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You can book your day today. 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:45.840 Go to omnihotels dot com slash Viking Lakes. It's Nordo 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.040 from nine to noon. Here Vikings starting the twenty twenty 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:52.640 three season with a thud. Unfortunately, twenty to seventeen was 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.600 the final. Yesterday, the Vikings lose to the visiting Tampa 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.800 Bay Buccaneers. You're going to hear next segment from head 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.880 coach Kevin O'Connell. He spoke to the media earlier this afternoon. 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:06.880 I'll also include a few kfan exclusive postgame interviews with 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:10.080 a few players. Tatum Everett tracked down in the locker 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.160 room immediately after the loss. 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:13.200 Let's get to it. 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:16.720 Let's rewind to the action, and it was difficult sledding 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.840 for both offenses to start the game, exchanging three and outs, 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:22.840 a couple of punts to start this one, but the 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:26.360 second possession for the Purple yesterday, showing some promise in 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:28.640 front of that home crowd, everyone giving it up for 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.240 Bud giving it up for the Purple to start twenty 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:32.759 twenty three on a high note. 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:34.440 It was a nine play drive. 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.200 It featured a suite chain moving eleven yard catch to 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.520 TJ Hawkinson. Justin Jefferson had a thirty yard catch and run. 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.240 Let's go get some points in an early lead against 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.360 the visitors. Right, third and short. 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.800 This happens ninth play, if a possession that's on sixty 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:50.160 one yards and it may be over. 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:51.600 In fact it is Cousins and. 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:55.200 Schlotman messed up the exchange and the Buccaneers have turned 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:59.520 over the Pikings. Joe tryon Shoyinka the one to come 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.760 out of the pile with it, and the first turnover. 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.760 Goes the way of Tampa Bay. I really have never 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:08.040 seen this before. I've seen Kirk stepped on. I've seen 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.880 Kirk tripping over offensive lineman. As a matter of fact, 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:14.000 I saw both of those things occurring last year. I've 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.880 never seen it where ed Ingram he essentially punched the 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.160 ball out of Kirk's hands as he takes the snap 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:25.519 and is turning back potentially into a playfake situation turnover 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:27.400 just outside the red zone. 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:31.040 That one was painful. We're not done now. A key 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:31.400 part of. 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.800 This game is, indeed, you know, with this new defense, 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:39.880 defensive coordinator Brian Flores. Early on yesterday, he was flummoxy 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:43.639 Baker Mayfield and the Bucks offense orseing punt after punt 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.640 after punt, inactive drive, inactive drive. 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.440 Here or there and everywhere throughout the first half. Loving that. 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:54.120 But also another key part holding onto the ball and 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:58.519 on the ensuing Vike's possession, another giveaway. 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.960 Viking zero up two on third down minus wanting to 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:02.480 take gift, big blitz. 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:02.840 By the Bucks. 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:07.359 Tuslin's hit balls out Bucks ball for minus two and 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:09.960 the take gift and they get it at the eighteen 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:14.880 yard line and twe Winfield Junior all over the mix. 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:18.720 In fact, he recovered it and Antoine Winfield Junior is 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:19.240 off to a. 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:20.680 Terrific start this game. 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.400 Yeah, second play of the game he gets by Alexander 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.760 Madison forces an incompletion, putting pressure on kirk On. This 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:31.040 particular play gets the strip, sack and the recovery. Multiple 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:35.160 plays made by the former Gopher Antoine Winfield Junior in 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.040 the backfield for the Bucks yesterday. That's two turnovers, by 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.320 the way, if you're keeping track. In the first ten 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:44.840 minutes of the season, Bucks ball at the Minnesota eighteen 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.640 yard line. Defense holds strong again Road team. 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:49.360 It's the scoring started with. 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.760 A field goal already six yard try leptash snap spot 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:57.360 and the kick is good reach twenty three to go. 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.760 In the first quarter, a cant pay and ears off 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:04.560 a strip sat by Antoine Winfield Junior get a mcwaplin 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.520 field calling lead to three zero final minutes of the 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.320 opening quarter. As you heard there, both teams now exchange 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.120 three and outs again five to three and outs yesterday 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:14.680 for the Vikings offense. 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:15.600 But the offense. 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.599 Finally gets going in the early second quarter a six play, 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:20.040 eighty plus yard drive. 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:21.360 Justin Jefferson. 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.600 He had seven catches for one hundred and thirty eight 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.479 yards in the first half. He gets all the attention 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:28.520 for good reason, but we also got to peek at 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.520 what Jordan Addison can offer as a weapon. The rookie 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:35.560 found himself in the end zone for the lead Minnesota four. 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:39.080 I'm third down, Cousins, shotgun, four man rush, kirks, great drop, 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:40.640 ste page man. 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:41.839 Wide open good. 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:50.520 Jordan Addison, Welcome to the National Football League. 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:54.040 It was beautiful, quick hitting drive and score seven to three, 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.720 and then the Vikings force another punt and at a 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.039 field goal, a short one from Greg Joe's twenty five yards, 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.680 it's ten to three in favor of the Purple. With 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:05.920 a handful of minutes left in the half, Bucks had 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.880 totaled I think around thirty total yards of offense to this. 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:10.520 Point in the game. 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.080 But then they rattle off a seven play, sixty one 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.440 yard TD drive ending like this. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.200 Finger maypield out of the shot John two x two 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.480 formation and we're shot white by a side Minnesota rushes. 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.760 Poor Baker dances around the pocket, throws to the end zone, 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:30.840 caught touchdown. Buccaneers Mike Evans with a twenty eight yard touchdown. 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:34.240 He got behind or safeties and it's ten. 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.080 To nine MINESOA ten ten was one oh nine to 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:40.080 go before the break. Vikings offense is hustling again on 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.200 short time JJ with a forty. 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:42.839 Plus yard connection. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.600 Clock's ticking down, getting the end zone for a lead 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.080 at half right, even a field goal makes you feel 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:48.760 a bit better. 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:49.239 At this point. 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:53.200 Instead the third option, the third turnover of the half. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.920 Twenty three seconds to go on the first half, Cousins 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.440 out of the shot gun, Powks fires to the end 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.800 zoner close to it and packed it picked off center 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:01.400 of the field. 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:06.000 The Buccaneers have an interception and justin Jefferson. 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:12.000 Smacks said interceptor that is Christian Isian, the undrafted rookie 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.960 from Rutgers, and he paid for it with the Jefferson hit. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.320 But the a topic is were. 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:22.400 Minus three minus three and the take gift. 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.960 Come on Bucks, keep Vikings off the board, keep the 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:27.279 game tied at half. 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:28.560 And speaking of the second. 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.240 Half, third quarters, if you remember a year ago, the 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.760 third quarters plagued the Purple and it was similar yesterday 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:38.159 in terms of scoring, differential long drives by the opponent, 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.760 in ability to get in the end zone during third quarters. 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.320 All these things were issued despite a thirteen win season 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:43.720 a year ago. 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:45.000 It was similar yesterday. 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:48.080 Bucks opened the frame with a nearly nine minute drive 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:49.560 thirteen plays. 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.240 It looked like the Vikes were going to hold them 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:52.640 to a field goal thirty. 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:56.280 One yard dry right hash snap spot right foot at McLoughlin. 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:01.880 Kick is good and on these seek per scoreboard. The 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.560 way we have a flag. We have a flag. This 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.640 is the case. If it is encroachment on us, then 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:08.440 it's going to be a first down. Uh oh, that'll 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.040 give him five. I'll give hi up yard. 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.800 Ist I side defense number twenty lineup in. 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:16.280 The neutras off Ja Ward the five yard penalty first stout. 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.560 Jayward thinking he was gonna get sneaky like in that 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.360 preseason game against Arizona. 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:22.440 Yeah, it's a rookie mistake right there. 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:23.360 Whoops. 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.280 Three plays later, they have a rookie, Trey Palmer. He 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:28.960 gets a touchdown, third. 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:32.280 And goal, mayfield, empty backfield, looking left now, he swings 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.320 to the middle and it's caught for up Buccaneers touchdown. 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:39.480 It is Trey Palmer, the Nebraska rookie with his first 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:43.480 National Football League touchdown, and the Buccaneers have perhpped a 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:45.480 sixteen to ten lead. 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.320 Seventeen to ten after the extra point. Now the Vikings 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.560 answer with their most dominant drive of the game as well. 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:53.080 Loved it. 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.120 Sixteen plays, seven and a half minutes off the clock. 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:01.400 Early fourth quarter, Alexander Madison battles his way in to tie. 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.800 Alexander Madison motions across the formation of cousins. 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.080 We'll thrower too, and caught at the five who stumbles 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.680 his way to the two cave bo is his way 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:15.400 into the end zone. Touch show by Games. That was all. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:21.280 Alexander Madison and it's seventeen sixteen Buccaneers. 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.120 More punting ensues until the Bucks creep their way into 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:29.120 purple territory and they give kicker Chase McLoughlin a chance 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:30.360 from fifty seven. 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.599 This is a fifty seven yard try righte. 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:41.280 Hash snap spy McLoughlin, blind dry band. 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:43.880 It's good. 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:50.440 Chase McLoughlin from fifty seven, matching a career long has 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:55.079 kicked the Buccaneers to a twenty seventeen lead. 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.600 They always hit those, don't they They always do. That's 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:02.120 the fatalism that I have as a rube. I apologize, 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:05.120 but it just feels like they're always gonna hit those kicks. 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.120 If you give them the chance, and at this stage 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.439 of the game, just five to ten left in it. Now, 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.880 the Vikings respond by going three and out for the 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.600 fifth time in the game, only three possessions in the 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.559 entire second half, long touchdown drive. Loved it, but then 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.280 two three and outs the final two times that they 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.320 had the ball. Now it's the defense. They need to 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.280 make a stop and they can't. 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:30.719 It's nervous time at us Bank Stadium. Baker out of 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:31.479 the shotgun. 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:32.880 He takes this half. 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.559 I'm third and ten, looks right, throws right, Godwin, wide open, caught, 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:37.720 first down. 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:38.920 Ballgame. 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.560 The Tampa Bay Buccaneers won't begin one to know and 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.640 the Minnesota Vikings are going to be six and two 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:50.200 in home openers are going to lose to the Buccaneers. 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.400 Clock runs out, no miracles, no late stage heroics, and 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.000 that indeed, as you heard, the box is the ballgame. 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:01.080 Vikings had an advantage in several statistical categories despite their 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.559 complete inability to run the ball, but the Bucks they 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:08.480 controlled possession. I mentioned the lack of opportunities on offense 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.720 in the second half of the purple, but the Bucks 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:15.240 were just boringly productive throughout the second half, no negative plays, 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:19.880 keeping Baker upright, not effecting or or allowing the Vikings 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.720 defense to affect and impact his play, and they were 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:25.920 smartly handled by the visitors. 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:27.720 Kirk was hit nine times yesterday. 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.640 I mentioned Baker outside of an early daneil Hunter sack, 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.240 he was just hit twice total in the game. Turnover 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.320 differential three to nothing in favor of the Bucks. That's 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.840 catastrophic when you're trying to win a close game. So 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.480 the on to one Vikings they got to bounce back. Now, 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.160 if you were doing the wins and loss tallying for 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.440 the season and you expected that this one would be 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.080 at w you're gonna have to find it somewhere else now. 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:50.480 And it's a short week. 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:54.200 They had two same as last year Thursday night, short week, 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:58.760 Philly Eagles primetime. That weird, crazy fan base, all of it. 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.920 That's what Elizah head right here and you'll get to 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.920 hear that pregame at five and of course the actions 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.560 starting in primetime right here on your home for Vikings 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.800 football fan head coach Kevin O'Connell. 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:11.240 He did talk to the media. I mentioned that at 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:11.839 the beginning of. 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.000 This earlier today, you're going to get to hear that 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.559 around the corner and before I go to break though, 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.280 I do want to mention this, speaking of Thursday, it's 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:20.160 a Thursday night game. 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.439 You can work remotely. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.600 On Friday morning at Buffalo Wild Wings for the Friday 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:27.880 Football Feast because Pa and Charts they're going to be 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.520 at the chan Hassen Buffalo Wild Wings is Friday nine 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.880 to noon. It is the feast and it's presented by 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.320 cors Life, food and drink specials, chance to win Vikings 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.680 tickets and more. 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They're in, 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:48.360 you know now getting you know, different phases of recovery 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.840 and starting our preparation on Philadelphia. So we'll see how 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.760 those guys do and and you know, see how the 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:55.880 lineup looks for Thursday. 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:56.840 Again. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.520 This is tyle wandrold Gamber. Do you watch the NFL 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:00.720 game ship a lot. 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.760 Of teams including the Vikings again and CAMPU look about 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:05.600 a step ball or step behind where you go? 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:07.880 Boy, it looks like that they could have gotten through 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:09.360 some of that you know, training campus. 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.800 They'd have played you know, and said you see. 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:13.000 That at all. 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.080 I mean, yeah, I don't know, you know about the 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.120 you know, the turnovers or you know, a special teams 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.920 penalty here and there. I don't know if that's the case, 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:26.640 but my expectation is that some of those things, whether 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.440 they got reps or not, that that really you know, 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:31.559 twelve reps here, ten reps there. I don't know if 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.679 that would have you know, solved that. I think we 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:36.520 were you know, we were close in the first half. 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.240 If we finished that late in the half drive, you know, 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.040 to have a chance to go up seventeen to three, 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.000 you know, that might have gave us opportunity to be 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.280 very similar to we were to the spot we were 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.199 going into the locker room a year ago in the opener, 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.240 but that was not the case, you know, didn't didn't 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:54.200 get that drive done, and then they're able to go 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.200 on a drive not about a nine minute drive there 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.640 to start this third quarter and tie the football football 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.559 game up. So a lot of things that we can 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.319 improve on and things that, like I said, self inflicted, 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.280 but also things we could coach better. You know, our 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.160 players just be a little bit cleaner in their execution 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.200 and and you know, give ourselves a little bit better 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.079 chance to not set ourselves behind the eight ball so far. 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:23.680 Yesterday you mentioned probably un scouted pressures and early you 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:25.600 have to basically prepare for the same. 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:26.520 From Eagles just that. 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.280 Yeah, I think, you know, shoot, this is gonna be 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.520 you know, this is one of the best defenses in football, 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.680 one of the best fronts, if not the best in 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.080 the league right now. And we have a ton of 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.960 respect for you know, not only the guys that you'll 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:41.880 see in their starting units, but they've got you know, 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:46.359 kind of a first and second wave of problems defensively. 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:48.040 Yeah, there's always. 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.800 Gonna be some things where you know a team can 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.280 get you, especially you know in the opener before things 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.440 have been really put on tape yet based upon game 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.240 plan and something that maybe they've done in the past 0:14:58.280 --> 0:14:58.920 and just given you. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:14:59.840 A little bit different look. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.520 We got to find ways to survive those downs and 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.440 not turn the football over. And that's all eleven guys 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:09.000 out there, that's not any one particular player. We made 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.960 some adjustments and we're able to handle uh, you know, 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.280 that pressure moving forward in the game and and and 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:18.200 turned it into you know, some positive conversions later on. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.800 But across the board. We think, are you know, our 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.960 rules and responsibilities. You know, we handle a lot in 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.720 our protection schemes and and my hope is, you know 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.440 we really limit those uh you know kind of free 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.960 runner looks, and you know, first third down of the game, 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.320 they run a really good kind of you know, te 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.280 stunt there to the to the three big side, and 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.240 we didn't handle it very well. And then we you know, 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:41.800 we came back and did it a little bit better 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.240 later on in the game. But how many times can 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:47.000 we just go out and execute those on the initial 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:50.720 opportunities is what I'm looking for, and getting off to 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:54.520 a faster start will be critical. We'll have to do 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.440 some of those things to have a chance to do 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.160 that against a you know, like I said, one of 0:15:58.200 --> 0:15:59.560 the best defenses in our league. 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.360 The fans and the media attend to overreact after week one, 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:05.720 or are you going to make sure your your players in 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.200 the locker room don't overreact or you want them done 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:09.640 a little overreact from us? 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:10.880 Yeah, I think it's a little both. 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.720 Look, we you know, no opportunity in this league, regardless 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:18.560 of when it takes place. You know, you don't want 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.720 to underreact to anything. Because it's our job to acknowledge 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:26.080 the truth, acknowledge exactly what happened, and that's us having 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.200 a little bit more information about the what. But I 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:34.280 totally understand that reaction, especially with the excitement building for 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.480 hopefully this football team. We didn't get it done yesterday, 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.320 and that's where we've got to go back and acknowledge 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.640 on a short week the things that you know, both 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.640 we caused ourselves, the things that the opponent caused, and 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.240 then what opportunities did we miss possibly in the game 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.240 on you know, any one of our three phases that 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:55.520 the outcome would have been different. So I think there's 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:59.880 all the above involved in as we comprehend, you know, yes, 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.840 with a mindset of moving forward. And you know, no 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.080 better way to feel better about what happened yesterday than 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:09.320 to go play a really good game on Thursday and 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:11.359 and go try to win a game on the road 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:13.879 in one of the toughest places to play against a 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.800 really good team. But I've got nothing but confidence in 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.520 our football team, you know, and maybe even more so 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:24.320 after watching the tape yesterday, knowing how close things were 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.680 to be, maybe a different result. But you got to 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.400 give Tampa credit and you know, we can talk about 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:30.879 could of what it should is all we want, but 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.880 ultimately that result was what it was, and now it's 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.400 how we handle that as a football team and an 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.760 organization moving forward that I think is the most important thing. 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.880 Is Viking's head coach Kevin O'Connell with the media earlier. 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.960 Today, a chance to reflect upon yesterday's loss, But yesterday 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.800 was it was infinitely more immediate in the locker room 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:51.639 following the loss, and Tatum Everett was down there to 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.840 chat with a few players, including running back Alexander Madison. 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:56.320 Is the reason for the struggles today. 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:59.640 It's one of the big things, you know, being ourselves. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.560 Have to make sure that we eliminate those plays. You 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:06.200 can't win close games or rarely do you win close 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.200 games when you lose the turnover margin. 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:08.840 By that much. 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:12.320 So cleaning that up and not beating ourselves something that 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.320 we have to make sure we emphasize. And you know, 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.320 look at everyone, look a look at the man in 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:19.400 the mirror, and look at what we can do better 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.200 to avoid that going forward, because that was a big 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.360 reason why the ball didn't roll our way this time. 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:29.199 How much of that could be because there weren't so 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:32.280 many preseason reps like game reps for you guys, Like, 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.720 is it harder to get into that rhythm when maybe 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:36.760 you hadn't really been in that environment before. 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:40.560 It definitely is just like kind of a switch. You know, 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:44.840 you go straight from practice to game. Mentality and something 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:46.720 that you have to adjust to. But you know that 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:48.800 it usually takes you know, a couple series to get going. 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:50.320 I think that we started off pretty good. 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:50.800 We just. 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.439 Turn the ball over and that's where you know, you 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:58.119 lose momentum and you kind of start back at square 0:18:58.160 --> 0:18:58.520 one again. 0:18:58.600 --> 0:18:59.840 You have to get the feel for it again. You 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:00.960 have to get the confidence again. 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:04.000