fans.

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Speaker 1: What's going on, analyst?

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Speaker 3: You do a lot of the little things right and

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Speaker 3: things go in your favor. And I think for simplifying

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Speaker 3: the offense and all that was tough with McCarthy pregame.

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Speaker 3: We noticed early on in the first half just a

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Speaker 3: lot the timing, just McCarthy not holding out of the football,

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Speaker 3: making quick decisions, getting rid of it. Was confident and

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Speaker 3: was able to move this offense up and down the field.

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Speaker 3: And then the running game just staying with it right,

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Speaker 3: just wearing out. And we talked about this before the

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Speaker 3: game started. Just teams that can win the time of possession,

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Speaker 3: which we did by almost ten minutes. Can just wear

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Speaker 3: down the Commanders deep about that. And we did you know,

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Speaker 3: we had one hundred and sixty two yards on the ground.

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Speaker 3: We had more yards rushing than we did throwing. I

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Speaker 3: can't remember the last time that happened, right in a win.

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Speaker 3: And then you get a couple, you get a two

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Speaker 3: score lead, and then what happens offenses?

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Speaker 2: What do they do?

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Speaker 3: They start depressed. This is the first time our defense

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Speaker 3: has been on the field with the lead in a

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Speaker 3: long time, substantial lead and for a long period of time.

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Speaker 3: That's when the turnovers start, and then the whole thing

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Speaker 3: just snowballs. It's a snowball effect. And doing the little

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Speaker 3: things right, engine, penalties and you know, just all those

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Speaker 3: little bitty things they all kind of fixed and came

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Speaker 3: together today with a win for a win against the Commanders.

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Speaker 1: We we will hear from Kevin O'Connell and JJ McCarthy shortly.

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Speaker 1: But something I presented for Pete Bursich, who was a

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Speaker 1: coach in the NFL coach Linebackers back in the day.

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Speaker 1: In the pregame show Viking's Football Sunday, KFAM was simplifying

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Speaker 1: an offense. When when a coach says we're going to

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Speaker 1: simplify an offense, like what goes into that? So with

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Speaker 1: that known, what did you see today that played into it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, much a much quick, quicker rhythm passing game. We

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Speaker 3: saw a lot more in the way of tight ends

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Speaker 3: and all of this. It wasn't put on McCarthy's shoulder.

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Speaker 3: We didn see a lot of plays checked at the

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Speaker 3: line of scrimmage. He kind of just got up there

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Speaker 3: and snapped it, so they didn't think. They took away

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Speaker 3: a little bit of that run pass option, and then

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Speaker 3: some of the reads that are down the field and

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Speaker 3: the deep passing game that we have and we've been

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Speaker 3: used to just having to read all those progressions, the

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Speaker 3: safeties and if and then's and all. They just kind

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Speaker 3: of took all that away. The Commanders helped us by

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Speaker 3: playing off coverage on the with the corners and allowing

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Speaker 3: the sidelines to be opened, so they helped in that regard.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, this just those things and allowing this offense

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Speaker 3: to get into a rhythm really may really have made

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Speaker 1: And for the Vikings during the four game losing streak,

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Speaker 1: you know, the defense with respect. Everybody has been giving

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Speaker 1: Flores defense was holding opponents to twenty five percent on

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Speaker 1: third down. They sacked Sam Darnold four times, which was

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Speaker 1: like thirty eight percent of the amount of sax he

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Speaker 1: thing was ten to six early in the third quarter.

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Speaker 1: Then we had a punt problem. They scored. It was

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Speaker 1: a two score game right there, and that was trouble.

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Speaker 1: So Brian Flores with Jonathan Gernard Andrew Van Ginkle had

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Speaker 1: an interception today, so did Harrison Smith Javon Hargrave with

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Speaker 1: a force fumble and fumble recovery, and it was beautiful.

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Speaker 1: The Vikings defense, despite the losing streak, has been playing

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Speaker 3: And you go into this game minus fifteen in the

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Speaker 3: It was just so refreshing, Paul to be able to

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Speaker 3: see our defense go out there, have fun, show different looks. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 3: got to give credit to Flores. He has kept his

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Speaker 3: And this is again against the number three rushing team

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Speaker 3: and the next thing you know, Harrison Smith picks off

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Speaker 1: Thirty eight for the hit Man, which moved in past

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Speaker 1: Joey Browner for fourth best in the history of Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Vikings football. Let's hear from Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin

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Speaker 1: O'Connell after a thirty one zero victory in Minneapolis against Washington.

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Speaker 4: Just want to first and foremost highlight our fans, finally

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Speaker 4: to give them, it's been a few weeks since we

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Speaker 4: gave them the type of performance that you know, the

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Speaker 4: best home environment, best fan base in football deserves at

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Speaker 4: US Bank Stadium.

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Speaker 2: Very proud of our team.

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Speaker 4: Really felt like, you know, in a lot of ways,

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Speaker 4: whether you're talking the physicality which we played with, protected

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Speaker 4: but be efficient enough running the football to stay ahead

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Speaker 4: of the chains, limited penalty and then like I said,

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Speaker 4: our defense doing great work all day long keeping him

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Speaker 2: Fourth down stop huge.

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Speaker 4: We wanted to start fast, took the ball and able

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Speaker 4: then defense gets to stop and then we can keep

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Speaker 4: the ball for the next twelve minutes on a very

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Speaker 2: Third down conversions.

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Speaker 4: I thought JJ had some phenomenal plays on third down

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Speaker 4: and then just continued to play within himself. Decision making

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Speaker 2: So very proud of him.

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Speaker 4: And and and a lot of guys for that matter,

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Speaker 4: and a lot of football left players have overcome a

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Speaker 4: lot of adversity, and really proud and very just very

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Speaker 4: appreciative I told them of just the consistency of staying

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Speaker 4: that are very very important, not only in football in

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Speaker 4: things that I'm really proud of with our guys. I'm

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Speaker 4: very appreciative of that. No real injury updates for you guys.

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Speaker 4: We came out relatively clean and with that, I'll open

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Speaker 5: Was the game plan set up to make things easy

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Speaker 5: for JJ or did he just execute things better?

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Speaker 4: I think it was a combination of JJ's execution staying efficient.

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Speaker 4: We used some different you know, we had some different

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Speaker 4: some changeups to maybe some things we've done either personnel

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Speaker 4: But I do think the situational football is probably not

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Speaker 4: gonna be talked about. But when you run the football efficiently,

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Speaker 4: that's great. But you're gonna have some third downs and

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Speaker 4: you know, uh, I thought was phenomenal, especially with some

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Speaker 2: What goes into the decision to receive from the outset.

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Speaker 4: Of the game, it's kind of a field thing. Just

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Speaker 2: You take the ball.

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Speaker 2: Now you at least have the field position on your side.

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Speaker 4: A lot of ways where we avoid any sort of

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Speaker 6: Tight ends are pretty active early on that first drive, yep.

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Speaker 4: There was parts of the plan where you know, in

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Speaker 4: still got to execute on third down, which when you know,

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Speaker 4: He protected the ball, he made throws situationally, he made

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Speaker 4: you know, put an exclamation point on the day and

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00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,040
Speaker 4: had a chance there, but JJ had to move off

444
00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,120
Speaker 4: the spot. But we're going to find ways to get

445
00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:12,240
Speaker 4: Justin the ball. He did not play sixty minutes today.

446
00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:14,439
Speaker 4: That was a tough conversation. He tried to avoid me

447
00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:16,920
Speaker 4: and run out on the field with about seven or

448
00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:19,280
Speaker 4: eight minutes left in the game. We were able to

449
00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:23,760
Speaker 4: kind of, you know, a collective group effort between myself, Keenan,

450
00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:27,159
Speaker 4: and a couple other folks, probably Dave of course our

451
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,840
Speaker 4: security guy as well, because Justin did not want to

452
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Speaker 4: come out of the game.

453
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Speaker 2: Obviously. But if Justin.

454
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Speaker 4: Has demonstrated anything this year, the leadership smile on his

455
00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:41,480
Speaker 4: face right now, he wants to win. I think along

456
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:43,520
Speaker 4: the lines of in this day and age where it's

457
00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:45,520
Speaker 4: really easy to look at these and say this guy

458
00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:47,960
Speaker 4: did this and this guy did that. Justin Jeffers has

459
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,440
Speaker 4: been playing at a really high level, and he did

460
00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,280
Speaker 4: again today. It's not necessarily going to always show up

461
00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,000
Speaker 4: in the stat sheet, but he means the absolute world

462
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,960
Speaker 4: to this organization. And you don't have a performance like

463
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Speaker 4: we did today, your leadership, justin being a huge part

464
00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:07,440
Speaker 4: of that remains to drive, remains driving the ship forward.

465
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,359
Speaker 2: And bring in some teammates along with him.

466
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Speaker 1: All right, Coach talked about JJ McCarthy. We're gonna hear

467
00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:17,359
Speaker 1: from me momentarily. But with McCarthy, everything was just quicker today.

468
00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 1: Whether it was a close game or not, it was.

469
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Speaker 1: It was three five, seven step drop fire and I

470
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 1: started out four for four forty six yards. I touched

471
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Speaker 1: down to Oliver, built his confidence. JJ looked good today,

472
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Speaker 1: Yeah he did.

473
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Speaker 3: And you know one of the things with McCarthy too,

474
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Speaker 3: is just the average distance that he's trying to complete

475
00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 3: passes has been around ten yards. It's been it's been

476
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Speaker 3: way up there, and so I think they short and

477
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,240
Speaker 3: they shortened that for him. They weren't, you know, he

478
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Speaker 3: wasn't taking so many shots deep down the field, and

479
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:49,720
Speaker 3: you know, you know, so we saw the rapport with

480
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Speaker 3: the tight ends. You know, we're still kind of waiting

481
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Speaker 3: on how does Justin Jefferson fit into all of this? Right,

482
00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:00,840
Speaker 3: two receptions eleven yards, You've got a shorter, quicker passing game.

483
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Speaker 3: How is Justin Jefferson going to fit in all this?

484
00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 3: I think that's the next kind of piece of the puzzle,

485
00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:07,920
Speaker 3: as long as everything else stays the same, Ye keeps

486
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:12,080
Speaker 3: going in that direction, but much more of a controlled

487
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:13,480
Speaker 3: short passing game today.

488
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I was giggling while you were talking because Tatum Everett,

489
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 1: who helps us immensely with this, she was looking at

490
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,879
Speaker 1: me giggling because she's seen you and I more so

491
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 1: me after the last four games, just apoplexy, Like now

492
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,240
Speaker 1: it's a okay, we're five and eight and not going

493
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Speaker 1: to the playoffs, but this sure beats the alternative. Specifically

494
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 1: for those of us who spend a lot of time

495
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Speaker 1: around the facility. That would include JJ McCarthy, quarterback for

496
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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings, a career best three passing touchdowns today

497
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Speaker 1: and his first win at US Bank Stadium. Here's what

498
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Speaker 1: Number nine had to say after the.

499
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Speaker 10: Game, obviously, great to get the win here at US

500
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,359
Speaker 10: Bank Stadium today, great to get a fast start. I

501
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 10: thought the defense played fantastic. Getting those turnovers really just

502
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:57,359
Speaker 10: does a lot for the entirety of the team and

503
00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,840
Speaker 10: the momentum for the offense. So I thought we played,

504
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 10: but you know, there's still gonna be a lot of

505
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 10: things we got to clean up, and it's just another

506
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 10: step in the right direction.

507
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,200
Speaker 5: You looked very calm in the pocket. Did you feel

508
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 5: calm in the pockets today?

509
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Speaker 2: For sure?

510
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,760
Speaker 10: Offensive line played fantastic, receivers were getting open. Coach O'Connell

511
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,119
Speaker 10: was calling great plays where it was just put it

512
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:18,880
Speaker 10: in play kind of feel to it, and uh yeah,

513
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,160
Speaker 10: it was just a very comfy pocket all day.

514
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 2: Did it was different today?

515
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,600
Speaker 1: Maybe in the complete, just all four quarters compared to some.

516
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Speaker 2: Of the early games.

517
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Speaker 10: I just feel like we were able to stack positive

518
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 10: plays and you know, execute in all three phases. That's

519
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Speaker 10: something you know that's gonna win you a lot of

520
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,639
Speaker 10: football games, and we just got to continue to strive

521
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:37,640
Speaker 10: to do that every single week.

522
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,200
Speaker 7: When you guys win there, you get the chance to

523
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:41,760
Speaker 7: tick the ball first.

524
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Speaker 2: How much had you.

525
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Speaker 7: Talked about that throughout the week of if we get

526
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Speaker 7: the coin toss, we're gonna go out and try to

527
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Speaker 7: set up message.

528
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:51,960
Speaker 10: Early found out like maybe ten seconds before the coin toss.

529
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Speaker 10: But uh, you know, no matter what, we don't let

530
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Speaker 10: that dictate you know how We're gonna attack each and

531
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Speaker 10: every play. Every time we get the ball, we're expecting

532
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Speaker 10: to score. So you know, just gives us you know,

533
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 10: the let's go koh, you know, kind of feel to

534
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 10: it going into the game. But you know, at the

535
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 10: end of the day, it's just all about executing.

536
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 7: When you get that chance to go out there that quickly,

537
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 7: I guess how much does that kind of instills confidence

538
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 7: in you? Hey, this is a chance to get some momentum,

539
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:16,400
Speaker 7: which we haven't done a lot this year.

540
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,480
Speaker 10: Early it meant a lot because you know, that was

541
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,639
Speaker 10: our you know, key pillar to the game was starting fast.

542
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Speaker 10: And for coach O'Connell to say, you know, the offense

543
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Speaker 10: is going to start it off for us, you know,

544
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 10: it was tremendous honor and you know, I was happy

545
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Speaker 10: we were able to go and reassure him that we're

546
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,199
Speaker 10: able to do that. And you know, the defense, they

547
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 10: they are just right up there with starting fast and

548
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 10: they had a tremendous game. Obviously, that fourth and one

549
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:41,959
Speaker 10: stop on the goal line is you know, what our

550
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,359
Speaker 10: team's all about, what our defense has been all about

551
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 10: all year.

552
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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's great for you to stack positive plays.

553
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:49,679
Speaker 2: Like how validating is it?

554
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 5: Just in terms of the work that you're putting in.

555
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 2: On a daily basically extremely validating.

556
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Speaker 10: You know a lot of things have to come together

557
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 10: for that to happen, but obviously the biggest role in

558
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,159
Speaker 10: that happening is the quarter back and you know, just

559
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 10: to find a rhythm, find a flow. It was a

560
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 10: lot of fun doing that.

561
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Speaker 8: So is there any particular play or decision you made

562
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 8: that still kind of stands on your mind? And you

563
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 8: feel pretty good and devout right now.

564
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 10: You know, there's a lot that is going through my

565
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 10: head right now in terms of what I need to

566
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 10: do better, what I was you know, happy with, but

567
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 10: at the end of the day, just happy we got

568
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 10: the win and you know we're gonna critique this like

569
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 10: crazy tonight and fix it tomorrow.

570
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,200
Speaker 5: Do you think today was a result of having done

571
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 5: a lot of work on your mechanics or is it

572
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 5: more not thinking about mechanics and just playing.

573
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:37,919
Speaker 10: In my opinion, I think it was just playing, you know,

574
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 10: just going out there. And you know, the big message

575
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,679
Speaker 10: of last night's team meeting was, you know, play for

576
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 10: that sixteen year old self, that sixteen year old version

577
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 10: of yourself. Understand you know what got you into this game,

578
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 10: what made you fall in love with this game, regardless

579
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 10: of the record, regardless of where we are this season.

580
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 10: Just go out there and have fun, play fast, play free.

581
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 10: And I feel like we all did that today. Who

582
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 10: was putting that message out Coach Hawkins. He talked to

583
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 10: the offense on I believe Wednesday or Thursday in the

584
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,880
Speaker 10: unit meeting, and then coach O'Connell reiterated it last.

585
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 2: Night, like your sixteen year olds self, I did a.

586
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 10: Little bit, yeah, with a lot of wisdom that I

587
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 10: picked up, you know from this year and just you know,

588
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 10: all the learning lessons from them. But you know, just

589
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 10: felt like it was a bunch of guys out there

590
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 10: that were having fun and yeah.

591
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 2: It's good.

592
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 11: Jonathan Grenard said something interesting. He said that you played

593
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 11: in such a ice way that you can't win back

594
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 11: any of the games that you've lost in terms of

595
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 11: having that short memory, and then to go out there

596
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 11: and do that when you have a defensive guy kind

597
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,400
Speaker 11: of notice that change in you and not carrying any

598
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 11: ghosts of past losses forward.

599
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 5: What does that mean?

600
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 2: Means everything? You know.

601
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,879
Speaker 10: I have so much respect for that guy, especially just

602
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 10: the tremendous player. He is tremendous leader, the character that

603
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 10: he has, it means the world. But at the end

604
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 10: of the day, it doesn't matter, you know what happened today.

605
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 2: It's about doing.

606
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 10: It again and consistently growing and staying on the right

607
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,400
Speaker 10: trojeck of being the best version of ourselves. So yeah,

608
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:03,680
Speaker 10: but it means a lot for sure.

609
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 6: I know you're you're always been confident, but did you

610
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 6: need like some early success today to just kind of

611
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 6: find that rhythm? I mean, knowing how things have gone,

612
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:14,360
Speaker 6: you know in the past.

613
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 10: Few games, I feel like early late, it doesn't matter

614
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 10: when it happens, it's just got to happen. So being

615
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 10: able to do it when we wanted to start and

616
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,679
Speaker 10: fast obviously that carries momentum throughout the game. But you know,

617
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 10: just focusing on that play, one play at a time,

618
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 10: think was the best thing for me today.

619
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Speaker 6: Be reminded that you can play that way.

620
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 10: I guess, yeah, but I don't know, but would you

621
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 10: ask not like just to be reminded that.

622
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 2: You yeah, like that.

623
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's definitely reassuring. I always knew I had that,

624
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 10: and I always knew the potential is there, but you know,

625
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 10: I'm looking at it right now, like there's so many

626
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 10: ways I could get better. There's so I'm so far

627
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 10: from where I want to be. So, you know, it's

628
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 10: just great to get the win. And uh, you know, girl,

629
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 10: in this uh, in this game.

630
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 7: In terms of working through and being as decisive with

631
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 7: that as you were today, what do you feel like

632
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 7: a difference.

633
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 10: Was that familiarity with the concepts? You know, this was

634
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 10: a lot of stuff that we worked on in OTA's

635
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 10: in training camp, and you know it was specialty routes

636
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 10: for you know, those specific guys. So I feel like,

637
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 10: you know, with the offensive line, obviously, it all starts

638
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 10: with them playing their ass off today and made everything flow.

639
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 11: What was it like on the field to throw up

640
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 11: that nineteen play drive and what was the feeling of

641
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 11: walking off.

642
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 2: After scoring touchdown?

643
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 10: No idea, it was nineteen plays, but you know here

644
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:32,959
Speaker 10: in twelve minutes here and it was one of the

645
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 10: longest drives and time of possession for that drive in

646
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 10: Viking's history.

647
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 2: It's awesome.

648
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 10: But you know, we just can't wait to go do

649
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 10: it again. And the boys were huffing and puffing, but

650
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 10: good thing we were conditioned and uh, you know, prepared

651
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 10: for that moment.

652
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 5: You finished a lot of runs today by diving forward.

653
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 5: I've heard some quarterbacktually as actually the safer way to

654
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,959
Speaker 5: finish a run. Is that intentional or is that just

655
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 5: what was there for you at the moment.

656
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 10: It's always been intentional. I picked that up from a

657
00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 10: coach Harbaugh when I was at Michigan, just understanding gonna

658
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 10: lose yards and you're getting to the ground quicker and

659
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 10: your head's not as exposed, but you always got to

660
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 10: be cautious whether you're you know, sliding feet first or

661
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 10: head first. Those guys are coming to hit you. So

662
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:11,959
Speaker 10: you know there's a time and place for everything.

663
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 2: But yeah, for.

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Speaker 9: Sure, JJ coach talked a lot about getting you comfortable.

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Speaker 2: We talked to Justin earlier.

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Speaker 9: He said, you know, one of the things is we

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Speaker 9: can't forget that JJ's a young quarterback's figuring it out.

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Speaker 2: How important is it.

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Speaker 9: For you to be on the field and getting as

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Speaker 9: many reps as possible to just get your footing back.

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Speaker 2: On the meek extremely important. You know, that's where it's

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Speaker 2: all about.

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Speaker 10: That's how you're gonna grow and get better experiencing the

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Speaker 10: live bullets. And you know that's something I learned very

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Speaker 10: early on in my career. The best ability you can

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Speaker 10: have it is availability, and that goes back to your

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Speaker 10: question about sliding the right way and when to do that,

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Speaker 10: when to throw the ball away. So yeah, the more

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Speaker 10: reps the better, and honestly, just the more reps with

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Speaker 10: these guys the better because I love playing with them

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Speaker 10: every single snap.

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Speaker 9: Besides getting w's like, how do you for you personally

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Speaker 9: your own growth development?

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Speaker 2: How do you want to close this season? I'm strong?

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Speaker 2: What is a successful JJ season looks like for you?

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Speaker 10: Being disciplined with the football, making the right decisions, winning

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Speaker 10: football games obviously, but doing all the little things right

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Speaker 10: day in and day out, building those habits that are

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Speaker 10: concrete going into the offseason, and continue to go on

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Speaker 10: that trajectory. But all we care about is the next day,

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Speaker 10: the next meeting, the next practice, and you know we'll

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Speaker 10: be in a good spot by the end of it.

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Speaker 7: JJ, is there any part of you when it's a

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Speaker 7: veteran offense like this that says it's important to have

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Speaker 7: a game like this just to kind of show the

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Speaker 7: more experienced players around me that I can deliver this

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Speaker 7: and it doesn't have to be something. But they have

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Speaker 7: to wait much longer for that to happen.

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Speaker 10: That wasn't really a thought going in, but feeling it

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Speaker 10: afterwards from the guys, it means a lot. And you know,

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Speaker 10: it's just something that I feel like should have happened

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Speaker 10: a lot earlier. So you know, I absolutely love those

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Speaker 10: guys for the grace and patience they've had with me.

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Speaker 10: But you know, we got to continue to do it again.

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Speaker 10: You're only successful as your last successful act, and we're

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Speaker 10: going to get to work, you know, tomorrow, Tuesday or

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Speaker 10: Wednesday and keep this thing rolling.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: JJ Kevin highlighted the touchdown to TJ.

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Speaker 8: What did you see on that one?

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Speaker 2: Read two?

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Speaker 10: Kind of simple as day coverage. Understanding that Jets on

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Speaker 10: the fade ball if they were playing any sort of

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Speaker 10: man got to fit it in there on fourth and one.

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Speaker 10: It can't be a tipball or anything like that. Had

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Speaker 10: to move my eyes with Luvu because he's such a

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Speaker 10: great player in reading eyes and very quick and agile.

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Speaker 10: But TJ and I talked about it all week. It's

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Speaker 10: the built in reps throughout the week that made that

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Speaker 10: play come to life. And he made a tremendous catch

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Speaker 10: and stayed up two, which was pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: All Right, Sunday Night at Dallas Sunday Night football against

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, Ceedee Lamb and that gang and really just

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Speaker 1: continuing the positivity and the maturation of JJ McCarthy. That's

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Speaker 1: still the a topic it is.

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Speaker 3: And you know, for for the Cowboys, they're going to

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Speaker 3: get a look at a kind of a completely different

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Speaker 3: offense from what we saw in Seattle, but the defense

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Speaker 3: is really going to get tested. This is a very

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Speaker 3: good Dallas Cowboys offense. I know Ceee Lamb's been nicked up.

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Speaker 3: They got some people nicked up.

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Speaker 2: We'll see.

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Speaker 3: We got some time for them to heal. But this

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Speaker 3: is this is an offense that it wants to throw

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Speaker 3: the football. You know, they have a lot of talent

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Speaker 3: at the wide receiver position. Can we get to Dak

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Speaker 3: Prescott like we did today against Jade and Daniels. Can

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Speaker 3: we force him into some bad throws, which I think

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Speaker 3: we can do so it's gonna be a great test

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Speaker 3: for the defense and for the offense. Just just Paul,

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Speaker 3: I guess I can't say this is the first game

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Speaker 3: at J J. McCarthy hasn't thrown an interception, Yep, right,

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Speaker 3: I mean, and it's it's no small deal. It's no

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Speaker 3: small deal at all. The way you know, the having

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Speaker 3: given being minus fifteen and the take give right worse

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Speaker 3: than the NFL by three. That is the main culprit

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Speaker 3: that in penalties things like that, and we fixed almost

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Speaker 3: all of that today and that was a difference. We

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Speaker 3: had one one penalty on offense and it killed a drive,

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Speaker 3: So that you know what I mean. It's like our

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Speaker 3: margin of error isn't good enough or big enough where

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Speaker 3: we can go ahead and make those mistakes. We didn't

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Speaker 3: make those today, and that's why you get a thirty

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Speaker 3: one to nothing win.

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Speaker 1: Thirty one zero Vikings. As the analyst just said, make

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Speaker 1: The fiftieth win at US Bank stadium for Pete VERSAG.

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