WEBVTT - MVP: DT Harrison Phillips On Having A Successful Team Mindset, Working With His Charity During The Holidays - Episode 295 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:01.440 Hey, Vikings fans. Ben Lever here. 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:03.440 I'm so excited to be a new Lifetime member, and 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:04.360 so are my kids. 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:06.480 They love the tennis, the pick a ball, the basketball, 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:07.880 and of course the yummy cafe. 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:09.960 Check them out at Lifetime dot life to find a 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:10.720 club nearest you. 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.000 This is the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:19.720 I'm your host Tatum Everett and the Vikings were victorious 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.000 down in Jacksonville. A twelve to seven victory over the 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:27.479 Jags improved the Vikings record to seven and two. We're 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:31.160 now joined by Vikings defensive tackle Harrison Phillips. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.040 One day removed from the victory. 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:36.839 And Harrison, you know, the time possession was a wacky 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:40.400 in this one. We were just talking before the podcast 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:41.920 about how that can. 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:43.160 Affect the way that you feel. 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.240 You know, they had the ball for forty two minutes, 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:48.120 the offense did, and then you guys were just kind 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:49.520 of waiting to get your chance. 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:50.680 I mean, what is that? Have you ever been a 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:51.559 part of something like that? 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.000 I mean, I'm sure there's been some games that we've 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.800 heavily won the time of possession, but yeah, it's you 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.120 feel a little more fresh, for sure. I don't know 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.240 if there's too many defensive players complaining about how they 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:05.200 how they feel today now. They were very physical snaps 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.760 because the style of the game, a lot of you know, 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.960 twelve personnel, you know, tough duo, double team type stuff 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.360 in the trenches. But you feel a little bit better 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:15.880 not being out on your feet that much. And then 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:17.840 you have to be able to mentally stay locked in 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.080 when you're on the sidelines and there's a timeout and 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.240 a long drive and a halftime and a court. You 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.240 got to be able to then keep the body repped up. 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.720 It almost felt like you guys shined during the sudden 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.160 change plays like those drives where you had you know, 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.039 Sam Darnold was in his three picks. Afterwards, you allowed 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:39.400 no points two point nine yards per play on those drives. 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:41.840 I mean, it was incredible what you guys do. So 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.640 despite hanging out there on the sidelines for a little while, 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:46.320 you guys were able to get in there. And how 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:48.400 does that work, Like, how do you kind of mentally 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:49.480 get ready for those moments? 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:51.920 Yeah, I mean I think that that's something we've had 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.760 built back in OTAs and some of the way that 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:56.960 they built our roster. A lot of guys on our 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:58.640 defense have a reason to have a chip on them 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:01.400 shoulder ben counted out before, or have a lot to prove, 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:02.360 And so that's just kind of. 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:03.400 The identity of the team. 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.559 And with Flow's leadership, you know, he has his coin 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.440 sayings like you know you don't seek comfort, and uh, 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:11.840 we don't want to comfort seeking group. We want to 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.360 have a group that runs into the burning building. 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:16.079 And so when those. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.760 Huge moments and momentum shifting plays happen in a game, 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.519 we want to go in and put out the fire immediately. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.160 And so there are a lot of times where we'll. 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.200 Take the field in those moments and their smiles on 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.320 our faces like dang, this is that Like, if you 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.360 want to be an elite football player, you're gonna make 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.880 a play right now to help this team win. So, yeah, 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.400 that's as unfortunate as those situations are when they come up. 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:39.680 We have a group that's not like tucking your tail. 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.160 They're putting their chin up and poking their chest out, 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.040 saying like I can't wait to stand up in this moment. 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:45.720 It just said something that kind of caught my attention. 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.120 A lot of guys who feel like they've been counted out, 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:50.839 How did you guys talk about those things. 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:52.239 How do you know that about one another? 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:52.480 What? 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.560 You can't have unique results without unique relationships. And so 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.720 the unique relationships that we built when you're sitting in 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:00.680 the sana, or when you're on a road trip, or 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.079 when you're in Cleveland for a week with joint practices 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.040 and golfing in the off season, you know, things just 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.120 organically come up. You know, what's your family structure, Like, oh, 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.400 your mom and dad's still in the picture, how your siblings? 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:12.120 What you know? 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.400 Tell me about high school? Oh, you didn't get recruited 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:17.840 or this this school flipped on you. Or you thought 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:19.200 you were going to get drafted here and you got 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.440 drafted there. They just kind of organically come out. And 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.360 I think the easiest way to relate to one another 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.360 is through shared adversity, because everyone in their life has 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:30.320 gone through something, and yeah, just through those kind of 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:33.040 small organic And sometimes we'll have players get up and 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.520 introduce themselves or say where they're from and tell a 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.960 story about themselves, and you know that that also gets 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.320 a chance to be vulnerable and learn more about other 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.160 people's why why they play the game and why they 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.440 dedicate so much of our life and sacrifice for this, 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.120 and yeah, you know, you've you know a lot of 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.120 our team, so you probably know some of those individual 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.760 stories themselves. But yeah, it's nice to look to the 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:55.080 guy next to you and know that he's not just 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.400 out here to try to make another statistic or something 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:59.320 like that. He's out here because he loves the game 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:00.600 and what it does for he and his family. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:02.400 Yeah, I mean you mentioned that a little bit in 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:06.040 some of your postgame interviews about this defense being a 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:10.200 selfless group and how instrumental that is to success. How 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.520 much does that play into it because you guys are 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:14.480 obviously out there and you are getting there. 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:16.359 I mean, guys are leading the league in takeaways, like. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.720 There are stats out there, thirty sacks on the year, 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:20.120 there are stats like there. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.720 But how do you convince or how does everyone. 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.880 Get on the same page as far as like, hey, 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.120 we need to be selfless in this because it's not 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:28.480 always the case in this league. 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.240 I think it's because of how close of a group 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:31.560 we are. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.960 You know, if you're just colleagues with the guys next 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.400 to you, and you're just coworkers out there like, yeah, 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.120 I don't really care if I pissed this guy off 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.560 for this guy. I mean, this is my job and 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:42.200 this is what i have to do to make a living. 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.520 So I'm gonna go make sure and I go get mine. Well, 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:46.200 when you're out there with your family and you're out 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:48.000 there with your brothers, like the people that you love, 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.039 you don't want to let them down and you don't 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.880 want to, you know, have to come back after. Yeah, 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:54.680 you know, you might have a hero play, but then 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:56.440 the three other ones that you did the wrong thing, 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.360 we got gashed on, and now we're not tops in 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:01.400 the league. Now we're we're losing football games and we're 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.120 playing bad defense. And so I think we just have 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.080 enough guys to understand like, yeah, there's a few moments 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:08.640 and a few times you can kind of shoot a 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:12.040 shot or get a little more aggressive through your responsibility. 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:14.160 But for the most part, we don't have a group 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.160 that's like I'm going to get a sack today no 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:17.360 matter what the freak happens. 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:18.640 You know what I'm saying, I'm gonna catch a pick. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:19.839 I don't care what I have to do. I'm jump 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:21.200 every out until I get one. 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.760 Well, great, you got burnt four other times, or sweet 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:25.839 every time you swum out of a double team they 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:27.480 ran it for two hundred fifty yards, but you got 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:27.800 your sack. 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:28.520 We don't have that. 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:29.640 Group, so that's really awesome. 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:29.880 Good. 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.160 I mean, the results are still coming though. 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.240 I mean, you guys had three turnovers on the final 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.960 three drives of that Jaguars game. Had you guys before that, 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.080 we're all talking about we got to turn this ball over. 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.240 Like, was there that conversation on the sideline. 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:43.560 Yeah. 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:45.360 I think a lot of times we were just like, 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.200 all right, this is gonna you know, we think this 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:48.400 is going to game that we have to win on 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.960 our side, Like let's let's let's make the takeaway, let's 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.160 make the stop, let's just keep giving the ball back 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.400 into the offense's hands, especially when we got the lead 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:56.280 there towards the end. 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.880 But yeah, that always comes up. Coaches are running up 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.160 and down the sidelines, veteran players too. We gotta take 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:02.760 the ball off these guys. We get it. Wet. I 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.640 got a turnover. So thankful with the way it ended. 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.919 Yeah, one of those was your fumble recovery off the 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:09.880 botch snap a chuckle it on that one. That was 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.120 a pretty cool moment when you see the ball get 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:13.920 loose like that, like what's your first reaction. 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:18.039 I mean, I don't know. Yeah, it happened really fast. 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:18.960 It was like a gap scheme. 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:20.240 I think they were going to run some type of 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.120 trap counterpass, and so we also had a pressure on 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.520 so I was moving, I was moving a different direction. 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.719 The center was trying to get to me, so we crossed. 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.560 I see the ball kind of pop up, and uh, 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:32.200 obviously it kind of came right to me. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:33.920 So it would have been very embarrassing if I didn't 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:34.880 end up with that football. 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:39.640 But we got the football, and yeah, you know, you 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:40.880 can call it what you call it. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:41.120 It was. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.400 You know, Jesus took the wheel there for that. 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.400 Yeah, well, I think that there should just be a 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.239 different category for like three hundred pounds plus. 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:50.680 We shouldn't have the same standard. 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.000 Maybe not so sprightly like not. So I don't know, 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:54.400 a light. 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.840 Footage, keep it nice in my wheelhouse. Trying to heart 0:06:57.839 --> 0:06:59.720 a hamstring out here, That's very true. 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.520 But you know, I am looking back, and if you know, 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:04.479 each week when you watch the film, you go back 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.320 and you stay up late at night thinking if I 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:08.200 had this play back or this play back, what I 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.440 could have done. And I'm just thinking about when I 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:12.800 saw that Jaguar mascot in the end zone, and you 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:14.920 just keep me up at night last night, I'm wondering, 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.480 would it have been worth it to just totally take 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.240 him out, deck him. 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:21.840 I mean, Cam's going for the celebrations of the year. 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.880 I'm sure I would get fined physically put hands on 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.480 a mascot, But like he tried to stop the selly 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.200 and then we were all kind of clustered after that, 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.000 and I just I think if I could play it 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.120 over again, I would have played it differently, and I'd 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.600 been on Sports Center today and I would have been 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:38.280 fine tomorrow. 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:38.760 I don't know. 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:40.520 Yeah, I mean, I don't think that the Jaguar's going 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:42.080 to do anything to you, but I wouldn't want to 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:43.080 be on your bad side. 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.760 Yeah, I know it just yeah, what could have been? 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.360 You know, what could have been? He is a little 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.280 bit of a troll, though he is a bit I liked. 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:51.920 I think it was cool. I didn't think it was cool. 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:53.640 I just when he was in the end zone and 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.000 I was trying to hand him the football, so I 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.800 was like, Okay, if he if he plays along, if 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:00.800 he if he takes the football, and maybe I could 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:02.640 then tackle him. So I was trying to put the 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.920 football in front of him and he wasn't. He wasn't taken. 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:06.240 I was like, all right, so he's just kind of 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.320 doing this thing. I'm sure they have strict instructions as well, 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:10.280 but yeah. 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.760 So that before though, that was he was like really 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.800 up in there. And afterwards, Kevin O'Connell was very fired 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.840 up in his speech about you guys, especially on defense, 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.200 just talking about how the whole team though never flinched 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:24.560 and the attitude of like this is the one that 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.720 you're never going to forget. And to me as like 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.920 a fan or not a fan perspective all the way, 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:31.960 but just from the outside looking in, I was like 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.920 one that you'll never forget. Like I'm when I think 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.400 of that, I think of those like major moments like 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.480 throughout the season or you know, a big dominant win 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.000 over a tough Texans team or the win over the. 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:46.160 Forty nine ers rate But like, why would he say you'll. 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:49.880 Remember this one the most after you know what heuckspired 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:50.360 on the field. 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.079 I think because it takes a full team. 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.439 You know, there's gonna be times in a season where 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.520 one or two phases of the football game aren't going 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.560 the way that you want it, but you build a 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:01.559 team the right way. 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:02.360 Uh. 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.920 It's not a PingER for finger pointing outfit. It's it's 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:07.120 you know. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.600 Guys understanding, like all right, hey, there's been. 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.559 Weeks that we gave up a handful of touchdowns or 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:13.840 a handful of yards and our offense then answered the 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.599 call every single time. For us, this is one of 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.960 those moments where, hey, things things are kind of going 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.400 the way they are defensively, we gotta we gotta do 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.720 this ourselves. We got to you know, help our brothers 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.320 out for all the times that they helped us out, 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.000 and special teams plays a role in that. Other times 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.560 there's you know when you look at starting field positions 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.880 and field goal percentage and punts and all these great things. 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.120 So I think you look back on it almost to 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:41.240 like the Raiders win two years ago, shutout to say 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.560 that like there's we don't have to be you know, 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.480 we've thought that we had a model of how we 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.720 win football games. You know, you strike first, go up 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.000 early in the first quarter, a point differentials insane, you know, 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:55.440 protect the football, win the turnover battle. And when you 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.880 don't do those things, you could say like, dang, if 0:09:57.880 --> 0:09:59.600 this isn't our you know, we found our recipe to 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.880 win and this isn't going the right way and we 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.240 still want So that allows you to say, like, Okay, 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.040 you know we have a mentally strong group that's able 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.600 to find find ways to win even though if it's 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.520 not exactly how we plan it to be. And I'm 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.120 sure that that's why, you know, Ko mentioned it's something 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:15.640 you can look back on, just that all of us 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.559 as a team can have increased confidence knowing that if 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.319 the games aren't starting out to the way that we've 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.880 seen repeated success before, we still are in every every game. 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.240 Yeah, no, that's that's just a great point. You mentioned 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.880 the special teams. Parker Romo for four. I mean, the dude, 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:31.720 the dude has ice in his veins. 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:32.400 I mean that was. 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.600 Incredible, and I mean he was the only one to 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.320 score points in this game after seeing the defensive scored 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.440 so many points. Defense scores so much points in this 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.280 one or throughout the season the offense has been scoring 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.120 and now Parker Romo. 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:46.280 Yeah, it's incredible. 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.200 It's just one of those stories you love to hear, like, 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.600 even if you're not a fan of sport, just like 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.720 you know, this guy's been a kicker for fifteen years 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.080 or however long and loved the game and worked his 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:00.080 butt off and set goals and thought that those goals may. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:00.720 He fell short. 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:04.040 And then sure enough he gets his number called get 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.520 in an NFL football game. And I mean, obviously not 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.800 but single handedly you know, quote unquote when when. 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:11.640 That game he didn't fluedge. 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:15.920 Yeah, and moment that we just joked today while we 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:17.199 were in the lift. I don't remember who I was 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.079 joking with or whatever, but like, this guy forty five 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:20.760 years from now on the golf course is going to 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.000 be talking about this game like there's no doubt about 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.559 first time rookie. I'll go nail four for four And yeah, 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.440 I'm just really happy for him. I cheer for those moments. 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.520 And again, you talk about a team that has players 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.280 with chips on their shoulders and things to prove, and 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:33.920 he falls. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:34.400 In that category. 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.600 I kind of feel like he was an unsung hero 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:39.840 of this season. He'll always be like an unsung hero 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:41.600 of this season for his performance in that one. 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.040 And I think that's a word. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.320 If people use a lot to describe what you do, 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:47.600 they're in the middle. So is there any kind of 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.800 relation to that, Like, do you kind of understand maybe 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.040 where he's coming from a little bit? 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:52.600 I guess. 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.480 I guess we'll have to see how the trajectory of 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.679 the season holds out. But I know that, you know, 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:58.760 we won a football game, and wins are very hard 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.960 to come by because of what he did for us yesterday, 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.560 and I'm glad that he gets his moment like yeah, 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.520 for being an unsung hero. It's nice to I asked 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:08.920 him how many text messages he got. 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:10.360 I think he said two hundred and eighty eight. 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:11.560 Oh my goodness. 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.200 I said, I'd never had two hundred and eighty. 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.640 Eight, not even after the draft day. 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:18.400 I thought, that's why I said, I said, my highest 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.960 ones are a draft day, signing my contract here, and 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:22.760 then signing my extension would have been the most. 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.520 But I wasn't. I wasn't in that those numbers. 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.440 No, it's actually funny you mentioned that because I wanted 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.800 to bring this up at some point during this conversation. 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.200 I remember you coming in here after you signed the 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.800 contract here, and you had said to us how important 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.800 it was to sign that second contract, like what that 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:43.200 means to you and your family and your accomplishments, and 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.440 then in September you get that extension. What were the 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.679 feelings like comparably, because I kind of wanted to ask 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.480 you that because we've talked after the first one, but 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:51.480 not after this one as much. 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:57.400 Yeah, you know, both situations were highly emotional, and not 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.440 only positive emotions. For when the first free agency came you, 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.000 I was under the impressions that I would never get 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.040 to free agency because I thought that I would remain 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.080 in Buffalo, and so there was that dang, I'm saying 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.200 goodbye to a really cool chapter of my life. And 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:14.560 there was that part, and then Minnesota was super happy 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.640 and positive stuff. So there was that kind of contradiction. 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.840 And then with this last one there was the you know, 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.440 kind of long talks from when the season finished last 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.400 year going into the last year of your deal. There's 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:30.120 nothing guaranteed. We like you here, but you get you know, 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.240 your age is a thing, You're playing well, but you know, 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.920 there's just so many conversations and your agents and your 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.280 team are telling you one thing, and then the vikings 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:41.080 are another thing, and then you start throwing values in 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:43.600 the situation where my agents say that if you do 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:45.520 what you we think you're gonna do you play how 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.520 you're supposed to play. We see you at this number, 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.920 but the team sees you at this number, so you know, 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.040 for when it finally got done, there was a huge 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.520 weight lifted off my shoulder, but there was still that 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.240 battle of different emotions of like, well did. 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:58.319 I did I leave some money on the table but 0:13:58.440 --> 0:13:59.240 not the money on the table. 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:04.319 But ultimately the difference in dollars is easily surpassed by 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.680 being in an organization that I love, cities that I love, 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.520 around a team that's doing incredible things, led leadership that 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:15.160 is absolutely fantastic, and so like, you can't put a 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.280 price tag on some of that stuff. And then yeah, 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:21.200 I had set goals for a monetary amount of what 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.320 I wanted to get from this game to set up 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.160 future generations of my family, and hopefully playing this out 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:27.600 you can do that for me. 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.360 We've got to take a quick break from our conversation 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.680 with Harrison Phillips, but he agreed to return afterwards and 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:35.440 we are going to talk a little bit more about 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:39.080 the Titans matchup on Sunday, his work with his foundation, 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:43.560 the Harrison Playmakers, and what Salute to Service means to him. 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.120 Say hello to Fallacy smooth Skin at pure Lux Medspa, 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:52.160 the preferred medspob the Minnesota Vikings Cheerleaders specializing in elite 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:56.880 laser hair removal, body contouring, Botox cosmetic filter, and age 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.800 defying skincare treatments such as Diamond Glow and skin Pin. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.640 For collagen induction therapy. 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