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Speaker 1: Welcome in to the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. I'm your host

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Speaker 1: Tatum Everett, and with only three games left in the

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Speaker 1: regular season, the Vikings hit the road for the final

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Speaker 1: time this Sunday. Following a convincing thirty four to twenty

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Speaker 1: six win over the Dallas Cowboys in primetime, Minnesota rounds

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Speaker 1: out NFC East play against the New York Giants this weekend.

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Speaker 1: In this week's show, we've got two special guests, super

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Speaker 1: Bowl champion Prince Amukamara and Vikings radio analyst Pete Bersich.

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Speaker 1: But before we get to them, we are a week

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Speaker 1: away from the Christmas Day matchup against the Lions. It's

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Speaker 1: also the Winter white Out game, where we want all

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Speaker 1: the fans to wear white and ice out US Bank

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Speaker 1: Stadium for the whole world to see on Netflix. It

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Speaker 1: was just announced this week that the halftime show will

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Speaker 1: Halftime Party. Tickets are still available to grabd yours for

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Speaker 1: this amazing holiday experience And if you can't tell, I

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Speaker 1: am very excited about that announcement.

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Speaker 2: But back to this week.

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Speaker 1: The Vikings are coming off back to back wins for

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Speaker 1: the first time this season, can they string together another

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Speaker 1: victory when they face the Giants and can they make

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Speaker 1: it three straight wins over the NFC East. Well, let's

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Speaker 1: ask one of our favorite friends of the pot now

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Speaker 1: joining us here on MVP. We've got the Vikings radio

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Speaker 1: analyst Pete Persich. Pete, you just recorded a segment for

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Speaker 1: our hardcore football fans nerd out on or if you're

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Speaker 1: someone like me and loves to learn more about the game,

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Speaker 1: we can watch your film room segment. So that's gonna

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Speaker 1: be on Vikings dot Com Vikings app by the time

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Speaker 1: this air. So is the what's the segment about this week?

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Speaker 3: Well, you have to get not get creative, but you

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Speaker 3: know the Giants have they've had some problems, they've struggled, right,

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Speaker 3: and what you're trying to do at least is just

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Speaker 3: try to break the team down and say what's compelling

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Speaker 3: about the team. And for the Giants, they have a

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Speaker 3: couple of rookies. I think that that everybody wants to

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Speaker 3: know about, right, Abdul Carter being one of them, the

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Speaker 3: defensive end outside linebacker and what they're doing with him.

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Speaker 3: So we have some highlights of that and just his play,

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Speaker 3: what he's about he's he's a very fast he's a

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Speaker 3: fast player, so speed is his main thing, and speeding quickness.

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Speaker 4: Uh. You just watching him, you can tell.

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Speaker 3: He just needs to grow and put some weight on

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Speaker 3: I think.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 4: And then Jackson Dart and watching the film, you you

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Speaker 4: see you see the word.

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Speaker 3: The word that comes to mind is co miserate. But

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Speaker 3: it's not what you want. But the developing of a

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Speaker 3: young quarterback is tough. It's not easy to do. Very

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Speaker 3: it does we've seen We've seen Sam Darnold's come through here,

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Speaker 3: who are obviously very good quarterbacks. But the development process

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Speaker 3: was was a little bumpy.

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Speaker 4: Let's just call it a little bumpy.

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Speaker 2: I mean it it took years.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's okay.

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Speaker 3: And so you just you see the concepts that they're installing.

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Speaker 3: It's not an entire offense. It's like bits and pieces

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Speaker 3: just bits and pieces that he can handle and do well,

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Speaker 3: like the RPO and some drives and digs and different routes,

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Speaker 3: and you see how he executes them very well, strong arm,

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Speaker 3: So those are some strong points of his A lot

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Speaker 4: But you, yeah, you.

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Speaker 3: See him do some things, and then you see the

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Speaker 3: defenses because the guys you're going against have been around

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Speaker 1: So, I mean, he's he's been a bright spot for them. However,

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Speaker 1: he's now facing a Brian Flores defense. Flores is known

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they did. I think they did a

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Speaker 3: good job of switching things up. Even against Dak Prescott.

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Speaker 1: I really wanted to ask you about that too, because

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Speaker 1: after the game, Rodney Harrison was talking to Harrison Smith

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Speaker 4: Used the word fun, didn't he. Yeah, yeah, because.

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Speaker 3: You kind of let me say this about Brian Flores.

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Speaker 3: He I think he, more than any any coordinator I've seen,

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Speaker 3: but you don't have Josh Allen, Right, you don't have

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Speaker 3: So you have Harrison Smith, who he's lost a step,

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Speaker 3: he's not as quick as he used to be, blah

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Speaker 3: Right after twenty seven, your body you start to slow down,

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Speaker 3: You can make up for it. And then some with

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Speaker 2: Can, we'll do call the defense.

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Speaker 3: And if you see this and you recognize the formation

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Speaker 4: I don't know what I'm doing.

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Speaker 3: But when you are part of it and then you

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Speaker 3: you're more involved. It's a brilliant way. But people like

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Speaker 3: Trust me, there have been. That's one thing that coaches

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Speaker 3: will be why'd you do this? Well, I saw the

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Speaker 2: But not when Harrison Smith tells it to you, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean I heard someone say that he played one

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Speaker 3: Well, if if they're privy to the to the kind

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Speaker 3: like I saw Harrison Smith is he just walked down

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Speaker 4: Then Flores will use it, right he sees.

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Speaker 3: He sees, you know, He's like, yeah, we need, we need,

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Speaker 4: So, just the.

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Speaker 3: Manipulation of all that and getting guys in positions to succeed.

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Speaker 3: They appreciate that, and that's a that becomes reciprocal where

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Speaker 3: you're you're every week you're going in because this time

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Speaker 3: of year, it's difficult because I'd never experienced being out

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, it's pretty remark.

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Speaker 3: In ninety five we did not make the playoffs, but

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Speaker 3: twenty third, by the way, that's when the season anyway,

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Speaker 3: So I don't know what it's like to get podcast

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Speaker 3: I do know what that feels like when you're a coach,

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Speaker 3: and I remember with Willie Shaw and George Well we

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Speaker 3: You want to get aggressive, Yeah, you want to just throw,

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Speaker 3: you know, you want to be aggressive and blitz and

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Speaker 3: get guys engaged. Because if you don't, if you're like

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Speaker 3: we always do, they able to you lose them. So

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Speaker 3: to that end, Flores keeps the guys engaged because they're

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Speaker 3: But thank you And what I'm saying that's that's really

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Speaker 3: Right there, headlines when we're signing these guys. But yet

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Speaker 4: We have a top ten.

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Speaker 3: Games that I did not know. I should probably know,

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Speaker 3: Well, okay, so there was a play where it was

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Speaker 2: Because I heard it.

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Speaker 1: Hey, look I can't I can't take credit for it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've obviously been talking at length about this Vikings

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think our offensive line, they they play, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's just we've talked I guess I've talked to it,

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Speaker 3: in it's the deer in the headlights effect. Right, you

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Speaker 4: You get it.

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Speaker 3: You scheme a guy wide open, the offense executes all

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Speaker 4: That can't. That can't happen at this level.

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Speaker 3: You have to hit him, you and he'll And I

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Speaker 3: would assume if you said JJ down right here, you'd

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Speaker 3: say the same thing. Yeah, that can't happen. Well, that's

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Speaker 3: What are they you know, what are they going to

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Speaker 3: I guess that's kind of what's exciting me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, going forward, I mean, to be fair, I was

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Speaker 1: Phil Yeah, which was a loss earlier, very very very interesting,

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Speaker 1: but it'd be much easier than you know, this gauntlet

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think the NFC North has dominated the

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Speaker 2: Nobody, not collectively.

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Speaker 3: Nobody saw Chicago doing what they're doing. No one saw

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Speaker 3: I mean this with three weeks left to go.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they're going nutty over there, But yeah they can't.

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Speaker 3: It's it's it's forty years since the Bear, you know,

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Speaker 4: So the Super Bowl shoff, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: By like eight.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it feels like insane because the Vikings defense

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Speaker 3: that's what happens when you leave you're ahead. A year ago,

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Speaker 3: we faced more passes this defense. The Vikings defense faced

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Speaker 4: So what do you do.

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Speaker 3: You go out and you get a couple of good

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Speaker 3: And then you play the AFC North and you're not

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Speaker 3: just the game changes. And I think it's kind of

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Speaker 2: Oh the parents.

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Speaker 4: No one thought, no, They're.

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Speaker 3: Going to go out and just with two running backs

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Speaker 2: That is the NFL.

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Speaker 1: So I got another game coming up on Sunday, The

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Speaker 1: Game Day Live as well Vikings post game Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: By game Days is a fun day. Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 2: Well, thanks Pete.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you fitting us into your busy, busy schedule,

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Speaker 1: We are so excited to be joined by Prince and Mukamara. Prince,

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Speaker 1: how's it going? Thank you so much for doing this, Thanks.

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Speaker 6: For having me. It's going great. It's going great. I

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Speaker 6: mean a lot of football happened this week.

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Speaker 5: Excite weegain. Yeah, yeah, but I'm good.

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Speaker 2: Good, good to hear you.

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Speaker 1: I know that you've kind of dabbled in a few

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Speaker 1: things since your retirement. One of them you recently for

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Speaker 1: the Thursday Football Club went undercover right here at a

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings game.

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Speaker 2: You can find that on the.

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Speaker 1: Thursday Football Club's YouTube page, I believe, Am I correct

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Speaker 1: on that one?

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Speaker 2: Where can we find it?

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Speaker 5: Yep? That is correct on the YouTube page.

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Speaker 6: And then there's short viral clips across all social media platforms,

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Speaker 6: that's Facebook, ig and TikTok.

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Speaker 1: And you, I'm sure you know you probably have been

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Speaker 1: to a few NFL games, but as a fan, how

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Speaker 1: many number, like, how many times have you been as

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Speaker 1: a fan?

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Speaker 6: Now? I mean the Minnesota experience was second to none,

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Speaker 6: So that's kind of that's kind of in its own category.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 5: But I would say.

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Speaker 6: I would say, I mean, as much as I could

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Speaker 6: count on one on one hand. I never went to

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Speaker 6: a game when I was a younger kid. I always

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Speaker 6: say my first NFL game was the first game I

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Speaker 6: played in.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 6: And so, yeah, it's so much different as a fan,

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Speaker 6: I'm sure, as we're going to get into.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 1: So I was enjoying watching you take in everything that

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Speaker 1: a Viking's game day has to offer.

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Speaker 2: I'll start with the first thing.

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Speaker 1: What stuck out to you about all of the fans themselves,

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Speaker 1: getting to know them.

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Speaker 6: I mean, passionate is the first word that comes to mind,

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Speaker 6: and that's in bold letters with underlines under them like

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Speaker 6: just so passionate, so hungry, so loyal and hungry meaning

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Speaker 6: like just hungry for a championship. Because I'm like, they've

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Speaker 6: they've tasted it. It's been they've been so close. And

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Speaker 6: and I and a lot of characters I say this respectfully,

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Speaker 6: just I remember I met a like a Viking.

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Speaker 5: Guy, which one, yeah, all right, I don't know.

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Speaker 6: But and then there's there's people like painted and purple,

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Speaker 6: and the thing is like, when I went there, it

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Speaker 6: wasn't that cold. I mean it's probably like fifteen or

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Speaker 6: eighteen degrees. It wasn't that cold to the Minnesotans, but

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Speaker 6: to me, it was super cold. So people are still

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Speaker 6: out there with no no shirt.

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Speaker 5: And stuff like that.

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Speaker 6: I feel like if you guys said, if you guys

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Speaker 6: still had an outdoor stadium, people would still be fans,

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Speaker 6: would still be shirtless.

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Speaker 1: Yes, my producer is a longtime Minnesota Vikings fan as

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Speaker 1: well's been here working here for amost twenty years, and

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Speaker 1: he's like nodding his head over here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, I guess they was.

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Speaker 5: It was fun. It was fun.

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Speaker 6: Just how much knowledge that the fans have. Like we

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Speaker 6: asked questions like give me a player that.

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Speaker 5: Only a.

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Speaker 6: Vikings true Vikings fan would know, and there were just

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Speaker 6: I mean, it wasn't obviously wasn't the Randy Mosses and

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Speaker 6: Adrian Peterson's. It was just names that only you know

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Speaker 6: if you were a two Vikings fan.

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Speaker 1: Very yes, our fans are very well educated in the

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Speaker 1: history of this franchise as well, which is super cool.

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Speaker 1: I know, you got to catch up with a couple

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Speaker 1: of the legends in the cabin, You got to hold

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Speaker 1: the field, the flag on the field, that must.

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Speaker 2: Have been pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: During the opening, I heard you reference Game of Thrones

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Speaker 1: a couple of times with the showtime sequence that we have.

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Speaker 2: Was there something that you thought about.

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Speaker 1: The experience that kind of set Minnesota apart from maybe

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Speaker 1: past experiences.

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Speaker 2: That you've had.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so.

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Speaker 6: I would say, well, first of all, the Prince painting, right,

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Speaker 6: how fitting? How fitting for Minnesota obviously, and how fitting

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Speaker 6: for me. I mean my name is Prince and so

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Speaker 6: just just seeing that and I love I love that tribute.

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Speaker 6: But I want to say that it's like game day

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Speaker 6: at Minnesota. Obviously, game days about players, it's about winning,

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Speaker 6: but I feel like it's about the fans.

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Speaker 5: It's about the experience.

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Speaker 6: So there's just so many different things going on, even

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Speaker 6: from the food spots. I forgot what the name of

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Speaker 6: the lounge was, but just the food spots like ye, yes,

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Speaker 6: the Delta Lounge, and just how that is for the

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Speaker 6: fans and.

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Speaker 5: Such great food.

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Speaker 6: And then when you go up to the suites, I

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Speaker 6: love how it's kind of like a cabin feel.

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Speaker 5: Have you've been up there right?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, the Legends is one of the.

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Speaker 6: Yes, it's just like it's it's it's like you're in

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Speaker 6: the woods kind of. It's it's just it's so different.

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Speaker 6: I've never say anything like that. And then again from

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Speaker 6: the flag, and then from the that's me doing the.

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Speaker 7: Like we're seeing it all bad, and then oh, oh,

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Speaker 7: just all that, like it's so yes, you hope that

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Speaker 7: the game is going awesome.

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Speaker 5: You guys are up by fifty, like, you hope the

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Speaker 5: game's going on.

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Speaker 6: So but if not, there's just so much going on,

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Speaker 6: so much you can look forward to, so much that.

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Speaker 5: Kids can remember.

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Speaker 6: And at the end, at the end of our episode,

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Speaker 6: what we do is we find we find a kid

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Speaker 6: who doesn't have a jersey, and we give them a

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Speaker 6: jersey that that we buy from the from the gift

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Speaker 6: shop and and that, and I think that does it

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Speaker 6: for me, just just seeing the kids just having a

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Speaker 6: jersey putting it on. I think we got them a

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Speaker 6: Jefferson jersey and we did the gritty and stuff.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, that's That's one of the things I

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Speaker 1: think is interesting. I've been to several stadiums and game

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Speaker 1: day experiences, but I'm a little partial to Minnesota, and

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Speaker 1: not just because I work here, but they just have

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Speaker 1: so many different it's everything so detail orient when it

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Speaker 1: comes to the stadium, Like you go and every visit

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Speaker 1: you make, you find some piece of art that's new

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Speaker 1: or some activation that they're doing.

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Speaker 2: This is new and just for the fans, it's it's

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Speaker 2: super cool.

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Speaker 1: There was there was one point where you were watching

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Speaker 1: the game, I believe, and I heard you say, Man,

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Speaker 1: who is this number one?

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Speaker 2: Jalen Naylor?

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Speaker 6: Kid?

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Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta look him up.

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Speaker 1: So I'm wondering if you got a chance to look

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Speaker 1: up Jalen Naylor and see what he did last week?

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Speaker 5: I didn't.

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Speaker 2: Oh, man, you're gonna have to go back and watch.

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Speaker 1: The tape before we Before the Vikings play the Giants,

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Speaker 1: Jalen Naylor had his first two touchdown performance compliments of

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Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy and uh, it was probably McCarthy's best obviously

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Speaker 1: outing against the Cowboys.

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Speaker 2: But Jalen Naylor, he's a guy.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna want to watch, You're, yeah, he he made

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Speaker 1: some incredible grabs in clutched moments, clutched times and yeah.

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Speaker 1: So so Jalen Naylor is someone who came here to

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Speaker 1: you know that that they what we drafted and then

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Speaker 1: he's just kind of, you know, worked his way up

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Speaker 1: into the system, gotten to know everything, and when you're

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Speaker 1: behind guys like Jordan Addison and Justin Jefferson, it's hard

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Speaker 1: to pop sometimes.

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Speaker 2: So he had a really good game.

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Speaker 1: I was hoping that that I could pass that along

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Speaker 1: to you so that you could, you know, go back

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Speaker 1: and and watch.

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Speaker 2: A little bit of him.

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Speaker 5: That's good.

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Speaker 6: Well, then, shoot, that shows that I have good scouting skills.

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Speaker 2: There's exactly right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking speaking of I mean, it's it's been a bit,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's this season has been struggles for the Vikings,

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Speaker 1: whether it's injury related, whether it's you know, lack of points,

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Speaker 1: lack of turnovers, time of possessions, been skewed at points

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Speaker 1: in time when you're a player, and you know, they

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Speaker 1: recently were eliminated from the playoffs, but they are obviously

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Speaker 1: playing to advance what they know, especially offensively this season

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Speaker 1: with three games left to play, when you when if

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Speaker 1: you ever were ever in a situation like that as

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Speaker 1: a player, how do you approach How did you approach that?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Like, how do I approach like towards like the last

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Speaker 6: couple of games?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and playoffs are off the table?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so yeah, so I just I answered this question,

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Speaker 6: I think a couple of days ago, but or yesterday.

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Speaker 5: But it's like you're being evaluated every single time you're

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Speaker 5: on the field.

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Speaker 6: So whether you're whether you're hurt, like you can't say, oh,

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Speaker 6: like I have a cast on my hand, it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 5: If you're on the field, you're one hundred percent regardless.

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Speaker 6: And so I say that to say that even though

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Speaker 6: it's the last couple of games of the season, it

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Speaker 6: seems like nothing matters. Your film matters, and your team's

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Speaker 6: looking at how you finish, and the other thirty one

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Speaker 6: teams are watching and seeing how how you finished when

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Speaker 6: nothing is on the line because they still have to

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Speaker 6: make decisions for next year and stuff like that. And

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Speaker 6: so you always want to put your You always want

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Speaker 6: to put your best foot forward. So I always and

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Speaker 6: I always like to say that that's scary because you

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Speaker 6: see these teams that are two in whatever, five and whatever,

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Speaker 6: just out out of the playoffs, and if you're on

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Speaker 6: the winning side, you think, like, Okay, they're just gonna

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Speaker 6: they're just gonna let us like roll over them. No,

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Speaker 6: they're not, like they're they're going to give you their

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Speaker 6: best shot.

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Speaker 5: They're gonna give your best shot.

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Speaker 6: And so that's why teams like teams like the Vikings

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Speaker 6: right now are still scary because they're hitting a stride

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Speaker 6: like JJ is playing well, like the whole the whole

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Speaker 6: team's playing well. And then even other teams that are

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Speaker 6: that are being sneaky. Right look at the Saints, like

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Speaker 6: the Saints. The Saints beat the Bucks and then they

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Speaker 6: turn around and beat and beat the Panthers and back

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Speaker 6: to back weeks, and those two teams are fighting to

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Speaker 6: win the conference, and they play the Panthers and the

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Speaker 6: Bucks play this week.

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Speaker 5: But all that to say is.

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Speaker 6: That right now, like you think, teams aren't playing for nothing, No,

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Speaker 6: they're they're playing because they want to finish and they

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Speaker 6: still want to put their best foot forward.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Giants are in a similar position like that,

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Speaker 1: they lost their last eight straight. When the Vikings take

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Speaker 1: the field on Sunday, What what what team? What mindset

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Speaker 1: are they having as as they you know, host the

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Speaker 1: Vikings in this final stretch of the year.

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Speaker 5: I think both team.

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Speaker 6: First of all, I love that I love both of

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Speaker 6: these quarterbacks. So I love JJ and the same the

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Speaker 6: same reason why we love JJ is the same reason

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Speaker 6: why we love Jackson these guys have ice in their veins,

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Speaker 6: lots of moxie, lots of swag, and I call it,

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Speaker 6: like d gap, they don't.

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Speaker 5: They just don't give an f like like they don't

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Speaker 5: they really, they really don't.

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Speaker 4: They don't.

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Speaker 5: They don't care what people They don't care what people

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Speaker 5: are saying.

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Speaker 6: They have all the confidence in the world, and you

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Speaker 6: want that in your quarterback and and let them play.

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Speaker 6: And I feel like JJ's kind of been been on

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Speaker 6: that trajectory.

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Speaker 5: He's playing with lots of confidence. So but I want

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Speaker 5: to say that for Jackson too.

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Speaker 2: Now, have you experienced a Giants game as a fan

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Speaker 2: yet not in the not like in the traditional sense

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Speaker 2: of like what you did in Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, not like in status going back and.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So I went.

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Speaker 5: I went there as a like I was just there.

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Speaker 6: I was at the Giants game this week and they

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Speaker 6: played the Commander, So I was just there on Sunday,

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Speaker 6: and but I wasn't but I was kind of like,

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Speaker 6: I was kind of like being I was like retired.

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Speaker 5: I was like a.

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Speaker 2: Giants Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 5: I was going.

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Speaker 6: Into the suite saying what's up to the to the

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Speaker 6: suite holders and doing a whole bunch of events. But

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Speaker 6: as a fan, like in the stands hearing the fans

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Speaker 6: boo the refs, hearing the fans boo the other team,

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Speaker 6: hearing like like that, No I have, I have not.

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Speaker 1: Okay, because I was wondering, like, what are fightings fans

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Speaker 1: that are attending the game they're going to expect obviously.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's it's it's New York, New Jersey.

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Speaker 6: I mean those, I mean those, those fans are super

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Speaker 6: passionate and they're not afraid to let you know how

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Speaker 6: they feel. And that's one thing I like about Minnesota

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Speaker 6: is that there is a Midwest charm there. But but

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Speaker 6: in the video, there was this there was this lady

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Speaker 6: that was older than me and she was just, I mean,

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Speaker 6: she seemed like a season ticket holder, and she just

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Speaker 6: she knew every player by name, and she was very

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Speaker 6: educated about the game of football and was just calling

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Speaker 6: everything out, just saying stuff.

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Speaker 5: And I thought that was I thought that was fun

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Speaker 5: to see.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome.

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Speaker 1: Well, Prince, thank you so much for joining us. Obviously

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Speaker 1: you can see him on the Thursday Football Club. Be

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Speaker 1: sure to watch that video.

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Speaker 2: Former NFL player undercover as.

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Speaker 1: A Vikings fan. I don't know how undercover you were.

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Speaker 1: I feel like you were pretty out there with your jersey.

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Speaker 1: You had it all set up.

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Speaker 5: I did, I did. But it's so funny. Everyone my name,

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Speaker 5: my last name was was on a jersey and everyone thought,

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Speaker 5: hold on, did he did he play? I was the

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Speaker 5: other I was on the other team in the division.

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Speaker 2: Right, the Bears, right?

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Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, like some didn't like, but it was fun.

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Speaker 2: No one knew that's when. That's why you were recover

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Speaker 2: right exactly.

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Speaker 1: Well, Prince and Mukamara, thank you so much for joining

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Speaker 1: us today on the Minnesota Vikings Podcast and for being

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Speaker 1: such a great uh support for us during you know,

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Speaker 1: while you while you toured our stadium, and you are

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Speaker 1: always welcome anytime you want.

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Speaker 5: Ooh, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Just don't tell them I sent you because I don't

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Speaker 1: really have the commission to do that but you, but

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Speaker 1: in my mind, you're welcome anytime you went.

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Speaker 5: Thank you and school love it.

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Speaker 2: You nailed it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening to the Minnesota Vikings podcast,

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Speaker 1: which featured two amazing guests, Pete Bersich and Prince and Mukamara.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much to them for being here. The

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Speaker 1: Vikings play their final road game of the season on

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Speaker 1: Sunday at noon against the New York Giants.

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Speaker 2: Kickoff on Fox.

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Speaker 1: You could also listen to it on KFAM, beginning with

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Speaker 1: the pregame show at ten am. Thank you for tuning

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