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Speaker 2: What's going on Vikings Nation?

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Speaker 3: Welcome to gameweek as we gear up for preseason game

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Speaker 3: number one against the Las Vegas Raiders. Today, we are

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Speaker 3: joined by former Vikings first round draft pick Bryant McKinney,

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Speaker 3: who gives us his thoughts on the team in purple

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Speaker 3: heading into the twenty twenty four season. Evaluation modis in

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Speaker 3: full swing, so let's talk some football today. Vikings Football

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Speaker 3: is back in action as a team in Propole gears

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Speaker 3: up for the first preseason game, set to kick off

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Speaker 3: this Saturday at three pm at US Bank Stadium. Welcome

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Speaker 3: to Episode two eighty two of the Minnesota Vikings Podcast,

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Speaker 3: presented by Pepsi, Tatum, Jay, Eric are all here and

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Speaker 3: as you guys can probably send some of my voice.

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Speaker 3: I am excited that football is finally back three pm Saturday,

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Speaker 3: KFAM Radio Network, Fox nine. Tatum has been six long months.

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Speaker 3: It felt like it finally here.

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Speaker 2: It's felt like a year and a half.

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Speaker 4: Felt like a long time.

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Speaker 1: I think when your season doesn't end the way that

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Speaker 4: And yeah, I mean it's going to be great to

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Speaker 3: Jay, I'm gonna stay with you because not only is

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Speaker 3: but it's a preseason game for the Vikings entertainment networking.

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Speaker 3: I know you've been the entire team's been busy at work.

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Speaker 3: Well, a guy who had no problem making the fifty

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Speaker 2: So glad to have you all.

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Speaker 6: I came up to actually see the night scrimmage tonight,

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Speaker 3: do in the sport of football. I mean, you want

437
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Speaker 3: a national championship at the University of Miami, you've played

438
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Speaker 3: here for a few years, and then you want a

439
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Speaker 3: super Bowl with the Baltimore rate.

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Speaker 6: You play here for almost a decade. It was more

441
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Speaker 6: than a.

442
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Speaker 3: Few years, right, Yeah, that's crazy. But as you've seen

443
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Speaker 3: the game kind of change, thinking about the left tackle position,

444
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Speaker 3: how have you seen that evolve.

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Speaker 6: I've seen it go a couple of different ways. You

446
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Speaker 6: had big guys like myself and Orlando Pace and Jonathan Ogden,

447
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Speaker 6: and then I've seen the guys become a little smaller

448
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Speaker 6: and more like agile, I guess, like quicker, and then

449
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Speaker 6: now I see it kind of like growing it back

450
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Speaker 6: again to like the attackers are getting bigger again. So

451
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Speaker 6: I've seen the kind of shift a few times. Even

452
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Speaker 6: though it's the offensive lineman, some of them have became

453
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Speaker 6: like more like being able to cut off and like

454
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Speaker 6: it was, the blocking scheme is different. But now it's

455
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Speaker 6: getting back to like running the ball down. Like we

456
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Speaker 6: watched the Eagles thatll just riped the ball down your throat.

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Speaker 6: So it's getting back to that too, because at first

458
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Speaker 6: it was like becoming more finesse, but now it's getting

459
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Speaker 6: back to like the grind of just running the ball

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Speaker 6: down people's throw.

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Speaker 2: You don't see when you said the word finess.

462
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Speaker 6: Because I'm not really a finesse player. I can finess

463
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Speaker 6: some things here and there, but like it's like I'm

464
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Speaker 6: more of a physical guy guy, and I had to

465
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Speaker 6: use my body weight and leverage. So it's like it

466
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Speaker 6: started changing towards the end of my career. I remember

467
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Speaker 6: when I was in Baltimore, they were like, yeah, we

468
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Speaker 6: want to try this like no huddle thing all season.

469
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Speaker 6: So it was like I didn't get the opportunity to

470
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Speaker 6: try to assume because I was older, like I'm not

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Speaker 6: going to want to be a part of it. Probably

472
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Speaker 6: didn't because I hate too many a drill, but you're

473
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Speaker 6: gonna do every couple of games. But then you lay

474
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Speaker 6: don't had to use me. You need me again later

475
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Speaker 6: on for us to make the playoff run to the

476
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Speaker 6: super Bowl. But just changing that dynamic, it's like finesse

477
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Speaker 6: isn't really because then you had guys like Aaron Donald

478
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Speaker 6: who was or the old school just drive and just run.

479
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Speaker 6: You know, it was running guys, you know, offensive linement

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Speaker 6: over So that's when you had to start getting these

481
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Speaker 6: guys to be a little bigger and things like that,

482
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Speaker 6: get some weight behind them.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I know the vikings the run game was

484
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Speaker 1: something that they really wanted to work on this off

485
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Speaker 1: season and they fortified the line. I feel like this year,

486
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Speaker 1: You've got Christian Dearris under a massive new deal. What

487
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Speaker 1: do you was gonna say? What do you make of

488
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Speaker 1: CD and and and play?

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Speaker 6: He actually came on my podcast as a rookie, so

490
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Speaker 6: I connected with him then, and I believe we started

491
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Speaker 6: follwingch other on social media. So I've always followed him

492
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Speaker 6: through his career and I feel like he has been

493
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Speaker 6: one of the better left tackles that's played here in

494
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Speaker 6: a while. So I definitely follow him and you know,

495
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Speaker 6: wish him luck and I feel like he's doing a

496
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Speaker 6: great job and he's helped upgrade the offensive line since

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Speaker 6: he's been here.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, do.

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Speaker 1: You see do you think that the run game should

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Speaker 1: be more of a point of emphasis?

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Speaker 6: I think so For me as an office Alinment, I

502
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Speaker 6: like the run game because I'm able to wear it

503
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Speaker 6: down my opponent some and it can you know, wearing

504
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Speaker 6: the down when it comes to the past. So the

505
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Speaker 6: passing they maybe a little slower if I'm you know,

506
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Speaker 6: the run game is going well and I'm you know,

507
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Speaker 6: wearing out my opponent.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: One of the things that I know about you too,

510
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Speaker 5: is that you love the draft. You're kind of a

511
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Speaker 5: draft neck and you you know, pay attention. Given the

512
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Speaker 5: moves that the Vikings made here during this this past draft,

513
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Speaker 5: how do you see that impacting the team moving forward.

514
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Speaker 6: I think they were definitely thinking, you know, for the future,

515
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Speaker 6: and NI got a young quarterback who is pretty successful

516
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Speaker 6: at the U of him now you have I don't

517
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Speaker 6: want to confuse it to you know, univers remimes you

518
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Speaker 6: am and then you of m Michigan. So I think

519
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Speaker 6: they're definitely looking for the future, and I think they'll

520
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Speaker 6: have a bright future because I'm pretty sure he's coming

521
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Speaker 6: in and hungry and may not be starting right away,

522
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Speaker 6: but eventually he's going to just you know, follow the

523
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Speaker 6: person who's in front of him and learn to be

524
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Speaker 6: a professional, because that's what I had to do. You know,

525
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Speaker 6: you come in the first round picking people assume that

526
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Speaker 6: you just know how to be a pro, but you

527
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Speaker 6: have to learn, you know, how to take care of

528
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Speaker 6: your body and you know, you have to know how

529
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Speaker 6: to eat well. But they have a lot of help

530
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Speaker 6: here because there's a lot of different nutritions and things here.

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Speaker 5: But it's a lot of pressure and speaking of that,

532
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Speaker 5: you know, like you're talking about the fact of coming

533
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Speaker 5: in here and kind of learning the ropes. When you

534
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Speaker 5: came in, you had Dave Dixon and Matt Burke and

535
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Speaker 5: Carvin Lesina and krisl Winsky, those kind of guys.

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Speaker 6: What did they do to help get you up to

537
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Speaker 6: speed when you came in as a rookie. I came

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Speaker 6: I remember, so they was like mid season when I

539
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Speaker 6: got here. I had to just kind of jump in

540
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Speaker 6: in the flow of things, and I remember Dave Dixon

541
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Speaker 6: being like a big, big help and always trying to

542
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Speaker 6: like tell me, like you know, what to do. And

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Speaker 6: I remember just looking at him the day after games

544
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Speaker 6: like She's okay. Then you know, I go, like, you know,

545
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Speaker 6: ten eleven years later and I'm like, oh, this is

546
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Speaker 6: exactly how day felt. In my mind, I thought that, like,

547
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Speaker 6: you know, later on my career, like this is how

548
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Speaker 6: Dave fell back when I was a rookie. But he

549
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Speaker 6: was definitely a good help. Matt Burke was great at communicating,

550
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Speaker 6: so he made my job a lot easier too. So

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Speaker 6: even when I got to Baltimore and then he was

552
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Speaker 6: there as well, I was so familiar with how he

553
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Speaker 6: called things out, and I was so comfortable with him

554
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Speaker 6: because he was pretty good at what he did. So

555
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Speaker 6: he made my job easier by calling everything out and

556
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Speaker 6: I knew, you know where to go next. So having

557
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Speaker 6: those two guys helped out a lot.

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Speaker 5: And then you followed him to Baltimore as well, and

559
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Speaker 5: I just played together for that Super Bowl.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I did so him, you know, being this me

561
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Speaker 6: going to a new team, but having somebody who is

562
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Speaker 6: a center and I was able to you know, already

563
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Speaker 6: have a bond win and like knew how they called

564
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Speaker 6: and did things. It helped me out a line.

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Speaker 3: I'm just I want to continue to talk you know,

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Speaker 3: vikings and preseason. But you made a comment earlier talking

567
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Speaker 3: about the real you and I know one of your

568
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Speaker 3: one of your former college teammates, Clinton Porter, with them,

569
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Speaker 3: and it kind of brings up this debate in my

570
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Speaker 3: head because Taylum went to LSU, of course, dressing Jefferson.

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Speaker 3: He says that's the greatest college football team of all time.

572
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Speaker 3: JJ McCarthy says this past University of Michigan, that team

573
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Speaker 3: is the greatest football team of all time. But Clinton

574
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Speaker 3: Porter says that two thousand and one Miami Hurricanes' team

575
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Speaker 3: or two thousand that national championship year where Sean Taylor

576
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Speaker 3: was a backup that was the best college football team

577
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Speaker 3: of all time.

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Speaker 2: Make your case.

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Speaker 6: I don't have to. I think ESPN has done it

580
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Speaker 6: a bunch of times already, Like they've always put us

581
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Speaker 6: at number one. So I mean that's y'all who said.

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Speaker 6: I mean, if you go to like the different publications,

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Speaker 6: they always have us at number one.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I ain't trying to not because unfriends with Brian.

585
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Speaker 1: We just bonded over and I'm not trying.

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Speaker 4: I'm not trying. I think I told Clinton port Us

587
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Speaker 4: that I did not believe in that. I thought I

588
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Speaker 4: was the LSU team. But I can't. I gotta stay

589
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Speaker 4: friends with Brian. I can't do that right now.

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Speaker 3: All good, But you're talking about, you know, just coming

591
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Speaker 3: from that year and then making it to the NFL,

592
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Speaker 3: and you were a part of some of those games

593
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Speaker 3: where you know, this team started to build to where

594
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Speaker 3: it once was in that old nine season.

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Speaker 2: But thinking about thinking about where we are right now.

596
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Speaker 3: In the preseason games, when you were preparing for preseason games,

597
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Speaker 3: walk us through your mindset of getting ready for your

598
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Speaker 3: first time of getting on the field as a rookie.

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Speaker 6: Just getting your timing down with the person next especially

600
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Speaker 6: me as offensive lineman, getting used to the persons playing

601
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Speaker 6: next to me and familiar with, you know, how they play,

602
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Speaker 6: because that's important because now I know if they're gonna

603
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Speaker 6: if they're occupied, or they're going to help me, or

604
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Speaker 6: they're gonna help the center, like you know, you just

605
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Speaker 6: need to know those things. Just getting familiar with the person.

606
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Speaker 6: Quarterbacks have to get down timings with you know, the

607
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Speaker 6: wide receivers and things like that. So a lot of

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Speaker 6: it is about timing and in footwork for everyone. And

609
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Speaker 6: once you get that down, and then I feel like

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Speaker 6: playing in preseason games kind of helps you cause that's

611
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Speaker 6: like your you know, your audition or whatever like leading

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Speaker 6: up to like the real games, and I feel like

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Speaker 6: that's where you can you don't want to make any mistakes,

614
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Speaker 6: but that's where the window wads you can make mistakes

615
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Speaker 6: and correct those because once you get into the games,

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Speaker 6: it's like you want to really minimize the minim.

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Speaker 2: Mistakes you make.

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Speaker 4: How much did you want to be like how long

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Speaker 4: did you want to.

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Speaker 1: Be in those preseason games being you know, knowing that

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Speaker 1: you're the starter and that it's it's about the timing

622
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Speaker 1: of everything. But but you also want to avoid the

623
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Speaker 1: potential injuries.

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Speaker 6: Right, I didn't mind, like, you know, the first game,

625
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Speaker 6: like back when I played, it was four, so you know,

626
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Speaker 6: the first game played like a series, and the next

627
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Speaker 6: one was like a quarter. Then the third was like

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Speaker 6: until like the you came out the first half like

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Speaker 6: the first series of the third quarter, things like that,

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Speaker 6: and then the fourth you didn't play. So I was

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Speaker 6: always happy about the fourth. So I didn't mind playing, Okay, yeah,

632
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Speaker 6: because then it's like you gotta get used to coming

633
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Speaker 6: out the halftime and you know, just doing a series.

634
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Speaker 6: And then the fourth one was like, okay, now you

635
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 6: let you know, the younger guys play. So I really

636
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Speaker 6: didn't mind that rotation too much.

637
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Speaker 5: So when it came to the time to actually get

638
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Speaker 5: into the regular season, and usually they always kind of

639
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:14,959
Speaker 5: talked about the fact take the offense a little bit

640
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 5: longer to get in there than the defense. They'd be

641
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Speaker 5: on a you know, kind of a different timing wise

642
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Speaker 5: for you. Was there anything that you could do to

643
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Speaker 5: help expedite that to just try to get that chemistry

644
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Speaker 5: going for everybody.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna say, why you on offense? You can't because offense,

646
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Speaker 6: it takes eleven individuals to all be on the same

647
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Speaker 6: page for it to be successful. On defense, ten guys

648
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Speaker 6: can missing assignment and one guy make a Sacer interception

649
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 6: that's a big play. So it's different for them, But

650
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Speaker 6: with us, we all have to be, you know, one accord,

651
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Speaker 6: and that's just timing and rhythm and getting to know

652
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Speaker 6: the guys that you're with, So you can't really rush that.

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Speaker 3: When did you And I'm asking this because Christian Deresol,

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Speaker 3: we know he's going to be here at least until

655
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 3: twenty twenty nine now, But for you playing for this

656
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,639
Speaker 3: Vikings team for nine years, when did you start to

657
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 3: understand your voice and understand that, hey, as a left tackle,

658
00:27:58,359 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 3: my voice.

659
00:27:58,880 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 2: Means a lot more.

660
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 3: Not a lot more, but it means something in this

661
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,479
Speaker 3: locker room because how I protect the quarterback is going

662
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 3: to dictate how we're going to make plays down the field.

663
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 6: I don't think I really said too much. I just

664
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 6: kind of okay my job and just kind of went

665
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 6: about my business. I mean, I would say things on

666
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 6: the sideline if I felt like I was having a

667
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 6: good day and I feel like, just run the ball

668
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 6: this way because I feel like I'm having a good day.

669
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 6: In the run prediction I mean run blocking, so I

670
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:26,119
Speaker 6: would definitely voice that just run this way. So I

671
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 6: guess one of them games, I guess when Apple we

672
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 6: played San Diego, that was a good day for me,

673
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 6: just run this direction, so I would, you know, I

674
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 6: would be vocal on that standpoint, but other than that,

675
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 6: I kind of just played my position and just you know.

676
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: My pretty similar to how I think Christian dere Saw

677
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: approaches things. I know he does see himself as more

678
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,719
Speaker 1: of a leader, trying to be more vocal now that

679
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: he's got the new deal. But it's kind of an

680
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 1: interesting I feel like you guys have that same type

681
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 1: of leadership quality.

682
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 6: You had a lot of big personality, but I mean,

683
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 6: you know, I had Matt Burke here for a while,

684
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 6: and I had Hutchinson here too, so you know, they

685
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 6: would speak up. But it was a lot of big personality.

686
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 6: You had Pat Williams here, you had Jared Allen Chester,

687
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 6: you had ap You had like a lot of big

688
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 6: personalities too, so you didn't you didn't have to say

689
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 6: too much. Like everybody was kind of on the same page.

690
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 5: I'm going to throw the cliche question of what do

691
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 5: you miss the most, and then what kind of advice

692
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 5: do you think you would have for especially rookies coming

693
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 5: in this year.

694
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Speaker 6: What do I miss the most? Probably just the camaraderie.

695
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 6: I don't miss practice every day, but I do miss

696
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 6: games sometimes. I've actually had dreams that I've came out

697
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 6: of retirement to play. And then the advice to a

698
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 6: rookie I would say is to basically kind of get

699
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 6: into your playbook, right, because that's the most important thing,

700
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 6: is knowing your plays and your assignment and snap kind

701
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 6: of owning all that because once you are comfortable in that,

702
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 6: you'll play faster and the game will slow down a

703
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 6: lot of guys don't take the time to be in

704
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 6: their playbook, and now you have something now where I

705
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 6: guess they can see when you open up your playbook

706
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 6: and yeah, so you just take advantage of just knowing

707
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 6: it because I feel like the more prepared you are,

708
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 6: the better you'll play and nothing else can get you

709
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 6: better than that. And watching game FuMB and just knowing

710
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 6: your assignments, things like that. Do you have a take

711
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 6: care of your body too? That's probably number one?

712
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 3: Taking care of your body availability as the best ability,

713
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 3: right and thinking about that. Do you do you have

714
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 3: a favorite moment or a couple of memories that stand

715
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 3: out when you start to think back, to think back

716
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 3: on your career here with the Vikings.

717
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 6: Two thousand and nine season, that to me was like

718
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 6: that was my best season. That was the best record

719
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 6: I had here as a Viking. But that was like

720
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 6: the best random season because I didn't see like Brett

721
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 6: Favre coming here, and it was just funny. I remember

722
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 6: the first time seeing him in the huddle with us.

723
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 6: First of all, we like watched his whole like arrival,

724
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 6: like we were at lunch and like the helicopter was fouled,

725
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 6: fouling the truck here, and then like I remember after lunch,

726
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 6: we went to change and we looked I was a Bondo.

727
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 6: Somebody was had his number and we seen his that

728
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 6: number change in the locker, like yeah, And I remember

729
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 6: the first sign being in a huddle and looking up

730
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 6: he was at the other end, and I'm so used

731
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 6: to like not liking him, what is this And you

732
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 6: know you had to just readjust like I can't believe

733
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 6: he's in our in our in our huddle, and then

734
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 6: just later on get to know his personality and now

735
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 6: how cool he was and how such of a team

736
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 6: player that everybody around rose their level of play up to,

737
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 6: you know, not feel like they were letting him down.

738
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 6: And I feel like that's very important. It's having somebody

739
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 6: like that in the locker room. And I realized that

740
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 6: too when I got to Baltimore. Is having a person

741
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 6: like that, which was ray lewis for us. You have

742
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 6: that type of individual locker room, and people do that

743
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 6: for Tom Brady because you see, he left New England

744
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 6: went to Tampa Bay. So you have certain people who

745
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 6: are special who they can make everyone in the locker

746
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 6: room raise their level of play up just because they

747
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 6: don't want to feel they're letting him down. And Brett

748
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 6: fav definitely was one of those players.

749
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Speaker 1: When you it's funny that I was going to ask

750
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: you this right after that and you kind of bring

751
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 1: up having that person around there, where do you think that.

752
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 4: Person or who do you think that person could be?

753
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: For the Vikings, and you've been in championships, like how

754
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: does that culture establish itself and how do you find

755
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: that person?

756
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 6: That person is somebody who's basically been consistently successful for

757
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 6: years and a lot of people just kind of acknowledge

758
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 6: and respect that. So when they speak, a lot of

759
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 6: people will kind of listen. So I would say for here,

760
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,239
Speaker 6: justin Jefferson could be the person who could step up

761
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 6: and be that person if he truly wants to. I'm

762
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 6: not sure. I don't know his personality, but he could

763
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 6: be that person because a lot of people have respect

764
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 6: for him and they know what he's capable of doing.

765
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Speaker 6: He's been consistently successful when he's going on the field.

766
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Speaker 5: I just remember in O nine that very first practice

767
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 5: out there in the field and watching him just start ripping.

768
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 5: He's putting Actress up on those balls. Every past he

769
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 5: was thrown. And now I remember one time, I can't

770
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 5: remember if it was Sydney or what wide receiver it was,

771
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 5: but the ball got on him a lot quicker than

772
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 5: he was used to and he basically turned around the

773
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 5: ball was right in his face. Now, I remember George

774
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 5: Stewart looking at him, going, that's Brett bleeping farv right there,

775
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 5: so you better wake up, right.

776
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 6: It was just kind of that ad. But that's why

777
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 6: I say it goes back to timing. Like you know,

778
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 6: the quarterbacks and receivers had to get used to timing

779
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 6: and things like that because those balls were coming a

780
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 6: lot fast, and I remember hearing that at practice and

781
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 6: things like that or how you know, it was hurting

782
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 6: their hands. I guess at times still they had to

783
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 6: get used to it.

784
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 3: I mean, give me, give me your thoughts just on

785
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 3: this this current Vikings team. I mean understanding you know

786
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 3: that two thousand and nine year was probably one of

787
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 3: the greatest years in franchise history. You think of the

788
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 3: ninety eight season, but now we're building towards a new future.

789
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 3: So what are your thoughts just on this current twenty

790
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 3: twenty fourth team.

791
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 6: I like the team. I feel like it's finally coming

792
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 6: together on both sides. I remember, you know, following it

793
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 6: one year, I feel like the defense was doing a

794
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 6: lot and then it switched to like the offense. But

795
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 6: now I feel like last season's kind of been like

796
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 6: both a like finally starting to come together. I feel

797
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 6: like the team is going out and getting the necessary

798
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 6: people that they need to keep the team.

799
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 2: On the rise.

800
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 6: So I feel like the more and more they just

801
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 6: get out here and really fine, like you know, everybody

802
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 6: kind of buys into like this is going to be

803
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 6: our goal and this is what we're going to accomplish,

804
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 6: and everybody buys into it. I feel like they can

805
00:33:58,120 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 6: be really successful.

806
00:33:59,040 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 2: I love it.

807
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 3: My final for you is, like I said before, you've

808
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 3: you've from from an on field perspective, You've accomplished everything.

809
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:11,440
Speaker 3: I mean one Outland Trophy, super Bowl, UH National Championship.

810
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 3: Now off the field, what is your super Bowl?

811
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 6: My super Bowl? Off the field is my company lists Chat.

812
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 6: We do language translation in real time, we can do

813
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 6: subtitling in person, presentation, a bunch of things based off

814
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 6: your device setting. And then also my foundation, which is

815
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 6: the b Major Foundation, which specializes in healthy kids, healthy living,

816
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 6: single parent homes, and mental health awareness. So I just

817
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 6: did an event, and I would like to thank the

818
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 6: Vikings because they're always supporting. They've donated both this year

819
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 6: and last year to the event, and I just used

820
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 6: those proceeds to do I just did it back to

821
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 6: School drive on Saturday, and I do stuff for something

822
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,240
Speaker 6: called Operation Turkey, and then I do something for Christmas.

823
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 6: So I'm trying to start expanding and coming back to

824
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 6: the cities where I played as well. So like right now,

825
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 6: everything's in Miami, but I eventually want to come back

826
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 6: here and do things and even go to Baltimore and

827
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 6: then back to New Jersey where I'm from.

828
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Speaker 2: I love it as always.

829
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 3: It's always a pleasure having you on and think you

830
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 3: it was great to have your presence here, because once

831
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 3: you walk in the building, you know when Brian McKinney

832
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 3: is here.

833
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:07,800
Speaker 2: So great to have you on.

834
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 6: Thank you.

835
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 2: Well, that was Brian.

836
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 3: McKinney, not only a big personality, but just a big

837
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 3: human being and just so excited for his future endeavors.

838
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 3: You can tell that he's really attacking his post playing

839
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 3: career the same way he did his playing career winning

840
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,319
Speaker 3: all of those awards. Jay, just working with him a

841
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 3: few years when he was a Minnesota Viking and then

842
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,879
Speaker 3: getting an opportunity to talk to him today. What were

843
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:34,280
Speaker 3: some of your thoughts and opinions on our conversation.

844
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 5: I think he said it best where you know, he

845
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 5: didn't say very much in that locker room, but he

846
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,919
Speaker 5: just let his play dictate, you know, kind of his

847
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 5: his aura, and like you said, there were times where

848
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 5: those guys would just go like, you know, I'm on

849
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 5: one today, we're running left the entire game. And if

850
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 5: that guy is motivated on the field the way that

851
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 5: he could be, man that you saw the size of

852
00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 5: him try stopping that guy when he wants to push

853
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,840
Speaker 5: year around wherever you want to go. So he it

854
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 5: was cool to see him, you know, kind of have

855
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 5: some fond memories and you know, talk about nine and

856
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 5: that kind of stuff. But more than that too, for me,

857
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:11,839
Speaker 5: is the idea of him, you know, wanting to give

858
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,359
Speaker 5: back the communities that were important to him and so

859
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 5: for his organization and for the company that he's working

860
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 5: with and just trying to keep the irons in the

861
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 5: fire and still coming back to a place like here

862
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 5: in Minnesota and coming up from Miami just to check

863
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 5: it out and seeing kind of the changes that have happened.

864
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 5: It was really interesting to hear his opinion. Knowing how

865
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 5: important he was to this organization from two thousand and

866
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 5: two to twenty ten, it.

867
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 3: Would have been so great to have him here if

868
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:38,319
Speaker 3: practice was still a thing tonight. But hopefully he can

869
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 3: come back next Monday. If if he can work that out,

870
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 3: that works out.

871
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:44,319
Speaker 1: I think the fans would be really excited to see

872
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: him out here and respond super well to that, because

873
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: he was saying, I don't know if he comes to

874
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Speaker 1: the alumni game very often because it's around his birthday.

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Speaker 1: So he's like, you know, I can't necessarily make it

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Speaker 1: every year.

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Speaker 2: So what were your thoughts on the conversation table.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I mean, I think it's great.

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Speaker 1: It's always awesome to hear from the legends to to

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00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 1: see how the game was and how it's evolved and

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Speaker 1: and you know, like kind of where what their experiences

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00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: were like, because it's just a very different game nowadays.

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Speaker 1: So I always, I always appreciate getting to know those guys,

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Speaker 1: and they're the ones that you know, continued the Vikings

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Speaker 1: legacy and made this organization who it was and what

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Speaker 1: it is now, and it's awesome that they come back

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Speaker 1: and they that they have enough appreciation for their time

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Speaker 1: here to want to come back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that, yes, one hundred percent. And I

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Speaker 3: do also believe that, you know, the Vikings, Tom West

891
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 3: and so many other people do a phenomenal job of

892
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 3: really investing in our legends and making sure they always

893
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Speaker 3: feel welcome and warm when they come back here, which

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Speaker 3: is a reason why we always have legends here day

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Speaker 3: in and day out, not only during training camp or

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Speaker 3: during the regular season. And I'm looking forward to saying,

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00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 3: you know, some of those newer legends continue to come

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Speaker 3: back as as time continues to move on. But we'll

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Speaker 3: see some there this upcoming Saturday against the Las Vegas Writers.

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Speaker 3: But we'll also see this current Minnesota Vikings team playing

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Speaker 3: in front of the home fan base at three pm

902
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Speaker 3: on Saturday on Fox nine as the Las Vegas Raiders

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Speaker 3: will be in town. I'm just thinking about all the

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Speaker 3: content we have coming up, and Jay, I'm gonna start

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Speaker 3: with you anything Vikings fans should be on the lookout

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Speaker 3: for as they gear up for Saturday's game.

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Speaker 5: I know, one of the things that's always interesting is

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Speaker 5: when the writers group with Craig Peters and Lindsay Young

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Speaker 5: and those guys do some of their look aheads. Especially

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Speaker 5: if you go to the game, you'll see within the

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Speaker 5: playbook a bunch of the articles that they write with

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Speaker 5: all of that, and so it's always good to kind of,

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Speaker 5: you know, kind of get a primer as to who

914
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Speaker 5: to pay attention to and what's been going on this offseason.

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Speaker 5: And you know, again, on top of that, I think

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Speaker 5: you're gonna end up seeing some highlights and everything yet

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Speaker 5: that you get, you know, on a daily daily basis

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Speaker 5: here when we've got practice going on. But I am

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Speaker 5: really going to be curious to see kind of what

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Speaker 5: happens in that game on Saturday, and then kind of

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Speaker 5: the post mortem on Sunday, just to kind of see

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Speaker 5: the everything else and to kind of the talk heads

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Speaker 5: will start, and.

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Speaker 4: So they aren't already exactly exactly.

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Speaker 5: And so the other thing too is if you're not

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Speaker 5: here locally in the local market, that game I believe

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Speaker 5: is being broadcast on NFL Network as well, So just

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Speaker 5: make sure to find the game wherever you can and

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Speaker 5: watch it live on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be a lot of fun. Tatum.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm excited for the game. We've got a couple

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Speaker 1: of things leading up to it in the episode of

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Speaker 1: Trading Camp Weekly, hopefully taping later this week, to get

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Speaker 1: you primed and ready for Saturday's game. And uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that's kind of what's on deck for us.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's once we get through this weekend, then

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Speaker 1: we can talk Cleveland, because that's gonna be a whole

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Speaker 1: other thing.

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Speaker 4: Joint practices are always super fun, for sure.

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Speaker 3: And that'll be an opportunity for a daily dosage of

941
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Speaker 3: a Vikings content when it comes to facing against another team.

942
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Speaker 3: But I'm exciting for us to come this upcoming Saturday,

943
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Speaker 3: and in the meantime Viking Sentance. Make sure you stay

944
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Speaker 3: tuned to Vikings dot com and our app and our

945
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Speaker 3: social media channels for the most up to date coverage

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Speaker 3: of the team. So for our producer Eric Davison, J

947
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Speaker 3: Notes and Tatum Everetts and Brian Kenny.

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Speaker 2: My name is Gabe Henderson.

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Speaker 3: Thank you guys for tuning into this edition of the

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Speaker 3: Minnesota Vikings Podcast, and we'll talk to you next week.

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