WEBVTT - Vikings Rewind: Week 5 vs Chiefs 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:01.280 What's that sound. 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:04.280 That's the sound of downy Unstoppables sent beads going into 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:07.280 your washing machine and giving your clothes freshness that lasts 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:10.640 all day long. There it is again. It's like music 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:13.960 to your ears, or more like music to your nose. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:18.919 That freshness is irresistible. Let's get a Downy Unstoppables bottle 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:24.920 shape and now a sniff solo nice. Get six times 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.960 longer lasting freshness, plus oh the protection with Downey unstoppables 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:30.000 and wash sent beads. 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:30.920 Get the end off. 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:36.199 Good evening and welcome to Vikings Rewind on Kfan and 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:39.800 the Minnesota Vikings Radio Network. I'm Nordo from nine to noon. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:44.080 Vikings Rewind is presented by Omni Viking Lakes. It's an 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:46.519 awesome hotel. You can book your stay to day. Just 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:51.360 go to omnihotels dot com slash Viking Lakes and the 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:53.640 Vikings are one and four. They lost to the Chiefs 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:57.880 yesterday twenty seven to twenty. Patrick Mahomes Travis Kelce gets 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.640 into the end zone the whole thing and the Vikings 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.240 now one and four. They are zero to three in 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:06.959 home games at US Banks Stadium. After the Chiefs and 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:10.440 the Chiefs faithful came to town yesterday and brought the victory 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.560 back down to Kansas City. You're gonna hear from the 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.039 head coach Kevin O'Connell. Not only does he speak with 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:20.400 Ben Lieber immediately or close to immediately after each game 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.720 win or lose, the exclusive KFA and interview, but then 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.200 typically on Mondays he speaks to the media. I'm going 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.240 to play a heavy portion of his press conference from 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.840 this afternoon as he was chatting about yesterday's game one 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.680 in four wrecord justin Jefferson with the hamstring. You're gonna 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.440 get a lot of updates on that, or unfortunately, in 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:40.160 some respects a lack of updates. But you'll hear from 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.479 the head coach around the corner. But for a one 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.880 and four team you'd see on the schedule Chiefs come 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.680 into town, it's very possible that the defending Super Bowl 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.600 champions could roll in here and beat the Vikings. I 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:53.000 think the frustration not only for the fan base, but 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.440 for the coach, Kevin O'Connell the players is how some 0:01:56.520 --> 0:02:00.360 of these things are happening, and yesterday the games did 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:02.800 and that's where we'll rewind to the action. We'll kick 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.840 it off, Vikings get the ball, and yesterday this game 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:09.320 started the same way that the last two consecutive games 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.680 have started, a turnover. 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.720 The Vikings begin first and ten from their own twenty 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:20.679 five yard line. Offset I left behind, Kirk Cousins, Alexander Madison, 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:24.360 a single set Jefferson wide left, Cousins great drop passing. 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.560 First play throwns right flat, it's plot. Josh Oliver turns 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.120 in upence hot thirty to the thirty five. Ball came 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:35.560 out m We lost our eighth fumble this year. First 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:39.359 play of the game and Josh Oliver fumbles and it's 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:43.840 recovered by the champion Chiefs in Vikings territory. 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.280 Eighth lost fumble, twelve turnover of the year. 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.720 The team is minus nine in the take give ratio, 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:51.519 so they're giving the ball away a lot, but they're 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.320 not taken away from the opponents. It is also the 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.079 third consecutive game the Vikings have turned the ball over 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.639 on their opening possession. Against the Chargers, the ball was 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:02.800 ripped from TJ. Hawkinson's hand on the opening drive entering 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:06.240 the red zone. Last week against the Carolina Panthers, a 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.320 ninety nine yard picked six on the opening drive that 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.280 looked promising deep in the red zone trying to get points, 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:17.120 and then yesterday the first play of the game, Josh 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.839 Oliver coughs it up. The other bad trend as part 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.720 of these turnovers is that they are leading to points 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.919 for the opponent. So the Chiefs take over and they 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.480 execute a nine play forty five yard drive starting in 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.080 Vikings territory and. 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:31.919 They take the lead. 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.400 Pacheck go to the Lepta Mahomes who works out with 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.040 the shotgun Greet Humphrey, one of the best tenders in 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.200 the League's have to join handoff Pachecko now flag on 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.320 the play. Isaiah goes to grinding at the goal stripe 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:48.680 and touchdown Kansas City Chiefs for Isaiah Pachecko. That would 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.120 be his third rushing touchdown this season. 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.040 Seven to nothing Chiefs just five minutes into the game. 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.680 And after this Vikings offense back on the field, it 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.600 became a field goal festival. The teams exchanged a total 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.560 of three field goals, a couple for the Purple one 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:06.080 for Harrison but Kerk and the Kansas City Chiefs, who 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:09.160 was ten to six early stages of the second quarter, 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:13.000 but drives ending with field goals instead of touchdowns. That's 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.960 part of the storyline for a team that is losing 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.839 close in a lot of these games through five weeks 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.040 of the season, and for a couple of reasons. 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.760 While first they were having trouble protecting Kirk Cousins. 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.839 Eleventh play up of fifty yard possession, trailing by seven 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.120 in the first quarter, it's first down for the Vikings. 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:35.039 Cousins from under center Hey sacked immediately. It's Leosinal second 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:39.200 year from Wisconsin, and the former Batger came in and 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.840 ate up number eight for a loss of eight and 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:43.240 now at second to eighteen. 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:47.839 Kirk was under fire yesterday, sack three times, hit twelve 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.880 times in the game, so those numbers are adding up. 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.760 But when they were protecting Kirk and Kirk got rid 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.320 of the ball, sadly, a lot of our receivers just 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:57.039 weren't catching it. 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.880 Third down, CJ. Hamm to the right of Kirk Cousin. 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:04.159 Here comes up blitz up the middle. Cousins tires left 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:09.040 incomplete off the hands of TJ. Hawkinson at the eleven 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.000 yard line, and it would have been a first down. 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.200 Indeed, it would have been. But that was many moments yesterday, 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.960 many pulling your hair out of your head type of 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.880 moments in regard to dropped passes in various spots throughout 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.760 the game, Vikings settled for a Greg Joseph field goal. 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:25.800 As I mentioned earlier, it was ten to six about 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.520 midway through the second quarter in favor of the Chiefs. 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.200 After those Greg Joseph kicks. 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.040 And the Vikings defense steps up, they force a three 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.919 and out and then embark on a twelve play fifty 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:39.280 six yard drive that is nearly stalled out, but a 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.640 little magic. On fourth down, bake punt directs now Ty 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.720 Chandler ruts in the right side first down. 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.560 Across the forty five to the forty Inns tide the 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:53.880 thirty five first down on a fake punch to pull 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:58.000 up to Chandler and at a fourteen yard run. 0:05:58.000 --> 0:05:59.960 Here we go, keeping it going. 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.320 Gotta get points here, Greg Joseph, let's just let's have 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:04.160 him come out for. 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:04.880 The extra point. 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:08.400 And it was Jordan Addison that found the end zone Cousins. 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.440 It's Osborne in motioned to the left, two receivers right, 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:15.560 Addison slot right, JJ outside of him. Cousins takes the 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.200 handoff post to the end zone. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:24.279 God by Jae number three. 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:28.760 This season for number three Jordan Eddison and the Vikings 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.080 have taken a first half lead on these jams. 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:32.800 Yes, you heard that correctly. 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.400 The Vikings held a lead in yesterday's game, up thirteen 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:38.279 to ten with less than two minutes to go in 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.160 the second quarter. Now with mez with many things in 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.440 this season, a lot of the good times are. 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.440 Very short lived. As the Chiefs, led by Patrick. 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.280 Mahomes, ten plays fifty three yards and at the buzzer, 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.320 Harrison Bucker kicks a field goal to tie it up. Now, 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.800 third quarter, Chiefs get the ball, tie game thirteen to thirteen. 0:06:56.200 --> 0:07:00.040 Eleven plays seventy five yards. But amidst that drive, I 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.160 cam Binam's got to have this pick. 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.880 Third and eighteen from the room seventeen Mahomes with an 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.039 empty back heel facing a monster blitz and he'll throw 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.120 to the left side and it's caught. 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:15.280 Are you serious? Justin Watson at the fifty overall. 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.880 Lead being cam Bynum for a thirty three yard hit. 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:22.320 That could have been intercepted. It could have been should 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:22.840 have been. 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:27.120 The desperation toss up and the opportunity there, cam Bynum 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.160 jumps too early and it's a conversion and it ends 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.000 up Rashee Rice gets the score. 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.240 Justin Watson in motion to the left Jerck McKinnon to 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:37.640 the right of Patrick Mahomes. 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:38.840 On third and goal from. 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:42.000 The eight, Vikings Rush five passed over the metal cot 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:48.800 by Rashee Rice touchdown Kansas City and for Rice that 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.160 is his second touchdown this season. 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.600 Case has reclaimed. Believe it's nineteen thirteen. 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:57.720 So just like the first half, five minutes into the 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.440 first quarter, Chiefs have a seven to nothing lead. Five 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:04.559 minutes into the third quarter, Chiefs reclaim a seven point lead. 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.080 It's twenty to thirteen. And third quarters have been a 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.920 struggle for the Vikings offense in particular, whether it's just possessing. 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.360 The Chiefs had the ball for nearly twelve minutes or 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.280 so of the third quarter yesterday, but scoring points in 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.280 the third quarter. Maybe part of that possession angle is 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.080 also a problem for the Vikings in terms of keeping pace, 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:28.160 extending a league, closing out a deficit, and that was 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.119 the issue yesterday. Five minute drive, you get the seven points. 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:34.120 If you're a Chiefs fan, you're super excited. Vikings respond 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:35.680 by going three and out. They had the ball for 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.080 less than a minute and then the Chiefs back on 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:42.920 the ball offensively another long drive, eleven plays, seventy four 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.840 yards and nearly seven minutes of possession time. They find 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.520 the end zone again, and along the way weird stuff happening. 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:50.600 Yesterday. The Chiefs were called. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.400 For ten penalties in the game, but some weird instances 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.920 also went their way as the visitors in defending Super 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:00.160 Bowl champions. On this next drive, nine minutes in chains 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.720 left in the third quarter, they get started, there's a 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:06.040 Travis Kelcey pass, Josh Mattelis yanks it out of his hand, 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:10.320 Kevin O'Connell challenges it, loses the timeout in the process. 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.320 Weird if he play, he's on the ground, he's kind 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.280 of bobbling it. Does he possess it and the play 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.320 stands as being a completed catch. But then on a 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:23.320 fourth down near midfield, Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs offense, 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.520 they're staying on the field, they're going for it, and 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:27.600 he throws up a fifty to fifty ball to Mark 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:31.520 quez Veldez scantling and our guy gets tagged with the penalty. 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.080 Mahomes under center, The center is green, Humphrey. Heups that 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.240 I right, He picks a hand off to tight end 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.720 Blake Bell. He's hit as he throws to the right 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.679 side and in complete. They're gonna get Harrison Smith from 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:48.640 pass interference on Mark qus Veltez Scantleen at the pit team. 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.640 And a few plays later, Travis Kelcey gets his touchdown, 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:52.760 second and goal from. 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.360 The poor Chiefs lead by seven deep in the third quarter. 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:58.760 Mahomes with the checko by his side, he takes the 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:03.880 Humphrey snap quickly to the right cock Travis Kelsey touchdown. 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:09.319 Kansas City Chiefs por Travis kelce is third touchdown this season. 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:13.400 It's a poor yard production and Kansas City has taken 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.080 a twenty six thirteen lead. 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.640 Twenty seven to thirteen after the Butcker extra point two 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:20.840 touchdown lead for the Chiefs, and this is also a 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.679 trend the third quarter, lack of possession, lack of points 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.079 leads to chasing the score line, which leads to ultimately 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.839 the Vikings offense waking up finding some urgency and they 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:32.920 answer back here with about two and a half minutes 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.720 left in the third. Now they're back on offense fourteen plays, 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:41.479 seventy five yards and although Alexander Madison dropped a crucial 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.440 vital screen past that was perfectly set up later in 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:45.880 the game. 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.040 He did that on this one. He did not. 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:51.439 Drop the pass and he closed the gap empty backfield. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.160 Make it three to the right including Brandon Powell pass 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:56.440 left caught Alexander Madison. 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:02.080 His own touchdown Mountain. What a great run by Alex Stefter. 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:03.120 He caught it. 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:07.480 It's a nine yard touchdown and it's twenty seven to nineteen. 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:11.520 Casey Greg Joseph does his thing. It's twenty seven to twenty. 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.120 That's the final score in this game. The Vikings would 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:17.640 force a punt on the Chiefs ensuing possession and then 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.120 get the ball back ten plays fifty six yards. 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.160 They end up turning it over on downs. 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.840 And I'm sure you've done this via social media or 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.839 just watching highlights and such. You watched how that drive 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.240 did end the fourth and twelve at the Kansas City 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.720 twenty four deep pass into the end zone for Jordan Addison. 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:37.839 There is obvious holding or in interference happening, a flag 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:39.640 is thrown. They end up picking it up, and then 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.240 a member of the Chief secondary actually takes his helmet 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:46.600 off and starts arguing about the flag, and somehow that 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.319 player is not flagged for removing his helmet. 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.280 Ultimately no flags and the Chiefs take over. 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.960 They would punt again, and here is the final play 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:56.679 of the game. 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.160 Kirk, hail Mary, how did we not get this off? 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:03.280 Here? It is cousins deep drop clo top to the left. 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:07.920 Now he's tapped and the game is over. The Kansas 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:12.880 City Chiefs improved to four and one, the Minnesota Vikings 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.600 drop to. 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:16.920 One and four. And that's how it ended. 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:20.400 Another game where you're talking about a close Vikings loss, 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:22.240 or a year ago, you may be talking about a 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:26.680 close Vikings victory. Another game featuring turnovers, another game featuring 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:30.840 field goals being kicked instead of touchdowns being scored. And 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.760 Justin Jefferson leaving with that hamstring certainly on the minds 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.400 of many Vikings fans as you want this team to 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.080 improve to two and four as to face the Bears 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.880 that sold your field next weekend. Hopefully some updates coming 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.880 you will hear next segment from the coach, Kevin O'Connell. 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.160 He addressed the media earlier this afternoon. 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.480 He does mention Justin Jefferson unfortunately as of now, just 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:55.079 more treatment and more steps in that process. 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:56.600 Of getting a good timeline on JJ. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:58.520 But before I go to break, I do want to 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.520 remind you this Friday Fees, it's a Buffalo wild Wings 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.360 Champlain this week. Go to the Champlain beat Ups this 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:06.920 Friday from notin to noon. The Friday Feast is always 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.439 presented by Corp's Light. 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That's tomorrow, VIX and Victoria, muss and Todd Bawman. 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:24.120 It's presented by Miller Light. Win great prizes including tickets 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:27.240 in the Miller Light Lounge at us Bank Stadium. Vikings 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.600 dot com slash Vikings Country for more info and a 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:34.160 full schedule. Vikings Rewind im Noordo and you heard some 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.520 highlights and low lights from last segment. It's a one 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:39.240 and four football team and the head coach, he's down 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:40.040 about it, and he. 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.640 Was addressing the media earlier today. Let's listen to a 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:43.240 portion of that. 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:48.160 Disappointed in the result yesterday, you know, taking on I'm 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:49.280 a really good football team. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.400 We were right there till the very end, and still. 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.480 We're all of the opinion that we did not play 0:14:56.520 --> 0:15:00.600 our best game yet and we're still chasing that. A 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:04.080 great opportunity for our team this week, starting divisional play, 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:05.640 first to six opportunities. 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:07.720 These road division games. 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:11.520 Are very very critical to the overall landscape of your season. 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:13.600 They're still our season. 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:15.480 Our whole season, in my opinion, is still out in 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.400 front of us with twelve games to go, including half 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.520 of those being in the division, and guys are back 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:26.000 at work today, and we'll continue to chase improvement every 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.560 single day and continue to try to hone in on 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:32.360 the areas that we have to improve, which are very 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.240 obvious as of this point. Just giving you guys a 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:39.000 little injury update justin still going through the evaluation process 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:41.280 on that hamstring strain. 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:42.360 I'll keep you. 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.800 Guys posted on you know, what that timeline may look 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:49.640 like and how his availability you know, you know, may 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.160 be for this week or moving forward. Caleb Evans had 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.520 a lake contusion. We'll see how he progresses. Hope to 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:59.280 have him throughout the week, and then Lewis should be 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.000 back and and pretty close to a full workload and 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:05.320 progress towards joining us active on the game day roster 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:09.600 again this week. And then as far as Nick mullins, 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.440 we decided to hold him out and continue to evaluate 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:18.280 his low back injury and we'll be kind of assessing 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:22.000 that over the next couple of days, whether we decided 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.240 to make a roster move there or give him, you know, 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.360 based upon the timeline of what that looks like to 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:31.160 get him healed and see where see where that goes. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:32.760 Heaven with Justin. 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.720 Is he seeing people outside of the building or is 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:36.360 he just going through tests here? 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:40.000 I think they'll probably be a couple different opinions on it, 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.800 But we got to get you know, the MRI of 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:44.600 it and take a look and find out exactly what 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.560 it is, where it is, you know, if there's any 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:50.640 other factors that go into it, and determine what the 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.880 best decision for him to get him back to you know, 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.440 one hundred percent as fast as possible. But uh, you know, uh, 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.880 you know, he's he's down today. He obviously is one 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.360 of the most you know, ultra competitors I've ever met, 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:05.920 and and shoot, he was trying to go back in 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.600 the game as it was yesterday. So we're gonna have 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:12.560 to medically make a good decision and and help, you know, 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.119 kind of almost protect him from himself a little bit 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.040 in a way where we got to take care of 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:17.920 him and get him back. 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:19.480 Tow one hundred percent, So he wanted to go in 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:20.240 the game yesterday. 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.919 You know, it probably wasn't going to be possible, but 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:25.320 he was trying to figure out a way. 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.360 Well, So, was it just that it was serious enough 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.000 that it was not gonna doesn't be able to function 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:32.119 or what was sort of the decision? 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:33.000 Yeah? I think they may. 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.000 I think Kevin based upon you know, strength and kind 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:40.760 of the kind of the initial diagnosis, the best they 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:44.679 can do with a soft tissue injury like that. You know, 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.120 it was it was determined that we would rule him out. 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:49.600 And then you have a. 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:51.880 Guy that is an ultracompetitive and you have to kind 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:53.280 of protect him from himself. 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:54.159 The hard is that for you? 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:56.160 Well? 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.960 I think, uh, you know it's hard when when you're 0:17:59.280 --> 0:17:59.520 you know. 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.520 Kind of a competitor yourself, and you know that you 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:06.520 start asking yourself the question, at what percent is having 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.600 him out there still give us, you know, the best 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.199 possible chance to win? And that's not the way to 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.159 go about it with a player of that kind of 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.280 importance to our team, organization, everything, we everything we want 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.240 to do. The goal now is to get him healthy 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.800 as fast as possible and give him the great resources 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:27.280 and treatment that Tyler Urrayah and our group offer. 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:29.840 With him or with amstrings in general, do you look 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:31.359 at it as something where a player has to be 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:33.200 one hundred percent before they go back out there, or 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.199 is there kind of a threshold where they could be 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.160 not completely healed and a local playoffs? 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:37.360 Yeah? 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:37.840 I don't know that. 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:40.920 I really that's a really good question, and I think 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:44.320 it maybe a lot of times depends on what you know. 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:45.520 That player's job may be. 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:48.880 It you know, a wide receiver running and the way 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.879 he runs and the way he opens up and every 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:55.080 single play seems like he's running full speed and exploding 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.560 off the ball. To be determined on all that, but 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.199 we're going to do what's best for just then and 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:03.159 make sure we give him, you know, the treatment and 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:07.640 a plan that that is a big picture positive for him. 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.120 Sure, you are you optimistic for this week? 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:13.000 Have you been given reasons to be optimistic? 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:16.840 I have not really been given, you know, reasons either 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.320 way yet. Just kind of got done talking to the 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:21.240 team a little bit ago. Those guys are in meetings. 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:24.960 Now I'll go get with our medical staff and kind 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.600 of work through kind of the next phases there you. 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.400 Mentioned areasm of improvement In your opening statement, just where 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:30.879 does your. 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:34.359 Mind begin him when you consider that? Does? Yeah? I 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.320 think you know? 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:41.080 We still I believe we're have twelve giveaways now minus 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:45.920 nine on the turnover differential, which is saying something known. 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:48.240 We've lost to four teams that were in the playoffs 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:52.000 last year. But are you know that minus ten point 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:56.080