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Speaker 5: One one thirteen was the final yesterday and Charlotte the
Speaker 5: purple beating rookie first overall pick Bryce Young and the
Speaker 5: Carolina Panthers twenty one to thirteen. The final score and
Speaker 5: this is a massive one. The Bears found their way
Speaker 5: to spite up twenty eight to seven on the Broncos.
Speaker 5: At one point yesterday they figured out how to lose
Speaker 5: that game. They're the worst in the NFC North, but
Speaker 5: keeping pace with those Lions who you watch dominate the
Speaker 5: Packers last Thursday, Packers themselves having some struggles. The NFC
Speaker 5: North still very much in the grasp finding the first victory,
Speaker 5: hopefully finding some rhythm and despite the fact that the
Speaker 5: Panthers are certainly far from being among the contenders in
Speaker 5: the NFL. Sometimes it may take a game like this
Speaker 5: just dominating a bad team statistically, sometimes making it a
Speaker 5: bit more dramatic than it needed to be, but getting
Speaker 5: some great plays from players and moments that put you
Speaker 5: over the top. And the Vikings now one in three
Speaker 5: on the twenty twenty three season second segment. Next segment,
Speaker 5: you're gonna hear from head coach Kevin O'Connell in the
Speaker 5: exclusive postgame interview that he does with Ben Lieber, whether
Speaker 5: it's a win or unfortunately through the first three a loss,
Speaker 5: And you're gonna hear that next segment. But let's rewind
Speaker 5: to the action.
Speaker 2: Now. What changed yesterday?
Speaker 5: Of course a victory and what did not change, unfortunately
Speaker 5: is early woes offensively in terms of ball security. In
Speaker 5: the Tampa game, Vikings punted, then turned the ball over
Speaker 5: the next two possessions. In the Philly game Week two,
Speaker 5: punted and then fumbled against the Eagles on Thursday night.
Speaker 5: Last week, TJ Hawkinson in the red zone fumbles. And
Speaker 5: then today well, after a very promising opening drive to
Speaker 5: start the game seven plays seventy yards, right at the
Speaker 5: doorstep of going up six to nothing, Kirk threw a
Speaker 5: pick six.
Speaker 6: Cousin's up, the shotgun takes the Austin Schlopeman snap, looks left, rose,
Speaker 6: left right to a defender and this might be a
Speaker 6: nine nine yard pick six. It is Tam Franklin junior
Speaker 6: inside the fifty cousins of points of Blackford. Does he
Speaker 6: know he doesn't touchdown Carolta Panthers.
Speaker 2: That is a ninety nine.
Speaker 6: Yard pick six by Sam Franklin, fourth year from Temple,
Speaker 6: and the Panthers have taken a six zero lead.
Speaker 5: You heard it in the boxes voice right there, He's like,
Speaker 5: is this happening again? This can't be, This can't be happening.
Speaker 5: And it feels like in a lot of ways, maybe
Speaker 5: we shouldn't be shocked, as so far in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 5: everything's happening the exact opposite way that things transpire a
Speaker 5: year ago.
Speaker 2: For instance, specifically with early offense.
Speaker 5: The Vikings were among the NFL's best a year ago
Speaker 5: in early points, specifically opening possession points, where in the
Speaker 5: first eleven games is scored a touchdown with that opening
Speaker 5: opportunity in seven of those games.
Speaker 2: And now it's punting and it's turnovers.
Speaker 5: Vikings respond to that by a three and out, and
Speaker 5: suddenly it's midway through the first quarter and the Purple
Speaker 5: are on tilt against one of the worst teams in
Speaker 5: the NA longest drive for either team yesterday started midway
Speaker 5: through the first as the Panthers won on a fifteen
Speaker 5: play drive eight and a half minutes that ended.
Speaker 2: In a field goal.
Speaker 5: So now, right at the beginning of the second quarter,
Speaker 5: the Vikings need to wake up in Charlotte against a
Speaker 5: team with a quarterback that doesn't seem quite ready to
Speaker 5: be a starting quarterback in the NFL. But they do
Speaker 5: just that, ten plays, sixty four yard drives. Everybody, calm down,
Speaker 5: this game's not over. We still have.
Speaker 6: Justin Jefferson out of the time out, third and one
Speaker 6: tenth playoff possession. That's gone sixteen yards, taking five minutes
Speaker 6: and change. Cousins play action, rolls out to the right,
Speaker 6: pumps fires cut, touchdown justin Jefferson. It is the second
Speaker 6: touchdown this season for JJ, tenth thrown by Cousins, and
Speaker 6: it's ten to six Carolina.
Speaker 5: There we go, ten minutes left in the half. It's
Speaker 5: ten to seven after Greg Joe's I puts one through
Speaker 5: the uprights, and now the teams are exchanging a few punts,
Speaker 5: wearing themselves in and Kirk Cousins kind of a story
Speaker 5: of the season so far. He was hit thirty two
Speaker 5: times total in the first three games. That's unsustainable for
Speaker 5: a guy that we want to keep upright now with
Speaker 5: the Panthers, they got some linebackers out secondary's injured, but
Speaker 5: they have Jeremy Chin. And Jeremy Chin with a couple
Speaker 5: of fumble return tds against the Vikings a few seasons ago,
Speaker 5: put one on Kirk.
Speaker 6: Yesterday, Minnesota one to four on third down, Kirk Cousins
Speaker 6: is blip and Cousins is sacked by Jeremy Chin. Fourth
Speaker 6: year Southern Illinois is eleventh back the season for the
Speaker 6: Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 5: Now I play these highlights and you have to trust
Speaker 5: me here. The offensive line, in my opinion, actually played
Speaker 5: pretty well yesterday. Overall, he was sacked twice, Kirk was
Speaker 5: hit just four times. The numbers significantly lower in totality
Speaker 5: in terms of the amount of times Kirk was under fire,
Speaker 5: the amount of times he was hitting the turf or
Speaker 5: at least being hit a lot lower yesterday than they
Speaker 5: had been in any of the three previous games, so
Speaker 5: a sign of improvement. Many people wondering when Dalton Reisner
Speaker 5: was going to replace a certain guard on the offensive line.
Speaker 5: It didn't happen yesterday. Now what did happen yesterday? Which
Speaker 5: maybe led to people calling Dalton Reisner's name is a
Speaker 5: defender gets around His name is ye Tor Grossmatos, and
Speaker 5: he gets around at Ingram and forces another Vikings turnover
Speaker 5: thousands out of.
Speaker 6: The shot done first down from the Panthers twenty one,
Speaker 6: Kirk back to pass. His arm is hit as he
Speaker 6: threw it, and the ball goo lies into the air
Speaker 6: and into the arms of an awaiting Carolina Panther who
Speaker 6: goes tearing down the sideline.
Speaker 2: That was Camou Brew j. Hill that's who that was
Speaker 2: the linebacker. You know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna go ahead and let Pa handle the
Speaker 5: pronunciation of that particular player's name. But I can pronounce
Speaker 5: somewhere words like turnovers, turnovers as in a massive theme
Speaker 5: for the Vikings in twenty twenty three, the pick six.
Speaker 5: Think about all these tide turners throughout the twenty twenty
Speaker 5: three You're on your way in yesterday to go up
Speaker 5: seven to nothing. There was a penalty on Josh Oliver,
Speaker 5: by the way, that negated a touchdown before that. Pick
Speaker 5: six penalties yesterday, some lack of discipline from the Vikings.
Speaker 5: Seven penalties yesterday. So that's a problem in its own right.
Speaker 5: But the tide turners and turnovers is you go in
Speaker 5: for seven, Nope, never mind, they go the other way
Speaker 5: ninety nine for seven. That's a tide turner, TI turner
Speaker 5: going in for points and ye tor gros Matos gets
Speaker 5: around at Ingram hits Kirk's arm, ball flies in the
Speaker 5: air and lands in the arms of that player whose
Speaker 5: name I am not interested in trying to pronounce at
Speaker 5: this particular moment. So tide turners throughout the day, these turnovers,
Speaker 5: leading to points as well, and in this case, the
Speaker 5: Carolina Panthers find their way in the final forty seconds
Speaker 5: of the half to get themselves a field goal off
Speaker 5: that inn. So now it is thirteen to seven at
Speaker 5: the break. So here those highlights, Kirk's getting sacked, Kirk's
Speaker 5: throwing the ball to the other team, and all of
Speaker 5: those things against many teams in the NFL.
Speaker 2: The game is over, but it's the Panthers.
Speaker 5: So after the teams exchange a couple of punts to
Speaker 5: start the third quarter, the Carolina Panthers are in the
Speaker 5: midst of another long drive ten play, six and a
Speaker 5: half minute drive. And it was the defense yesterday that
Speaker 5: stepped up and crated a little tide turn for ourselves.
Speaker 6: By Seung facing a blitzing Harrison Smith and the ball
Speaker 6: team out come in and picked up bye du jay onehum.
Speaker 2: Is loose inside the ten touchdown.
Speaker 6: D k one, Them's first National Football League touchdown, has
Speaker 6: tied the game.
Speaker 5: At thirteen, stripsacked by the hitman Harrison Smith coming in
Speaker 5: on a blitz and then Dja rumbled tumbles his way
Speaker 5: to the end zone and the Vikings take the lead.
Speaker 2: And while they would not look back while the tension.
Speaker 5: And the drama wasn't over, Defense needed to make another play.
Speaker 5: As with the defensive touchdown, Carolina just gets the roll
Speaker 5: right back out there and they can go down. They
Speaker 5: can put seven on the board, and now Vikings are
Speaker 5: chasing the score line again. They can kick a field
Speaker 5: goal and at least take the lead. Now, defense just
Speaker 5: put the pedal down, and this time Daniel Hunter found
Speaker 5: his way to the rookie.
Speaker 6: Daniel Hunter and dj Wanham the alclad guys for Bryce
Speaker 6: Young on third down, back to pass.
Speaker 2: He has no idea what's happening in his sack. Ryce
Speaker 2: Young is so confused right.
Speaker 6: Now, Marcus Davenport started it. Daniel Hunter will get the solo.
Speaker 2: Sack, which means he has fixed the season.
Speaker 5: It was amazing and it was kind of fun yesterday
Speaker 5: to feel it for myself, this massive attitude change that
Speaker 5: took place in such a short period of time. I
Speaker 5: also noticed it with the fans via social media and
Speaker 5: sech yesterday too. And we love JJ getting to the
Speaker 5: end zone, and we love the idea of what this
Speaker 5: offense can be, but we very rarely have seen it
Speaker 5: truly dominate, at least in twenty twenty three and the defects.
Speaker 5: It's one of those things where you know, we'll get
Speaker 5: to final stats and such from yesterday, but they gave
Speaker 5: up two hundred and seventy rushing yards to the Philadelphia Eagles,
Speaker 5: come home and allow four hundred and fifty passing yards
Speaker 5: to the Los Angeles Chargers. So we know about the
Speaker 5: inadequacies and the imperfections, and above all else, you're in
Speaker 5: each of those games and you're not getting over the hump.
Speaker 2: So everything's negative.
Speaker 5: And through that first half yesterday, you start out the
Speaker 5: game the way that you've started out other losing affairs,
Speaker 5: with a turnover, the pick six and it goes the
Speaker 5: wrong way. So all of that is just this and
Speaker 5: the perception that the Carolina Panthers, by the way, are
Speaker 5: one of the worst teams in the NFL. That perception
Speaker 5: appears to be accurate. And so you're doing this against
Speaker 5: the bottom feeder of the entire league.
Speaker 2: What is happening? It's so negative.
Speaker 5: And we've seen Kirk throw for three one hundred and
Speaker 5: fifty yards and three or four touchdowns, and we've seen
Speaker 5: the team lose. We've seen JJ go for one hundred
Speaker 5: and fifty yards and touchdown off and touchdown, and we've
Speaker 5: seen the team lose. But dj Wanam hitman on the
Speaker 5: strip sack and then you force the three and out
Speaker 5: with a massive Danil Hunter sighting. Immediately after that, the
Speaker 5: defense making itself known and becoming such a huge presence
Speaker 5: and a force in this game, taking over the game,
Speaker 5: I would say helped with that attitude change that I
Speaker 5: went through late stages of the third quarter as Bryce
Speaker 5: Young was running for his freaking life. Now the offense,
Speaker 5: you got the lead fourteen to thirteen towards the end
Speaker 5: of the third quarter.
Speaker 2: You just have to close this one out if you will.
Speaker 5: Bob up four plays fifty six yards and JJ get
Speaker 5: into the end zone for a second time.
Speaker 6: I like that second and one from the Carolina thirty
Speaker 6: two receivers right JK to the left got a three
Speaker 6: one takes the stat fires to the end, so did
Speaker 6: Jefferson to They single JJ and they paid. It is
Speaker 6: twenty to thirteen, Minnesota, and that.
Speaker 5: Ends up being your final score, twenty one to thirteen
Speaker 5: with the extra point.
Speaker 2: But it is not the end of the game. It's
Speaker 2: just the end of the third quarter.
Speaker 5: And as I mentioned just a couple of minutes ago,
Speaker 5: We love it when Kirk goes for three point fifty
Speaker 5: and four. We love it when JJ catches all those passes,
Speaker 5: makes all those plays. Big smile, he's dancing in the
Speaker 5: end zone. Those are all great things for the Vikings
Speaker 5: that we adore. But as much as we needed JJ
Speaker 5: to put the Vikings in front, we need the defense
Speaker 5: to shut it down. When you heard daneil Hunter sacking
Speaker 5: Bryce Young, Bryce Young was under fire yesterday. One guy
Speaker 5: that we had not heard being mentioned much, if at all,
Speaker 5: through the first three games. Marcus Davenport. Where's he ben
Speaker 5: Vikings choire him in the offseason? Has an ankle injury.
Speaker 5: I think he played four snaps in the Thursday night
Speaker 5: game at Philly, but zero impact to match the zero
Speaker 5: on his jersey. He was a one man wrecking crew
Speaker 5: yesterday with highlights like this.
Speaker 6: Re receivers right and Hayton Hurst to the left, Adam
Speaker 6: Field inside lot right, yump back to pass on third down,
Speaker 6: sees nothing.
Speaker 2: Marcus Davenport.
Speaker 6: Goddamn Marcus Davenport with his first sack as a member
Speaker 6: of the Minnesota Vikings. Drive back the Carolina Panthers and
Speaker 6: Johnny Hecker.
Speaker 2: Is into pun How about that?
Speaker 5: Marcus Davenport, who totaled one half sack a year ago
Speaker 5: for the New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 2: At half sack was on Kirk Cousins in London.
Speaker 5: By the way, he got a full sack, he doubled
Speaker 5: last year's total in one play. But in all honesty,
Speaker 5: he was requiring extra attention. It opened up opportunities for
Speaker 5: other and that was something that was sorely missed on
Speaker 5: that defense on the front line for the Minnesota Vikings defense.
Speaker 5: Now he was making himself no love Marcus Davenport being
Speaker 5: healthy about Harrison Smith.
Speaker 2: Let's just this stat line here.
Speaker 5: Fourteen tackles, three sacks, tackles for loss. He had two
Speaker 5: hit the quarterback a few times. The way he was
Speaker 5: being deployed yesterday, and the way he dominated, specifically on
Speaker 5: the final possession for the Carolina Panthers where they're driving
Speaker 5: again it's.
Speaker 2: A one possession game. Let's not forget this.
Speaker 5: Midway through the fourth the Carolina Panthers going a fifteen
Speaker 5: play fifty one yard drive that took six and a
Speaker 5: half minutes, and we were sweating it as they got
Speaker 5: inside Minnesota's ten yard line. It was first in goal
Speaker 5: at the Vikings nine but then Harrison Smith while he
Speaker 5: went to work second and goal from.
Speaker 6: The nine by to leave by eight five to go
Speaker 6: in the game. Rece Young fasting a blitz and he
Speaker 6: cannot get away from it. Here's that for the fourth time,
Speaker 6: and it was a blitzing. Harry the hit Man. Marcus
Speaker 6: Davenport also in the mix. Two sacked today if they
Speaker 6: give it to him and pull for Harrison Smith and
Speaker 6: that backs up these kiddies.
Speaker 5: Third and eighteen. Eventually at the Minnesota Vikings eighteen yard line,
Speaker 5: Bryce Young, he's harassed again DJ Wantam in the mix.
Speaker 5: He has to throw it in complete, falls harmlessly front
Speaker 5: side of the end zone, and then the Vikings take
Speaker 5: a time out.
Speaker 2: There's about a minute.
Speaker 5: Left, fourth and goal from the eighteen yard line, and
Speaker 5: Harry the Hitman kicks down the door once more.
Speaker 6: A come fourth and goal from the eighteen empty backfield.
Speaker 6: Three receivers left, two right, twenty one thirteen Minnesota. Bryce
Speaker 6: Young between the hash marks, takes the Bozeman snat.
Speaker 2: Poor Man rush Pay's hit, Henry's sacked. He is hit
Speaker 2: and sacked and taken down.
Speaker 6: If I have the player of the game, Harrison Smith
Speaker 6: with his third sack, this game, his second sack as
Speaker 6: he throws his helmet in joy to the Viking sideline.
Speaker 6: First time he ever had a two sack game in
Speaker 6: his career. This is the one hundred and sixty ninth game.
Speaker 6: Well he has three stacks today.
Speaker 5: The most sax Harrison Smith's ever had in a season
Speaker 5: was three, and he had three yesterday. So big outlier
Speaker 5: game for a guy that's had a lot of those
Speaker 5: big games for the Vikings in his decade plus time
Speaker 5: in Purple. The Vikings offense takes over, wears out the clock.
Speaker 5: Twenty one to thirteen is the final score. Vikings now
Speaker 5: one to three, and so many cool things to celebrate. Defensively,
Speaker 5: yesterday you can play the game of well it's the Panthers,
Speaker 5: Well it's Bryce Young. But these are the types of
Speaker 5: games I think a team like the Vikings need as
Speaker 5: they propel themselves forward, but offensively even as well. Two
Speaker 5: consecutive games where the Vikings are running effectively twenty three
Speaker 5: carries at five point nine per one hundred and thirty
Speaker 5: five yards in the ground. Madison with ninety five got
Speaker 5: to see cam Akers yesterday his five carries, but he
Speaker 5: went for forty and so productivity in the run game. Actually,
Speaker 5: the Kirk threw for one hundred and thirty net yards
Speaker 5: and the Vikings ran for one thirty five. It's been
Speaker 5: a few years since the running attack out game, the
Speaker 5: passing attack.
Speaker 2: It was light work for Kirk yesterday.
Speaker 5: He only completed twelve passes to his own team, fourteen
Speaker 5: if you count the two that he gave to the kiddies.
Speaker 2: We're not gonna do that. Twelve and nineteen, a buck
Speaker 2: thirty nine, and the two.
Speaker 5: Touchdowns to JJ, the two picks, but light work for
Speaker 5: the receiving corps, just kind of game flow, all of
Speaker 5: those things. The Panthers had forty minutes of possession yesterday,
Speaker 5: but we're severely overmatched, just a weird one down in Charlotte.
Speaker 5: Vikings are on the right side of it, and they
Speaker 5: improve to one and three chiefs next week. We know
Speaker 5: that it's Patrick Mahomes, it's Travis Kelce and all those things.
Speaker 5: But for today, let's just celebrate that the Vikings were
Speaker 5: victorious and now have a victory something to build off of.
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Speaker 5: the highlights from yesterday's twenty one thirteen Vikings victory over
Speaker 5: the Carolina Panthers immediately after the game.
Speaker 2: Now that the team.
Speaker 5: Finally won one a much more positive conversation in the
Speaker 5: exclusive postgame interview that Ben Lieber does with Kevin O'Connell
Speaker 5: and Ben.
Speaker 2: Got to start things out going. Hey, how about that defense?
Speaker 7: No, I think so much credit to coach Flow, his
Speaker 7: staff and those players, really taking what I thought was
Speaker 7: a really really good game plan by those guys, really
Speaker 7: taking advantage of what we've done these first three weeks,
Speaker 7: trying to cost some confusion out of some of those looks,
Speaker 7: and then just relying on some critical downs, relying on
Speaker 7: our best to go make some place. Harrison Smith, what
Speaker 7: an unbelievable performance and when you had to have it
Speaker 7: over and over again twenty two just we can rely
Speaker 7: on him in those moments. Three sacks, the force, fumble
Speaker 7: all over the place. You know, from the jump, I
Speaker 7: knew we were going to get a special day out
Speaker 7: of Harrison and it doesn't shock me one bit. One
Speaker 7: of my favorite players I've ever coached.
Speaker 3: Well, one of the other guys that we we haven't
Speaker 3: seen much of, and that's Marcus Davenport. I know that
Speaker 3: you guys had a chance to see him in training camp.
Speaker 3: You guys know how disruptive he can be. Guys know
Speaker 3: that you know what he does your defensive front as
Speaker 3: far as different different alignments and the flexibility. But all
Speaker 3: day today he was just creating chaos. Is that sort
Speaker 3: of what you guys expect with a healthy Davenport?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the expectation.
Speaker 7: And Marcus, to his credit, you know, has not allowed this,
Speaker 7: you know, early on struggle of getting on the field
Speaker 7: to affect his overall preparation. Nobody's wanted to be out
Speaker 7: there more Ben than Marcus, and so great to have
Speaker 7: him back with that group. And I mean, I know
Speaker 7: you could feel it. You can feel his impact from
Speaker 7: the jump, I mean, pairing him with Danil in some
Speaker 7: of those rush groups on third downs, his physicality and
Speaker 7: how hard he can beat a block on the edge
Speaker 7: in the run game, and then just what that's able
Speaker 7: to do for a guy like dj Wantam, you know,
Speaker 7: to get in that nice sweet spot. He had six
Speaker 7: tackles in a sack and obviously a fumble return for
Speaker 7: a touchdown. Pat Jones was physical. That outside backer group
Speaker 7: can be a real determining factor for our team when
Speaker 7: we have all four of those guys up and rolling,
Speaker 7: and then you combine it with some of the looks
Speaker 7: that flows throwing at people, pairing the pressure with coverage
Speaker 7: and pressure and coverage.
Speaker 2: It's exciting for me.
Speaker 7: And my challenge to them is just to keep on
Speaker 7: building on what we've been able to do, and that's
Speaker 7: really our whole team. Mantra Go back to work, regardless
Speaker 7: of the outcome, improve and go play our best game yet,
Speaker 7: our very next opportunity.
Speaker 3: Well, switching over to the offense, I know, obviously, you guys,
Speaker 3: not the way you want to end that first series.
Speaker 3: Guys did a great job getting down the field, some
Speaker 3: big plays and then obviously the pick six. But you
Speaker 3: guys settled in not a ton of offensive plays, but
Speaker 3: you really got the run game going. We've talked about it,
Speaker 3: you know, all year long, getting the run game going.
Speaker 3: One hundred and thirty five yards on the ground and
Speaker 3: was six yards of rush. Madison goes off for ninety five.
Speaker 3: But then Cam Akers much like Marcus Stavenport. You know,
Speaker 3: we don't know much about this player. You know him
Speaker 3: a lot more, but what sort of effect did he
Speaker 3: have in the run game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think Alex and Cam we're both very, very
Speaker 7: good getting downhill. I credit our offensive line, the interior
Speaker 7: of our offensive line, Josh Oliver TJ on the edges
Speaker 7: with Johnny Munt CJ getting sell him on a power
Speaker 7: play backed up there. I love the urgency that we've
Speaker 7: shown in the emphasis that we've put into the run
Speaker 7: game as a staff and as players that we can
Speaker 7: lean on it in moments when our defense is playing
Speaker 7: really well, and we did have two turnovers. You know,
Speaker 7: I love the first drive of the game, mixing it
Speaker 7: different plays here and there. We get all the way
Speaker 7: down there, we score one time, they take it off
Speaker 7: the board with the hold and then that's just a
Speaker 7: throw that we can't make in that moment, and Kirk
Speaker 7: knows that just kind of laid it out to the
Speaker 7: flat and kind of just because it's you know, it's
Speaker 7: the starting point of the read. But he's more than
Speaker 7: capable of progressing through that and he will. Kirk continues
Speaker 7: to lead the show, doing everything we need him to
Speaker 7: do to help move our team and ultimately Ben when
Speaker 7: you look at before that four minute drive, at the
Speaker 7: very end, forty plays on offense, we're still at near
Speaker 7: six and a half yards of play. But we just
Speaker 7: have to sustain more and when we have to have
Speaker 7: those third down conversions, the protection's got to hold up.
Speaker 7: Pitching and catching's got to happen, especially with how much
Speaker 7: coverage Justin is seeing, and that will be the lively
Speaker 7: the livelihood of this offense because we're going to run it.
Speaker 7: We're going to marry the run in the past. We
Speaker 7: hit some nice play passes today, but overall our offensive group,
Speaker 7: the standard is said high and we got to keep
Speaker 7: chasing that perfect performance out there over and over and
Speaker 7: over again to do our our job to play complimentary.
Speaker 4: For that.
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