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Speaker 1: Postgame podcast at Vikings dot com. It's your play by

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Speaker 1: play voice Paul Allen with analystp Bursich. We have bad

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Speaker 1: news the Minnesota Vikings loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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Speaker 1: twenty to seventeen, meaning the Vikings are six and two

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Speaker 1: in their home openers at US Bank Stadium, Baker Mayfield,

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Speaker 1: Mike Evans and the Buccaneers leave with the money. But

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Speaker 1: the a topic today absolutely was losing the turnover battle.

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Speaker 2: I no question. I mean, that's that's a huge part

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Speaker 2: of it. Whenever you whenever you're minus three, you win

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Speaker 2: seven percent of the time. So it's very, very difficult

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Speaker 2: to overcome three mistakes on offense, three turnovers and offense,

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Speaker 2: especially where they were. You pointed this out earlier, Paul.

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Speaker 2: Two of the three were in the red zone taking

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Speaker 2: points off the board. And then defensively you don't produce

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Speaker 2: any turnovers. The defense played way better than anything that

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Speaker 2: we saw I think a year ago, Paul, but still

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Speaker 2: not getting any added possessions with turnovers. You get a

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Speaker 2: game that ends ended like the one you just saw,

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Speaker 2: and then a couple you know, little mistakes toward the end.

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Speaker 2: You know, the Jay Ward being off sides and you know,

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Speaker 2: too many men on the field with Lewis scene, so

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Speaker 2: the young players making a couple of big mistakes and

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Speaker 2: big times, big time spots.

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Speaker 1: More analysis coming up soon, but let's hear from Kevin

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Speaker 1: O'Connell and his press conference right after the game.

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Speaker 3: All right, you know, disappointing, disappointing start to our season

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Speaker 3: from a standpoint of wanting to come in and you know,

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Speaker 3: play a clean game from a execution standpoint, wanting to

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Speaker 3: do some certain things in all three phases. But when

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Speaker 3: you lose the turnover battle three to nothing and have

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Speaker 3: a few critical penalties on some third downs either or

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Speaker 3: fourth downs, either to allow conversions or make those opportunities

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Speaker 3: either shorter or potentially convert, you're doing a lot of

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Speaker 3: things to help the opponent. And all credit to the

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Speaker 3: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They came in and played a good,

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Speaker 3: hard fought game. But I did feel like there was

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Speaker 3: quite a few self inflicted mistakes that hopefully we can

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Speaker 3: get ironed out and move forward, and and uh, you know,

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Speaker 3: feel strongly about what the core of our football team is.

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Speaker 3: I thought defensively, those guys battled, you know, clearly did

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Speaker 3: some really good things, some some great downs handling, the

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Speaker 3: crowd noise, which was fantastic today. We gave them a

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Speaker 3: short field which was you know, self inflicted, and then uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, we just we just couldn't you know, ultimately

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Speaker 3: hold the football enough with those penalties on some moving

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Speaker 3: drives that that were pretty critical there to our overall

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Speaker 3: chances and and got to give credit for to Tampa.

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Speaker 3: But I think our guys are you know, a football

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Speaker 3: team that has handled adversity before, and uh, we're going

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Speaker 3: to get a great opportunity to do that this week

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Speaker 3: with a heck of a challenge, going on a short

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Speaker 3: week to a very good football team's place. And from

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Speaker 3: your point of view, what if the bus do defensively

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Speaker 3: to stop the run and the play actions? They're very

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Speaker 3: physical and they you know, they didn't really I think

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Speaker 3: be there were some explosives to be had there. They were.

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Speaker 3: They were pretty you know active in the edge pressures

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Speaker 3: and really, you know, a couple of the you know,

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Speaker 3: that we were able to kind of handle moving forward

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Speaker 3: and convert. It was just a lack of run game

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Speaker 3: efficiency that you know, we hoped we would be better on.

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Speaker 3: And and we had some injuries on the offensive line

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Speaker 3: at times. But no, no excuses whatsoever. Our expectation was

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Speaker 3: to compete in the game, and they've historically been a

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Speaker 3: very very good, heavy front to run against. That showed

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Speaker 3: up today and they were exactly that. There were no

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Speaker 3: surprises there, and I thought, we've you know, just didn't

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Speaker 3: we had hoped. And that's on me, Kevin. This team,

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Speaker 3: I had a lot of comeback wins, a lot of

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Speaker 3: close wins last year.

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Speaker 1: There was no carryover this year.

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Speaker 4: Did you sense something different than the team that they did?

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Speaker 4: They have the field that they had last year.

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Speaker 3: No, No, I thought we you know, we had the

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Speaker 3: we just we couldn't get back on the field. And

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Speaker 3: our defense had been great all day long, but four

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Speaker 3: where we got our defense. Like I said, leaning on

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Speaker 3: turnover battle three to nothing. They did everything they could

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Speaker 3: to help us win this game, and we'll come together

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Speaker 3: as a team and find ways to play better complimentary

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Speaker 3: and it starts with the turnovers and a couple of

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Speaker 3: I felt is, uh, you know, belief that we're going

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Speaker 3: expectation was we were going to go down and try

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Speaker 3: I just think, uh, you know, we got to just

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Speaker 2: Well, you know at this point, and obviously maybe more

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Speaker 2: to find out, But do you expect Garret Bribery will

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Speaker 1: How is a closer you on the interception rightfore halftime.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just you know, calling kind of a quick game concept. Uh,

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Speaker 3: I didn't mind the decision. We'll take a look at

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Speaker 3: it whether the location could have been better, but ultimately,

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Speaker 2: After a game like this, how grateful are you of

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Speaker 4: Back out there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good question. I mean, were different circumstances

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Speaker 3: we got to push persevere together. This This is not

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Speaker 4: Possible new team was distracted about? Is Jefferson contract stuff?

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Speaker 3: Say that one more time.

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Speaker 4: Is it possible that your team was distracted?

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Speaker 4: People talking about Jefferson's contract.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't you know, I can't comment on that.

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Speaker 3: All I know is, you know, we seemed incredibly dialed

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Speaker 2: How comfortable they deal with all of the personal hope

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Speaker 4: How did you feel that way?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it. I think it went pretty well.

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Speaker 1: All right, three two, Well onto Philadelphia for Thursday night football.

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Speaker 1: It is a seven to fifteen Central game against Jalen Hurts,

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Speaker 2: Right, they'll look at it this way to say, as

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Speaker 2: Number one, you have an opportunity to make up for

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Speaker 2: And number two, after this performance, you have the opportunity

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Speaker 2: Right and and so that's the that's the essential attitude

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Speaker 2: No, this is hey, look at this opportunity that's standing

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Speaker 4: We have to do what is necessary.

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Speaker 2: I don't care if we have one day a walk

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Speaker 2: Anybody who saw this is going to think this team's

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Speaker 2: It's gonna change some minds. But all that man at

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Speaker 1: Wednesday evening, the first cheese steak is on me.

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Speaker 4: Okay, sounds good.

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Speaker 1: That's Pete Bursa jannalists for the Vikings Radio Network, and

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Speaker 1: I'm Paul Allen. Sorry for the bad news, but the

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, led by Baker Mayfield, rolled into US

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Speaker 1: the post Game podcast at Vikings dot com