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Speaker 1: Welcome back to MVP the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Tatum Everett from the Vikings Entertainment Network. After a much

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Speaker 1: needed bi week, Minnesota back in action for a Sunday

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Speaker 1: matinee contest against the Philadelphia Eagles. And guess who we

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Speaker 1: have back with us, Eric Nordquist. You may know him

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Speaker 1: as Nordo from nine to noon. He returns to break

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Speaker 1: it all down. We've got a lot to cover, Nordo.

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Speaker 1: So are you ready to go?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 3: I'm ready, and you kind of got me excited, not

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Speaker 3: just for the for the game moving forward, but that

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Speaker 3: you said.

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Speaker 1: Mattin a and not Lovely, I'm tired of primetime. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: the eight thirty am games didn't do.

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Speaker 2: It for you. Kegs and eggs thing.

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Speaker 3: That's cool maybe once, but I and I didn't endure

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Speaker 3: the trip to both Dublin and London, so I didn't

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Speaker 3: miss my home after twelve days.

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Speaker 2: But I am excited for a noon kickoff for sure.

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Speaker 1: I mean for us, it was a two thirty kickoff

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Speaker 1: from those back to back away games. So that's that's

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Speaker 1: fun when you're over there, quite lovely, got to wake up,

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Speaker 1: eat some breakfast, then you get ready to catch the

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Speaker 1: bus and.

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Speaker 2: Go like countryside resort.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was that all that was very very lovely.

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Speaker 1: But I will say I'm happy to be back in

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Speaker 1: the routine. Yeah, unfortunately that will be you know, the

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Speaker 1: wrench in that ointment or is that how you say

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Speaker 1: it now, the fly in the ointment, the fly.

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Speaker 2: In the ointment, wrench in the spokes.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I just should coin wrench in the ointment. It's

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Speaker 1: not terrible, that's perfect. Uh. Is that there's that Thursday

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Speaker 1: night game living right after this? Correct, So once you

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Speaker 1: get through like that part of the schedule, I feel

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Speaker 1: like it's kind of smooth sailing for the rest of

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Speaker 1: the season as far as random times to play go.

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Speaker 2: Sure. Yeah, it's not bad this this schedule.

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Speaker 3: It's It's funny how within within even a season, and

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Speaker 3: we'll talk about the Eagles, but just how quickly things

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Speaker 3: can change. You see, like the Buffalo Bills losing in

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Speaker 3: primetime earlier this week. They're down to the turnover situation

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Speaker 3: with them is a problem, but you look at them

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Speaker 3: as one of the elites in the AFC certainly, and

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Speaker 3: even the Eagles as we look at head to Sunday,

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Speaker 3: this is a team, whether it's infighting. I look at

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Speaker 3: Philly like their biggest enemy is theirselves. Yeah, is themselves.

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Speaker 3: And so now this is a team that is lost too.

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Speaker 3: Does that mean it's a get right weekend type of thing?

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Speaker 3: But how Lamar Jackson the injury issues. They have one

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Speaker 3: of the worst defenses in the NFL with the Ravens.

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Speaker 3: So you just kind of think from an August perspective

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Speaker 3: of what the schedule looks like to now the Giants

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Speaker 3: they might be goofy and fun and weird and might

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Speaker 3: have something with Jackson Dart and Cam's kataboo. So you

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Speaker 3: kind of well, this game is going to be tough,

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Speaker 3: this game is going to be easy. You play that

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Speaker 3: scenario out and run through it every spring and summer,

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Speaker 3: but it changes with the context of the season, our

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Speaker 3: team feeling after some health issues and such. We feel

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Speaker 3: differently now through five games and a break than maybe

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Speaker 3: we did a month and a half ago. So but

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Speaker 3: very much looking forward to this grind of a schedule

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Speaker 3: and seeing some more noon games.

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Speaker 1: Maybe down the road some noon games give them to me.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited. Well, speaking of we're going to get

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Speaker 1: to that breakdown of the Eagles in the second half

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Speaker 1: things off with a bit of a bye week rap.

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Speaker 1: And if you're a longtime listener of this, I think

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Speaker 1: we did this a couple maybe three four seasons ago.

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Speaker 1: We talked about two things we liked and one thing

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Speaker 1: you hope improves, and so I wanted to kind of

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Speaker 1: bring that back just for this week as a as

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Speaker 1: a talking point. Let's start with you with the first

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Speaker 1: thing that you like about the team in its current state.

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Speaker 3: In its current state, so I'm loving Brian Flores's defense. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: in totality, now we can speak to stopping the run

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Speaker 3: we're stopping the run was problematic, but overall, one of

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Speaker 3: the best third down defenses in the NFL, one of

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Speaker 3: a team that's had to do it a bit differently

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Speaker 3: again because of maybe some health issues Van Kinkel and

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Speaker 3: Blake Cashman looking forward to seeing him on the field again.

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Speaker 3: But this is a team where they feasted on takeover

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Speaker 3: takeaways a year ago.

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Speaker 2: Well we haven't seen that.

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Speaker 3: Actually, two games in a row they've gone dry and

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Speaker 3: save for the Bungals game Week three. It's been few

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Speaker 3: but they're still doing it again in different ways, through confusion,

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Speaker 3: new tandem of Hargrave and Allen in the middle. That's

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Speaker 3: just one thing that I'm really in love with through

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Speaker 3: It looks different thus far, Harrison Smith on a snap

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Speaker 3: count that's super weird, but in the end, they're still

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Speaker 1: I really feel like that is a Flora's signature. Like

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Speaker 1: you think about his defense right now, and they have

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Speaker 1: the guys that he wants. You know, he's had three

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Speaker 1: years now that he's been able to piece together the

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Speaker 1: they were so good, and those were pieces that maybe

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Speaker 1: so I kind of feel like that's a signature of

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Speaker 1: with what he can and make those guys shine no

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Speaker 1: matter where they are on the roster. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: kind of go off course here a little bit, because

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Speaker 1: my one thing I hope improves is something that you

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Speaker 1: brought up, which is the turnover margin. Okay, right now

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Speaker 1: they're currently at minus two, which is something we're not

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Speaker 1: used to seeing. Not good and at Kevin O'Connell offense

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Speaker 1: or Kevin O'Connell team. Rather, the seven takeaways in five

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Speaker 1: games is not enough, right because five of them weren't

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Speaker 1: against the Bengals, as you mentioned, And when you turn

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Speaker 1: the ball over nine times, that is not going to

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Speaker 1: be good and advantageous, and putting your defense in really

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Speaker 1: tough spots, which they've been able to shine in some

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Speaker 1: and then obviously some you can't just make up for

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Speaker 1: all at once, And so that's I think it was.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was the twenty twenty three season

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Speaker 3: where they just couldn't stop fumbling the ball.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the beginning.

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Speaker 3: it was Josh Oliver in Week five when the Chiefs

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Speaker 3: So like the turnovers, just it felt you almost felt

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Speaker 3: helpless in a way. And you mention the differential and

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Speaker 3: minus two. I guess I didn't look at that prior

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Speaker 3: to this. But how about the turnover differential even in

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Speaker 3: a vacuum in the Cleveland game, right, I mean you

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Speaker 3: get that, you get that, you flip that field, and

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Speaker 3: you actually start after the punt return for Miles Price

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Speaker 3: in Cleveland territory, you're still gripping, you're still grinding trying

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Speaker 3: to find that win. And then say Scott puts it

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Speaker 3: Mason fumbles it, and that's two weeks in a row,

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Speaker 3: by the way, kind of the luck of the foot

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Speaker 3: being on the boundary. Otherwise, Jalen Ramsey and the Steelers

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Speaker 1: So that was not good.

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Speaker 3: The turnovers are an issue, both the inability to find

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Speaker 3: them on defense and ball security offensively. Yes, and Kevin

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Speaker 3: O'Connell has made that, you know, oh yeah, the ball's

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Speaker 3: the program.

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Speaker 1: The consistency factor. He wants to see that consistency factor. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so then let's go to your second thing that you

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Speaker 1: like about this team.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mentioned Justin Jefferson that hammy in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 3: well in twenty twenty five. It's just it's impressive to

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Speaker 3: not a hot take. He's terrific. He does it with whoever's.

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Speaker 2: Thrown in the ball.

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Speaker 3: And there was specifically in the Cleveland game where I felt,

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Speaker 3: in some ways the coach just he wanted this whole

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Speaker 3: He sounded exhausted after that game, felt like maybe he

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Speaker 3: fighting through that victory in some ways, just giving the

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Speaker 3: personnel issues and everything involved in it. Great defensive front

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Speaker 3: from Stefanski's group, but Justin Jefferson just rises to every occasion.

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Speaker 3: But he's at times in that game he just decided, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm just gonna no matter what, we are not losing

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Speaker 3: this game. You throw it within five feet of me,

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Speaker 3: I'm catching it. There was one where Carson, and as

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Speaker 3: ball I joke about like hospital balls and things. He

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Speaker 3: threw this one so high to Jefferson, pulls it in

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Speaker 3: and he bounces back up and everything was good. But

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Speaker 3: there's just justin Jefferson is a leader on this team,

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Speaker 2: I had one of my favorite things.

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Speaker 1: I love that because I had the chance to talk

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Speaker 1: he is the most recognizable face on this team and

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Speaker 1: globally sure, and for that matter, when I asked him

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Speaker 1: about playing in front of me, he goes. I go

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Speaker 1: back to what Michael Jordan used to say, is every

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Speaker 1: someone has never seen me before, and they came here

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Speaker 1: that have our fans that have never seen me play

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Speaker 1: in person before. And I don't think he took that

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Speaker 1: Like I was kind of prodding a little bit, but

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Speaker 1: he started talking about that, which I was very you know,

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Speaker 1: going to go with the special teams unit as one

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Speaker 1: thing that I like, Oh okay about this team. I know,

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Speaker 1: after a few years of just kind of it being fine,

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Speaker 1: I think that there are a lot of cornerstone pieces there.

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Speaker 1: When you look at Will Rekerd and what he was

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Speaker 1: it wasn't for that dang wire. Yeah, that stinks. He has,

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Speaker 1: you know, the the you can rely on him from

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Speaker 1: fifty plus. He obviously has the record for the longest

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Speaker 1: According to PFF though, they are the second ranked special

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Speaker 1: has just been a breath of fresh air, you know,

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about that because I think the Vikings

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Speaker 1: as a fan, what will you see that will give

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Speaker 1: is it the penalties? Like if you if it's a clean.

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Speaker 3: that Yes, the penalties absolutely matter to me.

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Speaker 2: But but that's also the easiest thing to fix.

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Speaker 3: I want to see what this looks like if the offense,

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Speaker 3: I just need more healthy bodies.

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Speaker 2: How about that. It's a simple one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I I mean there's there's compete level in this game.

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Speaker 3: There's there's let's stand up against sa Quon, Let's shut

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Speaker 3: them down. That gives me confidence. There's all sorts of things.

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Speaker 3: Let's make aj Brown as frustrated as possible, Let's win

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Speaker 3: But for me, I just want to see healthy bodies.

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Speaker 1: I tell you what, I'm just excited that this game

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Speaker 1: I think the last couple of times we've been out

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Speaker 1: and it's on short weeks, and you know, et cetera,

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Speaker 1: are mean. You know, I've been flicked off, mooned, flashed

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Speaker 1: quite a choice. It's quite a choice. But yeah, I'm excited.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we'll have that problem here in Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: Minim minimal penalties. Let's get a couple of takeaways on defense,

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Speaker 3: let's shut down Saquon. There you go, let's improved a

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Speaker 1: All right, you want to go say that you should

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Speaker 1: do the pregame speech.

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Speaker 2: Come on now, No, I don't know about that.

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Speaker 1: I'm teasing. Thank you so much, Norma for your time.

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Speaker 1: Really appreciate your insight. Of course you can hear him

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Speaker 1: every more from nine to noon on nine to noon

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Speaker 1: on KFN. Well that'll do it for this week's Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Vikings podcast. A huge thank you to Eric Nordquis for

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Speaker 1: jumping back in helping us break down what's shaping up

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Speaker 1: to be a gritty, high stakes matchup against Philly. The

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Speaker 1: Vikings are arrested, the defense rolling in the quarterback situation

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Speaker 1: still a question mark. Sunday's game is going to tell

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Speaker 1: us a lot about this team. We'll be watching, and

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