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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to us Banks Stadium. It is your radio

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Speaker 1: team of Paul Allen and Pete Persus happy to do

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Speaker 1: the postgame report for Vikings dot Com following each and

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Speaker 1: every Minnesota Vikings game. And we liked the postgame report

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Speaker 1: a lot more last week than we did this week

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Speaker 1: because the Vikings won a game. Today they lose twenty

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Speaker 1: seven to twenty to the Kansas City Chiefs. We understand

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Speaker 1: they're the champs, but the common thread of the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three Minnesota Vikings team has been that of self

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Speaker 1: inflicted wounds.

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Speaker 2: There's no question about it, Paul. And if today you

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Speaker 2: just hold on to the football and then catch the

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Speaker 2: ball when it hits you in the hands, this game

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Speaker 2: goes completely the other way. You don't need to look

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Speaker 2: any further than that. I know there's a lot that

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Speaker 2: you can you can point to and and you know,

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Speaker 2: say this, and the timeouts and all those things don't

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Speaker 2: matter if you don't execute the routine things. You got

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Speaker 2: to make the routine plays routine. We continue to struggle

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Speaker 2: with doing that. And you want to give a former

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Speaker 2: Super you know, the returning the reigning Super Bowl champions,

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Speaker 2: another possession right away in the beginning of the game.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you're not gonna win that way. You're not

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Speaker 2: gonna win a lot of football games that way. There

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Speaker 2: were a lot of really good things. The defense, I

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Speaker 2: thought played the run very well. They battled in there.

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Speaker 2: But at the same time, you're playing against Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 2: and you're just giving him added opportunities. He should have

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Speaker 2: thrown an interception to buying him. You gotta come down

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Speaker 2: with that football right fourth and one, we get him.

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Speaker 2: They throw a deep play action on fourth and one.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you talk about not necessarily gutsy call, but confidence.

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Speaker 2: That's a crazy call. That's confidence. Yeah, and then you

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Speaker 2: get the PI and then I don't know, there's so many,

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Speaker 2: so many opportunities in this game that this that this

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Speaker 2: team just lets slip away. And unfortunately after the you know,

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Speaker 2: going into the third quarter, it was the third quarter

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Speaker 2: that just completely flipped this game.

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Speaker 1: And the vikings, you know, just to to amplify what

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Speaker 1: Pete just said, you know, we get the ball and

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Speaker 1: for the for the very first play, it's a sixteen

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Speaker 1: yard hit middle of the field to Josh Oliver and

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Speaker 1: he fumbles it and they lose the fumble. Now it

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Speaker 1: was a nice hit by Justin Reid and recovery by

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Speaker 1: fellow safety Cook. But that was the Vikings eighth fumble

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Speaker 1: loss this year, and it put them at minus nine

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Speaker 1: in the turnover differential. And really, with all due respect

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Speaker 1: to our favorite team, UH one in fourteen are minus nine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no question about it. And you have opportunities

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Speaker 2: later to get those things back, and you know, and

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Speaker 2: you don't do that. So we're not good enough to

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Speaker 2: overcome these kinds of mistakes. And you know, again, this

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Speaker 2: Kansas City team, I mean, Mahomes impressed me with his

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Speaker 2: ability to read the defense and his accuracy and his

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Speaker 2: ability to get the ball out, no question about that.

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Speaker 2: But you should have had an interception on him. You

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Speaker 2: got him on the ground a couple times. It wasn't

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Speaker 2: as if he was the reason that Kansas City came

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Speaker 2: in here and just rolled up and down the field

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Speaker 2: on us. No, not at all. You know, we had this.

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Speaker 2: We were good enough to beat this team if we

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Speaker 2: just like I said before, execute execute what you should execute.

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Speaker 2: You know we're getting letting them off the hooks on

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Speaker 2: third and eighteens. I mean, those are the things Paul

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Speaker 2: that I you know, I look back on and it

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Speaker 2: just makes it makes you want to pull your hair

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Speaker 1: A missed a majority of the second half with a

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Speaker 1: of the game. And Patrick Mahomes he's just he's just

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Speaker 1: cold blooded. I mean, you'd almost think he was seventy

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Speaker 1: nine and twenty as a starter and a two time

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion, which he is. He finished thirty one

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Speaker 1: to forty one to eighty one and two cousins twenty

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Speaker 1: nine to forty seven to eighty four. In two Jordan

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Speaker 1: Addison caught his third touchdown of the season. He led

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Speaker 1: all Vikings in receiving with six catches and sixty four yards.

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Speaker 1: Let's get the thoughts of Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin

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Speaker 1: O'Connell following a twenty seven to twenty loss to the

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Speaker 3: Very much a disappointed locker room right now. We felt

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Speaker 3: like we could come out today and compete with you know,

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Speaker 3: defending world champs and find a way to get our

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Speaker 3: you know, get a win here at home. And didn't

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Speaker 3: get off to a very good start, you know, with

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Speaker 3: but found our guys battled, went really the next fifty

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Speaker 3: and tried to battle to the very very end. Did

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Speaker 3: stepped up and tried to compete to the very end.

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Speaker 3: I love this team, Love the way they compete, love

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Speaker 3: the way they're you know, these guys are itching to

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Speaker 3: get back to work already. And that's what this is

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Speaker 3: going to be about. Just continuing to find every every

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Speaker 3: continue to coach our guys up. They'll band together tight

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Speaker 3: as ever. And and and we get an opportunity to

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Speaker 3: go win a division game next week on the road.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be a challenge for our team. We

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Speaker 3: got to get our minds right for that. Immediately. Just

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Speaker 3: wanted to give you guys an update justin Jefferson did

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Speaker 3: sustain and a hand hamstring injury. I'll give you guys,

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Speaker 3: I'll keep you guys updated on that. Still very early.

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Speaker 3: See where he's at as we move along here, and

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Speaker 3: and what that timeline. Looks like had other guys kind

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Speaker 3: most of them returned, even t J there at the end.

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Speaker 3: But just disappointed. But I'm proud of this team. Thought

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Speaker 3: we had great energy. Thought they came out and competed

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Speaker 3: like crazy. Got to go back to work, Kevin.

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Speaker 4: What did they tell you about the flag that they

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Speaker 4: picked up there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not much. I I you know, I clearly when

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Speaker 3: surprised in that moment that that was called a flag,

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Speaker 3: you know, I guess you know, I trying to figure

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Speaker 3: out where, where and when that veered the other way.

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Speaker 3: I want to be careful on this one, but that

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Speaker 3: was very unfortunate as well as you know scenario there

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Speaker 3: their helmet on either. But it is what it is.

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Speaker 3: We got to overcome whatever the adversity is, Matt and uh,

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Speaker 3: we didn't do enough of that today, and and that's

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Speaker 3: what we'll go back to work on as a group.

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Speaker 3: And we got to commit to doing every you know,

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Speaker 3: every little thing matters in a game like this and

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Speaker 3: those circumstances when things may or may not go your way,

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Speaker 3: and we got to find a way to eliminate that

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Speaker 3: winning the game. And would have liked to get that

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Speaker 3: last opportunity to maybe throw one of the end zone

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Speaker 3: there with the group we had out there. The thing

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Speaker 3: you're referring to on that same player, it is.

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Speaker 5: Kevin, I think you guys were out of time outs

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Speaker 5: pretty early in the second half. Yeah, how do you

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Speaker 5: like mistakes that are self inflicted that are not setting

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Speaker 5: you guys up for being in.

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Speaker 3: Position as far as the timeouts go. Yeah, I challenged.

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Speaker 3: I felt wholeheartedly that that was worth a challenge there

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Speaker 3: based upon the evidence. It was always gonna come down

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Speaker 3: to whether they deemed that initial catch as you know,

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Speaker 3: up with the ball on the play as the receiver

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Speaker 3: you know, completed the catch to the ground. But you

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Speaker 3: know they they're going to rule that. But I absolutely

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Speaker 3: would challenge that again given the circumstances and and kind

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Speaker 3: if if it is ruled even an incompletion, we get

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Speaker 3: We ended up they ended up kind of going no

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Speaker 3: brain or no snap, no play, and we got the

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Speaker 3: ball back. But you would love to keep all your timeouts,

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Speaker 3: you absolutely would. I wish it could have carried over

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Speaker 3: some of those from the first half that we were

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Speaker 3: how it goes sometimes. But yeah, I I really appreciated

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Speaker 3: and then we had our ops there. You never know

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Speaker 5: How you talked to the referee after that fourth down?

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Speaker 3: Yep?

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Speaker 5: Did you want a little extra time to get a

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Speaker 3: Or yeah, A lot of times what happens in those

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Speaker 6: Down, Kevin on the past Kirk to kJ and the

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Speaker 6: end zone there and the first did what kind of

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Speaker 6: explanation that did you get as to what happened? That

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Speaker 6: looked like kJ might not have an expectional call.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's really not the front side of the progression.

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Speaker 3: So kJ is trying to work to really win. How

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Speaker 3: the coverage kind of deployed justin we kind of moved

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Speaker 3: and then we just progressed pretty quickly and tried to

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Speaker 3: little sped up right there, Kevin.

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Speaker 4: What's going through your head when you start the game

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Speaker 4: out and the fumble issue just kind of seems to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Josh Oliver is you know, if you ask me

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Speaker 3: his impact on our team, he's had a huge start

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Speaker 3: to his you know, Viking's tenure here with blocking, physicality

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Speaker 3: So nobody's more you know, crushed than Josh over that play.

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Speaker 3: I just wanted to make sure he was good to

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Speaker 3: to continue to be his normal self. We will continue

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Speaker 3: to emphasize ball security, you know. I thought there could

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Speaker 3: have been a little bit more of an offhand cover

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Speaker 3: there in traffic, and that's, you know what we emphasized

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Speaker 3: what we're coaching. But clearly it's going to be something

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Speaker 3: the end and you just wonder, what if, knowing the

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Speaker 3: kind of rhythm we had on offense there in the

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Speaker 3: every time we had it, what was.

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Speaker 4: Justice demeanor on the sideline when you couldn't be in there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was tough on him. He's the ultimate competitor,

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Speaker 3: you know. I just spent some time quickly with him

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Jordan's the real deal. You know, we we hit

440
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Speaker 4: on that draft pick. He's a great player. He's the

441
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Speaker 4: real deal. Great hands, runs, great routes, and I've played

442
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Speaker 4: with some really good skilled groups in my career, been

443
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Speaker 4: fortunate enough to do that. You know, when I look

444
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Speaker 4: at our group right now, it's as good as I've

445
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Speaker 4: ever been with, you know, So, I you know, with

446
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Speaker 4: with p progressions and things, a lot of times number

447
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Speaker 4: one gets the ball, but it doesn't mean the guy

448
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Speaker 4: who's third or fourth in the progression isn't really talented

449
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Speaker 4: player and probably capable of deserving of being number one

450
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Speaker 4: in the progression, and we're fortunate enough that we have

451
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Speaker 4: that to be the case. So when Justin goes down,

452
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Speaker 4: you know, which is tough. He's a special player. There's

453
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Speaker 4: a lot of confidence that kJ and Jordan and Brandon

454
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Speaker 4: Powell and our tight ends and our backs can really

455
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Speaker 4: fill that gap. That's how tough is going into one

456
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Speaker 4: of those final drives. You start that drive without Hockinson

457
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Speaker 4: and without Everson, well again, I just think, uh, there's

458
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Speaker 4: a lot of confidence in the other guys. TJ and

459
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Speaker 4: Justin are special players for a reason. But I was

460
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Speaker 4: impressed with Brandon. It was no surprise to me though.

461
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Speaker 4: I mean, he's he's a great athlete, grat with the

462
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Speaker 4: ball in his hands. kJ special, you know. I I

463
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Speaker 4: find myself coming out of games more last year and

464
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Speaker 4: this year wishing we could get Jordan to ballmore. kJ

465
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Speaker 4: to ballmore because I know what they're capable of, Brandon Powell,

466
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Speaker 4: but it's just hard to spread it all around. But

467
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Speaker 4: we definitely have a lot of talent, you know, and

468
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Speaker 4: on the skill positions. Working with Garrett, Yeah, it was

469
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Speaker 4: good to have him back. Slowe did a phenomenal job

470
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Speaker 4: last several weeks. But there's so much time on task

471
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Speaker 4: with Garrett together, and I thought he did a great job.

472
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Speaker 4: It's tough to be out and come right back in

473
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Speaker 4: like that and jump into it. He did a great job.

474
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Speaker 4: Or I know it's a tough start.

475
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Speaker 5: But as a leader, what do you say to your

476
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Speaker 5: team on Monday, knowing that everything you guys want to

477
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Speaker 5: accomplish is still in front of you, starting with divisional play.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, divisional game. Obviously we're going on the road. That's

479
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Speaker 4: a challenge, but divisional opponent, you know, we take the

480
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Speaker 4: same approach, win or lose. You gotta treat him as

481
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Speaker 4: each There are individual efforts and you know, you put

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Speaker 4: this one to bed. You got to learn from it,

483
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Speaker 4: you got to get better. And then and then you

484
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Speaker 4: go to work getting ready for Chicago and it's kind

485
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Speaker 4: of its own entity and you just do that seventeen

486
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Speaker 4: times and you know, we gotta we got a long

487
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Speaker 4: ways to go, but we don't really think about that.

488
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Speaker 4: We recognize that, but then we go to work on

489
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Speaker 4: Chicago and just kind of stay in that world the

490
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Speaker 4: whole week.

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Speaker 1: Kirk, is it more frustrated when you know that you

492
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Speaker 1: have the talent, you know that you have the weapon

493
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Speaker 1: hanging there with teams you can't get there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you come out of these games and

495
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Speaker 4: you say there's so much more production out there to

496
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Speaker 4: be had, you know, no matter what, no matter how

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Speaker 4: good it may have been. And I don't think it

498
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Speaker 4: was all that great tonight, But when it's when it's

499
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Speaker 4: really good, even I find myself getting on the bus

500
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Speaker 4: in away game or getting in the car here and saying, man,

501
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Speaker 4: we left a lot of players out there. There's so

502
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Speaker 4: much more that we can do. So I'm saying that

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Speaker 4: again tonight, Kirk.

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Speaker 6: I'm a throw it a kJ in the end zone there.

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Speaker 6: And Kevin was talking about a little bit just kind

506
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Speaker 6: of the progression.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just early. I was early, you know.

508
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Speaker 4: I saw Justin getting doubled. I think, in hindsight, I

509
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Speaker 4: just probably take Justin in the flat even though he's

510
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Speaker 4: being doubled, because I think he gets the first down.

511
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Speaker 4: I saw him getting doubled, and I thought, let me

512
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Speaker 4: progress well by getting off of Justin so quickly, I

513
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Speaker 4: was sort of ahead of where kJ was, and I

514
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Speaker 4: felt like, let me just put the ball out there

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Speaker 4: with touch, but I knew that I was ahead of it,

516
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Speaker 4: so it was a lot to ask a kJ to

517
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Speaker 4: get his head around and make that play. I wish

518
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Speaker 4: I had worked justin in the flat. I wish I

519
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Speaker 4: had taken a little longer to get back to kJ,

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Speaker 4: and I wish I had probably thrown a little more

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Speaker 4: touch and put it out front of kJ Moore. I think,

522
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Speaker 4: even even out front with even with coming through it

523
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Speaker 4: so quickly, if I put it out in front of

524
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Speaker 4: him and put some touch on it, I think he

525
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Speaker 4: still catches it so and I wish I would have.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I probably watched If I watched the film

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Speaker 4: with you, I'd probably have a dozen plays where I

528
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Speaker 4: would say that, you.

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Speaker 5: Know, Kirk, what do you seen?

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Speaker 4: With just TJ?

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Speaker 5: A few times he was hard on himself in the

532
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Speaker 5: locker room there about some of the misconnections, what's.

533
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Speaker 1: Going on there.

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Speaker 4: I don't have anything this. I think he's a great player,

535
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Speaker 4: and I think he did a great job of the night.

536
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Speaker 4: I think that my ball location tonight was too high.

537
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Speaker 4: I felt like it was consistently high, and I don't

538
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Speaker 4: have a great answer for that, but I felt that

539
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Speaker 4: it was showing up and yeah, maybe maybe catchable, but

540
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Speaker 4: it shouldn't be that hard on it. Ball needs to

541
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Speaker 4: be right in their chest. So I was frustrated that

542
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Speaker 4: and I was early and then I thought, you know,

543
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Speaker 4: we'll settle in, and I felt as the game went

544
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Speaker 4: on it was still that way. So you know, that's

545
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Speaker 4: when you say you go back and look at it

546
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Speaker 4: and fix it. That's one of the things you fix.

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Speaker 4: You say, you know, the high ball, Look, that's gotta stop, you.

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Speaker 7: Know, Or even with the depth, you guys do have

549
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Speaker 7: a receiver. What do you think would change for you

550
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Speaker 7: guys if you have to play without Justin?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you just next next man up is sort of

552
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Speaker 4: the mantra, but it's really a group. You know, it's

553
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Speaker 4: only one person, it's it's the whole group. And you know,

554
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Speaker 4: Justin's don a phenomenal job for the last three and

555
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Speaker 4: a half years of staying healthy and being out there

556
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Speaker 4: every week, which is hard to do. And and so

557
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Speaker 4: you know, even with this injury, it makes you pause

558
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Speaker 4: and be grateful for how healthy he's been. But yeah,

559
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Speaker 4: kJ gets an increased role, Jordan gets an increased role.

560
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Speaker 4: Our tight ends do our running backs to Brandon Powace

561
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Speaker 4: steps up Nikhil Tristan. You know, the list goes on

562
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Speaker 4: and and I think we have the players we can do.

563
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Speaker 4: You know that can that can try to fill that.

564
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Speaker 4: It's big shoes to fill, but as a group, I

565
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Speaker 4: think it can can be done.

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Speaker 2: Fourth down throw to Jordan's in the end zone.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like us know how much you can see you

568
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Speaker 4: get a hit on the Yeah, cover zero ball needed

569
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Speaker 4: to come out. I believe the third down throw is

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Speaker 4: the one that's really bugging me. If I'm going back

571
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Speaker 4: to I wish I would have would have just worked

572
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Speaker 4: kJ on a shallow cross over the ball. That was

573
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Speaker 4: the one that really bugged me. I think on the

574
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Speaker 4: fourth down they zeroed me again, and uh, you know

575
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Speaker 4: he was just trying to give somebody a chance. But

576
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Speaker 4: you know that was that sequence was a was a

577
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Speaker 4: was a frustrating sequence to not and I think I

578
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Speaker 4: think that's when I was talking to Dawn just a

579
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Speaker 4: few minutes ago. You know, there's plays you go home

580
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Speaker 4: and you say, we should have made that play. We

581
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Speaker 4: should be on the field, we should be scoring points.

582
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Speaker 4: That's one of those moments where you just feel like

583
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Speaker 4: that third, fourth down sequence, you know it shouldn't it

584
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Speaker 4: shouldn't it? Did it?

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Speaker 3: Did?

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Speaker 4: They? They beat us? But those are the ones. The

587
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 4: frustration was a frustration.

588
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Speaker 2: Final to play the game, being able to get the

589
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Speaker 2: moment off there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I was trying to get out to

591
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Speaker 4: my left because that was kind of where the throw

592
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Speaker 4: was gonna be. Felt like I couldn't get out and

593
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Speaker 4: was trying to say, okay, I'll step up. It felt

594
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Speaker 4: like I couldn't then, so I'll get right and then

595
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 4: that was when I got hit. But you know, it's

596
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Speaker 4: it's always a hazard if they hit business on hail

597
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Speaker 4: Mary's is knowing you got to buy time for them

598
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Speaker 4: to get down there. But they're Russian, so there's no

599
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Speaker 4: guarantee you're gonna have that time. I'd have to watch

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Speaker 4: the film and tell you what I could have should

601
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Speaker 4: have done. I'm sure there was some place I could

602
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Speaker 4: have moved or something I could have done to buy time,

603
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Speaker 4: because you certainly want and need the ball to get

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Speaker 4: up there and at least give you a chance. Boy.

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Speaker 1: Jordan Hicks with ten tackles today Harrison Smith with ten,

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Speaker 1: cam Binham had eight. Jordan Hicks is playing so well

607
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Speaker 1: right now, he.

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Speaker 2: Is, and I thought the you know, we talked about

609
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Speaker 2: the Vikings defense doing a good job on this Kansas

610
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Speaker 2: City run game that you know, put up over two

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Speaker 2: hundred yards on the ground a week ago. The linebackers

612
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Speaker 2: did a wonderful job seeing the guards, watching them pull

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Speaker 2: so you know, between Hicks and you know, Ivan Pace,

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Speaker 2: the safeties, they all did a really nice job. But

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Speaker 2: Checko is a hard runner. I think they matched him

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Speaker 2: for the most part throughout the day with that. So

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Speaker 2: Kansas City did they They tried to run the football,

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Speaker 2: but that's not you know that that wasn't what won

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Speaker 2: the day for them, So it was nice to to

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Speaker 2: take that away from him.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: Defensively, we weren't we didn't have as many guys on

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Speaker 2: a line of scrimmage. We played a normal front a

624
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Speaker 2: little bit more. We showed too deep and did some

625
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Speaker 2: other things. So we weren't as crazy upfront as we

626
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Speaker 2: have been in the past, and we got good pressure

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Speaker 2: on Mahomes early. I thought, you know, when we had

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Speaker 2: the opportunities we did, we did get pressure, you know

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Speaker 2: on Mahomes and so early on the defense I thought

630
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 2: was operating was operating pretty well except for the you know,

631
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Speaker 2: the exception of the first drive after the turnover.

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