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Speaker 1: Holy cal with that game against the Atlanta Falcons. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the postgame reports with Pete Versage. I'm Paul Allen.

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Speaker 1: The Minnesota Vikings had a legitimate blowout for the first

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Speaker 1: time since late September when they played the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: They blew out the Atlanta Falcons forty one to twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Six consecutive wins for the Minnesota Vikings, improving to eleven

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Speaker 1: and two, and this game against Kirk Cousins, quarterback for

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons, has been widely discussed since he left

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Speaker 1: Minnesota and went to Atlanta. The schedule came out, we

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Speaker 1: learned where it would be, and then this week up

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Speaker 1: to the game. Cousins zero touchdown passes, Sam Darnold five

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Speaker 1: touchdown passes, a career high for him.

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Speaker 2: Your thoughts, Pete and what's going on? I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it was it was fun to have a you know,

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Speaker 2: multiple score game. One of you knew that was in hand,

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Speaker 2: you know. For Cousins, Paul, I think he did do

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Speaker 2: some good things. He knew what to do with the football.

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Speaker 2: He got us on a couple but our defense was

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Speaker 2: a little bit leaky, especially on the ground game. But

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Speaker 2: what we did is tighten things up around the end zone. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we gave up two touchdowns, but two of those drives

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Speaker 2: ended in field goals. That was a difference maker today.

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Speaker 2: There were nine hundred and twenty nine yards of offense

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Speaker 2: executed today. It's an ugoddenly number, but being plus three

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Speaker 2: on the take give that's the huge thing. Conversely, we

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Speaker 2: talk about Donald in his day, I mean, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if he's going to have a day

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Speaker 2: better than the one he just had today. Five touchdowns,

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Speaker 2: one fifty seven point nine rating and you know, no

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Speaker 2: turnovers though, and I think that's the key. Aaron Jones

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Speaker 2: held out in the football, got a nice rushing touchdown

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Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter. It's just this group played very,

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Speaker 2: very well today. It was a little bit up in

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Speaker 2: the air in the middle of it, but you know,

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Speaker 2: that second half it's again the turnovers and special teams

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Speaker 2: coming up big. Being plus three that puts us I believe,

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Speaker 2: at plus eight for the season. Yeah, yeah, plus eight,

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Speaker 2: one of the tops in the NFL. Two more interceptions

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Speaker 2: is definitely gonna get us add or near. You know,

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Speaker 2: we have nineteen twenty interceptions now, yeah, twenty one. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so we've got to be any we gotta know you're right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: somewhere near add or near the top, yep. So just

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Speaker 2: make it big plays on defense. That's the only thing

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Speaker 2: they've concerns you is that you got to keep making

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Speaker 2: those big plays to win.

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Speaker 1: Now, Peter, we're gonna hear from head coach Kevin O'Connell shortly.

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Speaker 1: Kevin has been like a lot of coaches, and you

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Speaker 1: coached for half a decade and you played for longer

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Speaker 1: than that, so you've heard it a million times. We

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Speaker 1: need a complete game. We want a complete game. We

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Speaker 1: want a complete game. All right, Well, you got Jefferson

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Speaker 1: and Addison with five receiving touchdowns, Aaron Jones ran one in,

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Speaker 1: you had those interceptions and awesome Wah caused a fumble

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Speaker 1: on a kick return recovered by c. J. Ham and

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Speaker 1: Reiker welcome back made all of his extra points. That yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a complete game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much, I mean very much. So we had

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Speaker 2: one missed field goal attempt and that was really about it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I'll say this for Kevin O'Connell,

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Speaker 2: I guarantee you this is one of his favorite wins

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Speaker 2: of all time because you know, we're down the field.

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Speaker 2: Passing style of offense. Defenses want to blitz, right, they

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Speaker 2: want to do some things. And we saw it happen

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Speaker 2: a week ago against the Cardinals. Five sacks. They're getting

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Speaker 2: pressure and once you put that on tape, other teams go,

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Speaker 2: you know what, I think we could do the same thing, right,

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Speaker 2: And so Atlanta today they were aggressive.

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Speaker 2: They they you know, they pined their ears back, they blitzed,

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Speaker 2: you don't, if you blitz and don't get there, you

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Speaker 2: gotta burn him on defense. And that's exactly what O'Connell did.

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Speaker 2: They you know, he saw what they were trying to

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Speaker 2: played out. And you know, congratulations to the Minnesota Vikings

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Speaker 2: in really showing up protection, especially in the second half.

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Speaker 1: We will hear from quarterback Sam Darnold shortly Kevin O'Connell first,

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Speaker 1: but to Sam, the man on the fan twenty two

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Speaker 1: of twenty eight, three hundred and forty seven yards, five touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: and zero picks, once again the first five touchdown game

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Speaker 1: of Sam's career. Aaron Jones finished with seventy three rushing

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Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty five yards and five touchdowns. Are

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Speaker 1: you kidding me with those numbers? I mean you played

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Speaker 1: that's Moss and Carter esque exactly right. And so what

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Speaker 1: we're not leaving those guys. Man, Aaron Jones should go

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Speaker 2: And again that goes back to so it's again that

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Speaker 2: ebb and flow of the season. And the other thing

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Speaker 2: that was nice to see was this Atlanta team is

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Speaker 2: still in the mix, yeah to win their division. And

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Speaker 2: once we recovered that fumble on that kickoff return, they

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Speaker 2: they had played hard the entire game. They were in it,

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Speaker 2: and so to see us just shut a team down

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Speaker 2: not be you know, for us, we're gonna be playing

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Speaker 2: never going to really get that garbage game, so to speak.

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Speaker 2: But for us to force that issue, right, to just

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Speaker 2: they had felt the bounce back, right, they were feeling

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Speaker 2: this week, but not this week, guys.

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Speaker 1: The Vikings beat the Atlanta Falcons forty two twenty one

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Speaker 1: at US Banks Stadium. Here's head coach Kevin O'Connell.

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Speaker 3: Really proud of our team. That's a talented, you know,

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Speaker 3: I think we grew up a lot today, you know, offensively,

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Speaker 3: To just watch them, and it all comes back to

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Speaker 4: And we got an.

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Speaker 3: Extra day here before Monday night home game in the division,

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Speaker 3: which will be very very important for us. Don't have

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Speaker 3: a lot of real injury updates, really nothing of concern

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Speaker 3: to see Gabe Murphy get some action as well as

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Speaker 3: so since it's been a five touchdown uh five performance

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Speaker 3: shocked to hear that we haven't had you know, two

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Speaker 3: I'm thinking, you know, back, we've had some of the

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Speaker 5: What was most impressive view about what you saw for.

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Speaker 4: Your same team?

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Speaker 3: I think you know, Justin's second touchdown, Uh. They they

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Speaker 3: last two were just pretty elite fundamentals and techniques, reads progressions,

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Speaker 4: We got kind of big on that drive and.

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Speaker 3: Went ninety eight yards, which is hard to do, you know,

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Speaker 6: Throw he makes on the second touchdown to justin just

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Speaker 6: in terms of making that throw on the run, cleaning

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Speaker 7: Team to take the next step, because you were able

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Speaker 7: to put a team away like this, I mean, you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that the number one stat that I

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Speaker 3: But I just think when you don't do things to

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Speaker 3: And I think our defense gave up some yards, but

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Speaker 4: And uh, you know, I was glad we were able to.

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Speaker 7: There were a few plays where they had defensive backs

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Speaker 4: But there's a but all that.

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Speaker 3: It was seemed to be a catch, and we moved

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Speaker 3: I just told him, you know, there's very few days

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Speaker 4: So. That's a talented team with a.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, it was great to see him.

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Speaker 5: Make this happen.

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Speaker 6: Is there any part of this game that's a validation

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Speaker 3: No, okay, I was ready for no, very eloquent question,

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Speaker 1: did all that happen?

441
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Speaker 2: Well, and that's and that's kind of the they had.

442
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Speaker 2: This is going back to them playing a foremat front,

443
00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:03,919
Speaker 2: sometimes a five man front. I think that they like

444
00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:07,240
Speaker 2: Cayden Ellis as a fifth kind of pass rusher instead

445
00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:09,640
Speaker 2: of dropping back in zone. And they were having some

446
00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:12,080
Speaker 2: success our running backs, you know, cam Akers gave up

447
00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:15,119
Speaker 2: a sack or at least a hit, you know. So

448
00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:17,639
Speaker 2: the thing is is if you're gonna send five, you

449
00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:19,760
Speaker 2: got to get there. If you're gonna all outlits, you

450
00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:22,320
Speaker 2: better get there. Because that's exactly what happened in that

451
00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:26,520
Speaker 2: big play that Donald had to justin. Jefferson was justin.

452
00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:30,399
Speaker 2: Simmons was unblocked right coming through the interior and and

453
00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,720
Speaker 2: Donald was able to you know, scoop to his left,

454
00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,400
Speaker 2: make his way out and just really throw not even

455
00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,160
Speaker 2: a fifty to fifty ball that was like a pop up,

456
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Speaker 2: you know, to JJ who was standing there all by himself.

457
00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:45,080
Speaker 2: So you know, you the Atlanta Falcons chose which way

458
00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:48,160
Speaker 2: they wanted to proverbially die, and that is we're gonna

459
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Speaker 2: be aggressive, We're gonna Pianiers back, we're gonna get after

460
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Speaker 2: the quarterback, and we're gonna put our dbs on islands

461
00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:55,680
Speaker 2: and the beauty of it. That's again why I go

462
00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:57,760
Speaker 2: back to Koc and him loving this game, is that, hey,

463
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Speaker 2: they tried to do that to us, and we burned

464
00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,000
Speaker 2: him and burned them over and over and over again.

465
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Speaker 2: That's what this offense has to have. They have to

466
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Speaker 2: have this in their repertoire going into these playoff games

467
00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,040
Speaker 2: because you're gonna start seeing defenses that are better defenses

468
00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:13,360
Speaker 2: that don't give as much up maybe or it maybe

469
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:17,480
Speaker 2: can hold up for a while on the outside. So overall,

470
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Speaker 2: just just a great game, you know, great game I

471
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Speaker 2: think for the defense and the big plays give up.

472
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Speaker 2: Gave up way to me, they almost gave up five

473
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Speaker 2: hundred yards of offense. So that's something that they're gonna

474
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Speaker 2: have to figure out and talk about. But teams that

475
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Speaker 2: come in here, do they have enough patience to run

476
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Speaker 2: the football over? And you know, can they run and

477
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Speaker 2: if they get behind then they can't keep running the ball.

478
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Speaker 2: So you know, I'm sure they'll try to shore that

479
00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:45,560
Speaker 2: show that thing up and as we get healthy in

480
00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,280
Speaker 2: our defensive front, I think that'll help.

481
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Speaker 1: Too, Pete said. The Falcons kept getting burned repeatedly. The

482
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Speaker 1: chief arsonist was Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold, and here's

483
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Speaker 1: what he had to say following the game.

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Speaker 9: Guys, obviously, uh, complete team effort out there today, you know,

485
00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:06,560
Speaker 9: with the way that you know, things were going in

486
00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:09,400
Speaker 9: the first half kind of you know, back and forth

487
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,359
Speaker 9: a little bit there, and then just the way that

488
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:13,040
Speaker 9: we were able to kind of pull away in that

489
00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:17,080
Speaker 9: second half, our defense getting big turnovers, special teams coming

490
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Speaker 9: up with that huge turnover and there there another field

491
00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:22,679
Speaker 9: and uh, you know we were able to capitalize as

492
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Speaker 9: an offense. Big credit obviously to to our offensive line.

493
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Speaker 9: I feel like the way they played today was was special.

494
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:32,120
Speaker 9: The way that they were able to give me time

495
00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:37,320
Speaker 9: when needed was was incredible. And obviously everyone around me

496
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Speaker 9: as well doing their part, and our defense man stepping up.

497
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Speaker 5: When when we needed them.

498
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Speaker 9: And uh yeah, just like I said, complete team effort

499
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Speaker 9: and it was, uh, it was a fun time in

500
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Speaker 9: there today.

501
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Speaker 5: Man, our our fans.

502
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,480
Speaker 9: Uh came right to role and that was that was

503
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Speaker 9: a huge part of that win as well.

504
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Speaker 7: Say, what was it like for you to to hear

505
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Speaker 7: some MVP chance as yourself bringing on the cidecle.

506
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Speaker 9: Obviously a lot of emotion there on the sideline, but

507
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,119
Speaker 9: you know, with with those things, you know the season

508
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,399
Speaker 9: is so you know, it is what it is. I

509
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,359
Speaker 9: think at the end of the day, the v m

510
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,399
Speaker 9: VP chants are great, but you know, at the end

511
00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:20,879
Speaker 9: of the day, we just gotta continue to grow and

512
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:22,399
Speaker 9: get better there. I thought there were a lot of

513
00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 9: things in the first half that we can get better at.

514
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:27,760
Speaker 9: So just gotta continue to grow from from you know

515
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:28,520
Speaker 9: everything today.

516
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Speaker 7: Same when you were waving the towel, just like what

517
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 7: was going through your head the camera caught you.

518
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:37,840
Speaker 9: Yeah, I was just you know, that was a lot

519
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 9: of emotion for me. I was just excited.

520
00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:40,920
Speaker 5: Man.

521
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 9: Just I feel like I couldn't just sit there.

522
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Speaker 5: You know and just kind of you know, stoic and

523
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Speaker 5: you know, just straight faced. I feel like I had

524
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Speaker 5: to show a little.

525
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Speaker 9: Bit of emotion for the fans and you know, gave

526
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Speaker 9: them what they wanted.

527
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Speaker 5: So, Uh, that was a special moment for me.

528
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Speaker 8: How many times can you remember yourself doing that after

529
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Speaker 8: a game at any point in your college you.

530
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Speaker 9: Know, whatever, going, It's happened before, but very rarely, yeah,

531
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 9: very rarely does that happen.

532
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 4: What was the what was the reason for the occasion today?

533
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Speaker 9: Oh, you know, I just felt the buzz in the

534
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,920
Speaker 9: you know, and and that was pure you know, pure passion,

535
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Speaker 9: you know, pure joy.

536
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 5: Man.

537
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Speaker 9: Just the way that we were able to kind of

538
00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 9: finish that game out, and even our defense there at

539
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 9: the end getting that huge stop.

540
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 5: It was a fun game to be a part of.

541
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Speaker 3: Jordan and jj both get over a hundred yards, both

542
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Speaker 3: find the ends on a couple of times.

543
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 4: Is how nice? How nice it to have that kind

544
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:29,719
Speaker 4: of production?

545
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:33,639
Speaker 9: Yeah, obviously they're they're really good players, so you know,

546
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,680
Speaker 9: to to be able to find them whenever I get

547
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 9: a chance to, you know, is a benefit for the

548
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 9: entire team.

549
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 5: Jordan's ability to, i mean check down those deep balls.

550
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,480
Speaker 5: But then also just kind of the complete route tree

551
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Speaker 5: from him in his second season. Like, how how good

552
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:49,280
Speaker 5: you feel about the way he's playing right now?

553
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 9: Yeah? Jay's playing a very high level of football right now,

554
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,439
Speaker 9: you know, and for him to just obviously early on

555
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 9: in the season, just keeping his head down and continuing

556
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Speaker 9: to work.

557
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 5: I think that was the biggest thing for him.

558
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,879
Speaker 9: And obviously, you know, if teams want to try to

559
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 9: push a little bit of coverage over to Jets, we

560
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,160
Speaker 9: got another guy to be able to make him pay.

561
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Speaker 5: Sam.

562
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Speaker 6: Kevin talked a little bit about how he felt like

563
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Speaker 6: the offense grew up a lot today. Where did you

564
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Speaker 6: see that happen over the course of the game.

565
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it was just like I kind of

566
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 9: said in the beginning, you know, kind of not not

567
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Speaker 9: really having our stride in the in the first half

568
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 9: and then being able to come out and just play

569
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,360
Speaker 9: really really good football, consistent football. Obviously some things aren't

570
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 9: going to go our way. We had a false start

571
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,560
Speaker 9: here and there, but you know, being able to get

572
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Speaker 9: back on track, put ourselves in really good down in

573
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 9: distances and.

574
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Speaker 5: Just move the football down the field.

575
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Speaker 10: See, it was any part of that passion emotion like

576
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Speaker 10: gratitude just from the work that you put in, because

577
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Speaker 10: I mean Kevin talked about how much you guys have

578
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 10: put in this year and you put in for a

579
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Speaker 10: long time.

580
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Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a huge part of it. I think whenever

581
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 9: whenever I show passion. Whenever our entire team shows passion,

582
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:02,720
Speaker 9: you know, on the field and it comes out as emotion,

583
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 9: you know that that is a huge testament to kind

584
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 9: of the amount of work we put in.

585
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 5: That's that's all it is.

586
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 9: When you see it come to fruition, it's such a

587
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 9: great feeling and uh, sometimes.

588
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:14,639
Speaker 5: It's really hard to hide that.

589
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 9: So yeah, it was just ah all encompassing emotion on

590
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 9: the field today, and uh it was a like I

591
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,159
Speaker 9: continue to say, man, just our fans, the way that

592
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 9: they were able to bring that energy today was was incredible.

593
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Speaker 5: What was you read and process on that second touchdown

594
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 5: to Justin?

595
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:32,160
Speaker 4: Yeah?

596
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 9: Which one was that? The scramble? Yeah? Yeah, just uh,

597
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 9: you know, they brought a really good pressure. Again, a

598
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:45,359
Speaker 9: lot of credit to to Atlanta. The scheme that Raheem

599
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 9: and those guys have over there is is really tough

600
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Speaker 9: to go against. And obviously they got some really good

601
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 9: dudes on the back end, you know, and Justin Simmons

602
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 9: and Baits obviously really good players all around the field

603
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 9: as well. So they brought a really good pressure that

604
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 9: got home and I was able to kind of make

605
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,360
Speaker 9: Justin miss a little bit, and uh, just got out

606
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 9: scrambled and and was able to find him down the.

607
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 5: Field when you were out of it.

608
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 6: When you get out of that scrambling, you're looking downfield.

609
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 6: Did you see Justin down there waving his arm? What

610
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 6: did you see that?

611
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 9: I did see him wave his arm, you know, and

612
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:17,159
Speaker 9: that's kind of one of the first signs as a

613
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 9: quarterback like I should probably throw this to him, and uh, yeah, no,

614
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 9: it was Uh, it was a great play by him.

615
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 5: You know. I heard on the sideline that.

616
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Speaker 9: If I would have had time, he absolutely cooked the

617
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 9: dude on the route that was called for him. And

618
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 9: for him to be able to score on a play

619
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Speaker 9: that he probably would have scored on if I had time. Anyways,

620
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 9: that was awesome to see just.

621
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Speaker 8: The most complete team performance. Would you say, at this

622
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Speaker 8: point in the year, you got defense, gets a couple

623
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Speaker 8: of takeaways, often score six touchdowns.

624
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it was a It was a good

625
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,399
Speaker 9: team performance for sure, But again, like I said, I

626
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 9: feel like the first half we could have played a

627
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 9: lot better. But yeah, I think the way that we

628
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,120
Speaker 9: finished it was, uh was our standard.

629
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Speaker 1: He's just out in more clutch and better game by

630
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 1: game since that Jacksonville game. Sam's gone one thirty eight

631
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: consecutive without a pick, and he'll have an opportunity to

632
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 1: extend that streak on Monday Night football against the Chicago Bears.

633
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 1: That'll finish three consecutive at home, Vikings two and oh there,

634
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 1: after going three consecutive on the road, they went three

635
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 1: and oh there. The Vikings have won six consecutive games,

636
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 1: keeping pace with the Detroit Lions and the Philadelphia Eagle.

637
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, and what I like, Paul, is that there hasn't

638
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 2: been anything in the in the in the realm of

639
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 2: a wake up call, if you will, with these home games.

640
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 2: It seems like this team comes out kind of you know,

641
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 2: not too high, not too low, right where they need

642
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 2: to be, and you know, continue, you know, continue to

643
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 2: stack up the wins.

644
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 4: Right.

645
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 2: So, yeah, the Chicago Bears coming in next. They you know,

646
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 2: it took us to overtime last time we played them, right, right,

647
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 2: Caleb Williams was a problem. They have a new head

648
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 2: coach now, so you're gonna get that bump this week.

649
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 2: So I'm very anxious to see what the Bears do

650
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 2: and then going in and you know, going in the

651
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 2: next week, some that might start to start to roll away.

652
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 2: So My point is is if you come out and

653
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 2: take care of business early against the Bears, you should

654
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 2: be in a really good situation on a Monday night

655
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 2: and then you know, again taking care of the NFC

656
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 2: South or I'm sorry, yeah, the NFC South because of

657
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 2: the playoff implications. Yeah, meaning you know, maybe we have

658
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 2: to go back to Atlanta. I'm fine with it right now.

659
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 2: Right so, we play the best team in the NFC

660
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 2: West in Seattle coming up too. So it's not like

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Speaker 2: we're just rolling ourselves and coasting into the postseason. This

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Speaker 2: team is continually being challenged and getting better.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Pete, great call and we'll see you so

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Speaker 1: thank you. Let's Pete Bursage and I'm Paul Allen. We

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Speaker 1: call games on FM one hundred point three KFA in

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Speaker 1: and the Vikings Radio Network, and we call games for

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Speaker 1: a team that has won six consecutive games. They had

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Speaker 1: a five game winn East Raak earlier this season. Now

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Speaker 1: they've won six in a row. Your Vikings are eleven

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Speaker 1: and two after blasting Kirko Chains and the Atlanta Falcons

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Speaker 1: and doing so for two twenty one. This is an

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Speaker 1: Eric Davidson production. Thank you for listening to the Vikings

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