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Speaker 4: Vikings are one and four. They lost to the Chiefs
Speaker 4: yesterday twenty seven to twenty. Patrick Mahomes Travis Kelce gets
Speaker 4: into the end zone the whole thing and the Vikings
Speaker 4: now one and four. They are zero to three in
Speaker 4: home games at US Banks Stadium. After the Chiefs and
Speaker 4: the Chiefs faithful came to town yesterday and brought the victory
Speaker 4: back down to Kansas City. You're gonna hear from the
Speaker 4: head coach Kevin O'Connell. Not only does he speak with
Speaker 4: Ben Lieber immediately or close to immediately after each game
Speaker 4: win or lose, the exclusive KFA and interview, but then
Speaker 4: typically on Mondays he speaks to the media. I'm going
Speaker 4: to play a heavy portion of his press conference from
Speaker 4: this afternoon as he was chatting about yesterday's game one
Speaker 4: in four wrecord justin Jefferson with the hamstring. You're gonna
Speaker 4: get a lot of updates on that, or unfortunately, in
Speaker 4: some respects a lack of updates. But you'll hear from
Speaker 4: the head coach around the corner. But for a one
Speaker 4: and four team you'd see on the schedule Chiefs come
Speaker 4: into town, it's very possible that the defending Super Bowl
Speaker 4: champions could roll in here and beat the Vikings. I
Speaker 4: think the frustration not only for the fan base, but
Speaker 4: for the coach, Kevin O'Connell the players is how some
Speaker 4: of these things are happening, and yesterday the games did
Speaker 4: and that's where we'll rewind to the action. We'll kick
Speaker 4: it off, Vikings get the ball, and yesterday this game
Speaker 4: started the same way that the last two consecutive games
Speaker 4: have started, a turnover.
Speaker 5: The Vikings begin first and ten from their own twenty
Speaker 5: five yard line. Offset I left behind, Kirk Cousins, Alexander Madison,
Speaker 5: a single set Jefferson wide left, Cousins great drop passing.
Speaker 5: First play throwns right flat, it's plot. Josh Oliver turns
Speaker 5: in upence hot thirty to the thirty five. Ball came
Speaker 5: out m We lost our eighth fumble this year. First
Speaker 5: play of the game and Josh Oliver fumbles and it's
Speaker 5: recovered by the champion Chiefs in Vikings territory.
Speaker 1: Eighth lost fumble, twelve turnover of the year.
Speaker 4: The team is minus nine in the take give ratio,
Speaker 4: so they're giving the ball away a lot, but they're
Speaker 4: not taken away from the opponents. It is also the
Speaker 4: third consecutive game the Vikings have turned the ball over
Speaker 4: on their opening possession. Against the Chargers, the ball was
Speaker 4: ripped from TJ. Hawkinson's hand on the opening drive entering
Speaker 4: the red zone. Last week against the Carolina Panthers, a
Speaker 4: ninety nine yard picked six on the opening drive that
Speaker 4: looked promising deep in the red zone trying to get points,
Speaker 4: and then yesterday the first play of the game, Josh
Speaker 4: Oliver coughs it up. The other bad trend as part
Speaker 4: of these turnovers is that they are leading to points
Speaker 4: for the opponent. So the Chiefs take over and they
Speaker 4: execute a nine play forty five yard drive starting in
Speaker 4: Vikings territory and.
Speaker 1: They take the lead.
Speaker 5: Pacheck go to the Lepta Mahomes who works out with
Speaker 5: the shotgun Greet Humphrey, one of the best tenders in
Speaker 5: the League's have to join handoff Pachecko now flag on
Speaker 5: the play. Isaiah goes to grinding at the goal stripe
Speaker 5: and touchdown Kansas City Chiefs for Isaiah Pachecko. That would
Speaker 5: be his third rushing touchdown this season.
Speaker 4: Seven to nothing Chiefs just five minutes into the game.
Speaker 4: And after this Vikings offense back on the field, it
Speaker 4: became a field goal festival. The teams exchanged a total
Speaker 4: of three field goals, a couple for the Purple one
Speaker 4: for Harrison but Kerk and the Kansas City Chiefs, who
Speaker 4: was ten to six early stages of the second quarter,
Speaker 4: but drives ending with field goals instead of touchdowns. That's
Speaker 4: part of the storyline for a team that is losing
Speaker 4: close in a lot of these games through five weeks
Speaker 4: of the season, and for a couple of reasons.
Speaker 1: While first they were having trouble protecting Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 5: Eleventh play up of fifty yard possession, trailing by seven
Speaker 5: in the first quarter, it's first down for the Vikings.
Speaker 5: Cousins from under center Hey sacked immediately. It's Leosinal second
Speaker 5: year from Wisconsin, and the former Batger came in and
Speaker 5: ate up number eight for a loss of eight and
Speaker 5: now at second to eighteen.
Speaker 4: Kirk was under fire yesterday, sack three times, hit twelve
Speaker 4: times in the game, so those numbers are adding up.
Speaker 4: But when they were protecting Kirk and Kirk got rid
Speaker 4: of the ball, sadly, a lot of our receivers just
Speaker 4: weren't catching it.
Speaker 5: Third down, CJ. Hamm to the right of Kirk Cousin.
Speaker 5: Here comes up blitz up the middle. Cousins tires left
Speaker 5: incomplete off the hands of TJ. Hawkinson at the eleven
Speaker 5: yard line, and it would have been a first down.
Speaker 4: Indeed, it would have been. But that was many moments yesterday,
Speaker 4: many pulling your hair out of your head type of
Speaker 4: moments in regard to dropped passes in various spots throughout
Speaker 4: the game, Vikings settled for a Greg Joseph field goal.
Speaker 4: As I mentioned earlier, it was ten to six about
Speaker 4: midway through the second quarter in favor of the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: After those Greg Joseph kicks.
Speaker 4: And the Vikings defense steps up, they force a three
Speaker 4: and out and then embark on a twelve play fifty
Speaker 4: six yard drive that is nearly stalled out, but a
Speaker 4: little magic. On fourth down, bake punt directs now Ty
Speaker 4: Chandler ruts in the right side first down.
Speaker 6: Across the forty five to the forty Inns tide the
Speaker 6: thirty five first down on a fake punch to pull
Speaker 6: up to Chandler and at a fourteen yard run.
Speaker 1: Here we go, keeping it going.
Speaker 4: Gotta get points here, Greg Joseph, let's just let's have
Speaker 4: him come out for.
Speaker 1: The extra point.
Speaker 4: And it was Jordan Addison that found the end zone Cousins.
Speaker 5: It's Osborne in motioned to the left, two receivers right,
Speaker 5: Addison slot right, JJ outside of him. Cousins takes the
Speaker 5: handoff post to the end zone.
Speaker 1: God by Jae number three.
Speaker 5: This season for number three Jordan Eddison and the Vikings
Speaker 5: have taken a first half lead on these jams.
Speaker 1: Yes, you heard that correctly.
Speaker 4: The Vikings held a lead in yesterday's game, up thirteen
Speaker 4: to ten with less than two minutes to go in
Speaker 4: the second quarter. Now with mez with many things in
Speaker 4: this season, a lot of the good times are.
Speaker 1: Very short lived. As the Chiefs, led by Patrick.
Speaker 4: Mahomes, ten plays fifty three yards and at the buzzer,
Speaker 4: Harrison Bucker kicks a field goal to tie it up. Now,
Speaker 4: third quarter, Chiefs get the ball, tie game thirteen to thirteen.
Speaker 4: Eleven plays seventy five yards. But amidst that drive, I
Speaker 4: cam Binam's got to have this pick.
Speaker 5: Third and eighteen from the room seventeen Mahomes with an
Speaker 5: empty back heel facing a monster blitz and he'll throw
Speaker 5: to the left side and it's caught.
Speaker 1: Are you serious? Justin Watson at the fifty overall.
Speaker 5: Lead being cam Bynum for a thirty three yard hit.
Speaker 1: That could have been intercepted. It could have been should
Speaker 1: have been.
Speaker 4: The desperation toss up and the opportunity there, cam Bynum
Speaker 4: jumps too early and it's a conversion and it ends
Speaker 4: up Rashee Rice gets the score.
Speaker 5: Justin Watson in motion to the left Jerck McKinnon to
Speaker 5: the right of Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: On third and goal from.
Speaker 5: The eight, Vikings Rush five passed over the metal cot
Speaker 5: by Rashee Rice touchdown Kansas City and for Rice that
Speaker 5: is his second touchdown this season.
Speaker 1: Case has reclaimed. Believe it's nineteen thirteen.
Speaker 4: So just like the first half, five minutes into the
Speaker 4: first quarter, Chiefs have a seven to nothing lead. Five
Speaker 4: minutes into the third quarter, Chiefs reclaim a seven point lead.
Speaker 4: It's twenty to thirteen. And third quarters have been a
Speaker 4: struggle for the Vikings offense in particular, whether it's just possessing.
Speaker 4: The Chiefs had the ball for nearly twelve minutes or
Speaker 4: so of the third quarter yesterday, but scoring points in
Speaker 4: the third quarter. Maybe part of that possession angle is
Speaker 4: also a problem for the Vikings in terms of keeping pace,
Speaker 4: extending a league, closing out a deficit, and that was
Speaker 4: the issue yesterday. Five minute drive, you get the seven points.
Speaker 4: If you're a Chiefs fan, you're super excited. Vikings respond
Speaker 4: by going three and out. They had the ball for
Speaker 4: less than a minute and then the Chiefs back on
Speaker 4: the ball offensively another long drive, eleven plays, seventy four
Speaker 4: yards and nearly seven minutes of possession time. They find
Speaker 4: the end zone again, and along the way weird stuff happening.
Speaker 1: Yesterday. The Chiefs were called.
Speaker 4: For ten penalties in the game, but some weird instances
Speaker 4: also went their way as the visitors in defending Super
Speaker 4: Bowl champions. On this next drive, nine minutes in chains
Speaker 4: left in the third quarter, they get started, there's a
Speaker 4: Travis Kelcey pass, Josh Mattelis yanks it out of his hand,
Speaker 4: Kevin O'Connell challenges it, loses the timeout in the process.
Speaker 4: Weird if he play, he's on the ground, he's kind
Speaker 4: of bobbling it. Does he possess it and the play
Speaker 4: stands as being a completed catch. But then on a
Speaker 4: fourth down near midfield, Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs offense,
Speaker 4: they're staying on the field, they're going for it, and
Speaker 4: he throws up a fifty to fifty ball to Mark
Speaker 4: quez Veldez scantling and our guy gets tagged with the penalty.
Speaker 5: Mahomes under center, The center is green, Humphrey. Heups that
Speaker 5: I right, He picks a hand off to tight end
Speaker 5: Blake Bell. He's hit as he throws to the right
Speaker 5: side and in complete. They're gonna get Harrison Smith from
Speaker 5: pass interference on Mark qus Veltez Scantleen at the pit team.
Speaker 4: And a few plays later, Travis Kelcey gets his touchdown,
Speaker 4: second and goal from.
Speaker 5: The poor Chiefs lead by seven deep in the third quarter.
Speaker 5: Mahomes with the checko by his side, he takes the
Speaker 5: Humphrey snap quickly to the right cock Travis Kelsey touchdown.
Speaker 5: Kansas City Chiefs por Travis kelce is third touchdown this season.
Speaker 5: It's a poor yard production and Kansas City has taken
Speaker 5: a twenty six thirteen lead.
Speaker 4: Twenty seven to thirteen after the Butcker extra point two
Speaker 4: touchdown lead for the Chiefs, and this is also a
Speaker 4: trend the third quarter, lack of possession, lack of points
Speaker 4: leads to chasing the score line, which leads to ultimately
Speaker 4: the Vikings offense waking up finding some urgency and they
Speaker 4: answer back here with about two and a half minutes
Speaker 4: left in the third. Now they're back on offense fourteen plays,
Speaker 4: seventy five yards and although Alexander Madison dropped a crucial
Speaker 4: vital screen past that was perfectly set up later in
Speaker 4: the game.
Speaker 1: He did that on this one. He did not.
Speaker 4: Drop the pass and he closed the gap empty backfield.
Speaker 5: Make it three to the right including Brandon Powell pass
Speaker 5: left caught Alexander Madison.
Speaker 1: His own touchdown Mountain. What a great run by Alex Stefter.
Speaker 1: He caught it.
Speaker 5: It's a nine yard touchdown and it's twenty seven to nineteen.
Speaker 4: Casey Greg Joseph does his thing. It's twenty seven to twenty.
Speaker 4: That's the final score in this game. The Vikings would
Speaker 4: force a punt on the Chiefs ensuing possession and then
Speaker 4: get the ball back ten plays fifty six yards.
Speaker 1: They end up turning it over on downs.
Speaker 4: And I'm sure you've done this via social media or
Speaker 4: just watching highlights and such. You watched how that drive
Speaker 4: did end the fourth and twelve at the Kansas City
Speaker 4: twenty four deep pass into the end zone for Jordan Addison.
Speaker 4: There is obvious holding or in interference happening, a flag
Speaker 4: is thrown. They end up picking it up, and then
Speaker 4: a member of the Chief secondary actually takes his helmet
Speaker 4: off and starts arguing about the flag, and somehow that
Speaker 4: player is not flagged for removing his helmet.
Speaker 1: Ultimately no flags and the Chiefs take over.
Speaker 4: They would punt again, and here is the final play
Speaker 4: of the game.
Speaker 1: Kirk, hail Mary, how did we not get this off?
Speaker 5: Here? It is cousins deep drop clo top to the left.
Speaker 5: Now he's tapped and the game is over. The Kansas
Speaker 5: City Chiefs improved to four and one, the Minnesota Vikings
Speaker 5: drop to.
Speaker 1: One and four. And that's how it ended.
Speaker 4: Another game where you're talking about a close Vikings loss,
Speaker 4: or a year ago, you may be talking about a
Speaker 4: close Vikings victory. Another game featuring turnovers, another game featuring
Speaker 4: field goals being kicked instead of touchdowns being scored. And
Speaker 4: Justin Jefferson leaving with that hamstring certainly on the minds
Speaker 4: of many Vikings fans as you want this team to
Speaker 4: improve to two and four as to face the Bears
Speaker 4: that sold your field next weekend. Hopefully some updates coming
Speaker 4: you will hear next segment from the coach, Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 1: He addressed the media earlier this afternoon.
Speaker 4: He does mention Justin Jefferson unfortunately as of now, just
Speaker 4: more treatment and more steps in that process.
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Speaker 4: and four football team and the head coach, he's down
Speaker 4: about it, and he.
Speaker 1: Was addressing the media earlier today. Let's listen to a
Speaker 1: portion of that.
Speaker 9: Disappointed in the result yesterday, you know, taking on I'm
Speaker 9: a really good football team.
Speaker 3: We were right there till the very end, and still.
Speaker 9: We're all of the opinion that we did not play
Speaker 9: our best game yet and we're still chasing that. A
Speaker 9: great opportunity for our team this week, starting divisional play,
Speaker 9: first to six opportunities.
Speaker 3: These road division games.
Speaker 9: Are very very critical to the overall landscape of your season.
Speaker 3: They're still our season.
Speaker 9: Our whole season, in my opinion, is still out in
Speaker 9: front of us with twelve games to go, including half
Speaker 9: of those being in the division, and guys are back
Speaker 9: at work today, and we'll continue to chase improvement every
Speaker 9: single day and continue to try to hone in on
Speaker 9: the areas that we have to improve, which are very
Speaker 9: obvious as of this point. Just giving you guys a
Speaker 9: little injury update justin still going through the evaluation process
Speaker 9: on that hamstring strain.
Speaker 3: I'll keep you.
Speaker 9: Guys posted on you know, what that timeline may look
Speaker 9: like and how his availability you know, you know, may
Speaker 9: be for this week or moving forward. Caleb Evans had
Speaker 9: a lake contusion. We'll see how he progresses. Hope to
Speaker 9: have him throughout the week, and then Lewis should be
Speaker 9: back and and pretty close to a full workload and
Speaker 9: progress towards joining us active on the game day roster
Speaker 9: again this week. And then as far as Nick mullins,
Speaker 9: we decided to hold him out and continue to evaluate
Speaker 9: his low back injury and we'll be kind of assessing
Speaker 9: that over the next couple of days, whether we decided
Speaker 9: to make a roster move there or give him, you know,
Speaker 9: based upon the timeline of what that looks like to
Speaker 9: get him healed and see where see where that goes.
Speaker 3: Heaven with Justin.
Speaker 4: Is he seeing people outside of the building or is
Speaker 4: he just going through tests here?
Speaker 9: I think they'll probably be a couple different opinions on it,
Speaker 9: But we got to get you know, the MRI of
Speaker 9: it and take a look and find out exactly what
Speaker 9: it is, where it is, you know, if there's any
Speaker 9: other factors that go into it, and determine what the
Speaker 9: best decision for him to get him back to you know,
Speaker 9: one hundred percent as fast as possible. But uh, you know, uh,
Speaker 9: you know, he's he's down today. He obviously is one
Speaker 9: of the most you know, ultra competitors I've ever met,
Speaker 9: and and shoot, he was trying to go back in
Speaker 9: the game as it was yesterday. So we're gonna have
Speaker 9: to medically make a good decision and and help, you know,
Speaker 9: kind of almost protect him from himself a little bit
Speaker 9: in a way where we got to take care of
Speaker 9: him and get him back.
Speaker 3: Tow one hundred percent, So he wanted to go in
Speaker 3: the game yesterday.
Speaker 9: You know, it probably wasn't going to be possible, but
Speaker 9: he was trying to figure out a way.
Speaker 8: Well, So, was it just that it was serious enough
Speaker 8: that it was not gonna doesn't be able to function
Speaker 8: or what was sort of the decision?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think they may.
Speaker 9: I think Kevin based upon you know, strength and kind
Speaker 9: of the kind of the initial diagnosis, the best they
Speaker 9: can do with a soft tissue injury like that. You know,
Speaker 9: it was it was determined that we would rule him out.
Speaker 3: And then you have a.
Speaker 9: Guy that is an ultracompetitive and you have to kind
Speaker 9: of protect him from himself.
Speaker 7: The hard is that for you?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: I think, uh, you know it's hard when when you're
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 9: Kind of a competitor yourself, and you know that you
Speaker 9: start asking yourself the question, at what percent is having
Speaker 9: him out there still give us, you know, the best
Speaker 9: possible chance to win? And that's not the way to
Speaker 9: go about it with a player of that kind of
Speaker 9: importance to our team, organization, everything, we everything we want
Speaker 9: to do. The goal now is to get him healthy
Speaker 9: as fast as possible and give him the great resources
Speaker 9: and treatment that Tyler Urrayah and our group offer.
Speaker 5: With him or with amstrings in general, do you look
Speaker 5: at it as something where a player has to be
Speaker 5: one hundred percent before they go back out there, or
Speaker 5: is there kind of a threshold where they could be
Speaker 5: not completely healed and a local playoffs?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I don't know that.
Speaker 9: I really that's a really good question, and I think
Speaker 9: it maybe a lot of times depends on what you know.
Speaker 3: That player's job may be.
Speaker 9: It you know, a wide receiver running and the way
Speaker 9: he runs and the way he opens up and every
Speaker 9: single play seems like he's running full speed and exploding
Speaker 9: off the ball. To be determined on all that, but
Speaker 9: we're going to do what's best for just then and
Speaker 9: make sure we give him, you know, the treatment and
Speaker 9: a plan that that is a big picture positive for him.
Speaker 3: Sure, you are you optimistic for this week?
Speaker 8: Have you been given reasons to be optimistic?
Speaker 9: I have not really been given, you know, reasons either
Speaker 9: way yet. Just kind of got done talking to the
Speaker 9: team a little bit ago. Those guys are in meetings.
Speaker 9: Now I'll go get with our medical staff and kind
Speaker 9: of work through kind of the next phases there you.
Speaker 4: Mentioned areasm of improvement In your opening statement, just where
Speaker 4: does your.
Speaker 3: Mind begin him when you consider that? Does? Yeah? I
Speaker 3: think you know?
Speaker 9: We still I believe we're have twelve giveaways now minus
Speaker 9: nine on the turnover differential, which is saying something known.
Speaker 9: We've lost to four teams that were in the playoffs
Speaker 9: last year. But are you know that minus ten point
Speaker 9: differential tells you that your possession away in you know,
Speaker 9: all these games, and what is the what do one
Speaker 9: or two or three of these games look like with
Speaker 9: an opening drive touchdown against the Chargers or an opening
Speaker 9: drive touchdown yesterday against the you know, the defending world champs.
Speaker 9: Like teams that you can't give things to, We've got
Speaker 9: to stop giving away the football. And that's been emphasized
Speaker 9: and we can continue to be emphasized and whatever we
Speaker 9: have to do. But there's nothing more important than when
Speaker 9: a Minnesota Viking has the football in their hands right
Speaker 9: now in any phase, and if we can get our
Speaker 9: hands on it defensively, the same.
Speaker 3: Thing goes for them as well.
Speaker 9: I think it's just that's got to be the starting
Speaker 9: point for us leaving the locker room on game day
Speaker 9: till the time we get back on the plane to
Speaker 9: go home after our game this week is the mentality
Speaker 9: that there's nothing more important than that.
Speaker 4: How do you I mean, obviously don't want to fumble,
Speaker 4: but what do you make of just the inability to
Speaker 4: recover them?
Speaker 5: Is that just like the way the ball bounces you
Speaker 5: is there no?
Speaker 9: Well, I think one of the factors really, you know,
Speaker 9: scifically talking about yesterdays, that's off of an eighteen yard
Speaker 9: gain and there's only so many players down the field
Speaker 9: in that area. TJ's against the Chargers was off of
Speaker 9: an eight yard completion on a third and seven in
Speaker 9: the high red zone where we've kind of by design
Speaker 9: dispersed people around the field to try to make sure
Speaker 9: that we've got eligibles for Kirk in zone or man coverage.
Speaker 3: So I think that's part of it.
Speaker 9: But but yes, you would you know, we're continuing to,
Speaker 9: you know, emphasize getting just like we do on defense,
Speaker 9: getting eleven purple hats of the ball. We want to
Speaker 9: see finish and strain out of everybody to have more
Speaker 9: you know, population at the ball, you know, not only
Speaker 9: to help you know, Vikings picking up Vikings after a
Speaker 9: gain of seventeen or eighteen on the first play of
Speaker 9: the game, but to be there in the case of emergency.
Speaker 9: And my hope is we don't you know, we don't
Speaker 9: need to rely on that here too much moving forward.
Speaker 9: But you know, I was a positive was we you know,
Speaker 9: played the next fifty nine and a half minutes or
Speaker 9: so without putting the ball on the ground.
Speaker 3: But it was.
Speaker 9: A you know, critical critical play to really start the
Speaker 9: game exactly how you don't want to start against that
Speaker 9: football team.
Speaker 5: Kevin, Sure, any loss bugs you, but how much is
Speaker 5: a buggy even more that you're losing all these home games?
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's you know, it's it's tough. You're exactly right,
Speaker 9: they all they all hurt you. But playing at us
Speaker 9: Bank Stadium is such a genuine opportunity for us to
Speaker 9: have a home field advantage. I believe we have the
Speaker 9: best fans in the NFL. I believe our game day
Speaker 9: environment is second to none, you know, both from what
Speaker 9: our staff puts on there, but also what our fans bring.
Speaker 9: And quite honestly, that's one of the most disappointing parts
Speaker 9: about it is not winning in that setting. Knowing that
Speaker 9: you know how important it is to us as a
Speaker 9: team to win football games at home, and you know
Speaker 9: we're gonna get some other opportunities this year and continue
Speaker 9: to work whether we're on the road or at home
Speaker 9: to get it done.
Speaker 4: It's Kevin O'Connell with the media earlier today, Vikings zero
Speaker 4: and three at home and US Bank Stadium's awesome fans
Speaker 4: are amazing.
Speaker 1: Next up at home, San.
Speaker 4: Francisco forty nine ers one of the best in the
Speaker 4: league in primetime, so we'll see.
Speaker 1: How that works. Don't have to worry about that yet though.
Speaker 4: It's the Bears this Sunday, a nooner at Soldier Field
Speaker 4: on the road, beat a division rival, go to two
Speaker 4: and four and feel better about ourselves again.
Speaker 1: That's what's gonna happen. I'mnordo.
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Speaker 8: we've been playing detective too.
Speaker 7: We thought the problem was our puppy, but.
Speaker 8: It was actually our old detergent. Uh huh, So we
Speaker 8: switched to tide free and gentle. Tide Queen's better than
Speaker 8: the leading competitive free detergent and it doesn't leave behind
Speaker 8: irritating residues.
Speaker 7: Plus, tide Free in Gentle has no dyes or perfumes,
Speaker 7: so it's gentle on your skin.
Speaker 1: Case closed.
Speaker 7: If it's got to be clean, it's got to be
Speaker 7: tied free and gentle