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Speaker 1: What a victory week it has been for the Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Vikings pulling off a twenty four to ten victory or

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Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers last Sunday. However, they lose their

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Speaker 1: QB one and Kirk Cousins for the season. This is

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings Podcast presented by PEPSI. My name is

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Speaker 1: Gabe Henderson. I'm alongside Tatum Everett and Tatum What a

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Speaker 1: series of events we start. We started last week's game

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Speaker 1: with Kirk Cousins just willing and dealing across the field,

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Speaker 1: and we get to the fourth quarter a non contact

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Speaker 1: injury occurse. He falls, he limps off the field, and

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Speaker 1: that he has a season ending achilles injury. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about the trades. We're gonna talk about the trade deadline.

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Speaker 1: But for this Minnesota Vikings team, when you heard the

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Speaker 1: news and saw the picture that Kirk posted of the

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Speaker 1: successful surgery, what came to mind.

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Speaker 2: This guy is going to be back as soon and

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Speaker 2: as fast as he possibly can. I just think that's

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Speaker 2: part of Kirk's character and who he is. It was

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Speaker 2: so devastating, and I mean you were there, like the

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Speaker 2: locker room was just a different mood, even though they

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Speaker 2: just won. Yeah, it felt like a loss. It really did.

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Speaker 2: And I was in the locker room afterwards and he

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Speaker 2: and I just think he's the kind of guy that's

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Speaker 2: who he is. It sucks, It really sucks, but I,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right after the game, I had an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: text Kirk. The first thing that he just summing it up.

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Speaker 1: He just basically said, if this is what is supposed

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Speaker 1: to be done. He's all FOURD and that just means

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Speaker 1: his destiny pretty much ended here with him tearing his achilles.

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Speaker 1: And it's one hundred and fiftieth game as a Minnesota Viking,

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Speaker 1: and just where it leads to where we are right now,

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Speaker 1: and all signs point to Jaron Hall, the roocky quarterback.

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Speaker 1: He came in when Kirk got injured, went three or

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Speaker 1: But this is a new era of Vikings football and

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Speaker 1: we finally get to see what Quacy and Kevin were.

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Speaker 1: I guess their thought process when it comes to, okay,

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Speaker 1: we know that now with Kevin o'conne announcing that Jaron

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Speaker 1: trade news recently, trading for Arizona Cardinals quarterback Josh Dobbs.

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Speaker 1: In return, we got a seventh round pick and we

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Speaker 3: What are you thinking?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I do think it was very poignant, and

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Speaker 2: I think that Kevin O'Connell's been very intentional with how

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Speaker 2: so he was very intentional saying like, this guy's playing

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Speaker 2: It's it's funny because when they traded for Josh Dobbs,

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Speaker 1: Moves pretty well, he's able to improve exactly. And that's

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Speaker 2: Ye, no, but you're You're totally right, And with the

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Speaker 2: I think it was a great trade. I think Josh

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Speaker 2: It provides an immediate solution with the quality player, is

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Speaker 2: what Kevin O'Connell said. And sometimes just gotta throw a

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Speaker 1: Well, Look, the one that sticks right now was just

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Speaker 2: I think the only reason that it was truly surprising

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Speaker 2: It is of note that he would be a free

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Speaker 2: Correct, that's also a factor, and Kevin O'Connell talking about

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Speaker 2: And they just elevated Chris Reid to the active roster

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it is a I mean, what's the word.

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Speaker 1: You can never have enough offensive lineman, so for the Viking, right,

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Speaker 1: So for the Vikings to trade two offensive linemen this year,

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Speaker 3: Like there's.

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Speaker 2: So much else to talk.

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Speaker 1: There's so much else to talk about. And one thing

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Speaker 1: listen to that game right here on KFA and the

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Speaker 1: pregame show starts at ten a m. With Mike Mussman.

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Speaker 1: But for Jaren Hall going into a game where a

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Speaker 1: Falcons team, they're still trying to figure out what their

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Speaker 2: Do too much? Right, Yeah, be a game manager and

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Speaker 2: But this defense has got your back. As long as

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Speaker 2: it over, don't do too much. I think that that's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think my key to add on that, which

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Speaker 1: And I've seen Jared a couple of times this week,

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Speaker 1: just the way he carries himself, the way he goes

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Speaker 1: this is like off topic, but Jaren is a guy

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Speaker 1: that does not spend much time in the cafeteria. Whenever

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Speaker 1: This is the Minnesota Vikings Podcast presented by PEPSI. I'm

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Speaker 3: It's a pleasure of being here and I'm just grateful

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Speaker 1: Let's state the obvious here right like this. These past

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Speaker 4: I'll go back to my preparation throughout the week and

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about Danil and some of those guys.

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Speaker 2: How high is the ticket request count at right now?

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Speaker 1: This this opportunity. We were talking a little bit before

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Speaker 4: and just being able to have that moment so when

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Speaker 2: Recently heard a story from coach Pennon about how in

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Speaker 2: meetings Danil, they'll have these plays and they'll be like, Danil,

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Speaker 2: we need you to rush this way, and he'll be like, no,

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Speaker 2: why don't Why don't DJ do that? Or why why

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Speaker 2: doesn't someone else do this? Like can someone else do that?

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Speaker 2: How often does happened? Because I mean, with Denil, as

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Speaker 2: good as he is, the humility is still there. What's

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Speaker 2: it like to be in those moments like that?

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Speaker 4: It's kind of surprising, you know what I'm saying to

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Speaker 4: effect that he's had so much success in his league

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Speaker 4: and he can do really whatever he wants, but it

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Speaker 4: just goes back to that leadership, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: He's a great leader and he sees a lot in

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Speaker 4: those young guys like me and Pat Jones, and he

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Speaker 4: knows that we are capable of doing those things that

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Speaker 4: the coaches want him to do. So just him having

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Speaker 4: that trust in us, man's it's another confidence and just

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Speaker 4: just a booster allow us like, man, let's go out

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Speaker 3: Man. How has your leadership skills grown in four years? Oh?

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Speaker 3: They've grown a lot.

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Speaker 4: Obviously in college, I was a three time through time

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Speaker 4: like a I want a talker, more like you see

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Speaker 4: what you get type leader. But now just being around

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Speaker 3: Are vocal and being able to talk.

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Speaker 4: So just watching those guys lead from from that, from

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Speaker 4: that perspective and not just sitting back and being quiet

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Speaker 4: has also allowed me to sit back and learn and

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Speaker 4: be like, Okay, like you got to talk.

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: I've never been a big talker, man, I've just been uh,

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Speaker 4: get your work done. But yeah, just seeing those guys

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Speaker 4: go out and lead by example and also lead vocally

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Speaker 4: has allowed me to grow.

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Speaker 2: What's an example of a time that you had to

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Speaker 2: speak up and say something that maybe caught you off

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Speaker 2: guard about yourself college.

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Speaker 3: I can go back to college.

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Speaker 4: Basically, the team wasn't doing you know what, I'm saying

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Speaker 4: what we needed to do one morning workouts and I'm

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Speaker 4: sitting back like, bro, like come on, like I'm mad.

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Speaker 4: You can see the frustration on my face. But I

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Speaker 4: wasn't saying anything. Yeah, and coach like did get up

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Speaker 4: here and say something. I'm like, all right, whatever, So

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Speaker 4: I went up there and said, uh, kind of moment

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Speaker 4: a little bit. But then I got like, oh yeah,

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Speaker 4: like I got the mysage across, I got the point

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Speaker 4: across like yo, like we got to get this, you

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Speaker 4: know what, together, go out here and do our thing.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, man, I've definitely grown as a player on

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Speaker 4: the off the field.

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Speaker 3: DJ.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you for another thirty minutes,

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Speaker 1: but due to time constraints, we got to end this

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Speaker 1: interview early. But we are so excited for you to

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Speaker 1: be able to go back home, play in your hometown

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Speaker 1: and also make some plays. Like I said, the last

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Speaker 1: time you were close to home, you scored your first

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Speaker 1: NFL touchdown. So maybe we get number two.

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Speaker 4: Man, maybe we get number two, maybe it's even bigger.

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Speaker 1: Always a great time talking to DJ Wantam, a guy

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Speaker 1: who does not say much, but when he joins our show,

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Speaker 1: he spills all the tea. Hopefully that team will be

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Speaker 1: spilled at Mercedes Benz Stadium this upcoming Sunday twelve noon

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Speaker 1: kickoff Right here on the KFAN Minnesota Vikings Radio Network.

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Speaker 1: You can tune into the pregame show at ten am

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Speaker 1: with Mike Musslin, Pa Ben Lieber and Pete Bursich for

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Speaker 1: DJ Wantam, Tatum Everett, Eric Davidson and myself. We will

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Speaker 1: talk to you guys next week right here on the

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