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Speaker 1: Hey, we're back at Minnesota Vikings postgame report at Vikings

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Speaker 1: dot Com. You're played by play guy Paul Allen with

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Speaker 1: the analyst Pete Bursich. At the end of the game

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Speaker 1: after a three zero Minnesota Vikings victory, I'm like, seven out.

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Speaker 1: We got our seventh victory and we get out of town,

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Speaker 1: the town being Las Vegas with a victory off the

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Speaker 1: buy guided by Nick Mullins, who replaced Josh Dobbs. A

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Speaker 1: lot to talk about. What do you think?

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Speaker 2: Oh my, got a ton of talk about. First of all,

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about the defense, Paul, and the

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Speaker 2: fact that the Raiders didn't even have a field goal

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Speaker 2: attempt today. They got in the red zone one time

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Speaker 2: and we turned them over. It was Josh Mittelis causing

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Speaker 2: a fumble and us coming back over, which you know,

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Speaker 2: again we've lost two games by three points because it's

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Speaker 2: seven turnovers. Yep, we did not turn Yeah, it did

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Speaker 2: not turn the football over today. And you know, for

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Speaker 2: Nick Mullins, for him to come in and show some life,

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Speaker 2: I mean, Josh Dobbs has done an amazing job that

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Speaker 2: he got here. He filled in under really bad circumstances.

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Speaker 2: But this offense was just dead in the water. There

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Speaker 2: was absolutely nothing working, no rhythm, no timing, no anything.

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Speaker 2: Run game was okay for the you know, for the

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Speaker 2: whole day. I mean, the run game was all right,

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Speaker 2: but for Mullins to get in and be able to

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Speaker 2: at least execute some of the simple things that offensively

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Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell wants to do, that was huge. And for

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Speaker 2: him to come and lead that lead, that drive ultimately

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Speaker 2: got us the field goal. I mean, that's that's another huge,

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Speaker 2: huge play.

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Speaker 1: Mullins replaces Dobbs in the second half, Nicko's nine to

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Speaker 1: thirteen eighty three yards, Josh finished ten of twenty three

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Speaker 1: sixty three yards, and Alexander Madison too bad here, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think it was an ankle in the second half

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Speaker 1: and he left the game. It didn't look significant, but

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Speaker 1: he didn't come back. But man, he was at six

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Speaker 1: and a half yards a clip for sixty six yards. TJ.

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Speaker 1: Hawkinson five catches fifty three yards, and with those catches

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Speaker 1: he passes Kyle Rudolph for the most single season receptions

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Speaker 1: by a tight end in Vikings history. Kyle did it

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Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen. Greg Joseph missed his first field goal

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Speaker 1: from forty nine, but he hit the right one I

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Speaker 1: guess thirty six yards to kick the game to three zero,

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Speaker 1: and then Ivan Pace Junior picks off Aidan O'Connell rookie

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Speaker 1: to rookie and that won the game. So it wasn't

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Speaker 1: the prettiest game in the world, but nevertheless the Vikings

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Speaker 1: get a three zero victory. And one of the real

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Speaker 1: underrated facets here was punter Ryan Wright. I mean in

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Speaker 1: a zero the game was zero zero for like four hours,

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Speaker 1: and he had four punts land inside the twenty a

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Speaker 1: week after Kevin O'Connell passive, aggressively and kind of low,

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Speaker 1: and some of his press conferences and interviews was like,

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Speaker 1: we need to do a better job flipping the field,

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Speaker 1: you know. So he didn't call anybody out by name,

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Speaker 1: he didn't like cite anything, but you could tell that

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Speaker 1: with right that's what he meant. And Ryan came through

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Speaker 1: with four inside the twenty.

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Speaker 3: He did.

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Speaker 2: And this is not a game that like you know,

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Speaker 2: you're it was marred by turnovers, meaning, you know, we

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Speaker 2: turned the ball over three times, they give it back

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Speaker 2: to us three times. This was a game about field position,

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Speaker 2: and when you start talking about field position, every single

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Speaker 2: one of these punts is huge, and and they the

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Speaker 2: special teams unit did a really really good job and

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Speaker 2: making the Raiders their average start. I mean, that's an

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Speaker 2: interesting stat I'd want to look up as the average

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Speaker 2: starting point for the Las Vegas Raiders today because it

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Speaker 2: had to have been around point around the twenty five

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Speaker 2: always had a long field and they were never to

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Speaker 2: be they were never able to be consistent enough to

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Speaker 2: get all the way down the field and obviously get

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Speaker 1: So we won a game.

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Speaker 2: Special teams is huge.

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Speaker 1: After the sacks, coach, we want to get thrown for

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Speaker 2: I'd like to see when the last time an NFL

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Speaker 2: team won with under one hundred yards pass point, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean that does that just doesn't happen very often.

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Speaker 2: But again, you know, you lose JJ, you know you're

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Speaker 2: going in without at Ingram, right, You've got there's a

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Speaker 2: on a short week to play a tough Cincinnati team.

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Speaker 2: Their defense is really good. So but on a day

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Speaker 2: the Vikings somehow found a way to win a game.

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Speaker 2: And that is that's huge. I don't care what it

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Speaker 2: looks like and what you come away thinking.

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Speaker 1: And Kevin O'Connell was coming up here shortly. That is

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Speaker 1: victory number twenty for koc and he's the he's the

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Speaker 1: fastest to get to twenty victory by a head coach

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Speaker 1: in the history of Minnesota Vikings football, passing Denny Green

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Speaker 1: god rest his soul pete Ursus's former head coach, who

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Speaker 1: it took him thirty two games to get there, and

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Speaker 1: O'Connell did it in markedly fewer than that. Speaking of

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Speaker 1: koc here, he is in his press conference following a

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Speaker 3: I want to hit you guys on just some of

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Speaker 3: the injury updates. It was a tough day from that standpoint.

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Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson sustained, you know, kind of a chest internal

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Speaker 3: he will travel home with us. So you know, feel

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Speaker 3: feel pretty encouraged about, you know, the early news on Justin.

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Speaker 3: Now we'll have to see on a short week how

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Speaker 3: Brian O'Neil suffered an ankle sprain. Left ankle sprain did

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Speaker 3: not return. Alex Madison or right ankle sprain did not return,

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Speaker 3: kind of the travel home and then the short week.

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Speaker 3: Like I was talking about across the board, Uh just

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Speaker 4: They were able to do for our organization today.

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Speaker 3: They continue to you know, individual players thriving in their roles,

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Speaker 3: but it's the collective effort of those guys over there.

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Speaker 3: gave us a chance. Uh. We we talked about it.

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Speaker 3: We we were going to win the turnover battle today.

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Speaker 3: It was kind of a non starter for us and

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Speaker 3: maybe affected the way we did things at times, but

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Speaker 3: to win the turnover battle just teaches you a lesson.

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Speaker 3: It's not always going to be pretty. There's gonna be

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Speaker 4: In this in this league.

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Speaker 3: So you know, addressed in the quarterback position, I just

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Speaker 3: We you know, they got after us a little bit upfront,

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Speaker 3: a couple of adjustments we didn't make, you know, when

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Speaker 3: But you got to give them credit. And and you

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Speaker 4: Any way, shape or form.

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Speaker 3: But did decide there in the second half that you know,

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Speaker 3: and he did exactly that, went in and made some critical,

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Speaker 4: Kevin, how much did Justin's as third plof sorry, how

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Speaker 4: much did Justin's absence early on? Just to think what

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you put together a plan getting him back.

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Speaker 3: But at the same time, just thought, you know, our

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Speaker 3: a team with a premier, premier rusher, and they immediately

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Speaker 3: at least give Josh or Nick whoever is in the

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Speaker 4: We're going to be out there.

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Speaker 3: The expectation is that we continue to improve and it

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Speaker 4: Kevin, you mentioned the third downs.

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Speaker 2: What made you feel like Nick was going to be

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Speaker 5: Kevin, just how much goes into a decision to make

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Speaker 3: And then physically, I mean, he played a fantastic football

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Speaker 4: How did that process with you and job today work?

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Speaker 3: And uh, I've Wes is one of the closest coaches

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be something we'll continue

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, Flow is capable of making those in

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Speaker 3: kind of wore on there, Kevin.

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Speaker 3: we looked like we avoided any significant thing there. Now

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Speaker 1: Indeed, you heard a lot of talk there about defense.

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Speaker 1: I mean you're you played linebacker. Uh, you coached linebackers

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Speaker 1: for the Minnesota Vikings. You get defense better than me

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Speaker 1: and all of us listening. What in a game like

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Speaker 1: this against an inexperienced quarterback, but you still got DeVante

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Speaker 1: Adams Josh Jacobs is good. What what did Flores do

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Speaker 1: for the balance of the day to just flummox this

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Speaker 1: Raiders offense?

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Speaker 2: Well, our defensive line was able to really get on

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Speaker 2: the Raiders' side of the line of scrimmage, play after play.

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Speaker 2: At the play, you have Brandon Jacobs, who's a good

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Speaker 2: running back, on hundred and ten yards and a touchdown

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Speaker 2: against can't A City today. I don't know what his

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Speaker 2: final numbers were, but you you slowed him down. You

452
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Speaker 2: had tackles for losses, you made O'Connell throw the football quickly,

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Speaker 2: and minus one play one play they you know they

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Speaker 2: did to Rentro They did an unbelievable job in just

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Speaker 2: keeping the defense under their thumb, keeping the offense excuse me,

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Speaker 2: under their thumb. Yeah, and what is it? What does

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Speaker 2: it mean, Paul? It means perfection. I mean Byron Murphy

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Speaker 2: had one play you know you kind of wish you

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Speaker 2: had back. But it's almost perfection on defense, meaning you

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Speaker 2: didn't have any significant mistakes. And then, oh, by the way,

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Speaker 2: when you did make a mistake and you gave them

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Speaker 2: some juice and let him get in the red zone,

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Speaker 2: you made them turn the ball over and you got

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Speaker 2: it back. You got it back for our offense. So

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Speaker 2: that was defensively. It's that's as good of a complete

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Speaker 2: and total performance as you're gonna see that I have

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Speaker 2: seen in a long time. You know, it's it's just

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Speaker 2: amazing to me how this defense continues to do what

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Speaker 2: it does. Sheldon Day, I mean, come on, now, he's

470
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Speaker 2: a good football player, had a great game right before

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Speaker 2: the bye, and now he's out there starting at three

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Speaker 2: technique and where our defense is doing what it does.

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Speaker 2: Troy Die getting sacks undrafted rookie free agents, and I

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Speaker 2: have in Pace getting a sack and interception. I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's amazing what Flores has been able to do out

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Speaker 2: of the talent that he has.

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Speaker 1: Let's hear from Minnesota Vikings victorious quarterback Nick Mullins, who

478
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Speaker 1: supplanted Josh Dobbs in the second half, hit Jordan Addison

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Speaker 1: for a key, key pass up about twenty two yards,

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Speaker 1: move the ball down the field, and the Vikings beat

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Speaker 1: the Raiders three zero. Here's Nick maybe just changing it up.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a collective effort. You obviously never know

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Speaker 4: in your name's going to.

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Speaker 7: Be called, but you just prepared, work as hard as

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Speaker 7: you can, and just trust that there's a plan out

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Speaker 7: there for you. And so I did that.

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Speaker 2: Stepped in.

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Speaker 7: The guy's an incredible job. I mean they had a

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Speaker 7: tough day. Just a game like that where it's up

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Speaker 7: and down. You never know what's going to happen. Just

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Speaker 7: grinding it out offensive line and the skilled group. And

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Speaker 7: I just told him, I know it's been a hard

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Speaker 7: to day, which just need your best and I thought

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Speaker 7: collectively we were able to do that. It was only

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Speaker 7: a field goal, but sometimes that's all it takes. And

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Speaker 7: obviously the defense was doing that the entire game. So

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Speaker 7: when you can match those up, it doesn't matter what

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Speaker 7: it looks like.

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Speaker 4: A win is a win.

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Speaker 5: And the experience maybe because the past with like kJ

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Speaker 5: and just from there, dude.

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Speaker 7: Does that come to play as I hope, Yeah, no doubt.

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Speaker 7: When you get out there spur of the moment, you

504
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Speaker 7: do kind of rely on your preparation, just all the

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Speaker 7: reps and camp, going back to like April and OTAs

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Speaker 7: and the camp and just being able to trust yourself,

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Speaker 7: trust the guys around you, trust the guys up front.

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Speaker 4: They're battling, grinding all day. We have a great group.

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Speaker 4: We have a great group of men.

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Speaker 7: We have a great group of players, and think we'll

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Speaker 7: continue to show that on.

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Speaker 4: The football field. What do you think made up to

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Speaker 4: the offense to keep it moving time?

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Speaker 7: Sometimes that's just the way the game Goes. I thought

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Speaker 7: their defense did a really good job. The deep coordinator

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Speaker 7: over there has done a great job.

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Speaker 4: Even going back to my.

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Speaker 7: Time in Vegas, I felt like pretty hard to know

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Speaker 7: what you're getting. They have great players. Is a great player,

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Speaker 7: you know, they're guys in the outside and then obviously

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Speaker 7: Max Crosby, so they're forced.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they're really good.

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Speaker 7: But at the same time, we're just being able to

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Speaker 7: trust our teammates and make it happen when when we needed.

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Speaker 3: It, you came in and got the completion right away

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Speaker 3: to Hockinson, how much confidence.

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Speaker 4: Did they give you? Yeah, that was big.

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Speaker 7: Sure you could attest the tip ball a little bit

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Speaker 7: to beginner's luck, but at the same time, I was

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Speaker 7: just ready to play.

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Speaker 4: It was okay. I was glad to start off. I

532
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Speaker 4: think I was first play with the past.

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Speaker 7: Some might as well just if you're gonna go, and

534
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Speaker 7: you might as well go in, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 7: But it was fun, you know, Like I said, our

536
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Speaker 7: group is so good TZ at the time that we

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Speaker 7: spent together, and the receivers, that line, running backs and

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Speaker 7: the ball the CJ. Ham carry out my face I

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Speaker 7: see three zero, im like, oh and C j let's go,

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Speaker 7: you know.

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Speaker 4: Uh, so it's awesome. We have a great group. Like

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Speaker 4: I said, just got to continue to press forward, grinding

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Speaker 4: out wain today.

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Speaker 7: How good is this?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it feels good.

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Speaker 7: Obviously, there's so much room to improve just across the board.

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Speaker 2: We gotta enjoy it.

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Speaker 4: It's hard to win in the NFL.

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Speaker 7: It's hard to win on the road, so you gotta

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Speaker 7: enjoy it. And then long travels, more time with your teammates,

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Speaker 7: you have a good time.

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Speaker 4: So I kind of.

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Speaker 5: Enjoy it too.

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Speaker 2: How are you feeling You're kind of thrown into the.

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Speaker 1: Play and all.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's you never know what the NFL

557
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Speaker 7: is going to give you, and so you just gotta

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Speaker 7: deal with.

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Speaker 4: The cards you're dealt.

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Speaker 7: And obviously that was kind of unfortunate going out for

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Speaker 7: camp in the season and.

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Speaker 4: And missing at times. Kind of weird.

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Speaker 7: I've never experienced too much like that, But you just

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Speaker 7: stay the course and then you just cheer on your

565
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Speaker 7: teammates as much as you can during that time and

566
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Speaker 7: then just trust that your time' is gonna come. But

567
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Speaker 7: like I said, it's uh, it's about the team. Three

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Speaker 7: zero win can't be more product.

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Speaker 1: What can you say?

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Speaker 4: About the resiliency of this team.

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Speaker 3: I mean, JJ goes down right as he comes back,

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Speaker 3: that can be an emotional blow.

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Speaker 2: A lot of guys are going down on offensive alignment,

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Speaker 2: you got bo I mean, you guys kind of had

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Speaker 2: to rise above a lot today.

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Speaker 7: No doubt, great teams in the NFL have great depth,

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Speaker 7: and I believe that we have great depth. She would

578
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Speaker 7: even like Brandon Powell for the past like six weeks

579
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Speaker 7: and nobody thought he's made it a great receiver and

580
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Speaker 7: I was plugging away for us, you know. So that's

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Speaker 7: just one small instance of the depth on this football team.

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Speaker 2: Week one.

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Speaker 7: Every year they tell you this fifty three is not

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Speaker 7: gonna be the final fifty three, and so wherever you

585
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Speaker 7: follow that line, you gotta be ready and across the board,

586
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Speaker 7: our team has done a tremendous job of that this year.

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Speaker 7: Don't talk to Kirk at all, especially like this. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 7: I look forward to talking to him. Kirk has been

589
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Speaker 7: a great resource really since the day that I got here.

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Speaker 7: I can't say enough great things about Kirk, And yeah,

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Speaker 7: I'm looking forward to talking about the game. He has

592
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Speaker 7: always got great insight and I love that he's just

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Speaker 7: so matter of fact in his football beliefs. So it's

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Speaker 7: always fun to hear what he has to say and

595
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 7: take what you can get learned from learn so much

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Speaker 7: from him, So yeah, I look forward to that for sure.

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Speaker 5: How tough was it when Justin went down, really thing

598
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Speaker 5: after miss seven games?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, obviously that it's unfortunate. It sucks part of football, obviously,

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Speaker 7: Hope he's all right, it's incredible football player.

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Speaker 4: It's an honored to be his teammate.

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Speaker 7: And so when he goes down, and then Brian, you

603
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 7: gotta see chests, you know, when he goes down, it's tough.

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Speaker 4: It sucks, uh blatantly honest.

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Speaker 7: But that's I mean, that's the game we play, and

606
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Speaker 7: that's why it's hard.

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Speaker 4: That's why toughness as a team is needed.

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Speaker 7: And we had enough of that today.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Thanks you guys, appreciate it all right.

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Speaker 1: Once again. The final score, Minnesota wins three zero, takes

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Speaker 1: on Cincinnati on the road Saturday, and that's a noon

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Speaker 1: boom for Pete bursa Jum Paul Allen. The Vikings postgame

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Speaker 1: report is a curly Heroes production. Three zip Minnesota they

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Speaker 1: improve to seven and six.

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Speaker 3: Wow,