WEBVTT - MVP: BYE WEEK AWARDS & CY AMUNDSON 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:09.360 We've never seen Kirk make plays like this. Maybe this 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.879 is the Kirk Cousins that we thought we were getting 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.640 four years ago, and he's now finally coming, starting to 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:19.680 come to fruition because he's more comfortable as good as 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:22.760 they were against the Lions and the Panthers for them 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:24.919 to be you know, a version of that in these 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:27.680 next four games. I think you're gonna need Anthony bar 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:32.600 to continue to be Anthony Barr. It might be the 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:34.879 bye week, but we don't take a break around here. 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.720 We've still got another episode of MVP coming your way, 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:40.440 and it's a special one, not just because the Vikings 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.200 are now three and three following a walk off victory 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:47.320 against the Panthers, but also because we have a special 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.400 guest alongside us today. You know him, you love him. 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:53.080 It's Siamonson. Si, how are you doing? You were here 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:57.000 alongside Gabe Henderson, J Nelson and myself. Hello, it's wonderful 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.640 to be here. A bye week. I think that's the 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:04.520 right week to have me in because my emotions towards 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:08.840 the team are at their mellowiest. I don't have any 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:13.200 angst going forward. I can take a breath about what's 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.000 behind us. I think you have me on a good week, 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:19.520 a week where I won't derail and ruin your show. Well, 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:21.959 you know that's we have a little careful hand in 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.160 planning those kinds of things. I know. Having some extra 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.160 time to recover from this one was a lot. But Gabe, 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.400 you just came back from the game. You were there, 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:32.679 you got to witness it all a person, and I 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:34.640 know it was your home state, your dad was on 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.800 the sidelines. How was the game for you? It was fun. 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:42.840 We left with the win. My cardiologists would tell me 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.880 not to attend any more Vikings games this year, but 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.320 we but we want, we want, and just to be 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:50.840 able to have my family on the sideline, that was 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:52.400 cool to have. That was cool to see. They had 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:54.720 never been to a been on an NFL foll let 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:56.880 me put it that way. So be able. So to 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:58.920 be able to do that in our home state and 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.200 gain a couple of pounds the process, Um, it was. 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.120 It was pretty fun. I enjoyed it. You got a 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:11.640 Panthers fan, so, um, we did not grow up Panthers fans. 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.920 To answer your question, Um, we didn't grow Bikings fans either. 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.400 We'll just leave it at that. But he just wanted 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:18.920 a good game. He just wanted a good game. My 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.600 dad were read to the game. Yes, is so weak, 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:24.560 I'll rid him out. He's a case. He grew up 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.200 with Cowboys thing. He's Americus team. You're gonna You're gonna 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.959 be that guys. He's he's growing. Now. Here's the thing. 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:31.680 Gabe and I talk all the time, so I know 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:36.760 he is monumentally and wholeheartedly invested in this, in this 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.480 football team and in this state. But I do know 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.560 in our next game, we are playing the team that 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.160 he grew up rooting for. Running around in his tiny 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.680 little Emmett Smith so sweet. Yeah. I used to throw 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.639 up the X when I was in middle school too. 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:54.160 So Dez Bryant, go back to Michael Irvan, to your 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.600 Troy Aikmans, Tony Romo has we might need to unpack 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.920 that next week's episode. That Yeah, So my dad has 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:01.280 already asked me. He was like, so, who are you 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.839 cheering for next week? I was like, Dad, my job 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:07.600 goes a lot better when the Vikings waiting. But yeah, 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:11.040 the game, Jay, I wanted to call on you for 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.400 a second because I know you just like Size, a 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.160 lifelong Vikings fan and grew up here all that kind 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:20.079 of jazz. So I mean, five out of six games, 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.480 I've I can't take it anymore. I'm I'm losing years 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:27.600 off my life. Welcome to the Vikings Bandwig, Welcome to 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.520 the fan group. This is what it's like, This is 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.880 what you're in for. This is not only the Vikings, 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:35.960 but you know, we've had this discussion a little bit 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.280 all of the sports teams potentially. This is kind of 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.320 the way that it goes. This is what keeps you interested. 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.160 But the one thing that that does do for you 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.760 as well as you find out really quickly how invested 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.640 you are in this team. Yeah. Yeah, because either you 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.440 get to the point where you're like, mentally, I can't 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.160 handle this and I have to really wall myself off, 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.280 or you're wholly invested in every single week as a 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:00.360 roller coaster. So welcome to the roller coaster. I'll give 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.000 it to you this way. Like being in media, sometimes 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.760 you become numb to the fact of your fandom, Like 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:12.040 you have to play this certain non bias for a 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:13.720 lack of a better word, where you're kind of like 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.040 neutral in a lot of settings. And so for the 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.400 past ten years, like I kind of haven't had those 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.039 feelings really. I mean, you know, obviously when I watch 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.320 LSU a little bit more. But when I covered LSU, 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:28.960 it kind of became this like, Oh, I'm shooting AJ 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:33.080 McCarron throwing an overtime touchdown in my face because I 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:34.960 have a camera on my shoulder, and I'm like, I can't. 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.320 You're already job mad about it. I have to make 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.479 sure I get this game winning shot. And it's like, oh, 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.359 you're like deflated. But now, I mean even less I 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:47.240 had the wild game, I'm jazzed. I like have like 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.840 I scream at the television now like I screamed at 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:51.599 the game, Like it's kind of cool to have it 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:56.920 back despite it being like agony, when I am the opposite, 0:04:57.000 --> 0:05:00.880 I'm professional and I respect you for that. When I 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.680 was at ESPN after the Minnesota Miracle, I made my 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:08.960 own custom Minnesota Miracle T shirt, wore it on Sports 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.360 Center on Snap and did a whole segment where I 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:15.680 trash talked Sean Payton to the point where one of them, 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.160 like one of my boss is like, hey, we get it. 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.520 This is like a fun version of Sports Center, but 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.279 we need you to dial it down just a little 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.679 bit because that was like, that was a titch too much. 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:30.159 So I I'm impressed that you could pull that off, 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.440 because I am humanly not cake I think. I think 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.720 to Tatum's point, I feel like I asked Pa or 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.839 liber after every game, like should I be this emotionally 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.400 invested with this team? And every week they tell me no? 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:45.960 But for some reason, rights, how can you not like 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.600 the Vikings if you're not a Packers or Bears or 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.920 Lions fan. They're starting to the organization is starting and 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:53.720 I don't I don't love this. I don't think it's 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:55.919 a great thing. I'm just commenting on the reality of 0:05:55.960 --> 0:06:00.719 the situation they are starting to take on, are starting 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.880 to take on, you know, to a certain degree. I mean, 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:05.760 I know the Cubs and the Red Sox had a 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:09.160 far longer history with it. You know, there are a 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.120 lot of losing organization in sports. You know, the Lions 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.680 have lost a lot, the Jaguars have lost a lot, 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.520 you know, the Timberwolves have lost a lot. There are 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:19.560 so many teams and so many sports have lost a lot. 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.000 But there are a few teams who they're they're losing 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:26.760 has a charm to it, And you know, the Cleveland 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.279 Browns with the paperback, like there's a charm there. With 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.400 the Red Sox with the curse and the Cubs with 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.880 the curse, there was a charm there. And I think, 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.920 and I don't. I'm not excited about this, but just 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.240 with the way the last few years have gone, with 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.920 all the kickers and now having what has to be 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:47.800 the most absurd six games start in the history of 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.640 any sport ever played on this earth in terms of 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.680 just game play and the way things have finished and 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.920 should have finished. You now see like Peter Shagger talking 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:01.440 about it, Mill Simmons talking about it. So now the 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.760 Vikings are, you know, kind of one of those teams 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:09.200 that they are frustrations and they're to certain degree failures 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.960 or misses or losses have this charm and rootability to it. 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.960 So I think that Gabe might be you know, that 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.320 draws you in because you want to see that entire 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.720 fan base and people like my dad and you know, 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.000 all these people have lived with this their whole life 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.640 to just get that ultimate release when they've lost so 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.440 many times in such a difficult way. But I like, 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.680 whatever the hell this six weeks have been, I that's 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.440 that's something new. This is not this is not missing 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.840 the kick in the playoffs. These six weeks have been 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.800 We could very legitimately be one in five with a 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.320 loss against the worst team in the NFL, like a 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.480 horrible loss. We could just as easily be five and 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.800 one with a win against the like a good win. Yeah, 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:52.920 you put in the prep doc, like, what's you what 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.680 is your temperature on the season? Where are you at 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:59.160 to this point? Um, I don't move. That's where I'm at. 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.080 I'm gonna move way and not why I'm so tired. 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:06.800 I'm so tired yet enthused and confused. It's just these 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:10.880 six games have been bizarre. Man. If any of you 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.960 at this point are starting to realize why when it 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:17.360 comes the offseason and we talked about getting excited for everything, 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.600 and I try to be as even keel as possible, 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.600 this is why it is trying to essentially wall yourself 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.600 off from the emotion of oh no, what just happened 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:30.360 or oh my god, that was amazing. It's it's trying 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:34.360 to have some sort of self preservation given that this 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.719 can be a week to week thing where it is 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:38.640 the highest of the highest, the lowest of the lows, 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:40.800 and as we were just talking about, you know, how 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:45.360 how have people who've been lifers forever who followed this team, 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:46.600 how can they do it? This is why you have 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.280 a new found respect for guys like Dennis Ryan or 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.600 Fred Zamberletti, who was literally there before from the very 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:56.120 first game his entire life and has gone through the 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.840 range of emotions with this team. For me, having been 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:01.800 on the inside here now for as long as I 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.959 have and seeing people who've been here for longer, there's 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.520 a little bit of a remember this and remember that, 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:11.080 and trying to pick through that to try and find 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.839 a way to explain away your emotions, because there are 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.040 those moments where you just you're so invested and it's 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:20.400 either you're either so excited or it's just so soul 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:24.559 crushing that eventually, I think you find a way to 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.520 kind of harden yourself in order to prevent yourself from 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:31.040 being either hurt or too high on something. And it's 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.679 it's just part of being a Vikings and a Minnesota 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.319 sports fan. So does this make me a Vikings fan? Now? 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.240 I find myself venting a lot about the Vikings to 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.440 people within the company and people that are just fans. Dude, 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:48.000 you if you saw my text threat that I am on, 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.600 my human text threat that I am on with Jay 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.559 and Chris Corso you would be like, you guys should 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.760 throw your phones in the river on Sunday. Why do 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.480 you let him keep texting you? Jay's better at this 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:03.040 than me. I'm I'm the guy who rides a crazy 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.600 roller coaster that almost threw me off, and I'm like, 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.920 oh yeah, I'll get on again, fully knowing that they 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:10.960 didn't do any of the fixes, like you know, like 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.439 it could very well happen again. I just climb on, 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.520 get in the car. A glutton for punishment. Yeah, yeah, 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.559 it's absolutely I'm real dumb that way. Well, I mean, 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:23.720 and then as bad as as bad as we sound, 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:25.920 maybe as like we're like, oh, it's just so deflated. 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.200 There have been some very very great moments and a 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:33.640 lot of a lot of just of promise and potential. 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.160 I know that's a dangerous word when you're six weeks 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.760 into the season, that word potential, but it's there and 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.560 this week is a good week to reset. So uh si, 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.760 after the after the wins that we have this season, 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:51.360 we do this like minute of power, power, minute of positivity. Um, 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.080 I can I can let you go first if you 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:55.640 feel it or do you need us to kind of 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.760 pump you up, and then we'll get to you at 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.480 the end. I'll let I'll let other. I'm a gentleman, 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:06.400 so I'll let another can go first, all right, jastright, 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:11.000 just put you on the spot. J all right, you ready, yes, ma'am? Okay? 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:15.160 Three two one. After watching this game in Carolina, I 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.720 found myself literally standing in front of my television going 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:20.440 come on, Greg, come on Greg. At the end of 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:24.040 regulation and when it didn't go in, there was this 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.000 moment of all right, what do we got? In years past, 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.400 I think there'd be the feeling of saying, oh, no, 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.079 I don't know if we're gonna be able to do this, 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.520 but watching what this offense has been doing that only 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.000 in this game, but in multiple games so far this season. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.600 There was a sense of confidence. When we won the 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.360 coin toss, I'm like, we're going to drive down the 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.760 field and score and end this thing. I think for 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.880 me that is a welcomed change this year is just 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.680 knowing that when you get into a situation where there's 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.679 a tight score at the end of a game, you 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:55.600 feel like, if that ball is in our hands, we 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.319 have a chance and we are going to win. So 0:11:58.360 --> 0:11:59.920 that's been a fun thing for me to be able 0:11:59.920 --> 0:12:02.600 to watch this year. On top of that, doing it 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.600 in Carolina, where I was last time we were facing 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:07.960 a Cam Newton. Seeing us be able to get a 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:11.120 win down in Carolina with or without a Christian McCaffrey 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.280 was a solid win in my opinion, and I really 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.600 enjoyed watching that game. If you have all of these 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:18.120 large wins, I guess you don't know how your team 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.320 responds in those moments. Unfortunately, we have the other side 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.040 of the coin where they're always in those moments and 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.839 so you don't know how they'll respond. And you're right. 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:28.360 There was a lot of confidence that Kirk Cousins will 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:32.400 put together another late in game drive because obviously a 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.200 lot of his late in game drives that he's been 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.160 able to do almost every single week of the season 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.280 haven't always ended in our favor. But really not to 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.640 Kirk's fault. It was another game where we were down 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.080 to this. I think everyone in general has had this 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:50.240 feeling of I need to find a time to meet 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.360 with my cardiologist just to make sure that we're gonna 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.200 be okay. You never said the word cardiologist more in 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:58.480 my life. But for me, the fact that we have 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:02.040 had multiple games come down to you gotta have it, 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.280 and our offense has at least put us within striking 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:09.599 distance to have a chance to win, versus having to 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.360 punt the ball away and cross your fingers that the 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.600 defense is going to be able to, you know, flip 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:16.680 the field again. For me, the fact that your offense 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:20.360 at this point is battle tested multiple times with the 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.520 murderers row of teams that are going to be coming 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.320 up here. Yet in the last eleven games, I think 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.240 if you are in a close game there there is 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.040 going to be a sense of confidence that hey, we 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.560 can still get this done and pull off a victory. 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.679 It's just how many years is going to take off 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:35.800 of our lives watching these games. I don't have the 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.000 answer to that, Gabe, you got an answer to that. 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.600 I don't know. I told Rick Spilman earlier this week 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.760 that I'm twenty nine going on seventy eight. He probably 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:46.880 thought that was funny. He said, it's very exciting. Right, 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.800 So yeah, I don't know if iving answered to Jay's 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:55.280 question other than just live through it all right, you 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.320 got a minute, I got a minute, all right, three 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:01.679 two one. My power of postivity has to be the 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:05.560 fact that we put together a complete game on offense 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:09.240 and defense sands the last drive of the game. We've 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:11.720 been looking for this defense to step up and only 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.199 given up two hundred in I think fourteen yards two 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.360 hundred and ten yards throughout the first three and three 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.240 quarters of the game. I think that says a lot 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.240 about how special this defense can be if we continue 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.160 on that track. On the offensive side of the ball, 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:27.360 the fact that we have five hundred and seventy one 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:30.600 yards the total offense, zero sacks allowed, Dalvin Cook had 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.800 a quiet one hundred and forty rushing yards. I think 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:38.360 that is a recipe for success for this offense going forward. 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.960 I was thoroughly impressed with this entire team as a 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:42.880 whole and the fact that we put it together from 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.240 the first play, not up until the last. But the 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.880 fact that we were able to show some flashes of 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.360 who we can be as an offense and as a defense. 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:54.120 I was excited with that. Granted, you want to put 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.200 your foot on these guys throat, like Mike Zimmer said, 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:59.120 but I'll take whatever I can get it very nice, 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.720 right on time. That's something that we haven't really seen 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.520 is you know, plays twenty plus yards and we know 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:07.680 Kirk has the arm, can he can do it. We've 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:09.800 got the receivers, we've got the speed. So I'm just 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.320 ready to see that happen. So, you know, it didn't 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.160 one hundred percent work in that game, but I can 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.120 take that away as something that we could potentially see 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.360 down the line. Those shots that they took. We can 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:19.800 take it with a grain of salt that we didn't 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.960 complete it. But the fact that Clint Kubiak is wanting 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.120 to take some shots out of sudden change, that says 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:26.680 a lot about our offense. That was one of my 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:28.360 keys to the game this past week is when we 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.200 have those sudden changed moments, take some shots. The first 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.480 sudden changed moment was to pick on the first play 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:35.520 we ran the ball. The second play only result in 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:37.720 the three points. The second time, when we got the 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.280 fumble play action passed on the first play thirty five 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.040 yards we ended up scoring. So getting aggressive in those 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.360 moments that was shades of Denny green Man. You're a 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.960 lifelong fan of his team. You remember nineteen ninety eight 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.120 when at the time the Vikings had the highest scoring 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.240 offense in the history in the NFL. When we would 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.560 get a turnover, do you could be on your two 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:59.080 yard line, You're like, well, he's gonna go to eat, 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.040 He's gonna take a shot. And I think there's just 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:08.040 something just mentally crushing for the opposing to not only 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:11.200 be deflated by a turnover, but then to be gouged 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.920 immediately where you don't even have a chance to catch 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.200 your breath and react to the turnover, you're already on 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:20.160 your heels. I think that can spiral momentum your direction 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.800 so quickly. So I think that shot right off the 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:25.040 turnover was to feel and wasn't it. Yeah? Yeah, it 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.720 was a thirty five yard plaques and pass. Well, that's 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:29.320 the thing I mean, I mean, you hit it right 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:33.240 on the head, like there's the ability is there? You 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.160 just have to do it. I mean, that's the thing. 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.560 I feel like that's been half the battle for me. 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:40.480 I think this first half of the season, or at 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:43.320 least this first third of the season, has been so 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.640 much of trying to figure out who are we like, 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.920 what do we have as weapons, what's our identity? We 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.200 were playing the run game as much as we were 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:55.720 Delvin got hurt, Alexander Madison stepped in and was able 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.400 to do some really good things. They're on offense, but 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.560 we're now at the point where I think we understand 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.320 what kind of weapons we really have, what is possible, 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.720 and being able to get to this bye week now 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:10.960 being three and three, knowing what we're facing coming forward, 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:14.119 the self scouting that the defense and the offense are 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:16.879 going to do for this team, hopefully then can find 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.680 other places where we can start to exploit teams given 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.040 a bunch of the weapons that have really stepped up 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:25.359 and become key contributors here on this offense. And I 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:27.920 think the fact, and maybe I'm maybe in a minority 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:29.560 on this, but I think the fact that we are 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:31.960 six games in three and three and we still don't 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.640 have a true identity, I think that is a good 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.240 thing because we a team can't say this is what 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:39.000 they want to do. We have so many weapons, like 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.240 Jay said, we can do so many different things that 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:43.600 there's so much room for growth at three and three. 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:45.520 Being in all these games, the fact that we can 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.359 still say, okay, well we can start run the ball 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:50.840 effectively if we want to. We haven't really established who 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:52.920 our old line is. But at the same time, once 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:54.840 you stopped their run, we still got some deep threats 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:56.760 on the offensive side of the ball. And now we're 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.400 starting to stop the run on defense. Now we can 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.320 figure out how to be smart on the back game 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.200 with our secondary. There's a lot of room for growth 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:05.719 for this entire team. One thing that's positive off of 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:07.600 that is the fact that if you get any game 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:09.400 or they start to shut you down in the running game, 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.119 you know you can open up passing wise and vice versa. 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:14.480 If all of a sudden they're shutting down and bracket 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:17.359 coveraging Jefferson and those guys. We saw how big of 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:19.360 a struggle at least it was in that Cleveland game. 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.440 Now that you've been through that, hopefully on the offensive side, 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.000 they're game planning for a way to remedy that again. 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.000 And we're going to find out, because there's some really 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.040 good defenses coming here in the next couple of weeks, 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.280 what potentially that's going to look like. So as long 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.560 as you're finding ways to not become one dimensional, I 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:36.639 think it's going to be a huge benefit for you 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:38.600 for the back half of the season. All right, So 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:44.080 I'm about to put you on the spot three two one. Well, 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.000 my positivity is going to come from a place of reality. 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:50.680 That's going to sound like a negative, So stick with me. 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:57.240 He only have fifty seconds. That game had the glimpses, 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.600 you know, the deep shot to feeling that they've mentioned, 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.840 you know, the drive and overtime. We've shown time and 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:06.520 time again that this team can really move the ball 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.680 up the field when it wants to. And you put 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:11.560 five hundred and seventy one yards on the board and 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:15.040 you get three turnovers, you don't expect to be playing 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:19.960 in overtime, you know, But the glimpses are there that 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.960 if this team gets a little more aggressive, which I 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.399 think everybody wants to in the right moments and in 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:29.439 the right places. I think that game against the Panthers, 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:31.240 even though I don't think the Panthers are a great team, 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:34.639 showed that this team can compete on both sides of 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:38.440 the ball against really good teams, which is what's about 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:46.960 to happen. Very nice. Yeah, it's about to be clearly clearly, 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:49.680